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Now that ColdFusion 10 is officially released I wanted to update my previous blog post about ColdFusion 10 Installation. I completely uninstalled the beta versions and went to installing the official release. There were a couple changes that I noticed from the first public beta to the final release. One nice change was that requiring an insanely secure password for the Developer Edition has gone away. I do hope that with a serial number the strong password is still required.

The only other new installation item I saw was the new option for Enable Secure Profile. This installation option like you instantly choose between a local developer installation and a production installation. When you enable secure profile you are automatically disabling a few things by default, these are RDS, debugging, directory browsing and you have the option to limit ColdFusion Administrator access to one or more IP addresses. This is a really nice feature for someone that has to install production servers a regular basis. I hope this leads to more secure ColdFusion installations everywhere.

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This entry was posted on May 19, 2012 at 4:23 PM and has received 3083 views. There are currently 4 comments. Print this entry.

Due to the Verity license expiring Adobe will quit offering some of the older versions of ColdFusion after May 31st, 2012. This Adobe ColdFusion Blog post covers the details including a new 9.0.2 version without Verity. Download what you think you'll need (or all of the versions) while you can.

This entry was posted on May 16, 2012 at 8:01 PM and has received 1419 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Can you believe it? Adobe just release ColdFusion 10! I remember working with this fledgling "Cold Fusion" (was it version 2 or 3 back then?) server stuff back around 1997! Totally amazing that 15 years later ColdFusion 10 is here and getting stronger. And to think I had "Professors" in college at the time that were asking me "Why would anyone want to connect a database to a webpage and actually interact with it?" Now we know why!

Congratulations to the ColdFusion Developer Team for their great work on this release. ColdFusion 10 marks in my opinion a third new era or generation for ColdFusion as it moves onto the Tomcat platform. Initially ColdFusion was C++ code then in migrated to Java with JRUN so those were the first two generations. Now we move onto the Tomcat Java Servlet. This is great news!

What is 'Today' - It's after midnight on May15th when I got the notice from Adobe about the release.

This entry was posted on May 15, 2012 at 7:20 PM and has received 1628 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

I just had the most wonderful experience with ColdFusion Builder 2 Update 1 Beta (officially 2.0.1 according to the About window). Recently I have been testing the new public beta on both my Mac and on Windows 7. I do 99% of my development work from my Mac and I need this for work no questions asked. One of the caveats with this new update is that is will not install along side ColdFusion Builder 2. It's an update after all so that makes sense. But you can have ColdFusion Builder 2 installed as a Standalone install and then install this update as a plugin to Eclipse on the same machine. This is how I did my initial testing and dutifully filed my bug reports. However, I wasn't going to replace ColdFusion Builder 2 with this beta just yet. I need to get paid! I can't afford down time.

Today (a lazy hanged over Saturday) I decided that I was ready to make the switch. I uninstalled the plugin version of the update, then uninstalled my trusty ColdFusion Builder 2. The installation notes I have claims that ColdFusion Builder 2 Update 1 can (and really should) use your existing workspace and it should keep your plugins installed from your previous ColdFusion Builder 2.

I am elated to report that this worked as advertised! Upon launching ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1 Beta I saw my previously opened files still opened. All my custom arrangement of tabs, windows etc still where I left them and my Subversive plugin was still there, in tact and still have my two dozen plus SVN Repository entries!

So from now on all my coding is going to be in Twister! Maybe this will grant me an excuse for my twisted codes! I do expect to run into issues, there are already known issues that the documentation points out and there are a few bugs. But then again this is still BETA ( Buggy Erratic Temperamental Application).

Many thanks to the Adobe ColdFusion Developer Team!

ColdFusion Builder Team Blog (http://blogs.adobe.com/cfbuilder/)
ColdFusion Team Blog (http://blogs.coldfusion.com/)

This entry was posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:47 PM and has received 2318 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

I just noticed that Hostek.com is offering free ColdFusion 10 Beta hosting. This is a limited offer! But you get to use ColdFusion 10 Beta on a public server.

Details: http://hostek.com/hosting/coldfusion/coldfusion10-hosting.asp

This entry was posted on February 24, 2012 at 11:52 AM and has received 1385 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

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 3102 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 1291 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 1264 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 2157 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 2787 views. There are currently 12 comments. Print this entry.