[cfaussie] Are folks tracking CFJOBS Google Group?

2015-12-17 Thread Geoff Bowers
Just posted a job to CFJOBS and thought given the light traffic in our lists these days if it wouldn't be worthwhile merging CFJOBS and CFAUSSIE? Or are we happy to just keep on keeping on? GB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion CMS

2015-12-09 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 10 December 2015 at 13:43, Andrew Scott wrote: > ContentBox is probably the better one to go with. > https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/contentbox > Unless of course you prefer a content management platform that actually does something ;) FarCry Core FTW :) --

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion CMS

2015-12-09 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 10 December 2015 at 15:05, Andrew Scott wrote: > it's probably far better than Farcry. There is no contest in terms of feature set and product maturity; FarCry wins hands down. One competitive advantage for ContentBox is the use of the ColdBox framework

[cfaussie] Re: Companies Using ColdFusion

2015-09-09 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 12:19:07 UTC+10, raiola wrote: > > Hi Just wondering how popular CF is across business and if there are still > any large companies using CF as opposed to other solutions ??? > The world market for development work is as big as its ever been; there are more

[cfaussie] Railo forked; Lucee Server is born

2015-05-21 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, If you haven't been tracking the open source CFML community of late, the Railo server has been forked. There's an abridged version of the Lucee Keynote from dev.Objective() last week that fills in most of the details. http://lucee.org/blog/lucee-keynote-dev-objective.html

[cfaussie] Re: receiving large amounts of data via http post possibly simultaneously at times

2015-03-04 Thread Geoff Bowers
, as long as we receive less than x number of posts per minute, we should be fine. Best regards, -- geoff bowers http://www.daemon.com.au/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups cfaussie group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

[cfaussie] Lucee CFML engine released

2015-01-29 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, Lucee CFML engine released :) http://lucee.org TLDR; - fork of Railo 4.2 - headed up by a new foundation, and the original Railo authors - Lucee 4.5 (ie already a whole version ahead of Railo) Looks pretty sweet. -- geoff bowers Daemon Internet Consultants Sydney, Australia w. http

[cfaussie] Re: Lucee CFML engine released

2015-01-29 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Friday, 30 January 2015 09:13:33 UTC+11, Geoff Bowers wrote: Lucee CFML engine released :) http://lucee.org Some notes from the launch: http://blog.adamcameron.me/2015/01/lucee.html And the new list/forum: http://lucee.org:8080 (soon to be http://discourse.lucee.org) GB -- You

Re: [cfaussie] Are there any mid-snr CF devs left in Australia

2014-02-28 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 22:28:28 UTC+11, M@ wrote: Do many cf places in oz use Railo? Daemon still have a healthy mix of Adobe ColdFusion and Railo amongst our clients. Invariably new clients are on Railo, and many older ACF clients are planning migration to Railo. While ACF remains

[cfaussie] Re: Are there any mid-snr CF devs left in Australia

2014-02-27 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 07:48:29 UTC+11, Dave wrote: I was wondering if there are any mid-senior level ColdFusion developers left in Australia (specifically, Melbourne). We are finding is really tough to hire people that have written enterprise (ie, complex, framework driven)

[cfaussie] FarCry 7 Sneak Peek Next Tuesday 9am

2014-02-20 Thread Geoff Bowers
# FarCry 7 Sneak Peek If you've ever wondered what the FarCry community has been up to this last year, we've got a sneak peek (Google Hangout) of the FarCry 7 release next Tuesday morning 9am: https://plus.google.com/events/c44vhf62hkjva7mo4jj0crs66r0 FarCry 7.0 is at the Release Candidate

Re: [cfaussie] Re: [APUGS] Tonight: Building Everyday Web Apps as Cloud Apps by Geoff Bowers

2013-10-13 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 11 October 2013 13:45, Glen Rainbird glenrainb...@gmail.com wrote: During the preso Geoff mentioned how he configured his datasource in Railo and then in his app code but I can't remember precisely what that entailed. Was it just two datasource entries in Railo (live db dev db) and then a

[cfaussie] Railo: Server Administrator Training (29/31 Oct)

2013-10-07 Thread Geoff Bowers
infrastructure or just get a handle on why so many enterprises prefer the Railo engine. If you're interested please contact Vanessa Torrisi (vane...@daemon.com.au or +612 8999 8884) -- places will be strictly limited. Best regards, -- geoff bowers Director Daemon Internet Consultants Sydney, Australia p

Re: [cfaussie] CF Editors on Windows RT?

