It is always good to see ColdFusion used on high profile web sites and no doubt the Hollywood Bowl is one of the most widely recognized venues in the world. So it is bloody nice to see they are using ColdFusion for all to see. And yes I am an Airhead, not I hope in [...]

LinuxISO.org has many different distributions of Linux for download. It looks like a definitive single source for all the distributions I am familiar with including: - College Debian Fedora Free BSD Gentoo Knoppix Lycoris Mandrake Slackware SuSE TSL turbolinux Yellow Dog Check out the site here.

Now this has to be the biggest stretch of all and I just have to say Hands Up I am totally off topic and yet ;o). Cricket, ah such a game with a nice cup of tea and cake. Anyway England are in the ICC Champions Trophy Finals having beaten Australia and they [...]

As mentioned in a previous post we are finding increasing use of ColdFusion MX in a J2EE version in larger enterprises. In that version there is far more access to the underlying JVM settings, this opens up all sorts of opportunities to us but many of us need to get more educated about what [...]

I first came to Los Angeles CA from England about 13 years ago and I have watched the traffic situation here deteriorate steadily. At 3:00pm today on a freeway here (the 60 for those who know) traffic was bumper to bumper in both directions and this is not by any means the busiest freeway [...]

We are finding that many of our Enterprise clients are getting very interested in Macromedia Breeze. Macromedia are beginning to run training programs for Breeze and I am currently in Newton MA (Allaire’’s previous headquarters) and what I learning is very exciting. There will be opportunities for many of us as Breeze grows in [...]

We have pretty much been involved in web development since the emergence of what some now call the Commercial Internet. Being early adopters of various Windows based server products like Windows NT, NT Mail, O”Reilley Website (at one point the only viable web server for Windows well before IIS). This was mainly due to [...]

There was a time when malicious images were thought to be a virtual impossibility, well now we have to think again. Microsoft just released details of a new threat to their operating system and Office products – The security hole is a buffer overflow that potentially allows an attacker to craft a special JPEG [...]

In high load large enterprise environments the “Garbage Collection” routines built into the J2EE infrastructure can be a significant degrading load factor in the performance of an application. Sun addresses this in this interesting article. This article specifically addresses JVM 1.4.2.

Interesting how memory management remains the key to efficient ColdFusion MX - JRun application deployment. Those of us who used previous versions of ColdFusion (prior to MX) for large web applications know only too well that memory management was key. Badly written shared scope code, unresponsive resources etc would bring CF to it’’s [...]