[cfaussie] Re: Can you generate Word documents with CF without using COM?

2006-02-07 Thread Barry Beattie
Time for GarethE to espouse the brill iText library, methinks (hint, hint GarethI know you're reading this) Really dirty method (and limited): you can poke text holes in an RTF document - open MSWord and add text - save as RTF - open the RTF doc in notepad, searching for the text you

[cfaussie] Re: perplexing SQL Server database permissions problem

2006-02-19 Thread Barry Beattie
Kay, fogive the vagueness of this reply but I can't remember the exact search words in google to find *exactly* it. I've read about this but haven't experianced this issue myself... I think it comes down to what Paul was hinting at While this will create the necessary login IDs, what it will

[cfaussie] Re: CFC extends attribute

2006-02-20 Thread Barry Beattie
We use CFC's heavily in our application. Because they rock good to see, Jer..more power to you can I throw in a quick thought? if you're wanting to make extends dynamic, would you consider a mix-in approach where you're decorating the CFC with functionality of another, as opposed to straight

[cfaussie] Re: WebDu Who's going ?

2006-02-21 Thread Barry Beattie
it's all really tricky: if you put sydney and melbourne ppl on the same table, it'll start a punch up. if you seperate them to two tables you'll start an animal house style food fight. damned if you do and On 22/02/06, M@ Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be doing the banquet as

[cfaussie] Re: National Adobe UG Meeting

2006-02-21 Thread Barry Beattie
Robin, you really have missed your calling as the writer of copy and protagonist of prose get ye self to the Fairfax publishers and see if there's a sunday suppliment just waiting for your by-line... we're expecting a post-webDU report to rival The Man From Snowy River: There was movement at

[cfaussie] Re: WebDu Who's going ?

2006-02-21 Thread Barry Beattie
but a little company over here called Lockheed Martin BASTARD! couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Since he's such a good mate of mine, I'd be very grateful if you can show him and his wife some aussie hospitality and make sure they enjoy themselves. sounds like a chalenge to me.

[cfaussie] Re: WebDu Who's going ?

2006-02-21 Thread Barry Beattie
spike over here? -Original Message- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spike Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:46 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: WebDu Who's going ? On 2/21/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[cfaussie] Re: Postcode search

2006-02-22 Thread Barry Beattie
David, forgive me for being curious but what's the privacy implications involved? I realise it's not you but AP but still... quote the QAS tool allows us to check (at the time someone tries to submit an online form) that they are putting in a genuine address. If it is not a 'real' address as

[cfaussie] Re: [OT] Re: Commonwealth Games warps the space time continuum

2006-03-19 Thread Barry Beattie
don't worry, Uncle Pete's onto it. The best form of defence is attack and the plans to annex northern NSW is well under way - all the way down to Byron Bay (NewSouthWelshers don't know how to use sunshine so we'll relieve them of it - that's what the Currumbin bypass is all about: roll the tanks

[cfaussie] Re: Flex 2 Beta 2 and the Adobe Flex Developer Derby

2006-03-21 Thread Barry Beattie
EXCLUDING QUEBEC gee, and I thought it was only the English that were such Frank-a-phobes On 3/21/06, Brett Payne-Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reading OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES I figured that posting this to cfaussie was a bit of a waste of time... BUT, if

[cfaussie] Re: query of query error CF7

2006-03-29 Thread Barry Beattie
and if you take out the cfqueryparam, what happens? On 3/30/06, Gavin Cooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: simple stuff. here's a dump of it (until i fix the problem!) http://202.125.174.217/go/hsc/std-packs/ I put the xxs in the first row because if i don't i get a different error: 15090G

[cfaussie] Re: query of query error CF7

2006-03-29 Thread Barry Beattie
sorry, bit too obtuce... cfquery name=qFilteredSpList dbtype=query SELECT * FROM qSpList WHERE course_type = #filterCourseType# ORDER BY course_name /cfquery On 3/30/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and if you take out the cfqueryparam, what happens

[cfaussie] Re: query of query error CF7

2006-03-29 Thread Barry Beattie
(and to do with nulls) but for the life of me I can't remember exactly what On 3/30/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, bit too obtuce... cfquery name=qFilteredSpList dbtype=query SELECT * FROM qSpList WHERE course_type = #filterCourseType# ORDER

