Top 10 CArehart.org blog posts of 2018
Yep, I'm a bit late on this. :-) Here are what I might propose to be the top 10 posts of mine from 2018 (by my own choice, and in reverse chronological order):
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My 4-part webinar series, "Troubleshooting with FusionReactor", starts Jan 30
Tomorrow (Jan 30, 2019) I am beginning a planned 4-part series of new FusionReactor webinars (to add to the 13 topics I've already done, as listed at the FusionReactor Webinars page).
These all-new ones will focus on Troubleshooting with FusionReactor and are geared toward helping folks new to FR--or perhaps experienced but a bit bemused by its many features--to better understand how to use it to troubleshoot problems in your app server (CF, Lucee, or any Java server).
The parts in the new series (with links here to register directly to attend) will be:
I'll be speaking at 3 upcoming events, first on Tomcat then on CF and FR
I've been negligent to get a post out about this, and now the events are upon us. I'll be speaking in coming weeks at 3 events, about my favor topics: troubleshooting and monitoring, both CF/Lucee and Tomcat, as well as CF2018 hidden gems. Here are their titles, descriptions, and links to the events:
Keeping your FusionReactor updated
If you are using FusionReactor (the monitor for CF/Lucee/Tomcat and other Java servers), are you on the latest release, or at least a relatively recent one? You really should be, as new features are added all the time (I especially love the new "archived metrics" added in 7.2). I've written in the past about various FusionReactor updates. It's on 7.4.1 as of this writing.
In this post, I want to encourage you to update as well as show you how to do it (and a mistake you could make that would leave you NOT completely updated because you missed a step.)
What's new in FusionReactor 7.3 - over a dozen useful new features and enhancements
FusionReactor (my favorite server monitor) continues its onward march of refinement and improvement with its latest release which came out last week, 7.3. In this post, I highlight over a dozen of its new features and improvements.
FusionReactor, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways (a new blog series)
Many will know that I'm a huge fan of FusionReactor, the monitoring tool (and more) for ColdFusion, Lucee, or any Java server (Tomcat, Jetty, Glassfish, JBoss, Wildfly, WebLogic, etc). And now I want to start a new series of posts on it. For more, read on.
Recordings for nearly a dozen recent FusionReactor webinars I've done
I've been doing a series of one-hour webinars about FusionReactor over the past several months. They've covered nearly a dozen different topics (all with live demos), with more to come, including one just last week, "Making the Most of FusionReactor's Logs".
I'll be speaking at CFCamp in Munich, Germany, Oct 20-21. See you there!
I'm delighted to announce that I'll be presenting again this year at CFCamp, in Munich, Oct 20-21.
I'll be speaking at dev.Objective() conference, June 15-17. See you there!
I'll be speaking at next week's dev.Objective() Conference, in Minneapolis (June 15-17). The conference is always a great time, in a great location, with great people, and lots of useful information shared, and I appreciate the conference team selecting me again to be a speaker. If you'll be attending, I hope to see you.
See you at dev.Objective() in mid-May (I'll be speaking)
Note: This blog post is from 2015. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.Just wanted to share word (sorry it took so long) that I'd been selected as a speaker at the upcoming dev.Objective() conference, in Minneapolis in Mid-May. Hope to see lots of my fellow CFers there, and of course new folks who were not CFers.
While the conference name has changed (from cf.Objective()), there are still plenty of CF-oriented topics, and of course as nearly everyone would point out, it's good for everyone to expand their reach and focus.
To that end, I'll be doing a topic a bit different than my normal focus of CF server troubleshooting. Instead, recognizing that there will be folks there who either use other servers, or develop web apps or mobile apps, I'll do a bit of a "soft" topic on how to troubleshoot performance problems more generically, in:
Hey, my web app's slow. Where's the problem?
