Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Hey Bryan, not to pick on your or anything :) On 4/19/06, Bryan Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically with Ruby it comes down to this (in my short investigation of itI stopped because it is NOT the Holy Grail) So just because it's not the Holy Grail it isn't useful? Does

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On 4/19/06, Andy Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, if anyone has input on this topic, I'd love to hear it. I tried getting RoR running on my local dev machine and was immediately turned off by the fact that you have to do so much work using the command prompt. Have the RoR developers

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Dave Carabetta
On 4/19/06, Jochem van Dieten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russ Michaels wrote: No, only selects return a recordcount. Although SQL does return a message about how many records are updated Maybe some implementations update the diagnostic area with that information, but returning a count of

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Ken Ferguson
That's it you blaspheming frood, you're off to the Frogstar and into the Total Perspective Vortex! You know, I tried to get into an evaluation of RoR, but from the initial setup to building a couple of apps, it just felt off somehow. It may be great, but it's one of those things, similar to

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Dave Carabetta wrote: On 4/19/06, Jochem van Dieten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe some implementations update the diagnostic area with that information, but returning a count of the number of records affected is not part of the SQL specification. More importantly, it is only part of JDBC 3

RE: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Ben Nadel
I have been sort of following this conversation and I am just curious, are ya'll just debating usefullness? Or is the return of the recordcount actually creating a problem somewhere? ... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -Original Message- From: Dave Carabetta

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Don't make me read Vogon poetry to you! I can totally understand. At first I was like where in the hell are my application variables? and I realized later that the structure of programming is way different. And as for feeling off.that's kinda the way I feel about ASP.net 2.0. It looks

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 4/19/06, Bryan Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically with Ruby it comes down to this (in my short investigation of itI stopped because it is NOT the Holy Grail) It does lots of stuff for you...right up until it needs to something different then the default...then you are

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Ken Ferguson
I think Pete just started the thread hoping there was a way to make update queries return a value in the recordcount for how many rows were updated instead of returning zero. --Ferg Ben Nadel wrote: I have been sort of following this conversation and I am just curious, are ya'll just

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
I tried getting RoR running on my local dev machine and was immediately turned off by the fact that you have to do so much work using the command prompt. Have the RoR developers never heard of a web browser? Why would you *develop* in a web browser? I assume that you realize Rails *only*

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Claude Schneegans
are ya'll just debating usefullness? Or is the return of the recordcount actually creating a problem somewhere? I think the first two messages in the thread are quite clear: 1. It would be useful that a query returns the number of updated record in an UPDATE in query.recordCount 2. The qurery

RE: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Andy Matthews
Wow... What a great conversation! Here's what I want to accomplish in my testing of RoR. I want to be able to view the parsed files in my local dev setup, currently using XAMPP. I really would prefer NOT having to start the Ruby server, just a preference there I guess. The whole point of me

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Bryan Stevenson
So just because it's not the Holy Grail it isn't useful? Does that infer CF is the Holy Grail :) No...just saying RoR ain't all it's being hyped up to beit may be useful to youbut so far...not to me. Or you could just extend those base classes to do the kinds of things you want it

RE: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Andy Matthews
I don't want to use the command prompt. It's clunky, outdated and a pain to get around. I'm enough of a visual person that it makes FAR more sense (to ME) to use a visual interface to do things. Why can't they just code it so that you load up a page in localhost/ruby and type in the same things

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Rob Wilkerson
That was my concensus early on. Seems like it would be a hard sell to argue against either of those statements. -- Rob Wilkerson ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238174 Archives:

RE: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Ben Nadel
Claude, Sorry, I fogot the original question... I thought at some point it was being argued that CF shouldn't return a RecordCount on non-selecting queries... Good luck with a solution. ... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Bryan Stevenson
don't like plural table names? ActiveRecord::base.pluralize_table_names=false in environment.rb want to override a table name? class someTable ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name some_crazy_table_name end Now that I'm finished blowing Coke out my nose Are you seriously saying those

sql question.....

