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A file synchronization that works.

Mon, 03 May 2010 09:52:01 GMT

For a while I was searching a tool to get some versioning of my documents I used outside of my svn projects. I tried differents tools on the market like Timeline of Genie-Soft or Oops!Backup of Altaro. Finally I purchased the software Allway Sync.

Why I choose Allway Sync versus all the others. The cost of 19.99USD is a one-time fee, not a recurring charge. Lifetime upgrades, patches and premium technical support are included. The next licenses are at 9.99USD. Also the simplicity to set the backup everywhere likes a network, Amazon S3, for me I connect it to my NAS without any problem. And the possibility to have multiple scheduling synchronization for different folders. Because Allway Sync works per folder for monitoring the changes you will end up with multiple jobs. Like that I have a task for my Data who is monitored every 5 mins and my Pictures who are monitored daily. Another nice feature it's you can also synchronized bi-directionally with Allway Sync if you have a laptop and desktop both will have the same files everywhere. It also propagates the deletion of file if you want.

You can download it here as freeware if you synchronize less than 40 000 files a month for me; I’m at 62 K files per month processed it’s why I need the license.

A new Vaio in our family

Sat, 01 May 2010 11:48:53 GMT

One of the laptop we have at home been a SONY VGN-S1VP and is time was due. Windows XP was starting to be unresponsive completely even after few formats. The solution to keep it alive was Ubuntu and it works until my wife needed more than the Internet. Finally yesterday we head to Tottenham Court Road and we bought her a SONY VGN NW20SF. Big changes for her she decided to switch to a 15.5 screen instead of her old 13.4 also when we were looking at the others models who decide to put a numpad on the laptop and having the keyboard offset from the screen??? It’s one of the reasons we choose this model instead of the new serie of SONY the VPC. Also it’s a SONY; I have a SONY for myself and never had problem with it in the last 3 years. We believe SONY got one of the best screen resolutions on the market. You can read more about the spec of our new toys here. For us we are now happy with it. Also for myself was the first time I was playing with Windows 7 64 Bit, I can say it's the samething of Vista for the look in feel.

Personal Note : How to update java on centos 5.2

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:43:56 GMT

This post is a reminder to myself on how to update the java version on my VPS a linux Centos hosted at Viviotech.

With a normal browser

1. Find the last version of java from the website java.sun.

2. Copy the link of the version without the rpm something like that

http://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site/en_US/-/USD/VerifyItem-Start/jdk-6u20-linux-i586.bin?BundledLineItemUUID=s7dIBe.ogRAAAAEo4NxbMEqR&OrderID=6F9IBe.ojMoAAAEo0dxbMEqR&ProductID=guBIBe.oc_wAAAEnaDJHqPYe&FileName=/jdk-6u20-linux-i586.bin

On the VPS

-bash-3.2# cd /opt/soft/

Go to where you wants to download the file.

-bash-3.2# wget with the link

-bash-3.2# mv *.bin jdk-6u20-linux-i586.bin that will rename the long file to something more normal.

-bash-3.2# chmod +x jdk-6u20-linux-i586.bin that will make the file executable.

-bash-3.2# ./jdk-6u20-linux-i586.bin execute the installation.

You will need to press "enter" a couple of time to acknowledge the licence and press "Y" at the end.

6. Now we have a new folder jdk1.6.0_20

-bash-3.2# rm jdk-6u20-linux-i586.bin

that remove the installation files.

Now we have to update the old link in 2 places for my setup.

-bash-3.2# vi /etc/profile.d/java.sh

Modify the path of JAVA_HOME to new version

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/soft/jdk1.6.0_20/

-bash-3.2# vi /etc/init.d/resin

Modify the path of JAVA_HOME

JAVA_HOME=/your/java/path for me it's /opt/soft/jdk1.6.0_20

Voilà.

Moving from BT to Be There

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:39:00 GMT

After 16 month with BT, I finally decide to change internet provider. I switch to Be There and so far I’m really happy with my decision.First of all it’s cheaper and I have a better service. I took overall 12 days to the switch occur. And on the day of the switch I lost around 45 minutes of Internet.

Here 2 speed test one with BT and one with Be There

both use the same modem a Draytek Vigor 2020n for the test. The configuration for both providers are simple to input to the modem and the advantage you get compare versus the modem provide by the provider is amazing. For the configuration for Be There look here my only change it's the modulation because I'm on the package Be Unlimited (you don't have access to Annex M) and not Pro you should have the modulation to ADSL2+(G.992.5) instead

How to start Railo from a CD with a H2 Database

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:49:05 GMT

Following my last post, here the version with a H2 database.

