[cfaussie] Re: OT: Vista Application

2007-04-11 Thread Shane Farmer
Dale, I know this isn't a solution to your direct problem, but is the Documents and Setting\all users\app data (or wherever it is) an option? While Vista uses a Users folder for the users files, it still has documents and settings as a hidden folder. Just a thought Shane On 4/11/07, Dale

[cfaussie] Re: Heaps of CF work in the ACT?

2007-04-10 Thread Shane Farmer
On 4/10/07, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are implying that you know what's in the NDA thus disclosing you have read it and thus informing us that you too are on the beta. I knew about the strictness of the NDA during the CF 7 beta days without being a part of the beta program :-)

[cfaussie] Re: WSE Security - anyone have any experience with it?

2007-04-05 Thread Shane Farmer
nights and studying I think. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 4/5/07, Shane Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, Not sure how you

[cfaussie] Re: Java Output streams into CF vars

2007-03-29 Thread Shane Farmer
On 3/29/07, Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I have a java object that doesn't have a toString() :-) You will find it is inherited from Object :-) Even doing the following wont work as you cannot reduce the visibility of the inherited method from Object. class MyClass { private

[cfaussie] Re: [Melbourne] ColdFusion MX Developer

2007-03-15 Thread Shane Farmer
I have heard about some very attractive government Java contracts in Canberra. A friend of mine comes from down that way and his dad works for a government department (ex COBOL programmer now manager) and has forwarded several on. Up to $95/hr isn't a bad days work on a 6 month contract. Jobs like

[cfaussie] Re: CFquery SUM

2007-03-08 Thread Shane Farmer
Hi Claude If you want quick and nasty without a second query you could try select tt.*, tcost.total from transaction_table tt, ( select sum(cost) from transaction_table where transaction_month = 'December' /* Same as like with no % */ ) as tcost where

[cfaussie] Re: Why select * is bad (was RE: [cfaussie] Re: @#$!! Queryparam)

2007-03-02 Thread Shane Farmer
I have seen 2 notable reasons to stay away from select * if possible: 1. I have come across several issues with the schema changing in a database and the changes where not reflected in a query that had select * (legacy code). This can make the display layer break in strange ways when

[cfaussie] Re: Dreamweaver regular expressions

2007-02-14 Thread Shane Farmer
You could also try wingrep http://www.wingrep.com/download.htm. All the fun and power of Linux file searches with a nice Windows GUI :-) Shane On 2/14/07, Scott Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for all advice. I will look into agent ransack, and agree its about time I tried Eclipse

[cfaussie] Re: [WOT] Vista launches

2007-02-03 Thread Shane Farmer
You can turn this off though. I got the [EMAIL PROTECTED] with that as well when I was trying the free RC version but I can really see (and appreciate) why it is there. Definately a lot more secure with it on. On 2/2/07, Scott Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll admit that with Vista, the

[cfaussie] Re: What version of Vista?

2007-02-03 Thread Shane Farmer
On 2/3/07, Andrew Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And another interesting fact is that Apple have increased their market share of the US laptop sector to 12% and it's still growing, just the facts. I must agree, if I got a laptop, an iBook would be on top of the list (with Windows and Linux

[cfaussie] Re: cfinvoke webservice, xml response and 'cf' datatypes

2007-01-22 Thread Shane Farmer
On 1/22/07, Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's exactly what Adam asked for. The response that the user would see, did he not? Not exactly. he said the client would be connecting with a .net client. There are some known issues with .net and CF not talking as they should through web

[cfaussie] Re: cfinvoke webservice, xml response and 'cf' datatypes

2007-01-20 Thread Shane Farmer
Hi Adam, A very handy tool you could try is SoupUI (www.soapui.org). We use it at work to run test suites against our Java web services. You point it at the WSDL, it can generate a default request where you fill in the blanks and hit send. What you get back is the actual SOAP envelope with all

[cfaussie] Re: pdf embedding

2006-12-29 Thread Shane Farmer
Hi Toby, If you are willing to go the Java route, you could use the iText (Lowagie) library to combine the cover PDF with a separate PDF generated from the image (or maybe even the image directly). We use this in some Java code and it works quite well. I think it is a little less resource hungry

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Moving to Sydney

2006-12-20 Thread Shane Farmer
I would second Internode as well. I have recently moved to TPG though as I can get ADSL2+ and the deal is slightly better. The only down side is customer support isn't as good. It was a little hard to try and talk to a technician about a VPN question when I called up. Email suport is good though.

