This JVM bug seems to be getting some high-level attention in the IT press so I thought I’d lay out the issue where CF is concerned: History The bug is in the JVM (it has been since ~2001) and so ColdFusion running on Sun JVMs are affected. Someone out there has obviously made the link [...]

An interesting issue cropped up today which involved taking a trip back in time to look at our old issue tracking software. Back in 2004 we were using a Windows client/server based system which had a MS SQL back-end. From day 1 employees are trained to track track and track again. Emails, calls, suggestions – [...]

A big hello from CFUnited! Myself (David Stockton) and my colleagues (Darren Pywell & David Tattersall) are all at CFUnited this week. We have a FREE copy of FusionAnalytics to give away so don’t be shy – come and speak to us for a chance to win!! Plus, ask nicely and we’ve got FREE goodies [...]

ColdFusion 9.0.1 has been released for about a week now. I’m sure everyone has done due diligence in their test environments, run a full test-suite and deployed to production right? http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads_updates.html#cf9 Well it’s not always that simple is it? So if you want some professional help from the experts then call the experts – we’re [...]

Have you noticed requests stop processing and your CPU usage is high? There are many possible causes of this – a common one being using “Registry” as the CLIENT variable backing store. Have you seen this combined with “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space” errors in your logs? Again, there are several causes for filling the PermGen space [...]