Re: error converting docs using cfdocument and openoffice
I'm doing a lot of PPT/PPTX and DOC conversion in one of my apps. Usually I need to convert to image formats, but PDF would be similar: it sometimes simply fails. I think it's because some Office docs have too much gimmicky stuff packed into them. In any case I use some of the Aspose libraries to do the conversion, maybe give that a try. Solutions which require Office or Openoffice on the server seemed slow and not very scalable to me. Aspose is not without its faults, and it isn't cheap, but it does not require any form of Office and it's pretty fast. Regards, Stefan On 26 Jul 2011, at 18:24, David Moore wrote: I allow clients to convert MS office files to PDF documents within my content management system. I was using easyPDF, but since upgrading to CF9, I am attempting to use cfdocument and openoffice. In testing I am finding it works sometimes and sometimes not. When it does not, I get a PDF document which is bascially scambled text. Has anyone else expereinced this or have some suggestions on how to better use the techology. Thank you, David G. Moore, Jr. UpstateWeb, LLC ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346352 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault
Specifically: One of the explicit design goals leading into HipHop was the ability to continue writing complex logic directly within PHP. - so they do 'work' in PHP, they do not write C++. Interesting concept. Seems like somebody could do the same for Java - maybe a tag based deal with some cool tie-ins to a database, email, searching, web services, dhtml, reports ... So full of good ideas I could pop, - Matt ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346353 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault
wow that is some Sarcasm :-) On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Matt Williams mgw...@gmail.com wrote: Specifically: One of the explicit design goals leading into HipHop was the ability to continue writing complex logic directly within PHP. - so they do 'work' in PHP, they do not write C++. Interesting concept. Seems like somebody could do the same for Java - maybe a tag based deal with some cool tie-ins to a database, email, searching, web services, dhtml, reports ... So full of good ideas I could pop, - Matt ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346354 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Committing Line by Line Changes?
I've been charged with choosing versioning software for our team, and I'd like to recommend Subversion but there's a developer who wants a feature that I'm not sure Subversion (or other versioning tools) can accommodate: partial commits. For example, you may be working on a project where you've touched a lot of code that is not ready for check-in, but then a high priority change comes across your desk that requires you to make an unrelated change to one of these files and check it in. He wants to be able to pick and choose which lines of a changed file get checked in. Is that possible with any versioning tool?? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346355 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
Hi, Yeah Subversive SVN plugin for eclipse and ColdFusion builder does this, you can commit a file, folder or when you click on the whole project folder select ONLY certain files contained within the project that you want to commit and leave the rest alone. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Shannon Rhodes shan...@rhodesedge.comwrote: I've been charged with choosing versioning software for our team, and I'd like to recommend Subversion but there's a developer who wants a feature that I'm not sure Subversion (or other versioning tools) can accommodate: partial commits. For example, you may be working on a project where you've touched a lot of code that is not ready for check-in, but then a high priority change comes across your desk that requires you to make an unrelated change to one of these files and check it in. He wants to be able to pick and choose which lines of a changed file get checked in. Is that possible with any versioning tool?? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346356 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
Yeah Subversive SVN plugin for eclipse and ColdFusion builder does this, you can commit a file, folder or when you click on the whole project folder select ONLY certain files contained within the project that you want to commit and leave the rest alone. I don't think SVN supports committing specific lines of a file, though. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346357 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Emailing a file to an application
I was asked today if there's a way to use ColdFusion to basically email a document to an application rather than users having to save attachments to their systems and then upload to a CF application from there. So you'd email a file from, say, Outlook, with an identifying number in the subject line, and then automatically upload the attachment and otherwise run business logic to associate the file to the correct ID in the application (authenticating based on user's email address). It's easy enough to use CF to upload a file and run business logic, but I'm stuck on the idea of how it's going to parse out this information in the first place. I'm guessing you'd set up an email account to receive such files, then run a task to periodically comb through this account's inbox and somehow read the subject lines, from addresses, point to the attachment for upload, then archive the message. Anyone done anything like this or have any idea how you'd approach it? Thanks. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346358 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
