http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm Steven Erat's Blog en-us Thu, 17 May 2012 01:29:42 -0600 Tue, 15 May 2012 11:53:00 -0600 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss talkingtree@gmail.com talkingtree@gmail.com http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/5/15/Automated-System-Testing-for-Web-Apps-at-CFObjective I'm excited to to have the honor of once again presenting at the CF.Objective() Enterprise ColdFusion Conference. This year I'll be talking about Automated System Testing for Web Applications with CFSelenium, MXUnit, and Jenkins. I've been a Qu... [More] ColdFusion Tue, 15 May 2012 11:53:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/5/15/Automated-System-Testing-for-Web-Apps-at-CFObjective http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/4/2/Could-not-find-ColdFusion-component-or-interface-Query My best blogging years were when I worked in ColdFusion Technical Support, from Allaire and right on thru Macromedia then Adobe. Constantly fielding customer questions provided an endless source of fodder to investigate and blog about when a solutio... [More] ColdFusion Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:52:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/4/2/Could-not-find-ColdFusion-component-or-interface-Query http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/4/2/No-April-Fools-Selenium-Shipped-Soon-to-Expire-SSL-Certificate QA Engineers everywhere woke up today and rolled into the office with the usual dread that Monday morning's bring, only to find out their day just got even worse because all of their selenium driven, automated test suites all came crashing to a halt ... ColdFusion Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:16:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/4/2/No-April-Fools-Selenium-Shipped-Soon-to-Expire-SSL-Certificate http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/7/1/How-to-repair-an-iPhone-4-LCD-screen-or-not A few months ago I laid my iPhone4 on the hood of a car in the garage, where it slid off and hit the concrete floor, face down, hard. I felt a wave of adrenalin and regret when I picked it up and found the glass screen shattered. The damage was mos... [More] Gadgets Mac OS X Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:03:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/7/1/How-to-repair-an-iPhone-4-LCD-screen-or-not http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/3/10/ImageMetadata ImageMetadata.cfc is now available on RIAForge.com. It is a utility used to extract additional metadata than ColdFusion's built-in functions alone. Importantly, it can also set metadata, which is lacking in ColdFusion. ColdFusion 8.x and up has... ColdFusion Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:04:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/3/10/ImageMetadata http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/1/28/Multiserver-Monitor-Permission-Denied-and-crossdomainxml While helping out with this issue on the Adobe Forums, I learned that the ColdFusion 9 Multiserver Monitor now requires /crossdomain.xml on target servers rather than /CFIDE/multiservermonitor-access-policy.xml. I was not aware of this change, so ho... [More] ColdFusion Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:12:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/1/28/Multiserver-Monitor-Permission-Denied-and-crossdomainxml http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/1/12/Validation-Query-for-MySQL-communications-link-failure "That's probably the best answer to any forum question I've ever posted and/or seen" is what someone said in response to my reply on the Adobe ColdFusion forums. I always enjoy helping other with ColdFusion questions whenever I have time (a 2 y... ColdFusion Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:00:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/1/12/Validation-Query-for-MySQL-communications-link-failure http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/11/18/Selective-Bulk-CFEncode-Wrapper Just a quick post to share a utility I wrote to facilitate using cfencode on a batch of ColdFusion templates. The purpose was to enable a way to encode a subset of templates in a selective way rather than just encoding everything recursively. ... ColdFusion Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:06:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/11/18/Selective-Bulk-CFEncode-Wrapper http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/9/9/JVM-Memory-Management-and-ColdFusion-Log-Analysis The following is a document I wrote for knowledge sharing with some peers, but I feel that it might have some value to other ColdFusion Devs, Testers, and Admins out there. The purpose was to illustrate how I went about analyzing CF's performance du... [More] ColdFusion Java Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:24:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/9/9/JVM-Memory-Management-and-ColdFusion-Log-Analysis http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/13/ColdFusion-901-Server-Monitoring-Enhancments I began this thought as a comment to Adobe CF QA engineer Sagar Ganatra's blog entry describing the new Server Monitor enhancements in ColdFusion 9.01 updater, however, as it grew lengthy I decided my own blog post would be a more appropriate venue.... ColdFusion Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:38:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/13/ColdFusion-901-Server-Monitoring-Enhancments http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/4/14/Issue-with-stopping-ColdFusion-after-starting-from-Builder With the release of ColdFusion Builder there is an option available that provides the ability to start and stop one or more ColdFusion servers from ColdFusion Builder. In fact, you can configure CF Builder to automatically start a CF server when Bui... ColdFusion Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:12:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/4/14/Issue-with-stopping-ColdFusion-after-starting-from-Builder http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/3/1/Adding-Data-Sources-to-ColdFusion-When-You-Dont-Have-the-Password Here's a quick trick if you don't have a datasource password when creating a new datasource but you do have another ColdFusion server with the same datasource. Imagine you have two production servers running ColdFusion, each one with different dat... ColdFusion Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:15:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/3/1/Adding-Data-Sources-to-ColdFusion-When-You-Dont-Have-the-Password http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/3/1/Starting-ColdFusion9-Solr-User-must-use-cfsolr-from-same-directory The cfsolr script for Mac, Linux, and Unix is written such that you must be in the ColdFusion9/solr/ directory when running the script. The script refers to the start.jar file without providing the full path. The problem is that if you are not i... ColdFusion Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:58:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/3/1/Starting-ColdFusion9-Solr-User-must-use-cfsolr-from-same-directory http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/27/Adobe-LiveCycle-DataServices-for-ColdFusion-at-CFObjective After a decade of working intensely with the ColdFusion server, I'm finally getting the courage to start presenting about it on the conference circuit. As a blogger, tweeter, and contributor to mailing lists I'm very confident helping others solve C... ColdFusion Events Adobe Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:40:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/27/Adobe-LiveCycle-DataServices-for-ColdFusion-at-CFObjective http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/11/27/Is-Your-ColdFusion-Support-a-Real-Turkey Are you getting half baked help solving complex server problems? Is your global service provider a little off? Sure, maybe its a lot off. Webapper wants your  feedbag  feedback about what's important to you. Take this survey to let us... ColdFusion Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0600 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/11/27/Is-Your-ColdFusion-Support-a-Real-Turkey