If your computer is like mine you have a host of things installed: ColdFusion Database server Web server Version control server Mail server ???? By default I always set all these services to disabled so when I boot my computer I don’t have to wait 30 minutes for everything to start up. And it’s possible [...]
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So I’ve blogged about about tools (Cron, Windows 7 Task Scheduler) to run scheduled tasks. But what exactly should you schedule? Today let’s talk about turning your PC on and off. Do you do that manually? I like to save trees so I power my computer off each evening. But not when I leave the [...]
Did you miss my CFUnited presentation because you couldn’t step into the room because it was jam packed? I’ll be giving my “Digging Into The Developer Toolbox” presentation on the CFMeetup! Right now I’m tentatively schedule for September 9th @ 6:00PM. Every developer has their basic toolset – a robust IDE, source control and a [...]
Check out Packt’s 2010 Open Source Awards! Submit your votes in popular categories: Open Source CMS … hmmm… what great open source ColdFusion based CMS do I know about… oh yeah – Mura CMS! Hall of Fame CMS Most Promising Open Source Project Open Source E-Commerce Applications Open Source JavaScript Libraries Open Source Graphics Software [...]
On Window XP the ability to reliably schedule anything was severely limited and problematic. Tasks wouldn’t run if you were logged out, and if you changed your password tasks would fail with authentication errors unless you remembered to update each task. Given these limitations I searched for an alternative and in previous posts I’ve talked [...]