Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-25 Thread Chesty Puller
x27;t that many jobs available. Getting hired as a tech guy, you want to have as much exposure to everything as possible. - Matt - Original Message - From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:28 AM Subject: RE:

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-25 Thread Michael T. Tangorre
> From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > And you are a .Net programmer, that is one of the first > things learned when developing in the .Net language. Really? Even before you learn about data types, classes, etc? C'mon... ~~

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tony
ent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:34 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:25 AM > > > To: CF

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
ay, January 25, 2006 12:34 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:25 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Why is c

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:25 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion better. > > i know, but without fail it strikes a chord EVERY TIME! > and not just for one of us. wh

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
Tech Ego. People in IT hate to be wrong. > -Original Message- > From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:25 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion better. > > i know, but without fail it strikes a chord EVERY TIM

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
, 2006 10:22 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > Yes but by the time you investigate the best option for you, time wasted > and > then waste time trying to intergrate it into your application to find out > it > doesn't do what your looking for time

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tony
i know, but without fail it strikes a chord EVERY TIME! and not just for one of us. why does it strike so hard? tw On 1/24/06, Chesty Puller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know, big deal, who really gives a crap about what language you program > in? If you do CF, good for you. If you do .NET

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Chesty Puller
You know, big deal, who really gives a crap about what language you program in? If you do CF, good for you. If you do .NET, great for you. If you do Java, really great for you, you make the most money. I mean, this whole conversation is so 1999. - Matt ~~~

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
st. I don't even have access to a CF server anymore. > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:28 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > Well its like watching a directory vi

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Scott
y, 25 January 2006 11:01 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. http://www.fluentconsulting.com/components/Fluent.Toc/ Here is a free AOL gateway after a minute or two of searching. I also found MSN and google talk. What is filewatching? > -Original Message- > F

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Scott
ellow -- -Original Message- From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 11:04 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. OK, yeah, there are tons of stuff out there for that. ~| Me

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
OK, yeah, there are tons of stuff out there for that. > -Original Message- > From: Tim Heald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:57 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > No he's talking about MX 7 gatewa

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
Message- > From: Tim Heald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:48 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > So you can do PDF, rd and flash paper reports native in .Net? > > Database interactions? >

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
6 6:24 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > Not smtp. > > Gateways!! > > Like filewatching, IM's etc. > ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tim Heald
No he's talking about MX 7 gateway events. Like SMS and IM. > -Original Message- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:13 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > I'm not sure the a

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tim Heald
So you can do PDF, rd and flash paper reports native in .Net? Database interactions? Flash Remoting? All for free? > -Original Message- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:07 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is co

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Scott
Clure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:13 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. I'm not sure the amount of code is that different. With the .NET stuff I have done, a lot of it used far less code that comparable CF stuff. I guess my question is w

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
Original Message- > From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:10 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > I am talking about the amount of code needed to do the job. > > And API's like the

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Scott
-- -Original Message- From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:03 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. Well, that works if you are hosting the site in house. If I'm prov

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Scott
ellow -- -Original Message- From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 10:02 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. Can you give me a few examples of the APIs you are talking about? What type of master/detail DB intera

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
gt; Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > Well, as long as it's CF 7, and you can migrate the byte code, you're not > really fibbing right? > ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.co

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
Message- > From: Tim Heald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:31 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > This is a very good point. You get a ton of extra stuff out of the box > that > you don't get elsewhere. &

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > Nick, > > We had the same problem with a major client, so the thing is that we told > a > small fib by a technical means only. We told them that the application > will > be deployed on a J2EE server running jav

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
09 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > Adam > > As stated in other posts your question is fact and not fiction. > > For example as the sys-con article says CF comes with out of the box > solutions, so let's look at gateways for examp

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tim Heald
Well, as long as it's CF 7, and you can migrate the byte code, you're not really fibbing right? > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:21 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion b

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tim Heald
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:09 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > Adam > > As stated in other posts your question is fact and not fiction. > > Fo

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Kevin Graeme
Nail. Head. Whack. Choosing a language is rarely done in a vacuum. There is no "best", and "better" is only able to be decided based on what external factors there are. CF is good at RAD. But a project done RAD is rarely something you want to support and build on top of for the next five or ten y

