So it took me too long, but I just realized that IIS6 does not uses gzip compression by default. IIS6 ships with gzip compression capabilities, but they're turned off by default, and moreover, not straight forward to turn on. You can turn them on for application/dynamic files and static files... the static ones are rather simple, but for the dynamic you need to specify the extensions either through scripting or editing the metabase.xml.

Nevertheless, guess what, couldn't get cfm/cfc files to compress ... well, haven't spent more than 10 minutes, but it shouldn't really take more than that. After these 10 minutes I remembered that there's software out there to tweak and ease up configuring the IIS settings. The most popular one is port80's httpZip, and there's also pipeBoost. After after reading Microsoft's instructions and looking at the two commercial products, which one would you recommend? Have you guys have any experience with either and ColdFusion servers?

Until not too long ago, Google did not allow you to ping their blog search engine, but they finally added support for it. They support XMP-RPC and REST pings... for BlogCFC users, both are in theory rather easy. A couple years ago I wrote a generic XML-RPC client for blogCFC, which if you're using, you can easily ping Google using this method, however, if you're not, it's just as easy ... BlogCFC can ping urls using regular http gets / REST if you specify the URL in the config.ini.cfm file. Simple find the pings parameter and add the following line:

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?name=[yourBlogName]&url=[yourBlogURL]&changesURL=[yourBlogRSSURL]

Can't get any easier... if you need more info, you can check the ping API docs.

Cannes Lions is the largest advertising even in the planet, capturing 11,000 visitors from 75 countries and this year I get to go -- so excited! Is anyone from the community making it over there? Go figure, the official site is ColdFusion based :)
Then I'll be flying to CFUnited the very same day I come back, fun-times.