Re: favorite coldfusion host

2011-01-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Michael Firth mfsqlser...@gmail.com wrote: Curious to see what everybody's favorite coldfusion host is also?  Hostek?   CrystalTech?  DailyRazor? Personally I'm a huge fan of Edge Web Hosting - they really know their stuff. I've also heard a lot of good things

Re: favorite coldfusion host

2011-01-25 Thread Sean Corfield
with CrystalTech (years ago, maybe they're better now?) and words can't begin to describe GoDaddy's CF hosting (one of the most viewed posts ever on my blog is a writeup of their hosting - with 170+ comments, nearly all complaints about them). Sean On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Sean Corfield seancorfi

Re: why is cf_builder so expensive?

2011-01-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Michael Firth mfsqlser...@gmail.com wrote: Thoughts about cf builder. First off, it's an absolute bargain in terms of increased productivity! Second, $299 is very reasonable for professional development software - look at Zend Studio and Visual Studio

Re: favorite coldfusion host

2011-01-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Mike Kear afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: What else?  (or am I wrong in thinking the above are important factors?) You missed one of the most important factors (for me): * support people know their arse from their elbow when it comes to ColdFusion That's the main

Re: Custom Tags, cf_location

2011-01-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Michael Firth mfsqlser...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I see your point.  I cannot say I agree, but I do see your viewpoint.   Yes, the professors pointed that out as well, but also said that even on off the cuff things it can be a very dangerous tool because you don't

Re: why is cf_builder so expensive?

2011-01-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Michael Firth mfsqlser...@gmail.com wrote: Based on the feedback I am getting Builder seems to be very stable contrary to a few web posts I have read. I think a lot of people tried the public beta, had problems, and never went back after the public 1.0

Re: Custom Tags, cf_location

2011-01-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Michael Firth mfsqlser...@gmail.com wrote: It's too bad that you, Russ, Andrew have formulated opinions without really knowing me. A friend just pointed me to Michael's posts on cf-jobs so I could get to know him better... (I've tried really hard not to

Re: Anyone know anything about this new ColdFusion conference?

2011-01-21 Thread Sean Corfield
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:34 AM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) sd1...@att.com wrote: The only conference I saw any detail on was cfopen in Texas and I didn't find out about that until too late. Since it hasn't happened yet, how is it too late? Does anyone have a list of the CF Conferences

Re: Oh The evils: .NET on a Unix w/ Apache web server

2011-01-21 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Ian Skinner h...@ilsweb.com wrote: Some internet searching is giving me hints about projects like Mono and DotGNU.  Are these (or something else) viable ways to run an .NET web application on a Unix box? Yup, Mono and XSP will let you run C# .NET / ASP.NET

Re: Branch target offset too large for short?

2011-01-21 Thread Sean Corfield
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:08 AM, David Fekke da...@fekke.com wrote: Anyone seen this before?  Im simply working with a CFC that has worked fine, until some changes ive just added, but nothing too crazy just some cfset statements, and some cfparams were added to it. It's a limit of the JVM

Re: Branch target offset too large for short?

2011-01-21 Thread Sean Corfield
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Mark A. Kruger mkru...@cfwebtools.com wrote: http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2007/9/28/Branch.Target.Offset Putting each query in a separate function and then calling the functions inside the cfcase tags would also probably have solved it and would have

Re: Anyone know anything about this new ColdFusion conference?

2011-01-19 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Donna Bing bingdo...@ymail.com wrote: I think you're completely wrong about open source being a small movement in federal government.  In fact, I think that was one of Obama's first executive actions.  Maybe it hasn't taken off yet, but everyone I know in

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-18 Thread Sean Corfield
+1 on this. When I created the Web Technology Group team at Macromedia to rewrite the e-commerce parts of the website (built with BroadVision back then), just after they acquired Allaire, we cross-trained a team of Java / C++ developers to CFML with great success. We later hired some CF

Re: CFBuilder Suddenly Showing Whitespace Chars, Sorta

2011-01-16 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Matt Quackenbush quackfu...@gmail.com wrote: For anyone else that happens upon this thread in the future, the key combination I had somehow unknowingly hit is [ctrl] and [period], simultaneously.  That is, *ctrl+.* .  (Note that I am *not* saying [ctrl] and

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Will Swain w...@hothorse.com wrote: For those who have run through this book, how much time at a minimum did they find they needed to spend on each language? Ben Nadel gave an indication of how long most of the homework exercises have taken him in his blog

