Re: [cfaussie] Creating A String With ## values in coldfusion

2015-03-01 Thread Barry Beattie
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Re: [cfaussie] Creating A String With ## values in coldfusion

2015-03-01 Thread Barry Beattie
personally, I'd much prefer setting the # as a variable from the chr(x) function over replacing one string with another. Easily missed and there are ~ popping up unexpectedly... my 2c (from memory, YMMV) /** # as delim **/ On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Blair McKenzie wrote: > Another

Re: [cfaussie] cfmap Bing / Google Maps

2014-05-15 Thread Barry Beattie
great question: I'm seeing more and more Bing maps being incorporated into services (eg: Facebook events). As a member of the public, I'm biased towards Google Maps but I'm conscious of the trend. On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:42 AM, wrote: > Hi > > > > Just wondering if CFmap works with Bing Maps

Re: [cfaussie] What the ColdFusion community needs more of...

2012-11-26 Thread Barry Beattie
> On another note who in the world can take 10 weeks off full time to do such a > course. the unemployed, students, etc. I was four months unemployed last year. I was three months unemployed (thanks, Can-Do Campbell!) until recently. It happens. > If Adobe were to sponsor / subsidise this it woul

Re: [cfaussie] What the ColdFusion community needs more of...

2012-11-25 Thread Barry Beattie
t; then supporting cf.Objective(ANZ) comes to mind. Or WebDU for that matter. Or, dare I say it ... the local CF user group? I'll shut up now and crawl back into my hole. Barry Beattie On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Dawesi wrote: > Passion, enthuisasm > > events like this:

Re: [cfaussie] Coldfusion Web services

2012-06-19 Thread Barry Beattie
> I ended up having to rename the property to something else.  This issue > occurs on CF8 and CF9 And yet it hasn't already been reported as a bug/known issue? Curious -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send emai

Re: [cfaussie] OT : iPad website viewing

2012-05-24 Thread Barry Beattie
so what happens when you want to turn the ipad sideways: the page doesn't reflow? Are you sure you want to do this? On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Steve Onnis wrote: > Does anyone know if you can force a website to always be viewed in landscape > on an ipad? Any meta tags or anything that can

Re: [cfaussie] OT: source control question

2012-05-22 Thread Barry Beattie
> Entirely depends on your system. Rats. I'm looking at this from a theoretical POV which should provide some guidance for any system Suffice to say a product has been developed. A bit of late additional work was done but it was considered it wasn't a good idea and the additions scrapped. The id

[cfaussie] OT: source control question

2012-05-22 Thread Barry Beattie
nothing to do with CF, everything to do with correct source code control procedures. say a bunch of work has progressively got to the stage where the last of it to pass testing was v0.2. After that, a bit more functionality was added - twice - to make the versioning v0.2.01 and v0.2.02 and checke

Re: [cfaussie] UK Recruiters

2012-05-10 Thread Barry Beattie
@Matt: " or looking at coming here?" what's the options? work permits, etc. thanks Barry B On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:56 PM, M@ Bourke wrote: > Hi Brett, > > I've been here 6 years, are you in the UK or looking at coming here? > if you're here then I strongly suggest going to the following

Re: [cfaussie] textareas the returns

2012-04-22 Thread Barry Beattie
Steve: is there any situations where wouldn't work/be a good idea? That used to be my preference. On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Brian Knott wrote: > Had a look at Paragraph forma but it replace single returns with spaces > and double returns with . Not sure why it replaces with spaces, but

Re: [cfaussie] Sean Corfield will be in Sydney and Melborne in August

2012-03-31 Thread Barry Beattie
Tamworth? What the hell is in Tamworth? It's not the Country Music Festival then is it? On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:24 PM, AJ Mercer wrote: > And be 'get him to' you mean ask nicely right :-P > On Mar 31, 2012 3:09 PM, "Dale Fraser" wrote: > > -- > You received this message because you are sub

Re: [cfaussie] [ANN SYD] Tonight: Open Source CMSs powered by cfml

2012-01-30 Thread Barry Beattie
so, Kym, how did it go? For us not in Sydney, you've whet our appetites. What were the CMS's and what's the conclusion? On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Mark Mandel wrote: > Sounds like a great session for CFMeetup! :) > > Mark > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Brett Payne-Rhodes wrote: >

Re: [cfaussie] Re: bizarre CF9 sql server error

2012-01-13 Thread Barry Beattie
a missed comma (or space/carriage return) when moved to CF? For it to complain before the FROM clause is IMHO the clue. divide and conquer until it's found perhaps? On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Stephen M wrote: > > > On Jan 13, 7:17 pm, "Steve Onnis" wrote: > > Can you show us some of the

Re: [cfaussie] CF Report Builder tool: any success stories?

