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This site is a test bed for everything I learn and is mostly for my own benefit. As such it may be down from time to time and is subject to frequent changes.
My passions include Slackware Linux, Coldfusion, Railo, JQuery, MS SQL Server and MySQL. You will often see me deep into the latest publication of a web design magazine or a man printout.
Recent Blog Entries
Slackware 13.37 Post Install Configuration
Once you are finished installing slackware there are a few tasks you should perform to secure it and fix some minor problems. ...more
Advanced ColdFusion Session Management
Did you know you can get a count of how many sessions exist on your ColdFusion server or for a particular application. In addition you can even manipulate sessions other than your own. Here's how... ...more
Install Flash Plugin In Firefox On Slackware
One thing you might want to do when configuring slackware is to install the flash plugin in Firefox. Fortunately this is very simple. ...more
How To Fix LILO
This weekend I was playing around with different configurations for installing Linux and Windows. Somewhere along the line I managed to break lilo. Here are the steps I followed to fix it. ...more
Getting The Ordinal Suffix Of A Number Using ColdFusion
After recently coming across a solution of getting the ordinal suffix of a number in the wild that was shall we say less than optimal I decided that maybe it was worth sharing my solution for new developers. ...more
How To Create And Install A Self Signed SSL Cert With IIS7
If you are a web developer then eventually you will want to create and install a self signed ssl cert for testing purposes, here I'll show you how using the IIS7 GUI. ...more
Fix InvalidTag When Saving Code Through A Coldfusion CMS
This week I encountered an annoying bug in my blog editor that had me ready to tear my hair out. ...more
Government
A somewhat dry but thought provoking animated video about what exactly is government. ...more
(Re)Installing Java on Slackware Linux
As standard Slackware only comes with the basic JRE installed and not the JDK. In addition the JRE is several versions behind. So to update to the current version we need to do a little work. ...more
Site Redesign Live
This week I published my new site design. While it wont win any awards I think its an improvement. ...more
Exponential Growth
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- "@cfaddict: This is the sad part of cfObjective... closing remarks, see you all again next year :(" +1
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