Today the weirdest thing happened... we're running CFMX7 on our development servers for one big client, and have two clustered CFMX7 production servers too... I have the latest cumulative hot fixes on the Dev server and I realized that the production one wasn't patched... I've patched a few servers thus far, and they all worked perfectly fine afterwards... any hoo ... I update my production server and BAM! it goes down. I couldn't open any page... I was getting Null Pointers errors all over the place. After debugging and trying a few things I found that it was because I had an Application.cfc ... The weird thing is that it didn't matter what code I had there, any Application.cfc will generate Null Pointers errors... the same code works fine in my dev environment ... has any of you ever seen this behavior? I had to manually remove the hotfix 2 and install hotfix 1, which is what I'm running there now ... It really baffles me... Anyone else had problems with Hot Fix 2? Application.cfc ... null pointer errors?

so I had too much time on my hands! just got home from work, and I'm giving myself 30 minutes of relax before getting back to work ... relax = seating in front of the computer ... man! ...

Technorati stopped indexing my site and stop increasing the link count about 70 days ago... yes, I know I should had contacted them sooner, but I didn't... I opened a ticket last night and within an hour everything was back to normal; almost everything. My link count jumped from 97 to 131, my rank improved my 35%, my lasted post got indexed... BUT, all my previous posts from my last 70 days got lost .... I opened another ticket (about 5 minutes ago), but I have a feeling that is won't get resolved ... so anyways, if you're site doesn't get updates within a few days, contact Technorati before it's too late.

I know Ray just announced the development of BlogCFC 5.0, and I really admire and respect Ray for his contributions to the CF community. I just came up with the idea of porting blogCFC to an MVC framework, not Model-Glue, but a methodology that I use every day and it has proven to be extremely scalable to me. I also use ajaxCFC with my framework, and will be adding Ajax components to the blog; it won't be a one page RIA, but only small usability elements that would be nice to have.

So the question is ... should I wait until Ray released blogCFC 5, or should I branch it to a new version, using MVC and Ajax, branch a new open source project, and write a journey of my project ... again, just like Ray did with the Model-Glue series .. you see Ray! You're an inspiration :)

I'll take votes, hehe ... I know I want to write this, but I'm skeptical about missing some nice additions once the new version is out. It will be impossible to migrate those without rewriting them too.

Who votes for branching now and says wait? please back your side...

so I'm reading this blog about how Rail doesn't have a chance or simply won't go mainstream, and I actually agree... RoR has two sides... one, it is just another MVC framework, this time for Ruby instead of other languages... this is nothing new, they come and go and I don't see why it would have more attention than any other... the second part is its Ajax compatibility, using prototype and scriptaculous. so it now combines too nice aspects. We're only debating that part now ... this leads me to think who/what would go mainstream? Well, Avalon and XAML will probably penetrate hard and catch all the .net developers' attention ... Laszlo couldn't compete with Flex, but does it have a chance in the Ajax world? Zimbra, Tibco, Yahoo Patterns, IBM Open Ajax efforts ... which framework or toolkit is going to get more attention ... or is it even important? Maybe there will be no mainstream, and Ajax will just become another technique that's just assumed to be known by any and every web developer. I think that these toolkits are targeting more RIA development using JS/DHTML more than Ajax. So now a framework has to contain a nice solid MVC server side, Ajax scripting, and an IDE, possibly Eclipse based... wow ... who dares to predict it?

That's right ... I use Tortoise SVN for Windows, and Subeclipse for my eclipse development... Version 1.0.0 was released today and it cannot be installed through the automated update, you need to install it manually.

More information can be found @ the subeclipse _press_ release.

Joe Walker announced today that DWR 2.0 has reached milestone one ... among other things, DWR now does reverse Ajax, Comet, or server polling, however you wish to call it ... what that means is that you can leave a number of long lived http open calls and the server can push data to the client at will ... The idea is great, but I am a little concern about the server side performance ...

And yes, you guessed it right ... you will see a CF version when time permits :)

so today I got inspired to ask questions ... What would be a good tool to share outlook calendars within an office, or for co-workers. I will not use exchange, so don't even go that route. It can be peer or peer or require a server (other than exchange!) ... does anyone have a nice working environment that would achieve this?

Had I had decent stats in my blog, I wouldn't have to ask these questions, hehe ... what RSS readers are you using? Web based, software based? I tried a few.. I was using Sage RSS for Firefox for a while, but it wasn't portable enough ... then I tried like 10 different software based, and the one I like the most is SharpReader ... it's simple and non-intrusive... I don't like the web based one as much. SharpReader allows to export and import OPML files, and it allows for unlimited levels to categorize your feeds, feature that although I assumed basic, 9/10 programs I tried did not offer.
You can comment on aggregators for Mac too, though I don't use one, other users may find it informative.
What rss reader do you use? why?

p.s. not about stats ... I use google analytics, but that will cover rss feeds. I have available nettracker, but I haven't had time to set it up.

Which is the best spyware detector or cleaner? I use a few, but to be honest each finds stuff that others don't ... it's almost hard to have just one.

First, not a cleaner, but to prevent spyware, spyware blaster is a must. I won't access arguments here :)
Next, I like Adaware... just adaware pro, not the plugins... it usually do a good job.
I used to use SpyBot ... but it stopped being effective for me.
Last but not least, my latest discovery ... XoftSpy ... it removed to spywares from a friend's PC that not all of the above together could.

what do you use?