Re: CFDump and Structure Help (quick)

2002-09-03 Thread Sean A Corfield
; (the temp variable makes it easier to read the code!) Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 10:28 , Jeffry Houser wrote: :hmm: That is interesting. I don't like un-named scopes. I wish someone at Macromedia took a little time to document this stuff. I did, it's on my blog :) But I know what you mean! The bug is that 'variables' scope inside a

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 12:52 , Hal Helms wrote: Not having this ability means that we have to resort to all sorts of workarounds while a standard OO implementation of overloading would eliminate this problem. Overloading has *nothing* to do with OO! Overloading is a language feature

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
referred to as Smalltalk in C clothing. C++ is a multi-paradigm language, not a pure OO language (and has never claimed to be pure OO). Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
is NOT APPROPRIATE for typeless languages. You can already call a function with different numbers of arguments (and types, if you want). Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
this is *not* a private scope specifically in any OO language I can think of, I think your expectations are wrong - based on lack of knowledge of other OO languages perhaps? As myself and Matt have pointed out, overloading belongs in strongly typed languages, not typeless ones. Sean A Corfield -- http

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
All this simply argues that reusing the same name in different scopes is rightly considered bad practice. Note that this collision is *exactly* the same as in Java where arguments scope takes priority over instance scope. On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 01:29 , Hal Helms wrote: Look at this

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 01:37 , Hal Helms wrote: True, Sean, but not having overloading in an OO language seems baffling, at least to me. One thing I'll say about overloading - it can be frighteningly complicated and very difficult for even fairly good C++ (or Java) programmers to

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
with return type and argument type checking??? Hal, I don't mean to be rude, but can you actually program in Java and / or C++? Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
can't specify access on variables. Yes, it would be nice if cfproperty affected 'this' scope variables. But it doesn't. cfproperty just defines class metadata. CF behaves a particular way. Let's just get over, OK? Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
are taking some of the approaches to issues that you are... Humor me. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ Signup for the Fusion

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 03:29 , Jeffry Houser wrote: The book is Object Oriented Programming by Timothy Budd. It is an older one (1991 if memory serves me). He releases an update every few years. The latest edition is October 2001. It would be interesting to see how much it

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
Yes, these examples exploit the (well-publicized) bug that variables scope is broken in components and instead refers to the caller's variables scope. When we fix that bug, variables will 'do the right thing' and become the private scope everyone wants to see - mirroring the unnamed scope /

Re: Searching for answers

2002-09-02 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 07:18 , Parker, Kevin wrote: Just in passing I was looking/searching for some stuff on Macromedia's web site and found this - Powered by Atomz. Would have thought they'd be using Verity The former Allaire site is powered by Verity since it is written in

Re: http://examples.macromedia.com/coldfusion/examples/ down??

2002-09-01 Thread Sean A Corfield
Thanx for letting me know. I'll get someone to look at it as soon as I get into the office this morning. On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 11:01 , Chris Kief wrote: FYI...Sean or anybody else from MM listening in... It seems all the examples are no longer working on the CF examples site (as

Re: Flash Rich App Approach = Macromedia?

2002-09-01 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Saturday, August 31, 2002, at 02:25 , Benoit Hediard wrote: There was a very interesting article in InternetWeek on tuesday : Laszlo Rising: The Inside Story Of A Stealth Vendor's Rich App Plans (http://www.internetweek.com/story/INW20020827S0008). Yes, this was circulated internally. It's

Re: Flash Rich App Approach = Macromedia?

2002-09-01 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 08:57 , Joe Eugene wrote: Does Flash add any more USABILITY to existing critical applications...? Yes. The HTML-based web experience is not exactly ideal... Look at the scenario of booking a flight, for example. See how many pages you have to click through

Re: CFC theory

2002-09-01 Thread Sean A Corfield
-validated C compiler, spent eight years on the ISO C++ Standards Committee - three as secretary - designing parts of that language and also worked on the UK and ISO Java Study Groups for a couple of years as well? :) Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying

Re: Flas MX CF 4.5.2

2002-09-01 Thread Sean A Corfield
applications with Flash MX but you would not be able to use Flash Remoting (NetServices). However, you could still invoke CF pages running on 4.5.2 and you could return XML from CF to Flash. It depends on what features you want to be able to use... Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog

Re: Flash Rich App Approach = Macromedia?

