Category: ColdFusion
CFAnywhere
Larry Lyons pointed me to a post on House of Fusion that discussed a way to run CFMX or BlueDragon from a CD, which would allow you to send out mini-applications on CD to potential clients. This is somethign I blogged about some time ago, and it looks like CFAnywhere might be the answer.
I haven't tested this myself, so I don't know exactly how well it does/doesn't work, but if anyone has some experience using this method I'd love to hear it.
Odd CF Scheduled Task Behavior
I've had a CF scheduled task running hourly for a few months now without issue. On the 14th of May, for some reason, the scheduled task ran but wasn't rescheduled for it's next run. There's nothing in the CF logs that I can find that says why it might not have rescheduled. After forcing the scheduled task to run through the ColdFusion Administrator, it then successfully rescheduled for it's next run, and has been running fine since. If anyone has seen this happen, or knows where I might be able to dig for more debugging information, I'd like to hear it.
Embedded ColdFusion?
I'm trying to find out if it's possible to run a ColdFusion app from a CD-ROM. I can't seem to find anything about embedding a web server onto a CD though. I'm about 99% sure you can't do this with ColdFusion MX, but from a few snippets about New Atlanta's Blue Dragon I think it might just be possible. I just don't have the knowledge to make it happen.
If anyone has been able to run a CF server off of a CD, I'd love to hear about it...