A Developers Past time

In April 2012 doctors found a brain tumor in my 7 year old son, and within a 3 days they removed it.  I try to keep my professional career and personal life separate in many ways.  But I believe something this big should cross those boundaries.  This will be my only post, on my technical blog, so feel free to follow my personal blog if you would like to stay in touch. As of Today, I feel very lucky how the events have turned out, although this trip my family are on hasn't stopped our situation could have been a lot different. I've been trying to compile the events in my personal blog ( www.lonestarbandit.com ).

I use coldbox, and I am just now looking at using Railo with tomcat on Linux.   I have a development machine where I am loading different test cases into a single web root.  For example /contentBoxTest/ /TestIntranetSite/ /TestPublicSite/ The main handler worked, but all subsequent handler's failed, including modules. I found out that Railo/Tomcat doesn't have the greatest wildcard processor for handling frameworks with SES.  for example /contentBoxTest/index.cfm/help/me So I found that for each subfolder that we want the index.cfm to be processed in a SES way, we have to add a line to the configuration file. For mine, a default install the config file is located at /opt/railo/tomcat/conf/web.xml there is a structure within the xml file with within it mine now looks like this         GlobalCFMLServlet         *.cfm         *.cfml         *.cfc       ...

After looking at ColdFusion hosting providers and the extreme costs and limitations they through at you, I've decided to look at running my own in the Cloud.  Amazon AWS set of features and flexible price structure, including a free first year for development, made the decision easy to investigate first. I got to say at first I was a little overwhelmed with the naming conventions of AWS products.  But after stumbling and reading some articles, the terminology actually fits.  Once I got a machine running (Ubuntu 32bit), which was really easy with the "launcher" wizard AWS (EC2) provides), the challenge of connecting became very obvious.  I have used SSH in the past, I have always used it with a password.  AWS by default does NOT allow this, key pairs are required.  Again after a couple quick searches, I found Putty was the easiest.  I wish I had the main page I used, but I can't find it in my browser history.  Anyways, you take the PEM file given...