Category mac

Railo Express with Multiple Local Hosts

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 [...]

Local Host Entries on OS X Snow Leopard

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 [...]

ColdFusion Development using VirtualBox and Ubuntu 9.10

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 [...]

Aperture Vault on Amazon S3

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 [...]

Terminal Sweetness with reverse-i-search

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 [...]