Just found this neat tool for monitoring my svn repo commits, thought I'd pass it along. In the past I have used Trac's rss feed but for quick monitoring without the need to install and setup Trac, CommitMonitor does a superb job.

For more info and to download it checkout their site at http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/CommitMonitor

I've began building an internet services utility component for doing things like DNS lookup in ColdFusion. It's basically a wrapper to simplify all the JAVA integration calls.

Although I can technically do the following to do a dns lookup from an ip address natively in ColdFusion:

The preceding code can take up to 5 seconds if there's no dns record for the given ip address. In most applications that wait is not exactly acceptable! The InetUtils.cfc uses a java jar file from dnsjava.org that speeds up the lookup even when there's no dns record.

Here's a sample code on how to use it, it also returns all dns records found for the ip address as an array, where the previous code only returns one record:

I'll be adding new methods like dns lookup and any other methods that fit this library later on. If you have any ideas or requests, I'd be happy to hear it.