Re: Hype 2.0
If you do not stay intellectually curious in the technology field, you have two choices: become a manger or watch the $$ value of your position fall or your job get off-shored. And frankly, I think way there are way too many managers out there who are simply technology people that have *given up* on learning. The reason there is hype around ajax and web 2.0 is not just so kids with blogs have something to rant about. First of all web 2.0 is not just about ajax. Its more about how you can use standards and principles learned over the past 10 years to design your products to allow a greater level of usefulness, interconnectedness, and relevance. IMHO Flex is not about pushing that vision at all. Flex is just Macromedia trying to leverage ColdFusion to promote the adoption of Flash as an application platform, essentially reducing the webbiness of the web by closing the standards discussion for web resources as usable, mungible things. Flash is, granted, slick as a multimedia platform, whereas dhtml+webpages have a ways to go to compete. But frankly, unless you're doing multimedia, there's really no reason to do websites in Flash. I *can't stand* having to wade through Macromedia's unusable Flash interface on THEIR website to find what I'm looking for when HTML would have done the job in a much better, faster, and more usable way. Anyways sorry to rant, but ever since Macromedia bought Allaire, the product has just stopped *evolving*. They seem to think that just because Java is underneath it now, they can leave CFML and CFScript alone. The fact is that neither Java nor ColdFusion are competitively *agile* platforms for web development anymore when compared to Ruby's Rails, Python's Django, or even PHP5's several stellar frameworks. Why is this? Because the *language features* (not the widgets) of Ruby, Python, and PHP5 promote and allow expressions which are not easily or efficiently expressible in ColdFusion. Unless you actually enjoy exploring these concepts you'll never actually realize what you're missing, and you will some day become a manager or your salary and your ability is going to plateau. I sincerely URGE my fellow CF developers to consider looking into all three languages as alternatives to CF and Java. I've been doing CF for more than 8 years and switched because technology has evolved and Macromedia does not seem interested in evolving with it. Java also does not support the language constructs of Ruby, Python, or PHP5 and is practically *less* agile than CF. In any case that's my opinion -- I'm not here to troll, I'm just trying to tell you from one human to another that CF rocked a few years ago, but the web is moving on and you're really doing yourselves and your families a disservice if you decide you don't need to move with it. --Brendan @ http://www.brendanbaldwin.com On 5/12/06, Ben Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I think it is way over-hyped... Or at least, it is not done well enough. Almost every time I see something very web2.0, it feels like it is not worht it. Here are requirements that I have for web2.0 to be good: 1. My back button (backspace on the keyboard) cannot act wrong as it does with some AJAX type deals. 2. If I start typing, FireFox should start searching the page (applcation preference) - This is not possible in flash 3. I can scroll the page with my space bar and shift+space bar 4. Not totally required... But I love to hit SHIFT+CLICK to launch a page in a new window, so I don't lose the current page... Not available in flash type pages. Basically, I love using my keyboard... Hate using the mouse, hurts my wrist... Anything that forces me to go to the mouse it a compromise for me, that is rarely worth it. My two cents. ... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -Original Message- From: Jon Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 3:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Hype 2.0 What do you cf developers think of this web 2.0 chatter in our industry? Do you feel like you need to use asynchronous JavaScript and other current widgets and services just to tell people that you are web 2.0 compliant? This seems like a silly buzzword ... do we need to embrace it to be considered to be competitive? This electronic message transmission contains information from Collegiate Funding Services, LLC or its subsidiaries or affiliates that may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of only the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail @cfsloans.com immediately and delete this e-mail and any attachments from your system and any copies you may have made, electronic or otherwise.
Smallest, coolest function I ever wrote: Struct()
Here's the actual function in cfscript:
function Struct() { return arguments; }
I posted about its use here:
http://www.brendanbaldwin.com/post/structfunction/
Basically though, it lets you do this:
customer=Struct(id=1,name=Brendan,occupation=Web-Lackey);
Which does the equivalent of:
customer=StructNew();
StructInsert(customer,id,1);
StructInsert(customer,name,Brendan);
StructInsert(customer,occupation,Web-Lackey);
Pass it on! :-)
--Brendan Baldwin
http://www.brendanbaldwin.com
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Re: Smallest, coolest function I ever wrote: Struct()
I think it should be a language feature.
Same thing happened with everybody writing a custom tag to do the same
thing they finally did with CFSAVECONTENT. Just feels too basic to
not be included in the core language somehow.
But it was fun to have the lightbulb go off in my head. I'd been
doing an iterative solution like that UDF in cflib for a couple months
and then it just kind of hit me how unnecessary that was!
Funny what a morning cup of coffee will do.
--Brendan
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On 1/4/06, Damien McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Brendan Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
function Struct() { return arguments; }
That's brilliant! :-D You need to get that in cflib!
