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Sonic Wallpaper Title: Running LightTPD and PHP on Windows
Category: Mobile - Web - Media
Date: Tuesday, Sep 11, 2007 6:44:17 PM
Blog Post By: Sonic Wallpaper
While I honestly feel ColdFusion is a great platform for Web Applications, it turns out there's some things it's not so great at, one of which is serving of a lot of files, and in my case, it's the streaming and downloading of mp3s. ColdFusion has a max thread count setting, and if you are serving an mp3 file via CFContent (to hide the file's location, and handle tracking it's use), this max number becomes a serious limitation.

This has now become a problem because ArtistServer is seeing more traffic and more listeners, which means more streaming and downloads. We've started hitting that m
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Sonic Wallpaper Title: HostMySite.com Limits ColdFusion, Does Not Tell Customers
Category: Mobile - Web - Media
Date: Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007 9:35:26 AM
Blog Post By: Sonic Wallpaper
Are you considering HostMySite.com as a Web host for your ColdFusion site?

If you are, please read the following, because you won't find thisinformation out on the the HostMySite.com Website - in particular, thispost refers to their "Builder" package.

Two months ago, a new client of mine wanted their site hosted with a'more established' ISP as opposed to hosting with my current ISP - whois great, very responsive, honest, etc. - but they are small, have lessresources, etc. While they aren't 'big,' my host is at a great facility and we have a lot of bandwidth available. I defini
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Sonic Wallpaper Title: Blocking Spammers with CAPTCHA
Category: ArtistServer
Date: Monday, Jul 31, 2006 1:23:20 PM
Blog Post By: Sonic Wallpaper

ArtistServer has added a CAPTCHA challenge-response system to the various forms where people can either contact it's members or post replies to blog posts. With CAPTCHA, we can now block the multitude of spammers and spam bots who crawl the Web looking for Web forms.

The following text comes from: http://lyla.maestropublishing.com

What is a Captcha?
A Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used to determine whether or not a user is human. A common type of Captcha requires the user to enter the correct string of characters that have been distorted in an image. A Captcha can also
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Sonic Wallpaper Title: If Google Goes Down, We All Feel It
Category: Mobile - Web - Media
Date: Thursday, Jul 27, 2006 12:08:44 PM
Blog Post By: Sonic Wallpaper
What happens when you take a large number of popular Web destinations, and tie them all to a single Web Service?  You create a situation where that single Web Service can greatly disrupt a healthy percentage of the Web.

How many of you noticed a problem with Google yesterday (July 26)? Did you visit any sites where the pages wouldn't fully load, when they usually snap into place? I sure did.

Near 7:00 pm Pacific time, I noticed my site ArtistServer.com running slowly - but it turned out to be Google AdSense. Every page I had AdSense on was not fully loading. In some cases the frame
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Sonic Wallpaper Title: DiffMerge.com browser based Diff and Merge solution launched
Category: Mobile - Web - Media
Date: Tuesday, Feb 07, 2006 8:43:26 AM
Blog Post By: Sonic Wallpaper
For those who work with code - you may want to take a look at this site I recently built and launched (still in beta).

http://diffmerge.com/

Here's the description:

DiffMerge.com will provide a browser based 'Diff' and 'Merge' solution, which is the process of comparing two files, identifying what is different, then merging the documens to create a new doc.

DiffMerge begins with selecting what you want to compare using any of the following methods: URL, TextArea (copy/paste your content) or file upload. Currently, only the URL method is enabled.

After submission of the form, the
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Sonic Wallpaper Title: Getting Ready for the Big System Migration/Upgrade!
Category: ArtistServer
Date: Monday, Aug 01, 2005 1:43:09 PM
Blog Post By: Sonic Wallpaper

We are getting closer to the system migration/upgrade so I needed tospend some of my development time on preparing for the big change.How big? We are changing the operating system, the database, theapplication server, server/network configuration from 1 box to 2, thena 3rd a few weeks after that. Basically - the only thing that isn'tchanging, is the code, and the content on the site.With so many factors changing, this is potentially a complicatedupgrade - which is why I'll first attempt a test upgrade here at thestudio. The only differences w/ this test setup, is that it will allfunction on
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