Lynch Consulting Blog
Blog URL http://www.lynchconsulting.com.au/blog
Located Sydney, New South Wales Australia
A blog about ColdFusion, PHP, Flash, Flex, Asterisk, VOIP, Web Standards and a mish mash of other technologies
Latest Blog Posts
- Chinese characters not working cfdocument for PDF exports - fixed on Oct 26, 2009 in ColdFusion Linux Open Source Railo Ubuntu
I've just spent quite a few hours grappling with an annoying PDF export issue where the font's were not displaying correctly. This is on a CFMX 7 (7.0.2) on Ubuntu Linux system. All the DB storage and application was using UTF8 throughout, but the...
- HOWTO generate diff files from subversion in HOWTO General Open Source Systems admin
Here's a nice and quick way to generate a diff file from subversion and store it on your local machine. svn diff filepath/myFile.ext > saveDirPath/myFile.ext.diff Where filePath is the local path to your working directory in which your file is l...
- Identifying which queries to tune with MSSQL in ColdFusion Systems admin Database
I've been doing some more work tuning and CF/MSSQL application and during figuring out which parts of the system is doing the most work (and hence a good candidate for tuning) I came across this gem which will show stats on the most run queries in th...
- ColdFusion per vhosts mappings in ColdFusion Open Source Systems admin
One of the features of CF8 that I was most interested in and most let down on was per application mappings. The reason I was so keen was so that we could keep core library application files out of the webroot for additional security, but still have...
- iPhone debugging tip - objc_exception_throw in iPhone
Saw this on a Stanford uni lecture (Number 13), thanks Eddie for the links. To make debugging your app's easier add a breakpoint in manually which is: objc_exception_throw This will catch errors at the point they occur, which makes tracking them...
- SSH SOCK Proxying and preventing it in Systems admin
I've been using SSH portforwards extensively for getting access to remote networks securely for years, but today I came across another very useful thing you can do with SSH. That is use it as a SOCKS proxy. This is useful if you are on a corporate...
- Railo Useful links in ColdFusion Railo
I've been doing some research on Railo with a view to moving some of our sites to using it. I've found a few useful links along the way: Mark Mandel's setup instructions for Railo on Ubuntu Some great reasons to use Railo My evaluations of Railo...
