Bones for Homes by Elijah

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

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

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

Change your max file upload size in WordPress

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

Create a Shortcut to open in your Alternate Browser

Here’s a quick and simple “How To” for you.  I had this question posed by a client the other day and it made me think.    This Client is a fan of FireFox.  It is his default browser and tries his best to NEVER use Internet Explorer.  But, as is the case with most things, the more you try to keep … Read more

Warranty Schmarranty

Here’s an interesting read about Apple’s wonderful customer service. Note my sarcasm?  🙂 Anyway, here’s a short clip of the article. The Apple Retail Store Hates You  – I recently visited the Apple store to exchange a defective power adapter which was still under warranty.  I still have the defective adapter, as it has now cost more time and effort … Read more