Constantly execute (refresh?) page, for cfpop?
Hey guys, I'm trying to make a little app that will get my email from the pop server, and then send as an SMS the subject and sender. I can see that I can do that with the cfpop and cfmail tag, but then I realized that the tags will only execute when someone refreshes the page, or goes to it. However, I'd like this to check every 5 minutes, and then send the emails to my cell. If I'm at my computer, refreshing the page, then it obviously defeats the purpose. In other words, how do I write an app...very simple one, with only cfmail and cfpop tags, that will execute every 5 minutes? ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290516 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
thank you all for the feedback. this is my first time i am in a position where i have oversight over the development in a team, so i'm thankful for the insight from you who have this experience. the bulk of a proposed coding standards dealt with topics such as making moves toward more web standards compliant markup code, not using IE only DOM references, proper scoping of variables, especially in CFCs, some basic guidelines for more efficient SQL, etc. the issue i was running into was that there wasn't any consistency, even from the code developed by individual developers. often, i came across things like long sql statements in cfquerys and stored procs on one line, or the random use of capitalization of variable names in a single file. i've always been of the mind that these stylistic details should follow the general rule of being consistent and readable, but have found that just broadly stating it isn't necessarily clear to everyone what that is and prompts the question of what that specifically means. i debated back and forth with myself as to whether to put these in a coding standards doc, or to address these on an individual basis. i decided that the most pragmatic route was to put them in the doc, so that even if they were not complied with, they could be used as an example of code that was consistent and readable. i've seen some of these discussions before in the cf community, and i'm of the opinion that these stylistic choices shouldn't be in a community best practices or standards doc, but was wondering if others have found them helpful in the context of a team with members of varying skill sets. On 10/7/07, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consistency is important, the minutiae of capitalization and whitespace is not. I don't agree with this, as standards go the whitespace (tab obsession) is very important. Take this example (might not come out right on email. Select* From Table Where X = 1 And Y = 1 And this Select* From Table Where X = 1 and Y = 1 These are different standards, if you get used to reading the first, you easily miss the second part of the where in the second. Perhaps, but neither is superior to the other. Pick one and go with it - that's Sean's point. That's consistency. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290515 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code?
Are they via a stored procedure (or can they be made into one)? Eric -Original Message- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 9:36 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code? Cool, unfortunately we could not do that 100% here because some of the PL/SQL scripts we run during creation will not run via a CFQUERY tag. On 10/7/07, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have an upgrader. So there is code that says something like cfif version lte 1.4.1 Create table Drop table Alter table Insert some default values for new tables /cfif cfif version lte 1.4.2 Create table Drop table Alter table Insert some default values for new tables /cfif So if I check out the code at 1.4.1 and run the upgrade, it will create all the databases for me. It obviously doesn't handle getting data back to that format, but this is an unlikely scenario. What it gives you is a history of changes to your databases, and a means to restore (excluding data) all code and schemas to a version. The history bit is really handy. When did that table get that extra column? It will be in the upgrader. It's a bit more work than making changes in the designer, but worth it. In the scenario you described, the client is on 1.5 you check that out, run the upgrade, have an empty working system. Make your fix, deploy to client, done as that clients data is in the 1.5 format, no need for the database backup. Regards Dale Fraser http://learncf.com -Original Message- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 8 October 2007 12:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code? Could you explain that with a little more detail. What code(language) is going to track all of the table/column changes and track any data manipulation that is needed between versions of the database structure? Also if you are creating a database of that era, say version 1.5, does this mean it is going to drop the database of the version 2.0 era in order to have a place to put the 1.5 era? On 10/7/07, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Control the databases through code. Then if you check out your code at 1.3.2 It should be able to create databases of that era. Regards Dale Fraser http://learncf.com -Original Message- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 8 October 2007 11:23 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code? What do you do when client needs a fix on version 1.5 which has significant database differences when compared to version 2.0 that you are currently working on? We just maintain a separate copy of the DB for the versions for cases like that but just curious on how others do it. On 10/7/07, J.J. Merrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick, 3. Branch and tagging. me: ::working on version 2.0:: client: I need to you fix something that is broken on the live server! me: ok:: switch to the trunk which is version 1.5, fix, deploy, switch back to v2.0 branch no mess and no thought ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290514 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Constantly execute (refresh?) page, for cfpop?
Hi George, You could create the page as normal and set up a scheduled event in the administrator to run it every 5 minutes. -- Gary Gilbert http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290518 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: FCKeditor in CF app - styles display on front end but not in editor window
Hi, I would like to know the exact scenario when this happens. May be if you can attach the piece of code, we will be able to debug when this behavior is seen. Thanks, Bhakti Adobe ColdFusion Team. -Original Message- From: Nick Gleason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:03 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: FCKeditor in CF app - styles display on front end but not in editor window Hi folks. We've been using FCKeditor successfully for quite a while in our CF-based software, but we have recently run into an odd issue related to styles display in the editor window. Our system has custom styles which display in the FCKeditor Styles drop down menu. Suddenly, on some of our deployments, the styles listed in the Styles drop down menu are no longer displaying correctly. That is, they all simply display as 10pt plain text, rather than displaying in the style that they define. The funny thing is that the styles display correctly on the front end. that is, when they are applied to text in the editor, the text displays correctly on the front end. So, it's simply a back end display issue in the editor window. Any FCKeditor / CF gurus out there who can troubleshoot the details of how external styles are integrated into FCKeditor? We'd love to hear your thoughts. Best, Nick ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290517 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: SHA Hashing...
Thanks guys, nothing is ever as simple as it should be is it ;-) anyway I managed to find a couple of cf custom tags to do the job in the end, thanks for clarifying the situation for me. -- Jay No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.4/1056 - Release Date: 07/10/2007 18:12 ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290520 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Graphing date ranges...
I have a cfchart displaying dates along the X axis, is there any way to get ColdFusion to treat these as a scale so that a 7 day gap in the data would stretch the graph out to interpolate the missing days? CFChart does have an xAxisType attribute but to set it to scale the data must be numeric and I really want to keep the data displaying as formatted dates. -- Jay No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.4/1056 - Release Date: 07/10/2007 18:12 ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290519 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Constantly execute (refresh?) page, for cfpop?
take a look at CFSchedule or the Scheduled Tasks in the CF Administrator. From: George Linderman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 10/8/2007 3:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Constantly execute (refresh?) page, for cfpop? Hey guys, I'm trying to make a little app that will get my email from the pop server, and then send as an SMS the subject and sender. I can see that I can do that with the cfpop and cfmail tag, but then I realized that the tags will only execute when someone refreshes the page, or goes to it. However, I'd like this to check every 5 minutes, and then send the emails to my cell. If I'm at my computer, refreshing the page, then it obviously defeats the purpose. In other words, how do I write an app...very simple one, with only cfmail and cfpop tags, that will execute every 5 minutes? ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290521 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: CFAJAXPROXY Help!
That didn't work either.
I changed it to do a cfc binding and that all works.
Regards
Dale Fraser
http://learncf.com
-Original Message-
From: Rakshith N [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 8 October 2007 8:20 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: CFAJAXPROXY Help!
You may want to call ColdFusion.Grid.refresh('gridname') to refresh the
grid in the onsuccess handler.
Rakshith
http://www.rakshith.net/blog/
-Original Message-
From: Dale Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:40 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: CFAJAXPROXY Help!
I have this line.
cfajaxproxy
bind=cfc:Battery.deleteTask({batteryForm:[EMAIL PROTECTED],{batteryForm:
batt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) onsuccess=alert('success') /
Which effectively says when I click the button btnDelete call deleteTask
method in Battery.cfc and onsuccess show an alert. It should work, in
fact
the docs show this as an example.
But what happens, is I get the alert 'success' when the page loads and
nothing on success of the delete.
I know that it is succeeding as I can run the method manually and it
works,
and from my page it also works as if I click the refresh button in the
grid
(after deleting a record) my record is gone. So i'm probably doing
something
silly, but am lost.
What I want is actually not an alert, but for the grid to refresh, the
alert
is just there to help me figure out whats going wrong.
Regards
Dale Fraser
http://learncf.com
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RE: CFAJAXPROXY Help!
You may want to call ColdFusion.Grid.refresh('gridname') to refresh the
grid in the onsuccess handler.
Rakshith
http://www.rakshith.net/blog/
-Original Message-
From: Dale Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:40 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: CFAJAXPROXY Help!
I have this line.
cfajaxproxy
bind=cfc:Battery.deleteTask({batteryForm:[EMAIL PROTECTED],{batteryForm:
batt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) onsuccess=alert('success') /
Which effectively says when I click the button btnDelete call deleteTask
method in Battery.cfc and onsuccess show an alert. It should work, in
fact
the docs show this as an example.
But what happens, is I get the alert 'success' when the page loads and
nothing on success of the delete.
I know that it is succeeding as I can run the method manually and it
works,
and from my page it also works as if I click the refresh button in the
grid
(after deleting a record) my record is gone. So i'm probably doing
something
silly, but am lost.
What I want is actually not an alert, but for the grid to refresh, the
alert
is just there to help me figure out whats going wrong.
Regards
Dale Fraser
http://learncf.com
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Re: Constantly execute (refresh?) page, for lt;cfpopgt;?
Hey Gary, I don't have access to the administrator, due to the fact I'm using shared hosting from hostmysite.I'll contact them though, and see if they can set it up. Aside from that, even if just for the sake of knowing...is there any other way of doing this? Thanks! Hi George, You could create the page as normal and set up a scheduled event in the administrator to run it every 5 minutes. -- Gary Gilbert http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290522 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue
Hello Chaps, I've been working with both CS and MG for a while now and we're getting on famously together, It took me a while to feel comfortable with relinquishing that control over to the frameworks, but once done I can genuinely feel the development benefits, it's quite amazing. This past weekend I've made my first ventures into studying the benefits of the AOP concepts which are available to me in CS, and they have gotten me quite excited to say the least, however trying to find some good working examples of how to apply them within a MG/CS application is becoming quite tricky and I'm struggling to figure this stuff out, so thought I'd come looking for a little help. For the sake of argument and example, let's take a simple task like validating some data which is being passed to a service object. I'll give some basic mocked examples of my controller and advice object that I have at the moment. Controller: cffunction name=registerUser access=public output=false returntype=any cfarguments name=Event type=any required=true hint=I'm the event / !--- Create New User --- cfset var NewUser = VARIABLES.Instance.UserService.create(ARGUMENTS.Event.getValue(name)) / cfreturn ARGUMENTS.Event / /cffunction Now obviously that's very stripped down version of my controller method, but for the sake of argument let keep it as simple as possible. Now, I need to validate that 'name' variable to ensure that it doesn't have any numbers in it, if it does then I want to throw the user back to the form page with an error message. Take a look at my basic advice object below: Advice Object: !--- Advice Method --- cffunction name=invokeMethod access=public returntype=any hint=I supply the advice to the method call cfargument name=methodInvocation type=coldspring.aop.MethodInvocation required=false / !--- Create Temporary Local Structure --- cfset var LOCAL = structNew() / !--- Validate Data --- cfif refind([0-9], arguments.methodInvocation.getArguments().Name) !--- Data Not Valid --- cfelse !--- Data Valid --- /cfif !--- Return Out --- cfreturn / /cffunction Now this is where I become a little confused, see, in the old days I would validate the data inside my controller, and if the data failed validation I would add a result of 'failed' and update the viewstate with an error message, then use the events xml definition to pass the user back to the form if the result of 'failed' was present. However, from what I can see here I have no access to the event object from my advice object, so I'm not able to add results or update the view state, All I can do is simply return a value, is that correct? How do I use the advice object to control the user back to the form with an error message? I'm feeling a little confused about it. Thanks for any 'advice' guys, I really appreciate your time. Rob ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290526 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code?
