With the pending shut-down of Posterous on April 30 and with work at my full-time gig reaching a feverish pitch, I am restarting my Blogger this coming month.
Catch Up
Since I last blogged (hard to believe it's been 10 months!), I left the ColdFusion world for the greener-to-me pastures of Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I moved into my first full-time Ruby/Rails position last October and have not looked back since.
It's been a great ride thus far and I've been learning a ton again, which I absolutely love.
Going Forward
I will be doing my best to start documenting lots of little gems and tricks I've been picking up in the Ruby and Rails worlds. I'll also be working on a series of posts for getting started in Ruby and Rails from the perspective of a seasoned web developer making the change to Ruby and RoR.
Other, Non-Ruby Stuff
One of the things I really enjoy about my work is getting to set up, test, and tweak development environments for specific tasks, etc. As such, I have been doing a good bit with Vagrant lately and have also recently started studying Chef. I plan to document and write up posts on those topics and more as well (i.e., it won't be all Ruby and RoR!).
Friday, April 19, 2013
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Problem with (and Resolution for) Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.2 (Mac, 64-bit) Web Server Connector
The Problem:
The 64-bit Mac version of Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.2's (ACF9) web server connector for Apache does not work correctly; killing the mod_jrun.so module and ACF-Apache connections.
If you do not run ACF 9 connected to Apache, skip this post and keep living low on port 8500 … I prefer to live large on port 80 ;).
The Disclaimer:
This problem was seen by two other devs at my work and the solution presented worked for all three of us. Despite the many declarations around the Interwebs about ColdFusion's demise, there are a lot of CFML developers out there and, admittedly, three is not exactly a valid sample.
That said, I thought it would be good to note the problems we had and the resolution.
The Background:
Last weekend I set about updating my installation of Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.1 (with all current hot fixes applied) to 9.0.2 so that I could run our code base at work against the newest version.
What's different about 9.0.2 is that it's Adobe's first time releasing an actual installer for a series of updates (versus the previous approach of install and apply hot fixes with much pain, swearing and spousal beatings).
I was initially pretty excited to have an actual installer for the 9.0.2 update, however, that excitement did not last long.
The 64-bit Mac version of Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.2's (ACF9) web server connector for Apache does not work correctly; killing the mod_jrun.so module and ACF-Apache connections.
If you do not run ACF 9 connected to Apache, skip this post and keep living low on port 8500 … I prefer to live large on port 80 ;).
The Disclaimer:
This problem was seen by two other devs at my work and the solution presented worked for all three of us. Despite the many declarations around the Interwebs about ColdFusion's demise, there are a lot of CFML developers out there and, admittedly, three is not exactly a valid sample.
That said, I thought it would be good to note the problems we had and the resolution.
The Background:
Last weekend I set about updating my installation of Adobe ColdFusion 9.0.1 (with all current hot fixes applied) to 9.0.2 so that I could run our code base at work against the newest version.
What's different about 9.0.2 is that it's Adobe's first time releasing an actual installer for a series of updates (versus the previous approach of install and apply hot fixes with much pain, swearing and spousal beatings).
I was initially pretty excited to have an actual installer for the 9.0.2 update, however, that excitement did not last long.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Gett Yourr Sh$tt Togetherr with Taskk - Task Management Done Right
Try As I Might
For years (and I mean that, literally), I have tried more task management applications than I can shake a stick at. Hell, I actually have one that I built myself after starting an Active Admin (Rails) tutorial (more crap to-do). All of them, my own included, did not work for me. For the longest time, I could not figure out why they did not work for me. The long and short of it was that I would spend time creating my lists and then never do anything with them from there ... after the first week or so of using whatever particular software I was on at that time.
Enter Taskk
Recently, I had the opportunity to try Taskk.it (@taskk_it), which is currently in an invite-only beta (I have some invites, so ping me if you are interested in trying it out). Although it's in an early beta state, Taskk is, hands down, the best task management application I've used.
For years (and I mean that, literally), I have tried more task management applications than I can shake a stick at. Hell, I actually have one that I built myself after starting an Active Admin (Rails) tutorial (more crap to-do). All of them, my own included, did not work for me. For the longest time, I could not figure out why they did not work for me. The long and short of it was that I would spend time creating my lists and then never do anything with them from there ... after the first week or so of using whatever particular software I was on at that time.
Enter Taskk
Recently, I had the opportunity to try Taskk.it (@taskk_it), which is currently in an invite-only beta (I have some invites, so ping me if you are interested in trying it out). Although it's in an early beta state, Taskk is, hands down, the best task management application I've used.
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