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Dominic Watson watson.domi...@googlemail.com wrote: Just a thought: I bought the book and haven't yet started it. Something encouraging my procrastination is the horrid thought of having various language server services setup on my machine with noob

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Roger Austin raust...@nc.rr.com wrote: I am using the Prag Prog approach and learning one language a year or at least targeting one. Get proficient rather than just hit to highlights. This year, I am working on clojure and getting better at

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote: It would be nice if the Railo folks worked with Jumpbox to provide a Railo JumpBox. Sean? hint? hint? :-) Well, Railo already has an Amazon AMI fully configured and ready to run. This is the first time I've heard

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Gerald Guido gerald.gu...@gmail.com wrote: Is this really that big of a deal? Or is that what you are trying to find out? I'm genuinely interested in hearing from folks with insight into government agency IT departments and so far the feedback has been very

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: Unfortunately I don't Adobe has done much to dispel those myths. I hope I'm wrong. But I couldn't in good conscience tell a n00b to start learning CF over Ruby or PHP. Remember: the success of PHP, Ruby and other languages

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Gerald Guido gerald.gu...@gmail.com wrote: Pls let us know what you find out if it is not included on this thread, if at all possible. I've had a couple of private emails containing information I'm not allowed to share because, well, they probably shouldn't

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: If the success of CF isn't Adobe's responsibility then who's is it? Didn't you read what I said? Remember: the success of PHP, Ruby and other languages has come about _without_ a company spending money on marketing. Those

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote: I would also argue that price and the lack of ANY school, college, etc exposing students to ColdFusion is also a big part of this. I'll argue against this being an issue (as I've argued against it several times in the

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Josh Nathanson joshnathan...@gmail.com wrote: This bodes well in that as long as it is profitable they won't kill it entirely, but it's certainly no way to grow the product. Oh come on! After the huge list of enhancements added in both ACF8 and ACF9? And

Re: Open source - No Mortgage

2011-01-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Rick Colman rcol...@cox.net wrote: I guess I am old school but I have car payments, a mortgage, etc. etc. All of this open source/freeware stuff leaves me a little mystified. I can highly recommend The Cathedral the Bazaar:

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Sean Corfield
To answer the question in the subject: depends what you really think CFML's biggest asset is... I think it's a combination of easy to learn / use and very helpful community, both of which are still absolutely true in spades! On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Irvin Gomez ir...@pixel69.com wrote:

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.com wrote: I'll probably also convert an essay about programming language technologies (aimed at my colleagues at World Singles) into a blog post at some point since it covers some of this ground too, as well as digging more

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.com wrote: There are two issues here: * do you know OO / other 'modern' software development techniques? * do you know more than one programming language? If the answer is yes to both of those, you'll be considered employable

US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-12 Thread Sean Corfield
I saw Blue River (the Mura folks) tweet this today: http://twitter.com/#!/brinteractive/statuses/25246946570534912 They reference the Washington Post article about the House migrating 520 websites from a mix of proprietary and open-source content management platforms to Drupal. The other day,

Re: US Government moving to Drupal?

2011-01-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. They're not just moving to Drupal - they're limiting the vendors who can provide solutions for websites hosted by the US Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Interesting. When I saw the

Re: Beta Tester Wanted for new CF (MVC) Framework

2011-01-06 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: It's not an issue in that Google can't crawl you. It's an issue in that Google will rank this: mysite.com/Cars/BMW/X3 Higher than this: mysite.com?cat=carsmaker=bmwstyle=x3 Very likely but most frameworks support basic

Re: Beta Tester Wanted for new CF (MVC) Framework

2011-01-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Steve Bryant st...@bryantwebconsulting.com wrote: I think it is quite a bit unlike any other ColdFusion framework out there. It isn't hub-and-spoke (where all requests are routed through index.cfm, for example). It doesn't require OO. It does, however, provide

Re: Layout Components (was Neptune Beta Testers)

2011-01-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Steve Bryant st...@bryantwebconsulting.com wrote: Just to illustrate one of the advantages of this approach, here is a code example of a very simple page: cf_layout title=Congratulations!        script src=/my.js type=text/javascript/script cf_layout

Re: cfloop working but not how I want it too:

2010-12-29 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Teed Younger teedyoun...@hotmail.com wrote: cfif SESSION.crossRefList NEQ          h3Cross References/h3          br /          cfoutput            cfloop index=brandGroup list=#FORM.crossRefList# delimiters=#chr(13)##chr(10)#              ul            

