Monthly Archives: July 2012

SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Is Now Available!

Date: July 31, 2012
Author: rparente
Categories: Database, SQL
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SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server team is pleased to announce the release of SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Both the Service Pack and Feature Pack updates are available for download on the Microsoft Download Center. As part of our continued commitment to software excellence for our customers, this upgrade is free and doesn’t require an additional service contract.

SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 contains fixes to issues that have been reported through our customer feedback platforms and Hotfix solution provided in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 thru to Cumulative Update 5. Service Pack 2 also includes supportability enhancements and issues that have been reported through Windows Error Reporting system.

Read the entire article here.

 

HTML5 Charting and Video Support in ColdFusion 10

Date: July 31, 2012
Author: rparente
Categories: CFML, ColdFusion, HTML5, Seminars, Training
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Adobe Wenbinar

August 21st, 2012

Learn how to create an enriched user experience with CF10 that lets you access a large repository of interactive, client-side HTML5 charts and easily implement them using the built-in CFCHART tag. Also learn about the new CFMEDIAPLAYER tag that has a revamped flash video player and a HTML5 video player.

Speaker: Kiran Sakhare (ksakhare@adobe.com), Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems

Register here.

Revamped Scheduled Tasks in ColdFusion 10

Date: July 31, 2012
Author: rparente
Categories: CFML, ColdFusion, Seminars, Training
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Adobe Webinar

Wednesday August 1st, 2012

The scheduling task management has been completely revamped in ColdFusion 10. We’ll cover new aspects like conditionals, ranges, triggers, chaining, priority, grouping, and more. You’ll see examples of how the new scheduling services in ColdFusion 10 will make you re-think how you use cron jobs in your applications.

Speaker: Uday Ogra (uogra@adobe.com), Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems

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NuoDB

Date: July 31, 2012
Author: rparente
Categories: Cloud, Database, SQL
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NuoDBI finally got some time to play around with the beta 7 release of NuoDB that I downloaded a few weeks ago.  Personally I don’t think NuoDB yet gives downloaders enough information on how to get started so I decided to tackle that here myself.

Before I get into the details, why bother?  Who will benefit from this beta?

Read the entire article by Pinal Dave here

Adobe, Google, Microsoft Sponsorships Bolster W3C Staffing of HTML5 Work

Date: July 26, 2012
Author: rparente
Categories: HTML5
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W3C is pleased to announce commitments from Adobe, Google, and Microsoft for sponsorship funding that will enable W3C to provide additional staffing in support of the HTML Working Group’s full range of activities, including editing several specifications and developing tests. These sponsorships will help W3C fill a position announced in June in response to an April call for editors from the HTML Working Group Chairs. In their April email, the Chairs also outlined the group’s parallel efforts to finalize a stable HTML5 standard by 2014 and engage with the community on future HTML features. Learn more about the HTML Working Group.

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ColdFusion MeetUp: Automating CFML App Build, Test, Deploy, with Joseph Lamoree

Date: July 25, 2012
Author: rparente
Categories: CFML, ColdFusion, MeetUp, Seminars
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Charlie ArehartOur 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday July 26 will be “Automating CFML App Build, Test, Deploy”, with Joseph Lamoree.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

My presentation focuses on the lifecycle of crafting a CFML application using a workflow that automates and standardizes several aspects:

  • Prerequisites, considerations, and problem description
  • Creating a CFML app that Ant can build for any environment
  • Using Ant to prepare a path with all dependencies (frameworks, libraries, etc.)
  • Using Jenkins to trigger builds when a Git branch has new commits
  • Setting up Jenkins master/slave nodes on multiple platforms
  • Deploying a CFML application to multiple servers/platforms
  • Automating MX Unit and Selenium tests and monitoring failures
  • Working in a development team using Git branches

The slidedeck will show lists of information and required steps, but much of the session will show an actual working environment in which changes are made to a CFML application, checked into Git, and automatically pushed onto multiple servers and tested.

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Java 7 support for ColdFusion

Date: July 25, 2012
Author: rparente
Categories: ColdFusion
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Oracle has announced that updates to Java 6 will no longer be available post November 2012 in the Java SE 6 End of Public Updates Notice posted here.

We are aware of this and wanted to assure you that Java 7 support for ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion 9 will be available through updates. The updates will go out before Java 6 will be EOLed in November.

Excerpted from Adobe’s ColdFusion Blog

The built-in web server in ColdFusion 10 by Charlie Arehart

Date: July 24, 2012
Author: rparente
Categories: ColdFusion
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You may have noticed during installation of CF 10 (as with previous releases) that you are offered the option to either connect CF to an external web server if you have one installed (such as Apache or IIS), or you can use an offered “built-in web server” (or what is also sometimes referred to as the internal web server).

That’s not really new news, as the same option was offered in CF 6-9. But there are some new things in CF10 to consider about that option, and that’s what I’d like to share here.

First, I want to show how if you chose NOT to enable the built-in web server, you CAN enable it after the fact, with just a simple modification to a single xml file (which is a different one in CF10, and I want to show where that is, share some tips on changing it, and point out where to learn more.)

But there are also still more things about the built-in web server that you can control, which you may not readily discern even from the docs, and I provide here additional info with respect to that.

Finally, while in previous releases the built-in web server (which was really the JRun web server) was something generally regarded (even warned in the installer) to be used only for development and testing, the built-in web server in ColdFusion 10 is in fact the Tomcat web server (Coyote), which is a much better web server out of the box, so you may want to consider it even for production.

I realize that last point will be “pushing it” for some. :-) Hey, I’m not saying that you should change anything, just letting you know that some might reconsider things. Hear me out, please. I’m just sharing documented info that might not be so readily found about a relatively new subject for the CF community (so don’t shoot the messenger!)

Read the entire article here.