2012-01-03 Thread Barry Beattie
t; http://learncf.com > > http://flexcf.com > > ** ** > > *From:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Barry Beattie > *Sent:* Wednesday, 4 January 2012 1:41 PM > *To:* cfaussie > *Subject:* [cfaussie] CF Report Bui

[cfaussie] CF Report Builder tool: any success stories?

2012-01-03 Thread Barry Beattie
users to generate reports (and save CFR files to re-run at a later date)? thanks Barry Beattie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Amazon EC2 hosting services viability

2011-09-07 Thread Barry Beattie
Steve: what's the Data Center's/your's disaster recovery plan?** How critical is it for you to deliver, say, 99.5% (or whatever in your SLA) uptime to your customers? no criticism, not having a go, just curious if these are factors to consider (what you've got Vs what EC2 can do for you). me: n

Re: [cfaussie] A really useful video of CF9 performance

2011-08-22 Thread Barry Beattie
what's with the music in the background? Sounds like an old trad Irish tune ("she moved through the fair") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skb9cn6q0lw Megadeath it ain't... On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mark Ireland wrote: > > A really useful video of CF9 performance > > http://www.youtube.

Re: [cfaussie] Helms and Peters are back at it again...

2011-08-10 Thread Barry Beattie
there's a lot of good stuff that these guys touch on using motorbikes, cooking, woodworking as vehicles to make the point. Ideas that are worthwhile in application development, analyst skills, project management, etc. Defiantly worth the half an hour or so to listen to. If ppl haven't heard the

Re: [cfaussie] How to load balance

2011-08-08 Thread Barry Beattie
LOL! you're assimilating, Kai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_New_Zealand Kiwi ingenuity: This is the idea that New Zealanders display a MacGyver-like ability to solve any problem, often using unconventional means or whatever happens to be lying around. This is also described as the Numb

Re: [cfaussie] How to load balance

2011-08-08 Thread Barry Beattie
> Just as a side note: What you're asking for "a solution to the following" or > "does anyone have instructions on how to setup load balancing" is rather a > consulting gig than a question on a mailing list imho. As you can see from > just the few pointers I've provided you, it's a vast topic with

Re: [cfaussie] Converting boolean YES to true

2011-08-04 Thread Barry Beattie
so, what's !YES ... is it NO? is anything that can be construed as a YES (True, 1, etc) considered a YES and therefore the opposite is NO? On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Chong wrote: > TBH you would have to fix it yourself, I can't see Adobe fixing it soon as > it is likely a legacy issue,

Re: [cfaussie] Converting boolean YES to true

2011-08-04 Thread Barry Beattie
"Also can anyone one recommend a way to do this now? I tried JavaCast(“Boolean”, foo) but that didn’t work." have you seen this? http://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2010/2/5/Booleans.and.Coldfusion Also, have you confirmed you have a true boolean? What I'm getting at is the difference betwee

Re: [cfaussie] import dynamic location

2011-07-17 Thread Barry Beattie
IIRC, because the IMPORT target is calculated at compile time, not runtime. yes? (lets see if I've still got brain cells left). On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Paul Kukiel wrote: > No you must specify a real location for this and not a variable. > > Paul. > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:51 PM, St

Re: [cfaussie] MAD. Who wants pizza?

