Akbarsait's Blog

Blog is now powered by Railo CFML

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:14:00 -0700

I moved my blog from CF 8 and SQL Server to Railo and MySQL as backend three months before. The migration went very smooth and till date I didn't have any issues. Since I'm using blogCFC for my blog I didn't do much on the coding front rather the changes happened on the SQL Server to MySQL conversion only. I would like to thank Charlie Arehart for helping and Jordon & Mark from Viviotech for providing the hosting for my site.

ColdFusion 10: Resetting ColdFusion Administrator Password

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:06:00 -0700

In ColdFusion 10 if you forget the ColdFusion Administrator password, open up the Command prompt in windows or Terminal in Linux/Mac and Run the passwordreset.bat (passwordreset.sh for Linux/Mac) file which can be found under the cfusion/bin folder of your ColdFusion installed location. [More]

ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion Builder Tutorials Section Updated

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:41:00 -0700

The Public Beta version of ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1 has hit the Adobe Labs few days back and there were good number of blog posts published to demonstrate the features of this release. I have created a section in my site for listing out these ColdFusion 10 tutorials, articles and resources by the CF Community. [More]

Configuring and Running Railo Powered CFML Applications on Jelastic Cloud

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:57:00 -0700

I have been watching the Jelastic Cloud for almost a month and finally I gave it a try last week. The team behind Jelastic did all the ground works for us to get up and Running with Railo in their environment. I have configured Railo and created a sample job search application railoweb.akbarsait.com and hosted it in their Cloud in just 10 minutes time. [More]

MySQL Backup and FTP: An Easy and Handy MySQL Backup Utility

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:36:00 -0700

There are many ways out there to automate the backup process of SQL Databases. I have been using some of them over the time and was found something missing in it on the functionality side. Quite recently I started using the MySQL Backup FTP tool which is really handy and I would say it does the job perfectly on taking the databases backups. [More]

Railo 3 Beginner's Guide by Packtpub

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:04:00 -0700

Railo 3 Beginner's Guide by the amazing Railo Team members Mark Drew, Gert Franz, Jordan Michaels and Paul Klinkenberg is released by Packput on Dec 16, 2011. As stated by the title itself the book guides you about each and every steps you need to know about Railo Server and developing Application using it. [More]

CFDocs Google Chrome Extension

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:16:00 -0700

CFDocs.org is one of the sites I use to visit often for ColdFusion tags and functions documentation. Like my Google Chrome extension for CFQuickDocs I thought of creating one for CFDocs site as well so I created this little Google Chrome extension for CFDocs.org. [More]

ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder Online Reference Links

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:43:00 -0700

Finding the ColdFusion Builder and ColdFusion 9 documentation on adobe site is always a bit difficult for me. To make a note for myself and for other CF developers who also found it difficult, let's go the Adobe ColdFusion 9 Family page and click Help and support link. In that page you will find both ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder online help links under Getting Started & Help section. [More]

Scheduling Tasks in Windows 7

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:30:00 -0700

Windows 7 makes many things simpler and one of them which I would really like is the Task Scheduler feature. Task Scheduler in Windows 7 helps you to perform automation of tasks which can be run on regular intervals or can be schedule to run Daily, Weekly or on the Monthly basis. [More]

Hiding Whitespace, New Line and Carriage Return Characters in ColdFusion Builder

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:57:00 -0700

Just a quick note to myself, this issue is happened to me previously and I somehow forget how I fixed it. Yesterday I accidently enabled the Whitespace characters in ColdFusion Builder which in turn displays the new line (\n) and carriage return (\r) characters as well in the Editor. [More]

Chennai CFUG: ColdFusion Builder 2.0 Recording

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:54:00 -0700

Yesterday Sagar Ganatra gave a very informative presentation on about the ColdFusion Builder 2.0 and its Features to Chennai CFUG. The session last for 1:20 minutes where Sagar talks about the various new features in ColdFusion Builder 2.0 like the Code Assist, Editor Enhancements, New Search feature enhancements and Extensions. The recording of the presentation is available here and also available at the Charlie's UGTV site.

