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Great CIOs mix business and tech skills

Interesting article in CIO Insight on why having both business and technical skill is important to get ahead in IT management. And having the ability to translate from tech speak to biz speak and back again is vital. The author knew he had connected with the C-level staff when at a buget cutting meeting the President said “IT isn’t staff,” he said. “It’s a core business function.” Now that is music to an IT manager ears! (translate)

18 JQuery tips

Jo Ann shared these JQuery tips after CFUnited this year. Enjoy! PS What are your JQuery tips? Syntax:  The dollar sign ($) is an alias for the jQuery object. Best documentation (online reference) is:   http://docs.jquery.com/   [www.visualjquery.com, which I have used, is only up to version 1.2.6 (and the current release is 1.3.2)] OK to call the $(document).ready() function as many times as you want on the same page.  They will execute in turn; they don't overwrite each other.  This is in direct contrast to the more traditional body onload attribute, where it is NOT OK to use more that one (translate)

Congratulations Liz!

Normal 0 Congratulations to Liz Frederick on becoming Adobe Community manager. I wish her great success in her new role. It is a tribute to the TeraTech culture of creativity and promoting from within, that Liz was able to go from being a graphics intern in 2001 (helping with CFUN) to COO of Stellr in 2008. With her creativity, quickness to learn and hard work she co-created CFUnited together with me and some members of the ColdFusion community. This year the Stellr team made CFUnited-09 the best rated yet by attendees.   Fortunately Liz is very organized and leaves the (translate)

NextBus in the Washington Post!

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CFUnited load testing session went well.

My CFUnited presentation on "Dynamic Load Testing with Webserver Stress Tool" went well. Thanks to everyone for the good feedback.  My presentation, source, and testing scripts will be posted on the CFUnited site soon after the conference. Congrats to the 3 raffle winners: Steven Focht (Webserver Stress Tool 7), Abram Adams (WST), Bryan Modders (FusionReactor). Paessler will be contacting the WST winners soon with the license info. Thanks again to Paessler and Intergal. (translate)

Presenting at CFUnited on load testing

CFUnited is next week! I'll be presenting on Wednesday on "Dynamic Load Testing with Webserver Stress Tool". I'll be covering Basic, parameterized, and scripted load testing. It's a fairly inexpensive tool, but can do some powerful testing. This week I also found out I'll be able to raffle 3 software licenses: 2 licenses for Paessler Webserver Stress Tool, and 1 for FusionReactor server monitor! ($1000 worth of software). Licenses sponsored by Paessler and Intergral, respectively. Topics: Test Types setting up a set of URLs Multiple users URLs bound to a dataset (parameterize the tested URLs, merge with a dataset; one (translate)

Top 10 Tips for CFUnited Newbies!

What do alumni conference goers recommend? We've done research and interviews to find out how to make the most out of your experience and be the most prepared. Do you have any tips of your own? 1. Bring a lot of business cards and make sure to take home anyone's but your own. 2. Bring the right clothes. It is going to be a hot summer week. The Air conditioner will be running, but if you get cold easily, bring a light sweatshirt. 3. Have a list of numbers, addresses, and confirmation numbers in one place. try keeping it all (translate)

TeraTech Creates Creativity in Business Website

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What I like About CF9...Solr Indexing

Wendy 11.9999 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} I am excited about the up coming ColdFusion 9 release Solr free text search - ti replaces the Verity free text search that has been in ColdFusion for over eight years.  TeraTech has been using the open source Java Solr search on a project for the American Psychological Association and we have been impressed with how it efficiently handles searching millions of documents; this, of course without (translate)

Back to the Future for Venture Capital

By Miki Saxon   Hooray!  Finally!  It's about time.   For more than a decade my angel in Wendy 11.9999 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} vestor and many of our colleagues have been bemoaning what happened to the venture world. Call it the takeover of the walking investment banker.   It started when the name partners wanted to kick back a bit. That made sense, but unfortunately they went to Wall Street for their (translate)

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