Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-02 Thread John C. Bland II
Coo on 1st agreement. Yes, you are right. The CSS is not broken. Fix is used very loosely, as is hack in my vocab. I have been leaving too many blanket statements (which is what I told someone else not to do so I'm am 100% guilty there). "I don't know...bug not found" really means IE 6 does not p

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread Mark Henderson
> CSS developers aren't considered such unless they can make > things work cross-browser. Would you agree? Agreed, no arguments there. > Even if you > don't, that is my take. I won't hire anyone for XHTML/CSS > unless they can work cross-browser. So, again...fix your CSS. This is where we dif

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread John C. Bland II
ince there is a > hack available... That's frequin delusional. :-) > > > > -Original Message- > From: John C. Bland II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:20 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > Oh man, th

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread John C. Bland II
(responded offlist; this post is pretty much dead and no need to fill up everyone's inbox) On 10/1/06, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John C. Bland II wrote: > > Duh, the rendering engine does not render everything properly and the > > community has found the necessary hacks to w

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
John C. Bland II wrote: > Duh, the rendering engine does not render everything properly and the > community has found the necessary hacks to work around them. Did you think I > was talking about 5 years ago or now? You were talking about a specific phone call I made in the past. If you don't know

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread Matt Quackenbush
I could agree. But to assert that it's not a bug/problem with IE since there is a hack available... That's frequin delusional. :-) -Original Message- From: John C. Bland II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:20 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF vs. .NE

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread John McKown
Phillip, Well written. I agree 100%. John > -Original Message- > From: Phillip Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 10:30 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > Steve, > > Let me start by saying I h

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread John C. Bland II
Read my last post in response. I explain. On 10/1/06, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John C. Bland II > > Are you seriously stating you called MSFT about IE not rendering > something > > right? > > Of course. If you find a bug you report it. How else do bugs get fixed, by > bashi

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread John C. Bland II
Oh man, this is one of the reasons I don't like replying on big lists. I have to explain every detail or I get "flamed" by someone. Duh, the rendering engine does not render everything properly and the community has found the necessary hacks to work around them. Did you think I was talking about 5

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread Dawson, Michael
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Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread Mark Henderson
On 9/30/06, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote > He was being sarcastic, that was obvious. Then John C. Bland II wrote >Apparently not. ;-) and the text in question from Jochem: > So next time I find an issue where for instance a bug in IE results in > incorrect rendering, I can just call and I ge

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > He was being sarcastic, that was obvious. "that is not a bug, that is a feature" -> IE rendering of some CSS Level 1 core stuff (btw, the MS homepage still claims that IE 6 has "Full CSS Level 1 Support" http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/evaluation/feat

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-10-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
John C. Bland II > Are you seriously stating you called MSFT about IE not rendering something > right? Of course. If you find a bug you report it. How else do bugs get fixed, by bashing the vendor on #1337? > That is definitely not a bug. So how would you call it if a browser does not render

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread John C. Bland II
ed within > this > communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." > Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com > > -Original Message----- > From: John C. Bland II > To: CF-Talk > Sent: Sat Sep 30 22:15:40 2006 > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NE

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
II To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Sep 30 22:15:40 2006 Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? Are you seriously stating you called MSFT about IE not rendering something right? That is definitely not a bug. IE has a rendering engine. CSS developers know what it can and can't handle. If you did something

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Russ
I don't have access to a solaris box, but I will install one if necessary. Do you have an actual code sample? Russ > -Original Message- > From: Tom Kitta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:38 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET pres

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Russ
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:49 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > That's just wrong. Over 99% of our support is not about bugs in the > products we have, it's about how people are using them. I can

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread John C. Bland II
Are you seriously stating you called MSFT about IE not rendering something right? That is definitely not a bug. IE has a rendering engine. CSS developers know what it can and can't handle. If you did something it can't handle, tough cookies. Fix your CSS...not IE. lol. Sorry man, that just seemed

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Matthew Small wrote: > One of the biggest things that can be said about MS products is that > they are supported, constantly. IIRC the only web development language of any significance ever deprecated by its vendor was ASP. > But even better, we have professional support for the little guy. Wh