True but it all depends on what your applications are used for. The bulk of what I end up doing is doing work for an internal group at a large corporation where the applications are used by one client and not sent to multiple places implying multiple versions could exist in production. On 10/7/07, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, the best solution would be to keep everyone on the same version. I have found that this can actually generate work and revenue. Ie Application = $100k + $10k per year. Includes all updates and is NOT optional. Then you get 10 customers you have $100 k recurring revenue, like one new sale a year for just doing upgrades, if you get your processes right, the upgrades can almost be automated or at very least trivial, so $10k per year is good money. Regards Dale Fraser http://learncf.com -Original Message- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 8 October 2007 2:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code? That sounds like it would be a great solution if the need to go back to different points in the database were needed. Our needs have always been just to go back to one certain point and really it has always been to go to that point with the data intact to then diagnose the problem. Typically the users never provide enough details to easily recreate the problem via creation of all new test data. To revert back to different versions of the database we could always just export that versions via the modeling tools we design the databases within since they have versioning in them but honestly never tried it since not had the need. On 10/7/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is where something like Rails migrations would be a great thing for a CF framework to copy. All of your database changes are kept in ruby files that describe table creation, column additions, table deletions, and if so needed, raw sql statements to create functions or stored procs. Every ruby migration file is a migration point and has two methods 'up' and 'down', anything you do in the up method must be reflected as an opposite action in the down method. So if you're at migration 18 and you want to go back to version 16, rake db:migrate VERSION=16 will do all the necessary changes for you. On 10/7/07, Aaron Rouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you explain that with a little more detail. What code(language) is going to track all of the table/column changes and track any data manipulation that is needed between versions of the database structure? Also if you are creating a database of that era, say version 1.5, does this mean it is going to drop the database of the version 2.0 era in order to have a place to put the 1.5 era? On 10/7/07, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Control the databases through code. Then if you check out your code at 1.3.2 It should be able to create databases of that era. Regards Dale Fraser http://learncf.com -Original Message- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 8 October 2007 11:23 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code? What do you do when client needs a fix on version 1.5 which has significant database differences when compared to version 2.0 that you are currently working on? We just maintain a separate copy of the DB for the versions for cases like that but just curious on how others do it. On 10/7/07, J.J. Merrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick, 3. Branch and tagging. me: ::working on version 2.0:: client: I need to you fix something that is broken on the live server! me: ok:: switch to the trunk which is version 1.5, fix, deploy, switch back to v2.0 branch no mess and no thought ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290525 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is the same thing which I do. I have 1 VM Session that has my Testing software installed on it that I can play with which allows me to not mess up my actual workstation. I have 1 VM Session running OpenSuse that houses the Subversion and MySQL Databases for all of my Development. I have 1 VM Session running Windows 2000 Pro that has CF7 Installed on JRUN and Apache. My Actual workstation has Eclipse, mysql gui tools along with other eclipse plugins so I can connect to these VM Sessions. When I am doing development, I will fireup the OpenSuse and Windows 2K VMWare Sessions and then also Eclipse. The windows vmware session has a mapped drive to my local host and when I am ready to test some code, I would then simply copy the code to the windows vmware session and browse it within a browser. When I am satisfied with my changes, I would then commit them to SVN which goes to the OpenSuse VMWare Session. When I am done making changes, I shutdown the VMWare Sessions and zip up the directory to burn to a DVD. Rick Faircloth wrote: I'm very interested in the VMWare approach to testing Subverison, Eclipse, CFEclipse, etc. However, after looking over the selections in the Virtual Appliance Marketplace on vmware.com, I don't see anything that fits what I'm looking for. I've never used VMWare before and I'm trying to be careful about what I do to my development workstation. I'd like to start keeping all my trial software running in a VM that I can delete at any time without affecting my current development setup. I get very worried that something with which I'm unfamiliar is going to render my workstation useless. I just re-installed my system from the ground up twice due to hard drive failures and I don't want anything happening to my system again. From looking at the description of the appliances, I guess it's always going to be true for the free appliances, that the OS involved will be of the open source, free variety, such as Ubuntu, etc.? It seems it would have to be to keep it free? Correct? If that's the case, how would I set up a VM that mirrors my current production environment, but with the add-ons of Eclipse, CFEclipse, Subversion, etc.? Seems I would need a separate Win XP license, then a copy of CF8 Developer's edition, at a minimum. Am I missing something or looking at this the wrong way? Suggestions? Advice? Thanks, Rick -Original Message- From: John Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 9:18 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code? I second the recommendation for SVN as a centralized versioning system but you shouldn't pay too much attention to all the people claiming it is hard to set up. It may be tedious when you do it for the first time, but not hard, you just have to follow the manual. But if for some reason you do find it hard or would like to cut through the setup time for doing SVN, Trac, CruiseControl and any other tools you need to setup. I would recommend looking at the Virtual Application Marketplace at Vmware (http://www.vmware.com/appliances/) which has server images where people have set all this up for you. You simply just download and run the image locally. John Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770.337.8363 www.FusionLink.com - ColdFusion and Flex hosting Now offering ColdFusion 8 Enterprise hosting FREE Subversion hosting -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 5:50 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code? J W wrote: I am looking to have better version control at our company and am wonder how YOU deal with this. What is your setup? Local development against a local CF and local resources. Full working copy of a SVN repository. Code gets tagged in the repo and then a build server will use an Ant script to pull in drivers, externals and configuration files and generate several EAR files, both a compiled and a source version for each CF version supported. Source versions go to the test environment and when approved the compiled version goes to the staging environment where the customer will approve it for final deployment. I second the recommendation for SVN as a centralized versioning system but you shouldn't pay too much attention to all the people claiming it is hard to set up. It may be tedious when you do it for the first time, but not hard, you just have to follow the manual. And be warned about all the blogs and wiki's too: I'm sure their authors write them with the best intentions, but few of them add something that is not in the manual, most of them are outdated and none of them cover important issues such as the proper way to secure and backup your repository. And don't even think about using that one-click installer, version 1.2.3 is ancient and binary
RE: Graphing date ranges...
Hey pal, If you're looking to fill in the holes where there is no data for a particular date the best way to do this is with a Calendar table in your database, you can then select the desired date range from this and LEFT OUTTER JOIN it to your table with your statistics data, that way It'll return a row for every date in the range, regardless of whether you have data for that date or not, so you get no gaps. It's more of a SQL type thing so you might be better off asking there, and looking around for some help building and populating a Calendar table, it's not an overly complicated task, but a calendar table will really help you out for this and many other tasks too, I'd highly recommend one. Let me know if you need any more help Jay, Rob -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 10:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: Graphing date ranges... I have a cfchart displaying dates along the X axis, is there any way to get ColdFusion to treat these as a scale so that a 7 day gap in the data would stretch the graph out to interpolate the missing days? CFChart does have an xAxisType attribute but to set it to scale the data must be numeric and I really want to keep the data displaying as formatted dates. -- Jay No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.4/1056 - Release Date: 07/10/2007 18:12 ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290527 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
On Saturday 06 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With posting them on the Wiki, in hopes we all could adapt to them *Nobody* else['s company] is going to mold themselves around you/your companies coding standards. These sort of standards tend to vary a lot across development teams. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to augmentatively orchestrate eligible e-services on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290529 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
I can understand the point of needing to be consistent but I have worked on some projects where the consistent style was extremely hard to follow because the person who did everything originally feared whitespace so no tabs very littles spaces and very little new lines. Although now days a lot of programs would make things easy in going in there and dividing things up to some extent, still was a pain at the time. On 10/7/07, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consistency is important, the minutiae of capitalization and whitespace is not. I don't agree with this, as standards go the whitespace (tab obsession) is very important. Take this example (might not come out right on email. Select* From Table Where X = 1 And Y = 1 And this Select* From Table Where X = 1 and Y = 1 These are different standards, if you get used to reading the first, you easily miss the second part of the where in the second. Perhaps, but neither is superior to the other. Pick one and go with it - that's Sean's point. That's consistency. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290530 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Graphing date ranges...
I did think about something like this but the problem is that when you chart data with missing data the line just stops and starts over the missing info, it doesn't interpolate the gaps. This means if it gets data like... 2007/10/01 - 15 2007/10/02 - null 2007/10/03 - 17 2007/10/04 - null 2007/10/05 - null 2007/10/06 - 12 The chart would then show nothing at all because it will try to render 3 disconnected dots which will not display anything. -- Jay -Original Message- From: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 11:45 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Graphing date ranges... Hey pal, If you're looking to fill in the holes where there is no data for a particular date the best way to do this is with a Calendar table in your database, you can then select the desired date range from this and LEFT OUTTER JOIN it to your table with your statistics data, that way It'll return a row for every date in the range, regardless of whether you have data for that date or not, so you get no gaps. It's more of a SQL type thing so you might be better off asking there, and looking around for some help building and populating a Calendar table, it's not an overly complicated task, but a calendar table will really help you out for this and many other tasks too, I'd highly recommend one. Let me know if you need any more help Jay, Rob -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 10:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: Graphing date ranges... I have a cfchart displaying dates along the X axis, is there any way to get ColdFusion to treat these as a scale so that a 7 day gap in the data would stretch the graph out to interpolate the missing days? CFChart does have an xAxisType attribute but to set it to scale the data must be numeric and I really want to keep the data displaying as formatted dates. -- Jay No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.4/1056 - Release Date: 07/10/2007 18:12 ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290532 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code?
It actually would simplify that situation. I find running a subversion server very simple to do. SVN works on a revision system so that everytime you check in a piece of code it ups the revision number by one. If you want to go back to a certain revision on 1 file just right click on the file, do revert and look at the timeline and choose which change you want. Your process does work for you but that seems like a lot of work to accomplish the same goal. J.J. On 10/7/07, Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the feedback, J.J. Here's what I currently do... 1. Backup -- I currently have a production server here at my studio in my home, hosting my own sites. I'm in the process of moving things over to a new VPS at AHPHosting with CF 8. For backup, I do two things... one, which is a type of versioning, is to simply save the entire folder with all assets, code, etc., with a date appended and then continue working on the project. That gives me a backup to move back to in case something goes wrong with the current project and is just too much to undo. Also, I have true backup of all project files/data to my FTP server. Which also, sends a copy of backed up files to my web server for redundancy. So I have 3 copies of everything at all times on different computers. 2. Versioning -- while I would like more granular versioning, appending the date/time to a complete project folder provides a type of versioning. What I would really like is to be able to undo a particular action while leaving other, perhaps later changes, intact. Say, I've made 10 changes. I'd like to go back to change 4 and revert that, but leave 5-10 untouched. That would be really helpful. Anything like that in Subversion? 3. Brand and tagging -- seems like what I do works similarly. If something is wrong with the deployed project. I just correct that (on the server...). Then back to work on updates on the development box. 4. Deployment of latest version -- copy the latest completed version to the server and overwrite the files. How would Subversion improve upon that? I use Homesite 5.5, btw Rick -Original Message- From: J.J. Merrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:59 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code? Rick, I am a single developer and I always use subversion. It provides the following for me: 1. Ease of backup. - I have a dev server here at my house that I use as a repository and i use mozy pro to back that up online. I never have to worry about my dev laptop dying and losing precious code. 2. Versioning. I have countless times reverted a file when I have done something stupid and it is so nice to not ever have to worry about that. 3. Branch and tagging. me: ::working on version 2.0:: client: I need to you fix something that is broken on the live server! me: ok:: switch to the trunk which is version 1.5, fix, deploy, switch back to v2.0 branch no mess and no thought 4. Deployment: Deploying is a no brainer when you use SVN. J.J. On 10/7/07, Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I can see how the versioning would be helpful, but other than that, how would this extensive management system be beneficial to a solo developer? Or is it overkill? Rick -Original Message- From: Eric Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 11:53 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code? Summing it up... You have a repository that contains your current code. Both the development and live environments are checked out from the repository. When you complete changes to a page, you commit the page. You then update the live environment with the new code. Everyone who has checked out he code should, at the start of each day...and potentially several times throughout the day...run an update to pull current code from the repository to ensure they have the current version of the page they are working on. I generally do an update before I start working on a page. Now lets say you and I are working on the same page and we both commit the page. Subversion will detect this and notify that there is a conflict. It will then (depending on the setting and how the code conflicts) either merge the files automatically if there are no conflicts between the code...ie you changed line 5 and I changed line 20 and everything else is the same...or notify that last committer that there is a conflict and prompt you to manually do a diff and reconcile the code. SVN also handles branches and tags. As far as all these checkouts, commits, updates, etc... There are several tools that can be used. You can do this via a command-line interface. You can use a third party tool like TortoiseSVN (another open source and free tool that is awesome...it interfaces with windows
Re: Constantly execute (refresh?) page, for lt;cfpopgt;?
