Tomcat 7 on Windows is not UTF-8 by default
When building web applications one typically uses UTF-8 encoding thoughout to ensure that you can send and receive text in …
Category Archives: Railo and ColdFusion
A review of Railo 3 Beginner’s Guide by Mark Drew
I have been blogging ColdFusion for several years and Mark’s publisher kindly sent me a copy of his new book …
Amazon EC2, Rackspace or Google App Engine?
In an earlier post I blogged about my experience on Amazon EC2 (I like it) and referred the reader to …
Elastic Beanstalk review
I have been doing a small scale trial of Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk. I have previously trialled Rackspace cloud. I am …
Joy reigns with AWS CloudFormation
Amazon’s relentless drive to make infrastructure management easier continues with their announcement of AWS CloudFormation. The big problem that ordinary …
ColdFusion is a high level language; why does it capture less value?
I am a project manager and I have worked with both ColdFusion and Java development teams. I have often wondered …
Flex London User Group (FLUG) January meeting
A review of the January FLUG Meetup at Academy Class. Great venue with great staff. Very interesting presentation on video …
AWS Elastic Beanstalk – free Tomcat clustering in the cloud
This came today. It is quite interesting. Scalable cloud management on Amazon. It is “free” which contrasts with other offerings. …
Install Railo in Tomcat – where do I put my files?
This is repost of my contribution to the Railo Google Group. Goal You are a Railo and Tomcat newbie and …
Dr James Bayley 