Tired Teachers

As a husband of a Teacher, this is right on. This video is from a recent Knox County School board meeting… A teacher gives her opinion about the new evaluation process for teachers in Tennessee.

Which CF Instance and jvm config am I using?

This is more of a quick reminder for myself.  Hopefully someone else will find it useful as well… If you have multiple instances of ColdFusion running on a server and one of those starts to runaway with the processor you just need to kill it and move on, right?  But, what if you what to know which instance it was?  If … Read more

Increase IIS Worker threads for Coldfusion 9.01

While using IIS6 for ColdFusion 9 (or ColdFusion 9.0.1), owing to heavy load, if you encounter performance issues, you may increase the number of worker threads. Go to the directory cf_root\runtime\lib\wsconfig\1. Note: In multiserver scenarios, the location is  jrun_root/lib/wsconfig/1. 1 indicates a single IIS website. If you have configured multiple IIS websites, the number can change accordingly. Open the file … Read more

A few pics from the Road

My last gig with the Symphony of The Mountains was a doosie!  We were quite busy!  Three outdoor Concerts, in three days, in three states!   Although it required quite a bit of driving, it was still pretty fun. The concert was long and  made more difficult by the fact that each outdoor venue was majorly different.  It was worth … Read more

Windows 8 wireless Management

Back when I was setting up my Surface pro, I was trying to quickly move some of my wireless connections to the tablet. There aren’t a lot of them but since I didn’t remember their passwords,  why not just export them or at least view them from my laptop and copy the settings? Well, the laptop that I was going to take … Read more

Yes!! Surface Pro for Me! :-)

Ok. After much complaining and whining, I finally got my Surface Pro. My purchase plan had to update a little, but everything seemed to work out nicely.  I had planned to get the whole package from Best Buy but, if you read my previous crazy rant. You know that didn’t work out. I ended up watching the Microsoft Store website like … Read more