August 17, 2003
Added a Spell Checker
I've added a spell checker to the comments posting page on this blog. Not that any of you needed a spell checker, but ... :-) All comments and feedback welcome.
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August 15, 2003
Back Online
After a day and a half without any power, no telephones (we lost cell phones on all networks as well as land lines), and almost no running water I'm back online. It looks like my site was up all the time (the data center has a backup generator), but it could not be accessed at times because most...
August 13, 2003
We Lied About Performance
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...
August 11, 2003
It's a Boy!
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! :-)
August 10, 2003
My Newest Desktop Gadget: LED Binary Clock
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...
August 10, 2003
Returning Specific Scopes From Within CFXs
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...
August 9, 2003
I Have a Dependency Issue
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...
August 6, 2003
Distinguishing CFC Method Invocation From Web Service Method Invocation
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...
August 6, 2003
New ReleaseComObject() Function
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...
August 5, 2003
GetTickCount() Changed
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...
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