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Every now and then you may find yourself doing AJAX requests in a model-glue application.  One of the parts of this is a page that returns a lump of JSON encoded data.

Now, imagine you are doing this in development and you may have the model-glue debugging turned on.  if you do, the browser won’t understand the JSON data due to all the MG debugging junk appended on the end of the page.

So, how do you get round that issue apart from turning off debugging in your config and running it again (a bit of a pain)?

Well, simply set request.modelGlueSuppressDebugging to true and you’re rockin’.

Over the last few weeks I have been tracking twitter for mentions of the string “Coldfusion” just out of interest to see what everyone has to say. However, after a while I have noticed something worrying, lots of the twitters out there is negative to Coldfusion. Does this possibly signify a dramatic PR problem for CF?

Here is a list of all the “twits” I have received recently (that I could find), both negative and positive. Make up your own mind…

(despotes): I am really sick of Coldfusion. Or, I should say that I’m sick of Coldfusion and Leopard
(mcaulay): slipknot and coldfusion…a winning combination!
(despotes): it’s taking two hours to download the coldfusion 8 installer once again. Why my Internet hurt?
(joaofernandes): @ryanstewart you should try the new ColdFusion-renamed-to-silverlight-sys-con journal…or not…
(reboog711): ColdFusion is Squishy. I wish I said that
(fusedreality): Installing Coldfusion to give it a try on the ride to Edinburgh.. Very surprised to see that the installer for the modules is java….
(philcrissman): @fusedreality yes coldfusion is very tied to java. It’s supposed to be a feature, I believe.
(KuraFire): @chockenberry it’ll always be ColdFusion to me *shiver*
(armchairgeek): Words can’t express the loathing I have for ColdFusion.
(thinman): Un-installing, re-installing FlexBuilder & ColdFusion 8 Report Builder on Windows running in Parallels on MB Pro. Ow. This hurts.
(tpryan): Just got a Coldfusion app to compile to Air.
(daviddemello): finally swallowing the red pill that is ruby on rails. Amused that Adobe’s latest release of ColdFusion is packaged in blue.
(pierrenel): @SantaClaus uses coldfusion? Heh how apt.
(alexknowshtml): facebook photo export app works, but only after throwing the same 3 errors for each album. thanks coldfusion.
(uselink126): @All: Don’t be a ColdFusion Hater!
(bloomburst): ColdFusion Meeting on Python, Ruby?: When it comes to the monthly SLCFUG meetings I really can’t..
(adamrabin): I’m using Coldfusion to write to Twitter. Whee
(LissaKay): Installing IIS and ColdFusion … it’s gonna be a long night. Need more hot chocolate … with marshmallows
(goatlady): @ocean ColdFusion geek thing
(LissaKay): Why in the heck will this damnable ColdFusion crap not install right??
(awfurby): @gutta they are using coldfusion as the app server – odd choice
(oheina): Coldfusion annoys the skittles out of me

I came across a strange problem this morning when trying to do some development on one of our servers that is not using the default Sun JVM (the server is Win2K3, CFMX7.0.2 running on BEA JRockit 5).

Whilst this normally runs like a dream, I decided to stomp out an application.cfc. The result? A big fat error. I kept getting the error “CFCServlet must be initialized“.

After some poking around, I found that if I flipped CFMX back onto the default JVM all was good, it appeared to be JRockit that was causing the issue.

If you’re here after coming through Google, this is where I also say that I haven’t found a fix, if you want to use JRockit, you can’t use application.cfc’s, you need to switch back and suffer the performance degradation. I also can’t say if this situation gets better or worse on CFMX 8 or different versions of JRockit as I haven’t checked.

Kev McCabe has just pointed me at a new post of the Scotch 2008 website announcing the pricing for next years conference.

In a nutshell, it’s cheap. £199+VAT if you register before March 2008, and only £299+VAT afterwards.   So, get your tickets as soon as possible, it will probably sell out quite quickly.

Last night we had the semi-regular UKCFUG meet up at Design UK’s offices (the home of Mr Mark Drew).  During the session we talked about what was going on at Max Barcelona and basically skimmed over what was mentioned during the conference.

For the full coverage, there’s a recorded Connect presentation which you can watch.  Total time is just under an hour.

https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/p84685125/

Please note that Stephen Moretti is actually Mark Drew, Or Kev McCabe, or Niklas Richardson depending on when.  Stephen Moretti 2 is actually Stephen Moretti.