I tried sending a msg to the group a few hours ago from directly within the group messaging space but it hasn't appeared yet -- apparently I might still be victim to various gremlins -- so I'm trying via my email. Let me say first of all that I'm thoroughly embarrassed. It's been a long time since I've used Google Groups but I was expecting a response to come via my email just as these last few have come. Thing is, I never got that message from Dan (I did another search of my email and nothing comes up), so I just assumed no one responded and, frustrated, I left it at that and moved on.
Only when I saw today's message from another apparent noob my frustration bubbled to the surface again, this time inspiring me to say something. I hope it's plainly obvious now that I never saw Dan's response and it's almost shameful that I didn't try to log back into the group just to double-check.
Dan, let me say that I really appreciate your thoughtful response. It's a complete list of reasonable ideas to try, which I know took some energy and empathy to bang out and that speaks well of you.On reflex I was going to fire up the tutorial project I'd started and run down the ideas one by one, but after thinking about it some more I realized, hey, as awesome as it was, that response took nearly three weeks to come. What happens if (when) I get stuck again? My confidence isn't brimming.
Right now I'm feeling like this might be a space for wiley vets and super patient noobies and unfortunately, I'm neither. Perhaps that speaks to what kind of patience I have for debugging things generally (or really the lack thereof) and that's a kind of self-selection.
Anyway, all the best to the CF clan. I hacked at this stuff many years ago and very much enjoyed plugging away with just a big, thick Coldfusion book as a resource (I think it was still in the hands of Allaire at the time), but perhaps it's time I let these things go and enjoy the memories.
Cheers!