Re: Variable Scoping in CF8, CF9

2010-12-23 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Matthew Reinbold matthew.reinb...@voxpopdesign.com wrote: I know that correctly scoping variables in ColdFusion is important to prevent unexpected results if a variable is accidentally reused elsewhere in a CFC. But, if I remember correctly, in CFMX there

Re: What Notable Differences are there between Railo, Open Bluedragon, and Adobe Coldfusion? [Stackoverflow.com]

2010-12-21 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:49 PM, UXB denn...@uxbinternet.com wrote: . 3.2 will also see the Vivio installers become the official Railo installers so folks who like simple click-click-done installers This, the lack of simple installation, in my opinion is the biggest impediment to attracting

Re: What Notable Differences are there between Railo, Open Bluedragon, and Adobe Coldfusion? [Stackoverflow.com]

2010-12-20 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:20 AM, wrote: In Gmail, this post seems to be from an anonymous user... I hate those open source or free stuff. ...so I visited the HoF site and I see it's Claude Schneegans, in which case the negativity makes perfect sense. The more undocumented free gadgets on

Re: Where Woes

2010-12-20 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Rob Voyle robvo...@voyle.com wrote: Yes Why? the quotes I have other query's where it works fine without quotes. If you have a numeric column then #var# will work. If you have a varchar column, you need '#var#' because the SQL syntax requires a 'string'. But

Re: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ

2010-11-18 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Dave Burns cft...@burnsorama.com wrote: I'm considering moving on from Dreamweaver and finally using a better IDE for CF work. I know of CFBuilder and have downloaded the trial to eval. I used IntelliJ for some Java projects 2 years ago and it was

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-16 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: This new function It's not a function :) I read your email and thought What new function? Why can't Russ be more specific? :) So now CFML has a 'new' keyword that works just like 'new' in other languages: a = new

Re: Should a getMemento method return the results of getters if they exist?

2010-11-16 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Dave Merrill enigm...@gmail.com wrote: In the cfproperty-oriented world, where properties get dumped into the variables scope along with your methods and anything else there, many folks including me have written getMemento methods to return a struct with the

Re: Where to put your code

2010-11-15 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Paul Alkema paulalkemadesi...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone out there have any written coding standards or coding documentation that they would be willing to share? I would be interested in seeing what other development teams use as far as coding standards.

Re: cfscript based components formatting

2010-11-15 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Andrew Scott andr...@andyscott.id.au wrote: Method one, there is a performance hit when using notations. Is there? Why so? (it doesn't affect my position that comments should never change the semantics of code - although, as noted by Ray, the example given only

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: could we have an example ? An example of what? -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-10 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Adrocknaphobia adrocknapho...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, if this is CF9, you can replace all the createObject() calls by using the 'new' keyword. Interesting. So if cfobject and createObject() are completed blocked by sandbox security on CF9 Enterprise, new

Re: Upgrading ColdFusion from MX 7 to 9 - Any Advice, Guidance, Best Practices, Etc?

2010-11-10 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Christian N. Abad li...@accessiblecomputing.com wrote: I'm in the process of having a new dedicated server being built by Hosting.com (formerly HostMySite.com) that will be running, among other things, ColdFusion 9.  Once the build is completed in the next

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Sean Corfield
Take a look at Alurium. They offer shared hosting for about $3 / month with Railo - and you get full Web Administrator control for each account (because of the way Railo is sandboxed by default). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Sean Corfield
Mango Blog is great but it won't run on a ColdFusion host that restricts CFC creation... On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:27 PM, AJ Mercer ajmer...@gmail.com wrote: I am running mangoBlog on Railo http://www.mangoblog.org/ http://www.mangoblog.org/

Re: Closing Browser expires session/cookie

2010-11-05 Thread Sean Corfield
Um, won't that run every time you move to a new page in the same app? On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: Well you can use javascript to detect when the browser is closed and then call another cfm page or make an ajax call to end the session. e.g. body

Re: Getting Record Number within a Looping Query

2010-11-01 Thread Sean Corfield
queryName.currentRow On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Rick Colman rcol...@cox.net wrote: If I am looping over a query, how do I get the current record number for the loop? e.g. If I am looping for a fixed number of iterations, I can use an index=loopcount and get the current loop number.

