Custom session replication now built into Jetendo CMS
Sun, Jun 15, 2014
There are a bunch of ways to replicate session data especially with Railo since it supports clustering multiple servers without licensing limitations, but I wanted fastest, most reliable and most secure approach, which requires a custom effort. I re... Read More
Using scrypt hashing with Coldfusion or Railo
Sun, Nov 10, 2013
To aid others in implementing scrypt using Coldfusion or Railo, I wanted to make a quick post to give you the short possible example of how it can be done.
Here is the Java source:
https://github.com/wg/scrypt/
You can find... Read More
Counting lines of code in Jetendo CMS and sites based on it.
Sun, Jul 21, 2013
There didn't seem to be a reliable open source way to count lines of source code for CFML CFC files so I wrote my own and integrated it with the Jetendo CMS Server Manager. Now you can run a source code line count report across all of the sites... 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
Optimizing Tomcat's JVM Options for Railo 4.1
Tue, Jul 02, 2013
Before you change your JVM options, please consider that many developers don't think this is a good idea unless you know what you are doing or are willing to take some risks. Make sure you test and do further research before applying changes yo... 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
HTML 5 template language for CFML applications
Wed, Apr 17, 2013
What should a framework do and what should a language do? CFML does have a good amount of built-in framework functionality already. It gets confusing on what is language or not, doesn't it? It seems that CFML's job is to merge a b... Read More