I've been charged with choosing versioning software for our team, and I'd like to recommend Subversion but there's a developer who wants a feature that I'm not sure Subversion (or other versioning tools) can accommodate: partial commits. For example, you may be working on a project where you've touched a lot of code that is not ready for check-in, but then a high priority change comes across your desk that requires you to make an unrelated change to one of these files and check it in. He wants to be able to pick and choose which lines of a changed file get checked in. Is that possible with any versioning tool?? I don't think it is. All the tools I've seen treat files as atomic for checkin purposes. That said, this is why we have diff tools. Use the diff tool with your local copy, build a new copy with the lines you want and check that in. Beyond Compare is a great diff tool if you're on Windows. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or ons ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346359 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
Yeah, what Dave said...I'm talking about committing part of a file, not part of a project. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346360 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Emailing a file to an application
Right. Lookup cfpop. It makes a query of your inbox. Then, you perform whatever action that you want based on the subject. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Shannon Rhodes shan...@rhodesedge.com wrote: I was asked today if there's a way to use ColdFusion to basically email a document to an application rather than users having to save attachments to their systems and then upload to a CF application from there. So you'd email a file from, say, Outlook, with an identifying number in the subject line, and then automatically upload the attachment and otherwise run business logic to associate the file to the correct ID in the application (authenticating based on user's email address). It's easy enough to use CF to upload a file and run business logic, but I'm stuck on the idea of how it's going to parse out this information in the first place. I'm guessing you'd set up an email account to receive such files, then run a task to periodically comb through this account's inbox and somehow read the subject lines, from addresses, point to the attachment for upload, then archive the message. Anyone done anything like this or have any idea how you'd approach it? Thanks. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346361 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Emailing a file to an application
That is the exact process. CFPOP is the tool to use to check the email box. It will let you do most things any normal email client would do such as get headers only, save attachments, delete emails etc. Have a schedule task run the code once every n minutes. Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator CF Webtools www.cfwebtools.com wilg...@trunkful.com www.trunkful.com On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Shannon Rhodes wrote: I was asked today if there's a way to use ColdFusion to basically email a document to an application rather than users having to save attachments to their systems and then upload to a CF application from there. So you'd email a file from, say, Outlook, with an identifying number in the subject line, and then automatically upload the attachment and otherwise run business logic to associate the file to the correct ID in the application (authenticating based on user's email address). It's easy enough to use CF to upload a file and run business logic, but I'm stuck on the idea of how it's going to parse out this information in the first place. I'm guessing you'd set up an email account to receive such files, then run a task to periodically comb through this account's inbox and somehow read the subject lines, from addresses, point to the attachment for upload, then archive the message. Anyone done anything like this or have any idea how you'd approach it? Thanks. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346362 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Emailing a file to an application
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_p-q_08.html#2965096 On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote: That is the exact process. CFPOP is the tool to use to check the email box. It will let you do most things any normal email client would do such as get headers only, save attachments, delete emails etc. Have a schedule task run the code once every n minutes. Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator CF Webtools www.cfwebtools.com wilg...@trunkful.com www.trunkful.com On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Shannon Rhodes wrote: I was asked today if there's a way to use ColdFusion to basically email a document to an application rather than users having to save attachments to their systems and then upload to a CF application from there. So you'd email a file from, say, Outlook, with an identifying number in the subject line, and then automatically upload the attachment and otherwise run business logic to associate the file to the correct ID in the application (authenticating based on user's email address). It's easy enough to use CF to upload a file and run business logic, but I'm stuck on the idea of how it's going to parse out this information in the first place. I'm guessing you'd set up an email account to receive such files, then run a task to periodically comb through this account's inbox and somehow read the subject lines, from addresses, point to the attachment for upload, then archive the message. Anyone done anything like this or have any idea how you'd approach it? Thanks. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346363 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
With Git and Mercurial, you can shelve changes. So if you are part way through a big change and something important comes in, you can tell the source control system to stash the current changes out of the way, go back to your version prior to the current changes, make the new important changes and commit them, then pull the uncommitted stuff you were working on back into your working branch and go on your merry way. Judah On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Shannon Rhodes shan...@rhodesedge.com wrote: Yeah, what Dave said...I'm talking about committing part of a file, not part of a project. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346364 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
