You Certified Yet?
How many Advanced Certified ColdFusion 5 developers are there in the Republic of Moldova, and what are their name/s? We've gone one step further with the agent that I built to retrieve certification listings from the Macromedia site and are now publishing country listings on the Daemon site.

CF5 Certified Countries
Ever wondered which country has the most certified ColdFusion Professionals? Or perhaps just how rare CF Pro's really are? Have been playing with the data for CF5 certifications that is displayed on the Macromedia site and dug up some interesting results.

Improving COM Performance on CFMX
There's been a few concerns locally about the move to MX and the hit on COM performance. Especially since the official performance information from Macromedia idicates that COM object instantiation can take up to 10x longer than CF5. Before you ditch the idea of upgrading to CFMX there are a number of things you might try to get COM objects performing at an acceptable level.

TortoiseCVS (Enjoyable Version Control)
Tortoise is a Windows client for the ever popular CVS source control. I've been working with Tortoise CVS for some time... only discovered today that the open source dev team on this project has been pumping out updates last crazy the last few months. Version 1.1.4 was released this week and it's well worth the look.

RequestTimeOut in CFMX 'orribly broken
On the surface it looks as though the RequestTimeout functionality in CFMX is woefully broken. Have been holding out from the beginning of the month in hope that the "updater" might have addressed this issue, but alas. So here's some info on trying to get this thing to work.