ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap

Which CF Instance and jvm config am I using?

This is more of a quick reminder for myself.  Hopefully someone else will find it useful as well… If you have multiple instances of ColdFusion running on a server and one of those starts to runaway with the processor you just need to kill it and move on, right?  But, what if you what to know which instance it was?  If … Read more

BlogCFC and Windows Live Writer

This is just a little test… I’m trying the Windows Live Writer with blogCFC. If you can read this then it may be a success. We’ll see. Let’s make this a full fledged test and use an image as well.. The picture to the left is the new, soon to be released Blackberry Bold. It’s the thing to have… forget … Read more

Time to learn CFCs once and for all!

I’ve been putting this off for a while. I’m not sure why, maybe it was just laziness. Anyway, I feel it’s time to buckle down and finally learn to create and use CFCs correctly… You know, to unleash the power, so to speak. Ok, I know now you are thinking I’m talking about chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) but I’m not. What I … Read more

Upload Files with Coldfusion.. It’s Simple!!

This is simple… simple I say!!! Uploading files to your website using Coldfusion is actually a Simple process… There is nothing really secret or sinister about this so.. here we go:

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Coldfusion Countdown

Ok. Couldn’t end the week being totally worthless.. Here is a nice simple way to “Count-down” from now to a specific date using coldfusion. #DateDiff(“d”, Now(), CreateDate(2007,2,25))# days til my Birth day. The “d” means days, “Now()” means get the date right now. The “CreateDate” takes the information inside the “()” and makes it a date using the format year/month/day. … Read more