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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
Posting to twitter from ColdFusion with Twitter4j v3.0.x
Published: Mar 11, 2014
Since writing my original article on integrating with twitter using the twitter4j library, twitter have updated their api and the twitter4j library was subsequently updated accordingly. Here is the new code for using twitter4j version 3.0.x. ...more
Manually Create A ColdSpring Remote Proxy With FW/1
Published: Feb 18, 2014
While ColdSpring has the ability to create proxies using the RemoteFactoryBean I personally don't like how it does this so I set about manually creating proxies for my service layer. ...more
Transfer files to and from linux using secure copy (scp)
Published: Feb 11, 2014
Based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, Secure Copy (SCP) is a method for transferring files securely between two computers. You can transfer between a local host and a remote host, or between two remote hosts. ...more
Why knot
Published: Feb 8, 2014
Although I have strayed into political/economic discussions from time to time, up until now I have primarily blogged about technical subjects here. From now on I plan to also blog about my other favorite pastime sailing. ...more
Install KeePass on Slackware 14
Published: Feb 4, 2014
Since the latest version of KeePass does not come with a linux installer we need to run some slackbuilds in order to get it working on slackware with mono. ...more
Hyperlink name attribute removed from html5
Published: Jan 28, 2014
While I was refreshing my mind on how to use a hyperlink to bookmark a particular location on a webpage I discovered that the name attribute on the a tag is no longer supported in html5. ...more
JavaScript isNumeric()
Published: Jan 21, 2014
Here is a handy javascript function for testing if a value is really a number courtesy of Kris Korsmo. ...more
ColdFusion 10 supports colon separator in implicit struct definition
Published: Jan 14, 2014
I didn't know this but ColdFusion 10 supports using colons as separators in implicit struct creation ...more
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