Here is a short screencast showing how to deploy Railo on Heroku. This screencast assumes you have done Steps 1 - 3. Step 1: Sign up Step 2: Install the Heroku Toolbelt Step 3: Login Step 4: Deploy an application Resources ColdFusion on Heroku slide deck Railo Heroku heroku-railo4 Professional...
I wanted to mention a video Joe Rinehart put on youtube called Dear ColdFusion - I'm breaking up with you . I watched half of Joe's video, then watched the second half the next day. In between I worked on a response video called Hitler reacts to Dear ColdFusion - I'm breaking up w/ you .
Ryan Stille and I released the next ColdFusion Show . We have several contests with the help of awesome people providing awesome prizes like an autographed book , commerical shopping cart , and electronic books. We also mention several contests by others. Please listen to the show, follow us on...
Corey Spitzer tweeted me a question on ColdFusion . It is great to see interest in CFML specially from people like Corey since he is very activity in the developer and entrepreneurial community in Omaha. He specifically asked me to be objective. @coreyspitzer: @mikehenke What's your opinion on CFML...
Ryan Stille and Mike Henke talk about HackMyCF giveaway, FarCry, Evolving Skills and John Madden. See Show Page for Epoisode 4 more information Your browser does not support the audio element. Download the podcast
I did a quick 30 minute presentation over CFML open source options at Barcamp Omaha . I wasn't going to present this BarCamp but Ryan Stille egged me on so I had to run home to get my laptop :-) Thanks to Mathew Woodward for getting me slides from a previous presentation he gave. I was all over the...
I enjoy listening to Hal Helms and he recently was on an Engine Yard podcast, Cloud Out Loud . He brings a thought provoking perspective to discussions. He learned a new skillset, Ruby on Rails , after being a long time ColdFusion programmer. The podcast is definately worth listening to and is just...
This post is a combination of several posts and shows how to setup Turnkey Tomcat Apache's virtual box with different ColdFusion engines. "Turnkey Linux is a virtual appliance library that integrates and polishes the very best open source software into ready to use solutions. Each virtual appliance...
Jamie Krug had a great opening presentation on " Complete FOSS CFML Developer Stack " for the OpenCF Summit . FOSS stands for free and open-source software. Jamie used Ubuntu, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Apache, Tomcat, OpenBD / Railo , CFEclipse , and Git . He mentioned you could use any OS like Windows or...
I recently took a Rails two day class and was exposed to haml and sass toward the end of the training. Similar projects about reducing the noise and ugliness of basic html and css markup. haml for cfml might look like this. #profile .left.column #date= print_date #address= current_user.address...
This tutorial will show how using Adobe ColdFusion server with Multiserver configuration, so you can have multiple ColdFusion engines / version running. I think the approach is useful since most Adobe ColdFusion developers probably have Adobe ColdFusion setup as Multiple Instances. This approach...
I have been playing with different CFML engines for the ColdFusion on Wheels codebase so I was looking for a solution where I could work on the code in one location and have it connected to the different cfml engines directly under the webroot. There may be a solution using Apache and Tomcat...
MARC 0.4.5 (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ) Ubuntu 10.04 Eclipse 3.5 Improved ReadMe.html Blazing Fast Download with Amazon CloudFront Description The developer should be able to use Wheels without any setup/configuration except for the database. Start the virtual machine instance...
This past Sunday, I worked on updating MARC (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ). I haven't quite finished, but it will be using Ubuntu 10.04 and Eclipse 3.5 with the latest Wheels , CFEclipse , and Firefox. Available on my Wheels Download page is MARC 0.3, an older version. Also on...
MARC 0.3 (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ) smaller download 588.86 mb url rewriting Virtual Box Guest Additions readme.txt in the zip Description The developer should be able to use Wheels without any setup/configuration except for the database. Start the virtual machine instance...