Welcome to TalkingTree.com, the personal homepage and blog of Steven Erat, ColdFusion Product Support for Macromedia, and former Biologist with the USDA, NIH, and Brandeis. I hope to share information I run across everyday in my role as a Macromedia Support Engineer, and you'll also find photos of many of my trips and small adventures, recent events in Internet technology, as well as some aspects of Biology and Science. Frankly, who knows what you'll find here, but I hope to keep the blog up to date and interesting.
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Not having a degree in Computer Science means that my view of web technology begins at a granular level and necessarily seeps from the top down into the foundations of how software works. For ColdFusion this course traverses the basics of
Guest host Walt Mossberg, personal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal, interviews Brightcove Founder and CEO, Jeremy Allaire for the Charlie Rose show on April 26. Mossberg's introduction to Allaire and some of the questions
As a fan of the high quality podcasts from IT Conversations, I was browsing for other podcasts not in the channels to which I already subscribe. I discovered a December 2005 podcast interview with Jeremy Allaire, the founder of Brightcove,
I enjoy keeping up with the ColdFusion Podcast whenever I can, but I usually lag behind by a couple weeks until I find the time to listen to a few of them during some downtime. This morning I began listening to the podcast at home, and the
There have been at least two bugs in the ColdFusion MX Administrator's ability to properly update the JVM settings in cf_root/runtime/bin/jvm.config when using the Java/JVM page to enact the change. A technote was just released for How to
As the organizer of the Online ColdFusion Meetup Group I'd like help spread the word that CFUNITED's Michael Smith and I have been sponsoring online previews of the topics which will be presented in full at the conference. These pre
Pixl8 Interactive is a London based Internet Consultancy and Design Services company. They've put together a handy list of resources to turn to for more information about how to tune ColdFusion MX servers and JVMs as well.
Pixl8: Coldfus
If you're in Massachusetts, you might want to know that the Boston chapter of the IEEE is holding a 21 hour course on an Introduction to Java Servlets and JSPs, using Head First Servlets & JSP as a guide. This local chapter of the IEEE has
Given the confusion surrounding the download and installation of the RDS Plugin for Eclipse and Flex Builder 2, I've put together a series of screenshots demonstrating the process on my Mac. Hopefully, this set will help familiarize yo
If the ColdFusion MX root directory is missing the META-INF directory, then the following errors may occur: Error shown in browser Server Error
Either the macromedia server is unreachable or does not have mapping to process a request
