Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
When a site is completely redesigned in such a way that the URL structure will change, it is important to keep your old links functional. Recently, a large organization (which shall remain nameless) retooled their website. This included changes to several often used URL’s. This organization also had many smaller sites that [...]
Apache, Linux |
Monday, January 21st, 2008
The current company (which shall remain nameless for the moment) that I lease servers from has had a rough month. There have been two times that the service has been down for over 2 hours (each time). This has been a bit rough for me to explain to some of my customers. [...]
Linux |
Monday, January 21st, 2008
I ran across this comment on a ZDNet article. This one made me laugh. I do realize though that this must be the way that the rest of the world views Linux. While I still use a Windows machine as my daily development machine, all of my servers that I own or [...]
Linux |
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Secure certificates have become increasingly cheaper since their inception. Until you have purchased and installed one there is a bit of mystery around the process. This mini-tutorial will specifically deal with installing a Standard SSL Certificate from GoDaddy on a Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 (or CentOS 5) server with Apache 2.2 installed. [...]
Apache, Linux |
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Linux adoption seems to be going through the roof as of late. What does this bring us – a lot of new Linux users. I would be willing to bet that some of those users have set up a basic web server – for development, testing, or even production purposes. When I [...]
Linux |
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
I am going to be doing a multi-part tutorial on setting up your development environment for Flex. We will cover both Coldfusion and PHP Development as well as ways to track, control, and deploy your projects. This tutorial is for both people with and without FlexBuilder. Stay tuned.
Flex, Linux |
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
I have had many developers ask me which Linux distro is correct for their development. Many developers are hooked on Fedora - because many of them had it pre-installed on their Dedicated Web Servers or Virtual Private Servers by their hosting provider. I currently have two servers that have various versions of Fedora, [...]
Linux |
Friday, April 6th, 2007
Installing Coldfusion MX7 Enterprise on Redhat Enterprise 4 (64-bit) was more difficult than I would have imagined. Adobe has been a bit unclear about whether the 64-Bit of RHEL 4 is actually supported. However, with quite a bit of command line work and some bullying of the Java Virtual Machine - we can [...]
Coldfusion, Linux |
Friday, April 6th, 2007
I have had so many requests for this article, I decided to move it from our internal wiki to the blog. So many people are running RHEL 4 and feel like it is too difficult to get PHP 5 and MySQL 5 on to the machine. This article shows that it is easier [...]
Apache, Linux |