I'm happy to announce the release of LighthousePro 2.4.3. For those who may not know what Lighthouse is, it is an open source bug tracker. This version includes:

• New logo, provided by Ron Stewart and Marco Olson. A favicon.ico is also provided. I had mentioned a redesign a few weeks back - this is not it. The only design change here is the logo.
• Support for storing passwords in hash format. This was done by Jeff Smallwood. Also provided by Jeff is a way to disable RSS feeds. He thought some people may be worried about the 'autologin' nature of the RSS feeds, so a simple preference was added to support turning them off.
• I fixed a few minor bugs in printing, and added an alpha sort to the project list.

A while back I got a question from a reader concerning ColdFusion licensing. As I know next to nothing about this I went right to Josh Adams, Adobe's newest ColdFusion specialist. He graciously helped me out and his reply is below. First, the question, from Andy:

Here at the County we are heading into a virtualized blade sever environment (using VMware). I can't find conclusive, non-conflicting information on Adobe's site that states what version of CF is compatible with a virtual environment. I found a PDF that says CF8 Enterprise is compatible and CF8 Standard is not, and I even found another page that says MX is compatible with virtualization. Can you direct me to the correct answer?

Josh's reply:

First let's start with the licensing generally; from the Adobe ColdFusion 8 FAQ we have this:

ColdFusion 8 is licensed based on the number of physical processors (CPUs) on the server on which it is running. ColdFusion is licensed in two-CPU increments. Each license of ColdFusion, whether Standard or Enterprise Edition, allows the software to be installed on a server with one or two CPUs. Additional CPUs on the server require additional licenses. Note that the total number of computers on which ColdFusion 8 is installed and used may not exceed the total number of licenses purchased. That means you cannot purchase one two-CPU license and use it on two separate single-CPU servers. Each server, in that case, needs its own license. View information regarding the licensing of ColdFusion 8.

Next let's move to additional licensing considerations related to VMs: there are no restrictions on the number of VMs onto which ColdFusion 8 Enterprise may be installed. However, ColdFusion 8 Standard can be used on no more than one VM per license. Note that this is consistent with ColdFusion 8 Enterprise's allowance of unlimited instances per license and ColdFusion 8 Standard's restriction to a single instance per license.

Finally, let's take a look at platform support considerations: the VMWare and Microsoft Virtual Server platforms are officially supported for ColdFusion 8 Enterprise but not for ColdFusion 8 Standard. That means that Adobe Support will investigate issues encountered on ColdFusion 8 Enterprise running in a VM, but they may not investigate issues encountered on ColdFusion 8 Standard running in a VM but instead they may require that those issues be reproduced on a supported platform.

Thank you Josh!

Well, we are almost there folks. Here are the stats for the second to last week:

Week 9 weight total: 2,967
Week 9 weight average: 228.23
Week 9 lowest: 178
Week 9 highest: 384
People this week: 13
Biggest Loser (Pounds): Adam Bielawski (5 lbs)
Biggest Loser (%): Adam Bielawski ( 2.21 %)
Total Weight Lost: 19

I lost a grand total of one pound, but I've been at 210 (my goal weight) all week (after Monday), so I just need to make sure I don't screw it up this weekend.