ColdFusion Builder 2 - still no Linux Support
A comment on my post from August of last year regarding Linux support for ColdFusion Builder reminded me to check the state of the Linux Support Bug report for CFBuilder 2 ... and it wasn't good news. Since moving over to the new Bug Tracker it seems that the original bug (and all the votes) have been lost. Oh and there's still no Linux support for CFBuilder. In the interests of continued support for Closed Source tools on ones favoured open source platform I've recreated the ticket #2832512 (http://bit.ly/CFB2Linux) and would ask that those of you who support Linux for ColdFusion deployment and development start down the long road of re registering your interest. Go Vote! (again) (My apologies to anyone who followed the links in the original of this post ... they were for the wrong bug report. The links have now been updated and new short URL created)Scotch on the Rocks 2011 – Day 2 – AJAX Longpolling with ColdFusion 9 and BlazeDS – Stephen Moretti
Cor blimey day 2 was technical! And Steve’s session was easily the most in depth of any I saw over the two days. Long polling is pretty well established as a technique and the use of BlazeDS to handle the connection is something that everyone talks about doing but very few actually implement. In a great preso, Steve ran through the basic of the concept and quickly jumped into code to setup the BlazeDS configuration, the Event Gateway to wire it all together and the basic AJAX / jQuery client to send the messages. I’ll be frank and say that a lot of the configuration was lost on me – it’s the kind of thing I’ll always have to look up in the docs as I’m never going to be doing it regularly but the actual concepts were neatly outlined. Some of the gotchas were also well worth hearing about: the blocking IO model in BlazeDS, the need to separate out onto a different server to prevent long polled requests exhausting your app server thread pool. I was also really impressed to see a very technical demo, running on Ubuntu and pretty much live coded (a fair whack of copy and paste but built up over the hour) – all of this from a guy who could barely stand for the 2 days of the conference! Scores (out of 10) Direct Professional Value: 6 Ongoing General Value: 8 Contention / Debate: 5 Style: 8 Overall: 6.75MySQL - What if the worst happens?
After the recent Tweetalpyse that followed Oracle's update of the MySQL version comparison table I got to thinking, what if MySQL were to be rendered no longer viable as my web database of choice. What are the options for open source relational data management?Why Adobe should support ColdFusion Builder on Linux
[blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/fymd/statuses/20297427052"] A topical issue at the moment - Adobe's lack of support for ColdFusion builder on a platform that isn't proprietary(Windows, OSX) is something that is very close to my heart.Not one, not two but 6 Servers per Server
For the past 2.5 years I've maintained a dedicated server for hosting various sites, both of my own and for clients. I'd been running the same box for a while when, in January, I finally decided I needed to upgrade to a bigger, better machine with an OS I could actually patch (the old server was a Fedora Core 5 machine and Yum was borked beyond repair).A very important birthday
Just a quick congrats to the Debian team for reaching their 16th Birthday. For those who don't know Debian (in addition to being a wonderfully stable and well thought out Linux distro in it's own right) is the basis for the stupidly popular Ubuntu family of distros currently taking the world by storm. I'm not saying that without Debian there would be no Ubuntu but the heritage is certainly worthy of our respect.
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