NCDEVCON 2013
The 2013 NCDevCon conference is excellent as always and the conference sessions are on-line and can be viewed here. Thanks to the good people in the Textile college at NCSU for the superb facility and...
View ArticleColdFusion 10 Enhanced Performance Settings
By gathering information from others and using those settings and tweaking during load-testing we have arrived at a very good set of enhancements for ColdFusion 10, which now runs on Tomcat. Summarized...
View ArticleColdFusion 10 Logging In Multiple Instances Settings
There is a problem with the default behavior of ColdFusion 10 multiple instance install as it pertains to logging. When we first install ColdFusion 10 an instance is created called "cfusion" and in a...
View ArticleAmazon AWS An Epiphany For Me
For many years I have had slight feelings of discomfort relating to Cloud based services; one being the proprietary nature of the overall software abstraction. I recently attended an AWS boot-camp in...
View ArticleImportant Oracle Java Virtual Machine Information.
This past few days I have been at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit in Las Vegas; it has been great to meet with good friends again. I was part of a Webapper team presenting here and I spoke on a beneficial...
View ArticleColdFusion 10 and 11 Enterprise Installs Do Not Connect External Web Server.
Sorry if this sounds mildly dictatorial its is not meant to, however during a ColdFusion 10 or 11 Enterprise Multiple Instance install it is really very important not to connect to the external web...
View ArticleNew Java J2EE Java EE Performance Blog
Since 2001 I have effectively been working on Java Containers and the JVM. This is a short blog post to announce the launch of a new blog I created to focus purely on Java performance issues and...
View ArticleKudos To Luis Majano - Books
I have knoww Luis Majano for a good number of years and he supports the CFML community unstintingly and I wanted to point out that he has 5 books available and in his words..."We are so excited to...
View ArticleUsing Java Mission Control And Flight Recorder
This weekend I finally got around to spending a lot of time on the great features which were added to the Oracle Hotspot JVM with version 7u40, with regard to monitoring and tuning the JVM. This was...
View ArticleReflections On The 2015 Coldfusion Conference
Over these past few days I have had the privilege to present at the 2015 Adobe ColdFusion conference, it was a co-presentation with Milan Chandna and we presented on tuning the web server connector and...
View ArticleColdFusion - The Relevant - The Community
One of the charming points of the Adobe ColdFusion conference was a video showing Jeremy and JJ Allaire chatting about how and why ColdFusion came about. It was in 1995 that the effective first...
View ArticleThe Coolest Computer Language.
This is a tech note from my alter ego; well in truth I do not have much of an ego; I hope. Yesterday I was asked to describe the history of ColdFusion, the computer language not the physics, one is in...
View ArticleCritical ColdFusion Security Patches
Adobe just released patches for ColdFusion 10 and 11, the links are shown below...ColdFusion 10 Update 21: https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-10-update-21.htmlColdFusion 11 Update 10:...
View ArticleRDBM's Open Source Or Proprietary For HA?
Recently, I was involved in setting up a 3 node MariaDB-Galera cluster; I have worked previously on SQL Server mirroring and it was interesting to contrast the two. The biggest difference in those two...
View ArticleThe Importance Of Accurate Capacity Planning
Imagine being asked to re-design a computer based system on which peoples lives depended; 24x7. That happened to me, 19 years ago and it absolutely involved accurate capacity planning. It was a large...
View ArticleUpComing Video Series–Load Testing Applications To Tune And Improve Performance.
This is a very short post to let all know that we are about to record and publish a series of informative videos on how to create and use load-testing to tune applications in order to improve...
View ArticleUsing ColdFusion 2016 With Nginx - Linux
At the Adobe ColdFusion Summit, in Las Vegas in October it was announced that the next version of ColdFusion would officially support Nginx, there was quite a bit of excitement about that. This is a...
View ArticleTelecommuting An Environmental Savior
Back in May 2008 I posted a blog piece on telecommuting in technology jobs. At that time I was living in Los Angeles, CA one of the most traffic congested cities on our planet, however it is far from...
View ArticleCouchbase and CFCouchbase
Back in 2009-2011 I was co-running the ColdFusion User Group in Los Angeles CA and Luis Majano was running the Inland Empire ColdFusion User Group out in Pomona CA. We met quite a few times and Luis...
View ArticleA People's History Of The Amazon Cloud
One of my reading/listening inspirations over the years has been Howard Zinn and of course his book "A Peoples History Of The United States" is a classic whichever side of wherever we come, it is at...
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