Suggestions on Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting for ColdFusion and Railo

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:45:00 -0700

Currently I'm using shared ColdFusion hosting for mine and my friends sites. These sites are running ok but I'm looking for more reliable one which also helps me to host as many sites as I want with an affordable price. Also I'm in a plan of moving some of these sites to Railo. [More]

Designing Web Interfaces by O'Reilly

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:35:00 -0700

Last week I finished reading Designing Web Interfaces co-authored by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil and published by O'Reilly. The book is not about the visual design or information architecture but it talks about the standards for interaction design, patterns and principles for creating Web sites. [More]

ColdFusion QuickDocs Google Chrome Extension

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:40:00 -0700

I'm a big fan of CFQuickDocs.com and I use it often for referring the attributes and parameters of the ColdFusion tags and functions. CFQuickDocs is already having plug-ins for Firefox and IE but not for the Google Chrome browser. So the Idea came yesterday to me that Instead of going to the CFQuickDocs site every time to refer something on ColdFusion why don't I create a Chrome Extension for it? So to make it simple I created the ColdFusion QuickDocs Google Chrome extension. [More]

Useful Google Chrome Extensions

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:05:00 -0700

Google announced the Second anniversary for its Chrome browser today and I'm sure that Chrome has entirely changed our browsing experience in many ways. I've been using Chrome as my default browser from the day of its release because it's faster than Firefox, it's starts quickly, light weight, number of very useful extensions for developers, utilize very less CPU memory and many more. [More]

ColdFusion Server Team is Blogging

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:17:00 -0700

Title says it's all! The Amazing ColdFusion Server Team is blogging to share and suggest the tips and tricks on ColdFusion Server and related information.
http://blogs.adobe.com/coldfusion/
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Chennai CFUG Meeting: Building AJAX Applications with ColdFusion

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:27:00 -0700

The Chennai ColdFusion User Group is having its June month meeting on coming 24th and the topic is Building AJAX Applications with ColdFusion. In this meeting Vamseekrishna & Awdhesh Kumar from Adobe ColdFusion engineering team will be presenting about how we can use the various AJAX & UI features for Creating Rich ColdFusion Applications. This will be an Adobe Connect meeting. Please see the event details on Chennai CFUG site at Adobe Groups for more information and to RSVP (Login with your Adobe ID to RSVP)

ColdFusion Builder Extension: AppCore Creator

Fri, 14 May 2010 09:27:00 -0700

AppCore Creator is my entry for the CFBuilder contest by Raymond Camden. The Extension will be used to create Core CF Application files which include Application.cfc, Error Handler and Missing Template handler files for ColdFusion MX 7, ColdFusion 8 and 9 versions. Basically the extension performs file copy operation form extension location to the new location. [More]

ColdFusion Builder: Code Assist for Included Files

Mon, 10 May 2010 04:18:00 -0700

ColdFusion Builder comes with number of code assistance features and one which is really useful and handy is the code assist for included files. This feature will display the hints for the variables, methods, structures, and queries results etc., which are defined in a page to the included page.
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ColdFusion Builder: Using HTML Code Formatter

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:24:00 -0700

Code formatting is always a handy tool to make our codes aligned with tabs for better readability. ColdFusion Builder by default includes a HTML Tidy Code Formatter which does the formatting of HTML codes perfectly. We can use this feature in HTML files by right clicking on the editor and selecting the "Run HTML Tidy". [More]

High Performance Web Sites by O'Reilly

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:16:00 -0700

Last week I have finished reading High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders and published by O'Reilly. I've been reading this book for the last two weeks and have learned many things on about how to improve the performance of websites and its response time to the users. [More]

ColdFusion Builder is Free for Education

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:23:00 -0700

ColdFusion Builder is also joins the Family of Free RIA Tools from Adobe. After the release of ColdFusion Builder 1.0 version adobe makes it's free for Education purposes. More details can be available at https://freeriatools.adobe.com/cfbuilder/. ColdFusion Builder Rocks!

