A techie at heart. Works with Adobe at Bangalore, India. Currently do DevOps. Been a part of the ColdFusion Engineering, Flash Runtime Engineering, Flash Builder Engineering teams in the past. Was a Flash Platform Evangelist, evangelizing the Adobe Flex platform. Spoke at numerous ColdFusion / Flash and Flex tech conferences. This blog is a collection of some of my strides with technology.
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The search for an alternate source of internet began with an extended downtime on my regular internet connection. The internet folks at ACT fibernet somehow managed to find a switch replacement on their end, a problematic affair for > 3 days. That’s a topic for another day. We all know what complications one goes through […]
This post is about a log parser I quickly put together, with the help of the Elastic Search – Logstash – Kibana (ELK) stack and Docker. The ELK Stack, in undoubtedly a phenomenal solution for analyzing centralized logging. Logstash beautifully breaks down every detail in the log and takes care of pushing them into ElasticSearch, […]
ColdFusion is a pretty powerful language when it comes to managing all your server / enterprise resources, but it is also useful to manipulate user interfaces. In this post, we speak about using the CFInclude tag to build intuitive user experiences. To start with, here is our problem. We had multiple pages in a website, […]
At CFSummit 2018, I presented on how APIs are redefining how software is built today, and how the ColdFusion API Manager helps you with your API deployments and management. The session spoke about, why the APIs are the need of the hour in any enterprise environment that deals with large amounts of data, and are […]
ColdFusion 2018 includes a host of new enhancements on Language. Language improvements have been considered based on use-cases that make more sense in today’s world, and while also taking into consideration all the bugs and enhancements logged by the community. Significant enhancements are Null Support – with ColdFusion now Null aware, working alongside other technologies […]
Get insights into the language improvements in ColdFusion 2018, at the Adobe Immerse Webinar on June 12, 2018. I will be speaking about Null Support, Final variables, Abstract Methods, Data Type Preservation, Asynchronous Programming Constructs, and a host of improvements on Array. Here’s the session abstract. Learn how ColdFusion 2018’s new asynchronous programming constructs allow […]
The latest version of ColdFusion bundled in an API Manager, allowing you to moderate publishing and access of your APIs. The API Manager acts as a proxy to existing REST and SOAP web-services. Just wrapped up an article on Adobe DevNet that speaks about exposing existing SOAP based web services. Have a look at the […]
Plink is a blessing if you are attempting to SSH to a remote machine and execute some scripts from an automated solution. It’s perfect for the scenario, except when it comes to hostkey acceptance. Plink, or for that matter any application used to connect to another machine remotely, require you to accept the Hostkey of […]
ColdFusion 11 update 5 helps address a issue with connector reconfigurations, that could potentially leave you in the lurch. The update includes a workflow to backup your custom configurations while un-configuring ColdFusion from an IIS site or an Apache instance. Here’s a little more detailing about what the workflow does. On unconfiguring the connector on […]
Hotfix 5 for ColdFusion 11, and Hotfix 16 for ColdFusion 10 are out, and fix close to 150 bugs collectively! Connector fixes for IIS are available for ColdFusion 11, and that would imply the need to reconfigure connectors if you are on a ColdFusion 11 configured with IIS. ColdFusion 11 also packs Apache 2.4.10 support. […]