[cfaussie] Re: day light saving

2006-12-07 Thread Shane Farmer
I think Sun have released a patch for Java 5 (we need it at work as well) but I think 1.4 is still without a patch. On 12/8/06, Mark Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think the MS patch would affect CF - you'd need to patch the JDK. On 12/8/06, AJ Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[cfaussie] Re: (shakes fist at) adobe.com

2006-12-07 Thread Shane Farmer
@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Shane Farmer *Sent:* Thursday, 7 December 2006 7:11 PM *To:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [cfaussie] Re: (shakes fist at) adobe.com Ryan, There is a little back link () at the bottom of the pages I have seen so far Shane On 12

[cfaussie] Re: Application scope problem

2006-11-17 Thread Shane Farmer
Correct me if I am wrong, but with MX and the Application scope, it is just writes that need to be locked (for simple reads to an array anyway). It isn't as if you are trying to get an instance of a singleton and changing values inside it while another thread is in the middle of using it. So if

[cfaussie] Re: Flash Remoting

2006-11-16 Thread Shane Farmer
://dale.fraser.id.au -- *From:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Shane Farmer *Sent:* Thursday, 16 November 2006 7:41 PM *To:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [cfaussie] Re: Flash Remoting Dale, Are you trying to connect CF7

[cfaussie] Re: SOT: Tel$tra swing big stick

2006-11-11 Thread Shane Farmer
On 11/10/06, ACTCFUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS I moved to Primus but may move back if this ADSL2 deal is true!Cheers!PT Peter, Going by the pricing I have seen so far for ADSL2+ with Telstra you would be a lot better off with someone else. There are several companies rolling out new DSLAM's

[cfaussie] Re: Strange Web Service Behaviour

2006-11-06 Thread Shane Farmer
On 11/6/06, Scott Arbeitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When calling certain web services, ColdFusion is giving me backjava.util.GregorianCalendar instances. Why on Earth would they implement it this way instead of wrapping them in Date/Time objects? Hi Scott, They would have done it like this

[cfaussie] Re: webDU 2007: 22-23 March 2007, Hilton Sydney

2006-10-11 Thread Shane Farmer
Or keep your eye out for a happy hour special. On 10/11/06, Barry Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, for non-sydney residents, all I can say is Virgin Blue EarlyBird Specials --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[cfaussie] Re: anyone using cfeclipse 1.3 beta?

2006-10-06 Thread Shane Farmer
Eclipse is getting a little faster with the improved Swing speeds in newer (Java 5+) JVM's. I use it at work for Java as it is free and it's something my company (as well as most) loves to do (keep costs low). Since I use Linux for my main box now (for server reasons) there is nothing out there

[cfaussie] Re: Help with a Oracle issue

2006-09-28 Thread Shane Farmer
Hi Mark, I vaguely remember something like that ghappening to me a while ago (with SQL Server 2000) where cfqueryparam was causing the queries to be cached. I'm guessing if you had of attempted an update, caught the exception, created the table then updated again, it would fail as well. Maybe you

[cfaussie] Re: Multiple Level Inheritance

2006-09-19 Thread Shane Farmer
Jaarrrggg, Ye all be getting into the spirit of talk like a pirate day ;-) You can also access the overridden method in a parent class/object by super.countIt() inside count it (or anywhere for that matter). Super is just like this but the super class (as the name would suggest). Like

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-09-13 Thread Shane Farmer
On 9/13/06, M@ Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: he wouldn't elaborate to much on it but it seemed to be pretty much that, he did also mention you'll be able to see/monitor all threads running and kill them etc, as well as open up cf more and see what exactly is happening under the hood and what

[cfaussie] Re: Java and gzip

2006-09-11 Thread Shane Farmer
On 9/11/06, Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok whatever. You might want to check the post I was replying to by the way. On 9/8/06, Shane Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reminds me of a lot of posts coming out around CF7 launch... just upgrade and all you problems will go away

[cfaussie] Re: Oracle Case Sensitive SQL?

