By barneyb on August 25, 2010
Just a heads up that the server hosting barneyb.com and all it's various offspring (PotD, EventLog, etc.) will be going down about eight this evening to replace a faulty cooling fan. Total outage should be less than 15 minutes, and it will be a complete outage (the IPs will be dead).
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By barneyb on April 7, 2010
Over lunch I installed the WPTouch plugin to provide a iPhone OS-like interface for those of you who want to read site on your phone but not with the full layout. Mmobile devices will still see the normal layout by default; you must enable the new interface using the toggle in the footer. Once toggled, [...]
Posted in meta, wordpress
By barneyb on March 31, 2010
I've been working towards this for quite some time, and last night I finally replaced ColdFusion with Railo on my personal server. By and large the switch went flawlessly. I made a few compatibility changes ahead of time and found and fixed a few issues subsequently, but really smooth overall. Even better, the memory footprint [...]
Posted in cfml, coldfusion, meta, railo
By barneyb on March 30, 2010
Tonight I'm switching from my CFML from ColdFusion 8 to Railo 3.1.2.010 (bleeding edge). So starting here in a couple hours there is undoubtedly going to be broken stuff. Pic of the Day, of course, is the primary focus of the upgrade and I've already done extensive testing of that codebase on Railo so it [...]
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By barneyb on March 10, 2010
A while back I made an attempt to move Pic of the Day (NSFW) off of ColdFusion 8 and onto Railo 3. I can't afford a license of CF9, so my only upgrade path is through a free alternative. Unless someone has an extra four grand they want to give me….
Last time I was foiled [...]
Posted in coldfusion, meta, potd, railo
By barneyb on March 1, 2010
So today I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.9.2 (I'd been running 2.7 since forever), and unfortunately it broke K2, which is the theme I've been using since I switched to WordPress years ago. K2 was a solid theme, but it started getting rather unstable I thought, so it was hard to get a good [...]
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By barneyb on March 1, 2010
Yeah, so apparently WordPress 2.9 totally broke K2. My apologies for the horrific appearance of the site, though I'm delighted to say the admin area still looks awesome! Or something. I'll get it fixed here shortly, I promise….
UPDATE: apparently WordPress not only deprecated `attribute_escape`, they also changed it's functionality (despite it's widespread use in the [...]
Posted in aside, meta
By barneyb on February 18, 2010
I just set up the WordPress plugin so I can do some formula stuff here. This is just a little test post with some example formulas taken from my sun/earth collision model.
Euler's Identity (at different sizes):
Gravitational Constant:
Force due to gravity:
Inline also works (e.g., ).
If you use shortcodes within a paragraph (e.g., [...]
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By barneyb on February 12, 2010
Last night I finally kicked JRun to the curb and replaced it with Tomcat on my personal server. I knew JRun was a pig and that I'd get some improvements by switching, I'd just never gotten around to doing it. I don't know why I waited. Here are two graphs from my server, see if [...]
Posted in coldfusion, meta
By barneyb on January 15, 2010
For quite some time now I've had a sidebar widget that displays an excerpt of my Twitter feed on my blog. It uses the standard Twitter JSON/P interface for loading the tweets and then a Twitter-provided script (http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogger.js) for rendering them on the page. Unfortunately the default installation instructions would have you set up something [...]
Posted in javascript, meta
