Best of Talk (05/19/04)

 
Jun 02, 2004

by Dina Hess

Title: SOLVED: JasperReports / CFMX
Date: 05/19/04      (6 Posts)
Summary: Looking for a reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports that will generate ColdFusion reports via a web service? Try open-source JasperReports. See Rick Root's blog entry for more info.
Related: Reporting Tools
 
Title: Version Management Inquiry
Date: 05/19/04      (10 Posts)
Summary: Trying to get past the shout-over-the-cubicle approach to preventing file overwrites in a small development workgroup? Subversion gets the nod for solving many of the problems inherent in CVS. Alternatives to Subversion include CVS, MS Visual Source Safe, DWMX's CheckIn/CheckOut feature, and Beyond Compare.
 
Title: Ad Weights
Date: 05/19/04      (12 Posts)
Summary: When a code gauntlet is thrown down, CF gurus rise to the challenge by brainstorming about how to best rotate ads based on generated income. The problem is twofold: 1) determining an effective weighting system, and 2) representing the data so an ad can easily be displayed based on its weight. To accomplish the latter, one suggestion involves adding "rand_beg" and "rand_end" columns to a cached query object and populating them accumulatively based on weight. Using Query of Queries and a number generated with RandRange(min(rand_beg),max(rand_end)), you could then pull out the weighted ad selection. Intriguing.
 
Title: Help with String Manipulation (Find,Replace)
Date: 05/19/04      (43 Posts)
Summary: Need help displaying several permutations of commented and timestamped log entries in varying formats? Pascal Peters provides regular expression solutions with step-by-step explanations. To learn more about regular expressions, check out Forta's latest book.
 

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