Re: CFLOOP Next Iteration

2010-10-29 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Jacob Munson yacoub...@gmail.com wrote: You probably noticed this, but cfcontinue is a new CF9 tag, so won't work in older versions of CF. cfcontinue was new in CF9 but continue existed in cfscript before that... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo

Re: CFLOOP Next Iteration

2010-10-29 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Lowrey rid...@gmail.com wrote: I wasn't aware of that.  We're still learning all the new tags and it doesn't come up win DreamWeaver so it was a shot in the dark to find something that would allow us to continue Time to switch to ColdFusion

Re: CF (8.0.0) performance vs PHP (5)

2010-10-18 Thread Sean Corfield
FWIW, you'll probably find a speed improvement if you have output=false on cfcomponent and cffunction... On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Bryn Parrott bryn_parr...@internode.on.net wrote: For those to whom it might be useful, here is the wrapper cfc I used for java.io.FileWriter which, in

Re: 20 fields to compare

2010-10-14 Thread Sean Corfield
Instead of nested loops, use a struct for the found values: found[value] = true; then you can just test if a value exists with structKeyExists(found,value). That way you only have to loop over the form (one loop). Sean On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote:

Re: 20 fields to compare

2010-10-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: The extra good news is that it also seems to be faster to use your method Sean, from about two to ten times as fast. You need to be running about 5000 iterations to see any real difference, but it seems faster nonetheless.

Re: 20 fields to compare

2010-10-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Gerald Guido gerald.gu...@gmail.com wrote: Very nice. I thought my function was terse. bravo! Oh, if you want terse, try the Clojure version - assuming you only want to know _if_ there are duplicates: (defn dupes? [struct] (not (= (count struct) (count (set

Re: 20 fields to compare

2010-10-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: Out of curiosity is there some reason to do this: v = form[f];       if ( structKeyExists( found, v ) ) { In the case where v is not in found, the else does found[v] = true, thus form[f] is only evaluated once. With only

Re: For those who present at conferences (or want to)

2010-10-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Jeff Gladnick jeff.gladn...@gmail.com wrote: Consider using www.prezi.com instead of powerpoint/etc for your next presentation.  I've recently started experimenting with it (you can see my first attempt to convert my resume to a prezi here:

Re: Any way to prevent storing methods inside of an array

2010-10-07 Thread Sean Corfield
Well, I still don't really understand what you're concerned about. If you have remote methods, you can see them via WSDL - that's kind of the whole point: it's a remotely accessible API. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Tony Bentley cascadefreehee...@gmail.com wrote: I spent some time trying to

Re: Any way to prevent storing methods inside of an array

2010-10-05 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Tony Bentley cascadefreehee...@gmail.com wrote: I have a cfc that gets instantiated and then stored in an array. I have a bunch of different objects (arrays, queries, structures, etc) in the cfc which all gets used but because of the way I am storing them, the

Re: Any way to prevent storing methods inside of an array

2010-10-05 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Tony Bentley cascadefreehee...@gmail.com wrote: True, they do but I saw the possibility that storing the cfc's method when I really only wanted the members could lead to problems. Maybe not. If someone here said that doing so was harmless, especially you or

Re: Algorithms

2010-10-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:25 AM, fun and learning funandlrnn...@gmail.com wrote: This question is not directly related to Coldfusion. I just came across the below lectures on algorithms from MIT. Does it help to know those concepts to get better in Coldfusion?

Re: What version-/source control are you using (if any)?

2010-09-29 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Michael Christensen mich...@strib.dk wrote: We're thinking about setting up version-/source control for our CF code. What are people out there using? What works, what doesn't? These days I'm using git for everything possible. Previously I was using SVN. Most

Re: cfinsert/cfupdate

2010-09-24 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Jacob Munson yacoub...@gmail.com wrote: While I won't tell ORM fans that they shouldn't use ORM, I have done my fair share of railing against ORM. As you have against OO and various other modern ways of thinking about software - and as Rick points out you are

Re: Coldfusion 9 standard license on Tomcat

2010-09-21 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Joeri B joerib...@hotmail.com wrote: I have a question about Coldfusion 9 deployed on a Tomcat server. Is it possible to install Coldfusion 9 standard on a tomcat server? The installation can be done with the enterprise edition... In addition to the

Re: coldfusion forums?

2010-09-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Richard White rich...@j7is.co.uk wrote: i cant help but notice these days it has slowed down, and just wondering what could be the cause of this. Is there an alternative forum that people are now using? could it be that ColdFusion is getting easier to

Re: extend application.cfc based upon condition

2010-09-01 Thread Sean Corfield
FWIW, you wouldn't get this error on Railo (due to a philosophical difference on how function declarations actually work). On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Matthew Smith chedders...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, here is what I tried: I removed the cfcomponent tags in the org.corfield.framework file,

Re: CFParam vs. IsDefined

2010-09-01 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:54 AM, John M Bliss bliss.j...@gmail.com wrote: cfloop index=i from=1 to=1 cfif not IsDefined(variables.anothervar i) cfset SetVariable(variables.anothervar i, i) /cfif /cfloop Try that with cfset variables[anothervar i] = i / - I suspect setVariable() is

Re: social network application based on CF ?

