IIS 6 has been remarkably successful since it was introduced just over a year ago. As per Netcraft (reported in May 2004), "2,100,000 hostnames were identified on Windows Server 2003, with a gain of 390,000 hostnames since April 2004. Around 50% of these are new sites, while just under 100,000 have...
This one sent to me by Jared Rypka-Hauer. The Gates Millennium Scholars was established in 1999 to provide outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college...
During the MacroChat this afternoon, I mentioned that Symantec was using ColdFusion on their public site, and several of you e-mailed to tell me that you looked and only saw .html URLs. So, go to http://www.symantec.com/ and click on "Products and Services", just about every link in the Products...
Wow, I make one little "by the way" comment in a MacroChat, and the e-mails start immediately! So, just to be sure that I don't get misquoted ... I first demonstrated the ability to deploy ColdFusion applications without deploying source code in my keynote at DevCon 2001 in Orlando. There were no...
By popular demand, the Central NJ CFUG has been added to the upcoming Summer 2004 User Group Tour. The current tour schedule is on my homepage, http://www.forta.com/.
Macromedia has created a hot fix for Verity so as to support additional versions of Linux. Verity is now supported with ColdFusion MX 6.1 on the following Linux versions: Red Hat (7.2, 7.3, 8, 9), Red Hat AS (2.1, 3.0), Red Hat ES (2.1, 3.0), Suse (7.2, 7.3, 8.0). The HotFix is downloadable from...
Dave Gruber, Tim Buntel, and I will be co-hosting the ColdFusion MacroChat today at 3:00 PM Eastern (12:00 PM Pacific, 8:00 PM UK, 9:00 PM Europe). No specific topic, as long as it is CF related it is fair game. So bring your questions, comments, suggestions, whatever to...
SpyBot S&D (for "Search & Destroy") is a great little utility that will help you find adware, tracking cookies, and other little nasties. I had been using an earlier version for a while (more to keep an eye on what cookies are being used for than anything else), and now v1.3 is out. SpyBot...
I've posted several rants about bad customer service, and these caught the eye of Adam Bailine who calls himself "a bad customer service junkie". He e-mailed me to tell me about his book "Service this: Winning the war against Customer Disservice". I have not seen the book yet, so no reviews, but...
South African IT publication, ITWeb, is running a story on a large call center application created for Benefit Recover Services. As per the description, "The call centre, which deals with a large number of pension funds, required a system that would allow operators to locate and contact people,...