[cfaussie] Re: what's the 'proper way' to remove comma formatting from numbers

2006-04-06 Thread Barry Beattie
LSParseCurrency (yes, you don't have currency but it would work here too) gets rid of pound signs, euro, $, commas, etc and turns the number into a decimal to four places. ..IIRC HTH barry.b On 4/7/06, Adam Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kay, I like a regular expression for this

[cfaussie] Re: query function to delete a row from a query

2006-04-09 Thread Barry Beattie
is there anything wrong with doing a query to leave behind what you don't want? cfquery dbtype=query name=temp select * from origQofQ where not #condition# /cfquery cfset origQofQ = temp / On 4/6/06, Steve Onnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just my opinion, but that UDF is yuk. Imagine

[cfaussie] Re: query function to delete a row from a query

2006-04-09 Thread Barry Beattie
: that is what I went with before the deleteRow functions came in On 4/10/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anything wrong with doing a query to leave behind what you don't want? cfquery dbtype=query name=temp select * from origQofQ where not #condition# /cfquery cfset

[cfaussie] Re: Flex 2 Beta on the Mac?

2006-04-12 Thread Barry Beattie
aye, Chris, that *should* work what about CF connectivity and Flex Data Services? the only way a bunch of us here will be able to get anything out of this Beta is to work on it at home - on Macs. we've some way but the really important bits (CF conn, Flex data) any idea? On 4/12/06,

[cfaussie] Re: Flex 2 Beta on the Mac?

2006-04-12 Thread Barry Beattie
CF does work on the Mac aye, and a great thing too so all you need to do is get the connectivity files and install them (somehow). connectivity: we're thinking that it's just some Jar's, AS files and a CF setting or two in an xml file (hoping anyway) no shortage of windows boxes at work

[cfaussie] Re: Flex 2 Beta on the Mac?

2006-04-12 Thread Barry Beattie
for any Mac users out there reading this, the bottom line is that ChrisV is right: the *should* is correct. and Simeon Bateman (http://simb.net/blog/index.cfm) has the scars to prove it. FYI b On 4/12/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CF does work on the Mac aye, and a great

[cfaussie] Re: comparing two queries - which records are different

2006-04-19 Thread Barry Beattie
Andrew: Select field_1 , field_2 ... , field_17 from new_query where field_1 not in (select field_1 from old_query) AND (...the other 16 fields?) the uniqueness may not be confined to just one field/column. I think it's a unique row that's different OR (more likely) duplicate rows of the

[cfaussie] Re: Where have all the CF developers gone?

2006-05-04 Thread Barry Beattie
We're just seeing demand exceed supply at the moment - if you believe in market forces and regression to the mean this should sort itself out soon. how? like this?: lets not do this next project in ColdFusion - we can't get (and keep) enough CF developers and the number of CF projects drop

[cfaussie] Re: Where have all the CF developers gone?

2006-05-04 Thread Barry Beattie
at least there's some chat along these lines: The Coldfusion Podcast Episode 19 - Where is Coldfusion? http://www.coldfusionpodcast.com/node/52 (from about 5 minutes in) they make an interesting point about Adobe marketing to people (unlike Macromedia) - have a listen especially when you

[cfaussie] Re: Coldfusion Developer Melbourne

2006-05-07 Thread Barry Beattie
not necessarily .quote: src=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog50.html; The trick is that money is not everyone's number one motivator, in fact, it's not even the number one consideration for most people. I recommend a three-pronged approach to hiring people: 1. Make the

[cfaussie] Re: Coldfusion Developer Melbourne

2006-05-07 Thread Barry Beattie
Chris: I hope points 1 and 3 are tailored to the individual being hired. read the article. yes, it is subjective. one mans poision (or whatever)... Dale: can you elaborate on what your workplace does to achieve these three points. mate, not on a public list containing former (and

[cfaussie] Re: Where have all the CF developers gone?

2006-05-07 Thread Barry Beattie
cf on linux may be cheaper then .net on windoze especially when you consider total cost of ownership what with Microsoft Licencing. Check it out- it ain't cheap. they lock you in with (virtually) free dev tools (anyone still got their freebie VS2005? mine's unloved...) and then sting you with

[cfaussie] Re: Where have all the CF developers gone?

