Annotations for ColdFusion Podcast Episode 21: Performance Tuning

I enjoy keeping up with the ColdFusion Podcast whenever I can, but I usually lag behind by a couple weeks until I find the time to listen to a few of them during some downtime. This morning I began listening to the most recent podcast at home, and then continued during my drive to work. The podcast was so interesting that I found that I had to share my right hand between the manual shifter and a notepad where I was jotting down some thoughts regarding Episode 21, Performance Tuning ColdFusion MX Applications.

Here I'd just like to take a moment to annotate some of the bullet points from the discussion while also extending with additional information.

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  Podcasts from a ColdFusion TagTeam

I'm psyched to see that ColdFusion enthusiasts Bryan Kaiser and Michael Haynie have launched ColdFusionPodcast.com, a site dedicated to ColdFusion news and indepth reviews of web application topics. I found their podcast to be very professional, upbeat, and most importantly very useful. The alternating or conversational approach by this ColdFusion tagteam kept me very tuned into the discussion for the half hour duration. Episode 2 ramps up with an overview of recent news from the ColdFusion blogosphere followed by a lengthy analysis of the history and current state of AJAX while focussing on ColdFusion integration, illustrated with a Google Maps use case with free code that you can download and put to work right away. Bryan and Michael present just the right amount of information to consume during lunch or a long coffee break, ... information you can use. ColdFusionPodcast.com is definitely worth your time.

  Podcast of ColdFusion 10th Birthday Event

Here's the audio track from yesterday's panel discussion from the ColdFusion founders at Allaire Corporation.

ColdFusion_10th_Birthday_Panel_Discussion.mp3 [39 MB]

The chronological annotation for the podcast and the full video can be found here.

  CFUNITED 2005 Macromedia Keynote - Audio

In addition to the good quality video of the keynote address at CFUNITED, here is an audio only export of the keynote in mp3 format:

Audio mp3 track of the CFUNITED Keynote on June 29th [25MB]

Ben's microphone wasn't tuned as well as Tim Buntel's, so while Tim comes in loud and clear, Ben is a little difficult to follow. The audio for guest Amit who demos a CF7 app was lacking in volume entirely, so it barely comes though here. Simeon Bateman's talk on CFEclipse comes through very well.

• 0:00 Tim Buntel introduces himself and Ben Forta
• 6:30 - 15:00 Ben Forta begins discussion of what's new in CFMX 7
• 16:40 Introduction to Amit Yathirajadasan of Georgetown University who demos CFMX 7 app
• 17:45 Amit begins, but is generally inaudible
• 27:20 Tim Buntel recaps Amits talk and segueways to CFMX future
• 31:20 Ben Forta introduces CFMX 7 updater, code named Merrimack
• 33:30 Start of CFEclipse discusssion by Tim Buntel
• 39:40 Simeon Bateman of the CFEclipse Project joins the stage
• 46:00 Tim Buntel and Ben Forta introduce ColdFusion MX 8, codenamed Scorpio

  ColdFusion News Radio for April 25th 2005

This is the first in a new series of podcasts, CFNews_Radio, where in my spare time I'll be producing a weekly show that summarizes recent news and events regarding ColdFusion including hot threads in the CF Community, interesting projects or topics in the blogosphere, user group events, and articles from Macromedia including those from the Devnet center, Security Zone, and technotes.

Since this is the first of the series, I'll reach back more than a week, but in general these podcasts will try to stay current.

This week's show includes:

• Where to find information on the Adobe proposal to acquire Macromedia
• Hot threads from CFTalk
• COAL
• ACME
• BlogCFM, BlogFusion, BlogCFC
• New houseoffusion.com lists
• Recent Macromedia ColdFusion Devnet articles
• ColdFusion MX Security Bulletins
• ColdFusion MX 7 Cumulative Hotfix 2
• CFUNITED 2005
• Online ColdFusion Meetup Group

To subscribe to the CFNews_Radio you can set your podcast-enabled blog aggregator such as iPodder or Feed Demon to the ColdFusion Podcast RSS 2.0 feed.

To learn more about how to get your blog aggregator to update your iPod with these news feeds, check out What is Podcasting on iPodder.org, or this article, Receive Podcasts Using Your PC.

If you'd just like to listen to CFNews_Radio without subscribing, just click the paperclip icon at the bottom of a podcast blog entry.

  CFMX 7 Podcast Series: Introducing the 'Making Blackstone' Series

Fifth in this series of podcasts is a reading of the Macromedia Devnet article on Introducing the "Making Blackstone" Series by Damon Cooper and Tim Buntel.

