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To all you CF MX developers out there in the UK the company I work for, 2nd Byte, currently have an opening for a Systems Architect. The full job spec is available on the companies website. The job is based in Godalming in Surrey, Google maps knows where.

If you want more information or fancy applying drop me a mail at ianwinter [at] gmail [dot] com

If you’ve noticed that your FF has updated itself to 1.5.0.1 and you’re not sure why take a read of this article on Mozilla Developer News.

Had another hotspot crash on a Linux server again today after months of not having any. Doing a bit of googling and finding myself back on Steven Erat’s very useful blog I found a user comment saying that in Sun’s JRE 1.4.2_10 they seem to have fixed the problem. As a result I’ve updated it along with a couple of hotfixes to CF and all seems well.

You can get the JRE from Sun’s Java site.

If you’ve got a Linux box running Cpanel/WHM and you’ve updated recently you may now have eximstats failed and also noticed some DBD::MySQL errors in the process. Quick fix which worked for me is:

One of those things you just have to share. Picked up off a couple of blogs but well worth duplicating! Make sure your sound is on.

International Geek Song (from blog of Michael van Leest)

Wikipedia information and the Offical website. If anyone has any of there albums, please, please get in touch!

Or should it be “I used to be a celebrity now I just want some publicity” Brother? You may call my synic but I think “celebrity” is a bit of a stretch for describing the contenders this time round.

I only watched the first programme to see who was going in, and, it was rubbish. Faria, or “fire alarm” is not a celebrity at all. Her intro said she hated the 3 weeks of press she got when she slept her way around the FA (so it’s claimed) she hated, so why the hell is she on a 3 week show in which all she will get is publicty! Michael Barrymore clearly is trying to relaunch himself, and, I suppose fair play but not the ideal launch in my opinion, certainly proved he can entertain by milking the crowd.

Clearly history between Traci & Dennis, Maggot has to win really, just because. This is the first and last comment on CBB 2006 (at least for now =) ).

Big Brother – the official Big Brother UK website from Channel 4

The ColdFusion Cookbook which has just been launch by Ray Camden is a new site which is designed to help people solve Coldfusion problems.

If you have a question that needs answering the answer may be there, alternatively if you have had a question solved somewhere else submit it so you can help out others.

Hopefully the site will become very successful and be useful.

Needed to do this and had to google around for it, so, here it is for ease (hopefully!)

You can reset an auto_increment field in mySQL by using the following syntax:

Where # is an integer value.