The MKVille Blog

CFPayment 0.9b Released

Fri, 15 May 2009 08:51:00-0400

I have been working with Brian Ghidinelli for over a year on putting together, testing, and implementing the CFPayment ColdFusion Payment Processing API. Brian and I have both been using it in production for several months with great success. You can...

Signed up for HighEdWeb Conference 2008

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:32:00-0400

For those of us in higher education, it's important to stay on top of what other institutions are doing. I usually attend two conferences a year and try to vary the target of those conferences. My last two have been Adobe- and ColdFusion-specific (MA...

New Custom Tag and CFC case sensitivity on linux could be crippling

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:59:00-0400

I received a response back from Adobe early this morning about the new case sensitivity issue that I have been dealing with that appeared in a hot fix applied to a ColdFusion 8.0.1 instance. The response pointed me to a newly created Adobe Tech No...

Custom Tag and CFC Case Issue Followup and Workaround

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:07:00-0400

In my previous post, I discovered an issue with ColdFusion 8.0.1 + Cumulative HotFix 1 that was causing me a major headache. While the custom tag issue wasn't too bad, the CFC invocation case sensitivity was huge. It stopped me in my tracks while try...

ColdFusion 8.0.1 gotchas - Custom Tag Case Issue

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:33:00-0400

Continuing with my 8.0.1 gotchas, this is the biggest and worst offender of the bunch. I'm running ColdFusion on linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Updater 5), installed in server mode running with Apache 2. After the 8.0.1 upgrade, all calls to c...

ColdFusion 8.0.1 gotchas - ImageNew

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:28:00-0400

In ColdFusion 8.0, the following code worked: Apparently some others (scroll down to the section discussing "...image format is not supported on this operating system...") had this problem before, but this code has successfully run for sev...

ColdFusion 8.0.1 gotchas - CFExecute

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:53:00-0400

I recently upgraded our CF 8 server to CF 8.0.1 plus the cumulative hotfix 1. I'm blogging threw a couple issues we ran into that I thought may help others. CFExecute The CFExecute tag changed, but according to the docs, all that was changed wa...

Ready, set, CFUnited is a go - ColdFusion 9 Sneak Peaks!

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:45:00-0400

After muddling through the first 30 minutes at the start of an introductory keynote, Ben Forta and Adam Lehman from Adobe really took off during their keynote talking about the future of ColdFusion. This is early sneak peaks, so this may or may not b...

Arrived at CFUnited 2008

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:37:00-0400

I realized today that I have blogged very little recently. And once again I purpose to blog during the CFUnited conference. I usually blog a bunch during the conference then taper off again as I get back into my daily routine. Someday I'll get bloggi...

RegExer - The online regular expression tester for ColdFusion

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:05:00-0400

I published a new project to RIA Forge today named "RegExer." Now I know there are many ways to test regular expressions, including some on the web, stand-alone apps, and even eclipse plug-ins, but I wanted one that I could (1) run locally on my deve...

Apache Derby Embedded datasource in ColdFusion on Linux

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:10:00-0400

I'm working on moving an application over from my development machine (WinXp Pro) to my testing/production servers (RedHat Linux). The application uses an Apache Derby Embedded datasource in ColdFusion 8. Setting up the datasource on my Windows machi...

The future of ColdFusion -- there is no doubt!

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:55:00-0400

Good article posted on Fusion Authority Community Chronicles about the future of ColdFusion recapping an interview between Jared Rypka-Hauer and former Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen.

Simple Form Processing and E-mailing with CFFormMail

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:53:00-0400

I posted a new project today to RIA Forge called CFFormMail. This project is a ColdFusion port of the venerable formmail Perl script found on Matt's Script Archive. Every attempt was made to make this a drop-in replacement for the perl script, so tha...

ColdFusion 8 Random Slowness? Downgrade the JVM!

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:27:00-0400

I upgraded our main production server to ColdFusion 8 during the Christmas holidays. We had been running it on our beta server for several weeks without issue. Everything seemed to be humming along fine, until the student population returned. We bega...

Querying Excel files in ColdFusion Part II

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:53:00-0400

After penning my first blog entry about Querying Excel files in ColdFusion, a friend pinged and asked if this would work with arbitrary files that users could upload. Since I was using an ODBC datasource that pointed directly to the Excel file, I tol...