ZDNet Australia is reporting that there is still a market for IT professionals. The story is at http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/0,2000048640,20276849,00.htm The part I like is this: "Specific technology skills expected to be in demand during the next 12 months include wireless ......
I've been finding myself doing more and more Java coding as of late (including rewriting several C/C++ CFX tags in Java). For the most part I have gotten used to the language (although I've found myself wanting to use C style preprocessor directives like #ifdef on more than one occasion). But the...
I've come down with a horrible flu. I'll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that this is not fun. I was supposed to present to the Southern California ColdFusion Users Group (SCCFUG) tonight, but that is not going to happen now. The group web site at http://www.sccfug.org/ will post the...
My blog now has a WAP interface. Why? Well, it started as playing around, and then I gave a copy to Ray Camden and have since been keeping up with his blog via my cell phone (in airports, taxis, wherever). It's been working so well, that I added lots more functionality to the code over this past...
German Macromedia partner Interlake GmbH is graciously offering free ColdFusion and Flash Comm Server hosting to any ColdFusion community or user group sites. They have also created a Flash Comm application that can be branded and used by user groups to broadcast meetings. To learn more visit...
I am now getting spammed regularly by spammers offering to sell me anti-spam software. The fact that they keep sending these messages is making me think that there are idiots out there who are actually taking them up on the offer. And honestly, I find that more troubling than the spam itself.
Three more locations added to my summer US user group tour, two locations in CA and one in TX. Dates and locations are posted on my home page. If you're in the area (or rather, if I'm in your area), make sure to come by and say "hi".
It happened, the first "porting" problem reported to me by a user. Last week I moved my sites from a Windows 2000 box to Linux 8 running Apache 2.4. The move was about us painless as can be (with the exception of having to rename a few copies of application.cfm to Application.cfm). Today a user in...
First real problem on the Linux box. Sites were down for most of Sunday (and early Monday). Somehow Apache stopped running, it seems that a module was not at the version level that it required. (I am still trying to work out how this happened, I did update some RPMs last week, but if that caused...
If you have ever spent time optimizing the performance and user experience of your Web pages, then this utility may be the best $200 you'll spend. HttpWatch installs right into IE and displays a pane which exposes everything that a browser is doing when a URL is requested. You'll see the load time...