2013-08-14 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 14 August 2013 17:27, Andrew Myers am2...@gmail.com wrote: Can you run Brackets on it? I've done some fiddling (still very alpha) to get syntax highlighting happening. If you're interested to try it, let me know and I'll see if I can explain how to set it up with my hacks (it's

Re: [cfaussie] CFAussie Posts Are Very Occasional

2013-08-13 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Monday, 12 August 2013 18:55:48 UTC+10, M@ wrote: well that's quite obvious, go to any CF usergroup or conference etc and count how many developers there are under 25, then go to a PHP usergroup, CF the likely number will be zero, PHP it'll be around 60% Won't someone save the children

Re: [cfaussie] CFAussie Posts Are Very Occasional

2013-08-11 Thread Geoff Bowers
CFAUSSIE is very Aussie focused. If you want a larger ColdFusion list you might try cftalk in the us or the Railo google group ;) GB On Monday, August 12, 2013, wrote: Hi ** ** Wondering if this user group is still active as I seem to only receive the occasional post every now and

Re: [cfaussie] CFAussie Posts Are Very Occasional

2013-08-11 Thread Geoff Bowers
Should have noted, those other lists can be very high traffic. It's nice to have a local place you can get support from in our time zone which may not get lost in the noise of something like cftalk. GB On Monday, August 12, 2013, Geoff Bowers wrote: CFAUSSIE is very Aussie focused. If you want

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-29 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 29 July 2013 16:07, Phil Rasmussen ara...@gmail.com wrote: Oh bugger. In that case you are at the whim of the client. When does the site go live Geoff? It's live as of last Monday -- 200 days to go! But it will evolve over the next few months as schedule and results feeds become

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-28 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 29 July 2013 14:27, Phil Rasmussen ara...@gmail.com wrote: One small suggestion for the Athletes page would be to make use of the nice little sport icons against each athlete profile thumbnail either as an overlay or appended to the hopeful text though i can see this might get a little

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-28 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Monday, 29 July 2013 14:46:14 UTC+10, Mark Mandel wrote: Curious that you didn't use a CDN - any particular reason? The video assets are on Akamai (or Limelight). Everything else runs through a cluster of Varnish Servers. Ideally we'd have all Olympic image and file assets on Amazon S3

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-28 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 29 July 2013 15:33, Mark Mandel mark.man...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah - figured a CDN would help a lot, simply because the images would be distributed across the world. What sort of geographical distribution do you see? I would have thought that given the international nature, you would see

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-26 Thread Geoff Bowers
On 26 July 2013 14:57, Dale Fraser d...@fraser.id.au wrote: I screen captured it, might be normal behaviour, but the menu jumps quite a bit with every click For those that might be remotely interested, our front end dev team report the following... 3-column layout is loaded by default.

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-25 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Tuesday, 23 July 2013 16:36:55 UTC+10, Mark Mandel wrote: I looked at it on my 2560x1440 monitor, and I think it could go wider ;) LOL -- it's like the only 5 column design I've seen. We had to add a fix to default to 3-col and give users the options for 45 col layouts. Too much

Re: [cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-25 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:46:18 UTC+10, Dale Fraser wrote: One comment is that the menu for me moves every time I click it. It shuffles a bit left then right again. Which browser/OS do you see the menu glitch? GB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion/Railo on Java PaaS

2013-07-25 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 10:58:00 UTC+10, Mark Mandel wrote: I also always worry about how expensive CF (More so ACF is vs Railo) is, resource wise, because of it's monolithic nature and how much it packs into one punch. Another very good reason to be able to modularise CF would be for

