Using Java instead of CFFILE and CFDIRECTORY
There are several reasons why jusing Java in place of CFFILE of CFDIRECTORY might be a good idea. In many cases such as shared hosting environments, hosts block use of those tags. While it obviously...
View ArticleSeeStack online stack trace tool
I spent far too much of my day yesterday pouring through stack traces and metrics dumps and trying to find something that has been killing the performance on one of our applications. In the process, I...
View Article`c->xlib.lock’ failed error on Java applications
I am currently using the Alpha 3 release of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Considering the fact that it is an alpha release, I tend to not get worked up over little errors that might occur. However, I have...
View ArticleHow to set JAVA_HOME environment variable in Ubuntu
I am actually creating this blog entry as a bookmark for myself, but since I know that I never remember how to do it, others might benefit as well! One way that you can set your JAVA_HOME variable and...
View ArticleRefactoring: avoiding nested conditional statements
Recently at I was given the task of adding an new validation routine to an existing validation process. In this piece of code, the requirements mandated that a series of sequential tests would be run,...
View ArticleCFML wishlist: All collections should extend Iterator
Have you ever really given a second thought to the fact that in ColdFusion/CFML you have to loop queries, arrays, and structures in completely different ways? For example, in each of these things, we...
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