A 15 page ColdFusion MX 6.1 performance brief has been posted on the Macromedia web site at http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/whitepapers/pdf/6_1/cfmx61_performancebrief.pdf. Based on these numbers it looks like we lied about the performance gains in this new version, it's not what we...
Little baby boy Forta arrived this morning at 9:28 am. The (yet to be named) baby clocked in at 8 pounds 13 ounces and 22" long. Mother and baby are doing fine! :-)
I'm a gadget freak (as most of us are), and am particularly fond of anything pertaining to time, calendars, globes, planets, geophysics, construction gizmos, puzzles, and just about anything with cool LEDs (yeah, very specific, I know). My newest toy is an LED binary clock - a clock with six...
This wasn't always possible, and I don't know when it become possible, but as I am working with Java CFX code now and am using this feature I thought I'd share. The CFXAPI (used in creating CFX tags in C/C++ or Java) exposes a limited subset of the ColdFusion world to your code. One of the things...
Rough weekend. My high-speed data connection died on Friday, and I was stuck with a dial-up connection for almost 48 hours. Honestly, I spent most of the weekend feeling like my hands were tied behind my back using a slow dial up. While part of me was frustrated and feeling trapped, another part of...
If you are writing CFC methods that are exposed as Web Services, then you may want to be able to determine exactly how your method is being invoked (as a CFC or as a Web Service). I'd been struggling with this one for a while, and today Tom Jordahl came to my rescue with the following function. You...
This one slipped under the radar for lots of folks, but if you are using COM objects from within CFML code then it is important. CFMX 6.1 added a new function named ReleaseComObject(), which does exactly what its name suggests. In the past ColdFusion did its own cleanup (eventually) and this caused...
I discovered one minor problem when upgrading from CFMX to CFMX6.1, it looks like GetTickCount() changed and it is now returning a value that is very different from what was returned previously. If you use GetTickCount() to return a value that is to be compared to another GetTickCount() value then...
This would be utterly hilarious if it were not so sad. Wired is running a story (http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59907,00.html) about one of the many sites that uses spam to hawk products intended to enlarge male body parts. I personally get dozens of messages like this a day and I am...
ColdFusion MX 6.1 Enterprise supports multiple mail delivery threads, the number of desired threads is specified in the ColdFusion Administrator. This number is not a pre-allocated pool, rather, it is the maximum that ColdFusion may allocate if needed, and ColdFusion will not always allocate the...