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Logging out a user in Mura CMS

27, Mar 2011

This post is more of a quick note to self.. :)

Often, we’ll see http://www.mysite.com/siteid/index.cfm?display=something on our public site, say, when creating a new user profile.

When we want to log out that particular user, simply place a

Lessons learnt from migrating a ColdFusion site from Windows to Linux

14, Mar 2011

When migrating a site from Windows to Linux, we have some great (and valid) dreams about increased performance, lower Windows server overhead, etc….

There’s a few things I’ve come across that most often come up while migrating from Windows to Linux:

So sensitive. Remember ColdFusion was case in-sensitive in Windows…? Well, it still kind of is.. except where the code breaks.

Picky about paths. Remember not taking the time to learn how to properly program your file paths for uploads / directories? .. Yeah, time to repay that technical debt.

Adding Captcha to Mura CMS Form

1, Mar 2011

I’ll be working on a post for creating forms successfully in Mura CMS, one thing I ran into was a need to implement Captcha in Mura.

The Mura guys have a wonderful guide written up on how to use Mura’s built-in CFFormProtect captcha which has now been included with Mura since 5.1.130

Adding Address to Site Member Registration in Mura CMS

27, Feb 2011

As of Mura 5.4, the default site member registration / creation page does not include address fields as part of the required registration. Site members can edit their profile after creating their account to enter their address.

Of course, there are times where we need this information up front, and capturing it in the create profile screen in Mura is pretty straight forward.

Hello 2011, meet the future: ColdFusion, Mura CMS and Startups.

6, Jan 2011

I’ve built up a bit of a bad habit in the past year with my blog — I have dozens of draft posts that are near completion and need a bit more editing — I just never made the time to edit and post them.

It’s interesting looking back at all I wrote in 2010 and with the perspectives I ended up with at the end of 2010.

Here’s where I ended up: ColdFusion + Mura CMS + FW/1 Plugin Bundle = My web development nirvana. I haven’t been this happy with developing in years. It’s like discovering how easy ColdFusion made everything all over again, 12 years later.

How did this happen?

ColdFusion Builder request list

18, Jun 2010

I just saw the neatest feature in the Linux text editor VI.
All of the links in the code are surfable. You just drill in through the includes between all of your files. Very cool.
I wonder if there’s an extension to do this in CfBuilder, or from the Eclipse world?

Enable or disable RDS on a Coldfusion Server

29, May 2010

It’s well known that RDS shouldn’t be enabled on a production ColdFusion Server.

Over the years I haven’t been much of a user of RDS anyways so I usually just left it disabled.

Lately though RDS is starting to have a lot more value to me, I have been using ColdFusion’s Report Builder a lot more in addition to ColdFusion Builder itself, which use RDS a lot more to expose a lot of neat functionality.

Announcing my Introduction to ColdBox Tutorial: My Coldbox 101

6, Apr 2010

In my original ColdBox 3 review, I mentioned that I would be starting a brief ColdBox Series to cover my experiences and any questions that came my way.
I have used the past few months to approach ColdBox in two different ways:

Existing Applications – Consider porting, or continuing development in ColdBox.  Like any re-factoring, there are [...]

Joel Spolsky quits blogging? But I like breathing!

5, Mar 2010

I came across an article by Joel Spolsky in Inc. Magazine announcing he’s quitting his blog.

For one of the original software development bloggers to announce something like this out of the blue, it seems quite strange.

Joel mentions a number of reasons that I think are interesting to look through:

If you could unlearn everything you know, and start again…

3, Mar 2010

Einstein wasn’t wrong when he said the only thing that got in the way of his learning was his education. Learning how to think — creatively to solve problems, to find dots and connect them, are skills that are hard to find, hard to develop, especially when we can get into a trance with technology.

I think we’re most alive when we create.


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