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ColdSpring: An Answer to a Problem You May Not Know You Have
Over the last two years or so I’ve been working hard to really “get” object-oriented programming as it applies to ColdFusion development. Like a lot of ColdFusion developers that have been around a while, when I started trying to create…
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Configuring ColdFusion Applications on Tomcat with Apache Web Server
In my last post I mentioned that I had been toying around with using Tomcat as the only servlet container to deploy all my ColdFusion applications to, regardless of what ColdFusion engine you needed to use for a specific project.…
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To .WAR or Not to .WAR?
A week or so ago, Matt Woodward posted a blog entry detailing how to install Railo and Open BlueDragon on Tomcat. Since then I’ve been experimenting with installing not only Railo and Open BlueDragon into Tomcat, but Adobe ColdFusion 8…
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Using Decorator Objects in Transfer ORM
For the last few weeks I’ve been working on a project that uses the Mach II, ColdSpring and Transfer frameworks for ColdFusion. This is my first “real” project using Transfer and, I have to say, I’m supremely impressed with the…
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Suggestions for Software to Run a Small Consulting Shop?
As a small business, any business-related activity that keeps me from doing billable work costs me money. Obviously there is a certain amount of those hours that you have to deal with. The trick, in my mind, is to find…
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My First-Ever “Mileage Run” Completed
Yesterday I did something that I would have never thought I would do. I rode around in various airplanes just for the sake of riding in airplanes—I took a “mileage run”. Mileage runs are tickets purchased for the express purpose…
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External Monitor Solution for Your Laptop
One of the things that I’ve missed greatly since moving to using a laptop as my primary machine just over 3 years ago is the ability to run multiple monitors. My old tower machine had a pretty hefty video card…
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Interesting Gotcha with Nested Loops in ColdFusion MX7
I am working on a project for a client that is running ColdFusion MX7 on their servers and ran into a situation today where a search feature that worked perfectly in my local development environment (which, admittedly is running CF…
Dan
Geek, Tinkerer, Creator
I’m Dan. An ambivert by nature, geek by divine calling, husband to a wonderful woman, and father to three amazing kiddos. I enjoy tinkering with all sorts of automation, self-hosting / home labs, and creating stuff with lasers and 3D printers in our “maker space” with my children.
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