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Teddy Payne
websites etc. At least this would make the conversation more mailing list > administrator friendly (I think). > > TK > > -Original Message- > From: Teddy Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 September 2006 16:11 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presen

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Snake
> Job security just does not exist much anymore, which is why it's important to know more than CF. > - Matt Small Really Matt? Its kept me employed for 7 years, and the two companies I own which specialise in CF are still doing very well. -- Russ ~

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Chesty Puller
TECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 12:53 PM Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > Indeed, we are an global Microsoft house and we use ColdFusion, and ASP, > and > ..NET.. We don't care to be honest.. Whatever fits. > > > > &g

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
uot; Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Tom Kitta To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Sep 30 17:05:55 2006 Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? Teddy, Maybe we can take this thread and make it more useful by showing strengths of both technologies, how they can inter

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Tom Kitta
: Teddy Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2006 16:11 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? This CF vs. .Net presentation mailing thread has been in active contribution most of the past week. I have seen heated debates and acknowledgements on both sides. In essence

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Snake
personally have antyhing against .NET, and if I were not a CF developer I would most likely be doing .NET anyway, I think it's a great framework. Russ "Snake" Michaels -Original Message- From: Teddy Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2006 16:11 To: CF-Talk

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Teddy Payne
erence between that and writing .NET > in cobol? > > Russ > > -Original Message- > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 September 2006 14:56 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > No I mean, using CFML

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Snake
(RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 September 2006 14:56 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? No I mean, using CFML in BD.NET is not really developing .NET, it's ColdFusion which just happens to be using .NET. Just like developing ColdFusion on Adobe ColdFusion i

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
ithin this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Snake To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Sep 30 14:22:10 2006 Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? You can develop .NET in many languages,

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Snake
expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Snake To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Sep 30 11:30:42 2006 Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? Personally I just use BlueDrag

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
ithin this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Snake To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Sep 30 11:30:42 2006 Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? Personally I just use BlueDragon, which m

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Snake
pressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: John C. Bland II To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Sep 30 07:49:01 2006 Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? I def' agree that learning .NET is not an easy task. If you know JS, Actionscript

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-30 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
ed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: John C. Bland II To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Sep 30 07:49:01 2006 Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? I def' agree that learning .NET is not an easy task. If you know JS, Actionscript

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
I def' agree that learning .NET is not an easy task. If you know JS, Actionscript, Java, etc (an ECMA language) picking up C# won't be too difficult. Learning all of the libraries in .NET is simply an astounding task but once you know ASP.NET you're golden for all things ASP.NET. CF developers can

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
ould like an example of CF/Java code that causes a memory > leak. > > Russ > > > -Original Message- > > From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 6:30 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Tom Kitta
, but you asked for a CF example, TK -Original Message- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? If CF is deployed on Linux, half of your support would not be needed. If you want to write some custom

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Chesty Puller
o point out that MS is heavy into enterprise because, as someone pointed out, it's an end-to-end solution. Their stuff all works together, and if it doesn't, we fix it. - Matt - Original Message - From: "Russ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent:

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Dave Watts
Before I get started, I should probably again state that I do like quite a few Microsoft products. And, I'm not trying to be combative. But anyway ... > I know that Dave works in the DC area (please correct me if > I'm wrong) and DC is strong into CF with all of the > government agencies. That'

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Russ
; From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 6:30 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > Sorry to chime in late, and after Mike said not to... I haven't been on > this list in a long time either. However, this i

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
Well put. A lil' defensive (understandably) but well put. On 9/29/06, Matthew Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry to chime in late, and after Mike said not to... I haven't been on > this list in a long time either. However, this isn't about .NET vs. > CF. It's to respond to Dave's comment

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Matthew Small
Sorry to chime in late, and after Mike said not to... I haven't been on this list in a long time either. However, this isn't about .NET vs. CF. It's to respond to Dave's comments. I know that Dave works in the DC area (please correct me if I'm wrong) and DC is strong into CF with all of the g

