Binary clock in CF

Early today I was looking for some Christmas presents and found a very nice Binary Watch. I was wondering who uses this kind of stuff, but I'm sure somebody uses. Imagine yourself in a club when that hot chick comes to you asking what time is it. Would you show that nerd piece on your wrist? On the other hand a ColdFusion Clock would be very nice. So when the hot chick comes to you with that question, you could use your blackberry to say the time. Nahh... The time is already on your blackberry, but... Well, it was a nice exercise at least.

Here's the CF code:

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  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 7:50 AM - Categories: ColdFusion

Let the Votings Begin

As announced last week, CFSilence is running the CFeMmys, which according to Todd Sharp is: CFeMmys is to recognize the blogs, lists, forums, community sites, publications, etc that made the biggest contributions and impact to the online ColdFusion community. And guess what? My blog is listed in some of the categories. Well, now it's down to me to ask my mum, dad, sister, girlfriend and friends to go there and vote ;-) Well done Todd! Vote now!

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 8:16 AM - Categories: ColdFusion

Ripping MP3's on Ubuntu

Mark Lynch posted how to rip MP3's on Ubuntu. I've never tested doing this, but will give it a try later Check it out

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 2:28 AM - Categories: Linux

Mozilla Firefox 3 Alpha 1 ready to be downloaded

Yes, it seems that Mozilla just released the new version of Firefox codenamed Gran Paradiso. I'm writing this post using it. It's still on alpha 1 version, but seems to be very stable until now. So, so go to Gran Paradiso's home page and download your copy.

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 3:06 AM - Categories: Misc

Wireless now working on Ubuntu

As previously said I was having some kind of troubles with my wireless connection on Ubuntu.

Yesterday I found that the Ubuntu community really works. I was able to get some replies about how to install my wireless using WPA encryption in less than 5 minutes.

Basically Ubuntu only works with WEP encryption, which is crap by the way. When switching my router to work with WEP encryption, I got Ubuntu wireless to work, but Windows XP gone down.

The guys from the Ubuntu community pointed me to a URL that promissed to make Ubuntu work for almos every single wireless card.

Guess what? It does indeed, in less than 5 minutes I managed to have my wireless connection working on WPA.

Now as promissed I'm doing this post from my Ubuntu on wireless connection

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 11:05 AM - Categories: Linux

Scorpio on Adobe Labs

For those who still don't know (I doubt). Yesterday Adobe put some ColdFusion Scorpio information on Adobe Labs There you can find Scorpio's F.A.Q and some red(ish) Scorpio's wallpapers.

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 9:18 AM - Categories: Adobe | ColdFusion

ColdFusion on Ubuntu

After problems with the wifi (which is almost working at the moment), I decided then to install ColdFusion.

I found some good stuff on google about this installation, which by the way is pretty straight forward, as you basically press enter in the console instead of pressing next in the interface installation.

The version I installed was CF 7.02 for Linux. After the installation, I checked the install logs, and there wasn't anything wrong.

I had Apache 2 installed on my laptop, but decided to try the built in on port 8500, and didn't have any problem until I tried to start the ColdFusion service.

I got and error with a message like this: "Error: please check cfserver.log" When checking the logs I found only one message. "Unknown Id: placona"

So... what the hell is it? Bloody hell it was too good to be true!

I then uninstalled and tried to install it logged as "root", instead of using "sudo" for the installation.

The installation was straight forward again, same configuration, but decided to change the login for CF.

This time I used "CFMX" instead of "placona". At first I thought this might be the problem as I created a login for CF using the same computer's name. When I tried to start CF again, I got the same error, but this time on the logs I saw: "Unknown id: CFMX".

I was wrong, this had nothing to do with the machine name, but with the user name I was using for CF. I then went to Ubuntu user manager and created a user with the exact user name and password as I created for ColdFusion administrator. When I tried to start CF again... "ColdFusion is running..." So here's my tip:

Everytime you install CF, create a system user with the same details as provided for the installation.

  comments - Posted by Marcos Placona at 4:34 AM - Categories: Linux | ColdFusion