Optimizing site speed: a case study
One of our clients runs an eCommerce site selling workout videos on behalf of George St.Pierre, the UFC Fighter, called GSPRushfit. The videos sell well,...
Coldfusion Java.lang.ThreadDeath
Of late, we've stared seeing a raft of errors of type "java.lang.theadDeath" on our Coldfusion-based servers. In every case, these errors were generated...
FCKeditor & Firefox 3.6
With the release of Firefox 3.6, those of you who interact with FCKeditor will note that it ceases to work, giving you instead a textarea. This is because...
Using fonts with CFImage
One of the more useful bits of ColdFusion (version 8 and above) is the ability to dynamically write text as an image. As you can imagine, there are nearly...
Better redirection
For sites powered by the Pencilneck CMS, we've for ages and ages had what we called "Friendly URLs". These are common across CMS's, blogs, etc (some...
Installing root Certificates for ColdFusion
This another one of those post-this-here-so-I-don't-have-to-google-forever items. In May of this year, Verisign introduced a new intermediate root...
tips for running ColdFusion on Mac os X (Leopard)
My home computer has been a Mac for some time now, although I still use a PC at work. This means that I've been switching back and forth between dev...