Subversion Ant for Files Changed between Two Revision Numbers
Here is my attempt to be able to pull a revision range from an svn repository. The ant script runs an svn log command, sets up the directory... more »
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Minify CSS/JS ant revisited using YUI compressor
I have revisited adding Yui compressor into my work's ant build script to minify JS and CSS scripts. We achieved about an average 18% compression... more »
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Create Scalable Applications with ColdFusion Components
"This article presents an introduction to ColdFusion components (CFCs). For developers seeking to take their skills to the next level, CFCs are an... more »
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Playing with jQuery - ColdFusionBloggers.org Update
A while ago I built and released ColdFusionBloggers.org as a way to demonstrate and learn about new ColdFusion 8 Ajax technologies. Since then I've... more »
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VMWare Open BlueDragon image made available
We are happy to announce that we have made our Open BlueDragon VMWare image available. The image contains: CentOS 5.1 (with all available upgrades... more »
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Encryption of strings in Cold Fusion
Simple tutorian on CFM encryption
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The Week in ColdFusion: 30 April-6 May: Is ColdFusion a programming language? blah blah blah…
There were a couple of big news items in the blogosphere this week, but making the most noise was the cf.Objective() conference. I’m not going to link... more »
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High Availability - Clustering
I have added several blog postings here before on the theories of High-Availability (HA) and Clustering. In this series of blog postings I will be... more »
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Be Cautious About Rolling Back To JVM 1.5
There have been several blog posts recently about class-loading issues apparently linked the use of the Sun-Java 1.6 (6.0) JVM. Mark Mandel has a... more »
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Vertical and Horizontal Clustering with ColdFusion
Clustering in particular with ColdFusion and JRun can get fairly complicated pretty fast and I urge all who are going to embark on clustering to plan... more »
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A Possible Problem When Using Hardware Clustering
I presented at CF.Objective on the subject of clustering and distributing ColdFusion applications. During the presentation I pointed out a "gotcha" I... more »
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HA - Clustering ColdFusion Part 1 - Installing CF
This will be the first post in a series relating to clustering ColdFusion. In this first series of posts we will be looking at clustering CF at a... more »
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ColdFusion 8 - Nine month review.
I've been a bad boy. I was supposed to write a review of ColdFusion 8 back in October of last year, but an imminent change of job and my 10 month old... more »
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Use ColdFusion? Use Java.
If you use ColdFusion (or another Java-based CFML runtime), you should be using Java. There's a reason that CF uses Java under the hood: Java is... more »
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java.lang.ref.SoftReference in CFML
CFChris provides a simple "how to" for using Java SoftReference with caching to leverage memory sensitive garbage collection with caching in... more »
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ColdFusion for JSP Developers
Forget Ruby on Rails; in this article I outline why, as a Java developer, you should perhaps be looking to another technology closer to home to... more »
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An Absolute Beginner's Tutorial In Flex 3
With Web users expecting richer and more complex interfaces, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are seeing a huge increase in popularity. Adobe Flex is... more »
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Want Free Subversion, Trac, Mylyn, and More? Of course you do.
If the idea of 500 Mb of free Subversion, Trac (with XML-RPC access for things like Mylyn), Wiki, and a whole lot more sounds like a good thing to... more »
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RIA is Dead! Long Live Web Applications
RIA (the acronym) has jumped the shark. I find that I can no longer use RIA to describe anything anymore. The definition has been watered down and... more »
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Adobe AIR Resources for the Ajax Developer
I've been doing a fair amount of writing and developing with Adobe AIR over the past few months and just thought I'd take a moment to wrap up some of... more »
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Where Did That Code Snippet Come From?
Have you ever wondered where that code snippet that saved the project (again!) came from? It's probably not a question you'd ask yourself when it's... more »
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Creating PDFs that automatically print via CFPDF and DDX
A simple solution to creating PDFs that will automatically print, by using CFPDF and DDX to embed Javascript in the PDF file.
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Where is CFEclipse headed?
If you are concerned with the direction and future of CFEclipse - I’d urge you to check out the CFEclipse mailing list. Marc Esher has a great post... more »
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A community is defined by its actions.
I used to play World of Warcraft a lot, and my character lived in the Horde realm (therefore I was part of the Orc Community). I generally preferred... more »
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The Week in ColdFusion: 2-8 April: updater overload
Obviously the big news this week was that the first ColdFusion updater, 8.0.1, was released - and was subsequently re-announced by seemingly every... more »
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