A couple weeks ago I posted a long-winded blog entry announcing that Alagad is hiring a Senior Sales Representative. It turns out that this is quite a challenging prospect and I was wondering if the blog community could help. Alagad is looking for a really, really, good sales person. Someone who can sell millions of dollars of custom software a year.

This is a real world and recent example of tuning a ColdFusion application built in ColdSpring, ModelGlue and Reactor. Here are the details of the system and software this application is running on. Windows Server 2003 - IIS6 ColdFusion 8 Enterprise with Sun JVM 1.6 ColdSpring ModelGlue 2.0.304(2) Reactor revision 4.29 In the interests of really making this posting interesting I am going to start with two graphs.

I'll blog about this later, but I'm writing a time tracker that uses a Model-Glue application for user and project management and reporting and a Google Talk IM gateway for input. The idea is to create a simple IM-based command line to allow us to input and log our tasks in a database as we go through our days and then be able to pull our timesheets directly from the database. My architecture is simple...

I am really trying hard not to make this blog post boring and as a died in the wool server engineer, that is fairly difficult for me. In reality though, this is a fairly important topic, in fact very important to anyone thinking about High Availability (HA). In reality all deployed websites have to have some aspect of HA. By the essence of what they are and do, they need to be available when needed. So need to be "highly-available".

Thanks to Brian Ghidinelli, I now have a new favorite Eclipse feature. I know a lot of you probably know about this, but this could be one of the biggest time savers that doesn't invovle actaully typing code. If you use ctrl+Shift+R (Sorry Mac users, I am not sure what you use in place of Ctrl, command maybe?) a window pops up that allows you to search for files in any open project.

Has anybody ever heard of a Model Glue "event-hander"? (Notice the misspelling of the word "handler) Apparently Model Glue 1.1 has. For a bit of background, I was recently working with an old Model Glue 1.1 application and we decided it was time to upgrade it to Model Glue Unity. Upon doing so, several of the events quit working and started giving the standard "There is no known event handler for ..." error message.

I’m trying to track down a programmer with some experience with Crystal Reports to work on contract with one of my clients. If this is you please send me a message at dhughes@alagad.com. Or, if you know someone who might be interested please have them contact me. Thanks!

This is a short but I hope sweet blog post with some information which has saved me a lot of grief many times. One of the many things I really love about CF is the logging capabilities. Even with all of the great tools we have at our disposal; Server Monitoring, Fusion Reactor, SeeFusion etc, I still use the logs day in and day out. However, let's say for instance that one day we can't start CF and we get a message like this... "Windows could not start the Adobe {instance-name} on local computer.

I am just going to summarize quickly what we did to tune a client CF Instance over the past week. What we did came from load-testing in our LA Lab that was carried out against the client application which had been running very slowly. This was on a Windows 2003, CF8 Enterprise install. The application was created using Model Glue, Reactor and ColdSpring.

Most web application infrastructure is far from optimally configured, I have seen that so many times in so many places in some of the World's largest/most famous organizations. Some of that happens because, with the possible exception of network infrastructures and operating systems, companies will usually install items with the factory configured defaults and never really try to figure out what is optimal for their application needs.