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion/Railo on Java PaaS

2013-07-25 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Thursday, 11 July 2013 11:10:34 UTC+10, Robin Hilliard wrote: I've been using a Railo instance on CloudBees for over a year for personal projects - setup was very quick. They also have some local staff, including Michael Neale who is a co-organiser of ErlSyd user group with me

[cfaussie] Aussie Winter Olympics Site Goes Live

2013-07-22 Thread Geoff Bowers
! -- geoff bowers Director Daemon Internet Consultants Sydney, Australia w. http://www.daemon.com.au/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups cfaussie group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cfaussie+unsubscr

[cfaussie] ColdFusion/Railo on Java PaaS

2013-07-09 Thread Geoff Bowers
Anyone out there been working with a Java PaaS (platform as a service)? Been having some great success tinkering with CloudBees (http://www.cloudbees.net). Was wondering if anyone had good experiences on other platforms as well. Trying to work out if its viable or not to consider these

Re: [cfaussie] Railo Daemon Team Up

2013-07-09 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 21:03:38 UTC+10, M@ wrote: I also have a client (one of the largest companies in the world) who has Adobe cf applications, but I run locally also on railo express, I use railo express to optimize the app ( see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRpET9PUayI ), but test

[cfaussie] Railo Daemon Team Up

2013-07-08 Thread Geoff Bowers
and Daemon is keen to see a ColdFusion renaissance. Backing the Railo road-map for CF is just the first step. We're open to ideas -- we would love to hear your thoughts. Best regards, -- geoff bowers Director Daemon Internet Consultants Sydney, Australia w. http://www.daemon.com.au/ -- You

[cfaussie] Re: CF Training

2013-02-19 Thread Geoff Bowers
If you only have the one guy, you might consider remote training via Google Hangout or equivalent. There are a number of instructors that might work with you on a series of half day workshops. I'd touch base with Kai Koenig -- if he can't help you directly, he can probably recommend several

[cfaussie] Massive CF8 Exploit: double check your server is secure

2013-02-17 Thread Geoff Bowers
: Can give complete and unfettered access to your server and all your data. If you need help patching or repairing damage, give us a shout. All the best, -- geoff bowers Director Daemon Internet Consultants Sydney, Australia p. +612 8999 8883 skype. gb.daemon w. http://www.daemon.com.au/ e. modius

[cfaussie] Re: AWIA - Bowers Weakley: Changemasters

2013-02-14 Thread Geoff Bowers
but things are pretty quiet here of late with mostly 'event' notices passing though so I hope this isn't too far OT... Anyway, this is just a heads up to anyone in Sydney about the upcoming Australian Web Industry Association Port80 event this Wednesday where Geoff Bowers will be talking about

[cfaussie] webdu 2012 fast approaching

2012-03-21 Thread Geoff Bowers
Just a quick reminder that webdu 2012 is fast approaching. Would love to see all my least hated favourite ColdFusioneers at the conference ;) webdu 2012: developer conference 3-4 May 2012 Four Points Sheraton, Darling Harbour, Sydney http://www.webdu.com.au/ Lot of stuff on Javascript and

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion Server Cahcing Stratagies

2011-12-18 Thread Geoff Bowers
Can't recommend Varnish Cache enough: https://www.varnish-cache.org/ We're putting it in front of all our high volume sites now -- love it :) -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ skype. gb.daemon twitter. @modius -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion Builder Opinions

2011-12-18 Thread Geoff Bowers
Bit late to this piece, but thought I should call out my own favourites in case any one is interested... Definitely take a look at Sublime 2 text editor -- built by a local Aussie to boot: http://www.sublimetext.com/2 With ColdFusion support try: http://nagpals.com/posts/sublime-coldfusion/

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion Server and Builder Survey

2011-10-03 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Sep 26, 10:55 am, Phil Haeusler philhaeus...@gmail.com wrote: If you can pass back some feedback then Mark, without the prospect (however remote) of winning something, the quality of the survey plus the cameo by the marquee tag meant i gave up on it. Especially loved the MARQUEE -- had to

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion Server and Builder Survey

2011-10-03 Thread Geoff Bowers
How awesome is this for formatting? Could it get any worse? -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ skype. gb.daemon twitter. @modius -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups cfaussie group. To view this discussion on the web visit

[cfaussie] Re: How to load balance

2011-08-08 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Aug 9, 12:26 pm, Mat mathew.say...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to the group and was hoping someone can help me with a solution to the following; we have created an application using java and cold fusion; we do create a lot of Java objects that we hold in memory at the session level. We are

[cfaussie] Re: Fullasagoog still working?

