News by Anthony Petruzzi

My many hats

11 Jul 12:52
I wear a lot of hats where I work. People often ask me what hats I wear when I perform the many tasks at hand. Here is the list: Network administration: a Sherlock Holmes hat Database administration: wizard hat (and robe) Website Administration: Baseball cap Technical Support: Yamika ColdFusion Programming: Sombrero .Net Programming: a jimmy hat [...

CF8 Error: Cron service not available error

13 May 04:51
This morning all of our sites were throwing this cryptic ColdFusion error, even after a reboot the error was still there. I did a search on Google and came across this post that describes the fix. open your {cf_root}\lib directory rename neo-cron.xml to neo-cron.xxx if you have a neo-cron.bak, trying renaming it to neo-cron.xml. If you don’t you [...

CF 8.01 implicit creation bug still exists. I knew it!

5 Apr 00:12
As much as people think I’m a jerk, I’m a jerk for a good reason. I’m not afraid to stir the pot or call people out and I expect them to do the same to me. Back on Feb 29, Ben Forta posted an entry to his blog about how the updater that was to be [...

The war on beans

3 Apr 09:52
I’m declaring war on beans. I can’t for the life of me see why they are used and I want someone out there to give me an intelligent answer as to why you should even bother using them. Here’s my argue for getting rid of them. For some odd reason, some bright boy a long time ago [...

CFDOCUMENT and HTTPS

24 Mar 15:01
So we had to install an SSL cert for one of out clients. Low and behold the client goes to print out some badges and the images don’t want to show up. First words out of my mouth were…. “MOTHER FUCKER, GOD DAMN CFDOCUMENT!!!” Yes kiddies, that’s right CFDOCUMENT doesn’t like SSL. The solution (which sucks) is [...

Will the open sourcing of BD help Rails and others?

14 Mar 00:14
In case you missed it, BlueDragon (the J2EE version) is going open source as announced by New Atlanta earlier this week. This announcement has singled handedly fired up the CF community. I’ve been hoping for so that the Smith Project would take off and become the front runner of CFML engines since it was the [...

CF9: What’s going to be poorly implemented this time.

4 Mar 05:38
On Friday, Ben Forta posted to his blog that in the next updater for CF8 we will finally be able to nest implicit creation of arrays and structures. This comes almost a full half year and two service packs since CF8’s release. Implicit creation of arrays and structures was probably the most anticipated update in CF8. [...
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