On 10/8/07, George Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Gary, I don't have access to the administrator, due to the fact I'm using shared hosting from hostmysite.I'll contact them though, and see if they can set it up. Aside from that, even if just for the sake of knowing...is there any other way of doing this? Looks like this thread might have gotten chopped because I only see this one post from you George... But have you tried the following? META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=10; URL=http://domain.com/url/?#variable#; ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290534 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
On 10/8/07, Dale Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consistency is important, the minutiae of capitalization and whitespace is not. I don't agree with this, as standards go the whitespace (tab obsession) is very important. Take this example (might not come out right on email. Select * FromTable Where X = 1 And Y = 1 And this Select * FromTable Where X = 1 and Y = 1 These are different standards, if you get used to reading the first, you easily miss the second part of the where in the second. Regards Dale Fraser http://learncf.com If you are using cfqueryparam it would be kinda stupid putting statements on one line. cfquery SELECT X, Y FROMTable WHEREX = cfqueryparam cfsqltype=cf_sql_integer maxlength=3 value=1 AND Y = cfqueryparam cfsqltype=cf_sql_integer maxlength=3 value=1 /cfquery ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290533 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Graphing date ranges...
Hey James, You can use CASE statements in the SQL to handle the NULL values and replace them with 0 which means the points still get plotted at the bottom of the graph and look as its supposed to. I've used this method before on my application solve the same problem so it defiantly works and is a nice efficient way to solve the problem. Rob -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 12:46 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Graphing date ranges... I did think about something like this but the problem is that when you chart data with missing data the line just stops and starts over the missing info, it doesn't interpolate the gaps. This means if it gets data like... 2007/10/01 - 15 2007/10/02 - null 2007/10/03 - 17 2007/10/04 - null 2007/10/05 - null 2007/10/06 - 12 The chart would then show nothing at all because it will try to render 3 disconnected dots which will not display anything. -- Jay -Original Message- From: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 11:45 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Graphing date ranges... Hey pal, If you're looking to fill in the holes where there is no data for a particular date the best way to do this is with a Calendar table in your database, you can then select the desired date range from this and LEFT OUTTER JOIN it to your table with your statistics data, that way It'll return a row for every date in the range, regardless of whether you have data for that date or not, so you get no gaps. It's more of a SQL type thing so you might be better off asking there, and looking around for some help building and populating a Calendar table, it's not an overly complicated task, but a calendar table will really help you out for this and many other tasks too, I'd highly recommend one. Let me know if you need any more help Jay, Rob -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 10:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: Graphing date ranges... I have a cfchart displaying dates along the X axis, is there any way to get ColdFusion to treat these as a scale so that a 7 day gap in the data would stretch the graph out to interpolate the missing days? CFChart does have an xAxisType attribute but to set it to scale the data must be numeric and I really want to keep the data displaying as formatted dates. -- Jay No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.4/1056 - Release Date: 07/10/2007 18:12 ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290535 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Constantly execute (refresh?) page, for lt;cfpopgt;?
George, You can also use the cfschedule tag without having to have access to the administrator. Though it is possible to disable this tag via the administrator sandbox/ resource security page. Either way you will have to check with your hosting provider. -- Gary Gilbert http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290536 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
Any coding standard that works toward readability and maintainability of code is a good thing, but going overboard in any one direction makes the job harder. I also think the over use of new lines doesn't help with readability either cfargument name=sfirstName type=string required=true hint=first name of person / or cfargument name=sfirstName type=string required=true hint=first name of person / The first is a superfluous use of carriage returns in my opinion and does nothing to improve readability. -- Gary Gilbert http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290537 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Graphing date ranges...
Problem is I need the line to be interpolated not dropped to 0 so for example for the data 2007/10/01 - 15 2007/10/02 - null 2007/10/03 - 17 I need the line to go through 16 on the 2nd not drop to zero and come back up again. -- Jay -Original Message- From: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 13:00 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Graphing date ranges... Hey James, You can use CASE statements in the SQL to handle the NULL values and replace them with 0 which means the points still get plotted at the bottom of the graph and look as its supposed to. I've used this method before on my application solve the same problem so it defiantly works and is a nice efficient way to solve the problem. Rob -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 12:46 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Graphing date ranges... I did think about something like this but the problem is that when you chart data with missing data the line just stops and starts over the missing info, it doesn't interpolate the gaps. This means if it gets data like... 2007/10/01 - 15 2007/10/02 - null 2007/10/03 - 17 2007/10/04 - null 2007/10/05 - null 2007/10/06 - 12 The chart would then show nothing at all because it will try to render 3 disconnected dots which will not display anything. -- Jay -Original Message- From: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 11:45 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Graphing date ranges... Hey pal, If you're looking to fill in the holes where there is no data for a particular date the best way to do this is with a Calendar table in your database, you can then select the desired date range from this and LEFT OUTTER JOIN it to your table with your statistics data, that way It'll return a row for every date in the range, regardless of whether you have data for that date or not, so you get no gaps. It's more of a SQL type thing so you might be better off asking there, and looking around for some help building and populating a Calendar table, it's not an overly complicated task, but a calendar table will really help you out for this and many other tasks too, I'd highly recommend one. Let me know if you need any more help Jay, Rob -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 10:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: Graphing date ranges... I have a cfchart displaying dates along the X axis, is there any way to get ColdFusion to treat these as a scale so that a 7 day gap in the data would stretch the graph out to interpolate the missing days? CFChart does have an xAxisType attribute but to set it to scale the data must be numeric and I really want to keep the data displaying as formatted dates. -- Jay No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.4/1056 - Release Date: 07/10/2007 18:12 ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290538 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003?
What is the Coldfustion Script, CF version MX7 to Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003? ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290540 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue
The fact that you're using Model-Glue should make no difference at all. If it is, then you're thinking about it the wrong way. I see a few problems with what you've said: - AOP is really meant to eliminate duplication by encapsulating a generic, common process so that it can be reused across many method calls or components. I'm not sure validation really qualifies, since it is so specific to the particular object or data being validated. Usual suspects for AOP include logging, security, and data formatting. So I'm not sure if what you're doing really lends itself to AOP in the first place, since I don't see how your code is reusable. The example you gave is hardcoding a call to getName() which already means this advice is really not going to work with other kinds of data. - You're right that the advice has no access to the Model-Glue event object. It shouldn't. You have access to whatever arguments were passed into the original method, and access to any return value from that method. So if your UserService returns an object or a struct indicating success or failure, along with error messages, you can manipulate that before it gets returned back to the controller. Basically, if you can imagine dropping Model-Glue and having a web service call your Service (and your advice), and having it work and return data that the web service could use, then you're at the right conceptual level. Whenever this won't work (for example, you're wanting the advice to have access to the Model-Glue event object, which obviously would be extremely difficult if the client was a web service instead of Model-Glue), it means you aren't keeping your application layers properly encapsulated. Hope that helps. Brian On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now this is where I become a little confused, see, in the old days I would validate the data inside my controller, and if the data failed validation I would add a result of 'failed' and update the viewstate with an error message, then use the events xml definition to pass the user back to the form if the result of 'failed' was present. However, from what I can see here I have no access to the event object from my advice object, so I'm not able to add results or update the view state, All I can do is simply return a value, is that correct? How do I use the advice object to control the user back to the form with an error message? I'm feeling a little confused about it. Thanks for any 'advice' guys, I really appreciate your time. Rob ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290539 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003?
cfntauthenticate Terrence Ryan I.T. Director Wharton Computing and Information Technology  E-mail:    [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tom Hines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003? What is the Coldfustion Script, CF version MX7 to Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003? ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290541 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003?
If for some reason that would not work then could always just use CFLDAP On 10/8/07, Ryan, Terrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cfntauthenticate Terrence Ryan I.T. Director Wharton Computing and Information Technology E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tom Hines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003? What is the Coldfustion Script, CF version MX7 to Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003? ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290542 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Setting a value for CFTEXTAREA (richtext) via Javascript
Is anyone really familiar with the way CF8 implements FCK? I'm trying to set the innerHTML value for a richtext field via javascript, and am having no luck finding the property. CF8 provides a nifty ColdFusion.getElementValue() function, but no setElementValue function :( . I'm able to get the ID of the field (document.MyFormName.MyFormField.id) but am not aware of a way to dup out the properties of the object. I'd prefer not to have to go through the trouble of binding, and just set it directly in my JS function. Any help here is appreciated. - Igor ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290543 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Graphing date ranges...
I second that suggestion. http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:277365 M!ke -Original Message- From: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 5:45 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Graphing date ranges... Hey pal, If you're looking to fill in the holes where there is no data for a particular date the best way to do this is with a Calendar table in your database, you can then select the desired date range from this and LEFT OUTTER JOIN it to your table with your statistics data, that way It'll return a row for every date in the range, regardless of whether you have data for that date or not, so you get no gaps. It's more of a SQL type thing so you might be better off asking there, and looking around for some help building and populating a Calendar table, it's not an overly complicated task, but a calendar table will really help you out for this and many other tasks too, I'd highly recommend one. Let me know if you need any more help Jay, Rob -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 10:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: Graphing date ranges... I have a cfchart displaying dates along the X axis, is there any way to get ColdFusion to treat these as a scale so that a 7 day gap in the data would stretch the graph out to interpolate the missing days? CFChart does have an xAxisType attribute but to set it to scale the data must be numeric and I really want to keep the data displaying as formatted dates. -- Jay ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290545 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue
Hello Brian, Thanks a great deal for the detailed reply, it does help make things a little clearer. You're right to say that my example was hardcoded values and this would most defiantly be difficult to validate using AOP, however in a real working example I have a nice little validation service adapted from Javier Julios data Validator component which allows me to define data validation rules for variables by name, so the advice object would be passing the variable 'name' off to the validation service and the service would then find the correct rules for that variable and test it against them accordingly. So in my case, being able validate variables on the fly using AOP is certainly plausible. Like you say the general principle of this process should be identical regardless of whether I'm using MG or not, however the problem that arises with MG is that the only way I can currently see this working is to adapt my controllers so they contain a conditional which watches for returned values from the proxy, and if there is one then act upon it by pushing the user back to the form, however this seems to totally eliminate the benefits of an AOP approach to the concerns as the whole point of AOP is to eliminate code which doesn't concern the business logic. If we're using something like before or after advice then this isn't a problem as its effectively non responsive and has no control over the work flow, however when trying to apply this 'about' advice, I can't see how it can be done without defeating its own purpose of having to watch for returned values. Unless of course we can give the advice object access to the event object. Thanks again mate, Rob -Original Message- From: Brian Kotek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 15:10 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue The fact that you're using Model-Glue should make no difference at all. If it is, then you're thinking about it the wrong way. I see a few problems with what you've said: - AOP is really meant to eliminate duplication by encapsulating a generic, common process so that it can be reused across many method calls or components. I'm not sure validation really qualifies, since it is so specific to the particular object or data being validated. Usual suspects for AOP include logging, security, and data formatting. So I'm not sure if what you're doing really lends itself to AOP in the first place, since I don't see how your code is reusable. The example you gave is hardcoding a call to getName() which already means this advice is really not going to work with other kinds of data. - You're right that the advice has no access to the Model-Glue event object. It shouldn't. You have access to whatever arguments were passed into the original method, and access to any return value from that method. So if your UserService returns an object or a struct indicating success or failure, along with error messages, you can manipulate that before it gets returned back to the controller. Basically, if you can imagine dropping Model-Glue and having a web service call your Service (and your advice), and having it work and return data that the web service could use, then you're at the right conceptual level. Whenever this won't work (for example, you're wanting the advice to have access to the Model-Glue event object, which obviously would be extremely difficult if the client was a web service instead of Model-Glue), it means you aren't keeping your application layers properly encapsulated. Hope that helps. Brian On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now this is where I become a little confused, see, in the old days I would validate the data inside my controller, and if the data failed validation I would add a result of 'failed' and update the viewstate with an error message, then use the events xml definition to pass the user back to the form if the result of 'failed' was present. However, from what I can see here I have no access to the event object from my advice object, so I'm not able to add results or update the view state, All I can do is simply return a value, is that correct? How do I use the advice object to control the user back to the form with an error message? I'm feeling a little confused about it. Thanks for any 'advice' guys, I really appreciate your time. Rob ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290544 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003?