2006-05-08 Thread Barry Beattie
*nix TOC oops. I meant (unix-based) TCO (total Cost of ownership) ...I'm lysDexic On 5/8/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cf on linux may be cheaper then .net on windoze especially when you consider total cost of ownership what with Microsoft Licencing. Check it out- it ain't

[cfaussie] Re: Where have all the CF developers gone?

2006-05-08 Thread Barry Beattie
We need a language that is not only quick and easy to develop in, but also easy to debug and maintain long term. agreed! http://www.techfeed.net/blog/index.cfm/2006/3/28/PHP-Debugging-is-Better-Than-ColdFusion On 5/8/06, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sad, so sad. I have to

[cfaussie] Re: Where have all the CF developers gone?

2006-05-08 Thread Barry Beattie
I also think that break points are an extremely long shot. awww... Mark, that's mean! I can dream, can't I? at least your beanie isn't worried forbeing your next meal... BTW, they *have* been looking into debugging hooks, it's just not easy to implement at the moment. one of those

[cfaussie] Re: Where have all the CF developers gone?

2006-05-09 Thread Barry Beattie
all this cfscript talk... can I just have a step debugger...and breakpointsand watches pretty please? On 5/9/06, Gary Menzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn good suggestion. I had previously suggested the idea of having another CFSETTING attribute (something like lang) to set it as a

[cfaussie] Re: CF aptitude test

2006-05-14 Thread Barry Beattie
also, http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/business/hiring/hireemployees.xmlthese ppl have online exams to weed out the time wasters before they get to you although I don't know if their CF exam is any newer than 6.1more info:http://tech.badpen.com/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=25 On 5/15/06, Barry

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Anyone going to the Website CMS for GOVT Conf (Canberra)?

2006-05-14 Thread Barry Beattie
have you asked Peter Tilbrook? he might even put you up for the night... On 5/15/06, Scott Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone hitting this tommorow? http://www.marcusevans.com/events/CFEventinfo.asp?EventID=10852 -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com

[cfaussie] Re: CF/Flex Wizard

2006-05-16 Thread Barry Beattie
And the rule with those systems is never change the code, always change the model. I'm having a hard time imagining that scenario on my last project - too much micro-logic, scope creep and management who were *sure* they knew everything about agile development but anything that removes the

[cfaussie] Re: cfinclude and memory usage

2006-05-16 Thread Barry Beattie
My understanding is that an include is just the same as if the contents of the include had been typed at the location where the CFINCLUDE tag is. ! main file --- cfset x = 2 / assigned (before include):cfoutput#x#/cfoutputbr / cfinclude template=test_include.cfm / after include:

[cfaussie] Re: Online CFUG: FarCry overview and 3.1 sneak peak

2006-05-19 Thread Barry Beattie
Hopefully the timing is good for Antipodeans. bloody oath! the other 4:00AM presso's are just a bit tough now-a-days... On 5/19/06, Geoff Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, You might also be interested to know that I'm booked in to give a FarCry Overview presentation to Online CFUG:

[cfaussie] looking for CF event management software

2006-06-02 Thread Barry Beattie
Hi All project comming up think registration system for such events as WebDU where people can sign up to multiple sessions and have attendees lists and counts, etc. the core of such will be fine as a starter but it has to have the source available because it'll be extended over time with

[cfaussie] OT: looking for a copy of infomodeller

2006-06-05 Thread Barry Beattie
Hi All many ancient histories ago, I used to use a data modelling tool called infomodeller (from the theories of Terry Halpin and co). the tool was bought by Asymetrix then Microsoft, incorperated into Visio and then dropped. but it was not dead yeta free to download copy of the origional

[cfaussie] Re: OT: looking for a copy of infomodeller

2006-06-05 Thread Barry Beattie
thanx Chris, that's the beast... and here I was thinking you couldn't get blood out of a (Microsoft) stone cheers barry.b On 6/6/06, Chris Velevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=27489 On 6/6/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Virus protection software

