Last week I wrote a Server Memory monitoring tool using Flash Remoting. I'm not much of a flash developer, but it only took a few hours. Here's a screen shot of the tool:

Keep in mind this tool only shows the memory for the JVM instance that ColdFusion MX is running in.

I got a somewhat misleading error message today, it went something like this:

The name is not a valid component name.

Component names cannot start or end with dots.

Via WeberBlog

Lately I have been going over the MySQL 4.0.x manual step by step.

I thought I knew most of the things that MySQL has to offer but it

seems that there are quite a few cool things that I didn't know.

I was playing around with the DataSource Service Factory today, and I found out how to do a few things. I created datasources, and used them, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to save the datasource.

On the CF-Talk mailing list today someone asked how to loop over a range of dates, eg from 6/1/04 to 8/6/04. Most people including myself responded that you can use DateAdd and cfloop to do this.

Here are the settings that bluedragon 6.1 adds to your httpd.conf file. I am posting these because it is helpful when your trying to install on an unsupported platform.

ServletExecInstances default 127.0.0.1:9999

ServletExecAliases default /servlet servlet .jsp .cfc .cfm .

I will be speaking at the MXimize conference in Boston Sept 20-22. My topic is: Under the Hood with CFCs -

UDFs, CFCs, Web Service and Remoting.