2010-08-27 Thread Sean Corfield
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:23 PM, cf-t...@sdsolutions.de cf-t...@sdsolutions.de wrote: Hi list, is there any social network application / social network framework based on CF you guys are aware of ? What do you mean by social network application / social network framework? Twitter? Facebook?

Re: Number of site using ColdFusion

2010-08-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Robert Harrison rob...@austin-williams.com wrote: To respond to an IT director who thinks ColdFusion is dated and not in much use anymore... Even tho' it just got a brand new updater for the latest release - which only came out recently and now incorporates

Re: calling a cfc function from the same cfc

2010-08-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:00 AM, David McGraw david.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: In instances of calling a function that has no return, I find it easier on the eyes to call them with cfscript. Well, I write all my CFCs completely in cfscript these days anyway - so I agree with you! I was just

Re: calling a cfc function from the same cfc

2010-08-24 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Matthew Smith chedders...@gmail.com wrote: cfset domain1_404(arguments.requested_template) / Hmm, that's a weird syntax. I'm curious... Why do you think that's a weird syntax? After all, it's how you'd call built-in functions that don't return anything, such

Re: SOT: Don’t be programmed to resi

2010-08-19 Thread Sean Corfield
Elliott Sprehn's girlfriend. His mom and dad were there too (and came over and chatted to me at the Railo booth). Elliott will soon be a neighbor of mine as he's moving to the Bay Area to work for Google. Yes, he's that smart (and, yes, his mom's *very* proud of him and loved the Swiss chocolate

Re: How to specify different webroots for development and production in application.cfc

2010-08-18 Thread Sean Corfield
Why not activeWebroot = /hillyPetersonHome on dev and just on hph / production (and then use url = #application.activeWebroot#/images/image.jpg (without the leading /) On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: Ok...I thought I had this worked out, but now

Re: Stored Procedure or ORM

2010-08-08 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Mike Chabot mcha...@gmail.com wrote: Most people don't realize that when you send a parameterized query using cfquery to SQL Server, what happens behind the scenes is that ColdFusion creates a temporary stored procedure on the server, then executes that

Re: Stored Procedure or ORM

2010-08-08 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: Yes, the SQL Server JDBC drivers from both DataDirect and MS do this. You can prove this for yourself by looking at traffic with SQL Profiler in SQL Server. You'll see an initial call to sp_prepareexec followed by subsequent

Re: Secure Hosted Subversion Services: Suggestions and experiences?

2010-08-08 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:10 PM, David Mineer Jr min...@gmail.com wrote: I used codesion for years, then switched to unfuddle.  Little cheaper and lots more features (at that time).  Both are good but I sure love unfuddle. I'll second the recommendation for Unfuddle for ease of use and great

Re: Stored Procedure or ORM

2010-08-08 Thread Sean Corfield
Thanx Dave! On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: In SQL Server, anything beginning with sp_ are stored procedures built into SQL Server. So, the driver invokes those SPs to create  and invoke a new temporary SP. Temporary objects (including these SPs) are tied

Re: Stored Procedure or ORM

2010-08-07 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Matthew Allen a.matthe...@yahoo.com wrote: He has one valid reason in that we have one or two (not the majority of) applications having the need to access data from different platforms (.NET, PHP and CF). You could create a simple REST API from CFML to expose

Re: CFML broadcasting app

2010-08-07 Thread Sean Corfield
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:47 PM, cfcom cf...@aceligent.com wrote: Several hundred thousand, possible 2MM You really need to look at one of the commercial mass mailing services. If you try to send that many emails off your own servers, you're almost certain to get yourself blacklisted. At

Re: Suppressing whitespace from CFCs

2010-08-05 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Robert Harrison rob...@austin-williams.com wrote: I've moved output function into CFC's; thus I'm using output=true. Only problem is the CFC is outputting whitespace where all the logic is now. How can I suppress the white space in an output CFC? Write the CFC

Re: OOP Principles question

2010-08-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: So, my overall advice here would be not to overthink display logic - it's the least formal layer in an HTML-based MVC application. I might go further and suggest not to overthink any aspect of your design. The biggest

