We have a web-based IMAP client running in a subdirectory on our mail server and I wanted to force all usage to be protected by SSL. Google turned up a lot of hits but none of them worked out of the box. Here’s the mod_rewrite snippet which is inside of a <VirtualHost> block:
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Looks like that one is going to leave a mark. Smoke from fires always appears closer than it really is, opposite of the side view mirrors on your car. This one looked like it was across the street and turned out to be 2 blocks away at 4th and Harrison.

Jennifer and I hit the San Francisco Greek Food Festival this weekend at the Annunciation Church on Valencia near Duboce. I love these arts and crafts fairs for their food and this one didn’t disappoint. The Loukoumades pictured right are like a honey-coated donut hole but much better. I also came across […]

I use Thunderbird as my email client and have been converting my accounts from POP3 to IMAP to access my mail from multiple devices (Laptop, Internet Cafe, Phone, etc).
Our fantastic anti-spam solution, DSPAM, occasionally misses a message. With a POP3 account I would forward it to a special address on our server configured to reclassify […]

In preparation for my trip, I did pretty extensive research on computer hardware to find what I was going to haul around with me to stay connected.
I couldn’t find this information elsewhere so I’m posting it for posterity. It’s a basic comparison of how the IBM X-series notebooks stack up against each other and […]

Joel Spolsky is a well-known programmer-author who has written some really great pieces on how to hire and manage programmers. He wrote a piece yesterday about Finding Great Developers that everyone should read. It’s certainly applicable to any type of position, not just programmers or technical staff. Joel puts more thought […]

I have a big report that I’m generating using CFDOCUMENT. It replicates a paper form by using a background image of the original form (in PNG format) and overlaying data from a database on top of it, absolutely positioned using CSS.
I have experienced a number of image scaling issues trying to use CSS background […]

Am I the last one to hear about outbound dialing from your web application? There are a couple of service providers who will let you programmatically initiate an outbound telephone call and incorporate pre-recorded audio or text-to-speech. I just tried a demo of CDyne’s Notify! and you can even set the caller ID […]

There have been a number of people who identified ColdFusion’s string handling (based on unmutable Java strings) to be somewhat slow.
I build large strings for use in custom reports for my app and I wanted to know how CFSAVECONTENT stacks up to other string handling in CF. Here are three ways (ordered by speed, […]

This isn’t a “racing” topic, but damn if this car wasn’t built to be raced! Chris from the E30 M3 SIG has posted pics of his brand new M Coupe going through the BMW delivery facility in Oxnard, California. About 100 pics are posted here.