4
Jul

This blog is one-year old

Posted by: admin
in Introduction, Web Development, Wordpress

Happy Birthday. I want to share some stats about what’s happened over the year since launch.

First, part of the reason I started this blog was to experiment with search engine optimization (SEO). I started from zero and watched each post rise and dip according to the rules around search, particularly around Google’s algorithm and each page’s Page Rank.

Okay, the numbers (according to Google Analytics)…

I’ve seen just over 10,000 unique visits, just over 13,000 page views for an 86% bounce rate. My most popular story was the Comcast blocking email, followed by the Blackberry on Mac tutorials.

Google Ads numbers…

I’ve made about 28 dollars in 12 months (at this rate I’ll get a check from Google in about 4 or five years).

Wordpress…

The other reason I started the blog, was to play with Wordpress. I have to say I am very impressed with it. It’s features, number and quality of plugins, themes and flexibility is unmatched. They’ve since added easy updates.

I’ll keep writing and continue my experimentation. With everything I’ve done on the blog, I’ve encountered questions, searched for answers and learned something new.

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4
Oct

Coldfusion Web Server-Client to throttle down or pace processing (pseudo-cron)

Posted by: nick
in Coldfusion, Web Development

Today I wrote a small piece of code that I have wanted to use for some time now. I would rather have had found and ripped this code off of someone else online using a Google search, but either I wasn’t entering in the right phrases or no one has made their code easy enough to find.

Enough with the suspense already. I needed to run a bunch of SQL updates, but I didn’t want to tie up the system, so I was looking to, for lack of a better description, “pace” the batch processing. When looking at it, its admittedly simple, but I had a mental block trying to do this exclusively in coldfusion. This solution is a mix of CF and plain old web server plus web client.

Sure, I could have used cron, but this was a small job, and not worth the hassle for me. I’m sure someone has done similar before, but for those who are endlessly searching for this, like I had been, here you go. Also, I imagine many will have alternative methods or suggestions on improving this, please share with us and comment.

<cfparam name="start" default="1"> <!--- start with 1 --->
<cfparam name="next" default="0"> <!--- start with next as zero --->
<cfparam name="wait" default="60"> <!--- change the duration of the page refresh --->
<cfset start = next + 1> <!--- the counter --->
<cfif start eq 3> Done. <cfabort></cfif> <!--- puts an end to the refreshing --->
<html>
<head>
<title>Batch process</title>
<!--- this will use the parameters above and/or from the URL you enter to change the refreshing
in this case, I named the file "pace-batch-process.cfm" --->
<cfoutput>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="#wait#;URL=http://www.yourdomain.com/pace-batch-process.cfm?next=#start#&wait=#wait#">
</cfoutput>
</head>
<body>
<cfif start eq 1>
Run the first thing
</cfif>
<cfelseif start eq 2>
Do the second thing
<cfelseif start eq 3>
Run the third thing
<cfelse>
Do nothing
</cfif>
</body>
</html>

Again, I imagine many will have suggestions on this, both positive and negative, please share and comment.

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