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Dave Watts
> What I mean by integrate is more-so an extending. Without > knowing Java, can you handle that with ease (being the key > part)? Also, can a non-advanced user do it? (another key part) No, probably not. However, learning CF and Java seems to be about the same amount of work as learning .NET. In

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
pad. At the minimum you would need some > kind of JDK. > > Russ > > > -Original Message- > > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:Neil.Robertson- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:41 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Dave Watts
> I'm not sure if it's even possible. Doesn't .NET compile > components to dll's? You can do that from notepad. At the > minimum you would need some kind of JDK. The .NET Framework SDK includes a compiler, and it's available as a free download. In addition, there are several useful tools othe

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Russ
AIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:41 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > Well you would seriously struggle to develop in .NET without it. > > > > > > > > "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
+44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within > this > communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." > Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com > > -Original Message----- > From: John C. Bland II > To: CF-Talk > Sent: Fri Sep

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
- From: John C. Bland II To: CF-Talk Sent: Fri Sep 29 19:31:29 2006 Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? Dave, I've always stood by that ASP.NET without Visual Studio is lacking. VS is the no doubt the major selling point here. Using Notepad would only be for the seasoned developer. O

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
---Original Message- > > From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:15 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > > > Hi, Phil... > > > > I share your sentiments concerning CF and

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
es, and tell JRUN to store session info in the > db, so it's not much harder then doing it in ASP. CF just gives you more > options. > > Russ > > > -Original Message- > > From: Phillip B. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, Septembe

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Brownlee
Johnny: Now you see the inherent dangers in even mentioning another technology on this list. It always gets blown out of proportion and off-topic. I'll keep it short and sweet. Dave Carabetta's response was the most helpful for giving you a resource: http://www.buntel.com/docs/top5reason

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
Dave, I've always stood by that ASP.NET without Visual Studio is lacking. VS is the no doubt the major selling point here. Using Notepad would only be for the seasoned developer. On 9/29/06, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is the argument that development in CF is quicker then in > > .

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Jerry Johnson
Actually, .net developers, for a comparable skill level, are usually cheaper than their cf counterparts. I know that because we are out-sourcing cf development like crazy (11 external developers at the moment, I think, and more coming), and we have to justify the added cost each project. Still no

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
(Mike, sorry...seems to have a mind of its own. There is some technical talk in Dave's post and mine, here, as well.) Dude, what a long post. lol. I'll try to make sure I respond accordingly. :-) What I mean by integrate is more-so an extending. Without knowing Java, can you handle that with ease

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
e $1300...(and yes, Adobe has benefitted from the $1300 I paid to Allaire many years ago...) Rick -Original Message- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 1:05 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? On 9/29/06, Rick Faircloth &

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Dave Watts
> Correct. But my main point was not for a onesey twosey > environment / shop. > It's the big sites that have 30+ boxes. An extra MS SQL read > is a lot less than 6k per box (example: $180,000.00 vs. an > extra SQL read 5,000.00 or so). You know, the big sites don't necessarily scale out, they

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Phillip B. Holmes
share and make more CF jobs for everyone :) --Phil -Original Message- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? You still need some sort of central DB server, so it's still putting extra load o

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Dave Watts
> Remember ADO needs no ODBC bridge (like JDBC). DB hits to MS > SQL are going to naturally be faster. The DataDirect MS SQL driver used by CF is a type 4 JDBC driver. It doesn't use ODBC. I suspect that the ADO driver may well be faster, but I don't know if it's enough faster to make a significa

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread loathe
48 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > Also the JDBC-ODBC bridge is not used when talking to SQL server. I'm not > sure what the performance difference is between JDBC and ODBC, maybe > someone > can pitch in here. > > Russ > > >

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Russ
ber 29, 2006 1:19 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > >I imagine it will be the same with ASP. > > DB Session handling in ASP.NET is a native functionality of .NET which you > flip the setting in the web.config file and setup your SQL DB that handl

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Russ
p B. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 1:19 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > >I imagine it will be the same with ASP. > > DB Session handling in ASP.NET is a native functionality of .NET which you > flip the

