FYI:
A federal employer in downtown KC has a contract position opening up. The
position is for 4-6 months.
If anyone is interested, contact Jennifer Dempsie, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
913-664-0104, 8101 College Blvd. Suite 230, Overland Park, KS 66210.
Ryan
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Deliverables:
Contractor will be
Coming next Wednesday, September 24th at 6pm... Hal Helms
(www.halhelms.com)!
Hal will be discussing ColdFusion CFCs and Mach-II (www.mach-ii.com) with
possibly a touch of object oriented design and Fusebox (www.fusebox.org)
(since they are intrinsically related).
Mach-II is a web-application
FYI, Macromedia has now released the new Studio MX 2004 products. Trials
and purchasing are available on their website as well as the new Flash
Player 7.
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Thank you for participating in last week's Worldwide User Group event. In
order to help us make future events even more successful,
Studio MX 2004 Raffle Winners:
UMKC raffle - drawn by me randomly mixing the survey forms, then Russell
mixed them and someone from the audience pulled the winning form
Winner - Jeff Brown of State Street KC!
Overland Park raffle - list of attendees who turned in surveys sorted in
.
I will try and post copies of the handouts, some survey results, etc. on the
website in the next day or two.
Stay tuned for future user group meetings and learning/networking
opportunities,
Ryan Hartwich
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Our current websites:
http://www.kcfusion.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KCMUG
P.s
Today Macromedia announced a new generation of MX. It's called MX 2004. New
versions of Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and Studio. Come see the first
public demonstrations of these products and possibly win your own copy of
Studio MX 2004!
We are hosting Macromedia Product Managers who will demo
Hi-
I have some very exciting news. For the very first time in Macromedia
history, the company has decided to do a worldwide user group meeting and
our group is going to participate. Using Macromedia's latest communication
solution, Breeze Live, our User Group will participate in the meeting in
Unfortunately, I can't tell you any more at this time...other than it will
be big, and user groups world wide will be tuning in. Oh, and only those AT
the meetings will be able to participate.
Sorry, more info in a few weeks... :-)
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FYI, Macromedia has released the new CFMX 6.1.
It is a free maintenance release/upgrade to CFMX owners and includes both
fixes and enhancements to the existing platform.
When you run pages for the first time (development for instance), the pages
compile roughly 10 times faster, so much less
Ben Group,
It would be great if Hal could speak to us in September. We can probably
use a meeting room at UMKC that can seat 50 or so. We'll have to make sure
we reserve the projector in advance, and supply our own Ethernet patch cable
to connect to the DHCP in the wall.
Ben, you can work
Due to a number of reasons (new contract job, reformatted computers, lack of
a speaker other than myself, lack of a meeting location) we will not be
having a meeting in July. Sorry.
I am always looking for someone to present at a meeting. I am more than
willing to assist you in preparing the
Jeff,
I was unsuccessful at installing Updater 3 on one machine, but I think it
was a windows problem. I had no problems on 2 other machines, but these
were running MS SQL 2000 and not Oracle. I have not heard of any
significant problems with U3 and Oracle, though I haven't been watching for
MM has announced a number of new products/features today.
Contribute 2.0 (Windows and now Mac) www.macromedia.com/go/contribute/.
Macromedia FlashPaper Format
http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/productinfo/flashpaper/
Changes to the EULA for Contribute 2.0 including a new software
CFUN-03 was held in a suburb of Washington, DC this weekend.
The managers' meeting on Friday was attended by about a dozen managers.
Topics covered including finding speakers, resolving problems, organization,
etc.
The Saturday/Sunday conference had over 300 people attending, 2 keynote
speeches,
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While this is
a far off chance, see if you can get a hold of the webserver and/or CF
logs. With a shared server, you may be experiencing problems caused by
other people's code, more specifically their CF. If they do something that
causes the CF server to hang and restart, you
If anyone is interested, there is an online (sound only) presentation of the
new Fusebox 4 and its XML grammar at 5:30 tonight. The presentation is by
the NY CFUG and is being broadcast via flashcomm, all you need is speakers
and the flash player (newest version).
