Monthly Archives: December 2008
- December 13, 2008
- Development configuration tips for Ubuntu
I just setup my machine at home with Ubuntu 8.10 (desktop) which was so easy think I saved hours off the time it would normally take with Windows. So much is already installed and ready to go and with apt (or the Synaptic package manager) it’s super quick to download and install extra things things [...]
- December 4, 2008
- How to do a case-sensitive test of your codebase
Cross platform development and/or hosting makes for interesting times. Making sure that your entire codebase and configuration are compatible and work in different operating environments is obviously paramount to a successful project, particularly if you are “releasing” a product to the public either open source or commercially.
At Lynch Consulting all of our production servers are [...]
- December 3, 2008
- Querying multiple databases within one cfquery
In discussing a possible caching solution at work a suggestion was made to use a secondary database (on the same server) to store some key application data. It’s not really important to describe why we wanted to do this, suffice to say that my concern was if and when the application would need to perform [...]