2011-05-19 Thread Barry Beattie
Pizza makes you fat, Dale. Bread, carbs, fats, oils, meats, cheese. Heart-attack candidates. How about a nice hot bowl of Lentil Soup? Grilled Tofu on CousCous? Crispy Celery salad anyone? On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Dale Fraser wrote: > Well if there is no Pizza then im not coming, I e

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Pop up text

2011-05-15 Thread Barry Beattie
@Andrew > This uses YUI 2 (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/).  Given my time again > I'd probably not use YUI, Just as an FYI / heads-up / IMHO, can I ask why? (no affiliation, just curious) thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. T

Re: [cfaussie] Re: upgrade strategies (enterprise software)

2011-03-28 Thread Barry Beattie
thanks Gav > I'd do something along the lines of; > Create a new branch in your repository (SVN / Git / etc) of choice and > use that branch as the ApplicationRoot for the application that the > BAs/Testers use. > That way, any changes you end up making can now be tracked and "more > easily" merge

Re: [cfaussie] Re: POI and ColdFusion

2011-03-27 Thread Barry Beattie
> Oh, and for those playing at home... I'm running CFMX7... so i can't > use cfspreadsheet... :/ so, in effect what you're saying is that the expense in upgrading two versions might be able to be offset by increased developer productivity? just a quick 2c. -- You received this message because y

Re: [cfaussie] upgrade strategies (enterprise software)

2011-03-27 Thread Barry Beattie
egroups.com >> Subject: RE: [cfaussie] upgrade strategies (enterprise software) >> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:48:23 +1100 >> >> Virtual machines >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Barry Beattie [mailto:barry.beat...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday,

[cfaussie] upgrade strategies (enterprise software)

2011-03-24 Thread Barry Beattie
Upgrading software versions: what's best practice? This isn't specifically about CF (although I'm curious how Adobe handles multiple version upgrades: do they have a CF11 and CF12 development environment running now in addition to CF10?) I've come across a situation where people want to include f

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Daily Rate

2011-03-17 Thread Barry Beattie
> I think i remember seeing that job being advertised, and skipping > straight over it because of the location. I had a closer look (just about every time it appeared) because it was right up my alley with TAFE/training/education, but came to the same conclusion. I wasn't the only bread-winner in

Re: [cfaussie] OOP question.

2010-12-14 Thread Barry Beattie
IMHO Hospital is too big. the way I see it, it's admissions that Admissions.admit(patient) and Admissions.dischard(patient) my 2c only. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Mark Mandel wrote: > Well how does a hopsital manage this? > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Gavin Beau Baumanis > w

Re: [cfaussie] Re: cfspreadsheet and vfs

2010-12-06 Thread Barry Beattie
I wouldn't think it'd matter too much: "Severity: 5 - Medium (Easy workaround, wait until next release)" (cute: waiting until next release is an "Easy workaround" - not a criticism, just humorous) On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Steve Onnis wrote: > This is in relation to CF10 it seems and

Re: [cfaussie] Session Variables with multiple sessions

2010-12-02 Thread Barry Beattie
"What if the data changes in one session, and you are looking at false data in another session?" exactly. I worked on such a system a couple of years ago. It was programmed by a java client/server programmer who obviously had no idea how the web worked. Opened up a new browser, work on customer #2

Re: [cfaussie] Session Variables with multiple sessions

2010-12-01 Thread Barry Beattie
I personally would never use session variables to hold transitory record data (ie: what the user is working on). For me the session variables is all about the user at that login, nothing about what they are trying to do. if I wanted multiple browser instances (or multiple tabs) to deal with each r

Re: [cfaussie] CFObjective

2010-11-15 Thread Barry Beattie
Melbourne, right? reminds me of a Crowded House song... "Four seasons in one day..." On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Joey Daly wrote: > Don't do what I did... checked the weather, was nice hot day. Wore shirt, > shorts and thongs... and turned into an ice cube from the air conditioner :(

Re: [cfaussie] CFObjective

2010-11-14 Thread Barry Beattie
@Kym "Hmm, is it a rule that you to wear it?" you thinking of putting it in a picture frame like collectable football jurseys? ooh... some competition in who's got the rarest/most unique CF Tee... On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Mark Drew wrote: > Dammit! > > Now I am going to have to bri

