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Comment on Mouse pointer stuck on Mac OS X via VMWare by axel

axel — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:52:47 +0000

thank you, save my night

Comment on My Initial Experience with Mach-ii, Reactor and ColdSpring by felixt

felixt — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:57:51 +0000

Hi Peter,

Ah alright that makes sense. Thanks.

Comment on My Initial Experience with Mach-ii, Reactor and ColdSpring by Peter J. Farrell

Peter J. Farrell — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:22:34 +0000

Felix, check out the ColdSpringProperty documentation on the wiki:

http://greatbiztoolsllc.trac.cvsdude.com/mach-ii/wiki/UsingColdSpringWithMach-II

The reason why the “depends” attribute isn’t working for you is because it’s part of Mach-II Simplicity – 1.8 (which is will be going into RC2 soon). I’d recommend just upgrading to that version so you can all the new goodies including the depends attribute.

Comment on Do you have to be a passionate developer? by felixt

felixt — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:54:01 +0000

Hi Marion,

Thanks for sharing, I am actually love development and programming and passionate about it – however I am lately starting to think through what does it mean by passionate and what does it take to continue being passionate.

I could definitely relate to your pain, before working in web development I was working in various roles that I don’t particularly passionate about. It seems to me that you don’t like web development at all. Most of the developers that I met are people who actually don’t mind doing development but it’s just not their passion in life.

I think if you can find a way to do something that you really love, you should work towards that bit by bit – it might not happen in 1 or 2 years time but you can always move towards your goal. Perhaps you can do a part time course while working? Or talking to people who are in the field that you like? Joining interest group etc2. There are lots of ways that you can explore as long as you keep your mind open.

Don’t think that you’re stuck – there is always a way out

Comment on My Initial Experience with Mach-ii, Reactor and ColdSpring by felixt

felixt — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:37:59 +0000

@Joel, yes I think so, there is an include to the mach-ii_coldspringProperty.xml from mach-ii.xml and this set up works for me:

My problem is eventhough I set the autowireAttributeName to depends on the setting and then on my service CFC I put the depends keyword on the component declaration, but I couldn’t get the autowiring to work. So I had to resort using the usual ColdSpring byName autowiring.

@Kurt, thanks for your kind words. I did use the skeleton to build the sample app. You are right, perhaps I wasn’t reading the comments on the coldspringProperty.xml thoroughly.

Comment on Do you have to be a passionate developer? by marion

marion — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:07:36 +0000

Hello Felixt and Nadel

I am in a very strange situation which are similar to your posts. I’m a software developer for two years now, and i dont see the point. I’m not at all passioned by this domaine, and i want out. Why ? because, you spend your day fighting to find out why your sql query wont work out, why the connection to the web service is failed, etc etc…things that don’t passion me. And i come to your question Felixt :

“why not give up development and pursue the things that you really like?”

The reason that i dont do this, is because i have only a M.Sc degree in computer science; nothing else ! so i cant do what i really like (which would be communication, or human relations), because they always ask for diplomas (at least here in France where i live). I’m stuck in the computer world and i can’t seem get out…

Comment on My Initial Experience with Mach-ii, Reactor and ColdSpring by Kurt Wiersma

Kurt Wiersma — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:21:31 +0000

Thank you for documenting your experiences. We on the Mach II are always looking for feedback and help on improving our documentation for new users. We also have a very helpful mailing list that can usually pretty quickly help with questions.

We do have a pre-build Mach II app skeleton that has a ColdSpring integrated option in it which might have helped for some of your setup issues. Also we have document right in the ColdSpringProperty cfc which explains how to set it up in addition to the documentation on the wiki and in the skeleton app. Do you check out the skeleton app by any chance?

Comment on My Initial Experience with Mach-ii, Reactor and ColdSpring by Joel Cox

Joel Cox — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:26:43 +0000

Did you add the ColdSpring property cfc to your Mach-ii properties declarations in the configuration file?

Comment on My Initial Experience with Mach-ii, Reactor and ColdSpring by felixt

felixt — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:45:16 +0000

Hi Joel,

Thanks for the tips. I did try the depends attribute by setting autowireAttributeName to true, but I got an error immediately – I couldn’t resolved the error. Maybe I’ll ask people in mach-ii in the mailing list.

Comment on My Initial Experience with Mach-ii, Reactor and ColdSpring by Joel Cox

Joel Cox — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:27:32 +0000

(code got hidden, trying again)…

Auto-wiring dependencies in the listener is very easy with Mach-II. Simply add a “depends” attribute into the component declaration:

This attribute is “depends” by default, but can be changed according to the value of the autowireAttributeName property of the ColdSpring property object as declared in your configuration file.

In regards to the configuration file becoming very large, it is possible to build it out with includes or separating your application into modules and configuring them individually. See the Mach-ii docs for info on these options.

Regarding reloading the framework, one common approach is to add some additional logic to Application.cfc (if it isn’t there already). In the OnRequestStart method, do something like this: