Using Ruby to Get All Links from a Sitemap XML File

a sitemap.xml file

I was looking at the cached pages on the Wayback Machine and decided to find out if that site had an API. (It does.) I wanted to find a way to use this API to submit links to the Wayback Machine database. As it turns out, a Ruby gem called WaybackArchiver has already been written … Read more

Some Good Resources on Database Performance Optimization and Tuning

database symbol

Database performance optimization is a skill that is very important for both the database administrator and the database developer. I decided to put together a few links here that may be useful in disseminating information about database tuning and query optimization on various database systems, both relational and non-relational. I’ll be updating this from time … Read more

Fun with CFAJAXPROXY on ColdFusion 11

my Stack Overflow question

In the course of moving an application from ColdFusion 8 to ColdFusion 11, I came across some strange behavior caused by the CFAJAXPROXY tag. In CF8, a particular CFCOMPONENT called ProjectBeanService had proxies set up for its methods in the rendered JavaScript like this: However, in CF11, more proxies were created: This made no sense … Read more