http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/ Lamoree Software Blog en-us Fri, 18 May 2012 15:07:04 -0700 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:56:00 -0700 MachBlog http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss admin@lamoree.com admin@lamoree.com http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=1C35D18C%2D4E18%2D4D78%2D82C489E4511C6F82 After a Windows Update to a Windows Server 2008 64-bit R2 machine a couple months ago, a few services stopped working properly. Specifically, the JRun service launcher (%JRUN_HOME%\bin\jrunsvc.exe) and the version of Apache Solr packaged with ColdF... ColdFusion Windows Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:56:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=1C35D18C%2D4E18%2D4D78%2D82C489E4511C6F82 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=C145967B%2D40E9%2D4457%2DA3293C315AB0BC4F I'm presenting today at OpenCF Summit on automating CFML application build, test, and deploy. I'm actively working on my slides for two upcoming presentations. I've created a Github repository for the slides and the sample application: Automat... CFML Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:25:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=C145967B%2D40E9%2D4457%2DA3293C315AB0BC4F http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=281A98E2%2D92EA%2D441A%2D8C8CE169404A2E1C My iMac is in the shop. Again. This time it's getting a replacement hard disk. It's been almost 6 days since I dropped it off. I got tired of refreshing the Apple Repair Status page, so I wrote a script to do it: RDU=https://selfsolve.apple.com/... Apple Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:47:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=281A98E2%2D92EA%2D441A%2D8C8CE169404A2E1C http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=4B35EB4A%2DABA6%2D4EFA%2DBBBEC13BA5512DCE I recently had a reason to create a visual effect in which a bit of text pulsed with a bright color once. I wanted to use CSS3 animation to be kind to the CPU and provide a smooth transition from the text's normal color to the highlight color. I co... JavaScript Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:12:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=4B35EB4A%2DABA6%2D4EFA%2DBBBEC13BA5512DCE http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=91CB9BF4%2D7AD4%2D4FBA%2DA16855EF669D81B6 I'm often asked which password manager I use. Almost a decade ago, I actually wrote a web application that stored passwords in a blowfish encrypted file. It worked well, but it required internet connectivity and had a tiny feature set. I switched t... Security Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:30:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=91CB9BF4%2D7AD4%2D4FBA%2DA16855EF669D81B6 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=242BE33A%2DEAA4%2D4C20%2D841CC812EDA8CEA1 The jQuery Data feature is pretty awesome. However, there's a gotcha that has, um, gotten me several times when stuffing an HTML5 data attribute with a list of integers that I expect to parse as an array in my JavaScript. For example, consider the... JavaScript jQuery Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:24:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=242BE33A%2DEAA4%2D4C20%2D841CC812EDA8CEA1 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=E6E9D3B0%2D33D0%2D48C4%2DB27F219579F41A66 The lack of a ternary operation often makes for extra verbosity in CFML. When I'm pining for this feature, it's often when doing something like this: <cfif structKeyExists(names, "name")> <cfset doSomethingInteresting(nam... CFML Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:09:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=E6E9D3B0%2D33D0%2D48C4%2DB27F219579F41A66 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=1DD14B3A%2D12A6%2D4F4C%2D96C54FE3C5950BAE A few days ago, David Flinner posted a comment via Google+ about a blog post I made recently. I saw the ugly URL back to my blog and clicked on it for no particular reason. My instance of MachBlog threw an exception because the URL contained a UUID... Apache MachBlog Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:36:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=1DD14B3A%2D12A6%2D4F4C%2D96C54FE3C5950BAE http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=664DAD55%2D7F63%2D4A0B%2DA500704F0547F6EF Here's a mini, nay micro, tip on Java regex goodness. I often build up URLs from bits and pieces of strings where there is not a strict convention for whether a leading/trailing slash should exist before/after a directory. The easiest way to deal ... CFML Java Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:57:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=664DAD55%2D7F63%2D4A0B%2DA500704F0547F6EF http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=40365293%2DAE81%2D42ED%2DBB0A5668639CF811 This post will probably be useful to about four people in the world. But I'll throw it up here for their benefit. I installed a copy of Firefox 6.0.1 to do some work on HTML5 forms. So that it wouldn't discombobulate my existing Firefox 