2006-04-19 Thread David Elliott
Below is a part of my code cfquery name=insert_hourly datasource=storm INSERT INTO hourly (employee_id ,ticket_no ,ticket_date cfif labor_start IS NOT ,labor_start/cfif cfif labor_stop IS NOT ,labor_stop/cfif cfif labor_lunch IS NOT

Re: sql question.....

2006-04-19 Thread Ryan Guill
On 4/19/06, David Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is a part of my code And my question might be a simple onethe line that says cfif equip_idle IS NOT ,equip_idle/cfif...does this mean I'll only have any entry if their is a value in it? Yes, but a better way I think is to

Re: sql question.....

2006-04-19 Thread David Elliott
Thanks Ryan. Ryan Guill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/19/06, David Elliott wrote: Below is a part of my code And my question might be a simple onethe line that says ,equip_idle...does this mean I'll only have any entry if their is a value in it? Yes, but a better way I think is

RE: sql question.....

2006-04-19 Thread Ben Nadel
Dave, I am not sure I follow 100%, but yes, the CFIF statements will stop the values from being added. However, the column will still be in the database for that new record and will have whatever default value you have assigned to that column (or NULL if no default value has been set and the

Re: sql question.....

2006-04-19 Thread Ryan Guill
No problem. On 4/19/06, David Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ryan. Ryan Guill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/19/06, David Elliott wrote: Below is a part of my code And my question might be a simple onethe line that says ,equip_idle...does this mean I'll only have any

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On 4/19/06, Bryan Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't like plural table names? ActiveRecord::base.pluralize_table_names=false in environment.rb want to override a table name? class someTable ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name some_crazy_table_name end Now that I'm finished

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Bryan Stevenson
it's not amazing, but in the model you would add def validate errors.add(:start_date,should be earlier than end_date) unless start_date.nil? || start_date end_date end Exactlyright back to custom coding. So although that is a hair less code than the equivalent in CFit's not so

RE: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Munson, Jacob
it might be worth looking at whats returned in the metadata (getMetaData) and the query result structure I did some testing, and CF doesn't appear to treat update queries the same as select queries. Neither cfdump nor getMetaData work with an update query, in fact CF doesn't even recognize the

Re: sql question.....

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
a cleaner way of writing this might be: cfquery name=insert_hourly datasource=storm INSERT INTO hourly (employee_id ,ticket_no ,ticket_date ,labor_start ,labor_stop ,labor_lunch ,truck_id ,equip_start ,equip_stop

Re: Q of Q crazy problem

2006-04-19 Thread Tony
ben, did you get that working? tw On 4/19/06, Ben Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I will give that a try... Overall, though, I think QofQ are great and very useful. -b ... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -Original Message- From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Claude Schneegans
CF shouldn't return a RecordCount on non-selecting queries. Well, the best would be it returns a sensible value. If it cannot, better return nothing, AND document it. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See

RE: Q of Q crazy problem

2006-04-19 Thread Ben Nadel
Tony, Work is a bit hectic at the moment, so haven't had time to play around with the casting. Right now, I just removed the QueryNew() DATA TYPES and that seems to work for the moment. I will see what I can experiment with tonight. ... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Claude Schneegans
CF doesn't appear to treat update queries the same as select queries I think a good reason is that a SELECT SQL query returns a dataset, an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE does not. What we call a QUERY in CF is actually a dataset, the SELECT, UPDATE or other is not a query, it is an SQL statement.

RE: Extract email(s) from non-delivered message

2006-04-19 Thread Munson, Jacob
\w is any alphanumeric character, so the \d is redundant. :) -Original Message- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 10:05 AM Glad I could help... I am sure there is a better way to make the RegExp, using the shorthand notation, but I am

RE: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Ben Nadel
I suppose one solutions, while it is a bit more work would be to have osmething like: cfquery ... DECLARE @record_count INT; SET @record_count = ISNULL( ( SELECT COUNT(*) AS record_count FROM [TABLE] WHERE where clauses ), 0 ); !--- Now run update --- UPDATE. WHERE..

