On 7/17/07, Raymond Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It depends. :) I mean seriously - consider your example of a session > variable for a hit counter. If you don't lock it, I could in theory > open a bunch of tabs and make that # inaccurate. So, um, who cares? > I've made my own hit count high. Unless you are running a contest, it > doesn't matter. > > So my real point is - if the # isn't critical (like you are working > for NASA), then I wouldn't worry about the locking.
Or if it's *really* worth reporting, get it from a reliable source. For example, maybe from the webserver log, which is a lot less ambigious than a session/application/etc-based counter. Let's not even get into dealing with clusters :) > On 7/17/07, Peterson, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eek, I don't know that I agree with you on that one Ray. If you really > > don't care if the viewed page stats is accurate, why bother coding it at > > all? Maybe I'm just bitter, because I do internal reporting and have to > > prove my numbers to the nth degree, but I would never put out a number I > > thought wouldn't be 100% accurate. > > > > Just my $.02! > > > > > > > > Chris Peterson > > Gainey IT > > Adobe Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Raymond Camden > > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:50 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: Session Variable Types > > > > On 7/17/07, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Although he said he'd heard you didn't need to lock j2ee session > > variables. > > > > > > Oh dear... > > > <cfset session.inaccurateCountOfPagesViewed = > > > session.inaccurateCountOfPagesViewed + 1 /> > > > :-) > > > > Of course, one could argue that a stat like that may not be important > > enough for a lock. If you were simply reporting your pages viewed then > > you could can probably just not worry about it. > > > > -- > > ======================================================================== > > === > > Raymond Camden, Camden Media > > > > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Blog : ray.camdenfamily.com > > AOL IM : cfjedimaster > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:283958 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