Our June meeting is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, June 25th. Jim and
I will be attending the CFUN03, http://www.cfconf.org/cfun-03 conference and
managers' meeting in Washington, DC the week before.
The meeting will be a recap of some of the sessions and material we learned
at the
There is a new monthly CF magazine being published by Pablo Varando (of
cfm-resources, EasyCFM.com and TMM fame). The first issue is slated to drop
on June 1, 2003. The cost is ZERO!
Since there has never been an issue released, I cannot comment on nor vouch
for the content, but here is the
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I use a 3Com modem at home, similar I
am sure to what you have. You can probably restrict a range or
individual. Likewise, you probably can tell it to restrict ALL but a
certain set of them. 443 is the SSL port, 80 is http, 21 ftp, 22/23 are
ssh i think. 1433 is SQL server.
FYI, there was a great turnout to our February meeting on a similar topic.
If you are interested, feel free to attend. The Web SIG is part of the
Heartland User Group (www.hugkc.org) and discusses web development as a
whole and is not product/manufacturer specific. The Web SIG's listserv is
FYI, This updater is for the stand alone CFMX (versus the J2EE versions) and
includes the normal CF fixes as well as enhancements/fixes for Flash
Remoting (server side).
Updater 3-Released March 19, 2003
The ColdFusion MX Updater is a free download that delivers all the latest
updates to
A huge amount of new content went live today on the DevNet Center
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/. The main theme of this week's content
launch is the Macromedia Flash Slide Show sample application, which
showcases how Flash and Visual Basic can be integrated to create Rich
Internet
Heck if I know, I have yet to actually build a website that had any
significant loading on it :-)
You might want to check your server settings (or your setup in the
application.cfm) to see how long the session variables are good for before
they expire. If its only 20-60 minutes, then how likely
I forgot to mention, you can delete both individual session variables
(struct delete function?) and the whole session variable list for an
individual (structclear?). You could attempt to delete all of them if they
use a logout button, and some of them if they are no longer needed in the
app.
Don't forget, we have a meeting tonight (Tuesday) at 7pm.
It is a demo/presentation on Macromedia Contribute.
We will also have time for QA and general discussion if you are interested.
Where:
UMKC Administration building at 5115 Oak St, KCMO 64112-2715, just southeast
of the Plaza.
There is
March 18th Meeting - Contribute
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 18th at 7pm.
The presented will be by Brad Miller of Accesszone Design
(www.accesszonedesign.com) and will be an introduction/demo on using
Macromedia Contribute. The presentation will be roughly 30 minutes long
FYI:
Two different CFUGs are broadcasting their presentations via Macromedia
Flash Communications Server MX tonight:
1. The New York ColdFusion User Group (http://www.nycfug.org) will be
broadcasting.
Topic: From Design to Code: Using UML to Streamline ColdFusion Development
Speaker: Mark
Check out MM's overhaul of their website. It is in beta now and not
Everything is online and working 100%, but it is a complete change.
Also, MM released a newer version of Flash Player 6 (79 versus the older 65)
on Tuesday. It includes some security fixes and flash communications server
I didn't have any problems with the first or second install. Are you sure
that you stopped all (3) of the services that CF has running prior to
installing the updater? If you didn't stop the services, maybe the system
couldn't over write some of the classes with the same name. Likewise, since
The standard answer is to lock all your Client/Session Application
variables.
Another solution that worked for me when this happened was to uninstall CF
and reinstall it and the service packs. Rebooting between of course.
Tom,
Sadly, I have had problems with CFGrid in the past. It seems as if most of
the people I have corresponded with have had problems with it. To my
knowledge no significant enhancements or fixes were made between 4.5, 5, and
MX.
