[cfaussie] SOT: sql datatypes

2006-12-05 Thread grant
Hi The Oracle documentation for Datatypes show varchar2 as: VARCHAR2(size [BYTE | CHAR]) and they go on to say: BYTE indicates that the column will have byte length semantics; CHAR indicates that the column will have character semantics. Ummm... anybody got a dumbed-down version of what that m

[cfaussie] Re: Find and remove a trailing slash from a path - brain fade time

2006-12-05 Thread Andrew Scott
Yes Mike it is, the best place is java.sun.com and look at the api, or you could always go looking into the class source files themselves? Andrew Scott Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273 --~--~-~--~~--

[cfaussie] Re: Find and remove a trailing slash from a path - brain fade time

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Kear
Thats not how i did it before, but thats FAR more elegant. Thanks! I'm assuming endsWith() is a java string function is it? Where can i find a list of all these functions? I ought to know more about them. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Develop

[cfaussie] Re: Find and remove a trailing slash from a path - brain fade time

2006-12-05 Thread Joel Cass
What? there's a manual? -Original Message- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Thornton Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 4:31 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Find and remove a trailing slash from a path - brain fad

[cfaussie] Re: Find and remove a trailing slash from a path - brain fade time

2006-12-05 Thread Andrew Scott
Scott, And nor will you either, if you think about it CF sees that as a string and Java has the method endsWith() so you can leverage of this little trick with great uses:-) Andrew Scott Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273

[cfaussie] Re: Find and remove a trailing slash from a path - brain fade time

2006-12-05 Thread Bruce Trevarthen \(B2 Limited\)
Arh, CF6 Use this instead... Bruce -Original Message- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Thornton Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 6:31 p.m. To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Find and remove a trailing slash from a pa

[cfaussie] Find and remove a trailing slash from a path - brain fade time

2006-12-05 Thread Scott Thornton
endsWidth() ??? That is a fucntion that can't be found in my CF MX 6.1 manual. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/12/2006 4:24 pm >>> Mike Andrew Scott Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273 --~--~-~--~~

[cfaussie] Re: Find and remove a trailing slash from a path - brain fade time

2006-12-05 Thread Andrew Scott
Mike Andrew Scott Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this

[cfaussie] Find and remove a trailing slash from a path - brain fade time

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Kear
I'm having a brain fade i know i've done this before but can't remember how I did it .. I am programmatically getting the path to the root of the site, and I want to make sure that if the last character in the path is a slash (\) that it's removed. That's cos when i combine the root path va

[cfaussie] Melbourne CFUG Drinks

2006-12-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Putting the call out there to see if any melbourne folks would like an end or year drinks for cfug We are looking either the evening of tuesday the 12th or wednesday the 13th Cast your votes :) Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

[cfaussie] Re: large xml file problem

2006-12-05 Thread Toby Tremayne
Hi Mark, thanks for that - looks like just what I need. I'm having some trouble getting it to work though, do you have any references to a working cf implementation? Toby On 06/12/2006, at 13:42 , Mark Mandel wrote: > > Have a look at StAX for situations like this: > http://www.go

[cfaussie] Re: large xml file problem

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Mandel
Have a look at StAX for situations like this: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=java+stax&btnG=Search&meta= Mark On 12/6/06, Toby Tremayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have a problem reading a large file. It's an xml file which I > need to be able to parse

[cfaussie] large xml file problem

2006-12-05 Thread Toby Tremayne
Hi All, I have a problem reading a large file. It's an xml file which I need to be able to parse and search, so using the java filereader / bufferedreader trick doesn't help me. Problem is the file is 21MB and it seems to be crashing the server when I read it in using cffile. C

[cfaussie] Poll application in Flash Forms or Ajax

2006-12-05 Thread George Lu
Hi, Does anyone know where I can find an Ajax plugin or Flash Form application for quick poll/survey (one question with yes/no option)? Thanks, George --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" gro

[cfaussie] Re: Why XHTML?

2006-12-05 Thread Haikal Saadh
I don't understand what you mean by 'extra effort'... You close off some tags. Encode some entities. Make sure tags are properly nested, and you don't use attributes willy-nilly. Stuff that we should be doing anyway. Good infrastructure can make doing this sort of thing easy. Ryan Sabir wrote:

[cfaussie] Re: Why XHTML?

2006-12-05 Thread Haikal Saadh
And don't forget, if you're generating valid XHTML, you're more than half way to generating RSS feeds and exposing data as web services and other cool things that expect valid XML. Mark Mandel wrote: > Honestly - > > My main reason for using XHTML is because it is SO much easier to do > any sor

[cfaussie] Re: Why XHTML?

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Stanton
> How many of you are developing sites in XHTML these days? We don't unless there is a specific reason we need content in XML. > Is it worth the extra effort? Not for it's own sake. IMHO aiming for valid HTML 4.01 is the best bet. - As someone else pointed out - XHTML served as text/html get

[cfaussie] Re: Why XHTML?

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Mandel
Honestly - My main reason for using XHTML is because it is SO much easier to do any sort of Ajax/DHTML scripting with a nice clean DOM. Also with a cleaner document structure I find doing maintenance on the display layer a breeze, as opposed to the rigmarole I've gone through for regular ol' HTM

[cfaussie] Re: Why XHTML?

2006-12-05 Thread Joel Cass
It's an SEO book, not a development book. Anyway (in my opinion), SEO is just a bunch of hearsay and conjecture. Anyone who has done any work with CSS in multiple browsers knows that using the transitional doctype in any language is a no-no. For starters, IE misinterprets the box model incorrectly

[cfaussie] Re: Why XHTML?

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Kear
I dont buy that Sarah. Any search engine spider that doesnt read XHTML isnt on eof the majors and is therefore hardly worth the worry. In fact I'd suggest, given Google's attitude to the minor search engines, that maybe you're better off that way cos all those link farms and portals wouldnt be a

[cfaussie] Re: Why XHTML?

2006-12-05 Thread Sarah Barry
and yet planetocean in its December SEO book still recommends sticking with html because: quote: "Some search engine spiders have had difficulty processing the XHTML DOCTYPE in the past, so we recommend that you use the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE, ..." I did some research (some time ago

[cfaussie] Re: Why XHTML?

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Kear
Ryan, i use it almost exclusively because: [A] It's more up to date, and therefore more future proof (or perhaps less future-risky is a more accurate way to put it) [B] using the XHTML Strict is stricter and therefore forces me to use a more concise and valid code (therefore more cross-browser co

[cfaussie] Why XHTML?

2006-12-05 Thread Ryan Sabir
Hey all, How many of you are developing sites in XHTML these days? Is it worth the extra effort? thanks. Ryan Sabir Technical Director p: (02) 9274 8030 f: (02) 9274 8099 m: 0411 512 454 w: www.newgency.comNewgency Pty Ltd Web | Multimedia | eMarketing 224 Riley St Surry Hills NSW 2010 S

[cfaussie] Re: CFFLUSH using script

2006-12-05 Thread Adam Cameron
You can't use like that, but you CAN use though. This isn't appropriate for all situations, but is handy to know. -- Adam --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group

[cfaussie] Re: REMINDER TONIGHT: the "virtual" QLD CFUG

2006-12-05 Thread Scott Barnes
can i get a meatlovers one though? (Sorry to be picky) On 12/5/06, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > there ya go. take your pick > > http://images.google.com/images?q=pizza&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi > > lots of virtual pizza to chose from. > > b > > On 12/5/06, Scott Barnes <[EMAI