Monthly Archives: October 2006

October 5, 2006
Broken image on Google search results page

Funny when the big guys get something wrong I noticed this today on the google.com.au search results page; a nice little broken image! Bugger!

October 4, 2006
High CPU and memory usage in ColdFusion

Charlie Arehart had an extremely interesting article today on JRun performance issues, particularly relating to high CPU cycles and memory usage. The perpetrators in this example were thought to be search engine spiders (or ‘bots’) and/or RSS feeds. Now bots may visit your website many times throughout the course of a single day, this could [...]

October 3, 2006
Mach-II 1.1.1 Public Beta2

The peeps over at Mach-II have been busy with the latest dot release of the Mach-II framework. Last week they released the Public Beta2 for 1.1.1 which you can download here. A big note for Version 1.1.1 is Application.cfc support Although Mach-II is a well known framework in the community it seems that Model Glue [...]

October 2, 2006
Web Standards – rooting for the underdog

Roger Johansson wrote a nice article on why web standards still matter. He notes that recently there has been an increased level of interest and activity around web standards, but those that do strive for excellence in their code (i.e. web standards) are in the extreme minority. I would tend to agree with this, take [...]

October 1, 2006
Javascript function properties

Javascript is pretty cool and I’ll admit that I don’t get to do as much as I’d like with it. Today I’m going to briefly cover a few properties of any Javascript function which you can take advantage of: arguments callee arity arguments The arguments property contains an array of input parameters which may be [...]