2011-03-20 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Mar 21, 11:27 am, Scott Thornton scott.thorn...@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au wrote: Is thewww.fullasagoog.comwebsite still working? The last post I have is from 6 days ago entitled - cf.Objective() 2011 - Call for Pecha Kucha Speakers and BoF Survey Now

[cfaussie] 3 weeks to webdu

2011-03-17 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, Three weeks to webdu 2011 :) And as CF is my least hated favourite back-end technology on earth, hopefully we can help folks get there. Special CF User Group discount of $795!! Use this top secret booking code when registering: CFEWBDU2011 Or try your luck at our Twitter comp:

[cfaussie] Re: Melbourne Cold Fusion User Group and Melbourne Flex User Group are merging. No meeting this month. New group = MAD, Melbourne Adobe Developers.

2011-03-17 Thread Geoff Bowers
The new group will be called MAD, Melbourne Adobe Developers. I like it :) -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ skype. gb.daemon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups cfaussie group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To

[cfaussie] Re: 3 weeks to webdu

2011-03-17 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Mar 18, 2:38 pm, Geoff Bowers mod...@gmail.com wrote: Special CF User Group discount of $795!! Use this top secret booking code when registering:   CFEWBDU2011 Um.. that should have been: CFWEBDU2011 -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ skype. gb.daemon PS. thanks Dmitry! -- You

[cfaussie] Re: CFObjective ANZ

2010-08-09 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Aug 4, 5:16 pm, Gavin Baumanis beauecli...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone here planning on going to any of the pre-conference workshops? Without meaning to take numbers from the awesome workshops planned, I was thinking of organising another FarCry Devday at Melbourne Uni the day before -- a free,

[cfaussie] Least hated favourite J2EE Server for CF

2010-06-29 Thread Geoff Bowers
Given that Tomcat 7 is out, has got me wondering what would be the better platform for CF deployments. What's your least hated favourite server for running CF? -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups cfaussie group. To

[cfaussie] Re: Parsley Revisited

2010-04-15 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Apr 15, 2:46 pm, Chris Velevitch chris.velevi...@gmail.com wrote: For those of you attended the meeting on Parsley, Michael Plank (the presenter on that night), will be in Sydney for WebDU. Worth noting Michael is running an awesome workshop on building in Parsley (the Flex framework not the

[cfaussie] Re: Thanks for emailing me

2010-01-10 Thread Geoff Bowers
Everyone will be delighted I'm sure that cas...@bluerocksoftware.com has now been set to NO EMAIL ;) -- geoff List Mum On Jan 11, 6:02 pm, cas...@bluerocksoftware.com wrote: Thanks for your email.  I am on a family camp this week. I will be returning on Monday 18th January, 2010 and will

[cfaussie] FarCry DevCamp is upon us (Wed, Melb)

2009-11-05 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Oct 9, 1:07 am, modius mod...@gmail.com wrote: Overview Daemon is running a one day developer camp for FarCry solution developers in Melbourne on the 11 November 2009 (to coincide with the cf.objective() developers conference on 12-13 November 2009).

[cfaussie] ColdFusion Week 10-13 November!

2009-10-20 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, Looks like 10-13 November 2009 is shaping up to be a week of ColdFusion in Australia. 10-Nov (Sydney): Rumour and speculation only at this time, but its possible we might have the FORTA and Terry in town for a gab-fest at the Adobe Offices in North Sydney (more info as I hear it) 11-Nov

[cfaussie] FarCry DevCamp, Melbourne 11-Nov-09

2009-10-08 Thread Geoff Bowers
Daemon is running a one day developer camp for FarCry solution developers in Melbourne on the 11 November 2009 (to coincide with the cf.objective() developers conference on 12-13 November 2009). Learn more: http://farcrydevcamp.eventbrite.com/ -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/