If for some reason that would not work then could always just use CFLDAP Ok, thanks. I googled that command and found this example. This one uses a cgi script so I guess I can just rewrite it to use coldfusion scripts. .. Example The following example uses the auth and status fields to determine whether the user is authenticated and the failure cause. It consists of three files that you put in the same directory: A main cfntauthexample.cfm page that displays the name if the user is authenticated and contains a logout link. A login form page that is displayed if the user is not logged in. The Application.cfm page, which contains all the login, authentication, and logout processing code. For a full description of login processing, see ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide. For information on how this example works, see the comments in the code. Save the following page as cfntauthenticateexample.cfm. To run the example, request this page in your browser or IDE. !--- The Application.cfm page, which is processed each time a user requests this page, ensures that you log in first. --- cfoutput h3Welcome #GetAuthUser()#/h3 !--- A link to log out the user. --- a href=#CGI.script_name#?logout=YesLog Out/a /cfoutput Save the following page as loginform.cfm: !--- A simple login form that posts back to the page whose request initiated the login. --- H2Please Log In/H2 cfform action=#CGI.script_name# !--- j_username and j_password are special names that populate cflogin tag variables. --- User Name: cfinput type=text name=j_username value=cfqa_user1 required=Yesbr Password: cfinput type=password name=j_password value=cfqa_user1 required=Yesbr Domain: cfinput type=text name=domain value=rnd required=Yesbr input type=submit value=Log In /cfform Save the following page as Application.cfm: !--- If this page is executing in response to the user clicking a logout link, log out the user. The cflogin tag code will then run. --- cfif IsDefined(URL.logout) AND URL.logout cflogout /cfif !--- The cflogin body code runs only if a user is not logged in. --- cflogin !--- cflogin variable exists only if login credentials are available. --- cfif NOT IsDefined(cflogin) !--- Show a login form that posts back to the page whose request initiated the login, and do not process the rest of this page. --- cfinclude template=loginform.cfm cfabort cfelse !--- Trim any leading or trailing spaces from the username and password submitted by the form. --- cfset theusername=trim(form.j_username) cfset thepassword=trim(form.j_password) cfset thedomain=trim(form.domain) cfntauthenticate username=#theusername# password=#thepassword# domain=#thedomain# result=authresult listgroups=yes !--- authresult.auth is True if the user is authenticated. --- cfif authresult.auth !--- Log user in to ColdFusion and set roles to the user's Groups. --- cfloginuser name=#theusername# password=#thepassword# roles=#authresult.groups# cfelse !--- The user was not authenticated. Display an error message and the login form. --- cfoutput cfif authresult.status IS AuthenticationFailure !--- The user is valid, but not the password. --- H2The password for #theusername# is not correctbr Please Try again/H2 cfelse !--- There is one other status value, invalid user name. --- H2The user name #theusername# is not validbr Please Try again/H2 /cfif /cfoutput cfinclude template=loginform.cfm cfabort /cfif /cfif /cflogin ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290546 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Eclipse to DW WAS: RE: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code?
Ingo, thanks for the reply. I didn't mean to criticize Aptana's plugin so harshly. I noticed there was a recent update. I'll install that update and then go back through and make some notes on the issues I found. I have a hot project to finish in the next day or two, so it may be a couple of days. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Ingo Muschenetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 10:44 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Eclipse to DW WAS: RE: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code? Hi Mike, I'm the project lead on Aptana, and I noticed you had mentioned our atribute support was horrible in HTML. If you have time, it'd be very helpful for us to hear specifics. We already show you which browsers support which attributes and I thought we had pretty good HTML editing support already, but in our latest beta version (milestone 10), we've spent a lot of time trying to get the typing experience really polished above and beyond other existing products. Anyway, any feedback you can give would me much appreciated. Thanks, Ingo ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290548 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003?
As previously suggested, I would also use CFLDAP. You can pull back lots of other information in addition to authenticating a user. M!ke -Original Message- From: Tom Hines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 10:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003? What is the Coldfustion Script, CF version MX7 to Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003? ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290547 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue
My understanding of AOP is that it really shouldn't affect the process flow of a request. Partly because it would be messy for it to have access to the request (event, or whatever). And partly because it just isn't what AOP is for. As Brian mentioned, things like logging are more appropriate. I have also used it for a notification type of service where if certain data changes, I fire off an email. The advice is not changing any data, but simply comparing old with new and acting upon that comparison. AOP seems to make more sense for behind the scenes type of stuff, not validation where a request will be changed based on the results of that validation. -- Matt Williams On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Brian, Thanks a great deal for the detailed reply, it does help make things a little clearer. You're right to say that my example was hardcoded values and this would most defiantly be difficult to validate using AOP, however in a real working example I have a nice little validation service adapted from Javier Julios data Validator component which allows me to define data validation rules for variables by name, so the advice object would be passing the variable 'name' off to the validation service and the service would then find the correct rules for that variable and test it against them accordingly. So in my case, being able validate variables on the fly using AOP is certainly plausible. Like you say the general principle of this process should be identical regardless of whether I'm using MG or not, however the problem that arises with MG is that the only way I can currently see this working is to adapt my controllers so they contain a conditional which watches for returned values from the proxy, and if there is one then act upon it by pushing the user back to the form, however this seems to totally eliminate the benefits of an AOP approach to the concerns as the whole point of AOP is to eliminate code which doesn't concern the business logic. If we're using something like before or after advice then this isn't a problem as its effectively non responsive and has no control over the work flow, however when trying to apply this 'about' advice, I can't see how it can be done without defeating its own purpose of having to watch for returned values. Unless of course we can give the advice object access to the event object. Thanks again mate, Rob -Original Message- From: Brian Kotek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 15:10 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue The fact that you're using Model-Glue should make no difference at all. If it is, then you're thinking about it the wrong way. I see a few problems with what you've said: - AOP is really meant to eliminate duplication by encapsulating a generic, common process so that it can be reused across many method calls or components. I'm not sure validation really qualifies, since it is so specific to the particular object or data being validated. Usual suspects for AOP include logging, security, and data formatting. So I'm not sure if what you're doing really lends itself to AOP in the first place, since I don't see how your code is reusable. The example you gave is hardcoding a call to getName() which already means this advice is really not going to work with other kinds of data. - You're right that the advice has no access to the Model-Glue event object. It shouldn't. You have access to whatever arguments were passed into the original method, and access to any return value from that method. So if your UserService returns an object or a struct indicating success or failure, along with error messages, you can manipulate that before it gets returned back to the controller. Basically, if you can imagine dropping Model-Glue and having a web service call your Service (and your advice), and having it work and return data that the web service could use, then you're at the right conceptual level. Whenever this won't work (for example, you're wanting the advice to have access to the Model-Glue event object, which obviously would be extremely difficult if the client was a web service instead of Model-Glue), it means you aren't keeping your application layers properly encapsulated. Hope that helps. Brian On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now this is where I become a little confused, see, in the old days I would validate the data inside my controller, and if the data failed validation I would add a result of 'failed' and update the viewstate with an error message, then use the events xml definition to pass the user back to the form if the result of 'failed' was present. However, from what I can see here I have no access to the event object from my advice object, so I'm not able to add results or update the view state,
Re: Coldspring AOP on Transient Business Object, bad combo?
On Friday 05 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I was wrong on this because I was actually missing a crucial detail: the proxy factory deletes the temp CFC as soon as it is instantiated. This is so you don't end up with a ton of generated CFCs on the disk. So it would (in fact, it has to) regenerate the file to disk each time. Each time *the bean factory is created* is the important qualifier there. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to conveniently implement magnetic networks on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290549 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Authenticate with Windows Active Directory, Windows Server 2003?
