http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/ Lamoree Software Blog en-us Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:11:36 -0700 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:41:00 -0700 MachBlog http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss admin@lamoree.com admin@lamoree.com http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=F83C26E3%2D8055%2D4868%2DAFD7C78A0F63DA59 While working with ColdFusion ORM, I encountered a quandry: should simple lookup tables have their own entities (ColdFusion Components) or is that Objected Oriented Overkill? To illustrate, I created a test application with two entities, Person... ColdFusion Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:41:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=F83C26E3%2D8055%2D4868%2DAFD7C78A0F63DA59 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=7376B393%2DE1FF%2D4B2C%2D9BFA8DA96F88C989 I wrote a Railo extension provider server to scratch my own itch -- that itch being that I wanted to install the latest Transfer ORM easily in a bunch of places. I spent a considerable amount of time getting the Ant build to be perfect. It's now si... Railo Transfer ORM Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:33:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=7376B393%2DE1FF%2D4B2C%2D9BFA8DA96F88C989 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=299CCD3F%2D2DB5%2D4B36%2D897745615DE07E6C Both Sean Corfield and Jamie Krug have written about configuring Railo for multiple web sites/contexts long ago. However, having just done this setup myself, I thought I'd take notes and share them. I created a Google Document called (surprisingly ... CFML Railo Tomcat Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:50:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=299CCD3F%2D2DB5%2D4B36%2D897745615DE07E6C http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=050F6CA4%2D88BC%2D4973%2DBAB083C6F744F08E Here's a Mach-II trick that might prove useful to some of you someday, perhaps in a somewhat bizarre set of circumstances*. It can be helpful to include a link somewhere on the page that allows for easy reloading of the framework. Of course, you wo... Mach-II Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:56:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=050F6CA4%2D88BC%2D4973%2DBAB083C6F744F08E http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B70708C0%2D3861%2D481D%2DBE5228423BFD90E4 I recently wrote a modest shell script to make updating an installation of Open BlueDragon less cumbersome. I reported an issue with a nightly build, and I wanted to be able to switch between build versions reliably and quickly. The script, availab... CFML Open BlueDragon Tomcat Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:42:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B70708C0%2D3861%2D481D%2DBE5228423BFD90E4 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=D8D65499%2D707C%2D4202%2DA1E088C2EC3FD4F0 Many people, right or wrong, deploy CFML applications to the web server by performing a checkout a source code control system, such as Subversion or Git. This has the effect of placing repository information in directories with the rest of the file... Apache CFML Mach-II Windows Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:06:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=D8D65499%2D707C%2D4202%2DA1E088C2EC3FD4F0 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=040EEDE7%2DF331%2D4D1C%2DA4490BA3E1B1878A I've often needed to programmatically determine a component's relative (possibly mapped) path, as well as the absolute path (with symbolic links resolved) to the CFC file. Getting the absolute path is a cinch using the path element returned by the ... CFML Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:35:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=040EEDE7%2DF331%2D4D1C%2DA4490BA3E1B1878A http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=961E3D9E%2D988C%2D4F2B%2DBF9BF89F1F73E642 A moment ago I asked both of my followers on Twitter about character sets that eliminate visually similar symbols. Neither of them replied yet, but I thought I'd expand on the question. I was working on a token maker that generates random sets of c... CFML Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:05:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=961E3D9E%2D988C%2D4F2B%2DBF9BF89F1F73E642 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=0DBDE1C2%2D7A57%2D4800%2D863375EDE9FA0BDC I wrote a Perl one-liner to modify ColdFusion's adminconfig.xml file to enable the migration wizard using ColdFusion 8 settings. It's somewhat silly, since it's probably every bit as easy to make the change with an editor by hand. However, if you'r... ColdFusion Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:11:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=0DBDE1C2%2D7A57%2D4800%2D863375EDE9FA0BDC http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=A2F0ED76%2DA500%2D41A6%2DA1DFDE0D1996F925 If you use the Open BlueDragon Ready2Run bundle, you may have encountered an issue where Jetty wouldn't follow symbolic links to static file resources (images, scripts, whatnot). In the console, it will print something like WARN: Aliased