You are invited to the Maryland ColdFusion User Group Meeting this month, on Tuesday April 11th 00 at 6:30pm --- MDCFUG has moved 2 blocks down Route 28 to the BestWestern Hotel. --- 1251 W Montgomery Ave, Rockville, MD 20850-3198 (301-424-4940) --- Start time is now 6:30pm * What: ColdFusion Users sharing programming tips and code * Cost: FREE (and free pizza too!) * Website: http://www.cfug-md.org/ * Meetings: Second Tuesday of every month. * Where: Rockville MD, near I-270 * Signup: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=MDCFUG signup Or call us at 301-424-3903 - Michael Smith, TeraTech, TeraTech http://www.teratech.com/ MDCFUG http://www.cfug-md.org/ -- Agenda ------------------------------------------------------------ Here's what's coming up at the MDCFUG meeting this Tuesday, at 6:30 pm: * Michael Smith, TeraTech, CFX_Spell * Big News on joint MDCFUG/DCCFUG meeting with Ben Forta and Ashley King May 17th * Q&A session - bring a floppy with problem or neat code or email it to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=CF problem for MDCFUG There will be a free MDCFUG coffee mugs for you if you bring some CF code or techniques to the meeting! The meeting is located at: Best Western (Washington Gateway) 1251 W Montgomery Ave Rockville, MD 20850-3198 (301-424-4940 ) For a map go here: http://www.mapblast.com/mblast/map.mb?CMD=LFILL&CT=39.088886:-77.177595:40000&IC=39.088886:-77.177595:100:Best+Western+Gateway+Hotel&phone=(301-424-4940+)&GAD2=1251+W+Montgomery+Ave&GAD3=Rockville%2c%20MD%2020850-3198 To get to the User Group: * Take I-270 to Route 28 (Exit 6B) towards Darnestown. * Turn right at second light (Hurley Ave) and go up "S" bend hill. * Park in the main lot and go in the main hotel entrance. * Once inside the building go past the bar and front desk and vier left - the room is in one of the Salons on the left about 20 meters on. ------- CF News ------- Developers Decry Microsoft IE 5.5 Browser Plans By Nate Zelnick Microsoft is quickly spending the goodwill it garnered when it switched gears on developer standards three years ago. After following Netscape's strategy of inventing new HTML elements whenever it wanted to, Microsoft saw the light (or the opportunity to make Netscape look bad while doing good) and vowed to hew close to the recommendations emerging from the World Wide Web Consortium. But -- as if the company has a desperate need to prove Adam Smith's caveat to capitalism that monopolies destroy market benefits -- Microsoft looks more and more like the mirror image of that once-arrogant Netscape now that it has the upper hand in browser share. At issue are the exact same set of technologies that threatened to split the Web in 1997: the Document Object Model specification that defines how a page and its elements can be controlled programmatically and the Cascading Style Sheet approach to presenting a page and its elements. Unlike last time, though, there is a developers' advocacy group -- the Web Standards Project -- that has some hope of getting Microsoft's attention. Which is what they are trying to do. The WSP issued a release Monday decrying Microsoft's announced plans for more proprietary DOM and CSS extensions in the upcoming Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows. The extensions come even though Microsoft has yet to implement the full versions of the DOM spec and CSS1. Innovating ahead of supporting standards "mocks the dream of 'code once, read anywhere' that has driven so much of the Web's success," said WSP steering committee member Simon St. Laurent in the organization's release. Ironically, the WSP praised Microsoft a few weeks ago for its latest version of IE on the Mac, which supports more of the W3C's standards than any other released browser. The divergence between different versions of IE on the different operating systems is exactly the kind of thing that makes it harder to build Web sites. What made Netscape a bad market leader when its Navigator owned the browser market was that it arbitrarily introduced new presentation elements, ignored standards, and pushed technologies that served its interests instead of its customers. Following its directives meant building sites viewable in Navigator only. Developers who wanted to build universal sites had to ignore the proprietary technologies or, if they wanted to capitalize on the new features, build parallel sites available to Navigator, IE, and their various versions and subversions on different operating systems. Microsoft's decision to support standards cut Netscape off at the knees. Jeffrey Zeldman, Group Leader of the WSP, said the group was particularly irked by the fact that Microsoft continues to say it supports standards, but -- as it said in the antitrust case it just lost -- that it needs to be able to innovate where it sees fit. "We wouldn't have a problem if they wrote to the standards and then built their developer shortcuts on top," Zeldman said. "But when they do their own stuff first and promise to do the standards later, they completely undermine the whole process." In the interests of full disclosure, I need to reveal that I helped the Web Standards Project in its earliest days and served on its steering committee until I got thrown off (I didn't have the time to participate). The WSP's purpose has always been to complain loudly about lack of standards support in exactly the way that the consensus-oriented W3C -- which must keep its unhappiness with a member company to itself in order to remain a neutral body -- cannot. How to get list of datasources from CF server http://www.teratech.com/ColdCuts/cutdetail.cfm?cutid=86 COLDFUSION STUDIO TIPS: DISPLAYING A LIST OF ALL OPEN FILES Many times while coding in Studio, you'll find it helpful to know the full path of the file(s) that are open and currently active. This is especially useful if you have several open files with the same name that are in different directories or are on different servers (such as is often the case if you are trying to compare code for a page on a development server alongside the same page on a live server). In cases like this, it's crucial that you know exactly which file you are editing, so that you do not accidentally make changes to the wrong file. To help you keep your files straight, ColdFusion Studio has allowed a way to easily look at the full paths of each open file. Underneath the Edit tab is a button that will show the open document list. This button (the second one down, which looks like a box with a right arrow in it) will display a list of all of the files that are opened and the full path to each of these files. >From this list, you can click one of the file paths to bring that file to the front so that it becomes the active file, ready for you to edit. CF data types This may help if running into problems with CF variables... :-) http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?ID=14718 -------------------- MDCFUG meeting dates -------------------- Want to know all MDCFUG meeting days past/present and future! Then check out: http://www.teratech.com/cfug-md/Events.cfm -- Michael Smith, TeraTech Inc - Tools for Programmers(tm) VB, CF/ASP Web, Telephony, Math, Access programming tools & consulting 100 Park Ave Ste 360, Rockville MD 20850 USA Voice: +1-301-424-3903, 800-447-9120 x500 Fax:301-762-8185 BBS:301-762-8184 Web: http://www.teratech.com/sig/ Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
