A basic Docker-Compose setup for continuous integration with Testbox, Lucee, Commandbox, and MariaDB.

The Continuous Integration (CI) guide for Coldfusion I wish I had two years ago.

What is the difference between mediocre developers and great developers?

When you have dates stored like "100" and "930", what is one to do?

Here's how you use MySQL's TRIM() function for non-space characters.

I just learned that if your private/public key files in ~/.ssh are not properly secured, the SSH service will refuse to acknowledge them.

Another TIL short tip, this time on composer syntax for loading a custom package (or a non-registered package, or whatever the case may be) from version control.

A coworker uses Putty to generate an SSH public/private keypair. Putty (wonderful little utility that it is) generates those files in a proprietary format / container file which must be unpacked to be usable by OpenSSH. Here's how to do that "unpacking" on Linux or OSX.

Someone asked me recently: "What's the largest project you've ever done?" The answer is easy: My year-long Node.JS capstone I wrote back when I was in school. I not-so-cleverly called it "BoomBox".

Using LetsEncrypt for wildcard SSL certs on my personal blog - yup, right here!

I was recently checking / correcting print styles on a client site, and I ran into this somewhat frustrating issue when printing from Firefox. Certain areas of the page would get cut off at the end of page 1 and never reappear on page 2. Obviously, this is not what users are looking for when they attempt to print a website.

In which I tangle with a poorly-programmed <cfdirectory> implementation and win.

TL;DR: Don't use <cfdirectory>, it's slow! But if you have to, use listinfo="name" so coldfusion only returns the file names, not other unnecessary attributes.

What's worse - "Hey, uh, I can't acess the server" or "Hello. It's down again!" ? They're both equally bad ways to start a professional phone conversation. Read on!

The room was dark in the cold morning before everyone was up. Dad was in the cozy cloth swivel chair, while I stood beside him asking question after question about the code I saw in front of me. Dad explained how the code we saw on the screen was not the same code which the computer would execute - to do this, he explained binary language and machine language. I was six years old.

An interesting "bug" with <cfparam> when a variable name contains a dash character

How to install Node.JS v6.x on an ARMV6 Raspberry Pi.

A short list of things to check when your virtual host hiccups.