Could not initialize class coldfusion.monitor.event.RequestMonitorEventProcessor

Coldfusion

Error 500
Could not initialize class coldfusion.monitor.event.RequestMonitorEventProcessor

Hmm, this just started happening for no reason, and I'm running ColdFusion 8 Standard.

Googled this message and found nothing. With some help from some friendly Twitter folk, I started looking through the log files, found an error saying that the neo-runtime.xml couldn't be read.

Had a look and sure enough it was empty, not sure how, but I recreated it by copying one from another server and fixed up mappings and custom tag paths, which must live in this file as I lost them, and all was good.

ColdFusion 9 Needs Drastic Changes

ColdFusion 9, codename centuar is in development and looks to be feature rich from what people have disclosed. Thats all good, and Im looking forward to it, but there are some other things I hope they are working on for ColdFusion outside the product. These things are lacking and have been for some time.

1. Some decent online documentation, perhaps adopt the Flex style docs or similar.
2. An online bug tracking system where you can see bugs, log bugs and track bugs, using JIRA like Flex does would be great also.
3. A heap of marketing, with the cool new features and CF getting good press at the moment, the timing is great for Adobe to invest in the product.

If Adobe dont have the time / money to do 1 & 2 then they should hand it over to the community to manage.

Im hooked on Twitter

I signed up to twitter, but didn't really think much of it, didn't think I would use it, but Paul Kukiel kinda talked me into it, and now I'm hooked.

You can follow me @dalefraser

If your not on twitter, its kind of a cross between micro blogging and a group IM, I like the group IM side of it, you say stuff, people respond, people say stuff you respond, and you read and find out lots of stuff, some of it relevant to what your interested in and some not so much.

But I seem to be twittering lots of times a day now, over 100 in two months, you need a good twitter client, I've tried both twhirl and tweetdeck, both are Air apps and both prety good with their own quirks.

See you soon on Twitter.

ColdFusion Resurgence

Ive noticed a lot of talk about ColdFusion and have noticed a lot of .cfm sites of late, and the talk about ColdFusion and its future seems to have died and been replaced with new positive talk.

I've always been a fan of ColdFusion, sometimes a critical fan, but in looking at where ColdFusion is now and especially at some of the new ColdFusion 9 features, I really think that Adobe are listening. In fact, most of the features that I've ever wanted in ColdFusion are there now and some of the minor gaps will be plugged further in ColdFusion 9.

ColdFusion is still unmatched in terms of framework, the features and simplicity of how it implements things is far ahead of anything else, show me some ASP, PHP or JSP and I'll show you how I can do it easier and better in ColdFusion.

Unlike ASP, PHP & JSP, ColdFusion isn't free, this is a thorn in a lot of peoples side, it has been in mine, but after recently evaluating Railo & BlueDragon, I came to the conclusion that even if they were 100% free for my needs, I would still pay for ColdFusion. I want the Adobe name, I want the support and large community, I want a product I know is solid and stable and I want all the new features when they are released, not when the others catch up.

ColdFusion 9 & Flex 4 are what we will be using for 2009, we have started already, its a great sign when you start developing large applications in products that aren't even in Beta.