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Rob Brooks-Bilson

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Biography

Rob Brooks-Bilson is a consultant, freelance writer and the Director of Architecture at Amkor Technology, where he has worked since 1996. Rob's involvement with ColdFusion goes all the way back to version 1.5 and includes several large-scale projects, the creation of numerous open source custom tags, and more recently, the open source Common Function Library Project, where he coordinates several libraries of freely available functions. Rob is an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion and is a frequent speaker at ColdFusion user groups and conferences.

Rob is the author of O'Reilly's Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition. He has written several articles on ColdFusion for Intranet Design Magazine, CF Advisor, and CNET's Builder.com.

Books

Programming ColdFusion MX Programming ColdFusion MX
by Rob Brooks-Bilson
Second Edition August 2003
Print: $54.95
Ebook: $43.99

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Articles

Blog

Rob's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.brooks-bilson.com/blogs/rob

Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 - Part 4: Caching Strategies & Eviction Policies

September 21 2009

So far in this series, we've covered why you would want to cache, what to cache and when, and basic caching architectures. In part 4 of this series, we're going to talk about caching strategies and eviction policies. A caching strategy is nothing... read more

Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 - Part 3: Caching Architectures

September 03 2009

Welcome to Part 3 in my series on Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9. In Part 2, we talked about caching granularity. This time around, were going to spend some time discussing caching architectures. When talking about caching architectures, it'... read more

Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 - Part 2: Caching Granularity

July 29 2009

In Part 1 of this series, I talked about what caching is and why you would want to consider it as part of your application design. In this post, I'm going to spend some time talking about caching granularity. Caching granularity is just a fancy way... read more

Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 - Part 1: Why Cache

July 21 2009

One ColdFusion 9 feature I haven't heard much buzz about but I think has the potential to really enhance high performance and large scale ColdFusion applications is caching. ColdFusion has always had caching capability, but more often than not they'... read more

More on ColdFusion 9's Virtual File System: Dealing with Directories and Files

July 14 2009

In a previous entry, I introduced ColdFusion 9's new RAM based virtual file system (VFS). One question that came up over and over again was how long files stored in the VFS persist. That's a pretty straightforward question. The answer, however, is... read more

New in ColdFusion9: Virtual File System

July 13 2009

One of the great new features in ColdFusion 9 that I haven't seen much press about is it's Virtual File System. The virtual file system is essentially a RAM disk (remember back to DOS?). This allows you to do three really cool things. First. you c... read more

Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder Hit Public Beta

July 13 2009

Lots and lots of hard work by the ColdFusion Engineering Team has resulted in today's announcement that ColdFusion 9 (formerly code named Centaur) and the new ColdFusion Builder IDE have hit the public beta milestone and are now available on Adobe La... read more

Fix for Vista's: The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded

January 05 2009

Back in November I finally took the plunge and upgraded my home computer to the 64bit version of Windows Vista Ultimate via a clean install. One thing I did immediately after the install was to move the \users directory from c:\users to f:\users. I ... read more

Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 2.1

October 23 2008

Looks like the Lightroom 2.1 update has officially been released. For those waiting for it, the 2.1 release includes Adobe Camera Raw 5.1 as well as a long list of bug fixes. For the full list, see the ReadMe (PDF). Windows Version Mac Versio... read more

Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Hits the Street

July 29 2008

Over the past year, I've upped my digital photography skills quite a bit. One of the tools I now find I can't live without is Adobe Lightroom. I've been running version 1.x for the better part of a year now, and am happy to announce that version 2.... read more

Moderating Comments

July 20 2008

Due to the amount of comment spam getting by the captcha these days, I've decided to remove the captcha and instead turn on moderated comments. I hate to have to do this, but the amount of comment spam was starting to get ridiculous, and I really ha... read more

Speaking at Adobe MAX 2008

July 16 2008

Just a quick note that I'll be speaking at Adobe MAX 2008 in San Francisco. My topic this year is Advanced ColdFusion Caching Strategies. I'll be covering ways to improve application performance and scaling using both ColdFusion's built-in caching m... read more

ColdFusion Deployment Builder released on RIAForge

June 12 2008

Matt Riley, one of our Sr. Engineers at Amkor has just released his first open source project, dubbed the Deployment Server. It's a ColdFusion application (Mach-II 1.5, ColdSpring, EXT 2.0, Java SE 6, Ant 1.7.0, SVN, SQL Server) that's designed to m... read more

COX Communications to Provide SDV Tuning Adapter at No Additional Cost

June 02 2008

I've seen a lot of discussion around pricing for the upcoming Tuning Adapter being developed for Tivo Series 3 and Tivo HD boxes to allow for access to channels delivered via SDV, but nothing official has been announced - until now. I just receive... read more

ColdFusion 9 Feature Idea: Multiple JVMs

May 14 2008

A recent post on Brian Kotek's blog about future directions for ColdFusion sparked a lot of debate over whether or not ColdFusion should support AS3 server-side. I want to change the focus here a bit and talk about a feature I've been thinking about... read more