Re: [cfaussie] CFObjective

2010-11-14 Thread Barry Beattie
not only casual, but people take pride in dragging out their oldest product T-shirt (eg: Allaire CF) and wearing it with pride. I think Darren Tracey (Suncorp, CF.O organising committee member) has an excellent collection of such T-shirts. It'll be interesting to see what he drags out from mothbal

Re: [cfaussie] OT: a couple of questions for my travel there in coming weeks

2010-11-06 Thread Barry Beattie
"but the real thing about Tasmania is the wilderness." +1 if you can get to Straughn on the west coast, take one of the eco-tourism boat trips up the Gordon and Franklin rivers and see a most amazing cool temperate rainforest - the reason why myself and hundreds more fought against a dam from bei

Re: [cfaussie] Reducing CF's Footprint.

2010-10-12 Thread Barry Beattie
"He has started playing with reducing CF's base memory usage by removing unneeded jar files from CF/lib/ " I hope you're all developing against a similarly crippled CF instance, lest you roll out a feature working in your dev/test environment but not on your customers installs. I thought you guys

Re: [cfaussie] Migrate CF from CF 5 to CF9

2010-09-12 Thread Barry Beattie
> I am wondering if the safest option for the smoothest migration be to > migrate the server from cf5 to cf6 then to cf7 and then migrate from cf7 to > cf9 yes, but if it was a critical application, spending time on comming up with a comprehensive test plan and re-running it at each stage might be

Re: [cfaussie] RE: ColdFusion on Seek demise

2010-08-29 Thread Barry Beattie
sure, if you only want to restrict yourself to following the herd. but why restrict oneself to just one source? Surely having many irons in the fire is worthwhile? Besides, two of those links were government jobs. Seek may be the least worst, but it's not the only game in town. my 2c. On Mo

Re: [cfaussie] RE: ColdFusion on Seek demise

2010-08-29 Thread Barry Beattie
Google is your friend http://mycareer.com.au/search/jobs/qld/brisbane/?s=777&sq=coldfusion http://jobsearch.careerone.com.au/Search.aspx?q=coldfusion&cy=au&where=Brisbane%2C%20QLD&rad=30&rad_units=km&qlt=625000&qln=3330166&lid=132&re=130 http://www.jobnet.com.au/ http://mycareer.com.au/search/j

Re: [cfaussie] RE: ColdFusion on Seek demise

2010-08-29 Thread Barry Beattie
> I was relying on Seek. > What site should I use now? All of 'em. You never know your luck in the big city. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this gr

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Database Changes

2010-08-18 Thread Barry Beattie
versioning on your records? This would make it a lot > easier but from my experience, auditing is a feature requirement that > is included quite late... > > On Aug 19, 10:19 am, Mark Mandel wrote: >> Here here! >> >> Mark >> >> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:37

Re: [cfaussie] Database Changes

2010-08-18 Thread Barry Beattie
Dale: does it have to be done at the DB level, or can it be via the DAL? This is one of the reasons I like the concept of AOP - squeeze in there to add auditing/logging without mucking up too much code. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Scott Thornton wrote: > easy no,  possible yes. > > > > ch

Re: [cfaussie] CFObjective ANZ

2010-08-04 Thread Barry Beattie
and to back you up in what you say, Gavin, a classic case is formal study. When I was teaching, I tried to impress on the students, that although all the info was - in theory - out there ready to tap into, what was lost was structure and context. Sometimes it needed the expert to deliver it in a wa

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Read an Excel spreadsheet...

2010-08-02 Thread Barry Beattie
> At least now I know a lot more about POI than I did before... enough for a quick CFUG presentation? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, s

Re: [cfaussie] Re: Read an Excel spreadsheet...

