Community Member Profile

Recent Blog Comments By Adam Cameron

• CFAbort And OnRequestEnd() Behavior In ColdFusion 8 And ColdFusion 9

  Posted on Apr 5, 2013 at 8:40 PM

  Hi Brad / Ben The URL on the new tracker is this: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3040459 I slapped together what I think is a better search UI for the new bug... read more »

• Java's AtomicInteger vs. ColdFusion Named-Locking For Incrementing Values

  Posted on Mar 8, 2013 at 8:54 AM

  Hi Ben I just stumbled across the non-thread-safety of the ++ operator today! There's a repro case on my blog: http://adamcameroncoldfusion.blogspot.co... read more »

• Using AtomicInteger To Create Uniquely Named CFThreads In ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 28, 2013 at 9:53 AM

  Hi Ben I totally get where you're coming from with the "emotional" side of things. We've all got idiosyncrasies in our coding. UUIDs certainly did used to be slow to create, although I think it only really became obvious under large load (the underlying java method was synchr... read more »

• Using AtomicInteger To Create Uniquely Named CFThreads In ColdFusion

  Posted on Feb 28, 2013 at 1:00 AM

  Hi Ben Interesting technique, but I gotta say I'm with Ralph on this one. Your approach seems to be a lot of unnecessary work for something that basically just needs a unique ID. And that's what UUIDs are for. Still, obviously, I get that people have their own vagaries and preferences... read more »

• Converting ISO Date/Time To ColdFusion Date/Time

  Posted on Oct 11, 2012 at 6:30 AM

  @Adam (the other one), can you pls consider submitting this to CFLib. It'll be more useful to people there rather than here, perhaps. @Ben, did you see my comment to a similar effect on your CSV UDF? (read more »

• UPDATE: Parsing CSV Data Files In ColdFusion With csvToArray()

  Posted on Sep 27, 2012 at 3:52 AM

  G'day mate: This is the first CSV parser that I've encountered that will handle any CSV-curveball that I can throw at it. Good stuff. Most people's implementations - including Adobe's and Microsoft Excel's don't appear to be based on the CSV "spec", and fail with things like embe... read more »

• Passing Arrays By Reference In ColdFusion - SWEEET!

  Posted on Aug 14, 2012 at 6:11 AM

  Hey Ben, the "back-issues" of your blog are being a bit of a godsend to me recently. Your tip here helped me with a blog posting of my own on a related topic (read more »

• ColdFusion GetPageContext() Massive Exploration

  Posted on Jul 25, 2012 at 3:44 AM

  Hi Ben Five years on, and I'm still referring back to this blog post. Good work, mate. -- Adam... read more »