One of the reasons I love Adobe’s ColdFusion so much is the fact that it is built on a Java engine and you are able to use a lot of the powerful features of Java from CF. I however don’t get to use this feature often enough, mainly because most of the things I work [...]
Yearly Archives: 2009
SQL Server 2005 Deadlock Tracking
This is a very useful article for anyone experiencing deadlock issues with SQL Server 2005. http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/how-to-track-down-deadlocks-using-sql-server-2005-profiler/ I made use of this while tracking down the cause of the following error: Transaction (Process ID 97) was deadlocked on lock | communication buffer resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the [...]
Gmail and the German connection
For years I’ve been using the url http://gmail.google.com to access my Gmail account, now all of a sudden I get this when I access that url: I needed to use the url http://mail.google.com for Gmail to come up. It basically says that the site can’t be accessed via http://gmail.google.com. I thought it may [...]
Why is Google Analytics on your site anyway?
I am sure that most of the sites developed today end up with statistics provided by Google Analytics (GA), but does anyone care about the data provided by this service? Okay, okay so you know you’ve had 10 buzillion hits this week but what does that really tell you? How many of those hits (or [...]
Google wants You!
Google has just announced Google Ventures, an initiative to help build businesses by providing funding and support. This is an excellent move by Google, not just because it provides a way for entrepeneurs to get funding but also for the continued existence of Google itself. There has been a lot of critisim about Google and [...]