2002-09-01 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 11:17 , Douglas Brown wrote: I felt the need to chime in on this with a question. I am thinking of designing an ecommerce app and would like the entire site to be done in flash. One of the things that concerns me is the indexing by search engines...If I go

Re: Flash Rich App Approach = Macromedia?

2002-09-01 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 02:14 , Joe Eugene wrote: Sounds like an Applet Perhaps, although Applet UIs tend to be larger downloads - and Java support is not actually as solid as Flash support in browsers. download the entire dataset to the user and have a static

Re: Flash Rich App Approach = Macromedia?

2002-09-01 Thread Sean A Corfield
on that. It'll be interesting to see what take up it gets. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert

Still dead?

2002-08-31 Thread Sean A Corfield
Is cf-talk alive yet? If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ:

Re: http://examples.macromedia.com/coldfusion/examples/ down??

2002-08-31 Thread Sean A Corfield
any tag or function for more information gives you this: No primary examples were found for this language element. If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really

Double spaced UNIX style text lines: Returned mail: User unknown

2002-08-31 Thread Sean A Corfield
Tell your user he probably needs to change the preferences in DW to save files using a different line ending (it can save as Unix, Mac or Windows) . On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 06:26 , Bartee Lamar wrote: I have function where a user uploads an HTML file. This gets saved on server as

Re: Developer Exchange Error

2002-08-31 Thread Sean A Corfield
I've forwarded this directly to the engineering folks responsible and will keep you posted... On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 05:33 , Robert Everland wrote: I have emailed the site administrator a few times about this to no avail, so hopefully someone on the list at Macromedia sees this

Re: CFMX and Jaguar

2002-08-31 Thread Sean A Corfield
opt for /app or /data depending on the software. At some point I may expend the effort to move my install to /data/www/appserver/coldfusionmx/ since that is what I'm used to (with the web server at /data/www/httpd/apache/!). I have no yet had time to do more with web services on OSX... Sean

Re: CFC theory

2002-08-31 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 10:35 , Jeffry Houser wrote: I think this is too good of a topic to pass up, and I haven't seen any other responses, so.. I'll give it a shot. Well, I was drafting a reply but didn't have time to finish it... and you' ve actually said most of what I was

Re: Cold Fusion MX Flash MX Applications

2002-08-31 Thread Sean A Corfield
This bounced when I first tried to send it :( On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 06:48 , Sean A Corfield wrote: On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 05:35 , Jason Miller wrote: Back Button - Add this to frame1 ... Then - attach this to your Back graphical button You don't need to - Flash MX lets

Re: FuseBox vs Macromedia Programming Standards

2002-08-30 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 03:13 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For reasons that elude me, some people devote great energy to evangelizing Fusebox. When you ask them, it almost always turns out that they have never actually used anything else. Fusebox is about brainwashing developers,

Re: Prefix Thoughts

2002-08-30 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 07:59 , Ben Johnson wrote: what about Macromedia encouraging the use of it in Flash MX? My life is a constant battle to stamp out this evil practice. And, yes, I berate the internal people for this constantly! Some of them listen, some agree with me. I'm

Re: Question: Where is the area on MM comparable to the Allaire Knowledgebase?? looking for cfcontent reference

2002-08-30 Thread Sean A Corfield
, Sean A Corfield wrote: You need to search the ColdFusion Support Center. The easiest way from the mm.com home page is: mouse over support tab (lhs of Flash movie) click on SHORT CUTS enter cfcontent in the search box select COLDFUSION from the drop-down click

Re: OT: IE has now reached 96 percent market share

2002-08-29 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 05:31 , Everett, Al wrote: On a site I was working on recently, upwards of 90% of the visitors were using IE. My blog gets: IE6 58% IE5 28% _ 86% NS5 10% 14% NS4 3% NS? 1% My site as a whole gets:

Re: Cold Fusion MX Flash MX Applications

2002-08-29 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 07:18 , S. Isaac Dealey wrote: Anyone making use of Flash MX for web application interfaces? Yes, the new macromedia.com site will use Flash extensively for the interface. It will be an enterprise-class Rich Internet Application, built with Flash MX, Flash