[cfaussie] CF9 Centaur Public Beta Announced

2009-07-12 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, Looks like the Centaur and Bolt public betas are live: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion9/ http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusionbuilder/ Enjoy! -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[cfaussie] Mike Brunt (cfwhisperer) is in town (26-May)

2009-05-24 Thread Geoff Bowers
What a busy week that was, Boston, Minneapolis, Sydney, Brisbane and now, once again Sydney. As a point of note I will be holding a traveling BOF at the Crowne Plaza, in Darling Harbor Sydney tomorrow night (May 26, 2009). I aim to be in the bar at around 7:00PM for anyone interested in talking

[cfaussie] webdu: options for folks stuck for a ticket

2009-04-27 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, webDU is fast approaching -- only three weeks! 21-22 May (with workshops on 20-May). Register for tickets online (tickets go up after 11-May): http://www.webdu.com.au/registration If you've been hankering to go, and Rudd's stimuli are not enough, there are few options: (a) go to the

[cfaussie] Workshop: Getting to Grips with Railo

2009-03-30 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, Not sure how much interest there is locally in Railo and general alternatives to Adobe ColdFusion. However, Gert Franz (the guy behind Railo) is in town in May speaking at the webDU conference. We're running a workshop to help him off set costs and spread the message of ColdFusion open

[cfaussie] webDU 2009 Early Bird Prices extended till 7-March-2009

2009-03-02 Thread Geoff Bowers
A quick note to say that the webDU Early Bird offer has been extended until the 7th of March. Save hundreds of dollars on conference tickets but only for a short time: http://www.webdu.com.au/registration Not a bad line up for ColdFusion specific topics this year, not to mention all the other

[cfaussie] Re: cold fusion developer looking for a job

2009-02-02 Thread Geoff Bowers
Hate to be a pain, but can we please direct all job related postings to cfjob: http://groups.google.com/group/cfjobs geoff http://lists.daemon.com.au/ List Admin On Feb 3, 12:13 pm, jeeti jeet...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello all, My name is sarbjeet singh(jeeti).I am an experienced cold fusion

[cfaussie] Re: cold fusion developer looking for a job

2009-02-02 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Feb 3, 2:00 pm, Dale Fraser d...@fraser.id.au wrote: I personally think that both lists are too small to be separate, cfaussie hardly gets any traffic, and cfjobs is almost silent. Perhaps the only thing worse than little or no traffic on CFAUSSIE is what little traffic we have being

[cfaussie] webdu agenda: community brainstorming

2008-10-21 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, It's coming round to the webdu call for papers again. This year I was thinking of trying something a little experimental -- using direct community feedback to help build the agenda. I don't know if its going to work at all, so I was hoping friendly CFAUSSIEs might take a look and see if

[cfaussie] Re: webdu agenda: community brainstorming

2008-10-21 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Oct 21, 5:33 pm, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a trick or FYI when doing so: signup and login first before submitting a suggestion. Otherwise it says it's created by anonymous. oops. Good point. Maybe I should prohibit anonymous access? Thanks for giving it a whirl :) geoff

[cfaussie] Re: webdu agenda: community brainstorming

2008-10-21 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Oct 22, 12:57 pm, Mark Mandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Added all my presentations. Very interesting approach :D Well consider it a thought experiment at this stage :) If it seems to be working well, we'll promote the site properly across all the previous attendees, and the community at

[cfaussie] Re: FWD: Sydney LiveCycle Developer position (also separate CF position)

2008-09-20 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Sep 19, 12:21 pm, Chris Velevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently resourcing for an Adobe Livecycle developer for one of my clients and would be keen to have a chat and see whether you would be interested, or whether you know someone who might be. Please refrain from posting jobs

[cfaussie] Re: Help selling CF as a solution vs. PHP

2008-09-17 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Sep 17, 8:36 pm, Rob Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a major discount for 52 copies of Coldfusion enterprise? Massive. If this is an application you are selling to multiple clients you could absolutely get an OEM deal with this sort of volume (ie. unlimited licenses for a set

