Many of you know Cameron Childress from his leadership of the Atlanta and San Diego ColdFusion User Groups. He is continuing his tradition of giving back to the ColdFusion community by leading the Fusebox documentation project. While the Fusebox code has been very strong over the past few years the documentation has taken a back […]
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TeraTech Webinar: Tune Your Problem Servers for Better Performance 1/31/08
TeraTech’s CF Server guru Mike Brunt will be presenting a webinar on ColdFusion server performance tuning at 1pm EST on Thursday 1/31/08. The webinar will cover fixing slow servers, performance bottlenecks location and diagnosis tips. Mike is planning to show how to parse logs, interpret metrics, how the JVM works, testing JVM configurations and using […]
TeraTech Development Approach – Database Review
This is a continuation of the ongoing TeraTech Development Approach from last month. 3. Database Review The data structures from step 1 are reviewed by the architects to determine if any redesign is required for the new system. The following factors will be considered: -Normalization of the data structures -Change the databse platform (ie convert […]
Radiology and Diagnosing CF Server Issues
CF Server tuning guru for TeraTech I recently talked with Mike Brunt, CF Server tuning guru for TeraTech about how he approaches server issues. Heads up we are planning a webinar on server tuning on Thursday 1/31/08 1pm EST – more details coming soon. For three years, from 1996 to 1999, I worked in the […]
Fusedoc 3.0 working group started
Sandra Clark started a working group to discuss and come up with the Fusedoc 3.0 specification. Fusedoc are a way of specifying what a Fusebox fuse does, its inputs and outputs and other useful documentation. It is written in XML so that it is machine readable. This is long overdue and hopefully will address issues […]
Fusebox 5.5 for PHP work started
We have a volunteer Philippe Back who has started work on converting Fusebox 5.5 CF to PHP together with team fusebox member Mike Richie. If you want to help with Fusebox let me know. Currently Fusebox PHP is on version 5.0 and Fusebox CF is on version 5.5
Spiral Web talk video
I recently gave a talk at the Web 2.0 conference on Spiral Web and how it can help us predict what is coming in the future for websites. Spiral Web is based on Spiral Dynamics and Memes, which are theories of how ideas spread among people. I have extended these ideas to websites for Spiral […]
TeraTech Development Approach – System Review
This is continued from last month in a continuation of TeraTech’s Development Approach 2. Discussion with users to review these artifacts produced in step 1 results in the discover of unneeded system functions and begins the process of identification of the new functionality missing from the legacy system. It is not unusual to find that […]
Would Whole Brain testing have made Windows Vista better?
I was reading Joel on Software the other day and he talked about a rumor that one of the reasons that Windows Vista release was extremely inconsistent and unpolished was that the testing was fully automated (or left brain). There was no traditional (whole brain) testing where the tester not only runs the software through […]
Fusebox Scaffolding beta released
A new beta of the Fusebox Scaffolding has been released at http://www.fusebox.org/go/fusebox-downloads/core-files. This Fusebox extension was written by Kevin Roche and it automatically generates Fusebox code for Add/Edit/Delete pages based on the database tables that you give it. Normally you would use this during the building of your app and replace the scaffolding with custom […]