RE: Extract email(s) from non-delivered message

2006-04-19 Thread Ben Nadel
Thanks, I can never remember those for some reason. -b ... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -Original Message- From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 3:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Extract email(s) from non-delivered message \w

Re: Virtual Directories

2006-04-19 Thread Larry Lyons
Anyone have a clue how to set up a virtual directory (not a cf mapping) using the built in CF web server? Or if it's even possible to? Cutter Cutter, You may want to try this article on the Adobe/Macromedia site on configuring the built in web server: http://www.antiwrap.com/?957 It has a

RE: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Munson, Jacob
Neil: Polling every fifteen minutes is an enormous waste of CPU and bandwidth... for both you and the source sites. For example, if you're aggregating individual blogs, once every 24 hours will cover the vast majority just fine. I disagree. RSS was originally built as a solution to

TemplateNotFoundException

2006-04-19 Thread Mike Garner
Anyone know if it's possible to catch this exception (when a CFM page is called that doesn't exist) in the application without using the Missing Template Handler? I was hoping to handle this in the application.cfc, but it looks like this error is thrown before it ever hits the application.cfc

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I'm going to chime in somewhere between Jacob and Roger. With the bandwidth saving features I mentioned earlier, I'd say 30 mins to an hour should be sufficient in almost every case. Of course, now we're just stating opinions, but that's mine. For what it's worth... On 4/19/06, Munson, Jacob

RE: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Munson, Jacob
And one big plus -- CF works on Windows *far* better than Rails. Rails is a *pain* to configure with stability and performance on Windows. Well, considering that windows servers are a nightmare (/servers/, not desktops), Rails is on the right track. Sorry, I had to say it. ;) jake heads back

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Neil Middleton
This is what I was thinking. Sure there may well be some optimisations that can be done for the process, but I agree that RSS is something that should be checked often. Which brings me back to my original problem... How do I go about getting this data checked, parsed and dumped into the db

RE: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Munson, Jacob
Are you saying that Ruby (and hence RoR) is a strictly typed language? That's enough to turn me off right there... -Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:35 AM I thought that same way until I really got into creating

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
yeah, it is custom coding, but isn't all your business logic going to be custom code? What if you are required to have a start date, but your end date could be open ended. There's really not an easy way to automate that kind of logic. Rails can make that kind of code easier I believe. Say you

RE: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Munson, Jacob
This would work, as long as you're using MS SQL. -Original Message- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:26 PM I suppose one solutions, while it is a bit more work would be to have osmething like: cfquery ... DECLARE @record_count INT;

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
not at all, it's dynamically typed, this would be valid x=hello x=1 y=x y.to_s = 1 On 4/19/06, Munson, Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you saying that Ruby (and hence RoR) is a strictly typed language? That's enough to turn me off right there... -Original Message- From:

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Bryan Stevenson
With the exception of the adding a new field in the DB and it's avaialable evrywhere bit, the other examples are easily handles by CFCsone method to update...another to insert...they do different things...just like your example: def validate_on_update #stuff end or def

CFMX JNDI datasources in BEA Weblogic 9.1

2006-04-19 Thread Cathy Taylor
We're having a recurring problem with CFMX 7.01 JNDI datasources deployed on BEA WebLogic 9.1. For no apparent reason, ColdFusion seems to think the datasources are failing (won't verify) even though BEA says the connection pools are perfectly healthy. We did not have this problem deployed on

Re: TemplateNotFoundException

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I've not found a way to do it with CFMX, but Bluedragon will allow you to capture it. On 4/19/06, Mike Garner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know if it's possible to catch this exception (when a CFM page is called that doesn't exist) in the application without using the Missing Template

Re: Virtual Directories

2006-04-19 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
I finally figured it out. I wrote a blog entry on it: http://blog.cutterscrossing.com/index.cfm/2006/4/19/CFs-BuiltIn-Server-and-Virtual-Directories Thanks to everyone for your input. Cutter Larry Lyons wrote: Anyone have a clue how to set up a virtual directory (not a cf mapping) using the