Re: Women programmers

2002-08-29 Thread Sean A Corfield
% of women - and a lot of our senior management positions are held by women. I've had three women bosses since I joined Macromedia. It's a case of the right person for the job. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret

Re: Cold Fusion MX Flash MX Applications

2002-08-29 Thread Sean A Corfield
it has over a regular browser interface is good looking interface and animation. Then it really wasn't a good use of Flash. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: FuseBox vs Macromedia Programming Standards

2002-08-29 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 07:07 , Jeff D. Chastain wrote: I did not study it for details, but what I read of the coding standards link you mentioned sounds like primarily just good programming practices - i.e. naming conventions etc. Correct, it is a list of recommended best

Re: ColdFusionMX, are the includes case sensitive?

2002-08-29 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 11:00 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there, after upgrading our first server to ColdFusion Server, one of our pages crashed saying something to the effect of invalid include, fix for case (can't remember the exact error message). After changing the include

Re: Cold Fusion MX Flash MX Applications

2002-08-29 Thread Sean A Corfield
technology vendors, to establish a baseline for supporting WindowsEyes and similar screen reading browsers. Some accessibility issues are highlighted in the document referenced from our coding guidelines: http://www.corfield.org/coldfusion/accessibility.html Sean A Corfield -- http

Re: Question: Where is the area on MM comparable to the Allaire Knowledgebase?? looking for cfcontent reference

2002-08-29 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 12:10 , Bonnie E. Betts wrote: I'm trying to search for some details on using CFCONTENT. Where's the knowledgebase!??? I went to support, CF, checked out Documentation and it's all a bunch of pdf files! Is THAT what replaced knowledgebase??? Yikes! I

Re: List Length

2002-08-28 Thread Sean A Corfield
is slow. I'd recommend you used arrays instead! Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up

Re: Cfscript vs Javascript:

2002-08-28 Thread Sean A Corfield
cfscript identifies script code that is executed by CF on the server; script identifies script code that is executed by the browser on the client; they *look* similar but that are radically different things! On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 12:17 , Kris Pilles wrote: I am having some

FlashCom (was: MX on Unix?

2002-08-28 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 11:54 , Steve Foster wrote: Dick - have you ported Flash Com to OSX? Could you use your same methodology to port Flash Com as you used for CFMX FlashCom is a native application (C++ compiled to binary). CFMX is a (mostly) Java application and therefore

Re: programmer vs. developer

2002-08-28 Thread Sean A Corfield
instead of just codes... Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book

Re: programmer vs. developer

2002-08-28 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 10:56 , Tony Weeg wrote: developer has these as his/her strong suit: 50/50 on graphical interface/programming work Definitely wouldn't agree. UI work has nothing to do with software developer in my experience... Now, if you're talking web developer rather

Re: programmer vs. developer

2002-08-28 Thread Sean A Corfield
care for, because imho it encourages a gratuitous continued antagonism between the old-school and the new, but I've heard it used. I agree with you Isaac (and was a little surprised to hear MD say he'd heard this distinction too - glad he also doesn't like it!). Sean A Corfield -- http

Re: programmer vs. developer

2002-08-28 Thread Sean A Corfield
. Aw, but this is such *fun*... Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com

Information Architect (was: programmer vs. developer

2002-08-28 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 12:22 , Ben Johnson wrote: I always thought programmer sounded so 80's. Developer is just the hip, new term. I believe the cool name now is Information Architect. It's certainly a cool job title but here at Macromedia it has a very specific meaning: someone

Re: OT: IE has now reached 96 percent market share

2002-08-28 Thread Sean A Corfield
believe, which replaced the dreadful IWENG-16 16-bit browser). But AOL will change to use NS in due course - which will definitely shift the statistics away from IE. . Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: cfc's and java objects

2002-08-27 Thread Sean A Corfield
objects as needed. Then your page instantiates the CFC and uses it throughout the page. Note that I prefer the syntax of createObject() over cfobject but you could use either. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: using cflogin roles (was Single Login - Multiple Apps)

2002-08-27 Thread Sean A Corfield
I've been thinking about this one for a week now - doing a compare contrast against how we use cflogin here... On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 03:56 , Matthew Walker wrote: When we display menus, only the menu items associated with fuseactions permitted for that user's user group appear.

