Adam Lehman is unwell, but getting better

On Friday night, Adam had an accident and broke is arm and leg as he was hit by a car in Regent Street, London. I accompanied him to the hospital in the ambulance that night and got it all sorted. It was simply an accident and even though the driver was just under the alcohol limit, the police are not taking action (as far as I know).

He is currently in a hospital in London where he has already had surgery on his leg and will be having surgery on his arm (maybe) later today. Hopefully he will be out in a week or two.

Even through this, he has managed to  Twitter and update his status. So he is doing OK, if a little out of it due to the pain killers.

I am sure we all are sending him our support.

7 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 11:01 AM - Categories: personal | coldfusion | adobe

ColdFusion Webservice gotcha on OS X

As I was getting my presentation on ColdSpring ready for A Wee Dram of Scotch, I come across the following problem, that none of my webservices would work! I started getting the following error:

coldfusion.jsp.JavaCompiler$UnknownCompiler: Unable to run the internal Java compiler: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/tools/StandardJavaFileManager.

Following a bunch of blogs and thanks to Peter Freitag, the answer was simple, move the tools.jar from your <ColdFusion Install>/lib (or <JRUN Install>servers/cfusion/cfusion-ear/cfusion-war/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib ) and restart the server. Bam... back to webservices working fine again. I am just putting this either to help other people, or to help me next time I forget about this

2 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 11:47 AM - Categories: coldfusion | coldspring

Live from A Wee Dram of Scotch

I just finished presenting my "Better living through configuration" presentation at A Wee Dram of Scotch in London. Its a great presentation so far with Adam Lehman and Claude from Adobe kicking off the proceedings and showing the (possible) Hibernate features in Centaur (or the "Eagerly Awaited next version of ColdFusion"). 

The rest of the day should be really interesting, and currently Peter Bell is telling us about RAD OO.

This is the smallest conference I have been to, and I think its great, there are only about 70 people in the same room and its only one day... a great way to really meet other developers (rather than the immense scale of other conferences)

If the wireless picks up, I shall try and post some more today, if not I shall give you a breakdown (after the hangover ) tomorrow!

In the meantime, here is my presentation and code for you to play with!

0 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 7:40 AM - Categories: scotch on the rocks | coldfusion | coldspring | presentations | CFConferences

Getting ready to sip a Wee Dram of Scotch in London

1 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 7:13 AM - Categories: scotch on the rocks | frameworks | coldfusion | coldspring | CFConferences |

Meme(me)

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The future of Reactor

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An A.C.E. up my sleeve?

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