Subversion 1.6 RC2 Released

For Release Notes, What’s New, and a List of Changes, see: http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=445&dsMessageId=1200068

ColdBox Training Seminar in SoCal on Mar. 14-15

I just registered for the ColdBox Training Seminar in Southern California on Mar. 14-15. Come join me! More information about the course CBOX-101 can be found @ http://www.coldboxframework.com/index.cfm/courses/cbox101. Basically, this is the most in-depth course on ColdBox being offered. As you know, I have been an ardent fan and supporter of Mach II since July [...]

Arc90's New Tool: SQLWatcher

SQL Server 2005+ users should take a look at this. It looks very promisiing. Described as: “It would have been killer if you had recognized exactly which rows and columns were in play… and you have no ability to see what’s happening in real-time other than firing up ol’ SQL Server Management Studio and attempting [...]

Does anyone have experience with webloadtester.com?

I’ve used some of the company’s other services in the past, and I just received an email for some promotional pricing for Web Load Testing. Their email says: “We would like to inform you about new Monitis web stress testing service (http://www.webloadtester.com). WebLoadTester allows instantly check your website load handling capabilities. You can enter many [...]

10 Tax Deductions Freelancers Can Make

Found this interesting! See: http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/10-deductions-freelancers-can-grab/

Disable/Remove ETags on IIS 6 to Improve Performance

There is a lot of discussion on ETags. For those who don’t know, read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags However, ETags can become a problem when you run a cluster/farm, so each request to unique server returns a different ETag. Some of this has been fixed in IIS 7. Also, it seems, if you are using the Expiry [...]