News by Bernie Dolan

10 Reasons Why You Should Attend Flex Camp Boston

7 Nov 03:00
Here's 10 reasons why I think you should register now for Flex Camp Boston: Two words: Baked Beans. I've said too much. Interested in how to link Flex and ColdFusion? With folks like Tom Jordahl and Matt Woodward on the agenda, you're su...

Officially Running ColdFusion 8

27 Sep 14:50
I finally got around to installing CF8 on the VPS I share with Brian at Vivio. I'm happy to report the installation was about as uneventful as I could have hoped for -- absolutely no problems. Vivio uses CentOS for their VPS accounts, so I ran th...

Robust Exception Information Misconception?

12 Jul 05:24
Say THAT five times fast. :) If you tend to bundle detailed exception information for an email or log when your ColdFusion application throws an error, you MAY be under the impression that you need to turn on the "Enable Robust Exception Informatio...

Free ColdFusion 8 hosting

30 May 19:12
In case you didn't catch it in the press release, HostMySite is offering free trial hosting for CF8... "The free Scorpio Beta trial will be in effect as long as ColdFusion 8 is in beta. Customers will be notified 30 days prior to discontinuation o...

Beware Of Friendly DOS Attacks

14 Mar 02:07
Not long ago, we were experiencing a performance issue on one of our internal sites. Taking a look at the web server's access log, I noticed that the site was being hammered by requests -- all originating from the same IP address. It turned out the...

DataMgr Tour Of Two Cities Is Almost Over

22 Feb 16:00
Looking for something to do while you're waiting for the Scorpio User Group Tour to start? See if you can catch Steve Bryant on his whirlwind "DataMgr Tour of Two Cities" before it ends! At this very moment, Steve's groupies are camping in tent...

Getting Real

8 Feb 11:51
At one point during the latest version of the ColdFusion Weekly, Matt recommended a book called "Getting Real" by 37 Signals (the makers of Basecamp, Backpack, etc.). It really is an excellent and easy read, discussing (among other things) how 37 Si...

DST changes: Use TZupdater if you can't upgrade your JVM

31 Jan 13:24
As mentioned in several posts lately (like this one by Damon Cooper and here by Sarge) the start and end dates for Daylight Savings Time are changing this year. This has a direct impact on ColdFusion since these timezone changes are only supported i...

Query Data Getting Truncated? Check Your Buffer

19 Jan 10:00
A coworker of mine ran into a problem the other day with query data he was trying to display on a page getting truncated. The database he was querying has a text column that stores huge XML documents, and he noticed one document was getting chopped ...

In Support of MachBlog

16 Jan 14:36
To celebrate the announcement of the public beta for MachBlog and to support the continued community efforts of Matt Woodward and Peter Farrell I've installed MachBlog on my site and this is my first post. So what can you expect from this blog? W...