Archive: April 2013

11 posts

And another new episode of the 2DDU podcast

by kai on 20/04/2013

Today, Mark and I recorded and published episode number 30 of our 2DDU Podcast with the awesome title "Broken Code, Rayguns, Enterprise Software and an ark". We were joined by a guest: my friend and web entrepreneur John-Daniel Trask. It was a really good and fun recording. We spoke about a whole lot of different things, starting with JD's new project Raygun.io - a cloud-based error logging and…

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Railo Express Tomcat for OS X

by kai on 20/04/2013

And here we go. If you want to play with and try out my unofficial Railo Express Tomcat for OS X, you can get started by just visiting the wiki page for it.

On there, I've provided some (hopefully useful) instructions on what to do after the download - please note that the screenshots show the wrong URL (it's a Railo 3 installation running on port 8888 :-).

The current version of the bundle is based on Tomcat 7.0.39 and Railo 4.0.4.001

Railo Express on Tomcat

by kai on 20/04/2013

The other day, I tried to help someone on the Railo mailing list to get an installation of Railo 4 on OS X going. Their problems were manyfold: They tried the OS X installer first, but ran into an issue with other file types besides CFML not properly being resolved by Tomcat (the OS X installer installs Railo on Tomcat and sets up a connection to Apache in case it's running). The current…

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Hgexportfiles - a really useful Mercurial extension

by kai on 16/04/2013

The other day I found a really useful extension for Mercurial * on Bitbucket: hgexportfiles * For the ones among you who listen to 2DDU Podcast, the podcast Mark Mandel and I are hosting every few weeks, you might know that Mercurial is that apparently totally unknown, irrelevant and rather obscure distributed version control system because everyone else besides me seems to use Git exclusively…

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jQuery Mobile workshops in Germany in October 2013

by kai on 15/04/2013

While I'm going to be in Germany for CFCamp in October, I'll be running three instances of my "Developing mobile web applications with jQuery Mobile" workshop in each Frankfurt (October 8, 2013), Cologne (October 10, 2013) and Hamburg (October 17, 2013). The three trainings are being held in cooperation with Heise Events, the event and training arm of German's Heise Verlag. They're a well known…

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CFCamp 2013 - Back in Germering

by kai on 14/04/2013

The last two CFCamp events in Munich have been such a success so that the team around Michi Hnat is putting it on again. CFCamp 2013 will happen on October 14 and 15 (Monday and Tuesday) in Germering (right next to Munich). I'm blogging about it now, because I want to make people aware of the event - it's great, very well organised and absolutely worthwhile attending even if you're not from…

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Be aware: there's another new security hotfix for Adobe ColdFusion 9 and 10

by kai on 14/04/2013

Late last week, Adobe's CF team has released another security hotfix for Adobe ColdFusion 9 and 10. You can find the security bulleting and the respective technote here: Security bulletin: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-10.html Tech note: http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-security-hotfix-apsb13-10.html Installing it follows the common pattern of recent…

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IntelliJ 12.1 has been released

by kai on 13/04/2013

Recently the Jetbrains team have released IntelliJ 12.1. It's a free upgrade for owners of IntelliJ 12, therefore it was a no-brainer for me to apply the upgrade - and IntelliJ is my default go-to-IDE anyway. Unfortunately there are no noticeable new features or fixes for the CFML plugin that made it into version 12.1. I'm using IntelliJ for other related web development though, and there are a…

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And there is also the 2DDU podcast... episode 29 is available now

by kai on 06/04/2013

Today, Mark and I recorded episode 29 of the 2DDU podcast. Yeah, I know - we haven't done anything for the last nearly 4 months and I absolute acknowledge that. Anyway, we're back. Today's episode covers a whole list of stuff: Conferences we attended this year (Mark: RubyConf AU, Kai: Webstock) Conferences either of us or both of us plan to attend. Quite a long list: PyCon AU…

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Railo and ColdFusion on Java 7: don't forget the crypto extensions

by kai on 02/04/2013

So - more on the whole Java 7 thing again. The other day I got an "Illegal key size or default parameters" error on one of my dev VMs. I was using the VM for quite a while and from what I could see the codebase had not changed significantly. Weird. All of a sudden I realised that I recently upgraded the CF instance on the dev VM to Java 7. Doh! As the code is using strong encryption, I used to…

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