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Archive for September, 2009

ColdFusion 8.01 Cumulutive Hot Fix 3 Update (and Pain!)

I didn’t see this advertised anywhere, but it seems the CHF3 was re-released on 9/16/09 with some fixes. The changes can be found @ http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/511/cpsid_51180.html. Either way, with the pre-9/16 version or the post-9/16 I am seeing errors occasionally on our servers. The errors say: “coldfusion.runtime.J2eeSessionScopeStub cannot be cast to coldfusion.runtime.J2eeSessionScopeStub” and they match the [...]

MS-SQL Tip: Creating A Comma Delimited List From a Column

A lot of times we take functions like valueList for granted. When it comes to SQL Server, if we wanted to do something similar, we have to jump through a lot of hoops. Fortunately, I stumbled upon an article covering different techniques on MS SQL 2008, 2005, and 2000. Take a look, you won’t be [...]

Defragment Firefox!

Did you know you can defragment firefox… what you would really be doing is cleaning up its internal database, but it works! More details here: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/09/06/optimize-firefox-performance-via-defragmentation-add-on-applications/

Amazing SoCal Fire Photos

Half GB ColdFusion App Open Sourced By Defense Info Agency

I’d like to see this! Written in CF8, with tons of unique features! Read more: Defense Info Agency Open-Sources Its Web Apps DoD OSCMIS: a great beginning of a new OSS project Has anyone seen this app? Looks like you have to jump through some hoops to get a copy.

Hiring Woe #1 – Building Apps from Scratch vs. Maintenance

Ok, as promised, I’m covering some hiring issues I’ve had over the past couple years. One of the first things that comes to mind, when looking at a developer’s experience, is whether they have had any experience building things from scratch, or is most of their experience in just maintaining existing applications. Now, don’t get [...]

Verity Indexing for SQL Server – Some Tips

We’ve been using Verity for years. Needless to say, there is a reason I don’t have hair on my head. I can’t wait to move to Solr. But in the mean time, we made several enhancement to our indexing that I wanted to share. First, we have close to 30,000 records (many with large text [...]

Very Cool – Inline Java Compilation using CF9

You’ve got to check this out! http://blog.kukiel.net/2009/09/inline-java-compilation-in-coldfusion.html

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