Create a Heartbeat Monitor for your Applications Using BugLogHQ

The latest release to BugLog (1.5.202) makes it very easy to build a custom "Heartbeat Monitor" to check the status of a web application and send you an alert via Email or SMS whenever there are signs of trouble.   Read More...

BugLogHQ Version 1.5 Now Available

Finally I was able to put aside other projects for a little bit so that I could spend some time doing some needed updates to BugLogHQ. BugLog is a ColdFusion tool used to collect and aggregate bug reports from multiple applications on multiple servers.   Read More...

Getting MySQLNonTransientConnectionException errors? Then Your MySQL Server Might Be Angry At You!

Today I experienced one of those errors that are not related to the actual stuff that you are working on, but because of it you can't work on anything else. The error I was getting was:   Read More...

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An unexpected error ocurred while retrieving content for content module s3.

Message: http://doughughes.net/WebServices/fortune/fortune.cfc?wsdl

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HomePortals 3 Portal Framework

Well, after several years of going back and forth with this project, I finally decided to share it with everyone and release my little baby as an open source project. HomePortals is a framework or platform for creating and running portals in ColdFusion. Most of the features in HomePortals focus around modularity, reusability of visual components, and personalization.

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Using Polymorphism and Inheritance to Build a Switchable Data Access Layer

One thing I don't like when starting on a new application is having to go through the process of setting up and configuring the database before I can get anything even running at all. So, for a couple of projects I'm working on I thought about reading and writing data to plain and simple XML files and then later replace that section of the code with a proper database access layer.

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BugLogHQ Now at RiaForge!

Hi, This is a quick update to let everyone know that BugLogHQ has been added to RiaForge. So the download will now be from there and not from here. The page for the project is Here. If someone is using it, I'll love to hear some comments and feedback.

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