URL Rewriting allows you to recode ugly URLs like into something like …while having a valid url… …still passed to ColdFusion or your coding language of choice. Using the url examples above I will take you through implementation of rewriting in Apache with mod_rewrite and in IIS using a plugin ISAPI_Rewrite. Implementation To cater for […]
When bandwidth becomes an issue, it is possible to enable HTTP compression between the web server and the browser. This increases CPU load on the web server by a small amount, but can provide fairly massive reductions in page sizes (in the order of 75%). Compression is part of the HTTP/1.1 specification, which means that […]
I had the need today to go through our login history for one of our applications to try and hunt down possible compatibility issues coming from some new jQuery / AJAX related code. The issue in question is in another country and we wont be able to get a tech or developer in front of […]
Using Ctrl + Pause/Break will force CF to push a JVM thread dump into your log file. You should try and so at least 2 dumps while the server is under pressure. this way you can find the threads that are taking time and probably eating the resources. Once you know which of your sites […]
So you have to find out your IP Address for some reason, if you Google whats my IP address? you have a list of choices telling you the same thing, exactly what you asked for. But now…. you can have it in a sultry sexy voice by visiting
Recently we installed Subversion into my workplace, and then moved it to CVSDude.com. As this happened I went in search of a decent web based browser for SVN and also something that would help me integrate more closely with our in house built ticket system. The only ColdFusion based SVN Browser I could find was […]
I have just come across 2 articles on the web based around how to hire the best developers and I think they are both well worth reading. They are great articles, especially like me you are going through a ‘team re-adjustment’ period. First up is Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame, this article is […]
And here is another joy of ANT – you can move files by FTP. Its not one of the core tasks in ANT, so you can be forgiven for trying it, and it not working. Go check out the ANT Manual FTP Task page and it tells you the components you require. The Commons is […]
I was wondering how to keep track of how many builds have taken place, putting it together into a overall product version number with the Subversion Revision number. It turns out that ANT actually keeps a record of builds itself using the Buildnumber task, all you have to do is produce a blank build.number file. […]
