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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 moreCaching 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 moreCaching 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 moreCaching 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 moreMore 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 moreNew 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 moreAdobe 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 moreFix 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 moreAdobe 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 moreAdobe 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 moreJuly 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 moreJuly 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 moreColdFusion 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 moreCOX 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 moreColdFusion 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