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I've been working with the new ColdFusion 10 Public Beta, available at Adobe Labs, for a couple days and have done several installations on my testing server provided by CF Webtools to for the purposes of experimenting and documenting. These are my findings so far.

Due to issues I've had lately when installing ColdFusion Builder on Windows and having to run that installer as "Administrator", I decided to do that here also.

License Agreement: Didn't read that yet.

The first thing I notice was the change to Installation Configuration. As the screenshot below shows there are now only two options; Server configuration and JEE configuration. Server Configuration replaces what the two options we had before (Server and MultiServer). ColdFusion 10's Server install will let you do Multiple ColdFusion Instances with the proper license. JEE configuration is still EAR OR WAR file installations onto an existing JEE server.

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This entry was posted on February 22, 2012 at 7:20 PM and has received 109 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Hurry Hurry Step Right Up! ColdFusion 10 Zeus Public Beta has been released.

Just a few of the features

• Unique HTML5 built-in support to deliver richer interfaces without prior knowledge of HTML5
• Improved web services support using revamped engine and built-in support for REST
• Security enhancements to protect applications with new secure profile, improved authentication and encryption.
• Scheduler improvements to manage application-specific tasks, event handling, grouping, and chaining of tasks
• Built-in Tomcat server replacing Adobe JRun leading to performance improvements

Get it at the Adobe Labs.

This entry was posted on February 17, 2012 at 3:21 PM and has received 336 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Hurry Hurry Step Right Up! ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1 Twister Public Beta has been released.

A few of the new features

Performance

• Enhanced importing of large projects containing application.cfc.
• Improved Code Assist efficiency with large projects.
• Improved efficiency of the editor

Other Enhancements

• Support for new tags and functionalities of ColdFusion 10
• Improved Server manager to work with built-in Tomcat server
• Eclipse 3.7 upgrade to leverage the latest functionalities

Get it at the Adobe Labs.

This entry was posted on February 17, 2012 at 3:15 PM and has received 310 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Just a very quick note to the ColdFusion Community, CFWebtools is looking to hire a few more Senior Level ColdFusion developers. We also have the need for people with Flex and Air skills.

CFWebtools is location in Omaha, NE, but we have a large number of remote employees and contractors. If you are interested,read the job posting at the link above and contact us.

This entry was posted on November 17, 2011 at 5:03 PM and has received 1297 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

The Adobe ColdFusion team have released: ColdFusion 9.0.1 : Cumulative Hot fix 2. The this link http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/918/cpsid_91836.html. One of the items that caught my attention is the bug forx for OS X Lion.

Bug # 86992 ColdFusion multiserver instance does not start properly on Mac OS X Lion (10.7.x).

I downloaded the Hot Fix and started the whole process from scratch. I had already blown away my ColdFusion 9 from my MacBook Pro which has OS X Lion to I could try another version of ColdFusion.

1. clean up my system
2. Install ColdFusion 9.0 in multi server mode
3. Test real quick - yes 9.0 is running (it always did)
4. Install ColdFusion 9.0.1 in Multi-server mode
5. Test real quick, no it won't even start (which is also normal)
6. Install ColdFusion 9.0.1 Cumulative Hot fix 2
7. Test real quick and yes it runs.

I've done a reboot a couple of times now and still no luck. But at least ColdFusion 9.0.1 Multi Server is running on OSX Lion.

This entry was posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:49 PM and has received 1212 views. There are currently 12 comments. Print this entry.

The CF Webtools tag line is "You Dream it We Build it", including SVN servers.

Keeping it in house
CF Webtools has been using it's own task and project tracking system for years. Over this time it's grown. It keeps track of clients, hours of dev work, hours paid by clients, projects, project tracks/tasks and a lot more. It does what CF Webtools needs and it will be expanding as more needs come up. But it does not integrate with anything (or it didn't used to). We also run our own SVN server as well as numerous development and staging servers. All needed to maintain the clients dev/staging sites for ongoing work.

Mark Kruger, aka. ColdFusion Muse believes in keeping these services in house as much as possible. I know people will argue the cost of do it yourself, verses someone hosting it for you. But, there are other reasons being considered as well. We're keeping it in house. However, it finally came to a point where we needed a better SVN system and some integration.

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This entry was posted on September 9, 2011 at 10:30 AM and has received 928 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

The news hitting the "Twitterverse" as I type this short blog post is that GoDaddy has just sent out emails to their ColdFusion hosting customers informing them that GoDaddy is going to discontinue ColdFusion hosting in 3 months.

"After careful consideration, we have decided to discontinue support for ColdFusion®. The product will officially remain available to Go Daddy customers for three months, until November 29, 2011. After that date, ColdFusion websites hosted by Go Daddy will not work.

We will not be removing customer content from the system -- your files will remain safely in our hosting datacenter. Because your current hosting account offers additional languages (PHP on Linux and Windows plans, and .NET on Windows plans), we hope you will find an alternative to your current ColdFusion implementation. Additionally, Deluxe and Ultimate plans offer Ruby, Perl and Python as language options.

