Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Dinner
I honestly love all of it. Whatever the language, I have fun. That's the problem, as well.] *sigh* yeah. Freaking world we live in, neh? On 5/29/07, Loathe wrote: > I like C syntax languages. > > Javascript, C#, Java, CFScript and so on. > > Personal taste I guess. > > I wouldn't say it looks

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Yeah, I was going to give a programming course to some boy scouts using that same format. It hasn't panned out yet. On 5/29/07, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ohs. > It sounds coolies. > > Did You ever look at that link I posted a while back on the site that > teaches Ruby to kids? I was th

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Vivec
Ohs. It sounds coolies. Did You ever look at that link I posted a while back on the site that teaches Ruby to kids? I was thinking of going through those tutorials *grin* On 5/29/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off I've got to set things straight. Ruby is to CF as Rails

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
First off I've got to set things straight. Ruby is to CF as Rails is to Fusebox, Mach-II, Cold-spring, or whatever your framework choice is. As to Ruby vs CF, Ruby is more of a general purpose language that is easily extended to make a domain specific language. Rails, is a huge domain specific l

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
, C#, Java, CFScript and so on. > > Personal taste I guess. > > I wouldn't say it looks like javascript in the least though. > > -Original Message- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:57 PM > To: CF-Communi

RE: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Loathe
bject: Re: Scheduling iTunes hmmmI've always considered it more javascript-esque than anything else. Not a lot of useless stuff in there like all the generated vb code that you can't touch for fear of your app no longer working. now, vbscript, that's another animal, but consideri

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Vivec
Mm..not bad. So what do you think are the advantages vs CF if any? On 5/29/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're using the rails framework, it would look similar to this. ~| Create robust enterprise, web R

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
If you're using the rails framework, it would look similar to this. Model file: class Company < ActiveRecord end Controller File: class CompanyController < ApplicationController def show @company = Company.find(params[:id]) end end View File: Name<%= @company.name %> Address<%= @

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:30 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Scheduling iTunes > > just in case you're interested. I wrote a ruby script to start itunes > download the podcasts and close. I got my inspiration (read code > plagiarism) from a couple of differ

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Vivec
Mmm..actually it doesn't look too bad. I can actually make sense of it :) Is this the whole Ruby thing that can be used for web programming? How would it look to say read a record from a database and output it to a webpage? On 5/29/07, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ruby is pretty damned ugl

RE: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Loathe
Ruby is pretty damned ugly. Looks like VB. -Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:30 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Scheduling iTunes just in case you're interested. I wrote a ruby script to start itunes downloa

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
just in case you're interested. I wrote a ruby script to start itunes download the podcasts and close. I got my inspiration (read code plagiarism) from a couple of different sites doing it in a couple different languages. require 'win32ole' TIMEOUT = 120 #run for a total of 120 minutes before

RE: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Nick McClure
Yeah, in the windows world iTunes is a really poorly written application. > -Original Message- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:35 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Scheduling iTunes > > I'm not always

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
hI've never seen that option before. Thanks for pointing it out. On 5/29/07, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the task scheduler you can tell it to end the task after a certain amount > of time if it is still running > > > -Original Message- > > From: Zaphod Beeblebro

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'm not always completely coherent when I leave for work in the morning and will usually forget. I also record some hdtv on that same pc and when iTunes is running, it causes stuttering in the recording. iTunes on windows does seem to be a resource hog. None of my other programs seem to affect hd

RE: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Nick McClure
In the task scheduler you can tell it to end the task after a certain amount of time if it is still running > -Original Message- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:19 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Scheduling iTunes > > I use iTunes to do

Re: Scheduling iTunes

2007-05-29 Thread Jerry Johnson
Dont worry about the close. Just close it yourself when you get up. Not clean, but does it hurt anything to leave it open? On 5/29/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use iTunes to do all of my music management and podcast downloading. > It irritates me that I cannot schedule iT