2006-09-11 Thread Shane Farmer
Hi Mark, The only two things I can think of off the top of my head (its been a long day) is: Some tables (the ones that don't work) may not bein the default schema for the connection while others may not The user you are connecting as may not have access to the objects in the default schema. Are

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-09-08 Thread Shane Farmer
On 9/8/06, Haikal Saadh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Tilbrook wrote: Yeah but JBoss isn't supported for ColdFusion yet (it will be with Scorpio though). I didn't realise that.. I thought because you could deploy CF as an ear,you could put in on any ol' server. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it

[cfaussie] Re: Java and gzip

2006-09-08 Thread Shane Farmer
that did nothing to help the initial problem. Some examples included people still working on CF5. I was just making a reference to this kind of posting quite some time ago. Shane On 9/8/06, Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh? On 9/8/06, Shane Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reminds me

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-08-30 Thread Shane Farmer
Hi Barry, No time to read entire post, but you ever tried to fix or extend the rails framework if it doesn't do *exactly* what you want it to do? You might as well re-write it in CF in some cases. Hopefully I will get to read the whole thread tomorrow... My 2cShane p.s. If I gave $2 (or worth)

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-08-30 Thread Shane Farmer
The main PHP engine is by Zend (http://www.zend.com). PHP 5 is getting close to the feel of Java moving it from just a RADlike language to a more powerful enterprise solution with PDF and charting being built into the engine with simple extension dll/so libraries. It also has a very strong

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-08-30 Thread Shane Farmer
Dale, does this stop you from using MySQL databases? On 8/30/06, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see,But I picked them for my comment I wouldn't be jumping on any platform thatwasn't provided by a main stream player Thus, I don't know who provides PHP.RegardsDale

[cfaussie] Re: Why buy into CF?

2006-08-30 Thread Shane Farmer
On 8/30/06, Steve Onnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but it would be very difficult to develop a .NETapplication using something as simple as notepad. There are some OK editors out there to do .NET coding in (all the editors for the MONO runtime in Linux, Dreamweaver etc)

[cfaussie] Re: Cool flash countdown clock

2006-08-28 Thread Shane Farmer
Hi Dale, Works fine for me in IE7. 64bit IE doesn't like the plugin much (but that can be a good thing) but 32bit IE works fine. You might want to check you security settings. Shane On 8/28/06, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't work in ie7.Tells me I don't have the latest version of

[cfaussie] Re: Rumour Mill

2006-08-03 Thread Shane Farmer
On 8/2/06, Gareth Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would they not use Eclipse? it seems silly seeing that Flex 2 Builder is based on it.Cheers Gareth. That is a bold thing to say considering Flex and CF are totaly different. If Adobe have something in house to base it on (*cough* GoLive

[cfaussie] Re: OT: - .NET sucking the life out of me

2006-07-04 Thread Shane Farmer
I use to work for a company that wanted to go down the same road. They were after an upgrade to a Microsoft Gold Partnership and that was one path they investigated. They had an entire hosting side of the business based on MS products so it made $en$e to the boss man. When they first spoke about

[cfaussie] Re: Web service / Java experts help required.

2006-06-28 Thread Shane Farmer
Hi Mathew,One thing you can do is to generate a SOAP message yourself and post it with CF. I am currently dealing with web services through Java 1.4 ( without Axis :-( ) and in the end, I have a Java class that wraps an XML node in a SOAP envelope and sends it off. The response that comes back is

[cfaussie] Re: Web service / Java experts help required.

2006-06-28 Thread Shane Farmer
You will need to have the right namespaces for the types as well or they wont validate.On 6/28/06, Shane Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi Mathew,One thing you can do is to generate a SOAP message yourself and post it with CF. I am currently dealing with web services through Java 1.4 ( without

[cfaussie] Re: consuming a non cf webservice.

2006-05-31 Thread Shane Farmer
Hi Theo, Might not be much of a help, but you could try writing a Java class that sends the request and returns the XML response for parsing. Just a thought as we have to consume (and expose) web services with J2EE. Another thing that may be happening is the service is returning a Java 5.0

[cfaussie] Re: Whats so bad about the tag syntax ? was: where have all the cf developers gone ?

2006-05-12 Thread Shane Farmer
On 5/10/06, Haikal Saadh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and with the hot deployment available now on most java servers,refreshing stuff is only an ant task away. This can be buggy, especially if the app running on top of the application server does threaded things. I have the reloadable flag set

[cfaussie] Re: Where have all the CF developers gone?

2006-05-08 Thread Shane Farmer
On 5/8/06, M@ Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now if pricing is simply the only reason for changeing why not php or 1 of the many other free languages over .net? you already said they are using windoze, so no use me saying cf on linux may be cheaper then .net on windoze :S When you consider a