Web Software Architecture and Engineering – Life on the Bleeding Edge

Archive for October, 2009

Major Flaw in CF9 – May Break Code!

As part of our upgrade to CF9, we started doing regression testing on our local boxes. My co-worker Joseph Lamoree found and blogged about a flaw he found in CF9 that brought our app to a halt. Serious, no joke. Here is the issue in some detail. If you want to take a look at [...]

Must Read: Teaching CS @ Universities – Great Article

Joel Spolsky writes an excellent article/blog entry called “Capstone projects and time management”. Its about a topic I’m very passionate about, and that is the teaching of Computer Science or Computer Information Systems at universities.Great read. Read more @ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/10/26.html.

UCLA Study: The Internet Is Altering Our Brains

Fascinating article. Read more @ http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,568576,00.html.

Hilarious Video – A Day at the Office

Blocking Traffic from China – Thoughts Needed

I’ve been reading my logs more thoroughly for the past few data and I see a lot of bad traffic. Couple that with CFFormProtect, which tends to block SPAM posts dozens of times per day. Most of the traffic is coming from China unfortunately. Now looking at my Google Analytics, I do think there is [...]

CF9 Doesn't Like Mango Blog

Well, I upgraded my server to CF9, and there were both some immediate and subtle hiccups working with the latest build of Mango Blog. I’ve mentioned some of these in the forums, but here they are. First, the site would not run. I got: “Error: Object of type class java.lang.String cannot be used as an [...]

ColdFusion 9 – 50% OFF

Ok, now that I’ve got your attention, this is how I calculate the savings. We have dev (besides each developers local environment), staging, and UAT environments for code before they hit production. Before, we would have to buy CF Entrprise for Dev, Stage, UAT, and our Prod Boxes. But guess what, with ColdFusion 9 has [...]

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