Setting up Eclipse with Pulse

I may be way behind, but I just learned about Pulse (http://www.poweredbypulse.com/) today. I’m mostly posting this for posterity so that I can give it a try the next time I am setting up an Eclipse environment… not sure when that will be.

Supposedly, as far as I can gather, Pulse simplifies the process [...]

CFUnited 2009 Topic Survey

Apparently the peeps over at CFUnited are trying to listen to their attendees. They are providing a large survey with which one can essentially vote for the sessions to appear on the 2009 schedule.

I haven’t attended CFUnited for the past 2 years, but I’ll tell you what… this survey has got me [...]

Flex 3 Fade Transition Requires Embedded Fonts

I recently added a fade transition to a Flex app and was surprised to find that the Flex elements faded nicely as expected, but the text… the data of the application, failed to fade in or out. Needless to say, this looked quite strange.

After a bit of searching I discovered that I needed [...]

Flex Debugging Stopped Working – How to Fix

About a week ago, when I upgraded to Firefox 3 from Firefox 2, Flex Builder debugging completely stopped working without a blip on the Flex Builder radar. Trying to debug an app resulted in nothing out of the ordinary except that no debugging information was displayed. Breakpoints were ignored without a peep. Frustration!

I [...]

Flex 3 Validation – Make up your mind Adobe

Just found this funny bit of text in the Adobe Flex 3 docs regarding form validation. These 2 paragraphs appear in this exact order in the docs:

By using Flex validators, you eliminate the need to transmit data to and receive error messages back from the server, which improves the overall responsiveness of [...]

How To Cluster Multi-Server ColdFusion Instances

Mike Brunt just posted an article describing basic ColdFusion clustering over on the Adobe site. It’s amazing that it took this long for someone to provide information like this. I know the info has been available in other places, but this article is clearly written and very understandable.

Luckily at work we have employed [...]

Massive SQL Injection Attack

My main other site is getting hammered by an unrelenting SQL injection attack. I now completely realize the importance of locking down your queries.

I can only hope that BlogCFC is immune.

Here is a full description of this particular attack… which is apparently hitting a bunch of sites. Info provided via a [...]

Adobe Flex is for all ages

Caught my daughter doing a little light reading the other day.

Tiobe Index drops ColdFusion without a second thought

I just got back from CFObjective() 2008 where everyone was quite excited that ColdFusion was burning up the charts on the Tiobe Software Index. It was in the top 20 and had more little green up-arrows than any other language, indicating a strong future.

I checked the chart today and found that ColdFusion was [...]

Multi-Server ColdFusion: Upgrading from MX 7 to ColdFusion 8

Very little has been written about how to upgrade your multi-server install of ColdFusion MX 7 to multi-server ColdFusion 8. Not even Adobe will tell you how to do it. Fear not, because I’ll give you step-by-step instructions to get it done.

We have been running multi-server CF7 on JRun for the past year [...]