[cfaussie] Web on the Piste 08

2008-06-04 Thread Grant Straker
Hi All, Just to let you all know Web on the Piste 08 is all go and we have just signed Microsoft and Cynergy Systems as Gold sponsors which is great news and helps pay the beer bills! For those of you that didn't make it last year it's a very intimate conference and a great venue for learning,

[cfaussie] Re: JVM Heap Size

2008-05-14 Thread Grant Straker
Hey Guys, If you're JVM is running out of memory then there are 3 main reasons in my experience 1. You are putting too much stuff into memory, normal cause is that you are running a lot of queries. 2. You have unvar'd variables in a CFC 3. Perm size too small The size of the heap is a function

[cfaussie] Re: Parallels or Bootcamp?

2007-10-08 Thread Grant Straker
vmware Fusion , I just switched from Paralles and find it has better performance but the bottom line is you need a mac with a lot of RAM if you want to run virtual windows. On Oct 8, 5:20 pm, Ryan Sabir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, We want to run a CF Server, IIS, and MS SQL Server 2005

[cfaussie] Re: ShadoMX content management

2007-09-13 Thread Grant Straker
Hi Stephen, You are probably better posting this on the Shado mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and we can help you out. Grant On Sep 13, 5:32 pm, Stephen M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just started managing this system that runs ShadoMX content management on CFMX6.1 But its falling over

[cfaussie] Re: CFMX 6.1 Admin

2007-09-13 Thread Grant Straker
Hi Stephen, I have written a PDF book on optimizing CF performance which covers off the optimum settings for the JVM and JRUN so I'll send you a copy as I recall promising Douglas this at some point in the past. You should also adjust your maxpermsize (to 128m) as this was a frequent cause of

[cfaussie] Re: Web on the Piste animations

2007-08-26 Thread Grant Straker
Good to hear Scott's a father again and all is well. There was never any doubt that he would make it ;-), he was actually very well behaved although I didn't see his credit card out once during the event, so he might be under a tighter raine these days. The bar we used for the end of conference

[cfaussie] Web on the Piste update

2007-07-17 Thread Grant Straker
Hi All, Just over 30 days until the conference which is the most fun you can have with your pants on (flying down a mountain on a plank to boot). The link below is to the latest newsletter on what is happening. The agenda is up and we still have a few adjustments to make as the last

[cfaussie] Web on the Piste Agenda

2007-05-30 Thread Grant Straker
Hi All, A quick update on the Web on the Piste conference. We've put up the draft agenda (link below) and sessions for those of you looking to come along. It's still in draft as we still finalizing who is speaking on what and which speakers sponsors are sending etc. We have some great speakers

[cfaussie] Re: Java inner classes

2007-04-26 Thread Grant Straker
something like this, but I haven't ever tried it; cfobject type=JAVA action=Create name=xxx class=OuterThing$InnerThing Also, if you're interested I can provide you with a java wrapper class to create Lucene Fields as I've already been down that road. Cheers. On 4/26/07, Grant Straker

[cfaussie] Re: Java inner classes

2007-04-25 Thread Grant Straker
You do it the same way you do in Java cfset createobject(component,org.apache.lucene.document.Field:Index) I pretty sure you'll still have some problems though as CF won't recognise the static value of the Field. My experience is that with Lucene 2 you need to write a complete java wrapper and

[cfaussie] Re: TinyMCE HTML Editor

2007-04-12 Thread Grant Straker
We use it extensively and having trailed and tested a lot of different WYSIWYG editors find it the best one out there. We have many 1000's of end users (as in contributors/editors) using our CMS and find that with TinyMCE the number of support / end user issues decreases significantly. One of

[cfaussie] Re: TinyMCE HTML Editor

2007-04-12 Thread Grant Straker
Of Grant Straker Sent: Friday, 13 April 2007 5:40 AM To: cfaussie Subject: [cfaussie] Re: TinyMCE HTML Editor We use it extensively and having trailed and tested a lot of different WYSIWYG editors find it the best one out there. We have many 1000's of end users (as in contributors/editors) using

[cfaussie] Re: Affordable Flex Training

2007-04-04 Thread Grant Straker
Hi Darren, ZoomFlex is an application that brings together server and client side development when building Flex applications. It includes a comprehensive client side Flex framewok as well as a server-side object framework. It does cost and also requires ColdFusion (which we package in through

[cfaussie] Web on the Piste Registration open

2007-04-04 Thread Grant Straker
Hi All, We are now taking registrations for Web on the Piste through the site www.webonthepiste.com. It only cost AU $395 (NZ $450) on the earlybird pricing plan and we are trying to package in a day or two complementary ski pass into the price but will keep you posted on that. The conference

[cfaussie] Re: Affordable Flex Training

2007-04-04 Thread Grant Straker
I've had a quick catch up with Indy and we could do 26/27th April in Brisbane for Flex training with the same details as the Sydney course. Can you email me off list if you are interested and I'll see if we can get something sorted. Cheers Grant On Apr 5, 2:30 pm, Haikal Saadh [EMAIL

[cfaussie] Affordable Flex Training

2007-04-03 Thread Grant Straker
Hi All, Many people we meet at Webdu talked to us about Flex training in general and also learning a bit more about ZoomFlex . Due to the demand we have put together a low cost Flex training course to be held in Sydney on the 23-24 April. At only $295 the course is an absolute bargin for those

[cfaussie] Re: Affordable Flex Training

2007-04-03 Thread Grant Straker
PROTECTED] wrote: because you (your company) have been a respected Macromedia Alliance partner for a while now, does this training come with any recognition/magic pieces of paper/certification? On 4/4/07, Grant Straker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, if people are interested. We have a number

[cfaussie] Re: QLD CFUG March meeting announcement.

