Adobe MAX in LA was a fantastic success this year. If you attended, you probably met some of our team out there where we launched FusionAnalytics: FusionAnalytics is the ultimate ColdFusion Application and server analysis tool. FusionAnalytics is all about “Making IT Better” and giving you the information and data to help you make better [...]

I just posted a new technote over at http://www.fusion-reactor.com/support/kb/FRS-246.cfm Hopefully you’ll all find this a good starting point on how to keep your server monitoring solution secure.

This JVM bug seems to be getting some high-level attention in the IT press so I thought I’d lay out the issue where CF is concerned: History The bug is in the JVM (it has been since ~2001) and so ColdFusion running on Sun JVMs are affected. Someone out there has obviously made the link [...]

Hopefully we’re all back from a quiet festive break where your phones didn’t ring and you weren’t bothered by server outages at 2am on Christmas morning. If that wasn’t you and your pager/cell was lit up brighter than the Christmas tree then perhaps you should already be speaking to us! We offer a professional consulting [...]

Christmas is still a busy time on the web. With new computers for Christmas and days off work there’s plenty of time for Internet users to be out there surfing your site. But what if your site is down? Perhaps then it’s not such a Happy Christmas! Through a combination of factors – including our [...]

An interesting issue cropped up today which involved taking a trip back in time to look at our old issue tracking software. Back in 2004 we were using a Windows client/server based system which had a MS SQL back-end. From day 1 employees are trained to track track and track again. Emails, calls, suggestions – [...]

A big hello from CFUnited! Myself (David Stockton) and my colleagues (Darren Pywell & David Tattersall) are all at CFUnited this week. We have a FREE copy of FusionAnalytics to give away so don’t be shy – come and speak to us for a chance to win!! Plus, ask nicely and we’ve got FREE goodies [...]

We consult with a lot of different types of company. Sometimes there’s a lot of security process to deal with. This is great when you’re trying to stop un-authorized access but can sometimes hamper the speed of response an outside agency can give. In one such incident we were trying to identify the IP address [...]

Our colleagues at FusionReactor have published some great – quick-start HowTo guides. There’s information on attacking problems from two stand-points (pro-actively and re-actively) aswell as a user-contributed user-guide. You can check them out here: http://www.fusion-reactor.com/fr/howto/ … or read the official documentation here: http://www.fusion-reactor.com/fr/support.cfm#doc You may also be interested in our training webinars (which get some [...]

FusionReactor is a great monitoring tool and one of my favorite features is the ability to kill rogue requests. FusionReactor is sometimes limited by Java itself. Java has a known limitation that threads running “Native Code” can’t be killed (until the thread returns from the native code block). What is Native Code? Underlying all your [...]