Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Yummy Mail! MailSlurper Released!

Posted: 2nd September 2010 by Adam Presley in Development, Java
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That’s right, I said it. MailSlurper, the mostly useless mail SMTP server has been released! Not only does it slurp your mail into oblivion, but you can see those doomed emails in an administrative interface now. Woo hoo! Check out the How To guide and download it today!!

My Resume on ColdFusion + FW/1 + CouchDB

Posted: 31st August 2010 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development
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The last few days I decided I wanted to play around with Apache’s CouchDB, one of the more popular database engines in the No-SQL movement. For those who have never heard of it CouchDB is a database engine written in Erlang, and is an Apache Foundation project. One of the neatest things about CouchDB is [...]

My friend, Mr. Steve Good, approached me about a problem he was having where he needed to add a namespace to an HTML tag at runtime. Essentially he was parsing some dynamic HTML and wished to inject an additional namespace into the HTML declaration. Regular expressions to the rescue! The first test I ran was [...]

Here is a quick way to change the default author name when using JavaDoc comments in your Eclipse projects. Simply edit your eclipse.ini file found in the root directory where you placed Eclipse. I have Eclipse at /opt/eclipse, so my path would be /opt/eclipse/eclipse.ini. Once editing this file add the following line and save. -Duser.name=Adam [...]

Finally, as requested, my code and slides for my Dallas TechFest 2010 presentation are available for download. If you missed it I presented on taking an existing ColdFusion application (could be anything, PHP, JSP, Groovy + Grails) and incrementally spicing it up with jQuery. Click here to download the code and instructions on getting setup!

Merging Two ColdFusion Structs

Posted: 3rd August 2010 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development
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Here’s a quick little tidbit. My coworker Steve Good asked me if I knew of a quick way to merge two ColdFusion structures together, kind of like how jQuery has the $.extend() method. Well there is in fact a way to do this! And it’s super easy. Let’s say you have structure one that has [...]

Today was a busy news day for me. Most of it just personal stuff, but the story of the day in the world of ColdFusion is the departure of Adobe, or more specifically Adam Lehman, from the CFML Advisory Committee. I say it’s big news, but it seems to me that it will be the [...]

Creating a SMTP Mail Server for Development

Posted: 20th July 2010 by Adam Presley in Development, Java
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While working on ColdFusion applications with Railo on Tomcat I have been piecing together tools necessary to get these applications to do everything I need them to do. So I’ve bolted on Hibernate, a URL rewriter, and so on. Now I found myself needing an SMTP server of some type so that emails generated by [...]