Top 10 CArehart.org blog posts of 2018
Yep, I'm a bit late on this. :-) Here are what I might propose to be the top 10 posts of mine from 2018 (by my own choice, and in reverse chronological order):
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I'll be speaking at Adobe CF Summit East in DC, Apr 9-10
I should have posted this a few weeks ago, but I'm delighted to announce that I'll be presenting again this year at Adobe's ColdFusion Summit East in Washington, DC on Apr 9-10, 2019.
As in recent years, this event (presented by Adobe in conjunction with Carahsoft) presents something of a "best of" from talks given at the CF Summit in Vegas this past October. April's a great time to visit DC (where I was born and raised, and lived my first 40 years).
And I'll be offering my Hidden Gems in CF2018 talk I have there (and at CFCamp also in Nov), with some improvements since then of course.
See you there, I hope!
Considering use of Amazon Corretto, the new openjdk jvm, especially with ColdFusion
As I posted earlier today, there are big changes afoot in the Java world, about production (not just "commercial") use of Java going forward. This is big news, as it is for anyone using Java 8 or 11 for production purposes.
But here's some good news: Amazon has recently released a new free JVM (java virtual machine) implementation based on the OpenJDK specification, called Corretto. In this post, I want to share some news about it. (Off the bat, let me tell my friends on any Linux flavor other than Amazon Linux 2, this is not yet available to you. For now it is only available for Amazon Linux 2 as well as Windows, MacOS, and as a docker image. Other Linux flavors are due in Q1 2019.)
For much more, read on.
What's an admin to do: Oracle's changed stance on production use of Java, going forward?
Did you know that Oracle announced in 2018 major changes regarding free production use of Java 8 and 11?
- Regarding Java 8, did you know that Oracle will no longer offer free updates/security patches for Java 8, if used for production (NOT just "commercial") purposes beyond Jan 2019? After that, you must pay them for support/updates (including security updates). For more on why this is NOT just about "commercial" use, see below.)
- Regarding Java 11, the next major release, did you know that the Oracle Java 11 JVM cannot be USED at ALL for PRODUCTION purposes, without paying for it?
- Finally, while Oracle will be offering a free openJDK implementation (which CAN be used for production, for free), did you know they will only be committing to supporting/updating their Oracle Java 11 openjdk for 6 months after release, leaving subsequent updates to the community of contributors?
For more, including why this may have significant impact on your use of Java-based applications, as well as alternatives that may exist for you going forward, read on.
I'll be speaking at 3 upcoming events, first on Tomcat then on CF and FR
I've been negligent to get a post out about this, and now the events are upon us. I'll be speaking in coming weeks at 3 events, about my favor topics: troubleshooting and monitoring, both CF/Lucee and Tomcat, as well as CF2018 hidden gems. Here are their titles, descriptions, and links to the events:
What's new in CF2018, part 2 (finding still more info and resources about CF2018)
This is a continuation of my previous blog post, Part 1 about What's new in CF2018.
In that first part, I had covered these topics:
- Resources for finding what's new
- So what are the new features in CF2018?
- ColdFusion Performance Monitoring Toolset (PMT)
In this part, I will continue with these topics:
- Finding still more about what's new in CF2018 (bugs fixed, known issues, whitepapers, deprecated features, more info on new features)
- Other info and resources on CF2018, like pricing, upgrades, licensing, trials, support timeframes
- What about CFBuilder and the API Manager?
CF2018 released: what are the key new features, and where to find more?
Adobe has released ColdFusion 2018 late last week, July 12 2018, after a several month pre-release cycle. As is often the case, info about the release (new features, pricing, etc.) is a bit spread out, so I wanted in in this post to pull that info together, after I've been reviewing it the past few days.
In particular, I want to highlight a new way (which you may have missed) where Adobe has been sharing info about the new release as a series of blog entries about each feature from CF team members. Some of these have examples (which have been missing sometimes in the past with discussions of new features). That said, and helpful though those are, there's not a single post linking to them all, so I'm offering that here in effect. There are also doc pages about each new feature, and I link to those also.
And there is still more info about the new release which is NOT covered in those blog posts (including pricing, upgrades, licensing, etc.), and I want to add those here.
Some may remember that I had done a series of posts back when CF2016 came out, and I'm condensing what I covered in a couple of those into this one. Hope it's helpful (and I will update it as I learn new information).