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Re: Smallest, coolest function I ever wrote: Struct()
You know, what I'd REALLY like is for CFScript to adopt the JavaScript
convention of allowing the creation of Structs like:
person = {id=1,name=Brendan,occupation=Thumb-Twiddler};
Of course, they could throw in an Array constructor too:
people = [Brendan,Ray,Andy];
I can dream... or switch to Ruby ;-) ?
Come on Macromedia!!! Make my dreams come true!!!
--Brendan
http://www.brendanbaldwin.com
On 1/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a nice function Brendan. Good job.
andy
Here's the actual function in cfscript:
function Struct() { return arguments; }
I posted about its use here:
http://www.brendanbaldwin.com/post/structfunction/
Basically though, it lets you do this:
customer=Struct(id=1,name=Brendan,occupation=Web-Lackey);
Which does the equivalent of:
customer=StructNew();
StructInsert(customer,id,1);
StructInsert(customer,name,Brendan);
StructInsert(customer,occupation,Web-Lackey);
Pass it on! :-)
--Brendan Baldwin
http://www.brendanbaldwin.com
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Re: Smallest, coolest function I ever wrote: Struct()
Nice!
On 1/4/06, Baz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another nice one is:
QuerySetRow(Query=Users,Name='Foo',Password='Bar',Date=now(),RowNumber=2);
To replace:
querySetCell(Users,'Name','Foo',2);
querySetCell(Users,'Password','Bar',2);
querySetCell(Users,'Date',now(),2);
Baz
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From: Brendan Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: January 4, 2006 6:12 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Smallest, coolest function I ever wrote: Struct()
You know, what I'd REALLY like is for CFScript to adopt the JavaScript
convention of allowing the creation of Structs like:
person = {id=1,name=Brendan,occupation=Thumb-Twiddler};
Of course, they could throw in an Array constructor too:
people = [Brendan,Ray,Andy];
I can dream... or switch to Ruby ;-) ?
Come on Macromedia!!! Make my dreams come true!!!
--Brendan
http://www.brendanbaldwin.com
On 1/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's a nice function Brendan. Good job.
andy
Here's the actual function in cfscript:
function Struct() { return arguments; }
I posted about its use here:
http://www.brendanbaldwin.com/post/structfunction/
Basically though, it lets you do this:
customer=Struct(id=1,name=Brendan,occupation=Web-Lackey);
Which does the equivalent of:
customer=StructNew();
StructInsert(customer,id,1);
StructInsert(customer,name,Brendan);
StructInsert(customer,occupation,Web-Lackey);
Pass it on! :-)
--Brendan Baldwin
http://www.brendanbaldwin.com
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Re: QoQ Trouble for Column Names with Spaces
Incidentally -- House of Fusion is not letting me change my primary email address -- My actual email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] if anyone was writing me back. Also, I solved the problem, but in a workaround way-- Since I'm only trying to ORDER BY the columns in question I am using column ordinals instead of names, such as: SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY 3 The only trick there is to know the order of the columns in the result set from which you're querying -- this can not be derived from the COLUMNLIST property of the query object since it is always returned alphanumerically sorted-- fortunately I was able to view the original Oracle Function and saw the select statement-- then I just mapped the values and my sortable columnheaders form now works. What a pain though! --Brendan Baldwin :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 8/25/05, Brendan Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone -- I'm working for a client who has given me some Oracle stored procedures which return some fields that have SPACES in the columns returned. I want to apply sorting to the results, so I was going to use a CFQUERY DBTYPE=query and just ORDER BY selectively-- The problem is that I can't seem to reference column names that have spaces in them when doing a QoQ ! Anyone know how to reference column names with spaces in a QoQ? I've tried: SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY 'my column' SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY my column SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY [my column] SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY ['my column'] Any other Ideas? --Brendan ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:216384 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
QoQ Trouble for Column Names with Spaces
Hi everyone -- I'm working for a client who has given me some Oracle stored procedures which return some fields that have SPACES in the columns returned. I want to apply sorting to the results, so I was going to use a CFQUERY DBTYPE=query and just ORDER BY selectively-- The problem is that I can't seem to reference column names that have spaces in them when doing a QoQ ! Anyone know how to reference column names with spaces in a QoQ? I've tried: SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY 'my column' SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY my column SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY [my column] SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY ['my column'] Any other Ideas? --Brendan ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:216360 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: QoQ Trouble for Column Names with Spaces
I would love to do that, but the problem is I don't have an original query -- I retrieving the results from a CFSTOREDPROC and not CFQUERY. :-/ On 8/25/05, Ewok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give it an alias in your original query that doesn't have spaces. cfquery datasource=... Select my column as mycolumn -Original Message- From: Brendan Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: QoQ Trouble for Column Names with Spaces Hi everyone -- I'm working for a client who has given me some Oracle stored procedures which return some fields that have SPACES in the columns returned. I want to apply sorting to the results, so I was going to use a CFQUERY DBTYPE=query and just ORDER BY selectively-- The problem is that I can't seem to reference column names that have spaces in them when doing a QoQ ! Anyone know how to reference column names with spaces in a QoQ? I've tried: SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY 'my column' SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY my column SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY [my column] SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY ['my column'] Any other Ideas? --Brendan ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:216411 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: QoQ Trouble for Column Names with Spaces
