[ACFUG Discuss] Problem serving xls file on CF8

2008-07-02 Thread andrew . fox
I've got an application that's been running for years on CF6 and a year on CF7 is choking in a weird way on CF8. The problem is with Excel spreadsheets that are copied into a directory that's 4 levels down from the web root are giving a 500 Internal Server Error. The same file copied one level

[ACFUG Discuss] wireframes and prototype

2008-07-02 Thread Dusty Hale
Back in the day I used to use Fusebox 3 and to get it started often times wireframing and prototyping. I was wondering if folks out there are still doing this? If any new wireframe or prototype tools are available? I think I am about to dive into a new project and start out with some wireframing

[ACFUG Discuss] Windows XP - Again

2008-07-02 Thread Forrest C. Gilmore
Perhaps it's a bit incongruous of me to bring this up, but the announcement that XP is officially to be retired has come out, and I ran across a web page that provides a perspective on XP that some of you might like to read. Check this out:

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Windows XP - Again

2008-07-02 Thread Cameron Childress
I didn't read anything but the last paragraph and I have three things to say 1) BULLSHIT 2) BULLSHIT 3) BULLSHIT Vista is total crap. -Cameron On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Forrest C. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps it's a bit incongruous of me to bring this up, but the announcement

[ACFUG Discuss] Destroy An Object

2008-07-02 Thread Clarke Bishop
I have a user object that's stored in the session scope when a user logs in. When the session expires, the object gets garbage collected, right? But, if I want to destroy the object, how do I do that? Maybe this is not something that's needed often as I couldn't find an answer via the docs or

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Destroy An Object

2008-07-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Clarke Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a user object that's stored in the session scope when a user logs in. When the session expires, the object gets garbage collected, right? It's marked for GC, and eventually gets collected. Effectively as far as the

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Destroy An Object

2008-07-02 Thread Dean H. Saxe
And to add to Cam's response: When you replace the object with a new instance, it is not destroyed immediately. However, you lose all references to it and it may now be garbage collected. You should never try to force the GC to run, the Java VM will handle it automagically for you when