2006-06-07 Thread Barry Beattie
have ppl seen what Microsoft are up to? http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19345228%5E15865%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html On 6/8/06, Joel Cass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering (this may sound a little dumb to some of you), how can I find out more information about Symantec's

[cfaussie] Re: in praise of ColdFusion (and an OT Java question)

2006-06-15 Thread Barry Beattie
/jstl sql.html And many other resources. /charlie -Original Message- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:41 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] in praise of ColdFusion (and an OT

[cfaussie] Re: ZeroOne and Adobe Australia/Pacific: Developer Community talks via Breeze

2006-06-15 Thread Barry Beattie
woo hoo! better than waiting up until 3:00 AM for US presso's... On 6/16/06, Kai Koenig ( ZeroOne ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, just slightly OT: ZeroOne in Wellington, NZ is hosting a series of community talks via Breeze for developers, interested users with technological

[cfaussie] Re: OT: what Eclipse DB plugin do you use (for SQLServer)?

2006-06-19 Thread Barry Beattie
got it working with Navision yet, only MySQL. That's probably my problem, not the software though. :) Tom On 6/19/06, Gareth Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: QuantumDB does work with SQLServer. Let me know if you want to know more? Cheers Gareth. Barry Beattie wrote

[cfaussie] Re: Tim Buntel back with Adobe!

2006-07-02 Thread Barry Beattie
why does the news of Tim Buntel returning to the ColdFusion Team at Adobe degenerate into yet another testosterone-driven pissing context on who'se used ColdFusion the longest? who cares? isn't the hear and now more important? while you guys were busy with dbml/cfml, et all, I was VB-scripting

[cfaussie] Re: OT: - .NET sucking the life out of me

2006-07-03 Thread Barry Beattie
Jer, I feel your pain. the pointy-hairs here are seriously thinking Java/JSP replacement**. thankfully the (one and only) ASP.NET app I was called in to work on will be the last (I like C# but I won't miss ASP.NET pages). and I just replied to a fellow TAFE teacher hitting hard times getting CF

[cfaussie] Re: OT: - .NET sucking the life out of me

2006-07-05 Thread Barry Beattie
if it promises smoother and more standardised web service development. Joel (and apologies to Jeremy for drifting further OT)... I realise you're talking about server issues with erbservices (not consuming them) but MS isn't without their webservice grief. it comes down to MS thinking they know

[cfaussie] Re: Reminder: 01/Adobe Breeze community talks: Flex 2, ColdFusion and Cairngorm: Wednesday July 12

2006-07-10 Thread Barry Beattie
umm, Kai, that's 10:00 *AM* (not PM), yes? 12:00:00 Noon Wednesday July 12, 2006 in NZ converts to 10:00:00 a.m. Wednesday July 12, 2006 in Australia/Brisbane http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc handy think to keep in mind: Eastern Aust time is 2 (or 3 with DST) earlier than NZ

[cfaussie] Re: Reminder: 01/Adobe Breeze community talks: Flex 2, ColdFusion and Cairngorm: Wednesday July 12

2006-07-11 Thread Barry Beattie
@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:19 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Reminder: 01/Adobe Breeze community talks: Flex 2, ColdFusion and Cairngorm: Wednesday July 12 umm, Kai, that's 10:00 *AM* (not PM), yes

[cfaussie] Re: Reminder: 01/Adobe Breeze community talks: Flex 2, ColdFusion and Cairngorm: Wednesday July 12

2006-07-11 Thread Barry Beattie
/ -Original Message- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Wednesday, 12 July 2006 10:24 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Reminder: 01/Adobe Breeze community talks: Flex 2, ColdFusion and Cairngorm: Wednesday July 12

[cfaussie] changed behavour: CF 6.1 to 7.0 - missing CGI (custom) variables - AAARRRGGGHHH!