Re: CF vs. ASP

2002-08-27 Thread Sean A Corfield
systems as well as Java integration - so the price of using using CF is low from an integration p.o.v. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: CF vs. ASP

2002-08-27 Thread Sean A Corfield
compared those to CF for our new intranet and chose CF. Admittedly, the fact that we *make* CF was also a factor... :) That said, CF - and the skills needed for it - is a much more cost-effective approach for us. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody

Re: Good CFUG

2002-08-27 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 11:57 , Paul Giesenhagen wrote: What all takes place at the different CFUGs? Never have been to one We can't tell people who don't attend... it's a secret! :) If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: Any Fusebox and CFMX issues?

2002-08-26 Thread Sean A Corfield
community comes up with? snipped for brevity's sake Gm Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ This list and all House of Fusion resources

Re: Fusebox Books

2002-08-26 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 08:39 , Scott Mulholland wrote: Any recommendations of a Fuesbox book? The reviews at Amazon for Discovering Fusebox 3 and for Fusebox: Developing Cold Fusion Apps are about the same. Anyone here read them both?? I can't speak to DFB3, but I discuss FB:DCFA

Re: Macromedia and CGI

2002-08-26 Thread Sean A Corfield
says, we're currently rewriting the entire site on the MX platform. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ Structure your ColdFusion code

Re: Losing Client variables

2002-08-26 Thread Sean A Corfield
the CFMX update program will be available soon. There's a note in the bugbase that indicates you might work around it by setting your application name in cfapplication to UPPERCASE. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive

Re: Prefix Thoughts

2002-08-25 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Saturday, August 24, 2002, at 06:41 , Michael Dinowitz wrote: Actually, I avoided all of the CS classes because I knew that the future (as I saw it) would be different. I was right, but later went back to learn the material and apply it to what I knew. I guess it depends what you learn

Re: Any Fusebox and CFMX issues?

2002-08-22 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 01:11 , Ben Koshy wrote: Performance issues? Design Issues? What's defines a large project? Complexity and design, mainly. Perhaps you could cite an example of a large project not built with FuseBox and speculate as to why it could not be done with FuseBox?

Re: CFMX CurrentRow?

2002-08-22 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 07:27 , Dan G. Switzer, II wrote: Out of curiosity, which syntax are you using: #currentRow# or #queryName.currentRow# I know that #queryName.currentRow# works. The latter. I wouldn't have expected the former to work - does it work in pre-MX releases?

Re: CFMX Book: Inside ColdFusion MX

2002-08-22 Thread Sean A Corfield
As Robi (and New Riders) already know, I was very disappointed with this book as it glosses over a lot of the new functionality in MX (the chapter on the admin is a particular example of this complaint). I understand there will be a 2nd edition that will provide more depth? I'm also led to

Re: Cold Fusion MX 6 upgrade Help with old browsers

2002-08-22 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 07:51 , Kathy Wargo wrote: My web host recently(Friday) upgraded to Cold Fusion MX6. I have had extremely bad experiences with the upgrade. The first two problems you list have been widely discussed and documented - it sounds like your web host didn't do

Re: Running Multiple instances of a CFC inside a loop.

2002-08-22 Thread Sean A Corfield
)/ ... cfset cfc.method()/ ... cfset cfc.method()/ This may not be clear enouph so if you have any questions just ask. If the above does not answer you question, you'll need to post more details and maybe some code fragments. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're

Re: CFMX on OSX without VirtualPC ???

2002-08-21 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 06:31 , Jesse Houwing wrote: If you don't need Verity, then you can install the linux version. The verity part won't work because it was written specifically for Linux and is no JAVA or MAC OSX compatible executable. That's what you need Virtual PC for - see

Re: CFMX CurrentRow?

2002-08-21 Thread Sean A Corfield
machine is always set to 1. Post your code. I was experimenting with this yesterday and it works just fine here. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: Any Fusebox and CFMX issues?