2010-07-31 Thread Barry Beattie
" It seems to me that something isn't quite right with the POI library" Ewww... is there any mention anywhere (Java/POI forums) of this? If you're quite right, it could either be a bug or incompatibility in the POI library... ... or Excel and Open Office are a lot more forgiving with sloppy form

Re: [cfaussie] Least hated favourite J2EE Server for CF

2010-06-29 Thread Barry Beattie
I'd like to hear an answer for Andrew Myers question... On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Andrew Myers wrote: > Back in the "old days"  when I was solely a Java developer I always thought > of Tomcat was seen as a "reference implementation" rather than a production > ready server. > > Has that vi

Re: [cfaussie] The solution: Odd date behaviour - CF9/SQLServer2005

2010-06-09 Thread Barry Beattie
> string to date conversion as soon as form data is read. LSDateFormat() > and other tools are part of a "form processing" layer before it gets FUKIT! dateFormat was for display. One of the Parse()/isDate() functions was used for conversion/replace with sentinal values. I can't remember what it w

Re: [cfaussie] The solution: Odd date behaviour - CF9/SQLServer2005

2010-06-09 Thread Barry Beattie
Gareth (QLD CFUG mgr) and I identified this (dates as strings) as a problem when developing a custom framework right back in CF6.1 days. For my money, the only way to handle this is to strongly type all the data as it moves from one layer to another (inc the DB), starting the string to date conver

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-30 Thread Barry Beattie
> Quite frankly, I don't really care WHY things are broken, you should - because even if it's fixed, it'll be unfixed given enough time. It's the underlying causes that's broken. The portal is just a symptom. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-30 Thread Barry Beattie
@Mark I think Steve's point is why should the community tell Adobe their information is out of date. it's their portal, no? Shouldn't they know this? it's their relationship with their partners they should be actively engaging in, yes? On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Mark Mandel wrote: > So

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-30 Thread Barry Beattie
was to try to merge > disparate views. If there is perfect and complete agreement, not much need > for a discussion - better just to go off down the pub instead :-) > > On May 30, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Steve Onnis wrote: > >> If their views are not the same then this whole discussion is f

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-30 Thread Barry Beattie
@Steve: you're assuming their view, Kai's view, and even yours, are the same. That may not be the case. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Steve Onnis wrote: > Adobe should already know these things...and if they don't then why don't > they > > -----Original Me

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-30 Thread Barry Beattie
>and that's what I keep saying all the time - Adobe's local office imho needs > a) a dedicated platform evangelism role for AU and NZ that reports directly > into Ben Forta's evangelism team at Adobe corporate and > b) more local knowledge within Adobe about CF so that they are actually > enabl

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-27 Thread Barry Beattie
hat business. >> >> Regards >> Dale Fraser >> >> http://dale.fraser.id.au >> http://cfmldocs.com >> http://learncf.com >> http://flexcf.com >> >> -Original Message- >> From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaus...@googlegr

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-27 Thread Barry Beattie
> TAFEs have a different problem. Teaching specific technologies is part of > their brief. There is some limited curriculum material available (based on > the commercial courses) for vocational colleges to teach using the Adobe > products, but what TAFEs need are teachers with the skills to teac

Re: [cfaussie] Re: JB-HI Moving to dotnet

2010-05-26 Thread Barry Beattie
"I love developing resources, working with them to realise their full potential." Resources, Chad? Forgive me for saying but you mean "people" don't you? People who have passion? who have failings? who have ... family? In my mind, there's a distinct difference. It's "people" who can have a symb

Re: [cfaussie] Digest for cfaussie@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic

2009-12-19 Thread Barry Beattie
please forgive in saying so, but "I'm not really keen on the whole idea of having the index.cfm stuck in the middle of the URL like that - I think it looks kludgy." does it really matter? Since when are URL's aesthetically pleasing? look at the crap in the "address bar" of many applications - mor

[cfaussie] Re: Persistent Scopes and Memory

2009-11-07 Thread Barry Beattie
@Steve catch up with this guy http://cfobjective.com.au/index.cfm?objectID=27C7E0B3-1AA0-353A-5AF4E2E0384D235B he'll be in your neighborhood http://cfobjective.com.au/index.cfm?objectID=27CD659B-1AA0-353A-5ABF2F5691298C29 my 2c On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Steve Onnis wrote: > yep. put

[cfaussie] Re: Keeping code formatted / indented?

