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Why might a .NET web application (app domain) restart? The reasons may surprise you

Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:53 P GMT-05

When folks work with .NET web apps, they often learn the hard way that their app is restarting more often in a day than they'd expect. The reasons it can happen are even more surprising.

Category: BlueDragon/.NET .net

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Come spend a day learning abot CFML on .NET, at my CFUnited Day-long course Tues 6/27

Friday, 10 June 2005 12:20 P GMT-05

There will be 8 day-long courses on the Monday/Tuesday before CFUnited. One, on Tuesday, will be mine on "Leveraging .Net Strengths from CFML".

Category: BlueDragon Evangelism

View the archived Breeze Meeting for My CFUnited Talk Preview

Friday, 10 June 2005 12:05 P GMT-05

Yesterday I did a 15 minute preview of the talk I'll be giving at CFUnited, in a Breeze Meeting for CFLive. You can view the recorded presentation online.

Category: BlueDragon Evangelism

How to Convince Your Boss to Send You to CFUnited

Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:04 A GMT-05

These 10 points come from an email Michael Smith has shared to those on the CFunited mailing list. May benefit other readers.

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Please join my "ColdFusion Live!" Breeze Preso for 15 minutes tomorrow, Thurs 6/9, 12:30pm Eastern

Wednesday, 8 June 2005 10:18 A GMT-05

If you're interested in hearing about my upcoming CFUnited talk, "Integrating CFML and ASP.NET Server Controls", I'll be doing a 15 minute overview on tomorrow's "ColdFusion Live!" session with Steven Erat.

A free SQL builder tool, PrimalSQL

Saturday, 28 May 2005 11:59 P GMT-05

If you don't use/like/have the SQL query-building tools in CF Studio, HomeSite+, DWMX, etc, there are various alternatives (Aquadata Studio, WinSQL), and I've just found one more: PrimalSQL. It was on the PrimalCode CD but is also available as a

Category: For All CFers--not just BD Tool Tips

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Long live CFML! Record sales for BlueDragon and CF at the same time

Wednesday, 4 May 2005 2:07 P GMT-05

Word's traveled fast about MM's announcement of record CFMX sales. New Atlanta has also proudly announced record BlueDragon sales as well. We don't post that as a copy cat. Indeed, the point is that those who would argue CFML is a dying language sho

Category: For All CFers--not just BD BlueDragon Evangelism

"Creating Free PDFs from Your CF Application" - Applied to BlueDragon

Tuesday, 26 April 2005 6:41 P GMT-05

Some readers may have noticed that Nate Nelson wrote a great article in the July 2004 CFDJ on creating PDFs in CFML using XSL-FO. The great news for BlueDragon developers (on Server JX or the J2EE edition) is that everything in this article applies t

New Atlanta Awarded Microsoft Gold Partner Status

Thursday, 21 April 2005 3:20 P GMT-05

New Atlanta proudly announces that we have been recognized as a "Gold Certified Partner" by Microsoft Corporation, their highest level of partnership achievement. A very small number of companies achieve this recognition worldwide, so we're

Category: BlueDragon Evangelism

New Atlanta's Response to the Adobe/MM Merger

Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:28 A GMT-05

Many have asked how the Adobe/MM merger may affect us. Vince Bonfanti explains our positive take on recent events in the official New Atlanta reply, which begins:Over the past few days, many people have asked us about what effect the Adobe acquisitio

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An open letter to New Atlanta

Tuesday, 19 April 2005 9:43 A GMT-05

We received a very kind word of encouragement on the BlueDragon Interest list yesterday. With the author's permission, I'd like to share it. Seems the CFML community could use a little uplifting news these days. :-)Subject: An open letter to New Atla

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A new star in the blogosphere: Vince Bonfanti

Monday, 28 March 2005 12:04 P GMT-05

Folks, a new star has been sighted in the ever-widening blogosphere. My colleague (and company founder) Vince Bonfanti, president of New Atlanta, has started his own blog. No, it won't always be about BlueDragon (that's what this "bluedragon blo

Category: For All CFers--not just BD Other

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Will BlueDragon always be playing catchup?

Wednesday, 23 March 2005 10:06 P GMT-05

A question was posted as a comment to an entry on Sean Corfield's blog (where he kindly announced the release of BlueDragon 6.2, http://www.corfield.org/blog/index.cfm?do=blog.entry&entry=D2402A82-DE24-0972-25E59055EEA8C17E) asking "won't Bl

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More on new features in BlueDragon 6.2

Wednesday, 23 March 2005 9:27 P GMT-05

Beyond the .NET edition and overall improvements, there's also a lot that's new in the 6.2 release. Among the new tags are:Support for previously missing new or enhanced tags from CFMX: CFLOGIN, CFLOGINUSER, and CFFUNCTION security roles; CFHTTP and

Category: BlueDragon Evangelism

BlueDragon 6.2 Released, Major Feature is .NET Edition

Wednesday, 23 March 2005 7:51 P GMT-05

New Atlanta is pleased to announce the final release of BlueDragon 6.2, which is available for immediate download:The major new feature of BlueDragon 6.2 is "BlueDragon 6.2 for the Microsoft .NET Framework" (BlueDragon.NET), which enables M

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Tool Tip: For better windows file searching, use Agent Ransack

Sunday, 26 December 2004 11:59 P GMT-05

Ever need to find files in Windows? You may know about Windows (pretty sad) "file find" feature, or you may use Studio/HomeSite's "extended find" feature, but each of those has drawbacks. I learned of a great freeware tool, Agent

Category: Tool Tips

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BlueDragon Advantage - Easier Site Spidering (and no localhost limitation)

Thursday, 23 December 2004 5:14 P GMT-05

If you've ever used CFINDEX to create a searchable index of files, you've probably lamented that it only indexes the content of files, which is fine for static files. But for web application filetypes like .cfm, .asp, .etc., you generally want to do

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BlueDragon Advantage - ListToArray

Thursday, 23 December 2004 1:30 P GMT-05

Continuing the list of technical advantages BlueDragon offers (it's so much more than just another way to run CFML), sometimes it's the little things. Just the other day, someone on a list was complaining about how the ListToArray function would skip

BlueDragon Advantage - CFZIP

Wednesday, 22 December 2004 6:55 P GMT-05

Continuing the list of BlueDragon advantages I started yesterday, the next is CFZIP. If you're weary of having to rely on custom tags and com objects to do Zip file processing (especially if you had to buy them), fret no longer. BlueDragon 6.2 (the

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BlueDragon Advantage: Complete Error Pages Are Logged

Wednesday, 22 December 2004 2:47 P GMT-05

BlueDragon helps with a nagging problem of resolving errors. If you've not otherwise trapped errors (with site-wide error handling, CFERROR, or CFTRY), you know that a page full of information is written to the screen (in both BD and CF). In BlueDra

Category: BlueDragon Admin BlueDragon Evangelism

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BlueDragon Advantage - Calling CFCs from ASP.NET pages

Tuesday, 21 December 2004 7:02 P GMT-05

As you explore the implementation of BlueDragon on .NET, you'll learn that just as CF and BD allow tight integration with Java components in their respective Java-based editions, only BlueDragon allows you to call a CFC from an ASP.NET page. Yep, you

Category: BlueDragon Evangelism BlueDragon Coding BlueDragon/.NET

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BlueDragon Advantage - Dynamically rendering CFML from a variable (or database column)

Tuesday, 21 December 2004 6:03 P GMT-05

Some might expect that I'd lead the list of advantages with some of our strongest distinctions, but I'd rather start with some of the less well-known features that may intrigue the most CFML developers.Many developers have long wanted to store CFML i