In order to generate a unique identifier for caching an object I needed to create a function to accept any data type, and to return a unique hash from that object.

A bash shell script to find-and-replace in all files in multiple svn repositoroes.

If you have just downloaded Adobe ColdFusion 10 on your OS X Yosemite development environment you might be surprised to find out that the installation will cause your Apache 2.4.x server to stop working.

Well, the title may not be entirely accurate. Honestly, I didn't know what to title this post

Check out this video on setting up and using the AlertifyJS library.

In migrating our application's caching service to use ColdFusion's Ehcache integration I needed to a way to get all of the caching regions stored in Ehcache.

Check out this short video on creating a PHP script to check if a remote server or website is available.

I recently upgraded to OS X Yosemite and ran into a small issue when attempting to create an image resource from a string.

As part of my series on migrating a site to support HTTPS we are finally at the step where we will implement the redirect that will ensure our users are always using the HTTPS site.

I am continuing a series of articles focused on migrating a website to support HTTPS Everywhere.

As part of a series on setting up HTTPS Everywhere I am migrating a website to use HTTPS for all requests.

As part of a series on using HTTPS Everywhere we are migrating a website from HTTP to HTTPS.

Check out a video I created on building a calendar using jQuery and CSS3.

In this post we'll be using HTTP with Apache on OS X Yosemite.

As part of my HTTPS Everywhere series I am showing how to configure your web server for HTTPS.

You might have heard this past summer that Google has made a slight (less than 1% of sites will be affected) modification to their algorithm to give more value to those sites that use HTTPS than those sites that do not.

As part of a series on migrating a website to support HTTPS everywhere I needed to create a self-signed certificate on Mac OS X.

A quick and dirty cheat sheet for Git submodules.

I know that there are lots of posts and articles written for installing the imagick PHP extension, so why not one more.

If you have ever noticed a double exclamation mark (!!) in someone's JavaScript code you may be curious what it's for and what it does.

I have used Bootstrap for projects in the past but I have always downloaded the precompiled bootstrap files. While this has worked easily in the past, there are some downsides.

Enabling your users to authenticate to your website using a popular social media service such as Facebook or Twitter can increase your sign-up conversion rates.

As part of a project to integrate with a REST API I have developed a small project for OAuth 1.0 using ColdFusion.

I have spent one day (so far) learning expressjs -- a node.js framework for a web application server.