Perhaps I should have typed if that would not work for someones needs We have ran into a few times where it just was not right for the job at hand and actually have since just always used our objects that wrap the CFLDAP calls. On 10/8/07, Tom Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If for some reason that would not work then could always just use CFLDAP Ok, thanks. I googled that command and found this example. This one uses a cgi script so I guess I can just rewrite it to use coldfusion scripts. .. Example The following example uses the auth and status fields to determine whether the user is authenticated and the failure cause. It consists of three files that you put in the same directory: A main cfntauthexample.cfm page that displays the name if the user is authenticated and contains a logout link. A login form page that is displayed if the user is not logged in. The Application.cfm page, which contains all the login, authentication, and logout processing code. For a full description of login processing, see ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide. For information on how this example works, see the comments in the code. Save the following page as cfntauthenticateexample.cfm. To run the example, request this page in your browser or IDE. !--- The Application.cfm page, which is processed each time a user requests this page, ensures that you log in first. --- cfoutput h3Welcome #GetAuthUser()#/h3 !--- A link to log out the user. --- a href=#CGI.script_name#?logout=YesLog Out/a /cfoutput Save the following page as loginform.cfm: !--- A simple login form that posts back to the page whose request initiated the login. --- H2Please Log In/H2 cfform action=#CGI.script_name# !--- j_username and j_password are special names that populate cflogin tag variables. --- User Name: cfinput type=text name=j_username value=cfqa_user1 required=Yesbr Password: cfinput type=password name=j_password value=cfqa_user1 required=Yesbr Domain: cfinput type=text name=domain value=rnd required=Yesbr input type=submit value=Log In /cfform Save the following page as Application.cfm: !--- If this page is executing in response to the user clicking a logout link, log out the user. The cflogin tag code will then run. --- cfif IsDefined(URL.logout) AND URL.logout cflogout /cfif !--- The cflogin body code runs only if a user is not logged in. --- cflogin !--- cflogin variable exists only if login credentials are available. --- cfif NOT IsDefined(cflogin) !--- Show a login form that posts back to the page whose request initiated the login, and do not process the rest of this page. --- cfinclude template=loginform.cfm cfabort cfelse !--- Trim any leading or trailing spaces from the username and password submitted by the form. --- cfset theusername=trim(form.j_username) cfset thepassword=trim(form.j_password) cfset thedomain=trim(form.domain) cfntauthenticate username=#theusername# password=#thepassword# domain=#thedomain# result=authresult listgroups=yes !--- authresult.auth is True if the user is authenticated. --- cfif authresult.auth !--- Log user in to ColdFusion and set roles to the user's Groups. --- cfloginuser name=#theusername# password=#thepassword# roles=#authresult.groups# cfelse !--- The user was not authenticated. Display an error message and the login form. --- cfoutput cfif authresult.status IS AuthenticationFailure !--- The user is valid, but not the password. --- H2The password for #theusername# is not correctbr Please Try again/H2 cfelse !--- There is one other status value, invalid user name. --- H2The user name #theusername# is not validbr Please Try again/H2 /cfif /cfoutput cfinclude template=loginform.cfm cfabort /cfif /cfif /cflogin ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290551 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Debuggin Flash Forms
So, I've got this page with a somewhat complex flash form on it... no actionscript or anything.. just a lot of elements, a tab navigator, etc... Seems to have stopped working after the CF8 upgrade. No errors are generated in the application.log or exception.log, I just get no form Anyone got any suggestions here? Kinda hard to debug problems with no errors :) -- Rick Root Check out CFMBB, BlogCFM, ImageCFC, ImapCFC, CFFM, and more at www.opensourcecf.com ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290553 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue
On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Brian, Thanks a great deal for the detailed reply, it does help make things a little clearer. You're right to say that my example was hardcoded values and this would most defiantly be difficult to validate using AOP, however in a real working example I have a nice little validation service adapted from Javier Julios data Validator component which allows me to define data validation rules for variables by name, so the advice object would be passing the variable 'name' off to the validation service and the service would then find the correct rules for that variable and test it against them accordingly. So in my case, being able validate variables on the fly using AOP is certainly plausible. It sounds possible, but doesn't this essentially mean every variable name in your system has to be unique? What if I have a customer with a name and a user with a name? It seems like an odd way to perform validation, unless I'm misreading. I'm also still not convinced that just because it is possible means it's a good idea. It seems like validation is something you really want explicitly attached to the business object being validated, since these are really business rules. In other words, under what condition would you *not* want to validate a business object? Maybe it's just because I perform validation quite differently and I might be missing some underlying benefit of what you're proposing. (I have a Validator composed into my business objects, which handle validation using either database metadata or XML validation rules.) Like you say the general principle of this process should be identical regardless of whether I'm using MG or not, however the problem that arises with MG is that the only way I can currently see this working is to adapt my controllers so they contain a conditional which watches for returned values from the proxy, and if there is one then act upon it by pushing the user back to the form, however this seems to totally eliminate the benefits of an AOP approach to the concerns as the whole point of AOP is to eliminate code which doesn't concern the business logic. If we're using something like before or after advice then this isn't a problem as its effectively non responsive and has no control over the work flow, however when trying to apply this 'about' advice, I can't see how it can be done without defeating its own purpose of having to watch for returned values. Unless of course we can give the advice object access to the event object. Well you could always try to pass the event into the Proxy as an argument, but I think that would be a bad idea. I suppose my take might be: 1. Pass data into the AOP Proxy 2. AOP Proxy calls runs the validation rules on the incoming data. 3. If data is valid, pass the data on into the target Service object and let it do it's work 4. Proxy creates an instance of a Result object and populates it with errors array, messages, or whatever data you will need for later processing 5. Proxy returns the Result object to the caller (in this case the MG Controleller) 6. MG Controller can call something like result.isSuccess() to determine what results it needs to add to the event queue. Would something like that work for you? ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290552 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue
Thanks Matt, I generally agree with you that it works best when not interrupting the application flow, i.e logging, however, It seems that everyone is quite happy to utilize AOP to implement security concerns, and obviously validating and confirming security credentials or authenticating a user is really no different to validating a piece of data, either can return true or false and need to be acted upon accordingly, or are they referring to something different when they discuss 'security'? Thanks guys, Rob -Original Message- From: Matt Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 16:04 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue My understanding of AOP is that it really shouldn't affect the process flow of a request. Partly because it would be messy for it to have access to the request (event, or whatever). And partly because it just isn't what AOP is for. As Brian mentioned, things like logging are more appropriate. I have also used it for a notification type of service where if certain data changes, I fire off an email. The advice is not changing any data, but simply comparing old with new and acting upon that comparison. AOP seems to make more sense for behind the scenes type of stuff, not validation where a request will be changed based on the results of that validation. -- Matt Williams On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Brian, Thanks a great deal for the detailed reply, it does help make things a little clearer. You're right to say that my example was hardcoded values and this would most defiantly be difficult to validate using AOP, however in a real working example I have a nice little validation service adapted from Javier Julios data Validator component which allows me to define data validation rules for variables by name, so the advice object would be passing the variable 'name' off to the validation service and the service would then find the correct rules for that variable and test it against them accordingly. So in my case, being able validate variables on the fly using AOP is certainly plausible. Like you say the general principle of this process should be identical regardless of whether I'm using MG or not, however the problem that arises with MG is that the only way I can currently see this working is to adapt my controllers so they contain a conditional which watches for returned values from the proxy, and if there is one then act upon it by pushing the user back to the form, however this seems to totally eliminate the benefits of an AOP approach to the concerns as the whole point of AOP is to eliminate code which doesn't concern the business logic. If we're using something like before or after advice then this isn't a problem as its effectively non responsive and has no control over the work flow, however when trying to apply this 'about' advice, I can't see how it can be done without defeating its own purpose of having to watch for returned values. Unless of course we can give the advice object access to the event object. Thanks again mate, Rob -Original Message- From: Brian Kotek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 15:10 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue The fact that you're using Model-Glue should make no difference at all. If it is, then you're thinking about it the wrong way. I see a few problems with what you've said: - AOP is really meant to eliminate duplication by encapsulating a generic, common process so that it can be reused across many method calls or components. I'm not sure validation really qualifies, since it is so specific to the particular object or data being validated. Usual suspects for AOP include logging, security, and data formatting. So I'm not sure if what you're doing really lends itself to AOP in the first place, since I don't see how your code is reusable. The example you gave is hardcoding a call to getName() which already means this advice is really not going to work with other kinds of data. - You're right that the advice has no access to the Model-Glue event object. It shouldn't. You have access to whatever arguments were passed into the original method, and access to any return value from that method. So if your UserService returns an object or a struct indicating success or failure, along with error messages, you can manipulate that before it gets returned back to the controller. Basically, if you can imagine dropping Model-Glue and having a web service call your Service (and your advice), and having it work and return data that the web service could use, then you're at the right conceptual level. Whenever this won't work (for example, you're wanting the advice to have access to the Model-Glue event object, which obviously would be extremely difficult if the client was a web service instead of Model-Glue), it means
Re: Debuggin Flash Forms
I seem to be having a problem with all flash forms on my server. https://www.it.dev.duke.edu/public/search.cfm -- Rick Root Check out CFMBB, BlogCFM, ImageCFC, ImapCFC, CFFM, and more at www.opensourcecf.com ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290555 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue
On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Matt, I generally agree with you that it works best when not interrupting the application flow, i.e logging, however, It seems that everyone is quite happy to utilize AOP to implement security concerns, and obviously validating and confirming security credentials or authenticating a user is really no different to validating a piece of data, either can return true or false and need to be acted upon accordingly, or are they referring to something different when they discuss 'security'? In general, a Security Advice would throw an exception if the authentication fails. It would then be up to the client code to handle the exception. ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290558 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
The first is a superfluous use of carriage returns in my opinion and does nothing to improve readability. The idea is that if a line is too long, it will be broken in your editor anyway, so better break it yourself at some logical points, indent it, and make it more readable, ie: cfargument name=sfirstName type=string required=true hint=first name of person / -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290556 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue
Thanks Brian, Yeah I see your point about validation being a business concern, however, like you say because it is something that concerns all elements of the application, then does that not make it a cross cutting one? I've just done a little bit of hunting around on the web and there seems to be lots of articles for using SPRING (the JAVA father of CS) to implement a standard of data validation across the entire application, so it would seem the principle has been explored before. Now I agree that you should really be validating every business object, however I'm thinking about building this proxy layer between the controller and the model, and all data coming from the controller is generally user generated, from a form or url, and in my mind this is perhaps the best place to validate the data, before it actually gets into the business objects rather than once its arrived. Now the way in which I envisage the validation working would impose a certain amount of naming convention amongst my application, however this can work well for me, for instance, I have Users, Guests, Tech Support Staff, Suppliers, News Letter Subscribes etc ... now all of those objects have a First Name, Last Name, Email Address etc... so It makes good business sense to apply the same rule to all those objects, so they all have their variables named identically, i.e. FirstName, then I need only define one valuation rule, in one location for the variable named 'FirstName' and know that it is safely applied to all of my objects, and the data being passed into them. Does that make sense? This is a new concept that I knocked up over the weekend for me so it's still a little sketchy. Rob -Original Message- From: Brian Kotek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 16:10 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Brian, Thanks a great deal for the detailed reply, it does help make things a little clearer. You're right to say that my example was hardcoded values and this would most defiantly be difficult to validate using AOP, however in a real working example I have a nice little validation service adapted from Javier Julios data Validator component which allows me to define data validation rules for variables by name, so the advice object would be passing the variable 'name' off to the validation service and the service would then find the correct rules for that variable and test it against them accordingly. So in my case, being able validate variables on the fly using AOP is certainly plausible. It sounds possible, but doesn't this essentially mean every variable name in your system has to be unique? What if I have a customer with a name and a user with a name? It seems like an odd way to perform validation, unless I'm misreading. I'm also still not convinced that just because it is possible means it's a good idea. It seems like validation is something you really want explicitly attached to the business object being validated, since these are really business rules. In other words, under what condition would you *not* want to validate a business object? Maybe it's just because I perform validation quite differently and I might be missing some underlying benefit of what you're proposing. (I have a Validator composed into my business objects, which handle validation using either database metadata or XML validation rules.) Like you say the general principle of this process should be identical regardless of whether I'm using MG or not, however the problem that arises with MG is that the only way I can currently see this working is to adapt my controllers so they contain a conditional which watches for returned values from the proxy, and if there is one then act upon it by pushing the user back to the form, however this seems to totally eliminate the benefits of an AOP approach to the concerns as the whole point of AOP is to eliminate code which doesn't concern the business logic. If we're using something like before or after advice then this isn't a problem as its effectively non responsive and has no control over the work flow, however when trying to apply this 'about' advice, I can't see how it can be done without defeating its own purpose of having to watch for returned values. Unless of course we can give the advice object access to the event object. Well you could always try to pass the event into the Proxy as an argument, but I think that would be a bad idea. I suppose my take might be: 1. Pass data into the AOP Proxy 2. AOP Proxy calls runs the validation rules on the incoming data. 3. If data is valid, pass the data on into the target Service object and let it do it's work 4. Proxy creates an instance of a Result object and populates it with errors array, messages, or whatever data you will need for later processing 5. Proxy returns the Result object to the caller (in
