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Recent Blog Comments By Don Vawter

• Finding Template Execution Stack in ColdFusion

  Posted on Dec 9, 2010 at 4:49 PM

  I am doing code cleanup on a project and need to collect the templates that are unused. If we have the set of templates used then obviously the unused are just the complement of that set. I use a similar method the collect the templates(and if a cfc, the method called): <cftry>... read more »

• ColdFusion Email Validation, IsValid(), And CFMail Errors

  Posted on Sep 12, 2009 at 11:13 PM

  It is entirely possible that the event did not occur in BD as the errant subscriber may not have been present so my assumption that BD didn't fail may be false. The "phantom processes" disappeared after a day or two. To avoid any future occurences I have made all tasks run once and th... read more »

• ColdFusion Email Validation, IsValid(), And CFMail Errors

  Posted on Sep 12, 2009 at 10:58 PM

  It threw a cf error. Since it was run as a scheduled task I didn't find it until I trolled logs after a couple of subscribers said they weren't getting their email.... read more »

• Deleting ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks With CFThread And CFSchedule

  Posted on Sep 9, 2009 at 7:18 AM

  I am having an issue now that even if I delete a scheduled task in the admin. It keeps firing off and the old scheduled interval. Even restarting CF doesn't help. As a temporary measue I have just deleted the template it is trying to run but every two minutes I get an entry in application log tha... read more »

• ColdFusion Email Validation, IsValid(), And CFMail Errors

  Posted on Sep 9, 2009 at 2:16 AM

  I unfortunately discovered the cfmail crashing when I switched from OpenBlueDragon to CF8. Apparently BD doesn't validate the email address. Someone entered an email of http://blah@somewhere.com. This was old code (CF 5) and obviously my validation was faulty. Probably a good thing it crashed and... read more »

• Randomly Sorting A ColdFusion List

  Posted on Jul 15, 2009 at 11:35 PM

  The first way works quite well if your list is really a set not a list. That way your struct will always be the same size as your set. I use this when presenting a random subset of a query. I use a value list of the primary keys to build the list.... read more »