Brian Kotek:
Inversion of Control

Hey just a quick note about the ColdFusion Community Toolbar that I saw mentioned on Ben Nadel's Blog. It's a browser toolbar plugin, and it's pretty slick!

It has a CF-specific search to let you search the documentation. It has pull-down tabs for Community (latest CF-Talk posts, latest CFDJ articles, etc.), Blogs (latest MXNA, FullAsAGoog, etc.), Markup and CSS validators, CF Job Postings, and an integrated mp3 player that has all the CF-related podcasts.

I must say it's very nicely done! Kudos to Fusion Authority and Epicenter for building this.

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Most folks are probably already aware, but just in case, Firefox 2.0 was released a few minutes ago!

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Just a quick entry here to mention a very nice backup tool called Carbonite. Unfortunately, it currently only runs on Windows XP, but if you run XP it is very handy. It runs in your system tray and lets you back up anything on your hard drive to their storage servers using your high-speed internet connection.

I'm a bit of a backup junkie because I've been through the pain of losing all your data (or music or whatever) and it really, really sucks. Bad. I run backups to an external hard drive, but this wouldn't save me in the event of a fire or burglary. Carbonite encrypts everything and stores it off site, and they give you unlimited space. The best part is, it's only $50 a year. That is $4 month for unlimited, secure, offsite backups of your critical data. Which is a really good deal in my humble opinion. Anyone out there tried Carbonite? What do you think of it? And in general, do you run backups? If so, what is your approach?

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