Author: djuggler

I really do enjoy the work I do. Yesterday I spent the better part of the day sitting in my basement while updating and configuring a server located in the UK. Out of the blue my client who hosts websites started receiving the message "JRun closed connection" and otherwise a blank page instead of seeing the ColdFusion served websites as expected. Not long after that his phone was ringing off the hook with his clients wanting to know when their websites would be back up. There were several issues we resolved but the most influential is described in this MacroMedia technote which basically led us to update the JVM and restart the ColdFusion ODBC Server service (which required rebooting the server).

The rest of my day was working with people in Nashville (security work) and Miami (php programming). I love how technology eliminates physical boundaries!

Morons!

You know the one where you walk over to the water fountain and have some water. Then you go to the locker and start to open it. Of course, you are in the halls before the bell rings. Now the bell rings and you realize you are…naked!

Yesterday a friend of mine, the one to whom I passed the Compaq Proliant server, was searching for information on the server and found my blog finding it humorous that I had blogged the issue. I started my blog anonymously so it always takes me back a little when someone I know in the offline world first discovers the writings. Until college I kept everything inside. My psyche was mine alone! Even in college my true feelings and thoughts poured only when beer and liquor flowed; fortunately there was a ready supply of alcohol so I don’t think I had many secrets in college.

In the end I quote Popeye, "I yam who I yam and that’s all that I yam. Ugg gugugh gugh." To know someone is to understand them.

I love these churchly pictures

I don’t care how bad you have to go, would you really call the police if two cheerleaders were having sex in a bar’s bathroom?

Master: How are you doing?
Student: If I answered truthfully you’d have me committed.

Today is going to be totally about stress and anger management. Let’s light some incense.

I had a client needing to backup and/or restore ODBC datasources to the ColdFusion Administrator today. Pete Freitag just a very nice description showing that CF 5 and prior versions stored the DSN information in these registry keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Allaire\ColdFusion\CurrentVersion\DataSources
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC

And MX stores the information in the file cfusionmx\lib\neo-query.xml.

Scheduled tasks are stored in cfusionmx\lib\neo-cron.xml.

I woke at 3am and almost stayed up. Again I woke at 5am and watched a few minutes of television with Noah but did not have the will power to stay up and work. As this day rapidly falls apart I regret not giving up sleep for productivity.

Four car pileup at the Huntington/Northshore entrance of my neighborhood with 1 fatality. Wonder if I knew them.

For you ColdFusion programmers like myself, here’s a nice reference. Looks a lot like its using AJAX.

Alright. Let’s see. Pulse? Yes, still alive. Heart rate? accelerated. Ok, stressed. Breathing? Yup. I guess that’s all that counts. Now where are we today? Ah! Ye ol’ box o’ mail hath been emptied! Granted, mostly just moved to another box but sorted with intentions of getting things back in order.

See, once upon a time I knew to the penny how much money I had, what was coming in and what was going out. I even had an account set up in Quicken for "petty cash" and kept all loose change in a lock box in the house to balance the petty cash fund against. Since Quicken didn’t give reports I liked I would also keep records of inflows and outflows by category in an excel spreadsheet. Ah the glory days. Way over the top! But man did it feel good to be able to chart your success (or demise).

Today is nearly the exact opposite. I’m hoping over the next few weeks to come to some sort of happy medium.

Great caption contest!

I really enjoyed Barry’s addition to Michael Silence’s piece on TN Blogging.

Student: What will we do when the lights go out?
Master: Light a fire somewhere.