2006-07-12 Thread Barry Beattie
hi all the biggest stumbling block in upgrading to CF7 is that some custom CGI variables set by IIS with an ISAPI filter go missing in CF7...but are fine in CF6.1 (and ASP.NET) the facts: 1) I'm testing away on 2 machines. both boxes have IIS (and exactly the same ISAPI filter), one has CF6.1

[cfaussie] Re: CFUG Next week

2006-07-12 Thread barry . beattie
Dale, funny you should mention that... you still awake wed eve? this is for thurs morn 8:30AM: === Your Organizer, Steven Erat, sent the following message to the members of The Online Coldfusion Meetup Group: Announcing a new event for The Online

[cfaussie] MORE.... [changed behavour: CF 6.1 to 7.0 - missing CGI (custom) variables]

2006-07-12 Thread Barry Beattie
that this is happening to? thanx barry.b On 7/12/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use the GetHttpRequestData() thanx Joel, I forgot that. I'll see if the vars are somewhere (perhaps not put in CGI scope with CF7) and just doing a cfdump will not necesarily show all the values available

[cfaussie] Re: SOT: Frameworks - cfsick

2006-07-12 Thread Barry Beattie
Hi Jeremy as you know, the last place of employ, we put together the cfdodgy framework which was dead simple and the guys are still using it (I think) lately I've been getting some runs on the board with Reactor (download the files and checkout this easy to use tuitorial:

[cfaussie] Re: MORE.... [changed behavour: CF 6.1 to 7.0 - missing CGI (custom) variables]

2006-07-13 Thread Barry Beattie
().headers.MYORG_FOO_BAR#, at least you'll be able to wrap it, and then return an empty sting if it doesn't exist. Sorry I can't be more helpful :( Mark On 7/13/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the thick plottens here: while CF7 is NOT getting the variables in CGI scope

[cfaussie] Re: Calling Page

2006-07-13 Thread Barry Beattie
Dale, are you really sure you want to tie your CFC up with whatever view runs the request? sure I don't know the full details but are you *really, really, REALY* sure that's what you want inside your CFC? forgive me for asking, I heard an alarm ringing... (the bells! the bells!) On 7/14/06,

[cfaussie] Re: SOT: CF Intranet System

2006-07-23 Thread Barry Beattie
using Farcry CMS. It's more than a CMS tho, but as far as content going up, approving it's kosher and having secured sections, it'll do it all. got MSWord forms? add a section for proforma for ppl to download, fill out and have languishing in various in-trays. alternatively, expand it with

[cfaussie] Re: CF to ASP programmer wanted

2006-07-25 Thread Barry Beattie
christophe that's not quite true both ASP and ASP.NET use SQL as a string in a command (you can throw the SQL string straight at a connection object without a command object being used). there's issues about single quotes and concatenation as well as parameters. cfqueryparam is heaven on a

[cfaussie] Re: CF to ASP programmer wanted

2006-07-26 Thread Barry Beattie
sigh! pleze don't start another pissing contest on who's used what language the longest. it's such a bore! I suggest if yiu're *really* interested go look it up on wikipedia. I think CF is a touch older than asp but since there was a really good interview with Jeremy Allaire covering this,

[cfaussie] Re: variables.instance

2006-07-27 Thread Barry Beattie
Can the CFC access all variables. Scope, ie ones from other pages / cfc's? unless it's been fixed reciently, it can access FORM and URL (and probably cookie) scopes too. I found out by accident that, if you've got an unscoped variable that doesn;t exist in variables or this scope, it'll walk

[cfaussie] Re: Rumour Mill

2006-08-01 Thread Barry Beattie
wow... ColdFusionShop or Premier CF or CFGoLive... On 8/2/06, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a hot rumour for you all. Adobe will release an all new all dancing Coldfusion IDE with lots of goodies, most noticeably an integrated debugger. I have no idea of timing,

[cfaussie] Re: Rumour Mill

2006-08-01 Thread Barry Beattie
nah, I get it the company makes it's $$$ on making it's IDE's. Look at 'em all. For print, web, video, animation why *should* it get on board with the O/S market? I'm sure Adobe would love to have a platform for all their designer/editing IDE's as plug-in's but, as a commercial

[cfaussie] Re: CF vs ...

2006-08-07 Thread Barry Beattie
ignore him, the guy's obviously trolling. a couple of glib statements to see who'll bite does not an informed discourse make... I'm actually feeling sorry for the .NET everything ppl**. eg: FlexDataServices is a J2EE app and will prob NEVER be ported over to the .NET runtime ** not

[cfaussie] Re: Another QLD CFUG date change, sorry!

