If you’re trying to get ColdFusion (particularly CF8 and CF9) working on a 64bit Windows machine using IIS7 or IIS7.5 you may encounter an error like this: HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred. Detailed Error Information   Module IsapiModule Notification ExecuteRequestHandler Handler AboMapperCustom-58087 Error...

This week I’m looking into integrating a CMS into a Grails application. Initially there won’t be much tight integration but it could involve single sign-on and lead into much tighter application embedding CMS content. As it happens, there is a CMS built on Grails called Weceem – it took some trial and error to get it working as the documentation could use a lot of work. Here are some tips if you’re trying to get it...

Was watching this short discussion panel regarding strategic advice from Angel investors (Ron Conway and Mike Maples) to start-ups. Here are some take aways: Keeping your burn rate extremely low buys the company the added probability of getting lucky. The luck from a low burn rate comes from having the cash to experiment with various ideas until you find the right model/combination/technique/strategy. Whereas with a high burn rate,...

So I’m still in learning mode w/Groovy & Grails, and I have basic CRUD for managing users. The user domain class has the properties that you’d expect, including a FirstName and LastName: class User { String firstName String lastName } So I wanted to create a simple right side wildcard search that would effectively be the same as this in SQL Server: where (firstName like '#searchTerm#%' or lastName like...

Background As a technology manager, one of my teams consists of a web development group building  both internal and external business applications. The core platform is built on ColdFusion, a JVM based technology, mixed in with various other frameworks and technologies (jQuey, Flex, ColdBox, SQL Server, etc…). A couple of years ago we had a project that involved integrating JBoss Drools (a business rules workflow engine), and we...

Hosted by Peter Ledbrook, Grails Advocate With the imminent release of Grails 2, it’s time to find out just why we think you should upgrade. Or if you’re not using it, why you should give it a second look. This webinar will introduce you to the new usability features that are targeted at improving your productivity, such as the new interactive command line, improved class reloading, and much better unit testing support....

    I’m in the process of learning Groovy and Grails, and Grails has this neat feature called scaffolding where you just create a domain class like a User and all its properties, and it’s auto-create a full CRUD to be able to create/read/update/and delete. class User { String userId String password Date dateCreated Date coolStuff Profile profile } Which when creating, will generate a form like...