Re: OOP Principles question

2010-08-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Scott Stewart webmas...@sstwebworks.com wrote: So what your saying is, design patterns, like music theory, exist so you know when you're breaking them :) That's a good way of phrasing it :) The key thing to remember about design patterns is they include a set

Re: Need a west coast (US) based CF host [spamtrap heur]

2010-08-04 Thread Sean Corfield
Just noticed this thread and I thought it was worth pointing out that Railo allows you to set the server to any timezone on a per web application context basis (so you can have different sites on the same server all running in different timezones). On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Paul Hastings

Re: Adobe no longer part of the OpenCFML committee

2010-07-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote: This is most likely the problem that Sean was referring to.  Being responsive to the community is one thing, being overly responsive is a problem.  Just because one person asks for something and three more chime in

Re: Adobe no longer part of the OpenCFML committee

2010-07-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: I'm using the for(i=1; i = ArrayLen(myArray); i++) syntax because i know it works everywhere. I would much rather use a for-in loop but due to the changes that Adobe made in 9.0.1, Railo and Adobe are temporarily

Re: Adobe no longer part of the OpenCFML committee

2010-07-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Gerald Guido gerald.gu...@gmail.com wrote: Or support for Amazon Web services:  S3 (well before Adobe did), My bad. Before I get a public tongue lashing...  I got Railo mixed up with OBD with the S3 support. Yup, Railo introduced the concept of resources

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:32 AM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) sd1...@att.com wrote: So... Did anyone else get the email stating that this year would be the LAST CFUnited conference? Yup, and the blog posts and the flood of tweets :) Michael (Smith, TeraTech) explained that the reason is

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: Would it help if they moved the conference around?  I think having it in the same location really limits it as many folk who can't afford to travel would probably jump at the chance to go if it was local

Re: Vote ColdFusion

2010-07-01 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Paul Alkema paulalkemadesi...@gmail.com wrote: I've made a post to complain about this and I received some crap about how CF isn't a good language. Dognabbit! Scala and Clojure aren't on the list either! How dare they! *sigh* I think the point here is that the

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-29 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:26 PM, denstar valliants...@gmail.com wrote: What do folks think about ColdSpring?  I don't really think of it as a framework, but it is, I recon.  Does that make using it verboten for a project like this?  I see good things either way, so...  just curious. I'm a

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-28 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: While I am glad you and Sean are rolling in the dough We've already been over this in another thread on this list a little while back, when I explained my financial situation because of a similar attack on me -

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-28 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Kevin Pepperman chorno...@gmail.com wrote: I am in the process of consulting with an attorney just for legalese. When I get the domain set up, I want to start with a foundation that is driven by the community-- that way the base code is not even started until

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-27 Thread Sean Corfield
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey mary...@cfwebstore.com wrote: There's a lot of pitfalls to using open source software for ecommerce (and yes, I may be biased, but I also speak from lots of experience in this field). Anyone that has spent anytime with OSCommerce knows how

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-27 Thread Sean Corfield
...reviewed a *few* e-commerce packages... (I have 'free' on the brain :) On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm finding this thread very interesting because I've reviewed a free e-commerce packages (some out of curiosity, some I've been paid

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-27 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: I wouldn't say it's an objection to paying a few hundred dollars, it's an inability to come up with the funds to do so for the little guy. I'm sorry, but if the little guy can't afford $200 or even $400 for

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-27 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Kevin Pepperman chorno...@gmail.com wrote: I agree in the fact that code contributions are only as good as the contributers, but I think the base OSC platform never really had a solid foundation for implementing plugins. Again, the contributors (to the

Re: In a pickle, need some help...

2010-06-26 Thread Sean Corfield
Using SES URLs or some other approach that might cause css/images with relative paths to appear to have the wrong paths in IE? On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Che Vilnonis ch...@asitv.com wrote: I am in the process of moving two sites that I have hosted for over 10 years, from my server to

Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion?

2010-06-24 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Jordan Michaels jor...@viviotech.net wrote: I don't think Adobe should give software away, even to schools (we all gotta pay the bills, right?) but easing up a little would yield excellent long-term results (and customers!) IMHO. ColdFusion, ColdFusion Builder

Re: CF vs. ASP.Net

2010-06-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Jose Diaz bleached...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunatly the company I work for decided to move away from CF :( and proceeded to get shot of all the cf devs we had. Sorry to hear that - glad you survived tho'... Anyhoo I did build the following site: www.cfdot.net

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