Try clearing your cache on both the server (IIS may require
From MM's site Macromedia Contribute is the easiest way to update content
for any HTML website, including sites built in Macromedia Dreamweaver,
Microsoft FrontPage, and other web tools. With Contribute, non-technical
users can make changes while automatically respecting site standards for
style,
I think someone like Robin might know this better, but you might want to
check the spec's on UUIDs and how they are generated. I think they are
hardware and timestamp dependent. Since you will probably be generating
the values on the same hardware, you might find that the first X number of
If anyone is interested in the 3 demos of Flash Remoting from last night, I
have them available and they are about 1 meg in size compressed. Just let
me know.
Ryan
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I'll send it after work from my home computer where the files are.
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I mentioned at tonight's meeting that the NY CF User group was now
broadcasting their meetings on the web. Tonight's meeting was CFMX on J2EE
and they don't yet have a copy of the broadcast on their site.
However...their January presentation is online and available for download.
It is 44mb in
Here are a few of today's big announcements from Macromedia:
Freehand MX is now available
Macromedia Studio MX is being renamed to Macromedia Studio MX Plus and will
now include Freehand MX, Contribute, and parts (or all?) of DRK 1 2
Macromedia DevNet Subscriptions in both Essentials (DRKs)
Two thoughts, you might want to try and , or better yet = and =
instead of between.
Also, if you intend to search through 12-15, move your date to midnight 12-16.
At 11:34 AM 2/10/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Okay I know this should be easy but I am not having any success. I want to
select betwee
discussions before and afterwards. Dress is casual, guests are
welcome and prior experience/knowledge of Flash is not necessary.
Macromedia specific door prizes will be given away during the meeting.
If you have any questions or get lost finding the meeting, please call.
Ryan Hartwich
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Hope you can make it on Tuesday. Sorry about the location in OP, more
people opted for that location, and the host has a local server with all
the software we need and a demonstration machine too.
Ryan
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Adaryl,
I have
never streamed video, so am not really sure, but I think the reason you need a
special server is because the ftp and http protocols that you would use
otherwise (or at least the server) try and download the whole massive file to
the client in a big chunk. Even
I am looking online now. So far, no luck. Everything is rather
expensive and generally requires loading special software onto high end
routers.
It looks like the Zeus webserver has throttling capabilities by IP
address, so you might be able to setup a development machine and test
from
Change the way you write your select statement
Select parentTable.state as parentstate, childTable.state as childstate
where x = y, etc. etc.
cfoutput
I am outputting the value of the parent table #queryName.parentState# and
now the child #queryName.childstate.
/cfoutput
The trick is using
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Macromedia Acquires Leading Solution provider Presedia, Inc.
San Francisco-January 16, 2003-Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR) today
announced the acquisition of privately-held Presedia, Inc., a leading
provider of online
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Mark,
This
won't help you or make you feel better, but I have DWMX running on 2000 pro with
SQL2K and CFMX just fine. I do not however have mixed authentication in
sql on. I have found it to be problematic since my NT security experience
is minimal. I have not heard of any
FYI, this is for today:
New York CFUG (http://www.nycfug.org)
Tuesday, January 14, 6:30 PM EST (5:30 central time)
Sponsored by House of Fusion
Jeffry Houser will be presenting at the CFUG, and we will be broadcasting
it live via Flashcom. His topic is Abstract Data Types in ColdFusion MX.
Title: Message
Adaryl,
A few
thoughts, try tricking CF Filemaker. Maybe you can use an MS SQL
odbc driver/connector. Or, maybe you can setup some form of replication or
linking between say, Access or MS SQL and the FileMaker. Then, use CF to
access the new DB.
