Mark Drew (Redux)- cf_etc... a compendium of railo, cfml, cfeclipse and technology topics

Testing sent emails during development

There are many times when I get to the part of developing on my local machine that I want a smtp server to use. I have tried postfix and some other unix type applications on OS X for this but none of them were quite what I wanted, since I want to also integrate tests with it.

And to be honest, it took me too much time (that I don't have as you have noticed by the lack of blog posts) to figure out all the settings to do this.

Until I found fakemail (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fakemail/).

Fakemail is a python (or perl) script that you can run to simulate an SMTP server, but more importantly you can define where the emails that are sent out go.

It is very easy to install (check out this page: http://www.lastcraft.com/fakemail.php) and run, and does the trick splendidly.

4 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 9:42 PM - Categories: development

Railo in a Software as a Service environment

Straker, the makers of ShadoCMS and Zoom Flex have put up a great blog posting regarding using Railo in a Software as a Service environment.

They cover four areas such as Scalability, Security, Cost and Updates and even though it shows the Railo Server as a winner it is a overally fairly balanced article from the point of view of their requirements

Check out the full blog post on the Straker Blog

1 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 3:42 PM - Categories: cloud | railo | getrailo

A big thanks to the NYCFUG

This weekend I got a package in the post, with an awesome t-shirt from the NYCFUG! I want to thank Clark Valberg and Ben Nadel from Epicenter Consulting for sending me such an awesome item as well as for the fantastic reception I had at the NYCFUG in May! 

8 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 4:48 PM - Categories: railo | coldfusion | reactor

Mobile Gaming Developer Position in London

Unrelated to my usual CF shenanigans, but a friend of mine is looking for a developer to work in their London office. THIS IS NOT A CF ROLE. And also, agencies, not for you, they will not pay you a dime. Nor will I so dont email me.

=============- Job Spec -==============

Developer required to join the small development team of an award
winning and industry leader in mobile gambling. Developing robust
applications and services. Maintaining an extensive code and resource
base with easily maintainable, scalable and flexible code. Must come
with flexibility as well as a good attitude to development and finding
the right solution to any technical problem faced.

Read more...

0 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 4:42 PM - Categories: Java | jobs

Scotch on the Road and CFObjective Presentations

A few people have asked me to post my presentations, and I should have done so anyway straight after the conferences, but of course, since I did three presentations + a Mystery Theatre at cfobjective and four presentations at Scotch on the Road I have been falling behind normal work and blog postings.

So, here for your delectation are all the presentations for you to download... (apart from the Mystery Theatre 3000 since that has a naughty picture in it)

• Atomic Reactor: or how I stopped worrying and love the ORM
• ColdSpring: Better Living through configuration
• Which Framework? ColdBox, Mach-ii and Model Glue compared
• Whats Railo 3.1 Open Source?
• Railo in the Cloud
• ModelGlue and You

7 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 4:25 PM - Categories: cloud | railo | cfObjective | scotch on the rocks | model-glue | reactor | presentations

Free Railo hosting available from Alurium

In case you didn't already know, alurium.com are providing a 60 day free trial of Railo hosting.

You can of course, later upgrade to various packages, but if you want to see how Railo performs on a production site, without having to stump up the cash yourself, this is a great offer.

Read more...

15 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 12:09 PM - Categories: railo | getrailo

Off to the big Apple!

I am currently in Zürich, after doing two days training on ModelGlue, Reactor, ColdSpring, Test Driven Development and Ant (a lot packed into two days I tell you!) as well as hanging out with Gert Franz, the first time since we both starting working with each other!

Anyway, on Friday the 8th of May I am heading off to New York City to hang out with Peter Bell for a few days which shall be a blast again, just before cfObjective, and to present at the New York CFUG on the 12th of May.

Find out more details over at the New York CFUG (http://www.nycfug.com/) come over and join us, as well as having a beer (they do beer in NYC right?)

4 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 1:48 AM - Categories: railo | cfObjective | coldfusion | reactor