Programming
High availability clustering is complicated for no good reason
Sat, Mar 15, 2014
My research of replication and syncing different systems has constantly resulted in find other developers' articles that rant on endlessly about how many "gotchas" exist and how many workarounds there are. There is so much manual labor involved... Read More
Planning a system to visually create responsive data-driven web page layouts & widgets in the Jetendo CMS browser interface
Tue, Mar 04, 2014
I've been thinking about how to make the visual layout and widget editor for Jetendo CMS. So far, I've come up with an idea where I'll use drag and drop javascript-based tree controls like the following 2 examples. I customized the data for the... Read More
How to begin collaborating with Far Beyond Code on a bitbucket.org repository
Tue, Feb 25, 2014
Working with Far Beyond Code, LLC on the source code for client projects requires working through Git version control using the integration manager workflow. While most of our work is open source, client projects are not fully open source, and ... Read More
Thinking about making your project Open Source?
Thu, Feb 20, 2014
You may find that you have to do a number of extra things when making your software able to be distributed to others. Perhaps the biggest ones are:
Documentation and automation for installing / upgrading the software.
Improve security so yo... Read More
Any Railo/CFML developers looking for extra work?
Sun, Feb 16, 2014
Looking for work as a contractor or employee? Maybe we should be working together.
I have a very transparent / open / friendly work style. I'm doing the bulk of my work as open source projects now, so the work you do would also become o... Read More
Now using a licensed copy of Sublime Text 3 for all my coding
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
I've been using Dreamweaver for 10 years. After using Sublime Text 3 for a couple weeks, I'm certain this is the best editor I've ever used before and I just bought a license because I thought it was a good value. Sublime Text is a p... Read More
Tips for writing cross-browser friendly CSS more quickly
Fri, Nov 29, 2013
Some of the mistakes you make that cause problems in Internet Explorer and other browsers can be learned and prevented. I try to summarize the main things I think about when I'm initially converting a design to HTML. Of course there is ... Read More
Virtualbox shared folders much faster then samba for Railo + Nginx
Thu, Jul 11, 2013
It seems virtualbox configuration needs to be just right for good performance when the web application's source code is stored outside the virtual machine. I figured out that virtio nic type (Virtualbox network adapter paravirtualized network) ... Read More
Preventing SQL Injection attacks in my CFML application with db-dot-cfc
Sat, May 25, 2013
Preventing SQL injection attacks against the database is often something that is easy to know how to do as a developer, but also something you have to discipline yourself and other developers on your team to do consistently all the time. I often am i... Read More
Incredible Railo application start-up performance boost using ObjectLoad/ObjectSave to persist shared memory scopes
Mon, May 20, 2013
This article describes in technical detail how I made my app start-up 10 times faster and persist/restore memory based session data using Railo 4.
Storing scope data on disk
Today, I was able to write a simple shell script that calls a script via a... Read More
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