Here the steps

1- Extract this version of Railo into a folder ex c:\railo_cd

2- Start Railo via the batch c:\railo_cd\start.bat

3- Update Railo via http://localhost:8080/railo-context/admin/
Services -> Update -> Execute Update

4- Go to the web Administrator
Remove the debugging setting
Create a new datasource
Services -> Datasource
Important the type should be H2 Database Engine
Click Create
Database -> Enter the name you wants for it
Username -> sa
Password -> leave it blank
Path -> \railo_cd\database\
Now you have created a H2 database for your application.

5- You have by default with Railo a web interface to manage your H2 database Just click on this file c:\railo_cd\ext-lib\h2.jar
That will open a new browser here http://localhost:8082/login.jsp
The jdbc url ->
jdbc:h2:c:\railo_cd\database\NameOfYourDatabase;hsqldb.default_table_type=cached
Login -> sa
Password -> leave it blank

6- Bring your application to a folder under the webroot folder for example c:\railo_cd\webroot\myApplication

7- Test your application if everything goes properly proceed with the next steps

8- Redo the steps 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the previous post

If you want to be sure nobody write something in your database you can put your database readonly via this command call readonly() in web interface

How to start Railo from a CD

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:18:03 GMT

Ever wanted to give a website to somebody on a CD-ROM. Not just some plain HTML but with some server side like in your server or localhost machine. Railo offer us this opportunities what you need to do it’s to download this version of Railo from this blog post where Gert explain how to do it for a usb stick.
Unzip the version you have in a folder ex: c:\Railo_CD
You need to do the entire configuration before you burn everything because you cannot rewrite as you want on a CD like a USB sticks.

1- Launch railo via the c:\Railo_CD\start.bat wait until you see something like that
====================
WEB CONTEXT
--------------------

2- Upgrading Railo to the last version
The version you download it’s .015 you can go on the server admin via your browser
http://localhost:8080/railo-context/admin/
Services -> Update -> Execute Update

3- Bring all your website content into a new folder under the webroot for example
c:\Railo_CD\webroot\myNewApplication

4- Test your application in your browser if everything works
http://localhost:8080/myNewApplication
You should think to remove the debugging in the server and also in webcontext because I’m sure your client doesn’t need it.

5- If everything works now it’s time to start to modify some files to make, if not try to figure out what doesn’t work and fix it.

6- We don’t need to have the jvm.log and the access.log we need to remove them for that we go to this file c:\Railo_CD\conf\resin.conf
Comments these 2 lines
Line 35

Line 268 .. 270
<br />format='%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"'<br />rollover-period="1W"/&gt;

7- We need to move somewhere the logs files of Railo for that we edit this file c:\Railo_CD\webroot\WEB-INF\railo\railo-web.xml.cfm Everywhere where you see a mention for logs you put instead {temp-directory}\ in front like that everything will be written to the RAM of the computer.
Line 45

become

Line 74

become

Line 76

become

Line 90

become

Line 154

become

7- Burn the folder on a CD and you can start Railo via the CD

8-Voila

I know you will ask no database I will write another post for that. I was able to manage to run Railo with an H2 database via CD only in reading mode for sure.

Railo jQuery JSON

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:22:28 GMT

Just a quick note, for the people who use jQuery and Railo. With the version 3.1.0.017 and higher of Railo and jQuery 1.3.2 you can now use returnformat=json like in CF8. No need any more for you to use serializeJson at the end of cffunction to have JSON format.

Here an example from John Wish Blog with CF8

Your CFC

Your HTML/CFML pages

My first Scotch on the Rock

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:06:44 GMT

On the 1^st June 2009, I attend finally my first “big” conference of Coldfusion (CFML). What I can say it’s was a good day. The organization of SOTR makes everything possible for us developer to have a nice day.

I attend at the presentation of Mark Drew about the difference between the different frameworks in CF. Mark replace Sean Corfield on the fly for this presentation and he delivers the jobs for it. Now it’s to me look more into it Coldbox or Model-Glue.

The next presentation was the one of Mike Jones about Flex. What I can say the presentation was good but for developer knowing already a lot about Flex. The description and the title of the presentation were suggesting a different topic.

After the lunch I attend at the presentation of Gert Franz about Railo since the time I use Railo it was the first time I was listening a sale pitch from the evangelist of Railo. I knew around 95% of the content already for it, but always interesting to have a refresh about it.