resource: ... Open BlueDragon Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:07:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=A2F0ED76%2DA500%2D41A6%2DA1DFDE0D1996F925 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=A6A31A96%2DD315%2D4354%2DBED3BA47AE7231BB I recently encountered a problem I'd never seen before when taking advantage of powerful Java libraries within CFML components. Since this is really specific to Adobe ColdFusion and Macromedia JRun, it won't be an issue with other configurations. S... Apache ColdFusion Java Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:50:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=A6A31A96%2DD315%2D4354%2DBED3BA47AE7231BB http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=93DF6177%2D3CC8%2D44A3%2DB0359B5972785506 While performing XLS file creation using the jXLS library, I encountered a problem when working with Excel documents that cell validation rules. The issue occurs when jXLS calls the Apache POI methond to shift the rows down. To verify that I unders... Java Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:02:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=93DF6177%2D3CC8%2D44A3%2DB0359B5972785506 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=F4F8A98F%2D1AF5%2D452B%2DBA35C30CB68A98C6 Last week I wrote a Perl script called listening.pl that displays the executable filename of every process listening for, or with active, TCP connections. It turns out that when a process has been terminated, there can be a bit of time before the s... Perl Windows Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:59:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=F4F8A98F%2D1AF5%2D452B%2DBA35C30CB68A98C6 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=A71D6481%2D680C%2D43D8%2DBFA931EF59F5627B Many years ago, I used a terminal application on Windows (I believe it was Windows NT 4.0) called SecureCRT. That worked very well to connect to all my FreeBSD/Linux/Sun boxes over SSH. I've used PuTTY before too, and it's a fine application. Howev... Cygwin Windows Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:23:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=A71D6481%2D680C%2D43D8%2DBFA931EF59F5627B http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=CAD39DD3%2DFB75%2D42A3%2D86655C6F4D5FF6C9 While trying to get the line debugger in ColdFusion Builder to work with an installation of ColdFusion 9, I wanted to verify which processes were listening for TCP connections on my Windows XP workstation. I started by using the netstat utility in ... ColdFusion Cygwin Windows Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:05:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=CAD39DD3%2DFB75%2D42A3%2D86655C6F4D5FF6C9 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=BA2AB939%2D65FC%2D4C25%2D824B4FBC6D34B492 There is a blog post and comment thread on Ben Nadel's site about File Downloads Without Using CFContent that Sami Hoda alerted me to. Specifically, he pointed to comments about mod_xsendfile, an Apache module that serves files by scanning the outp... Apache CFML Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:17:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=BA2AB939%2D65FC%2D4C25%2D824B4FBC6D34B492 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=BAF5E0D3%2D53BA%2D47DA%2D88F44DA1E20699D2 While working on a Customer and Address object relationship that is many-to-many, I wanted a way to send a single bean to the form that included all the fields of the customer, shipping address, and billing address. I modified BeanUtils to... CFML Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:18:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=BAF5E0D3%2D53BA%2D47DA%2D88F44DA1E20699D2 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=F6DEF33F%2D2632%2D470D%2DA0C00C42BD3AEB7C The way that myOpenID does user feedback on pages with forms is understated and functional. In their HTML source, they give this content the “alert box” class, and have a link to dismiss the message at the upper right. This seems very ... JavaScript User Interface Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:35:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=F6DEF33F%2D2632%2D470D%2DA0C00C42BD3AEB7C http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=2345632D%2D3D6E%2D442C%2D810965F248D25CBE I use a lot of beans in my CFML applications. When I use the term beans, I'm referring to a particular naming convention on components (CFCs), much like the JavaBean concept. My beans have getters/setters that all return/receive string values. Th... CFML Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:00:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=2345632D%2D3D6E%2D442C%2D810965F248D25CBE http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B21B3244%2D3C1D%2D48B5%2D9DC5F712C6022C25 I recently purchased a Vantec NexStar eSATA/USB dock for 3.5" and 2.5" drives. It's connected to Mac Pro with a PCI Express SATA II adapter with two eSATA ports and a 6' eSATA cable. The drive dock comes with USB and eSATA cables, but they're onl... Apple Hardware Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:39:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B21B3244%2D3C1D%2D48B5%2D9DC5F712C6022C25