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ColdFusion and DotNet C#

My son emailed me the other day to tell me that Ben Forta blogged about this website CFDot.net and to go check it out. 

 I checked it out and for those ColdFusion programmers who are learning DotNet C# this is a great place to help you get over some issues when you are first learning.  This will not mean you are an expert DotNet C# programmer but it will help you get started learning DotNet C#.  I like the concept and the fact that he takes the time to help his fellow programmer.

Ben Forta’s Post (http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/6/22/Comparing-ColdFusion-To-NET)

CFDot.net Website

http://www.cfdot.net

Popularity: 12% [?]

ColdFusion Scheduled Task Issue

Where I currently work we are using ColdFusion 7.  We had an issue where a Scheduled Task was not running when we thought it should be.  We scheduled it to run every 4 hours starting at 2:00 pm.  After reviewing the Log Files we found that at 2:00 am it was rescheduling the next run at 2:00 pm.

Scheduled Task

Before 

2:00 pm

6:00 pm

10:00pm

2:00 am 

6:00 am - Skipped

10:00 am - Skipped

So we realised it was was skipping the two most important times of the day.  After thinking about it we came to the solution that if we moved the starting time to 2:00 am we got the results we expected.

Scheduled Task After

2:00 am 

6:00 am

10:00 am

2:00 pm

6:00 pm

10:00pm

 What was going on was when it checked to reschedule the task at 10:00 pm it saw the day was not done so it rescheduled the task to run 4 hours later.  When it ran at 2:00 am and started to reschedule it noticed that this was a new day and set the new scheduled task for 2:00 pm the same day.  This caused the skipping of two runs each day.  So by moving it to the first run of the day we got the tasks to run when we wanted them too.

Nathan Sr

Popularity: 12% [?]

CFZen Framework (Pre-Alpha Release)

CFZen Framework here currently.
https://sites.google.com/site/cfzenframeworkproject/home

CFZen Framework  Download at
http://code.google.com/p/cfzen/

CFZen Framework on RiaForge
http://cfzen.riaforge.org/

 This is a very simple framework.  We are not claiming to overcome some of the other frameworks.

Popularity: 46% [?]