To fix I needed to look for the variable being set: $html_page_title in /include/func/func.core.php and add an extra foreach loop to only add the first location element to the title.  Otherwise the only options for automated titles are reversing the order of all the elements.

		if ($config['SEO']['page_title_format'] == 'P') {
			foreach ($location as $k => $v) {
				if($k == 0)
					$tmp[] = strip_tags($v[0]);
			}
		}
		else {
			foreach ($location as $v) {
				$tmp[] = strip_tags($v[0]);
			}
		}

I have disabled purge of client sessions in the CF Admin and do my purge during low load hours using a separate schedule.

I run 4 queries in a bash script.  You can write a CF script to run these in windows or any other scripting language that let’s you connect to your client variable database.

Here’s the MySQL versions of the queries:

delete from CDATA where CFID in (select CFID from CGLOBAL where CGLOBAL.lvisit < date_sub(now(), interval 60 day));

delete from CGLOBAL where lvisit < date_sub(now(), interval 60 day);

optimize table CDATA;

optimize table CGLOBAL;

Optimizing your tables after the purge will clean up the empty space in your db file left now that those records are gone.  This is helpful if you delete thousands of records at a time.

I recently found this script for Wrapping Text using Eclipse Monkey. It’s some simple javascript that does hard wrapping around a certain number of characters per line. It pays attention to words and will insure that your lines never go beyond a particular column width.

This solution works for my particular needs of having to past in some content from Firefox into html files in Eclipse. Firefox doesn’t pay attention to the line brakes in the copying process so I end up getting some huge, ugly looking lines in Eclipse. For html output, the hard wrap of lines, with a return after each line is fine. If you’re using the CFEclipse plugin for Eclipse, there’s an icon in the tool bar that allows for soft wrapping of the text. This is really the best way to go for non-destructive wrapping. But that does assume you’re using CFEclipse and in that view. Outside of that, this script using the Eclipse Monkey plugin is a big help.

Eclipse Monkey, Project Dash is sweet. It basically allows you to build plugins into the Eclipse interface using javascript, offering clean menu integration and hotkey support right out of the box. I’ve spent all of 10 minutes thusfar with Eclipse Monkey, have installed this word wrap script and already have some other ideas of scripts I could pull off quickly.

Also this hasn’t been mentioned yet but I notice the Mate framework for Flex will be discussed at cfObjective this upcoming May by Laura Arguello.  I haven’t been able to get my hands on this yet but it sounds interesting.

Thanks to Merlin Mann for the title, this should make it into his mannerisms (pdf). If you’re someone who would watch Darth Vader make hash browns, you’ll love the Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978. Holy smokes. This could very well be the most wonderfully horrible bit of video I’ve seen. Wow. Do a search for Star Wars Holiday Special on You Tube for clips. Or you can find the full special floating around usenet. Or if you’re campically challenged but still want to get in on the fun, check out this version from Rifftrax to have the humor explained for you.

Just ran across this list of OSX menu bar items. Great collection. The menu bar app, Caffeine was pointed out to me. This great little app allows you to disable and enable your energy saver settings with a single click. So basically you can be a good little monkey and use efficient energy saver settings most of the time but then if you need it, click the ZZZ in the menu bar to make sure your computer won’t go to sleep. If you give a presentation or watch a movie with your laptop unplugged, you know the annoyance of your screen shutting off or your screen saver coming on. I’ve enjoyed HimmelBar but don’t see a need for it in leopard with the stacks functionality. If you’re still using Tiger, check it out. iDiskMenu looks very cool as well as a menu app to mount and unmount webdav and ftp network shares. Unfortunately this doesn’t fire up in Leopard but it gets me wanting something to easily manage network shares. Also nfs support is a must for me. I’ll need to figure that out. Seems like a perfect job for the RixStep guys.

I assume you’re familiar with how to install both separately so I’ll just be going over how to get both to play together.

In my world the Plesk control panel is just used simply used so that staff in our small software company can manage websites and not need to use a shell. No one else even has access to Plesk. Because of this, separation and security are not primary concerns. Also, I have no need to let anyone or myself manage CF DSN’s from within Plesk, being able to do this in CF Admin is fine.

So what I’ve done is enable the ColdFusion checkbox used when setting up a website so that CF code can be used on a particular website. Any ColdFusion management capabilities of Plesk are not enabled.

[root@yadda]# /usr/local/psa/bin/cfsetting -s /opt/coldfusion8
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/opt/coldfusion8/runtime/servers/default/SERVER-INF/jrun.xml"
Config not parsed successfully.

Running that cfsetting command with the -s switch and the cf root from the commandline showed me an error plesk was running into. I found jrun.xml in a different place.

/opt/coldfusion8/runtime/servers/coldfusion/SERVER-INF/jrun.xml

Since I think jrun.xml should be pretty much the same from CF7 to CF8, I’m going to just try pointing Plesk to the right place with a simlink.

cd /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/servers/ && ln -s coldfusion default

Now I run the cfsetting command again.

/usr/local/psa/bin/cfsetting -s /opt/coldfusion8

Now I notice when starting up Apache that it’s trying to startup mod_jrun twice. In my ColdFusion install I selected to build a mod_jrun connector to hook into Apache during the install. Turns out that this conflicts with Plesk. It’s a simple fix. Just fire up your httpd.conf file and look for all instances of cfm or jrun. You should see these entries toward the bottom of the file. Just comment out the whole block of stuff by putting a hash sign in from of the lines. Or you could always delete this stuff if you want.

For each website that you enable ColdFusion support for you should see this code in the httpd.include file for the site.

JRunConfig Verbose false
JRunConfig Apialloc false
JRunConfig Ignoresuffixmap false
JRunConfig Serverstore /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/lib/wsconfig/psa/jrunserver.store
JRunConfig Bootstrap 127.0.0.1:51800
AddHandler jrun-handler .jsp .jws .cfm .cfml .cfc

If you need to do a little troubleshooting, just make sure that you don’t see code like this in any of the global config files for apache. As well make sure your jrunserver.store file exists. And make sure you’re loading the mod_jrun module somewhere. Plesk should drop this into zz010_psa_httpd.conf in the conf.d folder. Make sure that exists: LoadModule jrun_module /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/lib/wsconfig/psa/mod_jrun20.so. And lastly, double check your jrun.xml file you should see a mention of jrun broadcasting on port 51800 … you should see that in the jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService block of the jrun.xml file. It’s possible that jrun is running on a different port, if that’s the case you’ll need to change it to 51800. Or somehow find out how to change the Plesk default.

If you have any troubles, post a comment here and I’ll see if I can help.