Archive for the 'ColdFusion' Category

ColdFusion 9 crashing? Try different garbage collection

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

For the ICS application we are using ColdFusion 9. For quite a while we had a major problem. Our CF server kept crashing at least once a day without any warning. One minute it was running just fine, 30 seconds later all memory was consumed (3GB assigned for the JVM). Server was totally becoming unresponsive [...]

ColdFusion compiler is broken

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Following on a tweet from Sean Corfield, I couldn’t believe it is possible to create a function called if, else, while and so on as well as declare variable called var. Here is the code that may hurt your head: [sourcecode lang="cf"] <cffunction name="if"> <cfargument name="val1" /> <cfargument name="val2" /> <cfif val1 eq val2> <cfreturn [...]

ColdFusion to Flex serializer needs better error messages

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I’m using Flex with ColdFusion for a long time now but sometimes I really can’t stand these two products together. I’m sending nested CFCs through the remote object back to Flex so ColdFusion has to serialize them to the form that may be understood by Flex. But I’ve got an error, somewhere I have an [...]