Re: [cfaussie] CEBit

2010-05-26 Thread Sean Corfield
CeBIT Europe was a couple of months ago and CFML was represented there by Railo. Sorry we couldn't also fly the flag at the Sydney event :( On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:03 AM, nomadic fish nomadicf...@gmail.com wrote: (changing the subject, cos i am) Darling Harbour, mon-wed this week heaps of

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-26 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Mark Mandel mark.man...@gmail.com wrote: I'm surprised Railo hasn't appointed a rep out here romancing universities in AU/NZ to get it rolling also. I was actually quite surprised Railo didn't push heavily into the ANZ region when they first started.

Re: [cfaussie] Just spotted on Railo google groups... Amazon S3 plugin for Railo now free!

2010-05-27 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:21 AM, KC Kuok kck...@gmail.com wrote: http://groups.google.com.au/group/railo/browse_thread/thread/3be511e9635d943b Our basic position on features is that if it's part of Adobe ColdFusion Standard edition, we won't charge for it. With the recent announcements from

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-27 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Andrew Myers am2...@gmail.com wrote: Not saying it applies in this case, I think there is a belief that if developers for a particular technology are scarce they cost more, if they're plentiful they cost less (in theory).  .NET has appealed to some I've worked

Re: [cfaussie] Just spotted on Railo google groups... Amazon S3 plugin for Railo now free!

2010-05-27 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Chris Velevitch chris.velevi...@gmail.com wrote: When you talk about HSQL, is in http://hsqldb.org/ or HQL as in the Hiberate Query Language? Sorry, that was a typo and I meant HQL - Hibernate Query Language - the ability to write HQL inside cfquery and get back

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-28 Thread Sean Corfield
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:57 AM, M@ Bourke m.electronic.at.sym...@gmail.com wrote: this is where companies like Railo are starting to leave CF behind, you actually speak to the developers of the product and they'll tell you oh thats good we'll look at implementing that in one of the next

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-28 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Andrew Myers am2...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with what you say about us being the ones in the trenches.  Like I said in an earlier post, I sometimes have to try and justify even within my organisation the use of CF, and it's not always easy - I would really

Re: [cfaussie] Frameworks and MVC

2010-06-02 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Steve Onnis st...@cfcentral.com.au wrote: we had a demo of FW/1 at our CFUG last week and even though yes it is stripped down regarding the framework itself, you still had the folder structure as in root - views - controller and so on, and just to get a

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Frameworks and MVC

2010-06-02 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Steve Onnis st...@cfcentral.com.au wrote: I want to be able to have a single file as the entry point, a proper index.cfm file that actually does something and then from there be able to handle my own calls to a controller that does what I need it to do. Well,

Re: [cfaussie] import DW sites to new windows install

2010-06-02 Thread Sean Corfield
DW lets you export sites - the definitions - to files that you can then copy across and import into the new install (in addition to copying the folders/files themselves). On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Carl Vanderpal carl.vander...@gmail.com wrote: Just trying to figure out how to get all my

Re: [cfaussie] Re: coldfusionmeetup.com

2010-06-08 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mark Mandel mark.man...@gmail.com wrote: From memory the snippet shortcuts were a bit more powerful than shortcuts, as you could tell them to do things multiple times So doing something like: gs*2 would run that snippet twice over. Not sure if that made it

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Odd date behaviour - CF9/SQLServer2005

2010-06-08 Thread Sean Corfield
What do the methods setTransDate() and getTransDate() look like? Is there a declared property behind them? If so, what does that look like? On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Mike Kear afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: I have found i can specifically set a date using numerical values rather than

Re: [cfaussie] The solution: Odd date behaviour - CF9/SQLServer2005

2010-06-09 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Mike Kear afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: It boiled down to a code generator that i've been using without any issues for a long time.  The setter and getter for any date fields was like the following: Storing dates as formatted strings is just asking for problems.