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Scott
TED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 7:16 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. Rapid development isn't as important as you think, not to a customer. They want something done using a technology they have heard of. I have seen it time and time again. When you make a bi

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Scott
ute Fellow -- -Original Message- From: Adam Haskell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006 3:52 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion better. "Coldfusion is a faster developement platfrom, its a fact" Point

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
Cost ensures that there is no un-biased way to compare these products. Is development time faster in CF, almost always, does the performance hits incurred by a script language make it that much less attractive, no. When ever we had simple content management websites, we had a fairly simple CF syst

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread G
> Rapid development isn't as important as you think, not to a customer. They > want something done using a technology they have heard of. > > I have seen it time and time again. When you make a bid to a customer > quoting a CF site that it done faster and cheaper, vs. a .NET site that > takes longe

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread G
> >> What everyone seems to be conveniently ignoring, though, is that a well >> written compiled program will outperform a well written CF program. > > how can you say this? for real dog. how? with enough server ass and > well written code, it will perform no less better that any application. Th

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
y [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3:03 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion better. > > On 1/24/06, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Uh, yeah, that's because CF's primary advantage is ease of use and rapid > >

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tony
On 1/24/06, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uh, yeah, that's because CF's primary advantage is ease of use and rapid > development. ok, great... not a downfall. > What everyone seems to be conveniently ignoring, though, is that a well > written compiled program will outperform a well written CF pr

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
From: Adam Haskell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:33 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion better. > > Heh unless someone wants a CF developer that has a loose understanding of > OO > and Java (read I have supported Java apps, an

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Adam Haskell
I agree Ken. I also hesitated to bring this up AGAIN on this list, it really is a tireless winless battle. But I think I have the reason CF is always on defense. Resource pool. How many colleges across America teach CF? I know of 2, both are community colleges not 4 year institutes. Howmany teach

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Ray Champagne
Wouldn't this be a great study for the marketing dept at Adobe to take up? I mean, how many times have we had this discussion, and it always seems to boil down to opinions. You're right, it would be nice to pull out some facts from studies that are *real*, not based on opinion. Are you listen

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Adam Haskell
Heh unless someone wants a CF developer that has a loose understanding of OO and Java (read I have supported Java apps, and enhanced them, never written one from ground up) and is willing to help me rellocate from Ohio then I am guessing leaving is not an option, though from my understanding Walmar

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread G
Uh, yeah, that's because CF's primary advantage is ease of use and rapid development. What everyone seems to be conveniently ignoring, though, is that a well written compiled program will outperform a well written CF program. So your project was done on Monday, someone elses was done on Tuesday

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
gt; From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:06 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > The main problem comes when you are dealing with multi-value attributes > such as "member" or "memberOf&q

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Dawson, Michael
Clure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:02 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. Limits you to 1000 records per query, and is grossly inefficient. > -Original Message- > From: Tim Heald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Dawson, Michael
: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:40 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion better. >Cfldap holmes. > >> Active directory will only give you 1000 users at a time using ldap, what if they have 4 thousand users that start with an s', or over 1000 names that start with sa. You

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Dawson, Michael
CTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:31 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is your > challenge. I have an Active Directory structure that contains 60k User > accounts in two separate forests. > Daily I ne

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
ay, January 24, 2006 12:40 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion better. > > Active directory will only give you 1000 users at a time using ldap, what > if they have 4 thousand users that start with an s', or over 1000 names > that start with sa. You'd ha

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
But I can charge more for an app in .NET, and I have MS marketing backing me up. > -Original Message- > From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:27 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion better. > > give me a web based

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
Limits you to 1000 records per query, and is grossly inefficient. > -Original Message- > From: Tim Heald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:16 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > Cfldap holmes. > &

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tim Heald
What's the learning curve? How about flexibility? Can I make it look and act however I want? > -Original Message- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:50 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion be

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
id a really basic address book. He came no where close to being done > when I was. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:27 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion bett

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tony
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:27 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion better. > > > > give me a web based task in cf > > and you or anyone a task in any other language > > > > and ill beat them. > &

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Robert Everland III
>Cfldap holmes. > >> Active directory will only give you 1000 users at a time using ldap, what if they have 4 thousand users that start with an s', or over 1000 names that start with sa. You'd have to have a loop upon a loop and then how would you know you're getting the correct number of user

