I have a few virtual machines that I wanted to skip the logon step.

This site show exactly how to do it with a few registry tweaks. Its a time saver!

syntax I'll never remember.

C:\Program Files\Sun\VirtualBox>VBoxManage clonehd "base.vdi" "myNewBox.vdi"

In me never ending quest for the ultimate browser start page, I'm giving Pageflakes a try. The interface is very similar to iGoogle or "My Yahoo" personalized start pages. I thought I'd try something that's off the corporate bandwagon.

From their "about us" page: Pageflakes, the social personalized homepage, is revolutionizing how we how we start with and use the Internet. At www.Pageflakes.com, you can easily customize the Internet and make it yours using '"Flakes" – small, movable versions of all of your web favorites that you can arrange on your personal homepage. You can also participate in the Pageflakes community, sharing your page as a "Pagecast" with a private group or with the world, and connecting with other users across the globe. Over 235,000 Flakes and 140,000 Pagecasts are available for thousands of uses and interests, including Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, news, sports, e-mail, local events, search, photos, music, videos – even interactive tools like a calendar and a to-do list – and just about anything else you do on the web at school, work and at home. The Pageflakes user community creates and helps each other discover more new Flakes and Pagecasts every day.

Courtesy EclipseZone

Eclipse is storing the workspace information in a preferences file called "org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs". This file is located under "%ECLIPSE_HOME%\configuration\.settings" and contains a key named "RECENT_WORKSPACES". The value of this key contains a comma separated list of workspaces, more precisely the path to the workspaces. If you delete one of the entries, it'll disappear from the workspace launcher.

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. Type gpedit.msc, and then click OK.
3. Expand Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, and then expand System.
4. Double-click Display Shutdown Event Tracker.
5. Click Disabled, and then click OK.

Reference: Microsoft Support

I find myself squinting more and more when I read blogs on the internet, but I hate the lower Windows display resolutions (I'm using 1400x900). Firefox has built in keyboard shortcuts for zooming (CTRL+/CTRL-), but I find them clumsy to use...also, you have to repeat this for every page you view.

I found a Firefox extension named Default FullZoom Level that meets my needs perfectly. I can set the default zoom to 125% so I don't need to change it on every page I view, and I can easily change the zoom by clicking CTRL, or CTRL. for zooming in and out respectively. Those shortcuts are more user friendly for me than Firefox's default ones, and the default zoom level is a life saver.

I need to watch these: http://www.noupe.com/design/7-must-see-web-design-videos-and-presentations.html

I need to watch this

http://www.terrenceryan.com/blog/post.cfm/apptacular-coldfusion-builder-extension-scaffolding

I need to watch these videos

From Smashing Magazine:

"We're all mostly accustomed to educating ourselves by reading articles. Rare are the opportunities to attend conferences or watch live shows on subjects that we're interested in. That's why we are presenting here phenomenal videos and related resources on the topic of user experience (UX) by different presenters at different events. We have focused on current content but have included some older videos that are still relevant. It will take you more than 16 hours to watch all of these videos. So, make some popcorn, turn off the lights and enjoy."

The videos: 25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time

Hopefully this tip will help someone down the road too, or maybe someone can enlighten me as to the "right" way to code for the physical file path of an application.

I was setting the following code in the OnApplicationStart() method to set the application's physical file path (http://mydomain.com/myApplication):

The application uses index.cfm as a "controller" (i.e.index.cfm?disp=thispage) so I THOUGHT it would set the path relative to the root of the application (C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mydomain\myApplication)

Well, it does...MOST of the time....I still haven't gotten to the bottom of it, but sometimes the rootpath would get set to nested directories (C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mydomain\myApplication\middle\). I can only assume that the application would sometimes reinit when it was in the middle of processing something in the "middle" directory.

Long story short, I'm about to deploy this code fix to (hopefully) resolve the problem:

The application.applicationname is the same as the "myApplication" directory, so I'm hopeful that this will work....at least my three test runs worked..lol