Setting the title on a Gnome terminal
I usually have several terminals open running various daemon processes in tabs. To make the tabs more identifiable, you can set the tab title from your BASH...
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Subversion mergeinfo
Subversion 1.5 added a feature called mergeinfo, which is just a property that can be set on any resource that tracks merges made to the resource. When you ...
Rotate just one monitor with Ubuntu/Nvidia
I took some time this week to figure out how to rotate just my Dell 2005FPW in an Ubuntu dual-monitor setup. The graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce 6200 LE,...
CFEclipse StackOverflowError (Editor could not be initialized)
Even since I moved from Windows to Linux, I have been experiencing an exception trying to edit certain CFMs in CFEclipse.
CFHTMLHEAD and CFCONTENT reset
I ran into some trouble this week attaching my JSON Exception Handling to a new ColdFusion feature. Specifically, there was content from that page that surv...
Backing Up VirtualBox
I've been playing with VirtualBox, a great open-source virtual machine. Mostly I've been deploying Windows guests on a Linux host. Right now I have two VMs;...
Converting a legacy ColdFusion app from Windows to Linux: Part II
For now, I've just decided to run ColdFusion under WINE. While I want to run it natively eventually, I don't want to undertake updating the code to use the ...
Converting a legacy ColdFusion app from Windows to Linux: Part I
Having moved to a Linux desktop at work, I'm in the process of migrating my development environment to the extent possible. Eclipse + JBOSS were a slam dunk...
Stupid vim tricks
Quick hit today. Ever open a file in vim, only to realize that you need sudo to write to it? Usually, you have to exit out of vim, open vi as sudo, and make...
Easier Development with Unobtrusive JavaScript
Unobtrusive JavaScript is a poorly defined umbrella term. It's generally agreed to encompass: