It’s amazing what you find when you read the documentation. Since I always forget the address for Google’s CDN hosting of jQuery I have to search for it each time. This time when I found the address I was looking around a bit and found out this interesting tidbit that I didn’t know before about [...]
This is how you can configure Railo Express to use Jetty virtual hosts and local host file entries to point to a single Railo Express installation. This was extremely useful while developing applications that power multiple domains.
For this example, we are going to add a virtual host for the snow.ftd host.
Jetty Setup
Jetty makes it really [...]
Today I wanted to setup local host entries on my MacBook. Searching around I found several articles about editing the /private/etc/hosts file to add local domains entries pointing back to my computer. I don’t know if it is something that changed with Leopard or Snow Leopard but it just wasn’t working for me. Even restarting [...]
One of the things that I was really excited for in ColdFusion 9 was the support for the ternary operator. As Ben said:
To me, the ternary operator is what the IIF() method call always wanted to be.
Unfortuately I was testing some CFML code, written and working on Railo, on a ColdFusion 9 server and had [...]
Here is how I setup a VirtualBox Virtual Machine (VM) running Ubuntu 9.10 Server edition for ColdFusion development on my MacBook Pro.
Step 1: Download Needed Files
The first step is to download all the files you will need. Since the downloads usually take some time we’ll get them out of the way first.
For my installation I [...]
There was a bug in Jetty that was causing MXUnit ant tests to not work because it was double encoding the cookies. The bug was fixed in Jetty but Railo had not released a new Express version with the fix. I found out that it is quite simple to upgrade:
Download and unarchive the version of Jetty [...]
Many of the domains and sub-domains on my Media Temple Grid Service contain installations of WordPress. Since I don’t want to be bothered by a normal upgrades here is how I install WordPress in a way that allows for simple upgrades.
This is not a completely automated solution, there is more that you could do to [...]
While working on an AIR project hosted on Google Code I wanted to setup automatic updates. I wanted the entire project to be self contained and not require any supporting websites. After a little coding I can now use Mate and dispatch an event to check for updates.
Preparing for Updating
In the main mxml document I [...]
As I amass more photos I get squeamish. Photos are some of the most valuable data on my computer besides the code I write. My code generally isn’t a big worry because it is being versioned and usually exists in several working copies so the risk of loss is smaller. With photos I have at [...]
I am a terminal n00b, but I’m liking it. I grew up on a M$ box and didn’t take the ‘leap’ to a linux / unix based operating system until about a year and a half ago when we got new computers at work. Since that time I have been trying to learn more about [...]