Re: CFMX JNDI datasources in BEA Weblogic 9.1

2006-04-19 Thread Andy Allan
The crap, though official answer will most likely be that CFMX7.01 isn't supported on 9.1 - only 7 and 8.1 Being that I don't personally use WebLogic I can't help any further. Andy On 19/04/06, Cathy Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're having a recurring problem with CFMX 7.01 JNDI

Re: Virtual Directories

2006-04-19 Thread Casey Dougall
You never said you were attempting to map a directory to a remote server.. No wonder you spent so much time on this issue. -- Casey Dougall On 4/19/06, Cutter (CFRelated) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally figured it out. I wrote a blog entry on it:

Re: Virtual Directories

2006-04-19 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
No, the remote server was just a bonus, that wasn't my initial intention. Cutter Casey Dougall wrote: You never said you were attempting to map a directory to a remote server.. No wonder you spent so much time on this issue. -- Casey Dougall On 4/19/06, Cutter (CFRelated) [EMAIL

CF Books

2006-04-19 Thread jonese
Anyone know if there are plans to produce another training from the source book for coldfusion 7? I use this book in a Continuing Education class i teach and was hoping to continue using it. If not anyone have an recommendations for a good intro to CF book other than the WACK? i don't want to

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Claude Schneegans
Not sure on which kind of database it will work. All I know is that it wont work with Access database. Another way to get the same result would be to store a date time value in the same query as the INSERT or UPDATE, then count them in another query. If the field is indexed, it should take a

Query works MySQL 4 but not 5

2006-04-19 Thread Josh Nathanson
All, Got a query that works fine in MySQL 4.1 but not MySQL 5, I get a SQL syntax error. It looks hairy but there are three tables involved: Orders, Order_No, and Products. The subquery joins Orders and Order_No, the main query joins the result of the subquery (alias ord) with Products

Re: Query works MySQL 4 but not 5

2006-04-19 Thread Barney Boisvert
Anything jump out? The lack of an error message from MySQL that indicates where the syntax error occurred? cheers, barneyb On 4/19/06, Josh Nathanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Got a query that works fine in MySQL 4.1 but not MySQL 5, I get a SQL syntax error. It looks hairy but there

RE: CF Books

2006-04-19 Thread Ben Nadel
I lved the CF MX Bible (bible series). It's a HUGE book, but it's really fundamental and a straight forward book. Its big because it really explains things well. ... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -Original Message- From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Query works MySQL 4 but not 5

2006-04-19 Thread Josh Nathanson
Here's the error: -- Syntax error or access violation: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'SELECT Orders.Product_ID, Orders.Options, Order_No.DateOrdered --- That SELECT

Re: CF Books

2006-04-19 Thread Adam Churvis
Thanks for the kudos, Ben. We really worked hard on it. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee Get advanced intensive Master-level training in C# ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at

RE: CF Books

2006-04-19 Thread Ben Nadel
Adam, That's really cool that you worked on it. I liked it so much, that I have looked up all the other Bible books. Only a few pertain to my field and interests, but I definitely look forward to getting them, especially the Flash 8 ActionScript Bible. Thanks for the great books.

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Roger Benningfield
One thing I have noticed with the CF community is that the RSS feeds that are published seem to be all over the place, some doing things one way, some doing it another. Neil: Pete Freitag and I have both published tips for getting CF-based feeds to provide the correct headers and HTTP

SOLVED Re: Query works MySQL 4 but not 5

2006-04-19 Thread Josh Nathanson
My host is actually using MySQL 3, not 5 as I thought, and subqueries are not allowed on MySQL 3. Crap. -- Josh - Original Message - From: Josh Nathanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Query works MySQL 4

Re: Any reason to bother with SES?

