The new version of ajaxCFC that runs on jQuery is excellent and has a bunch of nifty helper functions. I have recently had the need to make the end result less developer friendly and more user friendly. So here we go – how to catch errors with ajaxCFC without using the default error handler. First […]
ColdFusion has never been very good at allowing you to see inside your server and work out what its actually doing at any point in time. One way to get a nice overview is to use ColdFusion’s command line tool cfstat. With ColdFusion 8 out now with its server performance monitor, cfstat is likely redundant […]
When bandwidth becomes an issue, it is possible to enable HTTP compression between the web server and the browser. This increases CPU load on the web server by a small amount, but can provide fairly massive reductions in page sizes (in the order of 75%). Compression is part of the HTTP/1.1 specification, which means that […]
Using Ctrl + Pause/Break will force CF to push a JVM thread dump into your log file. You should try and so at least 2 dumps while the server is under pressure. this way you can find the threads that are taking time and probably eating the resources. Once you know which of your sites […]
Recently we installed Subversion into my workplace, and then moved it to CVSDude.com. As this happened I went in search of a decent web based browser for SVN and also something that would help me integrate more closely with our in house built ticket system. The only ColdFusion based SVN Browser I could find was […]
And here is another joy of ANT – you can move files by FTP. Its not one of the core tasks in ANT, so you can be forgiven for trying it, and it not working. Go check out the ANT Manual FTP Task page and it tells you the components you require. The Commons is […]
I was wondering how to keep track of how many builds have taken place, putting it together into a overall product version number with the Subversion Revision number. It turns out that ANT actually keeps a record of builds itself using the Buildnumber task, all you have to do is produce a blank build.number file. […]
I have been using ANT to get builds done of the many projects we work on, and one of the things that has bugged me was that the SVN username and passowrd was stored in the build.properties file. Today the ANT Manual came to the rescue with the input task. Lets look at the example […]
As part of my build and deploy process I wanted to get the revision number of the working copy and append it into the application so its visible. To do this you need to have already installed the SVNAnt task, (see my previous post) as its not a core ANT task. Using the status task, […]
