A little more about the cfopen VM's

Thu, 31 May 2007 14:43:36 GMT

The two current virtual machines created by the cfopen guys, are intended to be an easy way for people to start running code with the Smith Project CFML engine.

There are two different OS's, with a different GUI for each. But the consistent thing between both VM's is that once you log in, you see a folder called 'Web Root'.

We have it set to start Apache/Tomcat/MySQL as services on start up, and the Firefox homepage is set to http://localhost

So, in essence all you need to do is log in, open the 'Web Root' folder and start testing/writing/etc your ColdFusion code.

Get the VM's here: http://cfopen.instantspot.com/blog/

Robots and main page accessibility

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT

On my quest towards e-stardom (aka a relevant and content-rich website), I realized that the navigation towards my older "news items" was somewhat lacking. My solution for this problem was to create a side bar menu that would contain all of the news item titles in descending date order (aka newest first).

A day or two after this change, I began to notice a positive side-effect to including all of these titles as links on the main page...The robots (spiders) were crawling all through my site! I'm not 100% sure, but I can't imagine how this increased indexing would hurt my chances of being returned in some search results.

In a possibly related subject, a Google search for 'Aaron Lynch' now returns this page in the top 10 search results (#6 as of this entry) and an MSN search returns www.AaronJLynch.com as #3!

Does anybody want my autograph?

UPDATE 1/25/06: Either Google has changed my ranking somehow, or my switch to BlogCFC has harmed my accessibility somehow. I now turn up on like page 5 or something terrible. Back to the drawing board!

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A little more about the cfopen VM's

Robots and main page accessibility