Can
you just force them to
Rumor has it that there will be an announcement today of a release of
CFMX for Jrun/J2EE on Mac OS X (10.2?) today. Unfortunately, it is not
yet clear if this will be a developer only or full 'production' class
version. Either way, for those of you who are Mac users, this would
allow you to
Title: Message
I
don't believe I have heard of any problems with Studio MX and CF5. (only
minor ones the other way around). The trick will be to remember that some
of the features/tags in Studio won't work in CF5, likewise the CFCs. So
you may have a tendency to write code that is not 5
nvarchar (or nchar) are for unicode fields. They take twice the space to
store as non-unicode fields. So a field that is '80' wide is 40 characters
of data that take 2 bytes per character.
You are hitting the size limitation when you jump from 40 to 41/42
characters and then it is doubling.
Someone can correct me on this, but I think you should be fine converting
your fields from nvarchar to varchar.
Access either doesn't, or didn't used to support Unicode, and up until
CFMX, CF didn't either. So if your applications are webcentric, are not
using CFMX and/or not unicode
CF Users,
As you read earlier this week, we had to reschedule/cancel the meeting
at the last minute because of some unfortunate problems with our meeting
location.
I was hoping to reschedule for next week, but a number of difficulties
have prevented it (busy holiday schedule for everyone, lack
Bad News!
Unfortunately, we will have to CANCEL our meeting for tomorrow. We were
scheduled to be in a Sprint facility, but they removed all of the over
head projectors and such over the weekend and we just found out. I am
looking at alternative places to hold our Flash Remoting meeting with
Matt,
Check out the 'preferences' in Dreamweaver MX, there is a way of setting
up the program to look and act very close to Homesite/CF Studio as
opposed to a designer tool. Most people get to liking it after a few
hours/weeks of use and actually prefer the power to Studio. Also, if
you
Apparently the lease was/is up on the building in question. Due to a
lack of available office space (or the right set) for them to move to,
the offices (University of semi-Excellence) will remain there for a
short period of time. I presume that the crews that were scheduled to
uninstall all of
You have me stumped there. I have used SSL and generally haven't had
problems with it. I don't recall any that were image specific at least.
Do check that your references to the image files either include
'http://' or have the right path structure. When your users switch from
http to https, you
Rick,
I have occasionally had problems when using nested 'include' files,
particularly if you are using frames on the website. I believe that
Include files treat images as if they are being pulled from the level of
the include file versus the parent file (though it may be the other way
around).
If somehow your menu system starts calling itself and generating the menu
inside of other calls, then the include files will start stacking up. I
think I have only experienced this with frames however. If that is the
case, it probably isn't a function of time and the machine acting up, but
Also, look into a few of the other DBCC commands that force the database
to check itself and reset the statistics. I think DBCC Statistics or
something like that will regenerate the statistics for each table.
Since your production tables may have a completely different ratio of
KC ColdFusion Users:
Our next meeting will be at 6pm on December 10th at the Sprint School of
Excellence off of I435 Roe in Overland Park. Our hosts for the
evening will be the KC Macromedia Tools Group
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KCMUG/).
The meeting will be an introduction and brief
Title: Message
Macromedia knows of this problem. Apparently, the APIs for the new
version of Apache keep changing and they are forced to recompile and distribute
the changes in order to keep MX working. I heard late last week that they
were going to post some form of source file that users
Here is a local CF position. Feel free to contact the recruiter:
-Original Message-
The basic skillset I am searching for is Cold Fusion, Informix database
and either C language or COBOL. They are putting some legacy based
insurance application/systems onto the web via Cold Fusion.
Meeting Announcement:
What: Basic introduction to the use of CFC's (components) in CFMX
PowerPoint presentation showing examples of the
differences between CF5 UDFs and CFMX's CFCs
Basic coding methods of writing a CFC.
Benefits of
FYI
I'm working on some presentation materials for a possible meeting next
week on CFC's (a new way of writing functions in CFMX). Hopefully we
can arrange a meeting for early next week at either the UMKC location or
southern Overland Park.