[cfaussie] webJam8: Sydney, September 25th, 2008

2008-09-11 Thread Geoff Bowers
webJam8 Bar Broadway, Doors open 7:30pm Sydney, September 25th, 2008 http://webjam.com.au/webjam8 Our first Webjam in 12 months is going to be the biggest ever! Get your proposals and RSVPs in now or miss out! 18 presenters with 3 minutes each to show off their hot web

[cfaussie] Re: throughput and simultaneous requests

2008-09-05 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Sep 5, 1:09 pm, Mark Ireland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to chart throughput against simultaneous requests. Can someone please give me a definitions for throughput and simultaneous requests. Can you define what you are trying to measure? Both of these definitions will change with

[cfaussie] Re: I hereby resign :)

2008-08-18 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Aug 18, 6:45 pm: Allow me to retort to one and all, in a final response and last response I'll make on CFAussie (yes,  you've succeed in running this .NET git out of town, horse and all). Please be advised i have removed this post from the forum archive. It's a dummy spit I suspect the

[cfaussie] Re: Taming the Code (July Meeting)

2008-07-09 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Jul 8, 11:04 pm, Chris Velevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meet on Monday, 28th July at 6pm for 6:30 start Geoff Bowers, CEO and application architect for Daemon Internet Consultants. Please RSVP onhttp://apugs2008july.eventbrite.comif you want to get food and drink provided courtesy

[cfaussie] eseminar: introduction to cf components (today!)

2008-06-26 Thread Geoff Bowers
Introduction to Adobe® ColdFusion® Components --- Join us for an introduction to creating ColdFusion components. During this essential eSeminar you'll learn basic ColdFusion syntax, find out how to invoke static ColdFusion methods, and discover where to use

[cfaussie] Re: WebDU twitter group?

2008-06-10 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Jun 10, 3:28 pm, Mark Mandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a thought i had while sitting here, waiting for the plane to Sydney. Anyone interested in setting up a twitter group for WebDU? Or is that something noone cases about? How does the whole twitter group thing work? I think there is

[cfaussie] 2 free webdu tickets to give away

2008-06-10 Thread Geoff Bowers
OK.. am totally hair on fire at the moment so I'll be brief. We have a couple of last minute webDU tickets to give away. These are full conference tickets (including the special event night) -- and we'd like to see if we can get them to a good home. If you've been struggling to sort out a

[cfaussie] 2pm Friday: Scaling ColdFusion Applications

2008-06-05 Thread Geoff Bowers
Just a quick heads up -- don't forget the Scaling ColdFusion Applications eSeminar today after lunch!! When: Friday 6 June, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Time Zone: (GMT+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney To join the meeting: http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/developer/ All the best, -- geoff

[cfaussie] Re: webdu trading cards

2008-05-30 Thread Geoff Bowers
On May 30, 7:59 am, Rae Buerckner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a CF Sorceress card :P You never know here's another card: Mischievous Minion http://www.buntel.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/5/29/famous-in-a-geeky-social-engineering-kind-of-way -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/

[cfaussie] Re: verity quirks

2008-05-30 Thread Geoff Bowers
On May 30, 2:17 pm, Steve Onnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a process of indexing pdf documents and searching but it is driving me mental For example, I have a document that has Victoria in it. If I search vic I get a result but if I search for victoria I get nothing. Even if I search

[cfaussie] webdu trading cards

2008-05-29 Thread Geoff Bowers
All you have to do is submit a hand of our incredibly collectable trading cards to the friendly conference staff, and if it's one of the highest scoring hands, you could be in for a share of the goodies http://blog.daemon.com.au/go/blog-post/the-webdu-trading-card-game It's a novel concept that

[cfaussie] Re: Connect To Remote CF Server Admin API from AIR Application

2008-05-20 Thread Geoff Bowers
On May 20, 1:13 pm, Owen West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hoping somebody can help me out. We have several clustered CF8 instances here at work and I want to develop an AIR application whereby our developers can connect to a CF Cluster name from the AIR app, enter CF DSN details, Mappings,