Surprisingly this doesn't work with DBTYPE=query. And I'm even running CFMX7! On 8/25/05, Mike Klostermeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY [my column] Mike -Original Message- From: Ewok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: QoQ Trouble for Column Names with Spaces Give it an alias in your original query that doesn't have spaces. cfquery datasource=... Select my column as mycolumn -Original Message- From: Brendan Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: QoQ Trouble for Column Names with Spaces Hi everyone -- I'm working for a client who has given me some Oracle stored procedures which return some fields that have SPACES in the columns returned. I want to apply sorting to the results, so I was going to use a CFQUERY DBTYPE=query and just ORDER BY selectively-- The problem is that I can't seem to reference column names that have spaces in them when doing a QoQ ! Anyone know how to reference column names with spaces in a QoQ? I've tried: SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY 'my column' SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY my column SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY [my column] SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY ['my column'] Any other Ideas? --Brendan ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:216412 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: QoQ Trouble for Column Names with Spaces
If only :-) Query Of Queries syntax error. Encountered [. Incorrect Select List, Incorrect select column Sigh. The ORDER BY 3 syntax is working okay, its just a pain to maintain the mapping in the event the guy changes the order of columns in the SELECT statement. I'm considering hollering about the spaces... (it's a new client -- treading carefully...) --Brendan On 8/25/05, Mark A Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brendan, Does the select [my column] as NewColumn from queryname work? If so - you can do 2 queries of a query. First alias the offending column and second to order by. Not pretty - but I'd holler at the guy who wrote the SP if I were you :) -Mark -Original Message- From: Brendan Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:11 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: QoQ Trouble for Column Names with Spaces I would love to do that, but the problem is I don't have an original query -- I retrieving the results from a CFSTOREDPROC and not CFQUERY. :-/ On 8/25/05, Ewok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Give it an alias in your original query that doesn't have spaces. cfquery datasource=... Select my column as mycolumn -Original Message- From: Brendan Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: QoQ Trouble for Column Names with Spaces Hi everyone -- I'm working for a client who has given me some Oracle stored procedures which return some fields that have SPACES in the columns returned. I want to apply sorting to the results, so I was going to use a CFQUERY DBTYPE=query and just ORDER BY selectively-- The problem is that I can't seem to reference column names that have spaces in them when doing a QoQ ! Anyone know how to reference column names with spaces in a QoQ? I've tried: SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY 'my column' SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY my column SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY [my column] SELECT * FROM thetable ORDER BY ['my column'] Any other Ideas? --Brendan ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:216417 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
String Length Hard-Limit (NOT a RegEx question)
Does CF have a hard-limit on number of characters for string variables?Do form posts from textareas themselves have a hard-limit?We have a database column of type nText which is truncating well before the (2^30)-1 character limit and I suspect an internal CF limit may be the culprit. Thanks! Brendan [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: String Length Hard-Limit (NOT a RegEx question)
Well I did some testing and CF handled gigantor strings (20 million characters and more) without fail, even via form posts. but the sql insert truncated all inserted strings down to 64999 characters. I wonder if I could insert larger values using a stored procedure and query params? MS SQL documentation says that ntext columns can hold about a billion unicode characters a pop-- i just dont know how to pop them in there i didn't realize there were other limitations in the sql call itself.but at least i know the exact upperbound for vanilla sql now.i'll just throw on some client-side form validation to keep users from going over the 64999 character limit until i do some more reading on the subject... thanks for your help everybody!cf-talk is the best. --brendan Ah, after Dave said 65k, made me think, isn't the datasource long text buffer size 65000 bytes by default? Could this be your issue? -Original Message- From: Craig Dudley Sent: 07 April 2004 17:02 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: String Length Hard-Limit (NOT a RegEx question) I suppose another possible culprit would be the datasource, have you enabled clobs? just a thought. -Original Message- From: Brendan Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 April 2004 16:57 To: CF-Talk Subject: String Length Hard-Limit (NOT a RegEx question) Does CF have a hard-limit on number of characters for string variables? Do form posts from textareas themselves have a hard-limit?We have a database column of type nText which is truncating well before the (2^30)-1 character limit and I suspect an internal CF limit may be the culprit. Thanks! Brendan _ _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
