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Comparing CF5 to CF8

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:23:00 GMT

On a lark, we compared some code running on cf5 versus cf8. Mind you, it wasn't an exact comparison, but the rough numbers obviously show a huge difference in speed between the two.

Reports run faster, etc. Way cool.

so simple, so basic, and yes of course, I only now realized it.

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:10:00 GMT

Cfscript for long a## structs and arrays! Duh.

I have a pretty big struct I have to create to regenerate a pdf. So, after putting in about, oh 150 lines of code (lotsa cfsets...) I picked up an old CF MX book of mine and read up that one chapter I so ignorantly, uh...ignored?
Anyway, yeh, whattya know, cfscript is good for those.

Live, learn, repeat.

CFGrid and dynamic number of grid columns

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:56:00 GMT

I had emailed the DFW CFUG about this, and the responses I got were right along where I wound up going with the solution.
I learned something new, btw, which was the function "getColumnList()" that each query has. Whattya know...
Here's my code:

The args code I found online (and once I remember from where I found it, I'll credit it as well). Anyhoo, this is the grid with the grid columns built based on what's in the db's table.

and now, back to cf8/mach ii related fun.

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:42:00 GMT

Alright, now that I have my little Flex app ironed out (it's working fine now. Whew) I'm back to playing with CF8 and Mach II

I want to setup something practical for me and the kids to keep track of things, like groceries they want me to buy, stuff I want them to do, etc.
My plan, then, is to take this modified user manager app and modify it to suit my needs.

The following are functions I want to put into this thing:

Grocery list. This one's easy enough.
Chores for the kids. Aha! This one'll make it fun. This will require dates, time to get it done, when it was done, by whom, etc.
Track their homework. Since they underperformed this last school year, I want them to put in each day what homework they had, and when they finished. Yeh, it's micromanaging, and it'll be tedious, but they're smart freaking kids and need to do better. (plus, I'll have what they put in emailed to me.)
There's gotta be at least a fourth functionality I can add. I'll figure something out.

Anyway, that's my home project for now.

ok, if anyone out there has some info on this, I'm all ears.

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:47:00 GMT

*sigh* Ok, so I gave up testing Flex file uploads in an authenticated environment on my Linux box here at work.
It was simply a no-go.
It works fine in Windows if I hard-code the destination in the cffile tag.
If I don't do that, I get 302 redirects to the login page we have. This is coded in the application.cfm. (If you're not logged in, go to the login template)
This is weeeeiiiirrrddd.

oh, ok. Slowly, but surely...

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:43:00 GMT

Alrighty, so far, here's what I know (I believe) about Mach II:

Listeners simply forward to the service layer.

Services contain logic to pull data via either DAOs or Gateways.

DAOs handle single records, and CRUD related work.

Gateways return multiple records, and/or more complex SQL.

Beans are simply instances of single records, with getter and setting methods for each attribute the object may have.

I'm working on fiddling with the service layer on this sample user manager app. I've added a table, 'recipes', and want to tie recipes to each individual user. This should be fairly straightforward.

beans, daos, gateways and services.

Sat, 17 May 2008 16:14:00 GMT

so, this weekend is the time I've chosen to play around with a User manager app that Mr. Shuck built. Mainly cuz we're starting to apply more and more of these concepts at work. SO. Here goes nothin'. Time to setup MySQL on my laptop.

CF8, Flex, etc.

Thu, 08 May 2008 19:06:00 GMT

a few housecleaning items:

CFPDF worked like a charm. I was able to output our pdf like we had with the custom tag without a problem. Very, very cool.

Flex is more and more fun for me. As it stands now, I've got an image preview/upload app that puts the images you have into a tile list 3x4.
The images all have a 'sort_order' property to them, and that gets updated in the db when you drag and drop the images around in the list.

I hope to get an example of this up in the next day or so. While it's not exactly reinventing the internet or anything, it was a HUGE amount of fun doing it.

cf8 pdf fun

Thu, 01 May 2008 14:47:00 GMT

So, currently my company uses CF7 for our live, public facing stuff.
Good news! We are upgrading to CF8 ever so inredibly damn damn shortly. What this means is a few things here and there get re-done.
One of them is a PDF generation page we have currently that relies on cf_pdfform. While it does a decent job, personally I'm looking forward to using more CF8 based stuff.

At first blush, the code doesn't seem to require *that* much of a change. Lexically the cfpdf tags seem to be close enough to cf_pdfform.

I'm going to post what I experience with this conversion. Or cuss alot. Depends.

Pray for me.

jeez, it's been a while...

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:53:00 GMT

Good lord, I am a slacker.

Anyhoo, I'm switching my ISP for my podcast website for one that is using CF8 currently. (the plan, with more SQL server space, is VERY competitive with my current plan, and they seem to get positive reviews)

I'm in the process of redoing the site, and my plan is to do several different things there to play more with technologies like Flex, Mach II, CF8 related stuff.

Here goes nothin'.

PS, why isn't this blog ColdFusion powered?

Juuuust kidding, Dave. :D

ColdFusion 8 "Scorpio" from a newbie

Tue, 01 May 2007 16:51:01 GMT

So I got to see Mr. Forta in person for the first time, and I have to admit. I'm TOTALLY energized for Coldfusion in general.

My gosh. The man knows how to sell it.

(not to mention everything being added to the new CF version. I MUST find a copy somewhere!)

I'm planning on using this space to blog as a CF newbie, so don't expect earth shatteringly new ways of programming; I'm just posting here as I learn better ways of coding stuff.