Viewing by month: July 2007
Fixing Case-related Issues When Moving Off Windows
Posted on Jul 08, 2007
I was recently tasked with moving a rather extensive site off of a legacy Windows server onto one of our standard Unix servers (though the same steps below should work for Linix as well). The prior person tasked with this was having to go in manually and correct the casing issues on each file including the case of the file itself, the case of any links within the file and the case of links within content entries within the custom CMS it used. This sounds like a tedious job indeed, and when I inherited it, my first thought was how I could possibly avoid doing this.
The answered turns out to be a combination of a recursive function to rename all the files on the server to lowercase and some help from Apache's mod_rewrite plugin. This would allow us to leave all the links in the documents and in the CMS alone (as well as not worry about anyone's old favorites) and everything should just work. We moved the site several days ago and are in the process of testing, but so far everything is looking good and it was only an hour or so of work, here's how it was done.
Generate Framework Code with Illudium Connect Presentation
Posted on Jul 05, 2007
Today's presentation on generating framework code with my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator seemed to go off without a hitch - with over 30 attendees which seemed pretty good to me. Thanks to Nick Tong and CFFrameworks.com for hosting. Anyway, if you are looking for the presentation recording, it can be found on CFFrameworks.com. Also, I referenced my blog post series on the topic and those URLs are:
Thanks to everyone who attended.
If I were a Simpsons Character
Posted on Jul 05, 2007
Following on Andy Jarrett, Mark Mandel and Mark Drew, (and for those of you who don't know what I look like for today's presentation), here I am...
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It's Official: Illudium Now Has CFML Templates
Posted on Jul 05, 2007
I have to admit I have been taken aback by the excitement this feature has generated from everyone I have mentioned it to - with both Peter Bell and Kyle Hayes even giving it some advance promotion. Apparently not too many people know and/or like XSL and it was the one thing holding back a flood of new templates (or so I hope). Anyway, the latest (1.0 feature complete) build of my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator now includes the ability to make templates in XSL or CFML. Here is an overview of how it works (for more detail, be sure to attend my presentation this Thursday).
New OS Project - Convert Wiki Markup to HTML and Back
Posted on Jul 03, 2007
So, I started working on a project (well, CFC) to convert wii markup to HTML and back many months ago but hit a snag. I was using a project called Plog4u which uses the Wikipedia standard for Wiki markup and (I believe) is supported by Wikipedia. However, in the end, it required Java 5 which ColdFusion 6/7 did not support. I had it working on the ColdFusion beta but that wasn't public yet, so I couldn't release it. Obviously, that has changed; so here is my official announcement of WikiConverter.