Robert Owen — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap
Top level category to nest all my tech related posts
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
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
I’ve been looking at getting a Microsoft Surface and was on the fence until they announced that there was a 128GB Pro version that was capable of running full desktop applications. When I saw that, I had to have it! I’ve been waiting and watching for the release date of February 9th to come around. This device in all it’s glory would only … Read more
Everybody may already know how to do this but, I didn’t and it was driving me crazy. And, since I will have to make this change again sometime, I’m posting it here. Ever since I switched over to WordPress, I’ve been stuck with a two (2) meg file upload limit. I thought this was a bit crazy because I self host this … Read more