http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm Helpful information about the Adobe stack of Software including ColdFusion, Flex, Flash, Photoshop, Lightroom, and more. I'm also a RHCE (Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer) and a Professional Photographer. en-us Fri, 17 May 2013 22:13:40 -0500 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:35:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss talkingtree@gmail.com talkingtree@gmail.com talkingtree@gmail.com no http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/7/17/Invalid-XML-character-Unicode-0x14 Recently I completed the upgrade of BlogCFC 4.0 (Beta) to the latest 5.9.8. AFAIK, there is no upgrade tool to facilitate a move across such a wide gap (effectively, it's about a 5 or 6 year gap in the code base, and there are some differences in th... ColdFusion Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:35:00 -0500 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/7/17/Invalid-XML-character-Unicode-0x14 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/5/24/ColdFusion-Memory-Tracking-Real-World-Performance-Example It is widely known that the built-in ColdFusion Server Monitor can in many cases cause a CF server to become entirely unresponsive if Memory Tracking is enabled. I've experienced this myself when I previously consulted with customers, and I was abl... ColdFusion Flex Quality Assurance Java Thu, 24 May 2012 18:00:00 -0500 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/5/24/ColdFusion-Memory-Tracking-Real-World-Performance-Example http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/5/18/Thank-you-for-attending-Automated-System-Testing-at-CFObjective Thank you to everyone that attended my presentation today at CFObjective conference on Automated System Testing with ColdFusion, CFSelenium, MXUnit, and Jenkins. I received a lot of positive feedback about the content, quality of material, and demon... ColdFusion Twitter Photos Events Fri, 18 May 2012 10:43:00 -0500 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/5/18/Thank-you-for-attending-Automated-System-Testing-at-CFObjective 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 Qualit... Adobe ColdFusion Flex Quality Assurance Events Learning Tue, 15 May 2012 07:53:00 -0500 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... Adobe ColdFusion Twitter Blogging Macromedia Quality Assurance Java Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:52:00 -0500 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 ... Quality Assurance Learning Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:16:00 -0500 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... Mac OS X Photos Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:03:00 -0500 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 the... ColdFusion Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:04:00 -0500 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... Adobe ColdFusion Quality Assurance Personal Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:12:00 -0500 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 year ... Adobe ColdFusion Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:00:00 -0500 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. Exam... ColdFusion Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:06:00 -0500 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... ColdFusion Computer Technology Quality Assurance Java Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:24:00 -0500 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. ... Adobe ColdFusion Quality Assurance Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:38:00 -0500 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... Adobe ColdFusion Flex Linux Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:12:00 -0500 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 datasou... ColdFusion Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:15:00 -0500 http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/3/1/Adding-Data-Sources-to-ColdFusion-When-You-Dont-Have-the-Password