Should you decide to move your files, please review the following help articles: Moving Directories Using the FTP File Manager and Using the File Manager to Move Files Between Directories.

If you have further questions or concerns, contact our customer service department at 480-505-8877.

Thanks for being a Go Daddy customer.

Bob Parsons
CEO and Founder
GoDaddy.com

No matter what your or my opinion(s) are of GoDaddy and their ColdFusion hosting business, the facts are people need to move to a new host fast.

There are other ColdFusion Hosting companies. Adobe has a page listing their ColdFusion Hosting Partners. These are the ones I know of off hand.

• EdgeWeb Hosting
• Hostek
• Visi

Also, if you are looking for high quality ColdFusion programming and hosting I will shamelessly plug Mark Kruger, a.k.a. ColdFusion Muse, and his team at CF Webtools, which includes me. ;-)

this was an unsolicited message

Update: I removed one company due to the number of complaints I've heard.

This entry was posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:09 PM and has received 1655 views. There are currently 20 comments. Print this entry.

I missed the official August 1st celebration, but then if you read the "About" section you'll get a glimpse of how I started with ColdFusion.

I've been a geek since I was a little kid. I had home electronics kits and built all sorts of things like crystal radios, buzzers, door bells, simple switching circuits etc. I also am cursed with "The Knack"

I got my hands on my first computer around 1982,it was a TI-99/4A.

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This entry was posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:02 PM and has received 910 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

Just a quick note to report that both my PostgreSQL 8.3.7 and MySQL 5.1.4 installs survived the upgrade to OS X Lion. PostgreSQL was installed via Mac Ports and MySQL was installed via the download from their website. PG Admin and MySQL workbench are also working just fine.

This entry was posted on July 21, 2011 at 9:27 PM and has received 2262 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

The Lion Shipped Last Night, or this morning. Today we'll see if it Roars! I am downloading and installing OS X Lion on my older Mac Book Pro. I have ColdFusion 9 Developer edition as well as the rest of my developer tools on there. I plan to use the MBP as the guinea pig and if that works fine then to my main system, a much newer iMac. I'll update this post with details as I have them.

The Install Process

FIRST RUN YOUR SOFTWARE UPDATES! New updates came out for Snow Leopard in the past few days including and update to the Migration Assistant. Next, go the the App store. Lion if featured on the home page. Purchase Lion for $29 and wait while it downloads and installs. This is what's happening right now on the MBP. I hope everyone has a fast internet connection. This is 3.49GB.

The Results

So far I am running into an issue getting CF 9 server started. I don't have time right now to debug.

ColdFusion Builder 2 is running. This was installed already when I did the updated to Lion.

Flash Builder 4.5 is hanged in the install process. I hadn't installed it yet and it seems to be not working. The first issues was it could not communicate with Adobe to verify my Adobe ID. I don't have time to debug this either right now.

*UPDATE*
JRun is running, but I can't control starting or stopping of ColdFusion from CFBuilder or the ColdFusion Launcher. If I kill JRun then use the ColdFusion Launcher, I get the message "Server 'cfusion' failed to start." I'm not seeing anything in the logs indicating why it failed. I'm wondering if the connector to Apache is an issue. I remember that I had to redo that for ColdFusion 8 when I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Otherwise I'll reinstall ColdFusion 9 and see what happens.

• Flash Builder 4.5 did install finally
• ColdFusion Builder 2 is running.

*UPDATE 2*
There had to be something else wrong with my previous install. maybe I had the wrong connector or installed previously. I am not sure. This is a 3+ year old MacBook Pro that had Leopard installed originally and has had two OS upgrades since. None of these upgrades have been fresh clean installs. Plus ColdFusion 8 prior and now ColdFusion 9. So, I decided to uninstall ColdFusion and reinstall. That only took 5 minutes and now ColdFusion 9 is up and running. The good news about doing this way is we now know the installer works on Lion. Maybe this weekend I'll upgrade my iMac which is much newer and has not had so many previous upgrades. I'm feeling better about OS X Lion now.

*UPDATE 3*
Well, I tried to install the ColdFusion 9.0.1 update. That failed. I'm having all the same issues I had when I originally upgraded to OS X Lion. I usually stay up-to-date on these updates and hot fixes so I'm guess this may have been the issue all along. I'm posting the items from log files that may point to a clue. I'm not sure what the problem is at the moment.

*UPDATE 4*
A huge thanks to Marcin Szczepanski - see his comment below.

I could confirm his findings on my installation also. The new jpedal.jar is different. There are class files in the old one that are not in the new one. By replacing the new jpedal.jar file with the old one, ColdFusion 9.0.1 is up and running. Considering this was part of the update for 9.0.1 I wonder what else will break because of using the old file?

This entry was posted on July 20, 2011 at 9:53 AM and has received 3032 views. There are currently 51 comments. Print this entry.