2002-08-21 Thread Sean A Corfield
libraries and other Java components directly in CF. You gain because of CF's RAD power. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ Your ad could

OT: AOL Email Guidelines?

2002-08-21 Thread Sean A Corfield
two more times because (paraphrasing) This version is not compatible with Windows XP - you must upgrade immediately!! Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: Any Fusebox and CFMX issues?

2002-08-21 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 11:13 , Benoit Hediard wrote: Frameworks are usually build on top of design patterns. Not really. Most frameworks don't really build on any design patterns at all (and that's a contributing factor to why most frameworks suck!). For more comments on what makes

Re: Any Fusebox and CFMX issues?

2002-08-21 Thread Sean A Corfield
(Sheesh, I spend the morning in a two-hour vendor presentation and there's nearly 200 emails on CF-Talk!) On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 03:17 , Benoit Hediard wrote: I am very curious to see how Fusebox is going to evolve with CFCs. aolMe too!/aol Because, right now, I am not convinced

Re: Any Fusebox and CFMX issues?

2002-08-21 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 07:03 , Hal Helms wrote: I'm not arguing whether you're right or wrong, but question the basis of the claim that Fusebox doesn't scale. Having read the Peters/Papovich book, I ventured the opinion publicly that FB would not scale to enterprise-class projects

Re: Any Fusebox and CFMX issues?

2002-08-20 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 10:47 , Les Mizzell wrote: Any issues I should be aware of, or changes between CF4.5/5 to MX that I need to be aware of in relation to Fusebox? I don't know if anyone has addressed performance issues with the Fusebox architecture on CFMX but here are some of my

Re: Any Fusebox and CFMX issues?

2002-08-20 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 12:30 , Hal Helms wrote: Sean, I'm working on a from-the-ground-up rewrite of Fusebox based around CFCs. Sweet! I look forward to it! I appreciate your thoughts on FB. Once inside a community, it's sometimes hard to see things without that lens and

Re: Any Fusebox and CFMX issues?

2002-08-20 Thread Sean A Corfield
and current Fusebox apps would work just fine with Hal's CFC implementation. But the *real* benefits will come from Fusebox 4(?) which fully embraces CFCs for user code... Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: MX on Unix?

2002-08-19 Thread Sean A Corfield
applications in production on Solaris (and have been since early in the beta program) - Pet Market is deployed on CFMX for Solaris, for example. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: MX on Unix?

2002-08-19 Thread Sean A Corfield
- what is the actual bug about?) Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http

Re: Comparing CF5 and CFMX

2002-08-19 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 07:04 , Stephen Collins wrote: Between projects, I have been tasked with preparing a paper for our staff and clients that details pros and cons of CFMX. We'd like to give our clients a paper that contains as little spin as possible, with as much reader-friendly

Re: invoking components

2002-08-18 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 03:23 , Brook Davies wrote: I have a cf page which calls 4 different cfcomponents using cfinvoke in sequential order. Would it be faster to use the inherit property so only 1 cfinvoke command was issued and the one component called the others methods? Is this

Re: 2) CF file extensions

2002-08-18 Thread Sean A Corfield
not process the files. You need to modify both IIS and CFMX configurations. You've already modified IIS I gather. Now you need to add the file extension mappings to CFMX. I posted some notes about this on my blog a while back: http://www.corfield.org/blog/2002_07_01_archive.html#78808603 Sean

Re: CFC's and Inheritance

2002-08-18 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 04:43 , Brook Davies wrote: If I have a page which calls several distinct CFC's one after another, is there a speed increase if I create a container CFC and use the inheritance function to inherit the functionality from the other CFC's? You can only inherit

Re: Best Practices

2002-08-18 Thread Sean A Corfield
I noticed something odd in the test code below... On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 07:38 , Sean A Corfield wrote: On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 12:25 , Douglas Brown wrote: cfset myString = ... cfset myString = 1 So the test of 'eq' is against an empty string but the test of 'len

Re: Best Practices

2002-08-18 Thread Sean A Corfield
was merely taking at face value the 'best practice' everyone bandies around here of replacing X EQ with LEN(TRIM(X)). I don't agree it's best practice. The end result is that in CFMX, the old saw that LEN(X) was the fastest way to do this is no longer true. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org

