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...

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...

I recently had the honor of being a panelist at the August 2011 Bay Area ColdFusion user group, alongside such notables as Sean Corfield and Nolan Erck regarding the topic du jour – is ColdFusion Dead? The topic was the result of a survey sent to the user group with two choices, and this topic was the clear resounding winner with over 95% of the vote (I can’t remember what the other topic was). It’s a topic that’s has been...

I recently wrote an article for RIARockStars regarding my take on the CF ecosystem and my challenge as a manager to find talented CF developers – along with some our hiring strategies to work around that. I’ll follow up soon with a follow up post more focused on putting together a hiring strategy for managers of Flex and ColdFusion developers. …read the full...

I’ve been working on this ColdBox based feature for one of Amcom’s sites, however the rest of the site itself isn’t framework driven, so I decided to move the entire site into one common ColdBox application.Since I’m in rewriting mode, might as well take advantage of ColdFusion 9′s ORM/Hibernate feature. This technology is quite mindblasting, and I have to give major kudos to the ColdFusion team for making it...