RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-03-02 Thread Jim Davis
> >> elaborate haiku? Depends on your definition of elaborate. > >> > >> for item in struct > >> struct[item] equals nothing > >> return structclear(struct) > >> > >> okay ... so it's redundant and it sucks > >> -- the best I could do on short notice. :) > >> > >> >>s. isaac dealey > > > Oh come o

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-03-02 Thread Jim Davis
> On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 14:12 US/Pacific, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > >> Actually let's reverse that... The livedocs system in use at > >> Macromedia > >> was in use at Allaire in, I think 1998 (around when CF 3 > had come out > >> I > >> think, but perhaps CF 4). > > Actually, I had a 'lived

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-03-02 Thread Jim Davis
> I think you're all missing the point if you think that more > code = longer development time. > > Remember, for PHP, there are massive script archives out > there with example code you can just grab and use. Even the > function docs at php.net are collaborative... a technique > Macromedia has

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-03-02 Thread Jim Davis
> I think you're all missing the point if you think that more > code = longer development time. > > Remember, for PHP, there are massive script archives out > there with example code you can just grab and use. Even the > function docs at php.net are collaborative... a technique > Macromedia ha

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Tony Weeg
:) should be blast, i hear they got a great pipe where im goin!!! -Original Message- From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? Dick. (Adam, sitting in dry, flat Chicgo

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Matt Robertson
While your point is taken, a technically correct answer often loses when it squares off against reality. If people can make money hosting BD they will, sandbox or no, I suspect. CFX support boosts the value a host can implement. We were talking about the commodity side of this business. As

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Debbie Dickerson
I don't remember us having anything before LiveDocs, but then again, I wasn't here in the CF 3.0 days (4.01 was latest when I started). Deb -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 5:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PHP

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Matt Robertson wrote: > Jim wrote, > >> >>and unless a free CFML-compliant application server comes >>around that can be used in a large hosting environment >> > > BD, baby. in the grand scheme could be the biggest thing to happen to cfml yet, for > precisely the reason you state. There's a bo

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Matt Robertson
Isaac (not giving up his day job) Dealey penned, >http://mysecretbas.com ? Fishing trip? :P It produces a 404 my fingers, like bowling pins they type, a fatal error Friday beer beckons --Matt-- http://foohbar.org (no 404 there!) ~~

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Jim Campbell
- Original Message - From: "Matt Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 5:08 PM Subject: Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed? > Jim wrote, > > > >and unless a free CFML-compliant application s

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Matt Robertson
Jim wrote, > >and unless a free CFML-compliant application server comes >around that can be used in a large hosting environment > BD, baby. in the grand scheme could be the biggest thing to happen to cfml yet, for precisely the reason you state. There's a boatload of potential there, especially

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> Luis wrote: >>for CF, there is not a lot of free or open source code > I've always felt there's a ton of it out there, > personally. > Can't count the number of times I've gone to the dev exchg > and d/l'd three or four tools, looked over how each author > did whatever and either a)used someone

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Jim Campbell
round that can be used in a large hosting environment, you won't see CF as big as PHP with the masses. - Jim - Original Message - From: "S. Isaac Dealey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:57 PM Su

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
>> elaborate haiku? Depends on your definition of elaborate. >> >> for item in struct >> struct[item] equals nothing >> return structclear(struct) >> >> okay ... so it's redundant and it sucks >> -- the best I could do on short notice. :) >> >> >>s. isaac dealey > Oh come on, Isaac! You've had a

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> code for CF, there > is not a lot of free or open source code for CF. This is > one place where PHP > or Perl have an advantage. > Luis > -Original Message- > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:04 PM > To: CF-Talk > S

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Jim Davis
> elaborate haiku? Depends on your definition of elaborate. > > for item in struct > struct[item] equals nothing > return structclear(struct) > > okay ... so it's redundant and it sucks > -- the best I could do on short notice. :) > > >>s. isaac dealey Oh come on, Isaac! You've had a coupla ho

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
elaborate haiku? Depends on your definition of elaborate. for item in struct struct[item] equals nothing return structclear(struct) okay ... so it's redundant and it sucks -- the best I could do on short notice. :) > Isn't that an oxymoron? > At 04:03 PM 2/28/2003 -0500, you wrote: >>I make sur

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Jim Davis
> On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 14:12 US/Pacific, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > >> Actually let's reverse that... The livedocs system in use at > >> Macromedia was in use at Allaire in, I think 1998 (around when CF 3 > had come out > >> I > >> think, but perhaps CF 4). > > Actually, I had a 'livedoc' se

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Jim Davis
> I think that while it may be true that their is a lot of code > for CF, there is not a lot of free or open source code for > CF. This is one place where PHP or Perl have an advantage. Almost all the code I see for CF is open and unencrypted... Most of the .org collections (for example cflib.or