Shannon, You can accomplish this goal indirectly with Subversion. You could check out the committed version of the file to a different location, check out an older copy of the entire site, or use the branching feature, make the change to that other copy of the file/site, then commit that other file without impacting the current development directory. I've done this sort of thing many times. An alternative is that the developer can comment out the code that is not ready to commit, then uncomment the code when development on it restarts. Another alternative is to move the current development copy of the file to a different directory outside of the site, download the version from source control to modify it, then when that modification is complete and checked in, use a diff tool to merge the two files. I am not aware of any source control tool that lets you directly pick individual lines of code to commit. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Shannon Rhodes shan...@rhodesedge.comwrote: I've been charged with choosing versioning software for our team, and I'd like to recommend Subversion but there's a developer who wants a feature that I'm not sure Subversion (or other versioning tools) can accommodate: partial commits. For example, you may be working on a project where you've touched a lot of code that is not ready for check-in, but then a high priority change comes across your desk that requires you to make an unrelated change to one of these files and check it in. He wants to be able to pick and choose which lines of a changed file get checked in. Is that possible with any versioning tool?? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346365 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
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Re: Emailing a file to an application
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Re: Emailing a file to an application
I would however strongly suggest that you only use this for SMALL attachments, if people are going to start sending big attachments then you are going to start having major problems from the users PC/Outlook, the ISP's SMTP server, the receiving mail server. Here are just some of the problems you can have. 1. Outlook cannot send the email, and will keep trying, the email will get stuck in the outbox and keep sending over and over again or not at all. So the user is often unaware of this, so will have no idea that their email never sent or that you are getting hundreds of copies of it per day. 2. the senders ISP will not allow large attachments and the email will simply be rejected or the attachment removed. 3. The receiving mail server will not accept emails with big attachments and will either reject it or bounce it including the attachment back to the recipient. 4. The senders mail server will not accept large attachments, so will reject the bounce back, or bounce it back to the previous mail server causing a loop (called backscatter) Unless of course you are the ISP and have full control of all the mail servers in the loop and can configure all the users email clients to avoid these issues. A much better solution would be a document/file sharing or management system. There are plenty out here ranging from FREE to expensive, Russ On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Gerald Guido gerald.gu...@gmail.comwrote: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_p-q_08.html#2965096 On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote: That is the exact process. CFPOP is the tool to use to check the email box. It will let you do most things any normal email client would do such as get headers only, save attachments, delete emails etc. Have a schedule task run the code once every n minutes. Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator CF Webtools www.cfwebtools.com wilg...@trunkful.com www.trunkful.com On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Shannon Rhodes wrote: I was asked today if there's a way to use ColdFusion to basically email a document to an application rather than users having to save attachments to their systems and then upload to a CF application from there. So you'd email a file from, say, Outlook, with an identifying number in the subject line, and then automatically upload the attachment and otherwise run business logic to associate the file to the correct ID in the application (authenticating based on user's email address). It's easy enough to use CF to upload a file and run business logic, but I'm stuck on the idea of how it's going to parse out this information in the first place. I'm guessing you'd set up an email account to receive such files, then run a task to periodically comb through this account's inbox and somehow read the subject lines, from addresses, point to the attachment for upload, then archive the message. Anyone done anything like this or have any idea how you'd approach it? Thanks. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346368 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
With Git and Mercurial, you can shelve changes. So if you are part way through a big change and something important comes in, you can tell the source control system to stash the current changes out of the way, go back to your version prior to the current changes, make the new important changes and commit them, then pull the uncommitted stuff you were working on back into your working branch and go on your merry way. But you're still going to have to be able to incorporate the changes that were made since your last checkout line-by-line, right? For example, if you check out somefile.cfm and change lines 50-75, then the important change affects lines 20-30, you're going to have to go back and diff the files before you can commit the changes you made before you shelved the file. