CFInternals

Deploying ColdFusion on OS X using Parallels - Disadvantages

As I wrote yesterday in Deploying ColdFusion on OS X, there are quite a few advantages in using Parallel's virtual mahine technology to deploy ColdFusion on an Intel Mac running OS X.

But to be fair about it, there's a couple of disadvantages to doing so as well. Let's cover those quickly so we can get to the "how to".

Deploying ColdFusion on OS X using Parallels - Advantages

With the community beta release of Scorpio now available, Apple developers can finally obtain an Intel-compatible version of ColdFusion for OS X. But if you're on a Mac and you need a ColdFusion-based development environment there's another method I want you to seriously consider...

Will Adobe do a better job of marketing ColdFusion? Can they do any worse?

David Fekke has a good analysis of the recent ComputerWorld article, dismantling it line-by-line. But the last paragraph is the most telling.

The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills.

ComputerWorld has a list of the Top 10 Dead (or Dying) Computer Skills. Anyone care to guess what technology holds position number five?

Dreamweaver and CFEclipse: There can be only one?

I was browsing through Eric's "Rough Notes" on Scorpio when one item caught my eye: the new Eclipse-based cf debugger. This had been mentioned before, but carries new significance when you consider yesterday's article on Dreamweaver.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 First Impressions

I've been out of town consulting and as such I just got around to installing my new copy of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 on my MacBook Pro. After working with it for a couple of days, overall I've got to say that I'm pretty... underwhelmed. Here's why.

Cache structs, not queries.

Thus far I've helped install two of the largest ColdFusion-based content management systems for two different clients, and in comparing both one thing is evident: they both just love structs.

More on Named Arguments

Over on Peter Bell's blog he wrote the article that I was going to write on The Benefits of Named Arguments When Calling CFC Methods, thus saving me the trouble (Thanks Peter). However, I would like to add another interesting way to use them, and that's the topic of this post.

Centralized Caching for CFMX

Lynch Consulting has an interesting project going on: a centralized caching solution for ColdFusion servers using the open-source project memcached. It, along with the comments that follow the article, provide a good discussion of the pros and cons of using a centralized server in multi-server environments.