Cumulative Hotfix 1 (CHF1) for ColdFusion 9.0.1

Now available! More details @ http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/862/cpsid_86263.html.

Real-world check for Is IP Valid using ColdFusion. 4 Techniques Examined.

As you may know, recently I wrote a cgi facade. In that facade, we check for certain headers, and prefer them over CGI.REMOTE_ADDR, which may be incorrect if a proxy is involved. Well, I assumed that the proxies configured to send those headers would be doing so correctly. Turns out, one of our new clients, [...]

Git is Scary – But it doesn’t need to be!

I watched two Git preso over the last week by CF folks. They both tried really hard to make Git sound better than SVN, and easier to use. But looking at their preso, if I was a newbie to source code management, I’d be scared. All that Git bash stuff is a nightmare! Git isn’t [...]

Need Help : SQL Injection Tools

QA is working on hacking our system running the full gamut of security concerns (without costing much money). We’re not looking to hiring an outside firm, just yet. And one of the things we are having a hard time finding is a tool that test for SQL Injection. Most of what we’ve found is overly [...]

Intel buying McAfee!

Hot news! Chipmaker’s formal foray into Enterprise software. Read more @ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Intel-buying-McAfee-in-push-apf-2695002564.html?x=0.

DNSMadeEasy DDOS Attack

Today, I received a letter from the President of DNSMadeEasy. I use their service, and have found it to be very powerful and far cheaper than their competitors. At first I was shocked to read they suffered a DDOS attack of the scale of 50GB/s. They have an illustrious 8 year 100% uptime that is [...]

CFCollection Documentation Incorrect

For action=”list” it states: “list: returns a query result set, named from the name attribute value, of the attributes of the collections that are registered by ColdFusion. If you have Solr and Verity collections and omit the engine attribute, ColdFusion lists information for both types of collections.” The last statement is not true. If you [...]

Standalone Solr 9.0.1 Woes

I’ve been working with Solr a lot more lately. Its worked fine locally. I decided to try a standalone installation on our dev server so that all developers can access the same collection. However it seems the Solr installer isn’t as robust as Verity’s. One issue is that in CFAdmin, Data & Services > Solr [...]