While the original intention of this post was to demonstrate backing up and restoring a docker volume's contents, there is a lot of useful information about docker in the setup process before getting to the point of backing up and restoring anything. If you are only interested in the backup and restore part of this tutorial, you should just skip...... Full Entry »
If you haven't managed to get into CommandBox by now, I really feel for you; you've really been missing out for years now. It makes life so much easier in so many ways. I'll spare you the long list of reasons... you're not here for that. Most of my experience with CommandBox has been on OS X/macOS and Linux (primarily Ubuntu Server). But, at...... Full Entry »
The ability to use BIFs (built-in functions) anywhere throughout an application is probably something a lot of people take for granted. You don't stop to think about whether or not you're allowed to use writedump() or writeoutput() in the current location, you just know you can. The ability to extend that confidence to your own custom functions...... Full Entry »
No preamble, this is a walkthrough to setup Lucee and Apache on Ubuntu Server. So let's get to it. First things first, you need to install Ubuntu on a machine or VM. I used ...Ubuntu Server 18.04.4 LTS... so this tutorial will be 100% command line. I won't get into the specifics about installing Ubuntu but it is a pretty easy process with tons...... Full Entry »
I, like most developers, have always left the mail settings in the ColdFusion administrator set to localhost to keep email from actually getting out in the wild and, potentially, sent to real people (not that anyone would actually have live data in their Dev/QA environments, right?). Unless you have an SMTP server running on the server, that,...... Full Entry »
This is a very old post. This is much simpler with newer versions of CF/Lucee ... ... I still see examples of people going way out of their way to make sure a common list has do duplicate values. I have seen people loop their list into a new list with a listFind condition to make sure it wasn't already there. I have seen...... Full Entry »