2006-08-07 Thread Barry Beattie
my guess is that Darren's having trouble finding a big enough venue to fit everyone in. they've torn down Festival Hall so that really only leaves Suncorp stadium... On 8/8/06, Chad Renando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep going into September and I might be able to attend... Chad On

[cfaussie] Re: CF vs ...

2006-08-07 Thread Barry Beattie
's funny y' know I would have thought that RubyOnRails would have been the target of get out of CF and head to ... not the big lumbering mass that is ASP.NET (or Java/JSP for that matter) On 8/8/06, Chad Renando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I will say that you guys are not alone.

[cfaussie] Re: CF vs ...

2006-08-08 Thread Barry Beattie
y'know I worked there for nearly two years and still don't know why Alphabus chose CF. by rights they wouldn't have known what it meant, esp since it was CF5 at the time. their expertise was in a propriatary 4GL language for desktop-based client/server apps. I wonder what part of CF sold them?

[cfaussie] Re: SOT: Document Management System

2006-08-10 Thread Barry Beattie
don't forget you can use the humble CVS for versioning documents. you just can't do a merge on the binary file format. just a thought. On 8/11/06, David Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.fusiondox.com/ I meet the guy who wrote it @ CFUnited. It's pitched at enterprise, and I

[cfaussie] anyone else with grief: MS06-040 patch and CF (JRun)?

2006-08-13 Thread Barry Beattie
this (critical) MS patch killed our servers dead last week. After applying the MS06-040 patch rebooting, the service called ColdFusion Application Server service cannot be restarted. At this point, if the service stops for any reason, it cannot be restarted. Doing so will generate an error:

[cfaussie] Re: anyone else with grief: MS06-040 patch and CF (JRun)?

2006-08-13 Thread Barry Beattie
not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion., when stopping the service, but it started without any problems. Mark On 8/14/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this (critical) MS patch killed our servers dead last week. After applying the MS06-040 patch rebooting

[cfaussie] Re: CF vs ...

2006-08-17 Thread Barry Beattie
and I've heard of a large organisation eschewing their long history (and RAD benefits) of ColdFusion in favour of Java + JSP (replacing a 800kg sports car with a 102 tonne steam-engine) Scott, it's like your favourite movie one-linerlife is like a box o' chocolates... On 8/17/06,

[cfaussie] Re: CF Administrator - Whitespace Management

2006-08-18 Thread Barry Beattie
You should have a look at fusion reactor. Steve, don't do that! there may be ppl in Brisbane not too keen on what you'll find... ... but then again, that Informix driver was always the weakist link --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

[cfaussie] Re: XML close tag

2006-08-21 Thread Barry Beattie
please forgive me for saying, but does it matter, esp if you're using the inbuilt functionality to access the data? we used to write XML as strings and then do a final xmlParse. it continously changed our close tagsbut it never worried it... On 8/21/06, Andrew Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[cfaussie] Re: DHTML Data Grid

2006-08-21 Thread Barry Beattie
how about editable datagrids? for data entry (Excel-type functionality)? maybe with facilities of columns of listboxes for look-up data? On 8/21/06, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, We originally had that and found it to be buggy. It is also very slow to load compared

[cfaussie] Re: OT: cfug for flash people?

2006-08-21 Thread Barry Beattie
in fact, I think it's this comming wednesday. (Richard T-J...phone home paging, Richard T-J...) On 8/21/06, Gareth Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I'm aware, QMUG hold regular monthly usergroup meetings. http://www.qmug.net Cheers Gareth. On 8/21/06, Haikal Saadh

[cfaussie] someone was asking about Flash user groups? ( [QMUG] August 2006 Meeting)

2006-08-21 Thread Barry Beattie
for all you (Brisbane) ColdFusion programmers who's bosses have forced them over to the dark side ... (yes, I'm talking about you, Haikal...) -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Turner-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Aug 22, 2006 1:15 PM Subject: [QMUG] August 2006 Meeting To:

[cfaussie] Re: Web Service Stub Wierdness

2006-08-23 Thread Barry Beattie
ever since events were first introduced to CF, I always wanted an onServerStart hook. Application starts are one thing but it could have really been handy for our case can't the ColdFusion serverce fire these when it springs into life? just throwing this out therenothing more... On

[cfaussie] Re: Flex Group

2006-08-23 Thread Barry Beattie
main list? is there others? On 8/24/06, Bjorn Schultheiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flexcoders Mailing List is the main list FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Regards,

[cfaussie] Re: anyone else with grief: MS06-040 patch and CF (JRun)?

