Speaking at FOWD

I'm delighted to say I'm now confirmed to speak at at the Glasgow date of the Future of Web Design (FOWD) tour taking place in September.

I'll be giving a 60 minute session on "Getting Started with AIR", where upon I'll build a basic app from start to finish, before talking about our experiences of working with AIR and some of the projects we are/have built for clients.

There are still 4 early bird tickets left for Glasgow, after which the prices rises to a measly £59+vat. There are also a bunch of student tickets still available, so you've no excuse not to sign up, especially with the great speaker line up, including:

  • Drew McLennan (edgeofmyseat.com)
  • Steve Pearce (Skype)
  • Patrick Lauke (Opera)

So go on ... get your ticket now

Posted by Andy Allan on June 26, 2009 9:41 AM 0 comments

JRun Metrics in ColdFusion Standard/Server Configuration Mode

It's been a long time since I've had to use ColdFusion Standard,or indeed Enterprise in Server Configuration Mode. Earlier this week I was setting up a couple of new servers for a new client, and wanted to enable JRun Metrics on them.

No problem....just edit C:\ColdFusion8\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\jrun.xml and enable the metrics.

Did that. Restarted.

I was now getting the resulting metrics log file but instead of showing me the actual values I was after all I was getting was the placeholder information,e.g.{jrpp.busyTh}/{jrpp.idleTh} etc

As it turns out (thanks to David Collie of Adobe in Edinburgh) you only use the jrpp prefix when running in J2EE more (including Multiserver). When running in Server Configuration Mode (which includes running on Standard) you simply drop the jrpp prefix, e.g. {busyTh}/{idleTh}

 

Posted by Andy Allan on June 18, 2009 8:14 PM 0 comments

Speaking at MAX09

It seems like my love of all things ColdFusion and PDF has landed me in trouble again.

Yes, I'm being exported by armed guards on a plane to Los Angeles from Edinburgh (via Amsterdam) to speak at MAX 2009.

I'll be talking on Document Driven Applications: ColdFusion and PDF, and this will be a revamped version of my "Improving Your Workflow" talk, with lots of new stuff, including the new PDF features available to us in CF9.

 

 

Posted by Andy Allan on June 18, 2009 3:20 PM 3 comments