Through many years of internal and external work, Allaire then Macromedia have both driven and been driven by good practices for Enterprise Web Application development. I feel that both company’’s had very definitely been at the leading edge and before the metamorphosis of Allaire and Macromedia into one, they excelled at different points in [...]

I am currently out on a longish project helping a large client to identify some web application bottlenecks. This is a process we at Webapper have undertaken many times and it was the core of much of our work when I was a Consultant with Allaire and then Macromedia; pre Webapper days. Our modus-operandi typically involved using a load-test [...]

Apache is generally perceived as a superior web server to IIS partly because access to the internals via configuration files gives far more control and transparency. However lots of organizations are using IIS as their prime web server and I came across what looks like a useful article. The article referenced below has some useful [...]

Troubleshooting issues in Fusebox applications can be a little more difficult than non-Fusebox because of the index.cfm file showing up as handling all requests. We are a Fusebox shop so have dealt with this issue over the years and one of the things we built into SeeFusion is the display of the Full URL. [...]

Brandon Purcell has logged so much good stuff it’’s not true. I was looking around for good articles on threading as it pertains to Java. I found another good article on Brandon’’s site, it’’s a 2003 article which describes about the mysteries of threading in Java. This is a good illustrative article and as Ben Forta, [...]