Railo installation is getting extremely easy thanks to Vivio Technologies installer. Trying to implement Kakapo for Railo today, I installed Railo on my windows 7, 64 bit laptop and by the time my coffee finished, Railo installation also finished. After mapping a virtual host to my working directory, I typed http://mylocalhost/myfolder/ and it returned an Error, instead index.cfm file in that folder. (more..)

UPS has updated their API documentation recently. Compared to their last documentation, new version is pretty good. If you are planning to use UPS API, first create a UPS account, get hold of an API access Key and most importantly download the API documentation and go through it. UPS shipping service have far too many options and scenarios I cannot explain in a single post. UPS Shipping label creation has three parts, “ShipConfirm”, “ShipAccept” and “Void”. (more..)

I have been hosting my personal/experimental/demo web sites in an entry level dedicated server for past couple of years. A dedicated server, even if it runs on a Pentium processer with 3 Gig memory, provides excellent freedom compared to shared-hosting. Freedom often not cheap and this bit of freedom have been costing me between $175 to $125 per a month. (more..)

No matter how intensively we test our applications, majority of errors occur while our applications are live. If you have an exception handler setup in your application, it may let you know there is an error waiting to be fixed, but it provides you with very little information about why and how that error occurred. (more..)