This article was published in late 2004 before th release of ColdFusion MX 7 while the product was still codenamed Blackstone during the Beta cycle. It introduces the series of subsequent articles to be written by ColdFusion Engineers who developed various feature sets of the new release. Check the first three podcasts in this series for some of those articles already including CFForm by Mike Nimer, Clustering and Sourceless Deploy by Geoff Green and Erik Tierney, and New Verity Features by Tom Jordahl.

Logged In: Introducing the "Making Blackstone" Series
Check out articles from the ColdFusion engineering team and get an under-the-hood look at Blackstone.

To subscribe to the ColdFusion podcasts you can set your podcast-enabled blog aggregator such as iPodder or Feed Demon to the ColdFusion Podcast RSS 2.0 feed.

  CFMX 7 Podcast Series: Introducing ColdFusion MX 7

Fourth in this series of podcasts is a reading of the Macromedia Devnet article on the Introducing ColdFusion MX 7 by Ben Forta.

If I had planned the order of these podcasts better, this should have been the first of the series, so its a little odd to have the introduction to ColdFusion MX 7 after some of the feature articles. Well, enjoy anyway.

Introducing ColdFusion MX 7
Get an overview of the hot new features in ColdFusion MX 7—the most customer-driven release to date.

To subscribe to the ColdFusion podcasts you can set your podcast-enabled blog aggregator such as iPodder or Feed Demon to the ColdFusion Podcast RSS 2.0 feed.

  CFMX 7 Podcast Series: Creating Better Search Functionality and Indexed Collections

Third in this series of podcasts is a reading of the Macromedia Devnet article on the new Verity features in ColdFusion MX 7 by Tom Jordahl.

Creating Better Search Functionality and Indexed Collections with ColdFusion MX 7
Build an effective search with categories, suggested keywords, and detailed status information.

To subscribe to the ColdFusion podcasts you can set your podcast-enabled blog aggregator such as iPodderor Feed Demon to the ColdFusion Podcast RSS 2.0 feed.

  CFMX 7 Podcast Series: Clustering and Sourceless Deploy

Second in this series of podcasts is a reading of the Macromedia Devnet article on managing clusters by Geoffrey Greene and Erik Tierney.

Managing Clusters with Enterprise Manager and Packaging Applications in ColdFusion MX 7
Package and deploy EAR and WAR files, and manage instances and clusters with the Enterprise Manager.

To subscribe to the ColdFusion podcasts you can set your podcast-enabled blog aggregator such as iPodderor Feed Demon to the ColdFusion Podcast RSS 2.0 feed.>.

This sound quality of this podcast is an improvement over my first now that I'm using a professional microphone, although it was a challenge to complete the reading since I'm just recovering from a cold where I lost my voice last week. After having read Jake Ludington's article titled, Create Podcasts Using Your PC, I decided that the toy microphone that had sitting around wasn't going to cut it and I would need something better. I used his article on creating a podcasting kit as a guideline.

I purchased a microphone and a pre-amp at a Guitar Center in Natick for a much better price than anywhere online. I couldn't find a cheap mini compressor anywhere so I decided to opt out of that. The service at Guitar Center was great a gentleman named Alain explained everything I would need to know from how to use a pre-amp to which buttons to push and where to plug in the various wires.

  New ColdFusion MX 7 Podcast Series

Today I'd like to launch a new ColdFusion podcast series where I'll be reading articles on ColdFusion MX 7 from the Macromedia Developer Center. The first podcast of the series is a reading of Creating Better Forms Faster with ColdFusion MX 7, by Mike Nimer of Macromedia. Later, I as I gain experience with podcasting I'd like to expand the scope by adding interviews and news podcasts that relate to the ColdFusion Community.

To subscribe to the podcasts you can set your podcast-enabled blog aggregator to the ColdFusion Podcast RSS 2.0 feed, where you'll be subscribed only to podcasts but none of the other content on this blog. Alternatively, you could subscribe to the main TalkingTree RSS 2.0 feed which will include all content from this blog in addition to those blogs which contain podcast attachments.

Podcast-enabled blog aggregators include Feed Demon and iPodder. See my earlier blog entry on getting into podcasting for more information about configuring your blog reader for podcasts.

While my podcasting skills still need a lot of tuning, such as trying to speak more naturally and coordinating the music clip volume with the volume of my speaking voice, I think that a human voice is far better than the only other alternative right now for ColdFusion audio content, MXNA Take-away. That site uses text to speech translation software that results in audio that is barely discernable. While it is somewhat tolerable to listen when the speech is common english, as soon it hits technical vocabulary I find it very untolerable and indecipherable. My new podcast series intends to fill the gap with technical content in an understandable human voice.

I'd like to thank the makers of the free audio editing software used to create these podcasts, Audacity.