[cfaussie] Google Maps API

2008-05-20 Thread Geoff Bowers
Love Google Maps. Been a fair bit of action in the old Google Maps API arena. Updated libraries coming out for the standard JS, based library, and a brand spanking new Flash API. It's hot. Very excited (read got to tell someone ;) to say we've finally (tonight) wrangled Google speakers into

[cfaussie] webdu networking event

2008-05-15 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, We've gone overboard on the networking event at the webdu conference this year. We wanted everyone to be included rather than only those that could justify the banquet. This year we're booking out the entire Kingpin Bowling Lanes, Pool Hall and Laser Skirmish at Darling Harbour for

[cfaussie] Re: Tonight: Setting Fire To Your Community (Mon 28th April)

2008-04-28 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Apr 28, 12:31 am, Chris Velevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the advent of a number of open source initiatives from Adobe, Geoff Bowers of Daemon will speak on: A tale of Japanese mummies, karmic balance and benevolent dictators. Your guide to putting a torch to your open source

[cfaussie] Re: My Yearly WebDU Rant

2008-04-23 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Apr 23, 8:37 pm, M@ Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is a great show the one i went to, looking forward to my next one whenever that will be, be sure to go to the dinner, most networking is done then IMO, its only about $100 more ya don't want to miss it, its great value. Please note the

[cfaussie] Re: recruters say CF on the way out? ... FFS! not FUD from them too?

2008-04-14 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Apr 9, 9:46 pm, CyberAngel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that Geoff, Mark and a few others are always doing presentations on Coldfusion related products. In recent years I've been talking about: Taming the Code (and other code management topics) Taming the Client (and other client

[cfaussie] Re: frustrated CF newbie

2008-04-14 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Apr 14, 5:11 pm, nedlud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only common factor I can find is that it seems to happen about every 100 - 110 seconds (a little less than every 2 minutes). The session variables are set to time out in 20 minutes, so I don't think they are causing the problem. What

[cfaussie] Re: frustrated CF newbie

2008-04-14 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Apr 15, 12:03 pm, nedlud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading the Macromedia book on CFmx, the chapter on performance says that enabling Trusted Cache on production can make it faster. The sys admin is saying that this cahce only stores compiled class files. I had assumed the cahce was for

[cfaussie] FarCry 5.0 Exclusive: 2pm Friday (Sydney Time)

2008-04-02 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, I'm doing an Adobe eSeminar on ColdFusion tomorrow (Friday) after lunch. Developer eSeminars Using FarCry with ColdFusion Friday 4 Apr 2008 - 14:00 - 15:00 Online eSeminar http://events.adobe.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi?country=paeventid=6503venueid=6855 FarCry 5.0 is about to be

[cfaussie] BarCamp Sydney This Weekend

2008-04-01 Thread Geoff Bowers
BarCampSydney 3 is upon us! Next weekend (yes a full weekend!), Sydney's (and beyond) tech brains, marketing gurus, entrepreneurial thought leaders, and plain old geeks, will gather again to exchange experiences and new ideas. We've got great sponsors, and a great new location, UNSW's The

[cfaussie] Re: BarCamp Sydney This Weekend

2008-04-01 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Apr 2, 10:45 am, Geoff Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BarCampSydney 3 is upon us! Next weekend (yes a full weekend!), Sydney's (and beyond) tech brains, marketing gurus, entrepreneurial thought leaders, and plain old geeks, will gather again to exchange experiences and new ideas. We've

[cfaussie] Re: programmer etiquette and writing good CF code

2008-03-25 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Mar 19, 1:02 pm, barry.b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: see, that's my point - dodgy practices that slow development down, especially if you're tasked to come in later and finish the pile of rubbish. there should be no reason that people write bad** code, there's enough code out there for

[cfaussie] ColdFusion: Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-03-06 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, Daemon is throwing it's hat in the ring for this years, Google Summer of Code [1], in an attempt to get the FarCry code base onto the program. It would be a first for ColdFusion, and with any luck we might get some great projects off the ground. More information here:

[cfaussie] webDU Facebook Group!