2006-08-24 Thread Barry Beattie
from what I can work out (and I'm not the sysadmin, just a concerned coder working with those servers), the patch has problems when JRUN requests large chunks of contiguous memory here's some info from our sysadmins I'm surprised this hasn't had a big red flag waiving in the CF world

[cfaussie] Re: Cold Fusion Tutor - hourly rate

2006-08-24 Thread Barry Beattie
Hi Pete . we were all cf noobs at one point. and boy! doesn't it bring back memories when you're moving into a new area (like Flex). some obserrvations: I reckon CFAussie is actually a bit quieter than when I first joined up (around RedSky - CF6.1 Beta) so in theory there's room for more

[cfaussie] Why buy into CF?

2006-08-29 Thread Barry Beattie
please forgive me if this comes across as trolling but I'm running out of ammo here in trying to keep the CF flag flying here's the question: Why Buy into CF? because of rapid development? - NOPE!: not compared against RubyOnRails, it seems. It's true against Java/JSP development or ASP.NET/C#

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-08-29 Thread Barry Beattie
an assessment. Regards, Bjorn Schultheiss Senior Flash Developer QDC Technologies -Original Message- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:10 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-08-29 Thread Barry Beattie
Senior Flash Developer QDC Technologies -Original Message- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:10 AM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Why buy into CF? please

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-08-29 Thread Barry Beattie
I still see RoR the same as ModleGlue. but that's just how the apps get written/what to produce. in other words, CF is *not* the final word in RAD. and it doesn't deal with how much it costs to get it out there, which are the valid points that Jeremy and Steve are discussing. and that's the

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-08-30 Thread Barry Beattie
but there is no particular magic about it - all the RoR things can be done in CF but Robin, the reverse of that is true too. - all the CF things can be done in RonR. Where's the product differentiation? and now, that includes remoting, which was one selling point I was using in flying the

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-08-30 Thread Barry Beattie
a company pay the extra dollars? Would the be correct? Mark On 8/31/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry, I was talking about the frameworks, not Ruby vs CFML - and I think there's been plenty of responses on this thread that include things CF can do that RoR cannot (esp

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-09-04 Thread Barry Beattie
aye and I've *heard* that Talent2 have some chunky modules to deilver for a large brisbane-based university _THAT_USED_TO_RUN_COLDFUSION_!!! somedays it feels like being a pixie about 2 inches high, jumping up and down waving arms everywhere shouting (at pixie volume) use coldfusion.. it's

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-09-04 Thread Barry Beattie
but there's plenty of available Java programmers and they didn't go there. number one feature I want for ColdFusion 8: [EMAIL PROTECTED] the features, I want decent, widespread marketing. More than just to the converted. Get over this hump (struggle getting consideration for contracts,

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-09-04 Thread Barry Beattie
well, Robin, I'll bow to your experiance and position in the industry and gladly accept the view that what's happening to Jeremy and I is mearly an aberation (caused by different circumstances). Others people's milage obviously vary to this. and if you're comfrortable with the current

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-09-07 Thread Barry Beattie
- maybe we'll be able to run ruby code in our CF applications at some point in the future? On 9/7/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/7/06, Mark Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OMG - another free software consipracy - quick get the DOJ onto it! Did you know Adobe

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Flash Lite

2006-09-10 Thread Barry Beattie
Jeremy, just so you know, (and if this is old news, at least it's a mention)... there's usergroup support for the flashlite platform here in Brisbane, mentored by Dale Rankine (hope it's still going strong) http://www.ozmadgroup.com/ On 9/11/06, cfgroupie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

