CFUnited is next week! I’ll be presenting on Wednesday on “Dynamic Load Testing with Webserver Stress Tool”. I’ll be covering Basic, parameterized, and scripted load testing. It’s a fairly inexpensive tool, but can do some powerful testing. This week I also found out I’ll be able to raffle 3 software licenses: 2 licenses for Paessler […]
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Top 10 Tips for CFUnited Newbies!
What do alumni conference goers recommend? We’ve done research and interviews to find out how to make the most out of your experience and be the most prepared. Do you have any tips of your own? 1. Bring a lot of business cards and make sure to take home anyone’s but your own. 2. Bring […]
Back to the Future for Venture Capital
By Miki Saxon Hooray! Finally! It’s about time. For more than a decade my angel in vestor and many of our colleagues have been bemoaning what happened to the venture world. Call it the takeover of the walking investment banker. It started when the name partners wanted to kick back a bit. That made sense, […]
What I like About CF9…Solr Indexing
I am excited about the up coming ColdFusion 9 release Solr free text search – it replaces the Verity free text search that has been in ColdFusion for over eight years. TeraTech has been using the open source Java Solr search on a project for the American Psychological Association and we have been impressed with how […]
TeraTech Creates Creativity in Business Website
TeraTech recently created the creativity in the Business Conference Website (http://www.creativity-conference.com/) for the Center for Creative Emergence. The site includes a CMS for updating content and allows attendees to register online. Creative Emergence’s CEO, Michelle James said “TeraTech was very professional and responsive to our needs.” The conference is on Saturday, October 4, 2009 from […]
Cash, Strategy, and a Way to Thrive
Summary The recession and credit crunch have made cash a strategic asset. While debt and equity financing is still available, these sources of cash have become unreliable and difficult to tap, increasing the importance of operating cash flow. Optimizing cash flow requires the close scrutiny of incoming and outgoing cash transactions and the implementation of […]
NextBus: Trapeze Development
NextBus provides accurate real-time arrival information regarding the public transit system. They use satellite technology and advanced computer modeling to track vehicles on their routes, taking into account traffic patterns. To make their service as efficient as possible, they looked to implement the Trapeze Scheduling system used by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). […]
Tuning CF 8.0.1 64 bit
Recently we worked on an application for a large association in DC that generates about 60% of the association’s revenue. The application had grown in features and users over several years and the code was in need of tuning, with slow performance and frequent server crashes. It was running on CF 7 on Linux. Improvements […]
TGIT 80/20 Principle Talk
I recently spoke on the 80/20 principle at the spiritual business group TGIT – Thank God It’s Thursday http://www.ambica.net/thank_god_its_thursday.html TGIT is part Book Reading Club, part Support Group and part Mastermind Group that puts us – the participants – in touch with our Deepest Essence through sharing, reflecting on, and applying wisdom from some of […]
Ducks In A Row: Do You Have People Or Persons?
May 19, 2009 By Miki saxon Do you work for a company or a manger? Phil Gerbyshak manager over at Slacker did a great post on the fact that people quit managers, not companies—great because it is so true. If you ask most people who they work for they’ll name a company, but […]
