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I've made it onto the CF9 video interviews at Adobe.com

Note: This blog post is from 2009. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
Someone told me today they'd spotted me on the CF9 video interviews offered on the Adobe site. Pretty cool. There are actually a couple of sets of video interviews that I made it into.

Let me tell you about them and the process.

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You may have mistakenly applied an 8.0 CHF on a 8.0.1 CF server, and not realize it!

Note: This blog post is from 2009. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
I just helped a customer today solve a problem where he swore he had applied the latest Cumulative Hotfix (CHF) for CF 8.0.1, but I showed him that instead he had mistakenly applied the CHF for 8.0. I know how it happened, and showed him. I hope how you can avoid the same mistake.

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Accessing the CFMeetup site when meetup.com is blocked for you

Note: This blog post is from 2009. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
Have you found the CFMeetup site blocked for you at work? Here's are a couple of ways to deal with that.

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Palm owners: how to solve the "failed to backup" error for PmTraceDatabase on hotsync

Note: This blog post is from 2009. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
If you're a Palm device owner who has been annoyed that attempts to hotsync your device fail with "Hotsync session completed with errors", because it "Failed to backup 1 file", the PmTraceDatabase, I have a solution for you, from Palm.

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CF9 version numbers (past, present, future reference)

Note: This blog post is from 2009. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
At some point you may find yourself wondering exactly what version of CF 9 or its betas that you are running, such as to confirm if you're running the latest version available. I was in that position, and googled to find reference to the number I found, and there was no reference.

So I'm offering this entry as a place to post this info and for others to update over time.

  • 9,0,1,274733 - CF 9 Updater 1 (9.0.1)
  • 9,0,0,251028 - public release
  • 9,0,0,241018 - first public release candidate, available 07/13/09
  • 9,0,0,233019 - The last beta before the public release

How to view your CF Version number

Wondering how to see the version number? In code it's in the variable server.coldfusion.productversion.

In the admin, you can see it in either the "server settings>settings summary" menu option on the left, or the "system information" icon at top right (or http://[server]/CFIDE/administrator/settings/version.cfm).

If you know of earlier or later releases than those I list (such as if I've not updated this in the future), feel free to offer them as comments.

ColdFusion 8 migration resources (from 6, 7, or even earlier)

Note: This blog post is from 2009. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
Someone asked me about migrating from CF 6 to 8, lamenting that he couldn't find any migration resources. Sadly, there are no official Adobe resources for upgrading to CF8, but I will mention a guide to upgrading to CF 7 from CF 6 (or even 5) that Macromedia offered, which many may have missed. I'll also point out a couple other things and blog entries of others that do focus more on moving to CF 8 specifically (and perhaps others will comment with still more.)

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Using tools to browse Web Services. Great for solving problems

Note: This blog post is from 2009. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
I just blogged about a feature in CFBuilder that allows you to browse web service methods, arguments, etc., like the same feature in Dreamweaver and the Adobe Eclipse Extensions for Eclipse.

But what if you have none of those tools, or just don't care to fire them up?

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CFBuilder tip: Browsing web services--did you know you can? and a bug you may hit

Note: This blog post is from 2009. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
Did you realize that you can browse web services in CFBuilder (just like you could in Dreamweaver or the Adobe ColdFusion 8 Extensions for Eclipse), seeing all the methods, their args, etc.? I'll show you how, but I'll also warn of a bug you may hit in the beta, and give a simple solution.

This is another in a series of tips I want to start share for those working with CFBuilder. While oriented mostly to those who had not used (or stuck with) CFEclipse before, this one may surprise even folks who had used it.

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Blocking comment spam in BlogCFC (or it could be adapted to others)

Note: This blog post is from 2009. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
Want another tool to help battle blog comment spam? Here's an approach I use that may benefit others. I look for certain bad URLs being referenced in the comment, and if they exist I block the comment. Sure, there are other solutions. I've wondered for a while about sharing this code publicly like this, but I get enough people who've asked for it that I figure I may as well.

Update: Ray has clarified (in a comment) that BlogCFC does already have this functionality, in the "trackback spamlist" feature (on the Settings page of the BlogCFC Admin). I thought that had only to do with track backs, not comments. If you're using BlogCFC, you should use that feature to achieve what I describe here. But some of the thoughts and techniques may still interest some.

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CFBuilder tip: Opening a file from outside the editor works as you'd expect!

Note: This blog post is from 2009. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
I want to start sharing some tips for working with CFBuilder. Most will be oriented toward those new to it, who had not used (or stuck with) CFEclipse before, but this one may surprise even those folks.

In Brief:

It's safe now to have CFBuilder set as the default program for all CFM and CFC files. Opening a file from outside the editor (when you already have CFBuilder open) will NOT open an entirely new copy of CFBuilder (as it did with CFEclipse). It will just open a new tab in the editor already open, as you'd expect. (This applies only to the standalone edition of CFBuilder, not the plug-in version.)

Explanation:

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