3.6.21... Firefox Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:17:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=40365293%2DAE81%2D42ED%2DBB0A5668639CF811 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=9F2D5F47%2DBE80%2D4EF8%2DB5DC4F79B1A22642 Anybody who has used tags like CFLDAP and CFHTTP much knows that the timeout attribute is frustratingly ineffectual. If the target server is down or otherwise slow to respond, it can hold up the CFML engine response. Charlie Arehart has a great pos... CFML Java Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:26:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=9F2D5F47%2DBE80%2D4EF8%2DB5DC4F79B1A22642 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=44C224D5%2DF06C%2D485C%2DA28AEBA0EA6BCE17 I encountered an issue launching Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 from Multi-Browser Viewer. Specifically, C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Multi-Browser Viewer\MBV_IE7.exe displayed an error message in a Spoon Studio: The app has ... Windows Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:28:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=44C224D5%2DF06C%2D485C%2DA28AEBA0EA6BCE17 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B8070912%2D8A81%2D4AB5%2D874F9E04B68028C4 I only today stopped to think about the content type members of the structure returned from a CFFILE[@action="upload"] tag. ColdFusion splits the value into two elements, contentType and contentSubType. Consider the following: <cffile actio... ColdFusion Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:09:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=B8070912%2D8A81%2D4AB5%2D874F9E04B68028C4 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=99D4D0B8%2D4449%2D459C%2D947CAA17E079D546 What is a zipx file you ask? It's an archive created with WinZip 12.1, or later, that takes advantage of modern compression methods. The so-called legacy zip archive has been around for very long time, and since then advances have been made that pr... Interoperability Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:57:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=99D4D0B8%2D4449%2D459C%2D947CAA17E079D546 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=622FE913%2D5190%2D4B1C%2DB23B043DDA7159B2 A little bit ago, I added VarScoper to my ANT build script. That was something I had wanted to do for a long time, and it was silly easy. I also wanted to add QueryParam Scanner, but it was a bit trickier. Today I spent some time with it and whipp... CFML Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:51:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=622FE913%2D5190%2D4B1C%2DB23B043DDA7159B2 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=06728B8A%2D7B91%2D4E48%2DACD23F8231C97FB7 Consider that I have a service, say ProjectService, that is my component under test (CUT). It has a method called getProjectsByUser(), which expects an instance of model.user.User to be provided as the argument. The User is a ColdFusion ORM entity ... ColdFusion Wed, 04 May 2011 14:38:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=06728B8A%2D7B91%2D4E48%2DACD23F8231C97FB7 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6C5CF24E%2DE140%2D4DD1%2DA9E881FD1D3E03B3 When using the MockBox ColdFusion Mocking Framework to generate mock objects dynamically, it requires that the ColdFusion server have write access to a filesystem location to save the CFC files. By default, this path is /[mockbox|coldbox]/system/test... ColdFusion Wed, 04 May 2011 14:30:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=6C5CF24E%2DE140%2D4DD1%2DA9E881FD1D3E03B3 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=0A9AD97D%2D7E94%2D4697%2D84C5CD45D0CE5CF0 I'm running an instance of ColdFusion in a container that doesn't provide the original request hostname in the CGI.SERVER_NAME variable. That's a problem because I'm also using the Mach-II EnvironmentProperty, which rocks pretty hard, to match envi... ColdFusion Mach-II Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:45:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=0A9AD97D%2D7E94%2D4697%2D84C5CD45D0CE5CF0 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=49B1EA02%2D4EBD%2D49F3%2D9AB2B5432E4E1F28 First, some background. I am configuring a machine with Windows “Server” 2008 R2 running IIS 7 to be the host of a CFML application, written in ColdBox and making use of RESTful URL patterns. The application serves an API to gain access... ColdFusion Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:28:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=49B1EA02%2D4EBD%2D49F3%2D9AB2B5432E4E1F28 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=47B6D348%2D7DC2%2D44AA%2D97315F0E8F38EFE9 I wanted a largish prime number with which I could test a hash table that uses the modulo of the prime to select a bucket. Anyway, there's a handy command line option in OpenSSL to determine which inputs are prime. So, say I wanted a prime of somet... Shell Programming Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:22:00 -0700 http://www.lamoree.com/machblog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=47B6D348%2D7DC2%2D44AA%2D97315F0E8F38EFE9