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Steven Neiland

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

 

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