2009-11-01 Thread Barry Beattie
some IDE's have that sort of feature ... but it's use depends on how the team works ie: you can waste a lot of time in a team if people format code differently AND use CVS/SVN AND use compare/merger tools. All of a sudden, there are wholesale changes to the file as reported by WinMerge (or whatev

[cfaussie] Re: cfthread - can I see if a thread is still running

2009-11-01 Thread Barry Beattie
the server monitor API might help here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/threads_6.html#1154144 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/servermonitor_14.html one last thing: don't forget - you have a SERVER scope available to you to store info. More encompassing than APPL

[cfaussie] Re: Melbourne CFUG This TONIGHT

2009-08-19 Thread Barry Beattie
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mark Mandel wrote: > I'll be there with bells on :D > > No really. Bells. ah ha! thought so... http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=morris+dancer --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to t

[cfaussie] Re: Bolt

2009-07-28 Thread Barry Beattie
> What we need is Flex Builder and Bolt to be part of the web version of the > next Adobe Creative Suite. :-) oooh .. that's an interesting viewpoint. Should CFB and FXB be part of Web suite, or a new suite collection altogether? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receive

[cfaussie] Re: Flex

2009-07-23 Thread Barry Beattie
gt; definitely follow that video tutorial. > > If by some freak of nature there happens to be another CF developer in my > vicinity, I would be very keen to hear from you :-) > > > 2009/7/24 Barry Beattie >> >> a starting point >> >> http://www.google.com.

[cfaussie] Re: Flex

2009-07-23 Thread Barry Beattie
a starting point http://www.google.com.au/search?q=learn+flex+in+a+week and drop into your local Adobe Flash Platform User Group for support and guidance On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Andrew Myers wrote: > Hi, > > Well I've decided it's time I did something about learning this Flex > thing

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Free trial Coldfusion 9 hosting accounts now available

2009-07-21 Thread Barry Beattie
WOW! this is excellent news Steve, and good on yer for arranging this PPL if you've been keeping up with the CF9 progress and have jumped onto the public beta and have an app that you've proven that works with CF9 and have used some new CF9 features (eg the new spreadsheet or presentation fun

[cfaussie] Re: Inserting Queries

2009-07-21 Thread Barry Beattie
Hi Brian queryInMomory (sic: "momery"?) has multiple rows, yes? if so, anything wrong with a loop over the in-memory query doing individual db inserts for each loop iteration? the thing to keep in mind is that the in-memory query is nothing more than a CF memory data structure, not a db query,

[cfaussie] Re: Why we can NOT see our user group (APUGS) at first place?

2009-07-20 Thread Barry Beattie
p admin's > end. Hawaii > doesn't belong to the Adobe Pacific region but the North American region :) > Cheers > Kai > > On 21/07/2009, at 5:35 PM, Kym Kovan wrote: > > Barry Beattie wrote: > > don't the Yanks own Hawaii? I seem to remember a movie called

[cfaussie] Re: Why we can NOT see our user group (APUGS) at first place?

2009-07-20 Thread Barry Beattie
ee the In Visual Form user group > on the Pacific Groups page.) > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 15:24, Barry Beattie wrote: >> >> don't the Yanks own Hawaii? I seem to remember a movie called "Pearl Harbour" >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009

[cfaussie] Re: Why we can NOT see our user group (APUGS) at first place?

2009-07-20 Thread Barry Beattie
don't the Yanks own Hawaii? I seem to remember a movie called "Pearl Harbour" On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Chris Velevitch wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 13:45, Kai Koenig wrote: >> The Australian groups are in the Pacific Category because that's the >> region you're in (also NZ and sam

[cfaussie] Re: Why we can NOT see our user group (APUGS) at first place?

2009-07-20 Thread Barry Beattie
Hi Hitesh our Aussie groups are there http://groups.adobe.com/pages/c9b6d661e2/pages/cfa2fbd9a7 Chris.V's Sydney group is the first one listed. In fact, I think Chris was the first in our region to add APUGS to the Adobe User Groups listing (or at least one of the first) Perhaps the issue is t

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion "To browse or not to browse"

2009-07-17 Thread Barry Beattie
the Microsoft fanboy I work with puts the blame straight back onto the spec. His argument is that the spec is so vague in how it's to be implemented that the inconsistencies arise from different browser makers implementing the spec in different ways. me? I'm not caring too much. I'm into web appl

