Ubuntu has done it again!!

It has won the UK Linux & Open Source Best Distribution award.

Best Linux/Open Source Distribution

Winner - Ubuntu - Canonical

Finalists:

Debian - Debian

Fedora - RedHat

I have been using Ubuntu for about a year now and it has been an incredible ride. It is the first distribution that I have real admiration for, well FEDORA too. But this distribution really has their stuff together. Give it a try, its free!!

Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support.

Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the "enterprise edition", we make our very best work available to everyone on the same Free terms.

Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from hundreds of companies around the world. Ubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a new release is made every six months. Each release is supported with free security updates and fixes for at least 18 months.

Ubuntu includes the very best in translations and accessibility infrastructure (the Rosetta system) that the Free Software community has to offer, to make Ubuntu usable by as many people as possible. We collaborate as widely as possible on bug fixing and code sharing.

Ubuntu is entirely committed to the principles of free software development; we encourage people to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.

I just recently started developing apps with XML config files. However, I wanted to start using XSD schema's to validate the XML.

Where to start?? well, google of course. I found one of the best sites for simple "How To's" in all types of tutorials.

The site is www.w3schools.com and it has several tutorials that are easy to follow and comprehensive. Here is the link to the XSD How To

http://www.w3schools.com/schema/schema_howto.asp

Today was the much expected release of MySQL 5.0 Release candidate. I had previously installed the beta on my Ubuntu "hoary" linux distro and it has been running incredibly smooth. However, I had never done a MySQL upgrade and turned to Google for some help.

I could not find a single article on it, actually I looked for 5 minutes and grew desperate. So I decided to tinker around. My beta install is on /opt/mysql_5.0_beta with a symbolic link on /usr/local/mysql. I had installed the database according to the installation directions.

I unpacked the release candidate to /opt/mysql-standard-5.0.13 and copied over all my data folder from my beta install. I then had to do a:

Every wonder a nice, quick and easy way of getting your Operating System's file separator character??

Well, I have several times. Thanks to our collaborator Ariel Gonzalez, and his java expertise. We take a look at the java.lang.System class and its getProperty() Method.

There are several useful properties that you can get from this class, some of them are listed below:

I finally have made my complete move for CF development to eclipse. Yesterday, while I was installing a fresh copy of eclipse, I realized the new updated download of ftp and web-dav support.

Eclipse's support for FTP has been moderate of some sorts, but it seems that now they got it.

I finished my installation of CFEclipse, connected to my dev server and started working.

This is a great development platform for true developers.

Eclipse

CFEclipse

Well, yet another storm is approaching South Florida and panic mode has just started. I am at the office doing complete database and application backups and getting ready to go home and panic.

I truly hope this time, the electricity does not go out and no major damages occur. And they just finished fixing my roof last week.

Rita is coming...

This snippet utilizes the power of java to create an execution sleep timer. There are various applications for this snippet, but the purpose of the snippet is to provide you with a mechanism of making the coldfusion thread sleep for a period of time. Please be careful when setting the timer variable since it might just lock the execution thread.

I have also included a copy-paste snippet of my actual CFC function.

The snippet is actually very simple:

It is my privilege to announce that Java Guru, Ariel Gonzalez, has become a collaborator for this blog. He has experience in Java development, SWING interfaces and overall Java architecture.

His posts will be made by ArielG.

So start expecting Java Snippets and cool Java entries.

Laterz

This entry is for those developers trying to standardize their application development with a bugtracking module. I personally use a bugtracking.cfc and extend it on all my model components. The following snippet is the actual logError method that I use.

The method is self explanatory. You send in some ErrorDetails, the cfcatch structure, and application(cfc) name. The method will then construct a variable using cfsavecontent with the bug report and creates a LogFile in the coldfusion administrator. It then finally sends the bugreport to the email list that you can provide in the constructor of the cfc.

I have been recently introduced to this great database utility tool, Aqua Data Studio

It is an incredible database tool, you can connecto to Oracle, MySQL, MS Sql, DB2, or an JDBC complaint database. It has an incredible Procedure Editor, Query Analyzer, Schema Browser, and best of all, written in JAVA.

The GUI is great and provides great graphical browsing of any database. I truly love this utility.

You can download it from here. Please check it out.