Using ColdBox and LogBox for Error Logging

On December 1, 2011, in ColdFusion, by Anuj Gakhar

If you are a ColdFusion developer and have not used ColdBox yet, well then, I must say you are missing something. Go ahead and try it out. This post won’t make much sense to anyone not familiar with ColdBox. For those who are familiar with ColdBox, I will be including an example of how you […]

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ColdBox Plugin for Amazon SES

On November 30, 2011, in ColdFusion, AWS, by Anuj Gakhar

A few days ago, I wrote an API wrapper for Amazon Simple Email Service. Today, I thought of converting it into a ColdBox Plugin for use within ColdBox apps. I have added the plugin source code to the existing github repository for the project. Feel free to use, test and report any issues (if found).

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Directly Uploading a File to Amazon S3 with Railo

On November 29, 2011, in AWS, Railo, by Anuj Gakhar

I work with Railo and Amazon S3 on an almost daily basis and one of the things I recently looked at was how to upload a file directly to Amazon S3 when a form with a file type field is submitted. Turns out it is pretty easy to do so.  Railo has built in support […]

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ColdBox 3.5.0 Module Contest : Win a Kindle Fire or an iPod

On November 29, 2011, in ColdFusion, by Anuj Gakhar

Luis Majano posted on his blog about a ColdBox contest that allows you to win a Kindle Fire or an iPod Nano. ColdBox 3.5.0 Beta has been released just yesterday and I believe it is a good opportunity to develop and win prizes at the same time. I am a regular ColdBox user myself and […]

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Server Side Google Analytics with ColdFusion

On November 25, 2011, in ColdFusion, by Anuj Gakhar

If you have an application/page that returns only XML or JSON repsonses and the end client is not a browser (an API e.g.) and you want to use Google Analytics for tracking your API calls, then you won’t be able to use the standard Google Analytics Javascript code. There is no browser involved and you […]

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How to Deploy App to iOS Device using XCode

On November 25, 2011, in Mobile, by Anuj Gakhar

In this post, I will be talking about the steps involved in deploying your PhoneGap app to your iOS device using XCode. Bear in mind that if you only want to test your app functionality, you can do so in the iOS Simulator available within XCode. However, for whatever reason, if you want to actually […]

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Book Give-away : PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide

On November 23, 2011, in Mobile, Books, by Anuj Gakhar

Book Give-away Hold a chance to win free copy of the PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide, just by commenting! For the contest I have 2 copies of PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide, to be given away to 2 lucky winners. How you can win To win your copy of this book, all you need to do is come up […]

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PhoneGap Gotcha : ERROR whitelist rejection

On November 22, 2011, in Mobile, by Anuj Gakhar

I have been doing my first PhoneGap App today and as part of the exercise, I am using jQuery Mobile 1.0, PhoneGap 1.2 on Xcode 4.2 on my MacBook Pro. The first thing I did was to copy/paste some code from jQuery Mobile site into my HTML page. I won’t be pasting the entire code […]

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Book Review : PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide

On November 21, 2011, in Mobile, Books, by Anuj Gakhar

I have recently started doing Mobile Apps development as well and one of the things I have been looking at is PhoneGap. PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best. Packt […]

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Using Amazon EC2 – Things to Consider

On November 19, 2011, in AWS, by Anuj Gakhar

I recorded this video sometime back on present.me and I thought I would post it here as well. It’s a small video I recorded when I first started using Amazon EC2.

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