Behind Aisle8

Ubercart is a a popular shopping cart plug-in for the popular Drupal Content Management system. Parallel’s Plesk is a popular hosting control panel.
When configuring a Drupal-Ubercart install on a Plesk based host Ubercart requires the creation of a /keys directory that is outside of your document root (aka /httpdocs in Plesk )  To create a [...]

For the past year or so I’ve been managing all my various email addresses from gmail. It’s been working well until a week before Christmas when the gmail’s spam filter decided that all of the voice mails forwarded from our office VOIP system were spam. The system forwards me voicemails in the format
“john.doe [...]

I’ve learned the hard way that while directly altering Plesk’s database is almost never a good idea, the Plesk database ‘PSA’ holds a ton of useful information that’s not always readily exportable from the interface. Here are a couple of useful queries. The first simply exports a list of “standard hosted” domains. [...]

Well, it looks like I really can’t blame this on a flaky WIFI connection at the coffee shop. Gmail is returning a 502 error. In other words, gmail is down. Looks like I’m not the only one. There’s some chatter HERE on google groups.
So, what exactly causes a 502 error?  The folks [...]

The OpenBlueDragon site says “Open BlueDragon, is the worlds favourite open source GPL J2EE CFML runtime engine…Available to download today as a standard Java J2EE WAR file, or completely pre-configured JETTY server, VMWare/Amazon image, you can be up and running within minutes.
The British spelling of “favourite” might indicate that OpenBlueDragon has made a jump across [...]

OpenBlueDragon, “the worlds favourite GPL open source J2EE CFML runtime engine” is out and available at OpenBlueDragon.org. This is a fantastic addition to the open source world.
For the last eight years I’ve built three companies and made a good living developing coldfusion applications. We’ve all watched as the product and our destiny passed [...]