Russ Johnson announced a new project weeks ago, but it was a rather quiet introduction to a new website ( http://workingwithcfml.com/ ) for promoting CFML Development. I was actually waiting for something to be resolved before I made mention of it. Russ dm'ed me on Twitter and mentioned that he made updates to the site over the weekend. I think it's an awesome idea, a great way to find some people to follow regardless if it's RSS / Twitter, etc.

I have three suggestions for Russ:

• You now have a great collection of RSS feeds. Make it easy for new cfml developers and create a OPML file somewhere that someone can import and grab them all.
• You now have a great collection of twitter names. Make it easy for new cfml developers and create a single page listing twitter name with first name and last name, so we can continue building a great twitter community.
• Integrate with other CFML projects. Slidesix.com is a great example. You already started discussions with Mr. Sharp, now start one with Ray Camden or provide a link to Riaforge if the person states they have open source projects available, etc. More importantly, if you find a CFML Website that doesn't provide an API and you think they should, pester them.

• http://learncf.com/
• http://cflib.org/
• http://riaforge.org/
• http://gotcfm.com/

Last night, I was completing the Railo install with Tomcat on Windows 7. As I was wrapping up, I noticed something odd. Railo's WEB-INF directories were all over the place in Tomcat's subfolders and they weren't supposed to be.  It's because of my server.xml <host> was wrong.

I had:

<Host name="testhost1">
	<Context path="" docBase="C:/Dev/websites/testhost1" />
</Host>
<Host name="testhost2">
	<Context path="" docBase="C:/Dev/websites/testhost2" />
</Host>

When it should have been:

<Host name="testhost1" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">>
	<Context path="" docBase="C:/Dev/websites/testhost1" />
</Host>
<Host name="testhost2" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">>
	<Context path="" docBase="C:/Dev/websites/testhost2" />
</Host>

Thanks to Sean Corfield and Jamie Krug for the assist. As soon as they mentioned it, I facepalmed. I figured because I wasn't setting up Railo wars, that I could do away with all the extra attributes and it was a bad assumption on my part.

I've already fixed my previous blog post. Sorry for the issues.

So, about 2-3 weeks ago my quad-core/8 gigs of ram beast of a machine at home running Vista 64 started BSOD'ing completely randomly. I noticed a lot of windows updates were rolling out, but it got bad enough that it prompted me to re-install. It's hard doing development when you're completely stressed out over a silly machine. It was never consistent either, but I couldn't prove that it was windows update. Running memtest, my computer passed with flying colors.

I have Windows 7 on Pre-order, but wouldn't you know it, the one day I decide to give Windows 7 a shot, Microsoft had already pulled the RC. Friend of mine had the Microsoft Action pack and gave me the ISO (sans serial number), because I just wanted to install it and see if my machine was stable again. I installed Windows 7 last night and I have to say, wow. I'm impressed! It was seriously fast. All my BSOD issues have gone away, my computer can be put to sleep again without issues. If you're running Vista and you're running into issues, take a look at the windows updates and hunt down which one is causing issues. For now, I'm going to keep extending my 30 day trial (you can do this 3 times) until my real copy of Windows 7 comes along.

Before any of you come along and say, "get a mac..." *ahem*Snow Lepoard*ahem* :P