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346369 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: With Git and Mercurial, you can shelve changes. So if you are part way through a big change and something important comes in, you can tell the source control system to stash the current changes out of the way, go back to your version prior to the current changes, make the new important changes and commit them, then pull the uncommitted stuff you were working on back into your working branch and go on your merry way. But you're still going to have to be able to incorporate the changes that were made since your last checkout line-by-line, right? For example, if you check out somefile.cfm and change lines 50-75, then the important change affects lines 20-30, you're going to have to go back and diff the files before you can commit the changes you made before you shelved the file. Of course, but if you are going to be changing the same line in each of the commits you want to put out, you're going to have to do a merge no matter what, even if you commit line by line. The way I interpreted the question is that the poster is looking for an easy way to stop part way through some changes, switch over to do something else in the same code area, then come back to finish up and incorporate the changes they made during the digression. In Git or Mercurial, I actually wouldn't probably use changeset shelving either, though it is certainly possible. I'd create a new branch from the last common point, switch to the new branch, make changes and push/build/whatever, then merge that branch back to your main development branch. If the changes were in a different section of code, even in the same file, Git or Mercurial should be able to do the merge automatically for you. If you changed the same line in both change sets, you'll need to resolve the merge conflict with the merge/diff tool of your choice. Judah ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346370 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
If I remember correctly, you can also cherry pick your final commits in git. So effectively that's a line by line commit. With Git and Mercurial, you can shelve changes. So if you are part way through a big change and something important comes in, you can tell the source control system to stash the current changes out of the way, go back to your version prior to the current changes, make the new important changes and commit them, then pull the uncommitted stuff you were working on back into your working branch and go on your merry way. Judah On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Shannon Rhodes Shannon@rhodesedge. com wrote: Yeah, what Dave said...I'm talking about committing part of a file, not part of a project. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346371 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
I use Beyonf Compare for stuff like this and I have to say I probably couldn't live without this tool now, it is s useful. You can compare files locally, or even an FTP connection and deploy changes to your live site this way. you can merge line by line of course. Seriously, try it out, the trial version never expires either. http://www.scootersoftware.com/ Russ On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Larry Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: If I remember correctly, you can also cherry pick your final commits in git. So effectively that's a line by line commit. With Git and Mercurial, you can shelve changes. So if you are part way through a big change and something important comes in, you can tell the source control system to stash the current changes out of the way, go back to your version prior to the current changes, make the new important changes and commit them, then pull the uncommitted stuff you were working on back into your working branch and go on your merry way. Judah On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Shannon Rhodes Shannon@rhodesedge. com wrote: Yeah, what Dave said...I'm talking about committing part of a file, not part of a project. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346372 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
Yes, in Git you can stage individual lines, commit only those and you'll have the rest of your changes uncommitted in your workspace. Like Judah said, you should be working on your new feature or release or whatever in its own branch and committing often - even if it's not complete or working, since you're committing locally anyway, it's not affecting anyone else. (Here's a nice branching model we've adopted: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/) So, to make a quick change, commit your work in progress, checkout the hotfix branch, make the change, commit it, push that branch to release/production, then re-check out the feature branch you were working on. Git makes this all really easy and you want to do it this way since a big part of using version control is to have clear tracking of what changes mean what. .jonah On 7/27/11 10:22 AM, Larry Lyons wrote: If I remember correctly, you can also cherry pick your final commits in git. So effectively that's a line by line commit. With Git and Mercurial, you can shelve changes. So if you are part way through a big change and something important comes in, you can tell the source control system to stash the current changes out of the way, go back to your version prior to the current changes, make the new important changes and commit them, then pull the uncommitted stuff you were working on back into your working branch and go on your merry way. Judah On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Shannon RhodesShannon@rhodesedge. com wrote: Yeah, what Dave said...I'm talking about committing part of a file, not part of a project. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346373 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
Another good diff tool is WinMerge (http://www.winmerge.org) its a free diff and merge tool. I use Beyonf Compare for stuff like this and I have to say I probably couldn't live without this tool now, it is s useful. You can compare files locally, or even an FTP connection and deploy changes to your live site this way. you can merge line by line of course. Seriously, try it out, the trial version never expires either. http://www.scootersoftware.com/ Russ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346374 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