2006-04-19 Thread Jann E. VanOver
I know this was an old question, but I'm just catching up. My boss co-workers are SEO wizards. They allowed me to put our SES URLs to death last year. We are still hitting the top in Google for our target keywords. (enter matte satin bridesmaid dress in google.com or google.co.uk and see

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Roger Benningfield
RSS was originally built as a solution to provide near real-time updates on a site. Jacob: The blogosphere has mechanisms to handle real-time updates, and syndication feeds ain't one of 'em. Never has been. Fullasagoog polls every 15 minutes, not sure how often MXNA does it. If all they're

Re: SOLVED Re: Query works MySQL 4 but not 5

2006-04-19 Thread Rick Root
Josh Nathanson wrote: My host is actually using MySQL 3, not 5 as I thought, and subqueries are not allowed on MySQL 3. Crap. MySQL 3.23 is so freakin old... get a new host. =) Rick ~| Message:

Re: Query o Queries and apost's

2006-04-19 Thread Denny Valliant
Next time it comes up I'll create a recipe. It's only when I'm doing complex dynamic creation of queries, and then trying a query of query of the query I created. I don't think that it's anything preserveQuotes would fix, and I haven't tried re-writing the generation to use cfqueryparams... I

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Qasim Rasheed
Well I have been using JDBC Statement call from CF and it will return you number of records effected for updated, inserts or deletes. Thanks Qasim On 4/19/06, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure on which kind of database it will work. All I know is that it wont work with

Re: isValid() question

2006-04-19 Thread Denny Valliant
'specially watch the asterisk, as I've had some tough times with it- but that could just be my lack of real regex skillz. And the fact that the asterisk is different depending on the regex engine... I bet your ninja is good with *... they do look sorta like throwing stars... :d On 4/18/06, Tony

Re: Directory watcher for standard edition

2006-04-19 Thread Chris Velevitch
So, how would I call my cfc from a cron job or win service? Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group www.flashdev.org.au ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238226

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Roger Benningfield
I know there is a TTL equivalent in Atom 1.0/RSS 1.0... Rob: Nope, there's no ttl equivalent in Atom 1.0. Someone brought up ttl/skipHours/skipDays in the IETF WG (or the pre-IETF group) at one point, and the consensus was that the elements are seldom used, not well understood when they *are*

Re: Using first CFC wih 6.1 (TRYING AGAIN)

2006-04-19 Thread Denny Valliant
I was thinking more along the lines as any freaking coding system that doesn't have a single line comment is retarded. But I'm a retarded coder, so... :-) Heh. Seriously tho, the time I save isn't too related to the (apparently) old everything runs faster in cfscript, but more along the lines of

Re: database linking table naming conventions?

2006-04-19 Thread Denny Valliant
On 4/18/06, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried naming tables in the singular form once. I hated it. For some reason it bothered me to write sql that read select top 50 * from book Heh. I have a thing about plurals and singulars, so, I feel ya. I swing like a pendulum (well,

Re: Query works MySQL 4 but not 5

2006-04-19 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 4/19/06, Josh Nathanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the error: -- Syntax error or access violation: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'SELECT Orders.Product_ID,

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Thanks for the clarification. I surely thought I remembered one from when I built my reader. Hardly the first time my memory has failed me. On 4/19/06, Roger Benningfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know there is a TTL equivalent in Atom 1.0/RSS 1.0... Rob: Nope, there's no ttl equivalent in

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 4/19/06, Andy Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to use the command prompt. It's clunky, outdated and a pain to get around. I'm enough of a visual person that it makes FAR more sense (to ME) to use a visual interface to do things. Then use RadRails in Eclipse and click the

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 4/19/06, Andy Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow... What a great conversation! Here's what I want to accomplish in my testing of RoR. I want to be able to view the parsed files in my local dev setup, currently using XAMPP. Not sure what you mean by parsed files. Ruby is

