ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap

Increase IIS File Upload Limits

I recently ran into an issue where IIS was returning a 404.13 error when users were trying to upload files.  I did a bit of looking and found that files uploaded fine when they were lower than 30MB.  But once we tried to upload anything larger, IIS would return the 404. With a bit of digging we found that there … Read more

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