I’ve recently covered how to configure git with Hudson on Ubuntu’s Tomcat and it has worked quite well. After taking the plunge and subscribing to have private repositories on github I ran into an issue of not being able to clone the private repository since it was… well, private. Here is the message I was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is how I setup a VirtualBox Virtual Machine (VM) running Ubuntu 9.10 Server edition for ColdFusion development on my MacBook Pro.
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 [...]
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.
Sitemaps just make sense. You create a Sitemap file, or a set of files and a Sitemap Index, that has all the your site links crafted purely for search engine consumption. It’s like candy for the search giants since they get spoon-fed your site structure by you. Not only can it tell them where your [...]
As part of their tour of North America, Railo stopped by Salt Lake City with their CEO Gert Franz and CTO Michael Streit to present their CFML engine to the combined audiences of SLCFUG and NUCFUG groups. Along with the meeting we were able to have dinner with the Railo duo. The content of this [...]
For those of you who use and love subversion (svn) as much as I do you will be happy to know that David Child from Added Bytes (formally know as I Love Jack Daniels until certain legal misgivings) has released a Subversion specific cheetsheat, his first new one is almost a year. Subversion Cheatsheet
Wow, i hadn’t realized how close in version numbers the two things are… I was thinking today of how many crazy things that I try to do, how many of them don’t work, and how many of them I don’t share when they do. So today I attempt to share a successful install of ColdFusion [...]