Another good presentation follows after the one of David Stockton about Fusion Analytics and Fusion Reactor. People were more interested about Fusion Reactor than Fusion Analytics. Maybe Integral should have tried to make 2 presentations instead of combining both. In any case I will look into it.

The last presentation of the day was the one of Terry Ryan about the new IDE of Adobe: Bolt. Since Terry wasn’t having the rights to tell us a lot about it, he show us how to create extension for it. That will be a powerful tool, in one example he showed us how to bring all the projects of RIAFORGE into Bolt, no need of unzipping everything anymore!

Overall it’s been a great day meat some great people and hopes to see them next year.

Railo 3.1.0.012 Mango 1.3.1 Add-ons function

Sun, 10 May 2009 16:26:10 GMT

To use the Add-ons function of Mango 1.3.1 with Railo 3.1.0.012. You need to modify the files updater.cfc

The file is located YourBlog/components/updater.cfc

In the function downloadPlugin you need to change around the line 214

Original Line

<cffile action="rename" source="#local.pluginDir#" destination="#userPluginsDir##local.plugin#" />

New line

<cfdirectory action="rename" newdirectory="#userPluginsDir##local.plugin#" directory="#local.pluginDir#">

I tested over Windows Vista 32 bits and Linux Centos 5.2
I already submited as a "bug" to mango forum but I wanted more people aware of it.

Railo 3.1.0.012 Apache 2.2 Vista 32 bits CF8

Sun, 10 May 2009 16:04:15 GMT

To install Railo 3.1.0.012 on Vista beside a version of CF8 already running with Apache 2.2 it's not so complicated.

I will suggest to install it like that instead of using the Express version because in the Express version the SES doesn't work and you have also to tweak somes files to point it to the right directory.

You need to follow this good tutorial.

For myself I had make one modification to get everything running properly

It's in the file resin.conf

<host id="railo" root-directory="f:/"> <web-app id="/" root-directory="www"/> </host>

Mango Basic Pod Plugin Quick Note

Mon, 04 May 2009 17:19:43 GMT

Just a quick note for the user of the Basic Pod Plugin.

You can add in your pod some JavaScript, Object, Embed who allow you to put some video of YouTube or anything else you wants.

The trick it's to go in your admin of CF or Railo and to change the script protection.

For Railo you find it's under Settings -> Application -> Script-protect should be to none

For CF8 it's under Server Settings -> Settings -> uncheck Enable Global Script Protection

Mango New Plugin Basic Pod

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:22:10 GMT

When first I tried the side note plugin from Mark Aplet was a nice plugin and works properly.

Afterward I needed to have one at the top and one at the bottom of my page; also I wanted to have a title for each.

I realize by duplicating the plugin and incrementing it, it was working properly but it wasn't automated in the first version

Everything was done manually.

Now I create Basic Pod version 0.1 who allows you from the main plugin to duplicate it.

Only the main Basic Pod has the ability to create others Basic Pod.

You have the possibilitie to add a title for each.

Download Basic Pod here

Installation

unzip the plugin into your folder components/plugins/user/

Modification sideNote Plugin to basic Pod Plugin

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:10:03 GMT

Mark Aplet from www.visual28.com creates a nice plugin for Mango to allow you to add a side note.

I wanted to have the possibilities to add a title for it and more than one.

To have more than one for the moment I create another plugin but in the future I would like to find a way to create it automatically inside the main plugin.

Download basic Pod here

Download basic Pod 1 here

Installation

unzip the plugin into your folder components/plugins/user/

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Update: New Release of the Basic Pod can be found here with explanation

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Installing Railo 3.1.0.012 on Linux Cent OS 5.2

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:02:46 GMT

How to install Railo:

Why another blog entry on the subject: because I was needed to read 5 different blogs to get it work properly.

Thanks to Railo Blog, Gary Gilbert, Chris aka hockeypFeF, Mike Benner and Mark Mcaulay for posting their own experiences how to install it.

To start you will need these tools

-bash-3.2# yum install make nano httpd-devel openssl-devel lynx

First of all we will need to get the latest jdk from Sun and install it

-bash-3.2# cd opt
-bash-3.2# mkdir soft
-bash-3.2# cd soft
-bash-3.2# curl -L -O
'http://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site/en_US/-/USD/VerifyItem-Start/jdk-6u13-linux-i586.bin?BundledLineItemUUID=BXlIBe.p1iMAAAEgGLURNnCV&OrderID=r6lIBe.pMTMAAAEgCLURNnCV&ProductID=RGtIBe.ou1AAAAEfpVYcydOO&FileName=/jdk-6u13-linux-i586.bin'
-bash-3.2# chmod +x jdk-6u13-linux-i586.bin
-bash-3.2# ./jdk-6u13-linux-i586.bin

You will need to press "enter" a couple of time to acknowledge the liscence and press "Y" at the end.