The one I'm liking the most so far is P4merge. It's part of the Perforce system, but is free, cross platform, and works great with other SCMs like Git. http://www.perforce.com/product/components/perforce_visual_merge_and_diff_tools http://www.perforce.com/downloads/complete_list On 7/27/11 12:04 PM, Larry Lyons wrote: Another good diff tool is WinMerge (http://www.winmerge.org) its a free diff and merge tool. I use Beyonf Compare for stuff like this and I have to say I probably couldn't live without this tool now, it is s useful. You can compare files locally, or even an FTP connection and deploy changes to your live site this way. you can merge line by line of course. Seriously, try it out, the trial version never expires either. http://www.scootersoftware.com/ Russ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346375 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Shannon Rhodes shan...@rhodesedge.com wrote: I've been charged with choosing versioning software for our team, and I'd like to recommend Subversion but there's a developer who wants a feature that I'm not sure Subversion (or other versioning tools) can accommodate: partial commits. As others have noted, Git supports this although, as Dave implied, picking just a line or two to commit can be nigh on impossible if you've already got changes in that area uncommitted. However, Git offers a number of benefits over SVN for the sort of workflow you're talking about. First off, you can simply stash uncommitted changes, work on the emergency fix, commit push that, then unstash (pop) your changes and the emergency fix will be auto-merged back in if possible (otherwise manually fix the merge and drop the stash entry). Second, in Git, branches are very cheap so you tend to use them for any non-trivial changes. You branch _locally_, work on your big feature, switching back and forth between your local branch and the stable branch if needed to fix issues (and then merging them into your branch - again, a mostly automated task in Git), and when your done on your feature, commit and merge it back to the stable branch. Git also allows offline commits (since the repo is local) which can be very useful if team members travel a lot. It lets me work on trains and airplanes easily. When I get to a wifi spot, I just pull updates and push my commits. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ Perfection is the enemy of the good. -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880 ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346376 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Matt Williams mgw...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting concept. Seems like somebody could do the same for Java - maybe a tag based deal with some cool tie-ins to a database, email, searching, web services, dhtml, reports ... LOL! I think it's interesting that they chose C++ as their assembler. There is Caucho which implements PHP on top of the JVM but I don't know how well it works (I highlighted as part of my Scripting for ColdFusion project some years back, as a way of embedding PHP fragments in CFML pages and running them). On a sort of related note, given that many languages compile to Java bytecode these days, the Clojure project team (a modern Lisp on the JVM) has just released ClojureScript which is effectively a version of Clojure that compiles to JavaScript and can use the Google Closure Compiler / Library to create very small, highly optimized JS for use in the browser or on Node.js. You might not have consider JS as assembler either, unless you follow Scott Hanselman's blog: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageForTheWebSematicMarkupIsDeadCleanVsMachinecodedHTML.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageForTheWebPart2MadnessOrJustInsanity.aspx The net result is the ability to write all of your web application code in a dialect of Clojure, on the server and on the client - and even give yourself the choice of Node.js or the JVM as the backend platform. There are even libraries for generating both CSS and HTML from pure Clojure if you feel inclined. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ Perfection is the enemy of the good. -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346377 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?
As has been said, Git was built knowing that branching is an important task - and so creating and using branches is easy, fast, and flexible. (I used to work on a large project that used SVN, and I had half a dozen checked-out copies because I often worked on multiple things and switching branches with SVN was so slow.) I very much recommend the branching strategy Jonah linked to ( http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ ), it might seem like overkill, but it really does make sense. I'm also going to repeat a couple of things that have already been said, because I think it's beneficial to say them in a different way. :) Git allows you to move all uncommitted changes to a temporary branch, and to retrieve again later, using git stash command. Also, if you want to, you can convert stashes into real branches (with a single command). See http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-stash.html for info. Git allows changes to be staged in parts with git add --patch filename - this will step you through a list of changes in that file, and allows you to indicate if each change should be staged or not, as well as splitting each one into smaller changes. I do this all the time, when I've got multiple unrelated changed that each deserve independent commit messages. Once you understand what's happening, it's not hard to handle. (Unless the changes are not unrelated, but that's a different problem.) Details at http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-add.html Also worth pointing out, aside from those man pages, there's a number of good documentation sources for git: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html http://progit.org/book (also available as a physical book) http://book.git-scm.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346378 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: reading AIF metadata?
Steve - A guy on stackoverflow also mentioned this .net library which can read ID3 info from AIFF files (in version 2.0.3.4+ ) http://download.banshee.fm/taglib-sharp/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346379 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
