Top level category to nest all my tech related posts
Trust: The Discipline of Vulnerability Part 2: Timing Structure makes scale possible.Timing makes scale stable. Trust makes scale sustainable, and this is the uncomfortable one. In the horn section, you cannot play someone else’s instrument for them. You can prepare.You can listen.You can support. But when the entrance comes, they are responsible for their note. And you are dependent on … Read more
Timing: Leadership Has Tempo Part 1: Structure Architecture without tempo just sits there. You can design a clean system. You can define ownership. You can document everything properly. And it can still fail if the timing is wrong. Horn players learn this early. Oh, the wonders of being able to play almost an entire scale with one valve. Treacherous. Trombonists, … Read more
Structure: Architecture Before Heroics Structure. Timing. Trust. What Enterprise Technology Leadership and French Horn Playing Have in Common, More Than They Should I recently fed my website into one of those AI podcast tools. The kind that reads your content and then confidently discusses you like it just binge-watched your entire life. It was pretty neat – two fake people … Read more
This is a Great cause! Take a moment and go buy a T-Shirt to help support the rescuing of Dogs in our area! Here’s a little info on Bones for Homes: Bones for Homes by Elijah is the dream of seven year old Elijah. He was devastated after learning that some animals in shelters must … Read more
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
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
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