Category: Railo and ColdFusion
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Tomcat 7 on Windows is not UTF-8 by default
When building web applications one typically uses UTF-8 encoding thoughout to ensure that you can send and receive text in multi-byte languages such as Russian, and Chinese. The Window 7 version of Tomcat is (insanely) not UTF-8 by default. This is because it picks up the default encoding from your installation of Java which is…
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A review of Railo 3 Beginner’s Guide by Mark Drew
I have been blogging ColdFusion for several years and Mark’s publisher kindly sent me a copy of his new book to review. Railo 3 Beginner’s Guide is a great introduction to the ColdFusion language and using it on the free Railo Server. ColdFusion is a powerful and useful language for people who just want to…
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Amazon EC2, Rackspace or Google App Engine?
In an earlier post I blogged about my experience on Amazon EC2 (I like it) and referred the reader to an article on The Register from Damon Hart-Davis who is following a similar journey. Damon has continued his investigations and his next article is available. Readers of his earlier post will be pleased to see…
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Elastic Beanstalk review
I have been doing a small scale trial of Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk. I have previously trialled Rackspace cloud. I am impressed Amazon’s with the ease of use and configuratibility. Amazon’s is very much the techies’ solution. Although Amazon Web Services console is very easy to use and a great way to get started you can…
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Joy reigns with AWS CloudFormation
Amazon’s relentless drive to make infrastructure management easier continues with their announcement of AWS CloudFormation. The big problem that ordinary people (well developers and techies anyway) have with cloudy stuff is that although it is easy to start-up one server, choreographing the creation of an entire system, for example a load-balanced, three-tier system remains difficult.…
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ColdFusion is a high level language; why does it capture less value?
I am a project manager and I have worked with both ColdFusion and Java development teams. I have often wondered why it is that ColdFusion developers get about 60% of the rate of the comparably skilled Java developer. ColdFusion is a high level language. The built-in features including authentication, search, clustering, image processing etc means…
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Flex London User Group (FLUG) January meeting
A review of the January FLUG Meetup at Academy Class. Great venue with great staff. Very interesting presentation on video and Nice Agency presented iWonder. This is the best executed cross-platform product I have seen for a long time. It really shows how Air can be used. I will consider using Air rather than native…
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk – free Tomcat clustering in the cloud
This came today. It is quite interesting. Scalable cloud management on Amazon. It is “free” which contrasts with other offerings. My guess is that even the most basic of cloud management offering from Amazon will do 90% of what a small app developer needs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk (beta) Easy to begin, Impossible to outgrow AWS…
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Install Railo in Tomcat – where do I put my files?
This is repost of my contribution to the Railo Google Group. Goal You are a Railo and Tomcat newbie and you want a directory to put your coldfusion files in. “tomcat\myapp\ROOT” would do nicely Preconditions (for me anyway) 64 bit Windows 7 home premium UAC turned off and stays off Java installed and JAVA_HOME set…
Dr James Bayley 