2008-03-06 Thread Geoff Bowers
We would also like to invite you Facebookers to join the new webDU group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8086709730. Emo haircuts are welcome but not required. If you are interested in finding out who is going and don't have a contact list the size of Corey Delaney's, then this is the

[cfaussie] Re: Simultaneous editing in CFEclipse

2008-02-24 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Feb 25, 4:30 pm, kazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use CFEclipse for development at work. Me and my manager would like to work on the same file at the same time from our respective work stations. I am trying to find a plugin for Eclipse to accomplish it. I have found one called Composent

[cfaussie] Re: Adobe CF8 licensing for VPS

2008-02-17 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Feb 16, 5:43 pm, Guennadi M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see there are a few companies out there offering VPS with ColdFusion 8 Std license. Could someone [close to Adobe] clarify how the licensing works for hosting companies? My understanding was that there was a major change in licensing

[cfaussie] Re: Subversion and Eclipse

2008-02-10 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Feb 7, 4:34 pm, Chris Velevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently switched from CVS to Subversion and I've chosen to use Subversive (which is now an Eclipse project). I've just come across an article on Merging by Geoff Bowers (http://blog.daemon.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=8BD6FDD8

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion IM gateways quick question

2008-02-08 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Feb 6, 2:58 pm, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and see what people were using for the XMPP server (Jive seems to have been replaced with Openfire 3.4.4 - previously WildFire) Openfire is a great product... its just a grown up version of Jive/ WildFire. But that said, we typically

[cfaussie] Re: clustering, multiple instances and application design

2008-02-06 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Feb 7, 3:15 pm, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in our business, we do partnership deals with other organisations who we license resources to and then finalise their output on their behalf on our IT systems. we're looking at providing the tools for our partners to logon and use to

[cfaussie] Re: Conference program

2008-01-15 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Jan 15, 6:10 pm, Ryan Sabir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a look at the WebDU Agenda at a glance, but that is more structured than ours will be. Every events starts and finishes at the same time. We recently finished SelecTV's TV Guide: http://www.selectv.com/ If you are going with

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Hosts file in MAC OSX

2008-01-15 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Jan 15, 2:54 pm, Steve Onnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me where the equivalent of the windows Hosts file is on a MAC? I want to to some host mappings on a dev mac i have If you are on Leopard the old way of updating hosts was kind of nerfed. I find the easiest way of

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Hosts file in MAC OSX

2008-01-15 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Jan 15, 9:07 pm, Geoff Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me where the equivalent of the windows Hosts file is on a MAC? I want to to some host mappings on a dev mac i have If you are on Leopard the old way of updating hosts was kind of nerfed. I find the easiest way

[cfaussie] Re: should DateFormat() be depricated (in favour ofLSDateFormat())?

2008-01-12 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Jan 10, 8:00 am, Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually Date Masking worked a treat in C+/C++ Date masking is not i18n. (let me guess you are changing the subject *again*) And as thats all the function does Geoff, I am amazed you took the time to even try to debate it. Once

[cfaussie] Re: should DateFormat() be depricated (in favour ofLSDateFormat())?

2008-01-09 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Jan 9, 6:41 pm, Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still trying to confirm this 100%, but so far I have looked at the code and found that the code is in fact identical in both DateFormat() LSDateFormat(). The only difference that I can see is that LSDateFormat has a wrapper to the

[cfaussie] Re: CFAUSSIE Crap

2008-01-02 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Jan 2, 12:43 pm, Chris Velevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible for the list owner to delete these posts and to ban the users. It' also possible for the list owner to set the list so that new memberships are moderated. As a general note to everyone on this topic. The list owner

[cfaussie] Re: Derby Embeded Database (CF8) and Eclipse/FlexBuilder

2007-12-10 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Dec 11, 11:17 am, Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can't be serious can you... In a real world example when pagination is needed, and the data is constantly changing it is not a good idea to cache the data and do a QoQ on the cached data. But then you knew that right? So if I

[cfaussie] Re: Derby Embeded Database (CF8) and Eclipse/FlexBuilder

2007-12-07 Thread Geoff Bowers
On Dec 6, 1:22 am, Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for Geoff, I bawk at anyone who says to cache the query and do a QoQ on that query. It might be a quick fix for now, but in the long run it is not a quick fix and should be refactored to be the best solution as quickly as possible.

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