How Maths and Computer Science gave me something to do

by kai on 04/08/2013

The other day, my friend Sam McEwan published a post "How computer science saved my ass" on his blog. In this post, he explained how he ended up doing computer science and elaborated on both the good and the bad parts of his university (and in general overall schooling) experience. When I read Sam's blog post, I immediately thought: "Wow, I had a very different experience" and I wondered if it…

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ColdFusion - just another security hole...

by kai on 16/05/2013

It's getting to the point where people who're looking at this must be saying: "Man, this is getting really embarrassing for Adobe". There's another (unspecified) security hole that users were made aware of May 8, 2013. The patch was then announced for and released on May 14, 2013, for the days in-between there was only the recommendation to lock away most of /CFIDE (that's what you essentially…

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Some more differences when moving to Railo

by kai on 14/05/2013

You might remember that I've blogged about the differences between Railo and ColdFusion in the past. Here's another one to look out for - this popped up on the railo mailing list the other day. A poster was asking about some Adobe CF-specific code that was used to retrieve a list of datasources (working on Adobe CFMX 6.1):

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Railo Express Tomcat - updates

by kai on 13/05/2013

I've just updated the Railo Express on Tomcat bundles that I'm compiling. They now feature Apache Tomcat 7.0.40 (which is a very recommended upgrade from .39) and various Railo versions: Tomcat 7.0.39 and Railo 4.0.4.001 https://mega.co.nz/#!m0IUhYDR!abAZeAh-dukXRw8EpMHV8lWAhGpyXuiyHhpvrNouaKw Tomcat 7.0.40 and Railo…

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And another new episode of the 2DDU podcast

by kai on 20/04/2013

Today, Mark and I recorded and published episode number 30 of our 2DDU Podcast with the awesome title "Broken Code, Rayguns, Enterprise Software and an ark". We were joined by a guest: my friend and web entrepreneur John-Daniel Trask. It was a really good and fun recording. We spoke about a whole lot of different things, starting with JD's new project Raygun.io - a cloud-based error logging and…

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Railo Express Tomcat for OS X

by kai on 20/04/2013

And here we go. If you want to play with and try out my unofficial Railo Express Tomcat for OS X, you can get started by just visiting the wiki page for it.

On there, I've provided some (hopefully useful) instructions on what to do after the download - please note that the screenshots show the wrong URL (it's a Railo 3 installation running on port 8888 :-).

The current version of the bundle is based on Tomcat 7.0.39 and Railo 4.0.4.001

Railo Express on Tomcat

by kai on 20/04/2013

The other day, I tried to help someone on the Railo mailing list to get an installation of Railo 4 on OS X going. Their problems were manyfold: They tried the OS X installer first, but ran into an issue with other file types besides CFML not properly being resolved by Tomcat (the OS X installer installs Railo on Tomcat and sets up a connection to Apache in case it's running). The current…

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Hgexportfiles - a really useful Mercurial extension

by kai on 16/04/2013

The other day I found a really useful extension for Mercurial * on Bitbucket: hgexportfiles * For the ones among you who listen to 2DDU Podcast, the podcast Mark Mandel and I are hosting every few weeks, you might know that Mercurial is that apparently totally unknown, irrelevant and rather obscure distributed version control system because everyone else besides me seems to use Git exclusively…

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jQuery Mobile workshops in Germany in October 2013

by kai on 15/04/2013

While I'm going to be in Germany for CFCamp in October, I'll be running three instances of my "Developing mobile web applications with jQuery Mobile" workshop in each Frankfurt (October 8, 2013), Cologne (October 10, 2013) and Hamburg (October 17, 2013). The three trainings are being held in cooperation with Heise Events, the event and training arm of German's Heise Verlag. They're a well known…

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CFCamp 2013 - Back in Germering

by kai on 14/04/2013

The last two CFCamp events in Munich have been such a success so that the team around Michi Hnat is putting it on again. CFCamp 2013 will happen on October 14 and 15 (Monday and Tuesday) in Germering (right next to Munich). I'm blogging about it now, because I want to make people aware of the event - it's great, very well organised and absolutely worthwhile attending even if you're not from…

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