Scheduled Tasks and Anonymous Access in ColdFusion 11

ColdFusion Scheduled Task setup form

I have been converting applications from ColdFusion 8 to CF 11 over the last several months, and some of the challenges have been quite a bit more daunting than this one. Even so, I felt this was worth mentioning. After copying all the code for my most recent upgrade candidate from the old server to … Read more

Windows Disks Keep Filling Up with Small Log Files

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I noticed that a Windows server I use for development with Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate had begun filling its system drive with log files in C:\Windows\Temp for no apparent reason. The initial response of our infrastructure group was to simply delete the log files on a weekly basis, as no one could find the cause … Read more

Adding Lines to the Beginning and Ending of Files Using PowerShell

Stack Overflow PowerShell question

In dealing with an application with which I had little familiarity, I discovered that troubleshooting an app (in this case developed using ColdFusion) where many of the source code files are “included” dynamically can be difficult – especially when JavaScript scripts are combined that have functions with identical names. Because so many of the functions … Read more