Monthly Archives: August 2007

August 22, 2007
hostmysite not quite as stable as I’d like

I know most rave about how good hostmysite are. They do have great support and competitive plans, but even for a shared plan (CF+) I have had the same issues for a few months now.
My issue is simple, they seem to restart JRun on average 5-6 times per day. PER DAY!
Hmm, is this not a [...]

August 16, 2007
“localURL” attribute added to cfdocument in ColdFusion 8

I was debugging a legacy app today which I’d just migrated to a new server running ColdFusion 8. A part of this application generates a PDF using <cfdocument>. As usual it was working fine on my development and staging environments…but not on production! Damn.
After a bit of fiddling I found a related post by Rupesh [...]

August 14, 2007
My Aptana IDE is busted

Hmm, running with my past history of having that ’special’ touch with computers…my version of Aptana (Aptana IDE (build 0.2.8.15637)) has busted.
Kaput.
Not happy Jan.
I was running an Aptana update yesterday when the network went down. Everything seemed fine until I went to restart Apatana and got the following:

Damn
Damn
Damn
No fix as yet and roughly [...]

August 13, 2007
Storing Flash, ColdFusion and SQL in subversion

Most developers who use Source Code Management are familiar with the fact that while you can have any directory you want in your ‘repositories’, it is recommended that you use the following directories as a base layout:

branches
tags
trunk

The trunk directory will hold the “main line” of development, a branches directory will have “branch-ing” development (perhaps a [...]

August 12, 2007
Facebook homepage source code found!

Hmm, seems a problem with the .htaccess file made the source for Facebooks homepage available.
Nik Cubrilovic offers an explanation from a technical standpoint:
PHP has always been notorious for sometimes not processing requests poorly and sending back the source code for pages to the client. Because of the way mod_php works with apache, if mod_php fails [...]