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Odd date behaviour - CF9/SQLServer2005

2010-06-09 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Mike Kear afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: This is generated by the Rooibos code written by P Farrell Just saw this so ignore my other post (about naming the guilty code generator). Thanx. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. --

Re: [cfaussie] Least hated favourite J2EE Server for CF

2010-06-30 Thread Sean Corfield
Yes, Tomcat 6 is certainly a very capable production-ready Servlet container. I've run Adobe ColdFusion on Tomcat and JBoss quite a bit over the years but you need a WAR deployment which I believe means Enterprise Edition for production (it's been a while since I checked that - can someone

Re: [cfaussie] Multi Language Sites

2010-08-10 Thread Sean Corfield
These need to be executed on every request (put in your Application.onRequestStart() for example): setEncoding( url, utf-8 ); setEncoding( form, utf-8 ); Make sure your DB connection is set to handle UTF-8. If you have any accented characters or such in your templates, make sure they have this:

Re: [cfaussie] Recursive function giving me 500 null error

2010-08-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Seona Bellamy seon...@gmail.com wrote:     cffunction name=downTree hint=Returns the details of everything needed to make an item access=public returntype=array output=no         cfargument name=aItems type=array required=no default=        ...                

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Security update: Hotfix available for ColdFusion

2010-08-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Andrew am2...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Guys.  I would have been unaware of this had it not been for the cfaussie list. Is there an official announcements list I can join? Yes, you can sign up for notifications from this page:

Re: [cfaussie] CF Contractor Rates

2010-09-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Steve Onnis st...@cfcentral.com.au wrote: depends on the length of the contract but usually ranges from 80-100 for someone decent Sounds a bit low to me so I'd be interested to hear the high end folks are seeing in Oz. I know a lot of people the in US who have

Re: [cfaussie] CF Contractor Rates

2010-09-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Steve Onnis st...@cfcentral.com.au wrote: Yeah $80 is low and when you are dealing with recruitment agencies you would be extremely hard pressed to get anything over $80-85 an hour around here. Ah, yes, they'd take quite a margin, I'm sure. Subcontracting

Re: [cfaussie] CF Contractor Rates

2010-09-14 Thread Sean Corfield
Thanx Kai. That's good insight. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Kai Koenig k...@koeni.de wrote: Sean, both Australia and New Zealand (the latter even more) are what I'd like to call low(er)-wage economies compared to Europe and the US (at least before the GFC, things might have changed as

Re: [cfaussie] CF Contractor Rates

2010-09-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Steve Onnis st...@cfcentral.com.au wrote: Seriously you can get a PHP developer for like $40-50 an hour...maybe even less. OK. Good to know there's the same differential in Oz as in the US - which makes it good to be a CF developer! -- Sean A Corfield -- (904)

Re: [cfaussie] Flash Builder with ColdFusion Builder Projects

2010-10-04 Thread Sean Corfield
Define working sets. Eclipse always shows all projects - unless you define working sets. On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Steve Onnis st...@cfcentral.com.au wrote: Is it possible to have ColdFusion Builder only display CF projects and for Flash Builder to only display FLEX projects?  It is

Re: [cfaussie] Reducing CF's Footprint.

2010-10-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Ricardo Russon ricardo.rus...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone done any work on reducing the footprint of CF? I could be flippant and say: use Railo - it has a much smaller memory footprint. Sorry, couldn't resist! :) Our Admin, Carl, has been doing some work on CF

Re: [cfaussie] OT : SQL TEXT type column

2010-10-14 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Steve Onnis st...@cfcentral.com.au wrote: How much can this column actually hold? Depends on which database you are referring to - and which version. 2.1 billion bytes is possible - I think for MS SQL Server? Oracle's CLOB could hold 4GB and that's increased in

Re: [cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion Builder Workspace Refreshing

2010-11-15 Thread Sean Corfield
Hmm, I've never seen this (and I have both Build Automatically and Refresh Automatically enabled - and use ColdFusion Builder pretty much 24x7x365). For me it only refreshes when I save a file. I can't imagine how or why it would run a build on every key stroke... On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:24 PM,

Re: [cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion Builder Workspace Refreshing

2010-11-15 Thread Sean Corfield
, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, I've never seen this (and I have both Build Automatically and Refresh Automatically enabled - and use ColdFusion Builder pretty much 24x7x365). For me it only refreshes when I save a file. I can't imagine how or why

Re: [cfaussie] Daily Rate

2011-03-16 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:15 PM, KNOTT, Brian brian.kn...@suncorp.com.au wrote: Guys what’s the current daily rate for an experienced CF developer.  Short term project. Just as a data point (since I'm sure US rates are different to AU rates), I know plenty of US CFers who are getting

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Brad Fleming brad...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone heard of, or had any success in, running ColdFusion in the cloud?  I've seen some old blog posts around 2008/2009 about CF9 being setup in a cloud environment on Amazon EC2 but haven't had much luck beyond that.

