We had the pleasure of hosting Gert Franz from Railo at our small central PA user group on July 31. He gave us a run-down of Railo for those that were new to it and demonstrated a bunch of the new features. I was particularly impressed with what they will be able to do leveraging Hibernate, and...

I've created an easy-to-install tool for older stores to use to help block the recent SQL injection attacks, as well as future attacks that may be more specifically targeted or use other methods (hackers are very good at switching tactics as people fix their sites!) I will be releasing an update to...

A couple issues regarding CFWebstore have come up recently. You may have received an email regarding these issues, I am providing more information here to help detail the issues and what should be done, and to help reach anyone that may not have received an email or been on the email list where...

Just a bit of a silly little fluff entry for today. I will admit to being a bit of a reality-TV junkie. I don't tend to watch the dating-type shows, but ones like Survivor and American Idol I find endlessly entertaining. By far my favorite show during the summer is So You Think You Can Dance. I will...

Here's a modification I had to make for a customer recently, that I thought others might find useful. Basically they needed to not only set different pricing for wholesale customers, they wanted to require them to purchase in bulk as well. But they also serviced normal retail customers as well,...

Recently I was asked to look at a website for a company that was hosting a couple CFWebstores and looking to add another. They were concerned because the site was drawing so much database traffic and loading very slow. They saw what looked to be huge number of queries on the site and wanted to...

I don't consider myself much of a poet, but bits and pieces of this kept running through my head, and I finally had to take the time to get it written down and tweak it until it seemed right. Get a tissue ready, it's definitely a bit of a tear-jerker (but straight from my heart).

Those of you on my email list may know that I've been working to make CFWebstore fully compatible with Railo, and the latest version 6.30 release contained a number of tweaks and updates so that it works well on it, and I've also been passing on feedback to the guys that write Railo on things that...

I hope if you subscribe to this blog, you will forgive me for indulging in using it as a bit of a personal journal as I get through what is a very painful time for me. If you read through all...

Just 3 weeks ago I posted about my wonderful dog Taz and our trip to New York to appear on TV. Today, my heart is shattered as I had to put this amazing, wonderful,
cherished 13-year-old...

A great way to learn more about ColdFusion is to join a local ColdFusion User Group (CFUG). I've belonged to a number of these over the years and recently we are seeing even more CFUGs starting up. It's a great way to get free training and live presentations on ColdFusion, learn about upcoming...