Re: Best Practices

2002-08-18 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 08:25 , Paul Giesenhagen wrote: We are talking about CFMX right? Not CF5, in CF5, cfif Len(trim(str)) is faster empty or not ...right? The original post in this thread showed that was about twice as fast as sstr eq (and was talking about CF5 or earlier). If

Re: Best Practices

2002-08-18 Thread Sean A Corfield
I would've thought but apparently that's not the case - which is why this whole thread has dragged on! :) Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: Best Practices

2002-08-18 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 09:38 , Charlie Griefer wrote: this is the kind of thing that really makes me want to consider an exciting career in the field of house-painting. You mean, rather than recommending len(trim(x)) over x eq ? :) :) :) As always with these sorts of questions,

Re: Single Login - Multiple Apps

2002-08-17 Thread Sean A Corfield
Services to our methods. Perhaps if you could be a little more specific about your application, we can work together to design some infrastructure that will provide a good mix of cflogin with custom group management? Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody

Re: cfcomponents and required complex values

2002-08-17 Thread Sean A Corfield
to use 'isDefined()'. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http

Re: Anyone On

2002-08-17 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 04:36 , Brian Thornton wrote: Anyone on today? Of course :) Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: Another beginner's question - recordset lists double fields

2002-08-17 Thread Sean A Corfield
You need to show us your code so we can figure out what's wrong... On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 07:09 , Mitko Gerensky-Greene wrote: I am trying to use DW MX to create a small CF application. I am working with a SQL Server database where I created a login called bmadmin to administer

Re: limit cfoutput

2002-08-17 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 08:34 , Tony Weeg wrote: cfset getTheRest=#Len(#Memo#)# - 255 cfoutput and now, The Rest of The Story (shout out to my man Paul Hizzarvey) #Right('#Memo#',#getTheRest#)# /cfoutput That's a lot of #! Why not just: cfset getTheRest =

Re: Best Practices

2002-08-16 Thread Sean A Corfield
to Execution Time 1856 milliseconds Execution Time 1928 milliseconds Compared to Execution Time 1847 milliseconds Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: Best Practices

2002-08-16 Thread Sean A Corfield
of optimization is to only optimize when you know you have a problem and have isolated what that problem is! Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood

Re: cfcomponents and required complex values

2002-08-16 Thread Sean A Corfield
= arrayNew(1)/ /cfif Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place

Re: Best Practices

2002-08-16 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 07:57 , Hal Helms wrote: Reminds me of those great lines of M.A. Jackson: Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don't do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet. Thanx for that - I was struggling to remember the actual quote (and the attribution) but it

Re: Single Login - Multiple Apps

2002-08-16 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 04:35 , Gyrus wrote: - Once you've authorised the user's login details, set their session variables. Don't forget the wonderful new CFMX authentication framework: cflogin cfloginuser cflogout getAuthUser() - Call a tag from

Re: Single Login - Multiple Apps

2002-08-16 Thread Sean A Corfield
independently. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news

Re: Best Practices (was: Re: 33 and 33d the same?

2002-08-15 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 04:22 , Matthew Walker wrote: In this particular case I didn't think the thread had changed. I thought I was talking about whether the concept of using Compare() negated the existence of the issue regarding 33d. I was just woken up and was eating breakfast at

Re: CF Express

2002-08-15 Thread Sean A Corfield
sounds like what you need then? Or do you need the server to allow more than one external IP address to connect to it? Note: Developer Edition is what you get in Studio MX and also what the Trial Download version turns into after 30 days (it is Enterprise for the first 30 days). Sean A Corfield

Re: CGI Sun Vs. CF NT HELP!!!!

2002-08-15 Thread Sean A Corfield
think you need to tell us which product you're talking about... Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood __ This list and all House of Fusion

Re: Best Practices (was: Re: 33 and 33d the same?

2002-08-15 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 11:42 , Matthew Walker wrote: Interesting. I would do this for readability, not speed. To take a common example I would see cfif myQuery.RecordCount as more readable and immediately understandable than cfif myQuery.RecordCount gt 0 Ugh! :) I'd always

<    6   7   8   9   10   11   12   >