Thanks. I am the Queen of Dumb Questions - I guess that's why so many of
mine get no response.
JoAnn A. Schlosser
Senior Consultant
Association Management Software
Grant Thornton LLP
Washington, D. C.
703.837.4428
-----Original Message-----
From: Paris Lundis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 5:36 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Uses of CFContent??
yeah scary.
I have seen CFCONTENT used for protected pay type content... and for
other filetypes to be handled... nothing else very fun...
continue asking those questions...
[finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present]
[connecting people, places and things]
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:15:28 -0400
Subject: RE: Uses of CFContent??
> Kinda makes me afraid to ask about tags I have never used, even Ben
> Forta
> had to learn it somewhere. From reading things on this list, I know
> there
> are ways to do things that I have never done before. While I always
> use my
> books and colleagues first, I wonder if we are supposed to ask
> questions
> here if we don't already have the answers.
>
> JoAnn A. Schlosser
> Senior Consultant
> Association Management Software
> Grant Thornton LLP
> Washington, D. C.
> 703.837.4428
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 4:08 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Uses of CFContent??
>
>
> Amen, there's nothing wrong with asking a question just for the sake
> of
> knowing the answer.
>
> "Perhaps, but I think I'd be hard pressed to explain the proper use
> of a
> screwdriver to one who'd never seen or heard of a screw. Adeptness
> with a
> tool requires facing and understanding the challenges that the tool
> is
> designed to address."
>
> - Not exactly the case here - since the screw and the screwdriver
> would have
> obviously been designed at relatively the same time. Who would use a
> screw
> when there's nothing to drive it with? And technically, the screw its
> self
> is a tool as it is designed to solve a problem. Furthermore, I think
> the
> "screw" here is deploying web applications and he obviously does that
> -
> thereby knowing what the "screw" is and making this whole argument
> moot.
>
> When I discovered what CFContent was, I immediately had a use for it,
> alas,
> I'd been pounding nails with a board all too long when the hammer
> suddenly
> appeared.
>
> Why did Galileo want to know that the Earth revolved around the Sun?
> Did
> that solve a particular problem for him at the time? No, I think some
> people
> just enjoy the act of learning.
>
> Tell you what, I have a tag called <CFSOMETHING> as soon as you need
> it, you
> let me know and THEN you can find out what it does.
>
> Joshua Miller
> Web Development::Programming
> Eagle Technologies Group, Inc.
> www.eagletgi.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:49 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Uses of CFContent??
>
>
> I'll bet he's heard of PDFs and PowerPoints, Dave. I like it because
> I can
> put up a page without allowing someone to bookmark it.
>
> JoAnn A. Schlosser
> Senior Consultant
> Association Management Software
> Grant Thornton LLP
> Washington, D. C.
> 703.837.4428
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:38 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Uses of CFContent??
>
>
> > > > On an unrelated note, it strikes me as odd that you want
> > > > to use a tag for the sake of using a tag.
> > >
> > > I agree with Dave. you need "the right tool for the right
> > > job", not "the right job for the right tool"
> >
> > Sometimes it's not until we become adept at using a tool that
> > we discover that we had a need for it all along. Until we fully
> > understand all the uses for a tag, we might not know what can
> > be accomplished, and thus not know where it might help us with
> > our own projects.
>
> Perhaps, but I think I'd be hard pressed to explain the proper use of
> a
> screwdriver to one who'd never seen or heard of a screw. Adeptness
> with a
> tool requires facing and understanding the challenges that the tool
> is
> designed to address.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
>
>
>
>
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