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Matt Robertson
Luis wrote: >for CF, there is not a lot of free or open source code I've always felt there's a ton of it out there, personally. Can't count the number of times I've gone to the dev exchg and d/l'd three or four tools, looked over how each author did whatever and either a)used someone's freely

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Bryan Stevenson
- From: "Luis Lebron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:08 PM Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? > I think that while it may be true that their is a lot of code for CF, there > is not a lot of

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 14:12 US/Pacific, Michael Dinowitz wrote: >> Actually let's reverse that... The livedocs system in use at >> Macromedia >> was in use at Allaire in, I think 1998 (around when CF 3 had come out >> I >> think, but perhaps CF 4). > Actually, I had a 'livedoc' section on H

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Luis Lebron
To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? > I think you're all missing the point if you think that more code = > longer development time. > > Remember, for PHP, there are massive script archives out there with > example code you can just grab and use. Even

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Michael Dinowitz
> > Remember, for PHP, there are massive script archives out there with > > example code you can just grab and use. Even the function docs at > > php.net are collaborative... a technique Macromedia has tried to > > co-opt. > > Actually let's reverse that... The livedocs system in use at Macromedia

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Jim Davis
> I think you're all missing the point if you think that more code = > longer development time. > > Remember, for PHP, there are massive script archives out there with > example code you can just grab and use. Even the function docs at > php.net are collaborative... a technique Macromedia has t

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Cary Gordon
Isn't that an oxymoron? At 04:03 PM 2/28/2003 -0500, you wrote: >I make sure the code for all my UDF's are elaborate haiku's. :) > >s. isaac dealey ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscript

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Cantrell, Adam
Dick. (Adam, sitting in dry, flat Chicgo) > -Original Message- > From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 3:50 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? > > > let your mind run free my friend.

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Tony Weeg
.net 410.548.2337 -Original Message- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed? You mean up like awake or up like happy? And regardless I'm going to blame it on snorting ants, yes. :)

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:31 PM > Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? >> Always plenty to go around. :) Who was it Ozzy who said >> he snorted a line > of >> ants once? >> >> > if you are, you better be sharing ;

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Dave Lyons
is that why u guys are up all the time? Dave - Original Message - From: "S. Isaac Dealey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:31 PM Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? > Always plenty t

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> Subject: Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed? >> On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 06:21 AM, Will Swain >> wrote: >>> >>> It was a very very long line. :) >>> >>> w >>> >>> >> Well, then I can do it in a half a line, using

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Michael Dinowitz
ctory and file manipulation > are > > allowed to be different and inconsistent in how they are performed. (I > > understand the Perl TIMTOWTDI philosophy, but I see things in PHP as > sloppy > > rather more than anything else.) > > > > CF is more consistent across the

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Taco Fleur
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:02 PM Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? > Here is a snippet from my PHP book ;) > > This is done using an pure PHP OO abstraction layer. > > It is alright as far as interfaces go. > >

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> Well, there is the developer's exchange at Macromedia. > Also, if you're comparing PHP to CF and you used 40 lines > of CF to > accomplish 1 line of PHP then I imagine you probably are > overlooking > some of CF's capabilities. Or you've started writing > obfuscated CF > poetry or something. I

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Tony Weeg
if you are, you better be sharing ;) ...tony -Original Message- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 3:59 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed? > On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 06:21 AM, Will Swain > wrote: &g

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 06:21 AM, Will Swain > wrote: >> >> It was a very very long line. :) >> >> w >> >> > Well, then I can do it in a half a line, using APL ;^)> Are we snorting lines of code now? :) s. isaac dealey954-776-0046 new epoch htt

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 11:36 US/Pacific, Barney Boisvert wrote: > I'm not sure if it's documented any where, I'd try a searching the > cfdocs > for RegExp stuff. See: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/cfmxdocs/CFML_Reference/functions- pt269.jsp#522 "As in ColdFusion 5, the characters \

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Barney Boisvert
n the cfdocs (if not, MM needs to rethink that decision). barneyb > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:02 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: PHP versus CF Development Speed? > >

PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread lee
LINES OF CODE BE GONE! Thanks for the insight -- the damn "\1" is what I needed. Is this documented anywhere normal? I had the same problem with PHP and Perl -- took me some time to stumble over the code (PHP -- like here -- a message board provided the answer). So, now my custom-tag writing ha

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Barney Boisvert
You can use the same RE in CF: definition = REreplaceNoCase(mycontent, "(#searchTerm#)", "\1", "all"); barneyb > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 8:41

PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread lee
40 LINES OF CODE -- OK, maybe I can learn something here that I don't know. Here's what I was trying to do (in English): A search engine functionality; when the results list returned, the keyword (let's keep it to single word/phrase to simplify) found in the results should be highlighted in so