Re: CF Coding Standards
I also think the over use of new lines doesn't help with readability either cfargument name=sfirstName type=string required=true hint=first name of person / Where as I find newline+indent really helps: cfargument name=sfirstName type=string required=true hint=first name of person/ -- Tom Chiverton Helping to efficiently initiate magnetic niches on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290559 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Debuggin Flash Forms
Hey Rick, What seems to be the problem? I'm getting the Flash form on your link just fine. No submit, but you didn't seem to have included one either. Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Rick Root wrote: I seem to be having a problem with all flash forms on my server. https://www.it.dev.duke.edu/public/search.cfm ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290560 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
If I put attributes like that on a new line, I always try to make a note to line up the first letters like how you have posted. Sometimes I get adventurous and line them all up meaning they are lined up with the n on name. On 10/8/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also think the over use of new lines doesn't help with readability either cfargument name=sfirstName type=string required=true hint=first name of person / Where as I find newline+indent really helps: cfargument name=sfirstName type=string required=true hint=first name of person/ -- Tom Chiverton Helping to efficiently initiate magnetic niches on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290561 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF8, JBoss and Apache
Maureen, Will the mod_jrun.so work with JBoss? I tried following the instructions in the URL below for configuring Apache, but it doesn't seem that the same tools are installed when you build the EAR version of ColdFusion. I don't have a web server configuration tool at least. Did you get these tools when installing ColdFusion as an EAR? Thanks, Austen Hi - Not familiar with jboss, but as with any other container why wouldn't you load up mod_jrun.so and mount jrun's port in your apache conf? http://livedocs.adobe. com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp. htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentationfile=0049.htm I don't do windows, but seems to me you might be better off mapping the drive. Easier on you anyway. I hope this helps, just a little. -- Maureen Barger CIT Information Systems 120 Maple Ave. Cornell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, October 5, 2007 16:36, austen rustrum wrote: I'm looking for some advice here... I currently have CF8 installed as an (extracted) EAR on JBoss 4.2.1.GA. This is running on a server that is separate from my web server, which is Apache 2.2.4. Also, my application code is hosted on network drive where it is (or will be, anyhow) shared between multiple CF instances. Whether or not this is an ideal infrastructure or not, it is a constraint imposed upon me by my IT department, so I am looking for solutions within this framework, not an alternative setup. Here are my questions: 1) How should I setup Apache so I can access my pages like so http://mydomain/index.cfm? Do I need to use the mod_proxy or something similar? I admit, I'm an IIS weenie, so I don't have much experience here. JBoss is running on port 8080 if that matters... 2) Is it possible to host my application code on a separate network drive? How do I configure JBoss or CF to handle that? Do I just need to add a mapping? Again, my experience in J2EE deployments of CF is very limited. Thanks! Austen ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290563 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue
On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I agree that you should really be validating every business object, however I'm thinking about building this proxy layer between the controller and the model, and all data coming from the controller is generally user generated, from a form or url, and in my mind this is perhaps the best place to validate the data, before it actually gets into the business objects rather than once its arrived. I think this is where your approach will break down. I would disagree that the best place to validate the data is before it gets to the business object. In fact, for anything other than the most trivial validation, this can get very convoluted. Because what you really want to validate isn't the data itself, it's the state of the business object. So it's easy to pre-validate data based on very simple rules like this must not be empty or this must be numeric. But any complex property of the object requires actually using the business logic in the object itself to determine whether something is valid or not. What if I want to validate that the user's user name is unique (via a call to a data access object that is composed into the User object)? What if I want to validate that an Order is only valid if the associated customer has no outstanding invoices (order has a customer via composition)? Unless you're going to duplicate (or move) the logic to do this out of the actual business object, which I think would probably be a bad idea, trying to validate the data *before* it gets to the business object in question seems to rapidly hit a dead end. This is especially true if you are going the route of rich business objects that actually have behavior instead of being nothing but dumb beans (properties with getters and setters). All that said, it still doesn't mean you couldn't do this with AOP. It just means I would look at having the advice get the object from the service and then pass it into a validator. When I do validation, I usually do something like this from within my business object: getValidator().validate(this), which means the validator has a reference to the actual object itself and can call methods on it to validate it, rather than relying on nothing but the instance data which has no behavior at all. It's fairly easy to define rules that all validators can use (along with custom rules for specific situations), but again, I personally wouldn't try doing it with AOP. ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290564 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Isssues with cfselect
I cannot seem to figure this out. I have a table called dirs. It has columns named: dirID, dirPath and parentDirID. The parentDirID handles the hierarchy. All I need to do is have a cfselect that lists all the dirPaths but defaults to the parentDirID of the selected dir. Here is the code: cfquery name=getAll datasource=pcap SELECT dirID, dirPath FROM dirs WHERE status = '1' ORDER BY dirPath /cfquery cfquery name=getCurrent datasource=pcap SELECT parentDirID FROM dirs WHERE dirID = '#url.dirID#' /cfquery cfform cfselect name=parentID query=getAll display=dirPath value=dirID selected=#getCurrent.parentDirID#/cfselect /cfform I know I have done stuff like this before but I think it is getting confused (or I am getting confused) because it is in the same table. Any help on this would be great. Thanks. ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290562 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: CF Coding Standards
Hehe, it's funny how people have different trends isn't it, I can't stand having my code lined and indented like this, it makes me feel giddy when I'm looking at it. I have other odd traits though, like capitalizing my scopes like VARIABLES and ARGUMENTS, I find that now if I'm looking through someone's code and they haven't don't it, their scopes almost appear invisible to me. Rob -Original Message- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 17:00 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Coding Standards If I put attributes like that on a new line, I always try to make a note to line up the first letters like how you have posted. Sometimes I get adventurous and line them all up meaning they are lined up with the n on name. On 10/8/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also think the over use of new lines doesn't help with readability either cfargument name=sfirstName type=string required=true hint=first name of person / Where as I find newline+indent really helps: cfargument name=sfirstName type=string required=true hint=first name of person/ -- Tom Chiverton Helping to efficiently initiate magnetic niches on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290565 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Null Values
Hi, i am getting data out of a database. i need to be able to check if a value returned in a query is null. i am trying to use the following code but it is not working cfif questionTextVariables.minTextLimit is null it seems a bit strange that the word null is not going blue to indicate that it is a recognised word. thanks for the help richard ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290566 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Null Values
CF doesn't recognize the concept of a null value. it converts null values into empty strings. cfif questionTextVariables.minTextLimit is from a database perspective, there's absolutely a difference between NULL (no value exists) and empty string (a string of zero length exists). However, CF does not make that distinction :( On 10/8/07, Richard White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i am getting data out of a database. i need to be able to check if a value returned in a query is null. i am trying to use the following code but it is not working cfif questionTextVariables.minTextLimit is null it seems a bit strange that the word null is not going blue to indicate that it is a recognised word. thanks for the help richard ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290567 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue
Ah I see!, I hadn't considered the ramifications of the more complex validation, like you say, those that involve cross checks between objects and database calls, these would certainly be more difficult to implement using AOP or a generic class. I understand your thinking here completely. I have just started reading an article about a Validation framework built in JAVA which uses Spring and AOP, the idea being that you can implement a blanket validation process for these more 'trivial' tasks and data comparisons using AOP, which helps save development time, and then in the underlying model and business logic you can manually build these more complex validation checks. I think that building a system which allows space for both may work well, as it leverages the power of the framework to free up time doing the more trivial tasks and at least ensures a basic level of volition across the entire application, yet allows you to then extend that with non AOP business logic validation for the more complex data? Thanks again Brian, I hadn't considered those more complex validation problems, Rob -Original Message- From: Brian Kotek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2007 17:05 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I agree that you should really be validating every business object, however I'm thinking about building this proxy layer between the controller and the model, and all data coming from the controller is generally user generated, from a form or url, and in my mind this is perhaps the best place to validate the data, before it actually gets into the business objects rather than once its arrived. I think this is where your approach will break down. I would disagree that the best place to validate the data is before it gets to the business object. In fact, for anything other than the most trivial validation, this can get very convoluted. Because what you really want to validate isn't the data itself, it's the state of the business object. So it's easy to pre-validate data based on very simple rules like this must not be empty or this must be numeric. But any complex property of the object requires actually using the business logic in the object itself to determine whether something is valid or not. What if I want to validate that the user's user name is unique (via a call to a data access object that is composed into the User object)? What if I want to validate that an Order is only valid if the associated customer has no outstanding invoices (order has a customer via composition)? Unless you're going to duplicate (or move) the logic to do this out of the actual business object, which I think would probably be a bad idea, trying to validate the data *before* it gets to the business object in question seems to rapidly hit a dead end. This is especially true if you are going the route of rich business objects that actually have behavior instead of being nothing but dumb beans (properties with getters and setters). All that said, it still doesn't mean you couldn't do this with AOP. It just means I would look at having the advice get the object from the service and then pass it into a validator. When I do validation, I usually do something like this from within my business object: getValidator().validate(this), which means the validator has a reference to the actual object itself and can call methods on it to validate it, rather than relying on nothing but the instance data which has no behavior at all. It's fairly easy to define rules that all validators can use (along with custom rules for specific situations), but again, I personally wouldn't try doing it with AOP. ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290568 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hehe, it's funny how people have different trends isn't it, I can't stand having my code lined and indented like this, it makes me feel giddy when I'm looking at it. I have other odd traits though, like capitalizing my scopes like VARIABLES and ARGUMENTS, I find that now if I'm looking through someone's code and they haven't don't it, their scopes almost appear invisible to me. This thread is a great example of why specifics of whitespace, indentation and the minutiae of naming is such a waste of time, compared to readability and maintainability at a grander scale. In many ways, the meat is in the Mach-II Coding Guidelines on LiveDocs rather than the general ColdFusion Coding Guidelines: http://livedocs.adobe.com/wtg/public/machiidevguide/index.html Although it focuses on Mach-II, much of the advice about application structure applies to other frameworks (and to non-framework code that uses CFCs). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290569 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: CF Coding Standards
I like the method of lining up the attributes AND equal signs. I beginning to switch to this format for long tag definitions. cfargument name = sfirstName type = string required = true hint = first name of person M!ke -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 10:48 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Coding Standards I also think the over use of new lines doesn't help with readability either cfargument name=sfirstName type=string required=true hint=first name of person / Where as I find newline+indent really helps: cfargument name=sfirstName type=string required=true hint=first name of person/ -- Tom Chiverton ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290570 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: CF8, JBoss and Apache
Thanks, Larry. I did take a look at this, but the directions didn't seem to work quite right for the version of Apache that I am using. It is a good starting point though. Thanks, Austen While I'm no expert, having just started with JBoss, I found a set of blog postings by Steve Brownlee on setting up CF on Jboss and Apache. http://www.fusioncube.net/?p=111 hth, larry I'm looking for some advice here... I currently have CF8 installed as an (extracted) EAR on JBoss 4.2.1.GA. This is running on a server that is separate from my web server, which is Apache 2.2.4. Also, my application code is hosted on network drive where it is (or will be, anyhow) shared between multiple CF instances. Whether or not this is an ideal infrastructure or not, it is a constraint imposed upon me by my IT department, so I am looking for solutions within this framework, not an alternative setup. Here are my questions: 1) How should I setup Apache so I can access my pages like so http://mydomain/index.cfm? Do I need to use the mod_proxy or something similar? I admit, I'm an IIS weenie, so I don't have much experience here. JBoss is running on port 8080 if that matters... 2) Is it possible to host my application code on a separate network drive? How do I configure JBoss or CF to handle that? Do I just need to add a mapping? Again, my experience in J2EE deployments of CF is very limited. Thanks! Austen ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290572 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Null Values
