Many of us have heard the ongoing dirge that ColdFusion is not scalable, is not a serious language, environment, etc. etc. Well I just found out that the seventh highest trafficked site on the Internet runs on ColdFusion. Another dirge is that FuseBox imposes a measurable penalty which outweighs any usefulness it imbues. Well I just found [...]

We are seeing ColdFusion being more widely used in larger enterprises. Many of these have historically been IBM Shops which will almost certainly mean that they have DB2 in use. Already we have been on several projects where DB2 is the main Database engine and luckily IBM does an excellent job of documenting all [...]

Tuning web applications is both a challenging and rewarding endeavour. We have been doing this since 1999, first with Allaire, then Macromedia, then independently. Often we are asked to assist with important Macromedia clients and a recent project demanded some fairly in-depth optimizing not only of ColdFusion JRun bit also the web server in [...]

A perennial question on blogs etc is what can be done about password snafu's on Windows operating systems. Obviously this is a touchy subject as there are many security ramifications nevertheless I stumbled on this useful looking site whilst looking for some other information on Windows 2000. I thought it worth blogging as it has some good [...]

We”re extremely excited to announce the release of SeeFusion 2.0. This latest version of SeeFusion includes the long-awaited Enterprise Edition, along with a host of new features. Here’’s a summary of 2.0: Standard: Even faster than before SeeFusion.trace() function for more granular request tracking Optional “kill” command available to stop long running/hung requests Password protection Current/max heap size monitoring Enterprise: All standard version [...]