Aliaspooryorik Musings Posts

Tomcat JVM settings on Windows

23 Apr 2012

Changing the Railo Tomcat JVM settings when running as a Windows service. Read more »

Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

20 Apr 2012

I've recently launched a site using MySQL as a database, and wanted to be able to schedule database backups to Amazon S3. Read more »

MySQL 1093 error

18 Apr 2012

I've been using MySQL for a project and just discovered that you can't update a table when that table is referenced in a subquery. Read more »

Track downloads and exit links with Google Analytics

11 Apr 2012

Here's some handy code I just wrote for tracking in Google analytics clicked links which go to external sites or link to files which are being downloaded. Read more »

Replicating C#'s ComputeHash and PHP's pack in CFML

02 Apr 2012

I've been working on integrating the eKashu Online Payment Gateway into a site. One of the security options is to generate a unique hash per order. The documentation only gives code examples in C# and PHP. Read more »

URL rewriting before proxying request to Tomcat

13 Mar 2012

With Apache, the request is proxied to Tomcat before the .htacess file is processed containing the URL rewriting rules and as such never gets rewritten. Read more »

ColdFusion 9 ACE PrepKit Review

22 Feb 2012

I've been trying out the ColdFusion 9 ACE PrepKit from UCertify. Read more »

ColdFusion ORM Book - 2nd Edition?

11 Feb 2012

A few people have expressed an interest in a second edition of my ColdFusion ORM book. I'd really like some feedback from readers about this. Read more »

ColdFusion ORM book now in Kindle and EPUB format

09 Feb 2012

I've had several requests from people for my ColdFusion ORM book in Kindle and EPUB format as well as the current PDF format. Well, I've finally got round to converting it! Read more »

Handling null db values with ORM

16 Jan 2012

I had an email from someone who was trying to use ORM with an existing database and was having errors because of null values in the database. Read more »