Perform the following at your own risk. Microsoft does not support this program, which is maintained by an individual I do not know personally nor know their reputation well. It is recommended to perform this cleanup only after a clean install. Using this after customizing or installing programs may end with undesired consequnces, such as […]
From: Chris Tierney
Are you in the market or considering purchasing Adobe ColdFusion’s full or upgrade license? While you always have the option of going straight to Adobe, I recommend purchasing through a reseller. You will typically see a 5% discount and up to 25% depending on the sale. Do you need help with installation, upgrades, or troubleshooting? […]
From: Chris Tierney
CF Webtools has maintained VMWare ESXi guest OS instances, managed by vCenter, for about 7 years. They are a mix of Linux and Windows Server OSs and are maintained at a secure and redundant co-location data center. While an expensive up-front investment, it has paid for itself over those years, and we have a plan […]
From: Chris Tierney
I have recently taken the opportunity to explore Wiki.js as a replacement for a MediaWiki system. You can add authentication strategies from sources such as Auth0, Azure AD, Facebook, GitHub, Google, LDAP / Active Directory, OAuth2, Slack, and a number more. The current network has a Domain Controller with an Active Directory, so I wanted […]
From: Chris Tierney
I took the dive into Docker Containers on Linux. I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time, but really my specialty of ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server really doesn’t require much in the way of containers. However, my current project is to convert our internal wiki from WikiPedia to Wiki.js. During this process, […]
From: Chris Tierney
Last year, AMD-based instances came into existence on Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). AMD brought a slight performance decrease and a reasonable price discount. CF Webtools is mostly website focused, and almost all of our servers have no problem going with that decreased performance metric. Since EC2 was created, they’ve used abbreviations, […]
From: Chris Tierney
There’s one man’s ventures that I like to follow: Elon Musk A citzen of South Africa, Canada and the US, he leads up SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, Neuralink, and OpenAI. He worked his way from Zip2, X.com which ended up in the hands of PayPal. A would love to own the Tesla Model S, […]
From: Chris Tierney
— This position has been filled. Thank you — Seeking a ColdFusion Systems Administrator for CF Webtools. We are in Omaha, NE and are accepting both local and remote positions. Yes, you may work from home, so pants are optional unless you are video conferencing. Looking for folks legal to work in the US only. […]
From: Chris Tierney
While connected to remote Windows machines via RDP in Windows 10, the connection freezes after x amount of minutes. Pretty often. The resolution was to disable UDP. Run gpedit.msc. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administration Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Connection Client. Set the “Turn Off UDP On Client” […]
From: Chris Tierney
When CF Webtools needs to migrate a large amount of data from on-premise to the cloud, we order one of these devices to do the job. What I didn’t know is they’re rated to be dropped out of an airplane and take on near-by explosions!
From: Chris Tierney
