Keith Reiter

Recent Blog Comments By Keith Reiter

• Moving MySQL To A Per-Application Datasource In ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Oct 18, 2022 at 4:12 PM

  @Stephen, I think the way we ended up resolving it was to roll back to an older version of the JDBC driver but honestly I've slept since then and once the issue went away I moved on. I should have come back here and updated.... read more »

• Moving MySQL To A Per-Application Datasource In ColdFusion 2021

  Posted on Apr 14, 2022 at 5:39 PM

  I have a somewhat similar issue. I suspect it's related in some way. I have a CF2021 using MariaDB. I have installed the JDBC connector. My app runs for maybe an hour and then starts throwing java.io.IOException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException. All it takes to get rid of the ... read more »

• Every Line Of Code That You Write Is An Explicit Decision To Make The Application Better Or Worse

  Posted on Jun 20, 2020 at 12:22 AM

  I couldn't agree with you more. I work hard to balance performance and maintainability. That means different things to different people. On one hand I try to write every line to perform as well as possible but then step back and have to decide if it will make sense in 3 years when I see it... read more »

• A Big Hole In My Understanding Of ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks

  Posted on Jan 8, 2014 at 1:32 PM

  I know this is an old thread but for those wanting to run a task on given days of the week and don't want to build your own database based system, you can add <cfif not listfind('2,4,6',dayofweek(now())><cfabort></cfif> to the top of the code. Schedule it to run every day. Althou... read more »

• Change In ColdFusion Date::getTime() Method In ColdFusion 10

  Posted on Oct 16, 2012 at 3:21 PM

  http://blogs.coldfusion.com/post.cfm/coldfusion-10-update-3-released Looks like they made some changes related to date/time conversions.... read more »

• Change In ColdFusion Date::getTime() Method In ColdFusion 10

  Posted on Oct 1, 2012 at 11:45 AM

  I may be way off here but one thing I've run into several times is the auto conversion of long integers into scientific notation. I wonder if it's doing some conversion internally to scientific losing a lot of precision.... read more »

• Change In ColdFusion Date::getTime() Method In ColdFusion 10

  Posted on Oct 1, 2012 at 11:06 AM

  Just curoius. Maybe try the same test but use 1970-01-01 instead of now(). That should verify which one is incorrect.... read more »

• Change In ColdFusion Date::getTime() Method In ColdFusion 10

  Posted on Oct 1, 2012 at 11:01 AM

  According to the WIKI the base date for epoch is 1970-01-01 UTC! "The time kept internally by a computer system is usually expressed as the number of time units that have elapsed since a specified epoch, which is nearly always specified as midnight Universal Time on some particular date."... read more »