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Oct 11, 2006

ColdFusion Memory Leaks: Part I — profiler introduction

Over the last year or so I’ve been dealing with memory leaks in ColdFusion. Some have been code related, but others seem to be issues with the way ColdFusion handles garbage collection of CFCs. Recently, we’ve made some breakthroughs…

Mike Schierberl in Mike‘s CF Blog

Oct 15, 2006

Memory Leaks: Part II — variables scope leak

In part II of my memory leak posts, I will attempt to demonstrate a simple example of how the CFML runtime engine can cause memory leaks. If you would like to know more about the tools I used to identify the problem, or would like to follow along with…

Mike Schierberl in Mike‘s CF Blog

Oct 24, 2006

Memory Leaks: Part III — sessions and cfcs

In part III of my memory leak posts, I will attempt to show an example of how variable references can increase within in the heap on every request. If you would like to know more about the tools I used to identify the problem, or would like to follow…

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Jul 26, 2009

varScoper 1.30 release with CF Builder extension

varScoper 1.30 is now available to download on RIAForge. This release fixes over 17 reported issues and also works properly on both Railo and OpenBD.
Additionally, Raymond Camden’s ColdFusion builder extension code has been integrated. Hopefully…

Mike Schierberl in Mike‘s CF Blog

Aug 17, 2006

cfschedule delete — workaround

Last week I learned that cfschedule has some annoying behavior when trying to call the delete action. If a scheduled task tries to delete itself (or update itself) through the cfschedule tag, it won’t actually delete the task and will continue to run until the server is…

Mike Schierberl in Mike‘s CF Blog

Jul 17, 2006

Unexpected cftimer Behavior

This is a fun one, After beating my head against the wall for a bit, I discovered an interesting behavior when using cftimer and cfheader (or cflocation) together. Follow along….

First I saw this error….

Error Occurred While Processing Request

Mike Schierberl in Mike‘s CF Blog

Sep 30, 2007

Sessions DO NOT expire on browser close

I have interviewed quite a few people lately for a few positions at my company. An interesting thing that I have noticed is that the majority of people I interview seem to think that session variables ALWAYS expire on browser close. However in a default CF…

Mike Schierberl in Mike‘s CF Blog

Oct 6, 2007

varScoper 1.1 — now with cfscript parsing

That’s right, my varScoper tool now supports cfml written within cfscript blocks. Please note that this is still somewhat experimental, but seems to handle quite a few scenarios.

Click here to download the 1.1 code.

Here’s a link to the project page…

Mike Schierberl in Mike‘s CF Blog

Jul 20, 2008

Thread safety and the var scope — live example

Recently, I’ve talked to a few developers who knew about the var scope, but didn’t quite grasp the concept of making a variable local to a function. Additionally, I’ve come across a few posts that indicated that setting a var statement was strictly…

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Dec 2, 2011

Cheap (or Free) CF hosting in the cloud

Amazon recently released updated pricing on reserved ec2 instances. If you’ve been left high and dry by Go Daddy, or are simply looking for a cheaper alternative for hosting cfml applications it might be a good time to take a look at Amazon Web Services.

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