Gary Gilbert's Technology Blog

Closure Tools - Free Javascript Tools from Google

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:37:00 +0100

Google recently released a 3 JavaScript tools which they are calling Closure Tools. These tools have helped Google to create software like Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps. The decision for Google to release these tools as open-source could be a boon to many developers. [More]

Coldfusion 9 ListToArray bug

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:32:00 +0100

Quite some time ago CONTENS made the decision to have our products work on both Coldfusion and Railo thereby providing our customers with an option. This does tend to increase our testing times but we feel it is important to give our customers the option. As most, if not all, of you know Coldfusion 9 was recently released. The customers we have that are on Coldfusion 9 naturally want to take advantage of the new features and improvements that have been announced in CF. [More]

Java is dead! Long live Java

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:59:00 +0100

Java 5 has reached it's "end-of-service-life" yesterday. Java 5 entered Suns "hospice" for software on April 8th, 2008, and passed into the oblivion on All Saints Day (somewhat fitting really). [More]

Monitoring Your Cluster

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:18:00 +0100

So you have set up your Railo cluster using Apache and Tomcat as described in the Clustering Railo with Tomcat and Apache article and as far as you know the cluster is performing exactly as expected, or is it? The problem is unless you actually check the tomcat instances you really don't have a clue if one of the Tomcat instances are down. Luckily there is a relatively simple way to set up a monitor to monitor your cluster. [More]

Using ProxyPassMatch

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:28:00 +0100

Building on from the Clustering Railo with Tomcat and Apache article we set up the Railo Tomcat cluster but it was set up to send all requests on to Tomcat. While in a low traffic site sending every single request to Tomcat for processing may not be a big deal, you probably haven't gone through the trouble of setting up a cluster for a low traffic environment therefore, you certainly want to squeeze as much performance out of your available resources. [More]

When free backfires.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:32:00 +0100

I had a good time at SOTR, a couple of us went from work. Got to see Kevin and Andy again along with Serge, Terry, and Darren Pywell, we even had a presentation in German from Sven Ramuschkat on CF and AIR. All in all the presentations were good and informative. [More]

Today is SOTR Munich

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:27:00 +0100

Im sitting here in the reception waiting for SOTR folks to begin arriving. I was the first one here, even before Claud, and naturally before any of the speakers :) [More]

Coldfusion 8 on 9 DVD

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:54:00 +0100

When I first heard that "some" of the shipped ColdFusion 9 DVD's contained in reality ColdFusion 8 I thought it was a joke. Sadly it's not a joke but the truth, someone made a "booboo" when putting the DVD together. Check out Adam Lehmans blog post for further details.

The Importance of Variable Prefixing

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:17:00 +0100

I remember my first official University programming course. We were to learn the language Pascal. Pascal is a socalled "teaching" programming language primarily to teach structured programming. [More]

Coldfusion 9 Released!

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:59:00 +0100

Not one to be left behind in announcing what everyone else is bound to announce. Coldfusion 9 has been released! [More]

Wireless Electricity

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:53:00 +0100

Saw an interesting article today that several companies are developing methods to deliver electricity without the use of a cable. [More]

64Bit Windows Tomcat Service

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:43:00 +0100

If you have a 64Bit windows install you will soon realize that you can't install Tomcat as a service using the Windows Service Installer located on the Tomcat website. [More]

Windows Firewall Blocks While Turned Off

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:33:00 +0100

I wasn't going to blog about this separately but this problem really did cause me a lot of time and frustration while setting up my Railo cluster [More]

Clustering Railo with Tomcat and Apache

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:51:00 +0100

This post is a result of a request from a client of ours to have a Railo cluster. The original idea was to use jBoss but ended up settling on stand-alone Tomcat instead.

We are going to set up a "High-Availability" cluster with load balancing using Apache to perform the proxying, Tomcat as our servlet container and Railo to serve up our CFML. You notice that I placed high availability in quotation marks; this is because while automatic failover will be enabled our sessions won't be replicated to all nodes in the cluster. The reason we won't be replicating the sessions is mainly because of performance reasons. [More]

Where's Gary

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:41:00 +0100

My last post was an update to the tale of the cat we found that had been hit by the car. Well if you read that entry the little bugger survived and will be receiving the required medical treatment to get him up and running again (hopefully not across the street).

So where have I been and what have I been doing? [More]