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Ashton Heritage Puro Sol Chruchill

July 26, 2006

July 26, 2006 Posted by Terrence Ryan at 11:44 PM

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Callowhill Restaurant

July 23, 2006

We've been living in our neighborhood for about 2 years. In that time, there has been a diner at 18^th and Callowhill that has never been open. It's been a huge disappointment because you have a diner that close to you, you want to enjoy it.

It opened back up again under new management within the last week or so. We went today as part of a post Bachelor Party hangover recovery.

It was fantastic. It was a typical diner menu. The service was a little green, but very nice, and the food was incredible and well priced.

The owner came over and chatted with us. He offered us some test slices of his pizza that he claimed was "New York Style." The New Yorkers at the table told him "We'll see about that." He gave us a sampler pie made up of slices from 6 of his types of pizza. It was amazing, and silenced the New Yorkers (a feat unto itself.)

So checkout the Callowhill Restaurant at 18^th and Callowhill. You won't be sorry.

July 23, 2006 Posted by Terrence Ryan at 2:53 PM

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Craig's Life in 19 Inches

July 19, 2006

Did you get your tickets to "My Life in 19 Inches" yet? It's this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Make sure you see it!

July 19, 2006 Posted by Terrence Ryan at 11:35 PM

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Importing SSL Certificates with Keytool - Finally

From time to time I have had the desire to use SSL certificates from Certificate Authorities (CA's) which are not included in the default build of Jrun. There are some tutorials on how to do this:

• ColdFusion MX: Configuring Secure SSL Connection with LDAP Directory Server
• Using Keytool to Import SSL Certificates into Sun JDK

Despite these resources, I could never get the import to work. It would give me the message that it imported and the list test would reveal that it worked but then ColdFusion couldn't connect to the secured resource. After repeated attempts, I would just figure out an alternate solution to my problem.

That is until today. I was trying it again, and to reduce my frustration, I created a batch file on the desktop of the server. When I ran the batch file, I saw that a cacerts file was created on my desktop. I did some digging, and relized that I was creating a new cacerts file every time I tried to do this, instead of appending the cert to the existing cacerts file.

So the solution was to run the keytool commands from the directory the cacerts file is located in. After you do that successfully, you need to restart the ColdFusion instance you wish to consume the secure services with.

I can't believe I overlooked something that straightforward but then again, maybe someone else has, and could use this piece of information.

July 19, 2006 Posted by Terrence Ryan at 11:23 AM

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Hoyo de Monterrey Dark Sumatran Media Noche

July 15, 2006

Bear with me, I'm trying out a new thing to generate my cigar reviews.

July 15, 2006 Posted by Terrence Ryan at 2:30 AM

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Movable Type 3.3

July 14, 2006

Following a full backup, I upgraded to Movable Type 3.3. If you are reading this, then posting from Word 2007 Beta works. There were absolutely no problems with this upgrade. It still generates my ColdFusion without errors. I did a complete rebuild, just a few errors related to a few bum plugins.

Great job on this release. Now if only the blog-spam blockers work better.

July 14, 2006 Posted by Terrence Ryan at 10:55 PM

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Asynchronous CFML without a Gateway

July 5, 2006

I came up with this while coming up with the wrong answer to a different question. My hope is that it is the wrong answer to someone else's question

How do you run an asynchronous request for without having access to a Asynchronous CFML Gateway?

1. Encapsulate the code to be run asynchronously into a CFFunction.
2. Set the access for the function to "Remote"
3. Put the function in a cfc.
4. (Optional) Secure the method so that it is called only from server the code resides on.
5. Call the code as a webservice using CFinvoke, with a timeout of "1".
6. Wrap the code in a cftry block.
7. In the cfcatch add the code block below.
8. That should do it.

<cfif not FindNoCase("Read timed out", cfcatch.Detail)>
<cfrethrow />
</cfif>

The CFcatch will prevent timeouts from being perceived as errors. The rethrow will ensure that other errors get treated as such.

Now there are some limitations to this. The process will take a minimum of 1 second. Which is slower than using the gateway method, but beats having to pay for the Enterprise version. Granted you don't have a separate application and session scope like you do with the Gateway, but you can if you put the CFC in a subfolder with its own application.cfc or application.cfm. You also don't get information back from the call, but neither do you with a CFML gateway.

Hopefully, this can be of use to someone.

July 5, 2006 Posted by Terrence Ryan at 4:22 PM

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Hoyo de Monterrey Dark Sumatran Noche

July 2, 2006

As part of an experiment in working and what not, I am going to work one afternoon a month remotely. This Thursday I went to Mahogany for the afternoon before alternative happy hour, and worked while I waited for Dan and Andrew to show up. In the process I wanted to try a new cigar.

For this, I went back to Hoyo de Monterrey. I haven't had one of these since my recent cigar renaissance. I used to love Rothschild's, but wanted to try something I had never had before. I saw this, and it definitely wasn't something I tried before.

Construction: No complaints here. It burned evenly, it didn't need to be relit, and burned perfectly.

Taste: It was absolutely wonderful. It started sweet and ended a bit spicy. It reminded me of what I remembered Maduro tasting like before I lost my tasted for it. I liked the taste so much that I went back for another cigar.

Stats: This cigar measures 6.5" with a ring gauge of 52. In terms of tobacco, this is a pretty unique blending. The Binder comes from Connecticut. The "Sumatran" wrapper is from Ecuador. The filler is made of Honduran, Nicaraguan, and Dominican tobacco. The cigar cost $4.95 a pop at holts.

Overall: This was the best new cigar I've had in a long time. It was so good that I hit up Dan and Andrew to pick me up another one on their way to Mahogany. A less than $5 per smoke, they are a tremendous value. Do yourself a favor, stop reading this, and pick up one of these babies.

July 2, 2006 Posted by Terrence Ryan at 10:30 PM

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