Adobe ColdFusion Builder Released

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:07:00 -0700

Long awaited ColdFusion Builder finally hits the Adobe stores today. After crossing its 3 beta stages ColdFusion Builder have been significantly improved in performance. I've been using it from the Beta 1 to Beta 3 and in between private alphas and I don't think I will be comfortable with any other IDE for ColdFusion development. My all time favorite feature in ColdFusion Builder is developing Extensions using ColdFusion itself which is really an amazing one. [More]

Chennai CFUG ColdFusion Builder Special Event

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:19:00 -0700

The Chennai ColdFusion User Group is hosting its ColdFusion Builder Special Event on coming March 30, 2010. In this Event Dipanwita Sarkar from Adobe ColdFusion Builder team will be demonstrating the awesome new features, extension and some insight into the future of ColdFusion Builder. This is an amazing opportunity to all of us to know more about the ColdFusion Builder IDE from the ColdFusion Builder team itself. This will be an Adobe Connect Meeting and more details are available at the Chennai ColdFusion User Group site.

Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder Reference Card

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:27:00 -0700

DZone just released the ColdFusion Builder Reference card was written by Adobe Platform Evangelist Terrence Ryan. This is a second Refcard from DZone followed by ColdFusion 9 Reference card which was released on August 2009 written by Terrence Ryan.

ColdFusion Builder: Enabling and Disabling Auto-Close Tags

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:41:00 -0700

Auto closing of tags is always a great feature to have in our ColdFusion pages. ColdFusion Builder bring us some more additional options on enabling and disabling the Auto-close tags feature like in the below image and we can set this auto-close feature by selecting Preferences > ColdFusion > Editor Profiles > Editor >Typing.
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ColdFusion 9 Performance Brief Available at Adobe.com

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:59:00 -0700

Adobe has released the ColdFusion 9 performance brief which includes lots of statistics and executive summary of ColdFusion 9 performance over previous versions of ColdFusion. Download the ColdFusion 9 Performance brief PDF from here - http://bit.ly/CF9PerformanceBrief

ColdFusion Security Bulletin Update for ColdFusion Servers

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:07:00 -0700

Adobe has announced an important Security Bulletin for ColdFusion versions (9.0, 8.0.1, 8.0, and 7.0.2) yesterday. This update is for a vulnerability identified in BlazeDS 3.2 and its earlier versions.

Chennai CFUG Meeting: Getting Started with ORM in ColdFusion 9

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:09:00 -0700

Chennai CFUG is having its monthly meeting on February 18, 2010 and the topic is Getting Started with ORM in ColdFusion 9. In this meeting Himavanth from Adobe ColdFusion engineering team will present about the Object Relation Mapping feature in ColdFusion 9 and how to use ColdFusion 9 ORM features to create Rapid CF Applications. This will be an Adobe Connect meeting. Please see the event details on Chennai CFUG site at Adobe Groups for more information and to RSVP (Login with your Adobe ID to RSVP)

Installing ColdFusion on Windows 7 with IIS 7

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:31:00 -0700

I have got some problems while installing ColdFusion 8 and configuring IIS7 on my Windows 7 machine. Luckily I got it solved immediately after reading the solution at the web about configuring IIS 7 to work with ColdFusion by Dale Fraser, Paul Kukiel and Sameer Gupta. I don't know why this problem is not yet taken care by Adobe and I heard even with ColdFusion 9 the problem is still exists. Let's hope Adobe will fix this issue with the upcoming ColdFusion 9 Update 1.

Adding Highslide JS to BlogCFC

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:57:00 -0700

This post is to show how simply we can add Highslide JS to your blogCFC blog in a 4 simple steps. Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript image, media and gallery viewer library and its free only for Non-commercial use more details are at Highslide site read it before you start using in your blog. Highslide will be very useful in placing full size images at your blog without worrying about your blog layout size or width. Here are the steps on how we can include Highslide to blogCFC blog. [More]

Navicat MySQL Database Editor

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:32:00 -0700

I tried and used some database administration tools for MySQL but I feel like something was missing in its features. Recently I started using Navicat for MySQL database management which is really awesome and having many features which can be used to solve and manage your database with a very minimal amount of time. [More]

ColdFusion Builder: New CFM and CFC File Settings

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:03:00 -0700

ColdFusion Builder provides a new option for us to set default contents in our newly created CFM and CFC files. Like code snippets this features will be helpful to place some standard code that we normally used in the CFM files like comment code block or HTML code blocks. [More]

ColdFusion Builder Beta 3 Available on Adobe Labs

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:11:00 -0700

ColdFusion Builder Beta 3 is now available at Adobe Labs. This release includes many new features and one of my favorite is AIR Application development support. Some of the new features included with this release are as follows.