2007-03-12 Thread Grant Straker
I actually think that it is a reasonably brave move on the part MS. By trying to engage the Adobe community they are showing it a lot of respect (normally when you're ignored it caus nobody cares 'bout ya) which is not something we have seen in the past. Outside of some initial reservations

[cfaussie] RIA Conference announcement , Queenstown NZ

2007-03-11 Thread Grant Straker
Hi All, Just to let you all know Straker are running a conference Web on the Piste, which will based on Rich Internet technologies at Queenstown in late August (incidentally the best week for lots of snow on the slopes) for anyone interested. The idea is that it is 6 months between WebDU's and

[cfaussie] Re: OT: webdu birds of a feather

2007-03-07 Thread Grant Straker
I'm currently at the 360Flex conference in San Jose and have to say the Apollo stuff I have seen here is awesome. Ted Patrick is coming to WebDU so maybe worth getting him to demo some of the Apollo stuff at the BOF if he's available. On Mar 8, 12:51 pm, Andrew Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Translation services

2007-02-05 Thread Grant Straker
Etranslate - www.etranslate.com.au We have used them on several projects and they are very competitive on pricing. On Feb 5, 1:29 pm, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angus, We do this regularly (too regularly) we have tried several; including SBS and overseas ones, but now use and

[cfaussie] Re: Coldfusion and Micrsoft Love.

2007-01-31 Thread Grant Straker
Scott, I'm sure we can host a salesman anonymous meeting at WebDU and you can join the group and say Hi, My name is Scott... and I'm a salesman once you've done it you'll feel much better I'm sure. Afterwards you can get out your diamond plated company credit card and we will give you free rein

[cfaussie] Re: Coldfusion and Micrsoft Love.

2007-01-29 Thread Grant Straker
Mike, I am a salesman and totally believe in sales pitches - how else would I sell my own products. As I general rule sales people don't trawl lists pushing products, if this is a standard practice it would save me a lot of marketing money, if you're saying that community lists are happy for

[cfaussie] Re: Coldfusion and Micrsoft Love.

2007-01-28 Thread Grant Straker
Mike, Product evangelist is basically a fancy name for technical sales person, I've never meet an Adobe evangelist who wasn't trying to sell me something and I'm sure Microsoft evangelists are the same. I guess my issue is that reading when Scott is saying (I have no issues with Scott as a

[cfaussie] Re: Coldfusion and Micrsoft Love.

2007-01-25 Thread Grant Straker
Scott, Given your connections the MS Network and to prove your independence on this matter would it not make sense to do a joint show and tell and to get some MS development companies along and we show them what Flex and CF can do for them whilst you show the .Net stuff? presumably if there is

[cfaussie] Re: ms-access table definitions

2006-12-09 Thread Grant Straker
This gets you all the tables cfquery name=qResult datasource=#arguments.dsn# SELECT Name FROM MSysObjects WHERE Type = 1

[cfaussie] Re: Maximum number of simultaneous requests

2006-10-17 Thread Grant Straker
8 is too low, a default recommendation would be 25 per processor - so 50 if a dual CPU machine. This setting is really something that needs to be tuned on larger sites and relates to the way your site works and the power of your machine. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[cfaussie] ZoomFlex Launch

2006-07-25 Thread Grant Straker
at the event. http://www.straker.co.nz/shadozoom//events/sydney-zoomflex-launch.cfm Agenda for Thursday 27 July 5.30 - Drinks and nibbles on arrival 6.00 - Presentation by Grant Straker 7.00 - Q A Close Venue The Adelaide Room, The Menzies Hotel 14 Carrington St, Sydney. Cheers Grant

[cfaussie] Re: SOT: CF Intranet System

2006-07-23 Thread Grant Straker
You can try ShadoCMS Is a commercial product but we do have an OEM agreement for CF and Flex with Adobe so can do some very good pricing as a bundle. We now also have a very powerful Flex presentation layer on top of Shado which means you can be up and running with Flex applications out of the

[cfaussie] Free Beer and Flex Builders

2006-07-17 Thread Grant Straker
6.00 - Presentation by Grant Straker 7.00 - Q A Close Venue The Adelaide Room, The Menzies Hotel 14 Carrington St, Sydney. If you're coming it would be much appreciated if you could register on our site so we have an idea of numbers attending. http://www.straker.co.nz/events/sydney-zoomflex

[cfaussie] Re: RAM sizing on production servers

2006-03-28 Thread Grant Straker
Hi Scott, This is all down to how your application handles it memory. If you allocate the full amount possible (approx 1GB) then you may have long garbage collection cycles - too little and you can get out of memory issues. Dual processor machines will handle GC much better so you can afford to

[cfaussie] Re: RAM sizing on production servers

2006-03-28 Thread Grant Straker
I would say the most common is 512 allocated as this is the default but doesn't mean it is right for your application. If you have an -xms setting in your jvm config then this will also mean that the jvm will take all the memory allocated at start up. Really, it's a tuning process - load test

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion Performance Book

2006-03-20 Thread Grant Straker
Not currently, I was working with Tim Buntel on getting it published through Macromedia press but with him departing I haven't followed up with the new guys yet. Currently I have published myself and registered my own ISBN etc. To be honest I will be doing several updates through the year so