November 11th, 2009 by Walter in Walter Hardy's BlogI am constantly amazed at how stable Sun Solaris is. Since many of our company websites run on Windows 2003 with IIS, I’m very accustomed to having to reboot servers weekly, and getting early morning wake-up calls from our server watchdogs.
But Solaris--it just doesn’t quit. I had left one production Solaris 10 server running for over 360 days to the point where I was really scared to reboot it. Not because the operating system wouldn’t handle the reboot, but because the hardware just might not come back to life after a momentary loss of power. So I went down to...
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December 9th, 2008 by Val in Val Erb's BlogI really love working with ColdFusion and have been using it most every day since 2000. However, like anything as complicated as an enterprise-level web application framework, it is not without its quirks. We encountered a couple issues with the ColdFusion Administrator recently that I thought were worth mentioning in hopes we'd save other CF-er's some time.
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October 30th, 2008 by Val in Val Erb's BlogI graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1999 with my B.S. in Business Administration. I'm still a young guy and that doesn't sound like so long ago, but consider the following. Windows 98 was the newest OS for PC's and Netscape was the dominant browser. Things we take for granted today like WiFi and iPods were years away and it was entirely normal not to have a cell phone. Google.com had just been registered the previous semester and Napster debuted that summer. There was no YouTube or Wikipedia or "blogging" for that matter (it was still called a weblog, but not a lot of people knew that then either). The web was no more than 10% of its current size, so becoming a developer didn't exactly jump out at me as a career choice. Sure, I had been using computers most of my life and I was even installing corporate networks during summer "vacation", but while I had a serious premonition that soon I'd be doing a lot with the web, it wasn't at all clear to me how exactly that would come about; I was on the management track, not computer science.
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