I found out not long ago that my good friend and college housemate Jerry Tam had made the cut and would be appearing on Season 5 of Bravo TV’s Project Runway. I’m currently in Europe right now so I went looking to find some details about the season premiere last night. Knowing Jerry [...]

I’m testing an application on ColdFusion 8 in preparation for an upgrade and have found a strange error. My reinit process clears the trusted cache using the Admin API along with restarting Coldspring and Model-Glue. On CF7, the following code works very reliably:
<cfinvoke component=”cfide.adminapi.administrator” method=”login”>
<cfinvokeargument name=”adminPassword” value=”…” />
</cfinvoke>
<cfinvoke component=”cfide.adminapi.runtime” method=”clearTrustedCache” />
Since updating [...]

It’s pretty common knowledge that the Java 6 JRE in ColdFusion 8 has a bug from Sun that makes loading CFC-heavy applications slow. This impacts most framework-based apps that use Model-Glue, Mach-II, Coldspring, Transfer and so forth. To be clear, it’s not the frameworks, it’s a bug in the underlying Sun JRE.
I have [...]