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Another Friday discussion : "FLEX Vs HTML5"

2009-07-16 Thread Barry Beattie
> - How "sellable" is HTML5 to clients? see my comments on how the Enterprise I work in is still using IE6 across the board and is only now evaluating IE7... (whereas Flex, or at least FlashPlayer10 is here already). Meh, my 1.5cents barry.b On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Steve Onnis wrot

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion "To browse or not to browse"

2009-07-16 Thread Barry Beattie
I should also point out that the SOE of the enterprise environment uses IE6 (thousands of machines) there is a pilot and review (run by the department next door to me) of evaluating for deployment ... wait for it ... IE7 ... On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Barry Beattie wrote: > so w

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion "To browse or not to browse"

2009-07-16 Thread Barry Beattie
so what you guys are saying is that you're hopeful that Microsoft is successful in promoting IE8 ... yes? > The real problem as far as I am concerned is that people using IE6 are often > using operating systems which Microsoft will no longer support, but still > expect web sites to support them.

[cfaussie] Re: Delivering Mobile Content

2009-07-13 Thread Barry Beattie
to the board. > > On Jul 14, 3:13 pm, Mark Mandel wrote: >> I guess it depends on whether they want: >> >> a) A mobile application >> b) A website that is accessible from a mobile device. >> >> Those are two different things, with different req

[cfaussie] Re: Delivering Mobile Content

2009-07-13 Thread Barry Beattie
clean, simple standards-compliant HTML will take you a long way to having it rendered correctly on a mobile device. I wouldn't go so far as to specifically target Android, iPhone simply because you'd be writing so many (and the skills in getting there...) unless you had a targeted audience you're

[cfaussie] Re: Virtual ANZ Friday beer o'clock... - Connect room link

2009-06-24 Thread Barry Beattie
yes. minimum spec is FlashPlayer8 http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/systemreqs/ this is partly because huge ConnectPro organisations who are slow to update software (eg: U.S military) can still use it (the U.S military also use ConnectPro on small hand-held devices in the battlefiel

[cfaussie] Re: Virtual ANZ Friday beer o'clock... - Connect room link

2009-06-23 Thread Barry Beattie
e it's always beer o'clock :) >> >> >> >> >> On 6/23/09, Kai Koenig wrote: >> >> Well, THAT's whar I meant with "no idea how the server and the Connect >> >> room will cope" :-) >> >> >> K >> >>

[cfaussie] Re: Virtual ANZ Friday beer o'clock...

2009-06-22 Thread Barry Beattie
agree with Kai I've found the Connect rooms issued to us user group managers on the new(-ish) servers have been working a treat. I was flogging the guts out of mine recently and was happy. sorry ... just very biased towards Connect ... please forgive... On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Kai Koe

[cfaussie] Re: What does {} do?

2009-06-21 Thread Barry Beattie
the new (and much neater, IMHO) way of declaring a struct, as of CF8 "can anyone recommend an alternative for those of us still stuck in the past?" no prizes to guess what this is: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Andrew Myers wrote: > Hi All, > > I've seen a few components with code

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Flex Usergroup

2009-06-17 Thread Barry Beattie
> Pretty sure Dale is actually talking about the Melbourne Flex user group not > the mailing list. > > http://www.ozfx.org/ fair enough, but I hope the comments about co-opting an Adobe employee into it is understood although it's a Melbourneites call so I'll shut up now. It's a pity the user g

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Flex Usergroup

2009-06-17 Thread Barry Beattie
> The group died. you're looking at the wrong group. The one Bjorn.S started is a Yahoo group. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexaussie/ > Really Andrew Spaulding should be running it with respect, Dale, I strongly disagree. @spaulds does enough for the community. He's a paid employee of

[cfaussie] Re: inserting values into sql table form excel file data source

2009-06-10 Thread Barry Beattie
> Has anyone experienced this problem before when reading from excel data > files and what can I do to overcome the above so that the values with > characters as the first or last character as outlined above can be inserted > correctly into the table whenever I've hit problems like this, it's usu