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread loathe
I meant community, sorry. > -Original Message- > From: John C. Bland II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 1:11 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > I'm already on it. I'll respond once the convo move

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Phillip B. Holmes
DBC bridge (like JDBC). DB hits to MS SQL are going to naturally be faster. --Phil -Original Message- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:57 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? There are a few lines that you can add to CF config files

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Dave Watts
> Is the argument that development in CF is quicker then in > .NET still valid - when comparing latest to latest - anyone > expert on say Asp.Net ... I think this largely depends on your background. Visual Studio.NET does a very good job of making web application development seem to work like tr

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:43 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > > > Dude, you are arguing just to argue. lol. Calm down a bit. > > > > WDDX? Are you serious? :-D I wish my laughing emoticon

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Dave Watts
> Loathe, can you store that session data in a database with > ease? If so, what database? Can you write your own session > handler that integrates with the CF session handler? Yes, any, yes. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "integration", though, so you might want to provide more specific

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Charlie Griefer
On 9/29/06, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with your bottom-line, John, that it's mostly > a matter of money...free vs. $1200, minimum. > > For me, it's not so much about functionality...I'm still > building websites and apps on CF 4.5 as fast as I can > program them...and I've

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Loathe
It was on BSD at one point, but they may have thrown that aside. > -Original Message- > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:51 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > > "AS

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Russ
loading the db server on every request. Russ > -Original Message- > From: John C. Bland II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:43 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > Dude, you are arguing just to argue.

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Russ
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:36 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > Thanks for the comments, Russ. > > > > I guess I need to look at BD's site again...I checked out their > offerings when the announcement of the

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread loathe
Sign up on CF-Talk if you would. I'd like to continue this. > -Original Message- > From: John C. Bland II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:43 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > Dude, you are arguin

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
o.com -Original Message- From: John C. Bland II To: CF-Talk Sent: Fri Sep 29 17:42:44 2006 Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? Dude, you are arguing just to argue. lol. Calm down a bit. WDDX? Are you serious? :-D I wish my laughing emoticon worked here. lol. There are tons of reasons

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
Any stats on how many "one-man" or "two-man" shops, etc, are using CF? I'd like to know the breakdown... Rick -Original Message- From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
price tag, drastically. If CF was free (for example), there wouldn't be much of a complaint by any of the other religious .net'ers, php'ers, etc. Price is the biggest problem in CF. - Original Message - From: "Loathe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk&

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
Hey, sorry Mike. I didn't know this was getting run to the ground. I should've guessed though. I'll refrain from responding here. - Original Message - From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Friday, September

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
uing for no reason. - Original Message - From: "Loathe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 9:24 AM Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? > Yes I can it's called wddx. > > My own session handler? Why would I, they

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
h Apache. When you wrote "You can't say the same about .NET", what did you mean? Rick -Original Message- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? Personally, I tried to learn .NET a f

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Phillip B. Holmes
esults&s_kw=.NET+C%23&s_city=&s_jcid= That doesn't even include VB.NET, J++, etc and so on. -- Phil => -Original Message----- From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presenta

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Michael Dinowitz
This topic has come up every 2 months since before there even was an Asp. But it's off topic for this technical list. Please move any responses over to the CF-OT (ColdFusion off topic) list, CF-Community (where it will be ridiculed) or even to CF-Jobs-Talk or Biz-Dev (Business Development). It's

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Loathe
ENTERPRISE" solution? Have you purchased a J2EE server recently? Know how much they cost? > -Original Message- > From: John C. Bland II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:14 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? >

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Loathe
and all the other crap from the 80s that is still here and slowly being replaced. All I am saying, the sky isn't falling people. > -Original Message- > From: Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:10 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CF vs. .NE

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread John C. Bland II
CF was free (for example), there wouldn't be much of a complaint by any of the other religious .net'ers, php'ers, etc. Price is the biggest problem in CF. - Original Message - From: "Loathe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Friday, Septe

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Jacob
elieved that I have finally > learned .NET because the .NET to CF job ratio is about 100:1 at least. > Holding on exclusively to a versus mentality will only hurt > yourself in the > end. > > > > --Phil > > ===> > > -Original Message- > From