I am also working with the MM Tools group in town to
I am hoping to move our list website to a new box that supports MS SL
CFMX. Someone has volunteered, but we have not had the expertise and
time to configure a listserv program. L-Soft Lyris both offer free
versions for small list management and we are hoping to use one of the
two if we can
Contract CF Position, please contact recruiter below:
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Contract opening in KC:
Required skills: Cold Fusion Studio 5, CF Script, SQL for Microsoft SQL
Server, and HTML
Desirable Skills: Dreamweaver Ultradev 4, JSP, ASP, Java Script, and VB
Script
Project Description: Finalizing three
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Unfortunately, I am unable to prevent ads from being
placed on this list at this time. We are still receiving free hosting and
listserv support from Ron and he is too busy to moderate this list (I wouldn't
ask him to anyway, we should self police if necessary). I am working on
Title: Message
By the way, I would like to thank Ron from
Humankind Systems for his long term support of the user group. Ron (with
Brian Robin) lead the group for a few years and Ron has been very kind in
his free hosting of our domain/website and the
listserv.
Thanks!
I am considering using a Flash (MX) front end and Flash Remoting as the
client for a CF application. I will need a user to enter a
username/password combination in a flash window and login to the server.
I have been unable to find out how Flash and Remoting handle sessions
between the flash
This post is to confirm the 6:00 PM Studio MX presentation that will be
given by a representative of Macromedia. The event will take place on
Thursday, September 26th at the Sprint University of Excellence. Prizes
will be given away including a certificate for a free copy of Macromedia
Studio MX.
TO: KC MM Tools, CF, Web Sig
Subject: Measuring interest in attending a meeting
Our original intention of having a meeting this past Monday with an MM
speaker fell through due to travel difficulties. We are working to set
up an alternate meeting this week. Due to MM scheduling problems, the
The KCFusion MM User Group/Tools meeting that was scheduled for this
evening has been CANCELLED by Macromedia.
MM has called to inform us that the technical speaker(s?) that was
scheduled to speak has missed their flight to KC and will be unable to
present to us this evening. We are trying
After seven years of public speaking (Toastmasters) and numerous other
positions requiring an extrovert, I think I fall outside of the 'nerd'
stereotype...
...ok, maybe not 100% outside of the stereotype :-)
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Adaryl,
I have
no idea from a 'book' sense. And I would say that you COULD say that the
masterID and userName are both unique, but heck, you could also SAY that the
fName and/or the LName uniquely identify the record. You could just as
easily say the password is unique if
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Subject: employment opportunity
Skills Set:
Candidate must have at least ten years of progressive IT software
development and software management experience using structured system
development methodologies as well
James,
When you say this is a form and that you want to 'choose' from the list,
or add a new record, what do you mean? If I understand you correctly,
you want to be able to display what is currently in the record (in the
table) and allow them to update the fields, OR they can click on a link
You probably want to perform an IsDefined check, for instance
cfif IsDefined(var)your statement/cfif
IF you have a form submission with check boxes, boxes that are not
checked are not submitted and hence are effectively null and you can't
perform a value check on them because they don't exist.
Glad someone asked! I have two ideas and was hoping to have the meeting
next week, but at this rate I doubt it will happen.
1) Demonstration on installing/configuring the ActiveEdit (or similar)
custom tags that make HTML/WYSIWYG editors available in a web browser.
Then how to insert them into
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Adaryl,
Somewhere I interviewed or spoke with someone about this topic. It
was my understanding that the individual coders being employed were generally
not allowed to do any form of insert/update/delete into the database through
their code. They were however permitted to
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I have
seen the box before, the other characters are probably caused by non English
keyboards. Sometimes there are encoding problems with
email.
Either
way, I doubt there is much you can do about it. CFMX supports Unicode, but
I doubt this will help you if your local PC
Keith,
To test if her browser is getting and saving cookies, surf to
www.cnn.com and www.msnbc.com, both attempt to drop a cookie and if no
cookie is present a small popup window will come up asking for your area
code or some such message. It's a pretty good way to see if cookies are
getting
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The
August meeting went pretty well. We had 9 or 10participants there,
including a new developer just learning html and a few expert level
users. We covered the very basics of Fusebox 3 and the concepts
behind the design methodology. Unfortunately, I forgot to show the
Doug,
I believe the 'preservesinglequotes' function in CF is intended to
handle quoting problems like this.
