Entries Tagged as BlueDragon

Per Application Mappings

April 25, 2007 · No Comments

With Ben Forta's announcement in regards Per Application Mappings, it brought up the topic of "How is it being done across the different CFML engines?" <CFMAPPING> was introduced in BlueDragon 6.2.1, whereas in Scorpio Per Application Mappings will be supported via Application.cfc Reading a blog posting from Vince Bonfanti from a while back, it looks like NA plan to introduce support via Application.cfc as well (at the time BD didn't have Application.cfc). The nice thing about NA's implementation is that older applications which still use Application.cfm/onRequestEnd.cfm will have support for the Per Application Mappings ... And I believe Railo supports Per Application settings as part of it's core architecture. See the following blog post by Gert Franz It's all good stuff, though maybe not exactly compatible across all the engines. So, who's approach is best? What are the pitfalls of each? Why not come along to Scotch on the Rocks, where we have folks from Adobe, New Atlanta and Railo and ask them directly.

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Scotch on the Rocks: Enter the Dragon

January 30, 2007 · 4 Comment s

Lurking somewhere in the borders area of Scotland is Alan Williamson. Our files tell us that Williamson is the Chief Architect of BlueDragon, a CFML engine that can run on both J2EE and the .NET platforms. Agent Moretti and myself have discovered that Williamson intends to be in the European in Scotland building on May 31st/June 1st of this year. Preparations are being made to cater for what should be a truly unique situation. CFMX, Railo AND BlueDragon all under the one roof. This message ends ...

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BlueDragon/.NET and Ajax with CFMX/BlueDragon

October 26, 2005 · 2 Comment s

The Scottish ColdFusion User Group is delighted to have New Atlanta's Charlie Arehart in town on November 15th. Aside from buying me beer, Charlie will be giving 3 talks. He'll be presenting on Ajax for ColdFusion/BlueDragon developers, BlueDragon and, BlueDragon.NET. More details, including how to sign up for the talks can be found at www.scottishcfug.com

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Blog-City/BlueDragon slides available

November 26, 2004 · 4 Comment s

The slides for last nights Blog-City/BlueDragon talk by Alan Williamson are now available at http://www.scottishcfug.com/meetings/ A good turn out sat in as an energetic and enthusiastic Alan went through in detail the set up behind Blog-City, both at a hardware and software level. Keeping things mainly CFML (before a small bit of CFMX bashing), he made it resoundingly clear that CFML can easily be deployed in a high volume production site, hence falsifying the claim that CFML is slow. Also featured was a small stint on BlueDragon.NET before questions were opened up to both Alan, and fellow Blog-City/BlueDragon colleague Andy Wu. On a different note, I actually remembered to give away prizes this month unlike last month where I completely forgot ... d'oh!

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BlueDragon at work

November 17, 2004 · 7 Comment s

With our impending move to .NET we ran into an issue where we need an additional ColdFusion server here in our Glasgow office to run an HR application. Our web/application servers are actually based in England, so this meant we needed an additional ColdFusion license. This was good news, as it meant, instead of only having CF5 boxes (also with .NET), we would now have a CFMX6.1 server. One problem though, justifying £929 for a CFMX Standard license that is basically only going to be used in the very short term. Needless to say, those who control the purse strings were not impressed. Well, two days later we have BlueDragon 6.1 (the free edition) in testing with the HR app (built with Fusebox 3) and it's all going nicely. This is my first try with BlueDragon - in fact, the company I work for had never even heard of it - and while it doesn't immediately appeal to me (if it was up to me I'd go with CFMX6.1 instead) as a solution it's gotten us out of a hole and saved the company £929 in the process. Now before anyone asks for specifics on why I'd go for CFMX6.1 before BlueDragon ... maybe it's because I've got so much invested in CFMX from a personal standpoint, or maybe it's the old better the devil you know. Regardless, the fact there is a free edition of BlueDragon that solves our needs (albeit temporarily) has done us a favour.

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