perfect, thanks very much charlie :) in relation to the issue of null values being different to empty strings in the database, am i right by saying the only way to get round this would be to create a stored procedure that ran sql code to test for a null value or empty string then pass back a result to cf telling it whether it is null or an empty string? thanks ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290571 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF8, JBoss and Apache
Assuming I have a drive mapped, what additional steps would I have to take? Is this something that I have to configure in JBoss or Apache or both? Is this something I would do in the web.xml file or something similar? Thanks, Austen As long as it is mapped...there shouldn't be a problem...other that potential slowdowns from network traffic. Eric I'm looking for some advice here... I currently have CF8 installed as an (extracted) EAR on JBoss 4.2.1.GA. This is running on a server that is separate from my web server, which is Apache 2.2.4. Also, my application code is hosted on network drive where it is (or will be, anyhow) shared between multiple CF instances. Whether or not this is an ideal infrastructure or not, it is a constraint imposed upon me by my IT department, so I am looking for solutions within this framework, not an alternative setup. Here are my questions: 1) How should I setup Apache so I can access my pages like so http://mydomain/index.cfm? Do I need to use the mod_proxy or something similar? I admit, I'm an IIS weenie, so I don't have much experience here. JBoss is running on port 8080 if that matters... 2) Is it possible to host my application code on a separate network drive? How do I configure JBoss or CF to handle that? Do I just need to add a mapping? Again, my experience in J2EE deployments of CF is very limited. Thanks! Austen ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290574 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: File extension does not match MIME type
What are you doing at the mo ? cfcontent type=application/x-shockwave-flash reset=true cfheader name=content-disposition value=attachment; filename=a. swf ? Actually no, what I was doing was running the following code from a .cfm page: cfreport template=#url.reportName#.cfr format=flashpaper So the extension of the requested page was .cfm but the MIME type of the actual content returned was application/x-shockwave-flash What I ultimately wound up doing to solve this problem was having cfreport create a file and then cflocate to it: cfset currentDir = getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath()) cfdirectory directory=#currentDir# name=fileList filter=report_*.swf cfloop query=fileList cffile action=delete file=#currentDir##fileList.name# /cfloop cfset filename = report_#GetTickCount()#.swf cfreport template=#url.reportName#.cfr format=flashpaper filename=#currentDir##filename# cflocation addtoken=no url=#filename# This way the cfreport tag creates an actual file that I can cflocate to, therefore the user winds up pulling back a .swf file with a MIME type of application/x-shockwave-flash. Since the file extension and MIME now match, no more security warnings. ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290573 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Null Values
Instead of Stored procedure, you can simply do this CASE WHEN col is NULL THEN 'YOURINDICATORFORNULL' ELSE col END AS col HTH On 10/8/07, Richard White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perfect, thanks very much charlie :) in relation to the issue of null values being different to empty strings in the database, am i right by saying the only way to get round this would be to create a stored procedure that ran sql code to test for a null value or empty string then pass back a result to cf telling it whether it is null or an empty string? thanks ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290576 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Debuggin Flash Forms
Neat, it comes up in Firefox. the problem is that it doesn't come up in Internet Explorer 7. I don't know why. I do get a javascript error in IE, but I assume it's because the flash object isn't loaded. rick On 10/8/07, Cutter (CFRelated) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Rick, What seems to be the problem? I'm getting the Flash form on your link just fine. No submit, but you didn't seem to have included one either. Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Rick Root wrote: I seem to be having a problem with all flash forms on my server. https://www.it.dev.duke.edu/public/search.cfm ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290575 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Null Values
if you really need to distinguish between the 2 at the CF level (-if-)... you could just the coalesce() function... SELECT column1, coalesce(column2, NULL, 'nothing here'), -- the column which holds the potentially NULL value column3 FROM table (etc...) in this case, if the record has an empty string for 'column2', you'll get an empty string. if the record has a NULL value for 'column2', you'll get the string 'nothing here' (which, of course, you can change to suit your needs) On 10/8/07, Richard White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perfect, thanks very much charlie :) in relation to the issue of null values being different to empty strings in the database, am i right by saying the only way to get round this would be to create a stored procedure that ran sql code to test for a null value or empty string then pass back a result to cf telling it whether it is null or an empty string? thanks ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290577 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
i don't normally line up the attribute/value pairs by the = sign, but i do like to break out longer tags (tags with many attributes) as follows: the major difference between this and what others have posted so far is putting the first attribute (in this case, 'name') on its own line. cfargument name=firstName type=string required=true / On 10/8/07, Dawson, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the method of lining up the attributes AND equal signs. I beginning to switch to this format for long tag definitions. cfargument name = sfirstName type = string required = true hint = first name of person -- Charlie Griefer ...All the world shall be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290578 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Null Values
Thanks for all your help and detailed suggestions it is now very clear :) thanks again ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290582 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Null Values
heh. i suggested coalesce() over isnull() just to keep it portable. but agreed that isnull() is more readable than both the CASE and coalesce() suggestions :) On 10/8/07, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depending on your database, you could also use ISNULL() or IFNULL() functions - much simpler than the case statement, but less portable. For example, in Microsoft SQL Server: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms184325.aspx The case statement below would look like this instead: ISNULL(col,'YOURINDICATORFORNULL) AS col Rick On 10/8/07, Qasim Rasheed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of Stored procedure, you can simply do this CASE WHEN col is NULL THEN 'YOURINDICATORFORNULL' ELSE col END AS col HTH On 10/8/07, Richard White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perfect, thanks very much charlie :) in relation to the issue of null values being different to empty strings in the database, am i right by saying the only way to get round this would be to create a stored procedure that ran sql code to test for a null value or empty string then pass back a result to cf telling it whether it is null or an empty string? thanks ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Null Values
Depending on your database, you could also use ISNULL() or IFNULL() functions - much simpler than the case statement, but less portable. If portability is a concern, use COALESCE() as Charlie mentioned. Its a more generic version of ISNULL() ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290580 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Null Values
Depending on your database, you could also use ISNULL() or IFNULL() functions - much simpler than the case statement, but less portable. For example, in Microsoft SQL Server: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms184325.aspx The case statement below would look like this instead: ISNULL(col,'YOURINDICATORFORNULL) AS col Rick On 10/8/07, Qasim Rasheed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of Stored procedure, you can simply do this CASE WHEN col is NULL THEN 'YOURINDICATORFORNULL' ELSE col END AS col HTH On 10/8/07, Richard White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perfect, thanks very much charlie :) in relation to the issue of null values being different to empty strings in the database, am i right by saying the only way to get round this would be to create a stored procedure that ran sql code to test for a null value or empty string then pass back a result to cf telling it whether it is null or an empty string? thanks ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290579 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Null Values
but agreed that isnull() is more readable than both the CASE and coalesce() suggestions :) Yes, I'll grant you IsNull() does have the more descriptive (or intuitive) name. ISNULL(col,'YOURINDICATORFORNULL) AS col COALESCE(col,'YOURINDICATORFORNULL) AS col ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290583 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Null Values
Charlie Griefer wrote: heh. i suggested coalesce() over isnull() just to keep it portable. but agreed that isnull() is more readable than both the CASE and coalesce() suggestions :) Really? And how about when you want to check 3 arguments? Jochem ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290584 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Null Values
On 10/8/07, Jochem van Dieten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charlie Griefer wrote: heh. i suggested coalesce() over isnull() just to keep it portable. but agreed that isnull() is more readable than both the CASE and coalesce() suggestions :) Really? And how about when you want to check 3 arguments? generally speaking, i find isNull() to be a bit more descriptive as to what it actually does than coalesce(). In this particular instance, both would work, and if i knew that portability was not (and likely would not become) an issue, i'd go with isnull() because it's more descriptive. if there were 3 (or more) arguments, i'd find coalesce() to be more readable than nested isNull() statements. i was referring specifically to the issue that was presented (as well as the responses to that particular issue) :) -- Charlie Griefer ...All the world shall be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290585 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Null Values
FYI, that code does work in BlueDragon 7.0, which can distinguish between nulls and empty strings, and supports the null keyword: http://blog.newatlanta.com/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=5C2377F1-534E-5920-D87611A2FB9BE5EC Vince Bonfanti New Atlanta Communications, LLC http://www.newatlanta.com Hi, i am getting data out of a database. i need to be able to check if a value returned in a query is null. i am trying to use the following code but it is not working cfif questionTextVariables.minTextLimit is null it seems a bit strange that the word null is not going blue to indicate that it is a recognised word. thanks for the help richard ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290586 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
Personally, I will break out attributes of a cf tag to a one per line type arrangement only if there are a lot of attributes. For example, I never do it for cfargument but have been known to do it for other tags - especially if some of the attribute values are long.. like in cffile with full paths in the arguments. I'll also break out parameters of function calls if there are a lot of parameters... For example, at this very moment, I just wrote this code: cfif spouse_exists and arguments.clear_spouse and arguments.recurse cfset retVal2 = saveClearanceRequest( arguments.userid, eInfo.spouse.entityid, arguments.proposed_assignment, arguments.proposed_major_gift_area, arguments.reason_for_request, arguments.additional_information, arguments.clear_spouse, false) cfset retVal.request_id_2 = retVal2.request_id cfset retVal.request_content_2 = retVal2.request_content /cfif cfreturn retVal rick ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290588 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Null Values
Vince - just out of curiousity, if I've got a bunch of code doing this: cfif foo eq and in some cases it's empty string and others it's null - would that code FAIL to wkr as expected under Bluedragon because null neq ? Rick On 10/8/07, Vince Bonfanti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, that code does work in BlueDragon 7.0, which can distinguish between nulls and empty strings, and supports the null keyword: http://blog.newatlanta.com/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=5C2377F1-534E-5920-D87611A2FB9BE5EC Vince Bonfanti New Atlanta Communications, LLC http://www.newatlanta.com Hi, i am getting data out of a database. i need to be able to check if a value returned in a query is null. i am trying to use the following code but it is not working cfif questionTextVariables.minTextLimit is null it seems a bit strange that the word null is not going blue to indicate that it is a recognised word. thanks for the help richard ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290587 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Digests not working for me
Neither the 8 hour nor the 1 hour digests are working for me. I can get the immediate emails. ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290589 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Announce: New RIAForge project - picasaCFC
Hey everyone... Just wanted to announce my first open source project, picasaCFC: http://picasacfc.riaforge.org/ While working on a project for my dad, I wanted to come up with the absolute simplest method by which my dad, a non-technophile, could upload pictures to his golf organization website. I decided that Picasa (and their web albums) would be the easiest way of doing this since they already use Picasas. I looked around for CFC which could access Picasa and found that most of them didn't do quite what I wanted. So, since my hosting company recently upgraded to ColdFusion 8, I took this chance to write some CF8 specific code. The result is picasaCFC. There are pure data methods in this CFC which return simple arrays and structures. There are also pure HTML methods which allow the use the HTML sent by Picasa. I'd appreciate any feedback you can meet out. Again, here's the URL to the project: http://picasacfc.riaforge.org/ Andy Matthews Senior ColdFusion Developer Office: 877.707.5467 x747 Direct: 615.627.9747 Fax: 615.467.6249 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dealerskins.com http://www.dealerskins.com/ ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290590 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
On 10/8/07, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cfif spouse_exists and arguments.clear_spouse and arguments.recurse Man, sometimes I wish I could clear my spouse's arguments too. Her arguments make me want to recurse too. -- Matt Williams It's the question that drives us. ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290591 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: I'm completely Stumped - All I want to do is ...
I'm trying to capture and pass the elex,y variables that are being passed in the span tag that looks like ... I never knew you could the id of a span tag as a variables. Hmm. (without the greater and less than) span id=span_elex nbsp; /span, span id=span_eley nbsp; /span Are you just wanting to capture the x,y whenever a user clicks? Are you trying to create a heat map overlay? All, Sorry for the repeat post. I've searched all day for a solution and can't find anything. I want to capture the coordinates from this sample and pass them for use in a cf scope. I'm stumped! http://dunnbypaul.net/js_mouse/ If I could only get the x and y coordinates in a form in the action param and pass them URL scope then use ... cfset RIGHT = #ListFirst(CGI.QUERY_STRING)# cfset DOWN = #ListLast(CGI.QUERY_STRING)# ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290592 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Null Values
Vince - just out of curiousity, if I've got a bunch of code doing this: cfif foo eq and in some cases it's empty string and others it's null - would that code FAIL to wkr as expected under Bluedragon because null neq ? That code will work exactly as expected under BlueDragon 7.0. For backwards compatibility, BD treats null database values as empty strings just as CF does; but BD gives you the additional option of explicity checking for a null value. So you can do this (I hope this formatting comes out right): cfif foo eq !--- database null or empty string --- cfif foo eq null pfoo is a database null cfelse pfoo is an empty string /cfif /cfif I'm not sure you'd every write code exactly like that, but it illustrates the point. Vince ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290593 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: I'm completely Stumped - All I want to do is ...