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Bud
On 2/28/03, Will Swain penned: >It was a very very long line. :) Yep, 40 lines each about 100 characters long (4,000 chars) in CF and one line 25,000 characters long in PHP. :-D -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Joshua Miller
- From: jon roig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:43 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? I think you're all missing the point if you think that more code = longer development time. Remember, for PHP, there are massive script archives ou

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Alexander Sherwood
At 08:01 AM 2/28/2003 -0800, you wrote: >On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 06:21 AM, Will Swain wrote: > > > > > It was a very very long line. :) > > > > w > > > > > >Well, then I can do it in a half a line, using APL ;^)> And I can do it in half the APL line with CURL! ;-) > ~

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Dick Applebaum
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 06:21 AM, Will Swain wrote: > > It was a very very long line. :) > > w > > Well, then I can do it in a half a line, using APL ;^)> ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?f

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread jon roig
I think you're all missing the point if you think that more code = longer development time. Remember, for PHP, there are massive script archives out there with example code you can just grab and use. Even the function docs at php.net are collaborative... a technique Macromedia has tried to co-opt.

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Will Swain
It was a very very long line. :) w -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 February 2003 14:14 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? >>tag for CF, about 40 lines of code, that took ONE line of code in PHP and Je

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
L PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 5:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: PHP versus CF Development Speed? Having coded pretty extensively in both CF and PHP (and some ASP -- sloowww), I'd still give the crown to CF. PHP -- as mentioned -- is a little uglier in database access/query output.

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Jon Block
rsday, February 27, 2003 5:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: PHP versus CF Development Speed? Having coded pretty extensively in both CF and PHP (and some ASP -- sloowww), I'd still give the crown to CF. PHP -- as mentioned -- is a little uglier in database access/query output. But then, so is an

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-28 Thread Jeremy Allen
n" scope for PHP). The PHP answer to this is http://www.vl-srm.net, a completely separate daemon. :) Anyway, this post is long. Needless to say I think CF is a more complete solution and it is only getting better, but it is silly to dismiss PHP off hand due to the amount of almost built-in

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-27 Thread Barney Boisvert
27;ve been running on 1.4.0 followed by 1.4.1 without any issues. barneyb > -Original Message- > From: Dave Carabetta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:31 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed? > > > >If

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-27 Thread Dave Carabetta
>If you're running CFMX on Java 1.4, then you can make use of Java's regular >expression facilities which are amazingly full-featured. I can't remember >what package its in, but the main class in question is Pattern. The String >class also has a couple RE-based methods that make use of that class

RE: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-27 Thread Barney Boisvert
> Where PHP shines -- and cuts development time -- is it's > Perl-like attributes: robust regex support and so on. I recently > had to write a custom tag for CF, about 40 lines of code, that > took ONE line of code in PHP and Perl. If you're running CFMX on Java 1.4, then you can make use of Java'

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-27 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> Having coded pretty extensively in both CF and PHP (and > some ASP -- sloowww), I'd still give the crown to CF. > PHP -- as mentioned -- is a little uglier in database > access/query output. But then, so is any language compared > to CF, at least to me. I have yet to see db code that's as legib

PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-27 Thread lee
Having coded pretty extensively in both CF and PHP (and some ASP -- sloowww), I'd still give the crown to CF. PHP -- as mentioned -- is a little uglier in database access/query output. But then, so is any language compared to CF, at least to me. Where PHP shines -- and cuts development time --

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-27 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, Feb 27, 2003, at 11:30 US/Pacific, Alexander Sherwood wrote: > At 02:28 PM 2/27/2003 -0500, you wrote: >> Anyone have any good case studies or articles explaining development >> time >> coparisons between CF and PHP? I've statistics stating ASP takes 60% >> more >> dev time than CF.

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-27 Thread Bill Wheatley
php is slow and evil compared to CF! hehe i found that php fusebox3 was almost as fast as writing fb3 cf code - Original Message - From: "Alexander Sherwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:

Re: PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-27 Thread Alexander Sherwood
At 02:28 PM 2/27/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Anyone have any good case studies or articles explaining development time >coparisons between CF and PHP? I've statistics stating ASP takes 60% more >dev time than CF. Anyone have any numbers comparing CF to PHP? At least 60%, I would imagine! >***Sterlin

PHP versus CF Development Speed?

2003-02-27 Thread Luce, Greg
Anyone have any good case studies or articles explaining development time coparisons between CF and PHP? I've statistics stating ASP takes 60% more dev time than CF. Anyone have any numbers comparing CF to PHP? ***Sterling Financial Investment Group, Inc. (SFIG) is a member ofNASD/MSRB/NFA/SIPC. E