When it's done we need to add Java to our path

-bash-3.2#  nano /etc/profile.d/java.sh

In this file add these 2 lines:

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/soft/jdk1.6.0_13/
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

Save your file and make it executable like that:

-bash-3.2# chmod +x /etc/profile.d/java.sh

Now you have to log off of SSH and comeback in

You will be able to test if java is properly install with this command line

java -version

If Java is properly install you will have the java version intall

Now we need to download Railo

-bash-3.2# cd opt


-bash-3.2# wget http://www.getrailo.org/down.cfm?item=/railo/remote/download/3.1.0.012/server/all/railo-3.1.0.012-resin-3.1.2-without-jre.tar.gz

We extract Railo with this command line

-bash-3.2# tar xzf railo-3.1.0.012-resin-3.1.2-without-jre.tar.gz

Making a relative path to the folder extract to simplify the writing

-bash-3.2# ln -s railo-3.1.0.012-resin-3.1.2-without-jre railo

Now the interesting part the compiling of the module Caucho

-bash-3.2# cd railo


-bash-3.2# ./configure --with-java-home=/opt/soft/jdk1.6.0_13/ --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs


-bash-3.2# make 


-bash-3.2# make install

if everything is fine no errors occurs during the last 3 steps

You can look into your httpd.conf file these new lines will be at the end of your file

-bash-3.2# nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

#
# mod_caucho Resin Configuration
#

LoadModule caucho_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_caucho.so

ResinConfigServer localhost 6800
CauchoConfigCacheDirectory /tmp
CauchoStatus yes

Now we need a script to railo start automatically at the startup

-bash-3.2# nano /etc/init.d/resin

##############################################
#!/bin/sh
#
# Linux startup script for Resin
# chkconfig: 345 85 15
# description: Resin is a Java Web server.
# processname: wrapper.pl
#
#
JAVA_HOME=/your/java/path for me it's /opt/soft/jdk1.6.0_13
RESIN_HOME=/your/resin path for me it's /opt/railo

export JAVA_HOME RESIN_HOME

JAVA=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
#
# If you want to start the entire Resin process as a different user,
# set this to the user name. If you need to bind to a protected port,
# e.g. port 80, you can't use USER, but will need to use bin/resin.
#
USER=
#
# Set to the server id to start
#
#SERVER="-server app-a"
#
ARGS="-resin-home $RESIN_HOME $SERVER"

if test -r /lib/lsb/init-functions; then
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
else

log_daemon_msg () {
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
return 1
fi

if [ -z "$2" ]; then
echo -n "$1:"
return
fi

echo -n "$1: $2"
}

log_end_msg () {
[ -z "$1" ] && return 1

if [ $1 -eq 0 ]; then
echo " ."
else
echo " failed!"
fi

return $1
}

fi

case "$1" in
start)
logger "Starting resin"
if test -n "$USER"; then
su $USER -c "$JAVA -jar $RESIN_HOME/lib/resin.jar $ARGS start" 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
else
$JAVA -jar $RESIN_HOME/lib/resin.jar $ARGS start 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
fi
logger $?
;;
stop)
logger "Stopping resin"
if test -n "$USER"; then
su $USER -c "$JAVA -jar $RESIN_HOME/lib/resin.jar $ARGS stop" 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
else
$JAVA -jar $RESIN_HOME/lib/resin.jar $ARGS stop 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
fi
logger $?
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0

Save the your file and we need to made it executable and bootable at the startup

We do that with these 3 lines

chmod +x /etc/init.d/resin
chkconfig --add resin
chkconfig resin on

You can configure your differents website in the resin.conf

-bash-3.2# nano /opt/railo/conf/resin.conf

<host id="www.mysite-two.com">
<host-alias>mysite-two.com</host-alias>
<root-directory>/path/to/web/files</root-directory>
<web-app id="/">
<document-directory></document-directory>
 </web-app>
</host>

you will find the server admin of railo here

http://you.ip/railo-context/admin.cfm

and the webserver admin for each domain you add in your resin.conf here

http://host/railo-context/admin.cfm

Cleanup

You can now delete the 2 files you download the jdk-6u13-linux-i586.bin and the railo-3.1.0.012-resin-3.1.2-without-jre.tar.gz

also in the directory /opt/railo you can delete that

-bash-3.2# rm -rf httpd.exe install-service.bat remove-service.bat setup.exe win32