Ryan
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Our next CF user group meeting will be Tuesday, August 13th, from 6:30
to 8:30pm in southern Overland Park.
We will be discussing the basics of Fusebox 3. Included in this
discussion/presentation will be:
Methodology behind Fusebox and the Fusebox Lifecycle Process (FLiP)
Pros/cons of using
There is an article in this month's CF Developers Journal about using a
custom tag called 'querysim' to mimic database calls. The article
discusses a number of different uses for it, including using it to parse
through a web server log file (space delimited usually) as if it were a
database
Title: Message
I have
been using a program called PDF-Lib, but I think it costs $500+. Its
pretty easy however and they have a free demo you can download (works fine, but
adds really annoying watermark to your pages until you buy it). www.pdf-lib.com
Here
are a few resource sites:
Is anyone interested in sharing a room in Orlando for this? I am
considering going. Plane tickets to Orlando are running about $200,
figure the room is probably about $150 per night. Sharing would be a
great way to save a few hundred.
Ryan
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There is a new 'MX' specific magazine starting up. Their premier demo
issue is available online to those who register.
Their website and 32 page issue is available at www.mxinsite.com.
Ryan
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KCFusion,
Our user group meeting last night was a success! Thanks again to Rick
Rachel Nielsen of Mach 10 Design (www.mach10design.com) for
presenting.
We had a small group of participants (some driving in from Topeka
Lawrence) eager to learn and discuss their coding techniques. This
St, KCMO 64112-2715, just southeast of the Plaza. Parking is
free across the street.
If you have any questions, please email me.
Ryan Hartwich
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Macromedia has done a great job of putting their
developer information together for us. Here are links to quite a few
topics you may find helpful.
Ryan
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Main
Designer
Developer
Center
page:
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/
Macromedia
ColdFusion MX
KCFusion,
Looks like my listserv subscription died when I changed jobs last
monthappears as if my posting letting everyone know we wouldn't be
having a meeting in June also went the way of the bit bucket. SORRY!
Either way, I'm working on setting up the July meeting and will let
everyone
Here is a contract job available locally.
Ryan
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Job: ColdFusion Developer - Kansas City
Full Time Permanent - Immediately Available
Skills: Programming ColdFusion 5 (upgrading to MX is expected soon) on
Windows 2000 platform with Informix database on Sun. Primary duties
include creating
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/coldfusion_mx_announc
e.html
MACROMEDIA INTRODUCES COLDFUSION MX
New version runs on Java platform and Microsoft .NET Framework,
optimized for XML, web services, and rich Internet applications
San Francisco - April 29, 2002 - Macromedia,
requested. Please email me with your contact information and
number of attendees.
Thanks,
Ryan Hartwich, KCFusion CFUG Manager
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Not
that I have ever read about, sorry.
It
might be a fun programming challenge to create a module that would take 3
variables in, one to indicate if its Roman-to-Arabic or Arabic-to-Roman and then
a variable for each type.
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Rick,
Actually, I take that back, there are 4 tags in the Macromedia exchange
area for use with CF.
http://devex.macromedia.com/developer/gallery/SearchResults.cfm?keywords=roman
Ryan
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For cheap and easy, using the ISO extensions will probably work
reasonably well (most of the time).
You could combine it with some web browser hints, like what language is
supported by the browser. This is sent to the server in the header
string.
If you really need quality, there are online
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Adaryl,
You
are in luck! I normally wouldn't have this around, but I started a 2nd job
(short term contract) and they gave me a journal that had come in the
mail. Here is the cover article. I'll try and scan it in for
you.
Integrating with Quickbooks by Jason Coom
so if you want copies, email me
offline.
Ryan
Hartwich
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Our accounting
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