UltraMonkey on CentOS 4 with BlueQuartz

CONFIGURATION:

Server is configured as director to be a part of high availability and load balancing cluster as described here:
http://www.ultramonkey.org/3/topologies/sl-ha-lb-eg.html

CentOS 4 with Bluequartz from Nuonce.net is used as operating system. Read More »

ColdFusion 8 on CentOS 4 with BlueQuartz

When starting ColdFusion for the first time connector wizard cannot configure web server correctly.

Starting ColdFusion 8...
The ColdFusion 8 server is starting up and will be available shortly.
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Running the ColdFusion 8 connector wizard
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Configuring the web server connector (Launched on the first run of the ColdFusion 8 start script)
Running apache connector wizard...
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 12 more time(s)
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 11 more time(s)
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 10 more time(s)
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 9 more time(s)
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 8 more time(s)
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 7 more time(s)
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 6 more time(s)
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 5 more time(s)
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 4 more time(s)
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 3 more time(s)
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 2 more time(s)
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 1 more time(s)
The connector wizard has not been able to contact the local ColdFusion 8, connector installation aborted.
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ColdFusion 8 has been started.
ColdFusion 8 will write logs to /opt/coldfusion8/logs/cfserver.log
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How to compile Strongbolt kernel on Cobalt RaQ4

Cobalt RaQ4 was laying around collecting dust so I decided to give it a second chance. Guys from OS Office (http://www.osoffice.co.uk) put together Strongbolt – excellent Linux distribution based on CentOS with Cobalt RaQ support.

I wanted to use Cobalt RaQ4 to test highly available and load balanced cluster configuration. However current Strongbolt kernel 2.6.16i586 doesn’t have IP virtual server support and had to be recompiled. Read More »

Sending an e-mail with ASP.NET and System.Net.Mail via Google

Few days ago I needed to develop contact form handler for the website hosted on Windows platform. JavaScript and AJAX were used on the client side to send request to the server. After some reading about ASP.NET framework it become clear that I need to write custom handler (.ashx) to process this request. Read More »

Compressed Nifty Corners

Recently I was experimenting with different techniques and libraries that implement rounded corners with no images. Nifty Corners Cube by Alessandro Fulciniti was among them.

I liked the fact that the library detected background color and padding of the target element. This allows the technique to degrade gracefully if JavaScript is disabled.

As a rule of thumb I usually compress the libraries I use with JavaScript packer written by Dean Edwards and Rob Seiler. However niftycube.js had to be corrected before since there is a semicolon missing on line 24.

niftycube.js:
String.prototype.find=function(what){
return(this.indexOf(what)>=0 ? true : false);
}; // Missing semicolon

Download Nifty Corners Cube (compressed), 4.66 KB.