Code Assist for ColdFusion ORM
Enhanced SQL Editor
AIR application development
Support for ExtJS 3.0 libraries

So don't wait to grab your copy. ColdFusion Builder Rocks!

CFWheels and ORM

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:28:00 -0700

Object Relation mapping is one of the key feature in CFWheels. CFWheels makes things easier to start using ORM in your applications. The ORM configuration in CFWheels is implemented by creating a mapping between a database table and ColdFusion component in your application. To demonstrate ORM feature lets create a simple use case that list the available categories in a table with edit and delete links along a with add new category option. [More]

Installing CFWheels 1.0

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:32:00 -0700

ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0 a production ready version hits the web today. To be frank I haven't tried it before and just want to understand its specific features over the other frameworks available for ColdFusion. So I have downloaded and installed it in my system. It's really simple to install CFWheels without worrying about setting any configuration variables that's one of its features as well. So without delay here is the simple 3 steps installation of CFWheels 1.0 framework in Windows with IIS. [More]

Adobe AIR 2 Beta available at Adobe Labs

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:26:00 -0700

The public beta of Adobe AIR 2 just hits the Adobe Labs. The new features of AIR 2 Beta as mentioned in Adobe Labs:
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Adobe DevSummit is Coming to Chennai

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:35:00 -0700

The wait is over finally we have the Adobe DevSummit at Chennai on coming November 24th with Excellent Sessions by the Adobe Team and Awesome Community Geeks. The registrations are already opened now having only limited seats, so hurry up and grab your gold pass for this Free Full day Event at Chennai Taj Coromandel. Adobe DevSummit Agenda: http://bit.ly/2oPxi9
Adobe DevSummit Registration: http://bit.ly/3AvfEf

Contribute to ColdFusion Cookbook and Win CF WACK and CF 8 Developer Tutorial Books

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:48:00 -0700

I'm happy to announce another ColdFusion Cookbook contest, as we all know Adobe recently launched the new ColdFusion Cookbook section. As of now the ColdFusion Cookbook has 123 great recipes. So I'm calling all the ColdFusion developers for to reach the next target of 200 recipes in ColdFusion Cookbook section. [More]

Chennai CFUG: ColdFusion 9 and Adobe AIR Integration Recording

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:35:00 -0700

Today Rakshith gave a wonderful and very informative presentation on about ColdFusion 9 and Abode AIR integration to Chennai CFUG. The recording of the presentation is available here and I have also posted the recording of the presentation to Charlie Arehart's UGTV site. [More]

Chennai CFUG Meeting: ColdFusion 9 and Adobe AIR Integration

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:21:00 -0700

Chennai CFUG is having its October month meeting on coming 22nd and the topic is ColdFusion 9 and Adobe AIR Integration. In this meeting Rakshith from Adobe ColdFusion engineering team will present about the ColdFusion 9 and Adobe AIR Integration. Rakshith will discuss about the ColdFusion 9 offline AIR application support, which includes data persistence and synchronization. This will be an Adobe Connect meeting. Please see the event details on Chennai CFUG site at Adobe Groups for more information and to RSVP (Login with your Adobe ID to RSVP). [More]

ColdFusion 9: New Attributes in CFGrid

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:49:00 -0700

ColdFusion 9 introduces 4 new attributes in CFGrid tag. These attributes are great addition to CFGrid which allows us to expand or collapse the entire grid, we can group the rows in CFGrid by mentioning the group column name which generates a collapsible group of rows in the grid, we can insert a new row in the Grid and we can give a title to the entire CFGrid.
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