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Loathe
- > From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:58 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > > Personally, I tried to learn .NET a few times, but it seemed > pretty backward > to me, and I have a MS in CS. I'm sur

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Loathe
zy traffic? I thought that Myspace has been about the largest web application in the world for the last couple of years. > -Original Message- > From: Phillip Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 10:30 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE:

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Russ
.and > unless > I'm using FLEX or AJAX, I haven't seen any significant end user experience > improvements through the various CF versions. > > > > A good discussion to have on a Friday... > > Rick > > > > -Original Message- > From: Ph

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Tom Kitta
: Friday, September 29, 2006 10:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? Steve, Let me start by saying I have been with CF since 1996. I've recently learned .NET via C# as well. The resemblance of C# to Java is remarkable which made the learning curve much faster for me. Howev

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2006-09-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
the end user...and unless I'm using FLEX or AJAX, I haven't seen any significant end user experience improvements through the various CF versions. A good discussion to have on a Friday... Rick -Original Message- From: Phillip Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread James Holmes
If you include the cost of our database infrastructure (which is used for mutiple purposes), our Sun based Oracle/Solaris/CF architecture cost maybe $1,000,000. What's a few thousand in that for CF? Nothing compared to the benefits we get. Not everyone runs small shops where a CF license is a signi

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Dawson, Michael
"Unfortunately, I can see the writing on the wall for CF unless Adobe adopts a DRAMATIC pricing reduction strategy. Plain and simply put, with ..NET and Mono in the market, CF can no longer increase market share whilst continuing to maintain / increase their pricing. They're not the only game in to

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Dave Carabetta
On 9/29/06, Johnny Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Have any of you done a presentation to justify using CF over .NET? A friend > of mine just got a big contract, but the owner wants it to be done in .NET. > My friend is trying to convince him to let him do it in CF. If you have done >

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Phillip Holmes
teve Brownlee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:19 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? I use ASP.NET quite a bit, and while I'd still give CF a slight edge in development speed, the gap has closed tremendously since the days of original ASP. Now th

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
But you don't have to pay for .NET functionality if you don't use CF or BlueDragon, right? Rick -Original Message- From: Snake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 8:04 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? You don't even ne

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2006-09-29 Thread Steve Brownlee
that the programmers knowledge of both is equal. Steve Brownlee http://www.fusioncube.net/ > -Original Message- > From: Tom Kitta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:57 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? > > Is the ar

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2006-09-29 Thread Phillip Holmes
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2006-09-29 Thread Tom Kitta
: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? That's only really useful if you want to run on anything other windows. The fact that they want to use .NET I presume means they like windows. Russ -Original Message- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 September 2006 13:18 To: CF

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Massimo Gianadda
ject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? That's only really useful if you want to run on anything other windows. The fact that they want to use .NET I presume means they like windows. Russ -Original Message- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 September 2006 13:18 To: CF-Tal

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Snake
y supports Microsoft WindowsR 2000, Windows XP, and the forthcoming Windows Server 2003. That all you need!! - Original Message - From: "Peter Boughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 6:00 AM Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentation

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Doug Brown
funnyI guess MS is lagging behind a little. Doug - Original Message - From: "David Low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 6:18 AM Subject: RE: CF vs. .NET presentations? > You'd have to update that a bit -

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2006-09-29 Thread David Low
You'd have to update that a bit - Windows Server 2003 was 'upcoming' about four years ago :-) > -Original Message- > From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 September 2006 13:18 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > >

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2006-09-29 Thread Doug Brown
osoft Windows® 2000, Windows XP, and the forthcoming Windows Server 2003. That all you need!! - Original Message - From: "Peter Boughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 6:00 AM Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? > Th

Re: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread Casey Dougall
BlueDragon beta 7 was just released. On 9/29/06, Peter Boughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This has never failed to work for me: > Slide 1: .NET is a pile of poo! > Slide 2: CF is wonderful!!! > The End. > > ;) > > > Alternatively, you could go for the "both" option, with BlueDragon.NET > http:

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