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...
Initial indications are that ColdFusion MX 6.1 is rock solid, and all feedback thus far has been very positive. There are, however, a few known issues (stuff that unfortunately did not make it into the final build). If you do run into any gotchas, check the "ColdFusion MX 6.1 Known Issues" list at...
ZDNet Australia is reporting that there is still a market for IT professionals. The story is at http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/0,2000048640,20276849,00.htm The part I like is this: "Specific technology skills expected to be in demand during the next 12 months include wireless ......
ColdFusion MX 6.1 adds a few new tags to the CFML language, and makes changes to some existing tags. If you are using HomeSite+ or Dreamweaver MX you can download tag updates so that your IDE is aware of these language changes. The updates can be downloaded from...
in CFMX 6.1 has been dramatically enhanced. Changes include support for multiple mail delivery threads, SMTP server redundancy, SMTP logins, and more. I created a short Breeze presentation (under 10 minutes) to explain this new features and technologies. Feel free to view it (and listen to it) at...