There is a bizarre feature in Mac OS X 10.3 (Jaguar) in Expose that allows a user to put a blue orb on their desktop.

Check out the article at Mac OS X hints.

Very strange.

Microsoft has a couple of nice tools for those of you who run a site on IIS:

This one is a lockdown tool for IIS to look for security problems.

This is a web application stress tool that allows you to see how your application and server handle large loads.

I have been looking for a good WYSIWYG editor that is cross-platform and cross-browser but doesn’t run as a Java applet or puts in extraneous HTML code.

I found one yesterday. Check out Kevin Roth’s rich text editor demo / source code. It also has a spell checker, but that is only available in IE on Windows using ieSpell (which works great but isn’t cross-browser of course).

We were getting the following error in our ColdFusion

“Error Executing Database Query.[Macromedia][Oracle JDBC Driver][Oracle]ORA-01652: unable to extend temp segment by 384 in tablespace TEMP The specific sequence of files included or processed is: /htdocs/coldfusion.cfm”

The fix our DBA did was the following as the DBA user:
> select file_name, bytes from dba_data_files where tablespace_name = ‘TEMP’;
> alter database datafile ‘<file_name from above query, include the full path>’ resize <compute the new size based on the above query, original size + 30%, enter as-for example 100m>;

Ok, so my wife and I are on Weight Watchers, so I wrote this little javascript that calculates the points in a meal given the calories, fat, and fiber contents.

Check out the point calculator here.