Alternately, try Python - it's a very powerful language that's equally easy to learn. I was writing functional programs in it (read: not "Hello World" or looping from 1 to n) in a couple of hours. It's syntax is very clean (cleaner than Perl and PHP), and you can invoke and test all sorts of scripts and modules and various ideas through an interactive prompt. And, if you turn into a real Python jockey, you can quickly segue into Jython, in which you can write Java classes in Python and invoke them in CF. All sorts of fun...
Ok, well, fun if you're a programmer :) - Jim Haggerty, Mike wrote: >Yeah, I second that notion of moving non-Web page related stuff to >another scripting language. We use PHP and cron here to handle some >scheduled downloads and it works like a charm. Plus PHP (and Perl, for >that matter) have OO features now that can make them much easier to >learn. > >M > >-----Original Message----- >From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:26 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: RE: Scheduled Task Priority > > > > >>Is there a means of selectively killing a CF template that >>was run via the scheduler? Without cycling the CF service >>itself, that is? It's got a _very_ long RequestTimeout, yet >>looks like it won't be able to complete in that time. I'm >>surprised it hasn't taken the CF server down, so it must >>be the DB server that's the bottleneck. >> >> > >No, I don't think you can do that. I'd recommend that you consider >rewriting the script in something other than CF. While it's easy to use >CF for non-runtime tasks, and sometimes necessary, it makes sense to >offload those sorts of things from CF wherever possible, since it may >impact the performance of other scripts run by users. > >Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >http://www.figleaf.com/ >voice: (202) 797-5496 >fax: (202) 797-5444 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
