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Re: Chaotic Good: Creating Determinism Where None Exists

Seb Duggan — Sat, 15 May 2021 10:12:07 -0000

Hmmm. Try that with:

structs = [ {"foo"="bar","baz"="yo"}, {"baz"="yo","foo"="bar"}, {"foo"="yo","baz"="bar"} ]

1 and 2 should return the same result, but don't...

(On the plus side, this one is consistent between ACF and Lucee...)

Re: Chaotic Good: Creating Determinism Where None Exists

Seb Duggan — Fri, 14 May 2021 11:38:01 -0000

However:

{"foo"="bar","baz"="yo"}

would give the same output as:

{"foo"="yo","baz"="bar"}

...so I think this won't be as useful as it first appeared.

Re: Chaotic Good: Creating Determinism Where None Exists

Seb Duggan — Fri, 14 May 2021 11:29:30 -0000

That's very sneaky - I love it!

I was only yesterday writing a sync process that would hash the serialized JSON of a retrieved record for easy comparison against the current data (hash stored in database). It seems to work for me, as the struct is created in the same order each time, so appears to be consistent. But this might be a more robust solution...

Re: Getting Lucee, Docker, your local databases and git repos working together.

Seb Duggan — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:37:56 -0000

Great stuff, Andy... Still trying to get to grips with all the Docker concepts before using it more in dev (and eventually production!).

Do all changes to the Lucee config have to be made via the Docker build? I went into the Lucee admin and modified a few things, but when I relaunched the container, everything had reset to the original values.

Similarly, if you had a production server with several Docker containers, would you store all the web files (including user-contributed ones) in the host's filing system using the -v mapping, like you're doing for your dev environment?

Re: ValidateThis error on Lucee

Seb Duggan — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:02:38 -0000

Thanks Andy - was banging my head against the wall trying to find out what was wrong! Now works again...

Re: Scotch on the Rocks 2014 Part Deux

Seb Duggan — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 03:32:15 -0000

I'm hoping those average ratings are out of ten, not percentages - I didn't think it was that bad!

Great conference again; and on the Grunt issue, I actually felt that I benefited from attending multiple sessions on the subject. So often I go to a conference talk, think "that's interesting" - and then forget all about it. In contrast, after 4 Grunt sessions, the basics and some of the more advanced usages have all stuck in my brain, even a week later. But I can see why some people might think there was too much...

Re: Adam Cameron's ColdFusion Blog: Email address validation (#1 in a series subtitled "Fool's Errands")

Seb Duggan — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:10:33 -0000

I was blocked from completing a purchase the other day because the email had 2 .s before the @, which it didn't see as valid (i.e. name.x.name@gmail.com).

I sent them an email (from that address!) explaining exactly why I was going to shop elsewhere...

Re: Adam Cameron's CFML Blog: ColdFusion 11: Adobe listening to their clients

Seb Duggan — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:47:52 -0000

"Backwards compatibility" has long been a reason for Adobe not fixing bugs...

I remember emailing Ben Forta a number of years back (CF8?) about CFPROCPARAM. While CFQUERYPARAM will throw an error if the value doesn't match the specified type, CFPROCPARAM would not (probably still does not).

Ben accepted that this was a bug, but cited backwards compatibility as the reason for not fixing it.

Re: Version Control

Seb Duggan — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 08:57:02 -0000

Great article Andy.

As a long-time "sole developer", I resisted version control for a long time (SVN was just too much effort to set up for my own use).

But when Git came along, there was no excuse not to use it – and I now wouldn't dream of developing anything without source control...

With regard to one of your future posts, I also use Git to deploy sites – so much easier and more reliable than FTP! I wrote this about it: http://sebduggan.com/blog/d...

Re: Adam Cameron's CFML Blog: A question in more than 140 characters

Seb Duggan — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 05:13:42 -0000

Analogous. That's the word I was searching for...

Re: Adam Cameron's CFML Blog: A question in more than 140 characters

Seb Duggan — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 04:10:39 -0000

Are you talking about a core language function, or one you are writing yourself?

If it's a UDF, I'd be inclined for consistency to do whatever a similar function in the core language does...

Re: Adam Cameron's ColdFusion Blog: I've picked a framework. Well: you've picked it for me

Seb Duggan — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 04:16:18 -0000

Just a quick point:

Are the scores given for documentation correct? I only ask because FW/1 scores an average of 1.3, even though the maximum score is 1.25...

Looks like they're just a duplicate of the first set of scores.

Re: Generating page fragments in FW/1

Seb Duggan — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:18:55 -0000

Julian - I'm not sure I'd use the new feature for the example you give above. Surely this just confuses the issue? I think that having:

#view("fragments/menu")#

in the view or layout is far clearer, and you're rendering the view anyway.

Where this really comes into its own is (as discussed on the list) if you're creating, for example, a PDF or HTML email. In these cases you'd want to be able to generate the content and do something with it (email it, for example) without ever rendering the view (or then rendering a different view).

Re: AaronGreenlee.com | ColdFusion, ColdBox and ORM: Data Security

Seb Duggan — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:42:29 -0000

Aaron,

Just trying to work out why your PasswordPlain property has "setter=false" - surely this will stop your populate method working properly?

Am I missing something - or is it a typo?

Seb