August 28, 2003
CFYEILD
Here's an idea for a new tag in ColdFusion, CFYEILD. Consider a web site that receives a several concurrent requests. ColdFusion will create N threads to process the requests, if there are more than N concurrent requests, they sit in a queue.
August 27, 2003
Moving SSL Certs from IIS to Apache
I found some instructions for converting SSL certificates generated for IIS to private key, and cert files you can use on unix, or Apache for windows.First Export your IIS certificate into a pfx file (this is something you should do anyways for backup)
Run mmc.
August 27, 2003
A good and free log analysis tool - awstats
There are a lot of free http log file analysis tools out there that haven't been updated since the mid 90's, awstats however is both free, and up to date. It looks a bit like web trends (though I haven't used web trends in several years). Here's an online demo.
August 20, 2003
MyIE2 - IE Based fast web browser
MyIE2 released a new version of their web browser this week. I downloaded it today, and I'm quite impressed. MyIE2 uses MS IE to render and display content so everything that works in IE, works the same in MyIE. MyIE has a much smaller memory footprint than MSIE.
August 20, 2003
The Google API - CFX_Google
When the google api (an web service to use google's services) came out last year, I wrote a Java CFX tag called CFX_Google avaliable for free download with source code from cfdev.
August 19, 2003
The Google API - CFX_Google
When the google api (an web service to use google's services) came out last year, I wrote a Java CFX tag called CFX_Google avaliable for free download with source code from cfdev.
August 19, 2003
SoBig - SoAnnoying
I was receiving the SoBig virus at a rate of over one message per minute today. Most of them were sent to pfreitag@cfdev.com I disabled this account today so I could get some work done.
August 19, 2003
Real World Linux Security
I read part of Real World Linux Security this weekend. It's a very detailed book that covers a wide range of security topics, from an author with lots of security experience.
August 15, 2003
got power?
I just got my power back about an hour ago (I'm in Syracuse NY). I was in the middle of posting a long blog entry when we lost our internet connection this afternoon, and I lost the entire post when I submitted it, I'll rewrite it later...
August 15, 2003
Cross Platform Development Tips
The post I lost earlier today due to the power outage had a simple way of checking to see if your on a unix OS at runtime, and also some tips for writing cross platform coldfusion.Running UNIX: #YesNoFormat(isUnix)#
August 14, 2003
Search Engine Safe URL's in Apache 2
I've figured out an easy way to employ search engine safe url's on unix and apache2. It has always been possible to implement them with mod_rewrite, but its difficult to do globally for url's like this: www.site.com/page.cfm/id/4 Here's the script
<cfif NOT Find(".", cgi.
August 13, 2003
Google Calculator
To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the expression you'd like evaluated in the search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button.
August 13, 2003
Worm's a comin'
Feel's like a storm is brewing, I've gotten a few emails today from various security lists about the W32/Blaster worm. This worm effects Windows NT 4, 2000, 2003, and XP, here's the info from M$. Block ports 135, 139 and 445 (RPC DCOM) in your firewall.
August 08, 2003
Searching without Verity
Sometimes you need to search a database query without using verity. In general Verity should be used when possible, because it will yeild much better results, at better performance than the solution I'm about to show.
August 06, 2003
CFML Language History
Macromedia's web site is going to be busy today, lots of new stuff on there today. They released a CFML Language history document, that details the changes since CF 4.01. That is handy for me because I usually have to write CFML code that runs on multiple versions.
August 06, 2003
RedSky at Night Sailors Delight!
Macromedia Released ColdFusion 6.1 early this morning (code named RedSky). I'm really impressed with it, and I will be updating our server with it today.Several people have posted blog entries about it already.
Dan G.
August 06, 2003
Updating ColdFusion Studio / Homesite for CFMX 6.1
If your going to apply the Homesite CFStudio Tag Updater for CFMX 6.1 make sure you first apply the CFMX 6.0 tag updater it doesn't appear that the 6.1 updater is cumulative.
August 06, 2003
Classpath Migration Issue in CFMX 6.1
I Installed CFMX 6.1 on our live server today, and found that my Java classpath settings had been screwed up during the migration process. All the slashes were missing in the path, so a path like c:\java\activmail.jar would show up as c:javaactivmail.jar in 6.1.
