This site monitors Internet Traffic across the globe. The aggregated numbers showing Average Response time and Packet Loss along with other metrics are divided into Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America.

This is a good article for those of us looking to adequately serve content to “Pocket PC” type mobile devices such as PDA’’s. This is a rapidly growing market and something we should all pay attention to in both existing and new web application design.

Sean Corfield conistently puts out exceptional information and help to the ColdFusion and other communities. This guide to ColdFusion MX Coding is a marvelous resource for those wishing to create ColdFusion applications that are functional, well-formed and understandable to other developers.

Microsoft recently released Service Pack 3 for SQL Server. As with all SP’’s this release rolls up all previous patches etc and adds some enhancements such as the Management Agent running as non administrator.

Sometimes it is useful to use the SMTP Service in IIS as a local mail server for ColdFusion’’s CFMAIL tag. If you try this and have difficulties with relay go through these steps and you should be ok. Open the IIS management console, if the SMTP service is installed you will see it there. [...]

There were several changes in the way CFMX handles Datasources (DSN’’s) in comparison to earlier versions of ColdFusion. One is how CFMX handles trusted connections in Microsoft SQL Server. This article from Macromedia addresses that issue.

As we all move more and more into using multi-media files in our applications it is useful to have reasonable resources with basic information about formats etc. Litex Media have such a resource, I hope this is helpful to all at some time or other.

This is a very interesting project and those of us who used Allaire-Macromedia Spectra are familiar with the concept of the COAPI ”content object application programming interface”. To quote from the FourQ project web site “FourQ is based on the theory that it only takes four database queries to provide a persistence layer for [...]

There can be issues when installing the latest version of ColdFusion MX on J2EE servers that relate to ColdFusion MX not starting after the install. Sean Corfield has a good methodology for this sort of install located here on his blog.

This is not new news however it is likely to affect whatever the next version of Fusebox becomes. FuseQ was one enhancement to the Fusebox 3.0 version and addresses several concepts the main one being that instead of a single Fuseaction limit to each user request, multiple Fuseactions can be queued. The FuseQ [...]