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Brad Fleming brad...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for that.  I was mainly looking for confirmation that it could be done as I couldn't seem to find much info on it (although I may not have been looking in the right places).  Do you know of a link that could give me

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Corfield
be that simple for a virtual server :-) Thanks for the advice. Cheers, Brad Fleming http://twitter.com/Captn_Brad http://cfugwa.com On 23/03/2011 8:17 AM, Sean Corfield wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Brad Fleming brad...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for that.  I was mainly looking

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Dale Fraser d...@fraser.id.au wrote: Just be aware that the application generally needs substantial changes to work in a cloud. That's not true. Standard applications can run in the cloud just fine. The database just needs to be on persistence storage (such as

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion in the Cloud

2011-03-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Zac Spitzer zac.spit...@gmail.com wrote: With EC2 you are also pretty much completely on your own support wise. It's liking having your own dedicated servers in a colo so, yes, in that respect you'll get no CF-specific support. Amazon is for people who know how

Re: [cfaussie] Coldfusion Builder 2 is now available to buy or try

2011-05-02 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Scott Thornton scott.thorn...@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au wrote: Do you guys actually use CF builder? Yup, I bought CFB1 on the day it was released. CFB2 is a huge improvement - faster, less memory and a lot more features. My local test site start page is

Re: [cfaussie] How to choose the right one : Design Patterns

2011-05-09 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Gavin Baumanis beauecli...@gmail.com wrote: How do I possibly know which design pattern to use for any specific problem? A design pattern includes forces and trade offs so several design patterns might apply to address a specific problem and which one you pick

Re: [cfaussie] How to choose the right one : Design Patterns

2011-05-09 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.com wrote: A design pattern includes forces and trade offs so several design patterns might apply to address a specific problem and which one you pick would depend on which trade offs you wanted to make. And it's also worth

Re: [cfaussie] Catching cfcomponent extends errors

2011-06-07 Thread Sean Corfield
This is a *compile-time* error so no code is executing at the time the compiler hits that error. It's why you cannot use per-application mappings here - it's the very first piece of code the compiler sees and until it has compiled it, there's no code to run - and therefore nothing executed that

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Catching cfcomponent extends errors

2011-06-09 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:13 AM, charlie arehart charlie_li...@carehart.org wrote: AJ, I think Kai and Mark may have been on the right track: with CFERROR (which would typically be setup at the application level, in application.cfm) or the onerror method of application.cfc, I'm pretty sure

Re: [cfaussie] Dynamic function calls

2011-06-09 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Steve Onnis st...@cfcentral.com.au wrote: I am trying to achieve this... (which i can do in other languages) Component[“get#VarName#”]() Though CF is throwing an error.  Is this possible at all or do i have to use Evaluate(“Component.get#VarName#()”) The CFML

Re: [cfaussie] CFbuilder2 thoughts?

2011-06-29 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Zac Spitzer zac.spit...@gmail.com wrote: How are people finding CFBuilder2? Rock solid. I have it open 24x7 and restart it maybe once every week or two (mostly because I'm doing other stuff that needs more memory, like running some big ass server VM for a test).

Re: [cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion 9 Server Memory Issues

2011-07-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Steve Onnis st...@cfcentral.com.au wrote: 32 Bit WIN2003 4GB ram, 1GB assigned to CF as thats all i can give it Yeah, on 32-bit Windows, 1.4GB is the most you can give it. I pretty much never run CF in production with less than a 2GB heap (usually 2GB min, 3GB

Re: [cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion 9 Server Memory Issues

2011-07-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Carl ca...@tassweb.com.au wrote: I notice Java 7 is due for release at end of July. With java 7 you get the released version of UseG1GC garbage collector - rather than experimental option in java 6. Yup. but I don't know how quickly (or even if) Adobe will

