Re: Algorithms

2010-10-07 Thread Maureen
While those concepts won't necessarily help you with Cold Fusion, a good grounding in algorithms will make you a better programmer. In fact, the best programming book I have read is called Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. I am a firm believer that if you know programming theory, you can

Re: Stupid mistake :)

2010-10-07 Thread Russ Michaels
part of the problem is is because even though you are doing 50 per page I bet your query grabs ALL the records each time, which means CF and the database gets hammered by search bots. there are 2 ways round this and to also provide better performance overall.. 1. cache the recordset and use the

report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-07 Thread Richard White
Hi, we would like to include a feature into our software that allows users to create any report they like to display their data - similar to the reports feature in ms access does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to approach this thanks

Re: report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-07 Thread James Holmes
Is the cf reporting feature not suitable? -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 7 October 2010 20:25, Richard White rich...@j7is.co.uk wrote: Hi, we would like to include a feature into our software that allows users to create any report they like to

Re: Any way to prevent storing methods inside of an array

2010-10-07 Thread Dominic Watson
It sounds like creating some sort of 'collection' component may solve your problem. So, instead of having an array of objects available to the application at large, you have a collection object that contains the array as a private property plus a method for returning a read only form of those

Any Lingering CF9 Upgrade Issues?

2010-10-07 Thread Robert Harrison
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Re: report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-07 Thread Richard White
thanks for the reply. correct me if im wrong as although i have looked at it i dont know it in depth, i thought it was inflexible as it wouldnt allow users to quickly create their own reports as they would in ms access thanks Is the cf reporting feature not suitable? -- WSS4CF -

Re: report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-07 Thread denstar
The most dynamical thing I've found so far is using JasperServer. It doesn't quite let you create free-form reports, but it has a lot of stuff you can use that lets the end user configure a report, and can produce reports in like 15 different formats. It is awesome. Eventually I'll get around

Re: report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-07 Thread Gerald Guido
Probably not ideal but throwing it out there as an option.. One way to do it is to actually use MS Access. If you can create an ODBC data source pointing to a read only account on the database you can do an import and link the tables to the database. You can set the permissions on the

Re: Any Lingering CF9 Upgrade Issues?

2010-10-07 Thread Russ Michaels
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Re: Any way to prevent storing methods inside of an array

2010-10-07 Thread Tony Bentley
I spent some time trying to expose the methods in different structures with different access layers and it looks like the methods will not show up (as a structure) when returning out as json, web service or any other remote call. So basically, I was concerned that creating instances of objects

CF 9.01 with JRocket JRE

2010-10-07 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
Is anyone using the JRocket JRE (with Mission Control) on ColdFusion 9.01 (I'm on Win 7 64-bit, standalone)? I'm having trouble getting ColdFusion to start up when I point it to the JRocket JRE and not sure what the problem is. I'm leaving out the mission control config in the args just to

Re: Any way to prevent storing methods inside of an array

2010-10-07 Thread Sean Corfield
Well, I still don't really understand what you're concerned about. If you have remote methods, you can see them via WSDL - that's kind of the whole point: it's a remotely accessible API. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Tony Bentley cascadefreehee...@gmail.com wrote: I spent some time trying to

Simple question

2010-10-07 Thread Dan Baughman
Hi All, What is the easiest way in coldfusion to touch a file. IE. updates it's modified time to be now. I can think of a few hacks, but was looking for something super easy and graceful. Dan ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion

Re: Simple question

2010-10-07 Thread John M Bliss
cffile action=write file=c:\temp\temp.txt output= On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Dan Baughman dan.baugh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, What is the easiest way in coldfusion to touch a file. IE. updates it's modified time to be now. I can think of a few hacks, but was looking for something

Re: Simple question

2010-10-07 Thread Dan Baughman
So if you set the output to blank it doesn't over write the contents of the file? On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:13 PM, John M Bliss bliss.j...@gmail.com wrote: cffile action=write file=c:\temp\temp.txt output= On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Dan Baughman dan.baugh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: Simple question

2010-10-07 Thread Leigh
FileSetLastModified() ? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive:

Re: Simple question

2010-10-07 Thread Charlie Griefer
If it does, you can try cffile action=append file=c:\temp\temp.txt output= / On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Dan Baughman dan.baugh...@gmail.comwrote: So if you set the output to blank it doesn't over write the contents of the file? On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:13 PM, John M Bliss

Re: Simple question

2010-10-07 Thread Wil Genovese
fileSetModified() http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-6ce1.html Wil Genovese One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. On Oct 7, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Dan Baughman

Re: Simple question

2010-10-07 Thread Dan Baughman
Thanks, all. Nice to see the built in function. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote: fileSetModified() http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-6ce1.html Wil Genovese One man with courage makes a

Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Jeff Gladnick
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/10/07/adobe-shares-soar-on-rumor-of-microsoft-bid/ What's that mean for Coldfusion!? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Raymond Camden
Nothing probably since the product is ColdFusion. ;) On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Jeff Gladnick jeff.gladn...@gmail.com wrote: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/10/07/adobe-shares-soar-on-rumor-of-microsoft-bid/ What's that mean for Coldfusion!?

