>For those who feel I'm a trader to CF, I like to reserve CF Server and it's
>scheduled tasks for the critical web apps, not for what I consider to be
>internal housekeeping.
Hey, making a reasonable suggestion doesn't make you a traitor by any
stretch of the imagination. It's important to know which tool to use for a
given job; in the case Mr. Dinsmore mentioned, CF might not be the right
tool.
On the other hand, I've discovered that you can use CF for some
obnoxious/cool automated projects, too...like screen-scraping 5 years' worth
of hourly weather data for every reporting station in a four-state area from
NOAA's website. (scrape a screen, increment the date, use a javascript
timer to submit the form back to itself with the new values....etc. etc.
etc...)
To paraphrase something I read elsewhere: It's all about choosing the proper
wrench to pound in the correct screw.
Brandon Whitaker
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