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Build-Time Aggregation of JS/CSS Assets

By barneyb on April 8, 2008

Ben Nadel posted about compiling multiple linked files (JS/CSS) into a single file this morning, and he does it at runtime. I commented about doing it at build-time instead, and a couple people were wondering more, so here's a brief explaination.
The first part is a properties file (which can be read by both Ant [...]

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S3 is Sweet (One App Down)

By barneyb on April 7, 2008

This weekend I ported my big filesystem-based app to S3, and it went like a dream. It's a image-management application, with all the actual images stored on disk. In addition to the standard import/edit/delete, the app provides automatic on-the-fly thumbnail generation, along with primitive editing capabilities (crop, resize, rotate, etc.). With images [...]

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My Amazon Toolkit (Thus Far)

By barneyb on April 4, 2008

I'm early in the move to Amazon, of course, but already some specific tools are indispensable.  I'm sure the list will grow, but here's where I'm at right now:

S3Sync – A simple rsync-like command line tool (called 's3sync') for syncing stuff from a computer to S3 or the reverse.  Also includes the 's3cmd' tool that [...]

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Dummy Queries in ColdFusion 8.0.1

By barneyb on April 4, 2008

Brian Rinaldi posted on his blog about dummy queries in CF 8.0.1, and it struck me as a weird solution. So here's a drop-in replacement, that I think works in a more reasonable fashion, and doesn't have any dependency on an existing DSN.
<cffunction name="dummyQuery2″ access="public" output="false" returntype="query">
<cfargument name="queryData" type="struct" required="true" />
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Amazon S3 URL Builder for ColdFusion

By barneyb on April 4, 2008

First task for my Amazon move is getting data assets (non-code-managed files) over to S3. I have a variety of types of data assets that need to move and have references updated, most of which require authentication. To make that easier, I wrote a little UDF to take care of building urls with [...]

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Moving to the Amazon

By barneyb on April 4, 2008

I'm in the process of switching my hosting from a dedicated box at cari.net over to Amazon EC2 and S3. Based on my estimates, the costs will be slightly higher per month ($60/mo right now, $75-80/mo post move), but the benefits are significant:

Using S3 for all my backups and data storage will definitely give [...]

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New Cyclic Data Structures Utility

By barneyb on March 19, 2008

Back in October I posed a fledgling cycle-safe CFDUMP replacement.  Today, I had need for that same anti-cycle processing in serializeJson, so I abstracted the processing out into a CFC that handles both breaking cycles (for serialization) as well as restoring them (for deserialization).  By running a cyclic data structure through the breakCycles method, you [...]

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CAPTCHA is the Devil

By barneyb on March 11, 2008

I know, I know. I've said this before. Trying to have a conversation on another blog and the CAPTCHA … oh my god. If you insist on using CAPTCHA (for some unknown reason), follow some rules:

only letters and numbers, and never l, o, I, O, 1, or 0
don't make the comparison [...]

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Read-Only and Read-Write SVN Repositories

By barneyb on February 28, 2008

Just got a comment on one of my posts from a while back about public SVN access wondering how to get it configured.  The basic idea is to have a single repository with anonymous read-only access, and have the same repository allow read-write access to authenticated users.  Further, you want to configure that on a [...]

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Barney and the Holy Grail

By barneyb on February 11, 2008

Yes, I know it's Lent, but I'm not talking about that Grail – I'm talking about Grails, the web framework for Groovy (the dynamic layer for Java).
I've been looking for a way to ditch CFML for a while now, but nothing has really hit the mark. I keep hoping that Adobe is going [...]

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