I am never sure how many people read this blog, but I thought I would put this out there. I currently have some extra bandwidth to work on contract projects or am open to a telecommuting position.

I have extensive experience in web application development on multiple platforms. I have done consulting work on my own for almost 12 years and would be interested to see how my skills and experience might be an asset to your team.

You can view my resume at: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/joshuascott

Feel free to contact me via e-mail or twitter.

After working happily for a year or so, a client’s donation engine that uses the PayPal Web Payments Pro system started throwing errors. Upon closer inspection it was giving a “Connection Failure” error and not even completing the SSL handshake. After talking with PayPal and digging around on the Internet I found the solution.

1. Go to: https://www.verisign.com/support/roots.html and download roots.zip file.
2. Copy and rename the “Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority – G2.cer” file from the root certificates zip file provided by VeriSign to c:\vs-g2-import.cer to remove spaces from the filename.
3. Issue the following command: C:\CFusionMX7\runtime\jre\bin\keytool.exe -import -keystore c:\cfusionmx7\runtime\jre\lib\security\cacerts -storepass changeit -noprompt -trustcacerts -file c:\vs-g2-import.cer -alias vs-g2-import-09-09-30
4. Restart ColdFusion.

Works like a champ now. Thanks PayPal for the advance warning.

Additional Information:

• http://www.pdncommunity.com/t5/blogs/blogarticlepage/blog-id/mts_updates/article-id/456
• http://www.pdncommunity.com/pdn/board/message?board.id=nvp&thread.id=5557

I have been using CFBuilder now everyday since it was in beta and have a few reflections:

1. OBVIOUS – It is not as developed as CFEclipse and as such has some irritating bugs that will be worked out in time.
2. Needs to have tighter Aptana tie in.
3. Should include a SVN client.
4. Server management ROCKS.
5. Tag insight and introspection show be a little quicker.

More later…

I just upgraded tonight to the latest release of BlogCFC, (what runs this blog) and realized that there is not an upgrade script for mssql. I edited the one provided for mysql and here it is:

ALTER TABLE tblblogcomments
 ADD killcomment varchar(35) NULL

ALTER TABLE tblblogcomments
 ADD subscribeonly int NULL

ALTER TABLE tblblogentries
 ADD summary varchar(255) NULL

ALTER TABLE tblblogentries
 ADD subtitle varchar(100) NULL

ALTER TABLE tblblogentries
 ADD keywords varchar(100) NULL

ALTER TABLE tblblogentries
 ADD duration varchar(10) NULL

I have been a functional Windows bigot for most of my programming life. No more.

I had a server crash that happened to host the Resonant Media Technologies website. I took the time this time to really set it up right. I installed CentOS 5.2 and VMware 2, I will blog more, but the experience was incredible.

As I was deploying the latest version of the Resonant Media site (www.resonantmedia.com). It was important to do as much as possible to make it search engine friendly. I opted to use a custom 404 page that processes the the URL via simple CFC that I built.

I will be posting more about the way it works in a future post.

Well, I have started migrating some of my apps to CF8 and am VERY impressed. There has not been any major hickups. Actually, I have had no problems.

I am very happy that it appears that we have a very solid and feature rich new version of CF to enjoy.