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The Adobe ColdFusion servers on Windows Servers and having SSL could develop and issue with Scheduled Tasks not able to run after June 2016. We have experienced this issue with one of our servers. The only information we receive when saving the output of a scheduled task to a file is "Connection Failure". Along with that while PDF is generated, it is missing the styles and image.

*** UPDATE : Adobe had since provided support for Windows 8 with Coldfusion 10. In my case I had to reinstall windows 8 to remove the Coldfusion 9 installation. *** Adobe Coldfusion 9 is having installation issues on Windows 8. I upgraded my PC with Windows 7 having Coldfusion version 9.0.2 to Windows 8. When I tried to run the Coldfusion application I got errors in IIS so I tried to uninstall Coldfusion. Here is the error that I received. I again tried to install Coldfusion (ColdFusion_9_WWEJ_win64.exe), but it too failed with the following messages. Hope Adobe will roll out updated installers and uninstallers for existing installation.

I have been using ColdFusion from version 7 MX. Now, in the ColdFusion 9 also, if you try to browse a cfm page without starting the ColdFusion service, you get this error. Server Error Either the Macromedia application server(s) are unreachable or none of them has a mapping to process this request. I am not sure why Adobe have not removed this reference. May be Adobe kept it as such so that others think it is Macromedia's fault, not Adobe's :-)

I received the following mail from Adobe regarding shutting down AIR market place. Thank you for using Adobe AIR Marketplace. When we established Adobe AIR Marketplace three years ago, there were few distribution opportunities for AIR developers. There are now several app stores on desktops, mobile devices and tablets that service AIR developers including Apple App Store, Android Market, BlackBerry App World, Intel AppUp center, Samsung Apps, and Toshiba App Place.

Just a quick post on converting numbers to different base using ColdFusion . The FormatBaseN can be used to convert a number to a different base. Function Syntax FormatBaseN(number, radix) Parameter Description number Number to convert radix  Base of the result (2, 10, 16) More details on the Adobe link  

I just thought of sharing my friend's experience with managing large numbers using ColdFusion. They got an assignment that will manipulate numbers and things seem good at first. When the numbers started getting larger(20 digits), we had a problem. In CF, the limit of Integer is -2,147,483,648 and 2,147,483,647 (32-bit signed integers) and the calculations started giving unexpected results. After quite a bit of Googling and posting in forums, they got the solution from a user in the Adobe forums. It is to use the Java Math object and convert the number to BigInteger. Here is the code:

I got the opportunity to attend the Adobe Flex launch event at Kochi, thanks to @Juwalbose , @Jerrydon and others. They made it happen. After the first meeting of GOD s a few months ago which I was not able to attend, they should have worked really hard to organize this event. I was really happy to see my ex-colleagues and of course, my friends at GODs and twitter. This was the first time I met them in person. I got new friends too from this event. It was nice meeting them. I reached a bit early for the event and got some time to chat with others. @Harish Sivaramakrishnan did the first presentation about Flex . Even though he reached a bit late due to a delay of his flight, the wait was worth. I was amazed to see the new capabilities of Flex builder . The developer does not even have to touch the code to achieve something, and that too like creating a full fledged video player !. Awesome. I had moved away from Flex development around 1 year ago, but seeing his presentation I...

Adobe released ColdFusion builder. See the link  http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/buy/#cfb It comes lot of facilities and support for ORM with ColdFusion 9. You will also get a complimentary copy of Flash Builder 4 Standard with this version.