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Tell me more about yourself… |
| by Neil Middleton 10:26 pm Tuesday, 31 July 2007. |
Over the last couple of days, all of the CF programmers out there surfaced for a communal cry of “CF8’s been released!”. I was scanning through all these posts today, and realised something. We don’t really know each other all that well, and how we work.
Do, I’ve devised a couple of surveys (back of a napkin job here) that will hopefully tell us all more about you all (if you get me). Basically there are two surveys, neither of which is more than ten questions. I don’t want any personal information from you, just a few ticks in a few boxes.
The first survey is focussed at your respective companies and what sort of CF deployments you might be running, the second is more focussed on how you code and what sort of best practises you perform. You don’t have to complete both, but if you do the results will be more useful.
Once I have a nice amount of responses I’ll post the accumlative results up here for all to see, and hopefully we’ll all learn a little bit more about each other.
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My views on the new version of Coldfusion |
| by Neil Middleton 10:28 pm Monday, 30 July 2007. |
OK, I think I need to make something clear after todays posts regarding the CF8 release (it’s been released if you didn’t know 
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I have been a CF developer for a long time, a very long time, and I will continue to use CF for as long as I can. Why? Well, partly due to 2.5 million lines of legacy code, but also because CF allows me to slap apps together nice and quick and do it how I want. I can get as simple or as complicated with Coldfusion as I like and it will just take it. A lot of the new functionality of CF8 also appeals greatly, namely the performance improvements, tags like CFThread, plus some other small tweaks here and there, for instance, the .NET integration and upgrade to a core Java 6 JVM.
So what do I see as the downsides to CF at the moment? Well, performance was one of my many bugbears, as was the price. Other than that we’re talking petty stuff, namely the buggy report builder tool, and the stability of the server being a little ropey when in the wrong situations.
However, when you look as CF8 as I beleive it should be, i.e the display tier of a much larger application, there isn’t much that can beat it (money aside). When it comes to display layer, Coldfusion is almost unbeatable. It will let you Ajax-ify a site in a few minutes, as well as let you generate PDF’s without any dodgy markup positioning code.
So, Adobe, it’s good that you have released CF8, and I can see it being very useful. Whether or not I’ll be upgrading or not is yet to be seen, I have managers who I need to convince for that (incidentally Feed-Squirrel will be getting the upgrade), but I do beleive for anyone sticking with CF for their build work, the upgrade is worth it. Just don’t screw it up with little things as international pricing problems.
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CF8 Beta Terminated. |
| by Neil Middleton 8:18 am . |
Looks like it’s been released:
http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/
However, it would appear there has been a 50% price hike on Enterprise edition.
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SQL Server Procedure to Change Object Owner |
| by Niklas Richardson 12:35 pm Wednesday, 25 July 2007. |
Have you ever needed to change the owner of a table (or for any object) in SQL Server?
We just had the need to do that today and found this nifty script from Microsoft to do it. Basically it creates a stored procedure that when run creates a list of commands that you can then run against the database to change all the owners for all the relevant objects.
So by using Query Analyzer do the following steps:
(1) Run the create stored procedure script against the database in Query Analyzer
(2) Then run the command “exec chObjOwner ‘test’,'dbo’” against the same database to create the commands
(3) Then copy and paste the outputted commands into the execute window, and run them all!
(4) All objects will have been updated!
Hope this helps someone!
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Continuous Integration with Coldfusion |
| by Neil Middleton 3:35 pm Tuesday, 24 July 2007. |
Quote from the CF Development team:
“On the ColdFusion team, we have a fairly rigorous checkin/build/test process. Every time anyone checks something in to the source control system, the build machine gets it,
attempts to do a full build and runs a series of automated regression tests against it, just to make sure that nothing obvious has been broken”
Has anyone managed to achieve anything similar with CF, and have it rolled out and in production? I’d be interested to hear your experiences.
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