Installing and Configuring Apache 2.2, Tomcat 6.0, and Open BlueDragon on Windows 2003 Server

G'day:
This is one of the articles I referred to yesterday in my "ColdFusion 9 on Windows 8" article. It was no longer online, and I was only able to find it by searching the Internet Archive. I thought it was a shame to have such useful information consigned to - basically - the rubbish heap, so I asked Matt Woodward if I could reproduce it. He's said I can, so here it is. Thanks to Matt for letting me re-post it here.


Note: the images are missing, and I can't guarantee all the links work. The content of the article is unchanged, however I have removed all the styling, and re-applied different mark-up in places. Just so the page doesn't break.

ColdFusion 9 on Windows 8

G'day:
I'm about to pop down to NZ for a coupla weeks to see me folks and make sure they're all still in working order and the like. And drink beer with my NZ-based mates. As part of this, I've retired my old Netbook, and have bought myself a new cheapish laptop (or an "ultrabook" as apparently they are being fashioned, these days) as its replacement. The reason I had the netbook is that the battery life was excellent, which was very handy on long-haul flights, plus it was a handy size for using on aircraft and when lurking in airport terminals. Which I do frequently enough for that to be a consideration. Anyway, this new thing has Windows 8 on it, and I spent Fri eveing and Saturday morning setting it up. Which went fine until I needed to install ColdFusion 9.

ColdFusion-UI-the-Right-Way: <cfchart>

G'day:
Yay. I've finally participated in an open source project on Github. I've done a "chapter" on "ColdFusion UI the Right Way", covering <cfchart>. Well: using ZingCharts directly instead of <cfchart>. An easy win for me for today's article is to repeat the chapter here.

Waitangi Day again

G'day:
It's Waitangi Day again,(in NZ, anyhow... it's still the day before here in the UK) so here's some fluff about New Zealand.


This is a Kiwi:

Kiwi

So is this:

Self

And this:

Gavin

And so - apparently - is this:

Kai

Although I'm not so sure about that last one.

Cheers lads

G'day:
I'm making a blog article out of this because I can't fit it into 140 chars, and I don't want it to solely be buried on a comment on their own blog.

If you didn't know, or had managed to ignore it, the lads @ CFHour, Scott and Dave, took exception to something I wrote a coupla weeks back, "CFML: where Railo is better than ColdFusion", and had "a bit" of a rant in their recent podcast "Show #207 - Ryno, Rocks, Railo Rants, and Scott (Box)". I thought their tone was perhaps a bit more intense than it needed to be, and some other people have said the same.

TBH, I don't mind. I'm a big boy, and I simply don't take offence at stuff. They're entitled to their opinion, even if I don't happen to agree with it. For the record: no, I don't agree with pretty much everything they said, however I do see where they were coming from. That said, there was never any anguish or angst between us: I was talking to Dave about tickets in the bug tracker shortly afterwards, and was in touch with Scott yesterday too. I consider them my mates, so they can say what they like at me.

Now, children...

... stop it.

CFML: All shouty and bitey... and it's not even me doing it!

G'day:
Scott and Dave (albeit: mostly Scott) from CFHour have a nice tirade in response to my recent article "CFML: where Railo is better than ColdFusion" this week: "Show #207 - Ryno, Rocks, Railo Rants, and Scott (Box)".

It's worth listening to (having first fast forwarded to about the 6m30s mark where the actual content starts; and the shouty bit about 5min after that) in conjunction with what I said in my article.

I'll not comment further as I believe their work stands on its own merit.

--
Adam