Re: [cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion 9 Server Memory Issues

2011-07-13 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Kai Koenig k...@koeni.de wrote: FWIW - tried the G1 collector on Java 6 (_16 release iirc) for a large deployment on Win64/CF 8 for a while and had regular fatal JVM crashes. I'm pretty sure it has improved in later versions, but everyone be aware, that the

Re: [cfaussie] Mac OSX Lion

2011-07-22 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Kai Koenig k...@koeni.de wrote: If you've got a critical piece of ANYTHING to get done, would one then really upgrade one's machine to a new OS as an early adopter on day 1 or 2? I'm stunned too. I _never_ upgrade on a .0 release (and I've been a huge Apple

Re: [cfaussie] Helms and Peters are back at it again...

2011-08-09 Thread Sean Corfield
I guess it says the same about me then :) Indeed, my iTunes had already downloaded the episode... I just hadn't checked new content for a few days. Glad they're back! On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Gavin Baumanis beauecli...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not sure what it exactly it says about me

Re: [cfaussie] Re: CF 8 or 9 licence cost question

2011-08-10 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Stephen M sgmul...@gmail.com wrote: I know this is probably ancient history for most of you, but are there any problems that I should be aware of (going from CF7 to CF9)? Can't answer that but... This is a MachII 1.5 app. - do I need to upgrade the MachII

Re: [cfaussie] Amazon EC2 hosting services viability

2011-09-08 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Steve Onnis st...@cfcentral.com.au wrote: I am running windows servers and based on the calculator at http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html is will cost between $450 and $500 per month per instance to host, plus an extra $50ish for data. Could you

Re: [cfaussie] Varscoping and CF9

2011-10-03 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Dave dave1...@gmail.com wrote: What are people who are doing this using for var scoping of code? Given that you can declare the var at the point of first use now, it's a lot easier to get it right: var n = arraylen(foo); for ( var i = 1; i = n; ++i ) { ... } for

Re: [cfaussie] ColdFusion Server and Builder Survey

2011-10-03 Thread Sean Corfield
At least that survey _includes_ ColdFusion Builder - the recent Adobe Customer Engagement survey did not list CFBuilder at all!!! On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Mark Mandel mark.man...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, don't ask me... :P Bloody ridiculous. Mark On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:44 AM,

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Varscoping and CF9

2011-10-03 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:22 PM, MrBuzzy mrbu...@gmail.com wrote: We use a custom tag, with a start and end tag. Might be hard to run a custom tag in cfscript... :) -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Varscoping and CF9

2011-10-03 Thread Sean Corfield
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Andrew Myers am2...@gmail.com wrote: Sean should be able to whip up some clojure code that does it in a flash :) Heh, one of the reasons I like Clojure is that it's thread safe by design since data is immutable by default and any mutability is managed thru STM

[cfaussie] Re: MAD! Melbourne Adobe Developers: Searn Corfield, Clojure. 21 Aug **TUESDAY**, 2012

2012-08-03 Thread Sean Corfield
, then back home! *Sean Corfield will present on using Clojure alongside CFML.* Looking forward to talking with you all - it's been far too long since I last visited Australia! - and I'm happy to take the talk in any direction you want on the night, and deep dive into stuff as the group wants. Sean

Re: [cfaussie] MAD! Melbourne Adobe Developers: Searn Corfield, Clojure. 21 Aug **TUESDAY**, 2012

2012-08-06 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Mark Mandel mark.man...@gmail.com wrote: Hey - if people from Clojure Melbourne want to come, what's the best way for them to RSVP? Pretty sure they'll need to (temporarily) join the MAD group and RSVP? I let James Sofra know. Similarly for the Sydney Clojure

Re: [cfaussie] MAD! Melbourne Adobe Developers: Searn Corfield, Clojure. 21 Aug **TUESDAY**, 2012

2012-08-29 Thread Sean Corfield
Glad folks enjoyed the preso - I'll be posting the PDF real soon now. I had a blast down under and hope to be back again soon-ish. For those keeping track, we did: * Sydney opera house, botanical gardens, hyde park, china town, taronga zoo, harbor, the rocks, manly / north head, aquarium,