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Any ColdFusion or Linux gurus out there?

If any ColdFusion MX wonks read this, I need help. I have a CFMX 7.0 install on Fedora Core 2 and keep getting errors. I think they’re related to some packet filtering problems, but don’t know how to fix it in FC2. Here’s the summary: I finally got CFMX and Apache connected, properly, but any […]

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One Day More

I’m picking up my new MINI, tomorrow! I spent the weekend at a cousin’s wedding, hence the gap in posts. This week should be better. In other news, I got a new Palm LifeDrive, Friday; it is one cool peice of gadgetry. Given my Palm-dependent lifestyle and the age and memory capacity of my old

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Open Source Software and the Free Software Foundation

I love free and open source software. In fact, I use open source software for database management, blogging, blog reading, web browsing, and doing dozens of other daily tasks. I love Linux, MySQL, PHP, and Firefox, in particular. Ocassionally, I even contribute some code – a script or function, usually – to the world, myself, without any licensing, whatsoever. I have a real problem with the core philosophy of the GNU project and Free Software Foundation, however, that software should not have owners and should always be “free” (in the sense that source code should always be available and users should always have the right to modify and redistribute it).

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JSP is evil.

Java Server Pages are evil, particularly when used for simple websites. I say this because a client has a 7-page site, that was developed in JSP. Why? JSP is the only language the developer knew. Of course, said developer knows nothing about installing/deploying/running JSP webapps. Geez.

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It has been too long…

This is in serious need of an update, but, yes, I am still out here. The primary reason that this is out of date is that I have been far too busy with work… gotta pay bills! I plan to unveil a new version of this blog, soon; the main thing you’ll notice is that

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