Re: CF Page Won't Stop Executing

2006-04-19 Thread Denny Valliant
On 4/19/06, Dan G. Switzer, II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The one exception to CF killing a thread when a connections is closed might be if you were using CFFLUSH to dump the output stream to the browser. It's Seems to be hit and miss. I've got a long running page that uses cfflush, sometimes

RE: CF Page Won't Stop Executing

2006-04-19 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Denny, Seems to be hit and miss. I've got a long running page that uses cfflush, sometimes it stops running (when browser go away), mostly it doesn't. Maybe the confusion is in the socketWhatNot error or whatever, that one Thanks for the information. That's pretty much what I figured, but that

Re: Directory watcher for standard edition

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I use a batch file that calls wget for win32 to call the template all run from the service On 4/19/06, Chris Velevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, how would I call my cfc from a cron job or win service? Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group

RE: Directory watcher for standard edition

2006-04-19 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Chris, So, how would I call my cfc from a cron job or win service? You can always build a separate CFML template that invokes the methods in your CFC--that way you can re-use your CFC, but still build something that works in CF Standard. You could then have the template compare the directory

RE: Directory watcher for standard edition

2006-04-19 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
I use a batch file that calls wget for win32 to call the template all run from the service You can also use curl (http://curl.haxx.se/.) I prefer curl because it handles more protocols (FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP) than wget. -Dan

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 4/19/06, Bryan Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't like plural table names? ActiveRecord::base.pluralize_table_names=false in environment.rb want to override a table name? class someTable ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name some_crazy_table_name end Now that I'm finished

Re: database linking table naming conventions?

2006-04-19 Thread Aaron Rouse
What do you do if you have UserID used in a table twice? Such as maybe if you had the need to track the user who did the original record creation and who the last user to update the record was? I tend to prefix these link tables with LKP_ and I got into the habbit because they were tend to be

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 4/19/06, Bryan Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the exception of the adding a new field in the DB and it's avaialable evrywhere bit, the other examples are easily handles by CFCsone method to update...another to insert...they do different things...just like your example: First

Are there any CF Insurance Apps out there?

2006-04-19 Thread Will Tomlinson
I have a friend with an insurance company application that doesn't work well. The app keeps up with insured customers, keeps track of rates and such. I'm thinking I could build it better in CF. Is there anything that already exists? Something I could build upon and customize? Thanks, Will

Re: Evaluate vs ?

2006-04-19 Thread Charles Sheehan-Miles
I'm going to have to do some serious thinking about this. Performance on the mailer is a lot slower than I'd like, and I suspect its because I'm using evaluate. Here's what happens: 1) Customer saves their message content, which might look something like: Dear #firstname# #lastname#: Blah

CFMBB 1.0 (RC1) Now Available

2006-04-19 Thread Rick Root
The first release candidate of CFMBB is now available for download from the CFMBB Project Page (www.cfopen.org/projects/cfmbb) For discussion and a demo, visit www.cfmbb.org Here is a complete list of major features added to Ray's Galleon 1.5 o BBML / Smilies o Signatures o Avatars

CFMBB 1.0 (RC1) Now Available

2006-04-19 Thread Rick Root
The first release candidate of CFMBB is now available for download from the CFMBB Project Page (www.cfopen.org/projects/cfmbb) For discussion and a demo, visit www.cfmbb.org Here is a complete list of major features added to Ray's Galleon 1.5 o BBML / Smilies o Signatures o Avatars

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Roger Benningfield
I surely thought I remembered one from when I built my reader. Rob: Could it have been one of the interim specs you were looking at? 'Cause there was all kinds of odd stuff in there at certain points... particularly in the pre-IETF drafts. In addition, there was (and is) a lotta stuff on the

SR. ColdFusion Web Developer Cleveland, Ohio

2006-04-19 Thread Dan Woodson
SR. ColdFusion Web DeveloperCompany: TEKsystems, Inc. Location: Cleveland, OhioCategory: Information Technology JobsRate: Negiotable per HourJob Type: Direct HirePosting ID: 853437Posting Date: 4/18/2006 SR. ColdFusion Web Developer Job

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