Category: coldfusion

Nov 10 2008

Finally! episode 1 of the cf doc's podcast now live!

The first episode of the CF Doc's UKCFUG podcast is finally live! It took me a while to edit it and we had some problems with the microphones on the night so it was recorded straight from the laptop, thus you can't hear the audience very well. Next time I promise we shall have our mic's all sorted out and it will be of much better quality, that said, I don't think it's too bad considering the situation!

You can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes too! How amazing is that?

If you want your questions to be featured on the CF Doc's podcast, send an email to podcast@ukcfug.org or Skype "ukcfug"

3 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 3:14 AM - Categories: podcast | coldfusion | ukcfug

Nov 6 2008

Live Tonight! The CF Doctors are in the house!

At least live in this month's UK Coldfusion User Group meeting!

The UKCFUG managers will be hosting the first live recording of the "CF Doc's" Podcast at tonight's meeting, the podcast covering some CF community news but mainly answering YOUR questions! Yes, we have had some great questions posted already that we shall be answering tonight.

But fear not, you can also call in your questions via Skype! Just call the "UKCFUG" number or simply click the button below if you want your call featured in the show.

Hopefully the recording will go well and become a monthly feature.

Skype Me™!

 

0 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 8:18 AM - Categories: coldfusion | ukcfug

Oct 31 2008

The UKCFUG is Back!

After the summer hiatus which is essentially the conference season, the UKCFUG is back! And its better than ever!
We have got a new site up, in blog format so you can easily subscribe to news of meetings and other events. There is also an awesome meeting planned for the 6th of November.

We are testing the waters with a new format, we have a new segment at each meeting called "CF Docs" (like CF Doctors, gettit?) in which you can ask the panel of myself, Niklas Richardson, Neil Middleton and Big Mad Kev any CF based questions (and some Flex ones!). 

Hopefully if no technical issues happen we shall be recording the segment and turn it into a podcast, something like a "Gardener's Question Time" for CF. 

So whether you are planning on attending or will catch up via the podcast, send us your questions via email and we shall read them out. The email for the questions is or leave a comment here or on the UK CFUG website. 

Neil will also be giving us a preview of his Adobe MAX Conference talk "Structuring your development team and getting the work done" which should be awesome! 

So whether you can make it on the 6th, or just want some answers to your questions, get registered on the UKCFUG website! 

It's going to be a great season!

2 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 3:27 AM - Categories: coldfusion | max | ukcfug | podcasting

Oct 24 2008

The oddest CF error/strangeness I have spotted

I recently have been working on adding a couple of different cache providers for Model-Glue 3 .

So I was getting my head round Andrew Powell's CF_EHCache so that I can write an interface for it that Model-Glue can use, which should be simple enough since it already uses a SimpleTimedCache, when I come across a very odd thing, with the code out of the box I got the following error:

The system has attempted to use an undefined value, which usually indicates a programming error, either in your code or some system code.
   Null Pointers are another name for undefined values.

So I started dumping my way through it, so to speak, but it would work... eh?!

	<cfscript>
		var mBeanServer     = createObject('java','java.lang.management.ManagementFactory').getPlatformMBeanServer();

			variables.manager	= createObject('java','net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager');
			variables.manager.create(javacast("string",expandPath('#arguments.scope#.xml')));
			variables.cacheName = arguments.cacheName;
	</cfscript>
	<cfdump var="#variables.manager#">
	<cfset createObject('java','net.sf.ehcache.management.ManagementService').registerMBeans(variables.manager,mBeanServer,
		javacast("boolean",false),
		javacast("boolean",false),
		javacast("boolean",false),
		javacast("boolean",true))>
<cfset variables.manager.addCache(javacast("string",arguments.cacheName))>

 

The above is the constructor code, I have split it out a bit so that you can see what is happening, but if call the above code without the cfdump, I get an error, but if remove it, it crashes. I have never seen something like this before.

UPDATE!

This morning, writing this post, I realised that in the third line I had forgotten to add the .init() to the CacheManager. Go figure! Seems that cfdump does the init for you eh?

0 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 3:08 AM - Categories: model-glue | model-glue | coldfusion

Oct 19 2008

Like Model-Glue? Give the team some feedback!

Over on the Model-Glue mailing list, Dan Wilson has posted a very quick survey to get feedback and thus improve the features of the framework.

If you would like the project to grow, why not take a couple of minutes to fill out the survey?

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pV_YPtP0HXyYxlOXmNduDVA

0 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 5:04 AM - Categories: model-glue | coldfusion

Sep 29 2008

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

Sep 25 2008

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

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