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’ve been squatting on my personal twitter account for almost 3 years now.  I finally hooked up a client to alert me to tweets in real time.  After hooking that up, I promptly dropped a whole pile of professional acocunts I had been following for products or services I was interested in.  I dropped them because Twitterrific would keep popping up with some company saying stuff like “Good morning Twitterverse”.  Are you kidding me?  How annoying.  I assume these companies think they need to keep talking to keep their name in my face.  Well, there isn’t a single company I kept following that does stuff like this.  I don’t care how much I liked your product or service.

Don’t mix professional and personal tweets in your professional twitter account.

People who follow you professionally will end up dropping you if you throw too much fluff in there.

I’m guilty of getting too technical in my personal account.  I’ve tweeted when the fedex and ups api’s have been down.  I’m confident that 99% of the 30 people following my personal account don’t care about that.

So I’m going to stick to things on my personal account that may be of some interest to family and friends.  Any professional stuff needs to go elsewhere.

Personally I’ve started a twitter list for professional food related stuff in the Chicago area.  I’ve picked out mostly local folks who stick to talking about food almost all the time.  It’s something I’m passionate about and am excited to keep tabs on.  There’s some cool organizations and chefs which I’m not including in the list though because they’re mixing way too much personal in with the professional.  If half of my list is inside jokes and talk about what tv show they’re looking forward to, the list would get real boring, real quick.

I hope more and more professionals can catch on.  There’s some professional conversations I’m really interested in but don’t have the desire to put up with the noise that follows them.

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.

Here’s the bash script I’ve saved as mailcount.sh:

#!/bin/sh

MYSQLPASS=`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`

for DOMAIN in `mysql -uadmin -p$MYSQLPASS -e "select distinct domains.name from mail inner join domains on mail.dom_id=domains.id" -B -N psa`

do
echo $DOMAIN `zgrep -c -E "(to|from)=.+@$DOMAIN" /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog.processed.1.gz`
done

Here’s a version that copies and gunzip’s the maillog before doing any processing.

#!/bin/sh

MYSQLPASS=`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`

# copy the log file before decompress
cp /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog.processed.1.gz /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog.processed.1-working.gz &&

# decompress the log working file
gunzip /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog.processed.1-working.gz

for DOMAIN in `mysql -uadmin -p$MYSQLPASS -e "select distinct domains.name from mail inner join domains on mail.dom_id=domains.id" -B -N psa`
do
echo $DOMAIN `grep -c -E "(to|from)=.+@$DOMAIN" /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog.processed.1-working`
done

# remove the working log file
rm -f /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog.processed.1-working &&
echo "file removed"
exit;

I posted some tips on making websites for search engines at the office.

From Adobe’s IsPDFObject documentation, I’ve taken their example of reading in a file as a pdf object and writing it out.  I’ve even gone the extra step of making sure cf thinks the input file is a valid pdf.


<cfif IsPDFFile("filein.pdf")>
<cfpdf source="filein.pdf" action="read" name="myPDFform"/>
<cfif IsPDFObject(myPDFform)>
<cfpdf source=#myPDFform# action="write" destination = "fileout.pdf">
<cfelse>
<p>This is not a PDF.</p>
</cfif>
</cfif>


CF thinks the file is a pdf, it reads the file, it thinks the pdf document variable is valid, then when it tries to write, I get an error:


The file or directory (/Library/WebServer/Documents/coldfusion.pdf.PDFDocWrapper@1547134d) specified in the source attribute in the CFPDF tag does not exist.

The error occurred in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test.cfm: line 4

2 : <cfpdf source="filein.pdf" action="read" name="myPDFform"/>
3 : <cfif IsPDFObject(myPDFform)>
4 : <cfpdf source=#myPDFform# action="write" destination = "fileout.pdf">
5 : <cfelse>
6 : <p>This is not a PDF.</p>

Given where CF seems to be generating a temp file I could see this being a problem on my Linux box where cf can’t write to the webroot.  That would not be a problem on my local dev environment though where I can write to the webroot.  On both machines I can successfully access pdf files themselves and write to different files to add watermarks, get and set info, etc.  I just cannot work with the pdf document variable at all.  The last pdf file I tested with here was the CF 8.0.1 release notes from Adobe at around 250k.

When I get a solution to this issue, I’ll post it.  If anyone has any thoughts here I’m all ears.  Hopefully someone can point out that I’m doing something stupid and share a correction.  Otherwise I’ll submit a bug to Adobe.

I’m putting together some new marketing websites and need to come up with a design.  I can either pay a designer or find a premade template.  In past years, website templates have looked very unprofessional.  I started looking around at the current state of website templates and am impressed with the stylish xhtml/css options at Template World.  They offer some solid free selections, I’m going ahead with the $50 bucks for the members section since the templates are so good.

Adding some spices

With any of the templates I pick here, I’m going to take a little time to tweek things.  Template World doesn’t take the same approach as other template sites.  They offer a relatively small number of higher end templates rather than countless thousands of low end templates like the other guys.  So I’m not going to be able to find a template that has everything where I want it but with a little css work and some istock photo shopping I’m get something really slick.

Enter a shell one liner …

find . -name '*.LCK' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f

That command recursively looks in and under the directory I’m in for any files with the LCK extension and removes them.

Here’s a shell script you can save that will prompt you for an extension name to remove.

#!/bin/sh

echo "Enter Extension"
read filepattern
echo "Files matching *.$filepattern will be removed."
echo "Is this correct? y|n"
read confirmation

if  [ $confirmation = y ]; then
	find $PWD -name "*.$filepattern" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
else
	echo "quitting"
	exit;
fi

Or if you don’t want any confirmation of the file extensions you’re about to delete.

#!/bin/sh

echo "Enter Extension"
read filepattern
find $PWD -name "*.$filepattern" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f