I decided to upgrade my personal laptop from Windows Vista to Xubuntu 11.04 (latest release as of this post). This post will be about the different choices of Linux. I have tried several. I would not recommend installing different flavors of Linux to find what you like (like I did) but use...
MARC 0.4.5 (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ) Ubuntu 10.04 Eclipse 3.5 Improved ReadMe.html Blazing Fast Download with Amazon CloudFront Description The developer should be able to use Wheels without any setup/configuration except for the database. Start the virtual machine instance...
This past Sunday, I worked on updating MARC (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ). I haven't quite finished, but it will be using Ubuntu 10.04 and Eclipse 3.5 with the latest Wheels , CFEclipse , and Firefox. Available on my Wheels Download page is MARC 0.3, an older version. Also on...
MARC 0.3 (MySQL, Apache, Railo , and ColdFusion On Wheels ) smaller download 588.86 mb url rewriting Virtual Box Guest Additions readme.txt in the zip Description The developer should be able to use Wheels without any setup/configuration except for the database. Start the virtual machine instance...
I installed Xubuntu 8.04 for better performance but some reason Firefox and Flash won't work properly for Adobe Connect recordings. My laptop is an Acer AMD Turion 64 so the normal Flash installation woudn't work. Here is what I did (I tried many things but think this is what worked). I ran the...
Screengrab! , a Firefox extention, works on Ubuntu to save a web page as png file. Basically I had some Coldfusion output and wanted to send the whole page not a portion. I have seen several tools for windows but nothing for Ubuntu. I googled "export as png", "save as png", and "print to file as...
I started blogging toward the end of Aug 2007. Here are my top 5 content of 2007 via Google Analytics stats. Happy New Year! Adding JS/CSS compression and JS validation using YUI Compressor, JSLint, and jsmin to ant script Coldfusion with Selenium ant script Show Us Ur CFEclipse perspective layout?...
It is pretty simple to sync files using (http://Ignore Files on Upload http://jets3t.s3.amazonaws.com/toolkit/configuration.html#ignore). Some folders I synch contain files I don't want to store on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) such as .svn folders for Subversion....
JetS3t can be used across Ubuntu and Windows which I needed. I like to be able to sync files between my two systems. JetS3t has a synchronize command line tool. It is in bat and sh format. JetS3t also has a nice GUI called cockpit. My Amazon S3 (stand for Amazon Simple Storage Service) setup for...
With all the Leopard posts going around in the ColdFusion realm, I ran across this for us Ubuntu people using Avant Window Navigator and Compiz Fusion . Lifehacker: Make Your Linux Desktop Look Like a Mac
Installing ColdFusion 8 on Ubuntu was not complex actually it was very straight-forward. Here are the three helpful links I used. Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies Installing ColdFusion 8 on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn ColdFusion 8 Install On Ubuntu I stopped on Step 28 on the second link and ran the 2...
Well, I was fed up with Vista on a new laptop I purchased in March 2007. Vista performance was horrible and it was buggy. I would get the blue screen of death when starting Windows Media Player along with the cpu pegging out when doing anything. The laptop is an Acer Aspire (details later) for...