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I love researching things. Learning about something new and finding the best way to approach a problem feeds the engineering part of my background. I satisfy that by reading a ton and because of my...
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Interview with me on Cars Yeah Podcast
Mark Greene from Cars Yeah interviewed me last week on business, cars and lessons learned. We talked about what got me into cars in the first place, the one car I would buy if money was no object and...
View ArticleTalking SaaS at dev.Objective()
I’ll be speaking at dev.Objective() this year in Minneapolis on a hybrid business/programming topic titled, “Building Multi-Tenant Software-As-A-Service (Saas) Applications” This will be a...
View ArticleRedirecting ColdFusion logs in a Docker Container
I’ve been modernizing our development environment and started with the work by Bill Rawlinson to create a portable ColdFusion Docker image. If you’re new to Docker and the benefits of containerization,...
View ArticleJstat in Java 1.8 Can’t Find Process Run as Root
I’ve written a handful of times on observing and tuning the JVM using tools such as Jstat. I recently upgraded our servers to Java 8 and found that my Jstat script could no longer find the process no...
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Garage Gym Racing Exercise Steering Wheel
Fitness and motorsport are two important parts of my life and a significant portion of my training is to improve my capability on a race weekend. I’ve read books, spent a weekend at the Porsche Human...
View ArticlePreventing Long ColdFusion Initialization Timeouts
My apps use a variety of frameworks which offer a lot of rapid development and agility but they also come at the cost of slower startup times. For a Coldspring-based app with a large service layer, you...
View ArticleSleep Deprivation, Caffeine and Cold Showers
I frequently describe my life as “trying to fit 10 gallons into a 5-gallon hat”. It’s a self-imposed problem due to my love of so many different interests (and perhaps a penchant for “being busy” that...
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Stilo Helmet Hydration Port Quick Disconnect
I’m a big fan of my Stilo helmet and one of the reasons is the built in hydration port. I have mine on the right side of my helmet (inboard for LHD cars). In my own cars, I have a camelback system...
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Java / ColdFusion SSL handshake_failure Fix
As PCI DSS rules and general security best practices evolve, more people are configuring their web servers to eliminate less-secure versions of SSL and TLS for their HTTP connections. If you are using...
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