29 June 2007

ColdFusion 8 Standard or Enterprise?

When upgrading to ColdFusion 8 i'm unsure if I should move of Standard and go to Enterprise. It's a low volumne site we host, and allways will be as it's specifically for a set of customers for a period of time.

I'd say that our current ColdFusion 7 Standard serves us prety well, there are a about 20-30 instances of our application with probably no more than 10-20 concurrent users across all instances at any one point in time.

So is it worth it?

18 June 2007

ColdFusion 8 White Space

I noticed in playing with ColdFusion 8 that it generates a whole lot LESS whitespace than in previous versions. This is even before I attempted to optimise it with white space compression etc.

I always thought it's shouldn't be hard to fix, haven't seen it posted anywhere. I wish there was a complete list of every little change in CF8 somewhere.

15 June 2007

ColdFusion 8 Release Date

There is some debate as to the release date of ColdFusion 8. Most think it will be 1st August 2007. Some would like to think it would be released on 08/08/08.

But I have heard that the actual release might be exactly when they always said it would be, mid year. Just in case your not clear, that's 1st July 2007.

Now time will tell I guess and I always take these things with a grain of salt. But now I'm excited as I can start using it.

Mind you, I have a CF related site that I was planning on launching at the same time, and that date doesn't give me much time

4 June 2007

Why LiveDocs Need Help

LiveDocs really irk me, the docs themselves are ok, but the ability for users to leave comments at the bottom is really a good idea gone wrong.

I think the point of the comments should be to highlight an error or ommision.

People are asking general forum style questions here, and what's worse sometimes getting answers. Here's how it should work

User comments on error or ommision, someone (moderator) reviews, if not appropiate then removes comment. If appropiate, either leave the comment, or ideally modify the documenation online and get rid of the comment.

After all, when reading docs, I don't want to have to sift through comments checking that the docs are correct, I should see there is a comment, something is off or there are no comments, everything should be ok.

3 June 2007

Unlimited Free Joost Invites

Ok,

Following on from my previous posts, I'm now giving away unlimited free Joost invites.

All you need to do is send me an email. Look up my email address and send me an email with your Name as I need to enter your name in the invite field.

http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=MTRrNxEAAADmTh4PiwOMsRp4h2CvmN9NdPDdXUjlbOn07G5UBWfiIg

I generally send them out fairly quickly (with 24 hours) but if you think i've missed you, just send me another request.