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Eric Cobb
It means that .Net developers will now have a much easier way to connect to things like Exchange, Sharepoint, Excel, and Active Directory. :) Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Jeff Gladnick wrote:

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Eric Cobb
And Flash + Silverlight = Flashlight. :) Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Jeff Gladnick wrote: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/10/07/adobe-shares-soar-on-rumor-of-microsoft-bid/ What's that mean for Coldfusion!?

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Russ Michaels
or the end of BlueDragon as Microsoft will add CFML.NET to the stable :-) On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Eric Cobb cft...@ecartech.com wrote: And Flash + Silverlight = Flashlight. :) Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Jeff

Manipulating a PDF brochure

2010-10-07 Thread Jason Durham
I've been tasked with generating a sales brochure with a couple of variable components. I would like to be able to render HTML inside an existing PDF document that was designed in a graphics program. I've been playing with LiveCycle and have been able to get CF to insert plain text into form

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Dave Watts
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/10/07/adobe-shares-soar-on-rumor-of-microsoft-bid/ What's that mean for Coldfusion!? If this actually happened, I suspect that the product would be divested or discontinued. But I really doubt that this will happen. The only thing that Adobe has that MS

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Gerald Guido
Microsoft Photoshop? Investors and the stock market does not make one bit of sense. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jeff Gladnick jeff.gladn...@gmail.comwrote: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/10/07/adobe-shares-soar-on-rumor-of-microsoft-bid/ What's that mean for Coldfusion!?

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Jeff Gladnick
I cant see this as positive in any way for coldfusion. I would imagine it would just be a slow death of coldfusion as it's merged into .net. bleh. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

RE: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Will Swain
I agree. I don't see this happening. Just sounds like Adobe talking to M$ like they have been about Android and RIM. -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: 07 October 2010 22:15 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

RE: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Will Swain
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/10/07/why-google-is-a-better-partner-for-ado be-than-microsoft/ interesting blog about the talks. I tend to agree. -Original Message- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:gerald.gu...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 October 2010 22:14 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Microsoft

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Claude Schnéegans
I cant see this as positive in any way for coldfusion. Microsoft bought FoxPro 8 years ago, and Foxpro is still alive. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Dave Watts
Microsoft bought FoxPro 8 years ago, and Foxpro is still alive. That's not living. That's barely existing. From Wikipedia: In March 2007, Microsoft announced that there will be no VFP 10, thus making VFP9 (released to manufacturing on December 17, 2004) the last commercial VFP release from

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Gerald Guido
More detailed speculation: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/thinking-through-a-microsoft-adobe-merger/ http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/10/07/microsoft.and.adobe.in.collaborative.talks/ On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jeff Gladnick jeff.gladn...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Claude Schnéegans
That's not living. That's barely existing. May be, but this is more because FoxPro is one generation older (dBase) than other products on the market now than directly because of Microsoft. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Dave Watts
  That's not living. That's barely existing. May be, but this is more because FoxPro is one generation older (dBase) than other products on the market now than directly because of Microsoft. No, this is not true. At the time they acquired FoxPro, it was significantly more advanced in many

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Jason Fisher
Our company has a lot of legacy FoxPro still running. As I understand it, though, support for Visual FoxPro 9 ended April 2010. It is certainly not a living product, despite the fact that Microsoft did release several versions of Visual FoxPro after they bought the line. On 10/7/2010

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Les Mizzell
Nope: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-07/reback-says-adobe-purchase-by-microsoft-unlikely-video.html ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Please move this thread over to the community or OT list. Interesting though it is, it's not really of a technical nature. (those who want to argue the point with me are welcome to do so off list). Thank you -- Michael Dinowitz Lead Author - Adobe Coldfusion Anthology

RE: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread andy matthews
DAYUM! -Original Message- From: Eric Cobb [mailto:cft...@ecartech.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 3:59 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe It means that .Net developers will now have a much easier way to connect to things like Exchange, Sharepoint,

RE: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

2010-10-07 Thread andy matthews
Don't forget Lasso. Wasn't that before ASP? -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 4:15 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Microsoft rumored to be buying Adobe

Re: CF9 Paused Scheduled Tasks Still Running

2010-10-07 Thread Christopher Watson
I'm thinking that this is maybe NOT the way things should be. In my opinion, the Last Run column, as the name suggests (and what one would typically want to see, don't you think?) should always display the date/time of the most recent ACTUAL RUN, or execution, of the Scheduled Task, not the

Components in package not found on CF9

2010-10-07 Thread Christopher Watson
We've had a component package running flawlessly under CF8 for a year or so now. We use cfinvoke to get at them like this: cfinvoke component=Grabber.Price method=Grab returnvariable=WasSuccessful cfinvokeargument name=Cruise value=#URL.Cruise# /cfinvoke The Mappings and Custom Tag Paths

RE: CF9 Paused Scheduled Tasks Still Running

2010-10-07 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
I didn't say it was ideal (or even true), I just said that I believe that's probably what is happening ;-) Either way, you are probably in a very small group of people who actually care. I'd just assume CF shave any processing time that scheduled task logging might incur by not doing it.