[cfaussie] Re: Coldfusion 9 and FLEX 4 tour

2009-06-02 Thread Barry Beattie
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:36 PM, KKC wrote: > > The Joys of web 2.0 :) not quite. when Web 2.0 meets the marketing department with their customer relationship management systems. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

[cfaussie] Re: Security Of Customer Bank Account Details

2009-05-25 Thread Barry Beattie
> Clients subscribe to the service which is hosted externally. > The smaller clients would not be able to justify purchasing a copy of cf8 to > run in house with only 3-4 users, hence the need to provide the application > hosted externally from the sounds of it, you're going to have to do someth

[cfaussie] Re: CFMAIL headers

2009-05-23 Thread Barry Beattie
ck down the original creator of emails. > > > Steve > > > > -Original Message- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaus...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Barry Beattie > Sent: Saturday, 23 May 2009 5:49 PM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject

[cfaussie] Re: CFMAIL headers

2009-05-23 Thread Barry Beattie
Steve, just curious and interested to see this thread kicked along... ... is something like the X-DATE you want to do covered in any RFC's on email? eg: RFC 5321 or perhaps part of the extended SMTP additions? just hoping there might be a spec that covered it and - perhaps by miracle - painlessly

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Flex

2009-05-11 Thread Barry Beattie
and on that point don't forget about the Brisbane FlashPlatform (Flex) user group them and may more at http://www.baug.com.au/ On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Kai Koenig wrote: > There's also a flexaussie list - but not much traffic on it. > If you want something in our area/timezones you

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Flex

2009-05-11 Thread Barry Beattie
@Brian mate, lean on these guys http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexaussie/ started up by Bjorn.S in Melbourne, lots of Aussies on board, sure Flexcoders has lots of traffic, sometimes too much... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you ar

[cfaussie] Re: My charts dont come out

2009-03-25 Thread Barry Beattie
just curious isn't there another way? something that doesn't involve /CFIDE (even if it's an internal call, not public)? On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Zac Spitzer wrote: > > you just need to map /CFIDE for that site > > z > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Mark Ireland wrote: >> My char

[cfaussie] Re: Can CF8 make "SOAP with attachments" calls

2009-03-18 Thread Barry Beattie
IIRC this could be one of the areas Kai Koenig is touching on at WebDU this year http://www.webdu.com.au/session/web-services-revisited darn, where's Kai when you need him? Oh, yeah, that's right. At the FlashPlatform user group meeting in Brisbane tonight... --~--~-~--~~---

[cfaussie] Re: Dates / Times

2009-03-16 Thread Barry Beattie
a couple of quick points: 1) what you "see" is a string representation of a date or time. If it's a true dateTime object, the underlying value is a decimal (starting from the Epoch time? can't remember) 2) if you're after a formatting function in CF to convert this decimal to a string that repre

[cfaussie] Re: number formatting

2009-02-11 Thread Barry Beattie
Drew by the look of it, those 8 digit numbers are getting converted to scientific notation 18653887 = 1.8653887E7 = 1.8653887 times 10 to the 7th power but that should still be less than the underlying integer datatype: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/datatypes.html t

[cfaussie] Re: cold fusion developer looking for a job

2009-02-02 Thread Barry Beattie
> I personally think that both lists are too small to be separate, cfaussie > hardly gets any traffic, and cfjobs is almost silent. Historically that wasn't always the case (if you remember). Back when CF6 was released it was hot property, with the likes of even overseas ppl like Sean Corfield ac

[cfaussie] Re: FYI: Breezo "Application Security: Beyond SQL Injection", with Jason Dean

2009-01-22 Thread Barry Beattie
for those that missed it https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a204547676/p87014288/ and I'm sure Charlie will post it up to his "UserGroup TV" presentation recording listings in due course: http://www.carehart.org/ugtv/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message b

[cfaussie] FYI: Breezo "Application Security: Beyond SQL Injection", with Jason Dean

2009-01-21 Thread Barry Beattie
I'm FYI'ing this because - Charlie Arehart's Online CF group may not be common knowledge to ANZ folk - the meeting will be held in an ANZ-friendly time (Fri 9:00am Bris/10:00am Syd) - if I have to fix (yet again) someone's code because they've forgotten (or ignorant of) some of the issues rais

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