https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm inside the mind of a CF developer en-us Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:29:44 -0400 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:03:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss jeff@jeffcoughlin.com jeff@jeffcoughlin.com jeff@jeffcoughlin.com no https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/11/4/Amazon-Security-Policies-Lax This may be nothing, but I thought it was worth blogging in case anyone thought otherwise. I read a lot of books. A few months ago some stuff changed at work where I thought it would be easier to listen to audio books. So I re-enabled my old Aud... Books Personal Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:03:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/11/4/Amazon-Security-Policies-Lax https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/6/13/CF-Dev-Week-2012-Videos Last week Adobe ran the ColdFusion Developer Week 2012. I was honored to be asked to give my presentation on Scheduling Services in ColdFusion 10 (which I had made some slight improvements from my previous talk on it at cf.objective() based on audie... Adobe ColdFusion Conferences Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:14:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/6/13/CF-Dev-Week-2012-Videos https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/5/29/cfObjective-2012-Presentation-Scheduling-Services-in-ColdFusion-10 About a week ago I gave my presentation at cf.Objective() 2012 on the scheduling services in ColdFusion 10 (details). As promised here are my presentation slides and code samples. https://github.com/jeffcoughlin/preso_cf10scheduler A special t... Adobe ColdFusion cfobjective Conferences Tue, 29 May 2012 10:11:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/5/29/cfObjective-2012-Presentation-Scheduling-Services-in-ColdFusion-10 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/4/5/FarCry-Solr-Pro-Plugin We've launched a new FarCry plugin called FarCry Solr Pro. It's got a ton of features (too many to list here). Go checkout the plugin's website for more info and download links: https://jeffcoughlin.github.io/farcrysolrpro/ Special thanks to ... FarCry Core ColdFusion Solr Projects FarCry Plugins Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:03:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2012/4/5/FarCry-Solr-Pro-Plugin https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/10/3/Adobe-MAX-2011-CF-Unconference-Presenation-Advanced-Solr--Going-Beyond-the-Basics-of-cfsearch For those who attended my session on Monday and wanted to download the sample code, you can download it here (2.4MB zip file). The code is ready to go (requires CF9 or better if you want to run it out of the box without having to download Solr on ... ColdFusion Solr Conferences Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:15:51 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/10/3/Adobe-MAX-2011-CF-Unconference-Presenation-Advanced-Solr--Going-Beyond-the-Basics-of-cfsearch https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/8/1/How-I-Got-Started-in-ColdFusion Before I was developing in ColdFusion I was a senior network engineer. Before that I started out as a computer repair technician in the very early 1990's. Then in college (around 1994-95) I was a student worker working in the IT department repairin... ColdFusion Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:42:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/8/1/How-I-Got-Started-in-ColdFusion https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/6/6/cfObjective-2010-Presenation-Advanced-Solr--Going-Beyond-the-Basics-of-cfsearch Last month I gave my presentation on some advanced solr use with ColdFusion at cf.objective() 2011. Sorry for posting my files so late. I always like to post detailed comments in each demo file (explaining what's going on and how I walked through... ColdFusion cfobjective Solr Conferences Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:17:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/6/6/cfObjective-2010-Presenation-Advanced-Solr--Going-Beyond-the-Basics-of-cfsearch https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/10/13/Running-ColdFusion-Solr-on-a-64bit-JVM One of my clients had the need for a lot of search collections and even more data to put in them (especially with massive archives of PDF files, xls, word docs, etc) for a very large intranet. So I tried to plan ahead by installing Solr on a separat... Adobe ColdFusion Solr Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:39:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/10/13/Running-ColdFusion-Solr-on-a-64bit-JVM https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/8/27/Convert-VirtualBox-vdi-to-VMWare-vmdk Recently I decided to switch from VMWare desktop to VirtualBox desktop VM software. I've heard great things about VirtualBox (speed and less-overhead being two very nice features). I did not need to migrate a VM because I wanted a fresh install of ... Misc Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:49:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/8/27/Convert-VirtualBox-vdi-to-VMWare-vmdk https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/3/Hospital-ER-Wait-Times Last fall I helped a client of mine (Middlesex Hospital) release a new website to display their ER wait times for their three locations. It received national news. At the time they were one of only three hospitals (that we knew of) that were doing i... ColdFusion jQuery Projects Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:19:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/7/3/Hospital-ER-Wait-Times https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/4/24/cfObjective-2010-Presenation-ColdFusion--jQuery--Two-Great-Tastes-That-Go-Great-Together Yesterday I gave my presentation on ColdFusion 9 and jQuery integration. It was more of an intro approach to some of the topics and I'm glad that it was well received. The presentation originally housed content about a mock company I made called ... ColdFusion cfobjective jQuery Conferences Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:19:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/4/24/cfObjective-2010-Presenation-ColdFusion--jQuery--Two-Great-Tastes-That-Go-Great-Together https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/6/Speaking-at-cfObjective-2010 I'm happy to announce that I'll be speaking at cf.Objective() 2010 this year. I have been fortunate enough to speak at the conference in the past (every year since it opened in 2006) and am excited to present once again. This year my topic will be ... cfobjective Conferences Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:46:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/1/6/Speaking-at-cfObjective-2010 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/10/1/FarCry-Bulk-Image-Resize-Script Last week I finished writing a bulk image re-size script for a client of mine. It went through several revisions before finalizing on the version you can now download. Because I found it so useful I decided to release it to the public. The scrip... FarCry Core ColdFusion FarCry Plugins Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:40:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/10/1/FarCry-Bulk-Image-Resize-Script https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/8/18/New-screenrcom-Site-Released-Pretty-Sweet The guys at Articulate (who make E-Learning tools) today released a new product called Screenr which not only allow you to create video screencasts for their product line, but also allow you to post them right to Twitter. Better yet, the videos even... E-Learning Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:58:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/8/18/New-screenrcom-Site-Released-Pretty-Sweet https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/8/16/CFUnited-2009--What-an-Amazing-Event-This-Year Oh my. This has to have been the best CFUnited I've been to - Bar None. Liz, Nafisa, Cara, and the rest of the Stellr team did a phenomenal job. The sessions completely blew my mind. And the speakers, awe-inspiring. Every attendee and speaker I ... CFUNITED ColdFusion Conferences Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:34:00 -0400 https://jeffcoughlin.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/8/16/CFUnited-2009--What-an-Amazing-Event-This-Year