Viewing by month: September 2008

Eclipse Ctrl+Shift+R Blis

There are dozens of Eclipse shortcuts that I use, many more that I know of that I just don't use. Ctrl+Shift+R has always fallen into the later category. The last few days I've been using the "Open Resource" shortcut and I'm finding it very efficent. The more my projects list grows, the more files I have and the more projects I have that interact with each other; the more sense it makes. Now that I'm mostly in the habbit of grabbing that key combo Vs looking to the nav bar I've seen an improvement in my workflow.

My Top 3 Eclipse Shortcuts

My Top 3 CFEclipse / ColdFusion Shortcuts

This is all pretty basic stuff, but I'm amazed at how many people use Eclipse, yet don't actualy know how to use some of the most basic helpers...

@Brandon: Thanks for fixing my typo :)

1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 12:43 PM - Categories: ColdFusion | Debugging | Development

Engagement Photos

For friends and Family I'm posting a few photos that were taken by my photographer this evening. I'm getting married in 2 weeks. All the photos can be found on the next page to save those who don't care :) I'd really like to thank Louis (Forever Platinum) for the pictures tonight!

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2 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 10:01 PM - Categories: General News | Friends / Family

Standard ColdFusion Install and Multiple Virtual Websites

Over the last 4 weeks I've seen some odd issues where the wrong page will be served up by my VPS with HostMySite. I at first attributed it to IIS, then the some weird header molestation when Apache didn't fix it. Thankfully when I posted about this issue yesterday, joshua cyr was quick to post up an old TechNote from MX6/MX7.

In short the problem is with the cacheRealPath attribute in jrun.xml. Almost 100% of the time I install the multi-version instance of ColdFusion; however my VPS is the single instance default install. Why does this matter? The multi or j2ee installs of CF8 default this attribute to false, whereas the default install sets it to true. This results in InstanceA being able to mistakenly server up InstanceB's Index.cfm file causing lots of fun issues when you have multiple virtual web servers (IIS/Apache) and template caching turned on....

0 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 11:17 AM - Categories: Hosting | Server Config | Development

Very Strange Error and Request For Help

I have several ColdFusion sites on the same VPS box. SiteA (this blog) has a CFLOCATION in the "/index.cfm" file that points to "/blog/". SiteB about once a day will start throwing 404 errors. When your go to www.SiteB.com i get the index.cfm file from SiteA (this has been verified with a dump/abort); that cflocation tries to send you to /blog. Except magically it's in the correct folder now and /blog doesn't exist. It is very important to note that while I'm currently running Apache 2.2 on windows, this happened on IIS as well. This event is what caused me to switch to Apache thinking it was IIS Stability issue. The problem goes away instantly on a reboot of either service respectfully.

My folder structure is as follows:

Hard Drive Root
      wwwroot
            SiteA Base Folder
                  Blog
            SiteB Base Folder

My Apache setup order is

1. Default Virtual Host
2. SiteB Virtual Host
3. SiteA Virtual Host

The last time this error occured I outputed the client header information (from CF) and everything looks as though it should. Despite the fact that I was getting content out of the base folder for SiteA, I was in fact calling correctly for SiteB. If someone was to explain this error to me I think I would call them nuts.

Can someone PLEASE help me with this?

6 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 12:56 PM - Categories: Hosting | Server Config | ColdFusion | Debugging | Development | General News | Microsoft

HostMySite Contacted me about my review on their VPS

So the long winded title says it all. A couple days ago I wrote a review about my experience with HostMySite.com's lower end VPS package. I was basically completly unimpressed with the initial roll-out of my VPS image and it's config settings and I briefly covered a few of the things I needed to do in order to get my apps running right.

Well yesterday afternoon HostMySite took the initiative and had someone call me! I'm not sure how high up the food chain the person I spoke with was, but I believe he sayed he was in charge of maintaining the VPS servers. In short he wanted me to give him my take on the configuration changes that they needed to make and in our short 21 minute phone call covered changes that should be made to IIS, MSSQL and ColdFusion. I also made some alternative software load suggestions.

He said he would give me an update at some point and if I get one I'll post it here; thumbs up to HostMySite for at least taking a small step forward. Like I said on the phone, if they were to make these changes I think they would have happier initial customers who thought they were getting a much better product and as well as a cut in support calls. I know my issues alone generated several support tickets.

2 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 11:24 AM - Categories: Hosting | Server Config | ColdFusion

Barbecue Bar Code Generator Wrapper for ColdFusion

I needed to generate some barcodes in a ColdFusion app and I wanted to use Barbecue, which is an open-source java library that makes the whole thing pretty simple. I found a couple other wrappers out there for older versions of the library, so I thought I would post up my own wrapper that is for the more updated version. This was tested against Barbecue 1.5 beta 1.

Included in the download is my wrapper jar file for CF and an example of how to use it.

Barbecue Bar Code Generator Wrapper for ColdFusion

1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 6:51 AM - Categories: ColdFusion | Java | Development

Non-Stop Calls From "Domain Registry Support"

For a few weeks now I've been getting calls from Domain Registry Support I've been unable to get them to stop calling me as of yet but I find this scam interesting. So far I've had angry phone calls where they get mad when I confront them to hang ups. So far only one has spoken any english past about a 5th grade level and they are getting real annoying. I haven't actualy made it far enough to figuer out what their full scam is..

I've always gotten a random phone call from them, but this is like number 5 since early last week! Apparently this company pays no mind to the DNC list or they think they don't apply.

1 comments - Posted by Russell Brown at 12:29 PM - Categories: