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Mac

I do most of my web development with Eclipse and I really don’t like adding the “project” files into my subversion repository. Since the files are always the same name I was going to add them to the Global Ignore configuration sheet. It took some hunting around my system to […]

Subversion Global Ignores

December 18, 2011 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

I’ve been running most of my web applications on linux servers, and since all of my servers are run by hosting companies I haven’t had the ability to have a nice gui “remote desktop” feature. With that in mind all my file editing or “hotfixes’ to an applications code has […]

vi Editor

December 12, 2011 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

For the Mac users who recently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, maybe you noticed recently that there is no “Off” option to disable IPv6 from the user interface. IPv6 is very dangerous if you plug your box into an IPv6 which is not controlled and configured properly. This is the […]

Disabling IPv6 on Lion OS 10.7

August 5, 2011 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

Since most of my time is spent on the keyboard and not the mouse – I love to use shortcuts. This post lists some shortcut keys that I use most. Hope they can be useful for anyone else. You can find the full list in your CFBuilder (ColdFusion – Profiles […]

CFBuilder Keyboard Shortcuts – Cheat sheet

July 1, 2011 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

While you can run a web server using your Mac (Apache), MAMP, ColdFusion or Railo. I prefer to have a self contained Linux box on a virtual machine. I have most of my instances setup with the same configuration as my hosting companies. This allows me to test my code […]

Setting up Fusion 3 with a development server

June 6, 2011 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce

So I finally made the leap from Adobe ColdFusion 8 to Railo. I setup a Linux (CentOS) VM running Apache & Railo. It took a little bit getting use to the layout and where and what to configure. But it seems all you need is just two extra steps, configuring […]

Newbie’s perspective on Rialo

June 3, 2011 in Techno Babble by Karsten Pearce