[cfaussie] Querying across multiple databases

2006-09-12 Thread Barry Beattie
Hi all I think I remember a post on this before but I can't find it anywhere. the app I'm extending uses 2 databases (2 diff DSN's). I now need to pull in data from both into the same recordset. eg: SELECT SCHED.StartDateTime, SCHED.EndDateTime, SCHED.Quiz_ID, INST.AbsoluteSerialNum FROM

[cfaussie] Re: Querying across multiple databases

2006-09-12 Thread Barry Beattie
Thanx Rod well, bugger me, it worked! cfquery name=qry datasource=FOUREX SELECT SCHED.StartDateTime, SCHED.EndDateTime, SCHED.Quiz_ID, INST.AbsoluteSerialNum FROM evaluationsQuizDev.dbo.tbl_Quiz_Schedule AS SCHED INNER JOIN tbl_InstrumentReleased AS INST ON

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-09-13 Thread Barry Beattie
to tie these comments back to the thread title, I really hope that this is more than some lame thread-watching tool. I'm continually impressed with VisualStudio.NET's debugging. breakpoints, line-by-line code execution, watching variables - anywhere in the code - even being able to drill down

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-09-13 Thread Barry Beattie
just to be clear here - four points: Adobe CF (and BD for that matter) is a commercial product, not opensource. the CF marketshare is too small/fragile to leave support of the platform (tools) to outside sources... for a commercial product (why do I care? if the tools are inadequate, no one

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-09-13 Thread Barry Beattie
available. /charlie http://www.carehart.org/blog/ -Original Message- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 6:39 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF? to tie

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Web Skype Plugin

2006-09-14 Thread Barry Beattie
Andrew, when you say chat you mean audio, yes? I woulda thought it was more of a FMS type of thing On 9/14/06, Andrew Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale, You could build it with Flex Data Services Express, it's possible to use it to build chat apps - I've seen it in training and it's

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Web Skype Plugin

2006-09-14 Thread Barry Beattie
text. So they type into the website and we talk back via skype. Regards Dale Fraser http://dale.fraser.id.au -Original Message- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:57 PM To: cfaussie

[cfaussie] Re: Adobe Third Quarter Fiscal 2006 Earnings Conference Call: Breeze presentation

2006-09-17 Thread Barry Beattie
no? surely it's only a matter of time before Bruce Chizen mentions that CF product thingy... On 9/18/06, ACTCFUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not much on ColdFusion or Flex which is disappointing but... http://www.actcfug.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsViewNewsID=249

[cfaussie] Re: Multiple Level Inheritance

2006-09-18 Thread Barry Beattie
He's talking about a scenario where inheritence goes up more than one level. aye parent-child-grandchild The OO guy in me does ask tho - is this something that *has* to be done through inheritence, or can it be done throuhg composition? aye, aye. that be what I wuz drivin' at. shiver me

[cfaussie] getting the name of the calling method within another CFC

2006-09-25 Thread Barry Beattie
I think I've come across this before but I've gotten rusty and can't remember. if I have a method in Foo.cfc called GetBarByID() and in that I'm calling other CFC's cffunction name=GetBarByID()... cfset someVal = _helper.GetConverter().DoSomething(value) / (note: _helper.GetConverter()

[cfaussie] Re: getting the name of the calling method within another CFC

2006-09-25 Thread Barry Beattie
thanx Blair just have to play around with parent to get what I want. cheers b On 9/26/06, Blair McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/116-Finding-Template-Execution-Stack-in-ColdFusion.htm Blair On 9/26/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think

[cfaussie] Re: coldfusion class files

2006-09-27 Thread Barry Beattie
and secondly, if our business moves from CF to JSP, am I going to be able to salvage the existing CF applications easily? sorry to say, no hope. do you use an MVC pattern much? do you have the view done up as re-usable custom tags in a tag library? one of Robin Hilliard's pearls of wisdom

[cfaussie] REMINDER: CFUG QLD 6:30 pm, Tuesday, October 3 2006

2006-10-02 Thread Barry Beattie
Details: When : 6:30 pm, Tuesday, 3rd of October 2006 Where : ABN AMRO Morgans Limited Level 29, 123 Eagle Street (Riverside Centre) Brisbane CBD QLD 4000 Topics: ColdFusion: First Class Flex Citizen More details here: http://qld.cfug.org.au/ This month at CFUG QLD:

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