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tim Heald
gt; Subject: Re: Why is coldfusion better. > > give me a web based task in cf > and you or anyone a task in any other language > > and ill beat them. > > thats quantifiable son. straight cash homey! > tw > > > > On 1/24/06, Adam Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Michael T. Tangorre
> From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Here is your challenge. I have an Active Directory structure > that contains 60k User accounts in two separate forests. > Daily I need to get a full dump of all the users and > reconcile them against a SQL Server DB. Then every 15 minutes > I n

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tony
give me a web based task in cf and you or anyone a task in any other language and ill beat them. thats quantifiable son. straight cash homey! tw On 1/24/06, Adam Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See with hibernate and Spring programing in Java is considerably easier. I > mean with hiberna

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
; -Original Message- > > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:14 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > > > Realistically, the language you use depends on the job. I >

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tim Heald
Cfldap holmes. > -Original Message- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:14 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Why is coldfusion better. > > Realistically, the language you use depends on the job. I > don&#

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Nick McClure
Realistically, the language you use depends on the job. I don't actually use CF anymore, Really, I don't code any more. When I did code, I found .NET to be more up my ally as a language. I can try to give you a couple of reasons why somebody would pick something like Java or .NET over CF. Mostly b

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread William Bowen
> The project: An Operating System. more accurately, then, define a project within the scope of CF (web applications) or should CF be judged now on it's ability to do or not do tasks it wasn't designed to do in the first place? If this is the case then every programming language on earth is wort

RE: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Michael T. Tangorre
The project: An Operating System. Your Language: CF My Language: C++ Guess who loses? You. > From: Ken Ketsdever [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > What is it that you want done that I can't do with CF? Come > up with a project and you do it in the language de Jour and > I'll do it in CF. > Le

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Adam Haskell
See with hibernate and Spring programing in Java is considerably easier. I mean with hibernate you don't even have to really do much to persist your data. Sure we have reactor or ARF but how mature are they compared to Spring and Hibernate and do either of them really copare when it comes to the t

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Greg Morphis
Well I can only offer my opinion.. I'm normally a CF programmer. We had a new project to be designed in Flex and as a backend we chose to use Java.. Before this I've had little experience in Java. I can tell you that CF is much easier to learn, much easier to connect to DBs as CF manages the connec

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread G
Uh.he WANTS to use CF, but he needs our help in arming him so he can defend it against the higher ups. > Well the fact that you can do more in CF with fewer lines of code > hints at the fact that CF is faster. Oh CF is faster to learn too.. > But if you're so defiant on CF, leave.. there's no

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Greg Morphis
Well the fact that you can do more in CF with fewer lines of code hints at the fact that CF is faster. Oh CF is faster to learn too.. But if you're so defiant on CF, leave.. there's not one soul here or anywhere forcing you to use CF.. On 1/24/06, Adam Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Coldfus

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Adam Haskell
"Coldfusion is a faster developement platfrom, its a fact" Point me to a quantifiable resource that shows me this is true. If it is a fact it has to have been derived from some sort of research data, it not then its a claim and not a fact. Adam ~~

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread G
That's a neat article, and does a good job of illustrating the strong points of Cold Fusion. But I don't think you should have to blindly defend cold fusion, nor should you. CF may or may not be the right tool for your company. It really depends on a wide range of things. Instead of trying to d

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread William Bowen
> How public is cf community still? very -- will "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; and that would just be unacceptable." - Carrie Fisher ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:194000 Archiv

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Adam Haskell
How public is cf community still? Adam On 1/24/06, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dont understand? > need more info. > and if you cannot find the cf ammo you need from a couple google's or > some blog roll, then, maybe it is time to say good bye adam :) > > are your higher ups trying to say

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread Tony
dont understand? need more info. and if you cannot find the cf ammo you need from a couple google's or some blog roll, then, maybe it is time to say good bye adam :) are your higher ups trying to say goodbye to cf, and you are tasked with proving its worth? tw On 1/24/06, Adam Haskell <[EMAIL PR

Re: Why is coldfusion better.

2006-01-24 Thread William Bowen
> Yes I know we have all heard this before. Java vs Coldfusion. Misconceptions and Myths about ColdFusion... http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/172573.htm Just saw this today, haven't read the article, but it seems (from the abstract) to be useful to your task. -- will "If my life weren't fun