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06.17.08Do you really understand open source and the community?This is a direct response to the blog post of Peter Bell titled “The Future of ColdFusion: What about Blue Dragon?” First of all I would like to mention that the OpenBD project has nothing to do with the commercial BlueDragon that is being sold by New Atlanta. Neither I nor the OpenBD Steering Committee have a commercial relationship with New Atlanta. You can read up on the latest release of the OpenBD Steering Committee were this is officially stated. Also from reading Adam Haskell’s question, he was questioning about the OpenBD project or better said the lack of thereof in the ...
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02.11.08Installing Oracle database 11g should not be a nightmare, right?Ok, first of I want to say that I have installed quite a couple of Oracle database releases and that I am not a newbie to this, but today I feel like one. Why? Well, simply put, I don't understand how Oracle can release a product that is full of bugs and misplaced links. Anyhow, let's get started: Yesterday we thought of installing the latest and greatest Oracle database 11gR1 release on our brand new shiny Linux box. As always we are using the brilliant CentOS 5. We then went ahead and did step by step according to the installation ...
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06.21.07Installation of ColdFusion 8 Beta on RedHat/CentOS 5Today we installed ColdFusion 8 Beta (get it now on labs.adobe.com) on RedHat/CentOS 5 (within VMWare Fusion 4 Beta) and run into some troubles. The problem was that the installer did not configure the connector to Apache 2.2.x correctly and when you tried to log on to the CF Administration you did not get the expected welcome screen. The solution to this is to run the Apache Connector again, but with some modification. Go into the ColdFusion installation directory (/opt/coldfusion8) and then to the "connectors" directory. Open up the file "apache_connector.sh" and set the paths to your apache installation correct. Install the httpd-devel ...
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01.15.07Installing ColdFusion and Oracle database 10g on CentOSActually there are some installation instructions out there that explain very well how to install ColdFusion 7.x on Linux as well for Oracle on Linux. What prompt me to write this post is that, after following all instructions very elaborately, there are still some issues that remained unsolved. ColdFusion post installation Installing ColdFusion 7.0.2 is quite forward. Go to Adobe's website and download the trial version. Once downloaded you can install the application with ./coldfusion-702-lin.bin After ColdFusion is installed you should be able to login to the Administration "http://127.0.0.1:8500/CFIDE/administrator". So far so good, but what I have seen in my latest installation is that ...
