 | 16 Jan 02:05 Today I ran across an interesting post on cfSearching on how to display the ColdFusion JDBC driver versions on Windows. Knowing this could be useful debugging information, I decided to save the code snippet for future use. However, I quickly released... 12 Jan 02:30 There's always tons of stuff shown off at CES each year. This year VIA showed off a prototype of 3.5" x86 PC that was running Linux. They're promoting it as an advanced PMP, but I could definitely using it as some kind of portable server. The ... 11 Jan 09:41 Every now and again I have the need to test some code against against some live data. The reasons vary from simply trying to recreate a bug, testing a piece of code for performance or for testing a UI widget. In the past the quick and dirty way I've... 9 Jan 02:29 Whenever the topic of my employment comes up, everyone's first reaction when I tell them I work from home is: "Wow, that must be really nice!" While working from home definitely has some benefits, it has some cons. As Cameron Childress men... 4 Jan 08:05 I recently posted about a new open source Java project called AntiSamy—which allows you to protect your websites from XSS hacks. I also promised that I'd soon show you some code examples that show you how you can use AntiSamy within ColdFusion.... 25 Dec 05:02 An extremely common problem web developers face is protecting themselves from XSS exploits. Any webpage that takes input from a user and displays it is potentially at risk. The simplest way to protect yourself from this type of exploit is to remove a... 15 Dec 07:55 Scott Stroz (who's always up for a round of golf) today asked How Do You Set Up Your Development Environment? In his article, he has an excellent tip for restarting your local install of Apache using an Ant script. This is a great tip and something I... 15 Dec 02:40 I have to admit, I only use a small portion of the features that are in Eclipse. That's because there are so many features that I often miss things, even buttons that stare me in the face everyday. I love Eclipse, it's a really powerful IDE and one o... 14 Dec 04:11 A couple of days ago, I posted on how I was monitoring memory usage on a recently upgraded CF8 server. I was seeing a quite a bit of memory being tied up in the tenured generation portion of the JVM Heap that would steadily rise all day. Since there... 14 Dec 02:34 Adobe Labs just released BlazeDS as a new Open Source project (released under the LGPL v3 license.) Essentially BlazeDS is the remoting and messaging technology behind LiveCycle Data Services. For people familiar with Adobe Flex, they know that this ... | | |