Thanks Dave, What I'm using is an absolute div with a thick black border that sits on top of an uploaded image. I trying to capture the x and y coordinates (elex,y) after the user positions this draggable div, I'm using that coordinate information to crop the image that appears beneath this movable div. I want to use this as a framing functionality. Then the backend takes the images height and width and the position of the frame and crops the image to the correct size and then moves onto the next stage in the process which is importing the perfectly sized image into a Flash movie. It's a consolation prize for contestants that entered a photo related contest. We had over 50,000 entries so it was pretty successful. Thanks D All, Sorry for the repeat post. I've searched all day for a Presumably, they're clicking on something, right? Otherwise, you'd only be able to capture the mouse coordinates at the moment they click on your submit button (or whatever). If you want the user to click on an image, and you want to capture the coordinates of where they clicked on the image, you can just use INPUT TYPE=IMAGE as your submit button - it will automatically return coordinates within the form data. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290594 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF Coding Standards
I agree with William except on point ... William, I'm sure you're idea is in the spirit of improvement and sharing, but putting Jr. developers on the hot seat and allow senior developers to show off a little is one of the reasons I don't like working in large development teams with this kind of environment. There's nothing worse than a knowledgable developer that wields his knowledge for the benefit of their own ego at the expense of others. It should be more of a mentoring environment. It's true, that a developers knowledge is their greatest stregnth, but the use of that knowledge is the greater test the person's character. My 2 cents. You are the lead, you see a problem with not only the current code but future code put together. You are introducing standards to the group. This is not at all a bad thing. You will probably be heralded in the future for your attempts now, however despised you might be for it now. I would suggest doing 'spot checks' on other people's code, or 'peer reviews' on their code so that you can verify that the standards are being kept to. You might even do this as a 'group' event. Where the group of developers gets together and puts 1 programmer on the 'hot' seat. The programmer will 'run through' his/her code and explain what it is doing and why it is there. You could critique the code based on ample commenting and standards adherence, and you can have the group come up with plausible solutions for 'heavy' code or code that is 'muddled'. This would be a great exercise to help the 'junior' coders get better as well as the 'senior' coders to hone their skills and 'show off' a little. To get everyone off on the right foot you might even make the first few 'sessions' regarding a custom tag or UDF that you can download from the exchange. Send it out to everyone and have everyone 'change it' based on their programming skills but to your new standards. Then you can run through the original example and open it up for discussion. Just an idea... Can you tell I am 'dying' to get out of my '1 guy' shop and join a bigger team? William -- William E. Seiter Have you ever read a book that changed your life? Go to: www.winninginthemargins.com Enter passkey: goldengrove I recently started a position as a technical lead at a new company. Most of the development is done on a few intranet/extranet sites, so the code (much of it spaghetti) is touched by a lot of different developers. I've recently set up a wiki that contains coding standards, and used a lot of the LiveDocs recommendations (with a References section indicating sources). I've gone the route of placing these standards under some general categories, such as Security, Performance, and Stylistic. The Stylistic category defines things such as capitalization and indentation. It may have been a bad idea, but with this category, we came to a lot of these standards based on the consensus of the group - most of whom maintain the coding style of the CFWACK, e.g., title casing function names, uppercasing CF operators, etc. Wondering if any of you would think it is beneficial (or too draconian) to have these stylistic standards in place, even if it isn't an individual's preference, to promote readability, consistency and prevent constant reformatting (annoying when doing diffs), especially in an environment where different developers are touching a lot of the same code? http://webapper.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=Fuseblog.ShowCommentsArticleID=200 ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290595 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
CF8 and debugging
Is there a way to display the files that were ran during application startup in the order the were hit and not by execution time? -- Phil ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290596 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Announce: New RIAForge project - picasaCFC
Thanks for sharing! -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Announce: New RIAForge project - picasaCFC Hey everyone... Just wanted to announce my first open source project, picasaCFC: http://picasacfc.riaforge.org/ While working on a project for my dad, I wanted to come up with the absolute simplest method by which my dad, a non-technophile, could upload pictures to his golf organization website. I decided that Picasa (and their web albums) would be the easiest way of doing this since they already use Picasas. I looked around for CFC which could access Picasa and found that most of them didn't do quite what I wanted. So, since my hosting company recently upgraded to ColdFusion 8, I took this chance to write some CF8 specific code. The result is picasaCFC. There are pure data methods in this CFC which return simple arrays and structures. There are also pure HTML methods which allow the use the HTML sent by Picasa. I'd appreciate any feedback you can meet out. Again, here's the URL to the project: http://picasacfc.riaforge.org/ Andy Matthews Senior ColdFusion Developer Office: 877.707.5467 x747 Direct: 615.627.9747 Fax: 615.467.6249 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dealerskins.com http://www.dealerskins.com/ ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290597 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: AOP in ColdSpring and ModelGlue
I'm working on a validation system for Transfer (but the idea would probably port to other kinds of objects) that has a generic Validator class to handle common needs like required fields, field length, type, etc. But you can then define custom validation methods as well, which a subclass of Validator would implement and which would be specific to a particular kind of object (say, Order). The Validator will run the common and custom methods based on an XML file which defines the validation rules. As a bonus, I am trying to make it also able to generate client-side JavaScript (with an extensible implementation so that it can handle any JavaScript library such as jQuery, prototype, etc.) from the same XML. Which will allow you to define the rules once and have them applied on the client and on the server. If I can get it working acceptably I'll probably blog about it and/or post it to RIAForge. On 10/8/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah I see!, I hadn't considered the ramifications of the more complex validation, like you say, those that involve cross checks between objects and database calls, these would certainly be more difficult to implement using AOP or a generic class. I understand your thinking here completely. I have just started reading an article about a Validation framework built in JAVA which uses Spring and AOP, the idea being that you can implement a blanket validation process for these more 'trivial' tasks and data comparisons using AOP, which helps save development time, and then in the underlying model and business logic you can manually build these more complex validation checks. I think that building a system which allows space for both may work well, as it leverages the power of the framework to free up time doing the more trivial tasks and at least ensures a basic level of volition across the entire application, yet allows you to then extend that with non AOP business logic validation for the more complex data? Thanks again Brian, I hadn't considered those more complex validation problems, Rob ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290598 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: CF8 and debugging
Write the hits to a log file. Or, send them via email using getTickCount() in the subject line. Then, sort the mail by subject. M!ke -Original Message- From: Phill B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:41 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CF8 and debugging Is there a way to display the files that were ran during application startup in the order the were hit and not by execution time? -- Phil ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290599 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: FCKeditor in CF app - styles display on front end but not in editor window
Bhakti, Many thanks! We were finally able to track the issue down on our own. The issue turned out to be a path name in the FCKConfig.EditorAreaCSS = setting in the fckconfig.js file. The odd thing is that it worked for a long time with the wrong path in there. But, not the path is correct and all the instances are again functioning correctly. Best, Nick . .. -Original Message- From: Bhakti Pingale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 3:28 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: FCKeditor in CF app - styles display on front end but not in editor window Hi, I would like to know the exact scenario when this happens. May be if you can attach the piece of code, we will be able to debug when this behavior is seen. Thanks, Bhakti Adobe ColdFusion Team. -Original Message- From: Nick Gleason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:03 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: FCKeditor in CF app - styles display on front end but not in editor window Hi folks. We've been using FCKeditor successfully for quite a while in our CF-based software, but we have recently run into an odd issue related to styles display in the editor window. Our system has custom styles which display in the FCKeditor Styles drop down menu. Suddenly, on some of our deployments, the styles listed in the Styles drop down menu are no longer displaying correctly. That is, they all simply display as 10pt plain text, rather than displaying in the style that they define. The funny thing is that the styles display correctly on the front end. that is, when they are applied to text in the editor, the text displays correctly on the front end. So, it's simply a back end display issue in the editor window. Any FCKeditor / CF gurus out there who can troubleshoot the details of how external styles are integrated into FCKeditor? We'd love to hear your thoughts. Best, Nick ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290600 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF8 and debugging
The debug templates are in an open source coldfusion file. You can modify the core one, or write your own. That's how ColdFire was developed. On 10/8/07, Dawson, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Write the hits to a log file. Or, send them via email using getTickCount() in the subject line. Then, sort the mail by subject. M!ke -Original Message- From: Phill B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:41 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CF8 and debugging Is there a way to display the files that were ran during application startup in the order the were hit and not by execution time? -- Phil ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290601 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Coldspring AOP on Transient Business Object, bad combo?
No, it's each time the Proxy object is created (the proxy is written to disk as a temp file, then instantiated, and finally the temp file is deleted). On 10/8/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I was wrong on this because I was actually missing a crucial detail: the proxy factory deletes the temp CFC as soon as it is instantiated. This is so you don't end up with a ton of generated CFCs on the disk. So it would (in fact, it has to) regenerate the file to disk each time. Each time *the bean factory is created* is the important qualifier there. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to conveniently implement magnetic networks on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290602 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Coldspring AOP on Transient Business Object, bad combo?
Which again shows why AOP is targeted at singletons not transient objects. On 10/8/07, Brian Kotek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it's each time the Proxy object is created (the proxy is written to disk as a temp file, then instantiated, and finally the temp file is deleted). On 10/8/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I was wrong on this because I was actually missing a crucial detail: the proxy factory deletes the temp CFC as soon as it is instantiated. This is so you don't end up with a ton of generated CFCs on the disk. So it would (in fact, it has to) regenerate the file to disk each time. Each time *the bean factory is created* is the important qualifier there. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to conveniently implement magnetic networks on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290603 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Debuggin Flash Forms
So, I've got this page with a somewhat complex flash form on it... no actionscript or anything.. just a lot of elements, a tab navigator, etc... Seems to have stopped working after the CF8 upgrade. No errors are generated in the application.log or exception.log, I just get no form This gives me a 404: https://www.it.dev.duke.edu/CFIDE/ Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290605 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: CF8, JBoss and Apache
Will the mod_jrun.so work with JBoss? I tried following the instructions in the URL below for configuring Apache, but it doesn't seem that the same tools are installed when you build the EAR version of ColdFusion. I don't have a web server configuration tool at least. Did you get these tools when installing ColdFusion as an EAR? No, mod_jrun.so won't work with JBoss. You don't get JRun's web server configuration tools if you're deploying to another J2EE server. You don't get them in an EAR or WAR because connecting to an external web server is the job of the J2EE server, not the applications you deploy to that server. If you want to deploy to JBoss, you will have to use whatever JBoss provides to connect to an external web server. You may then have to customize that to deal with CF-specific extensions - or you may not, I honestly don't know. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290604 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF8, JBoss and Apache
Glad to help. keep us appraised on how it goes. I'm still experimenting with this. larry Thanks, Larry. I did take a look at this, but the directions didn't seem to work quite right for the version of Apache that I am using. It is a good starting point though. Thanks, Austen While I'm no expert, having just started with JBoss, I found a set of blog posting ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290606 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Need an active Javascript discussion group
Does anyone know a good site with activity like here on houseoffusion.com? Thanks D ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290607 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Need an active Javascript discussion group
I used to be on one via yahoo called something like JS-Jive that had a lot of activity but have not been on it in a very long time so it might be dead or gone now days. On 10/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a good site with activity like here on houseoffusion.com? Thanks D ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290608 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Rollback db changes in CFCUnit/CFUnit tests
+1 to dbunit. You also have the option of wrapping each unit test in a transaction and then rolling it back at the end. Jaime Metcher Yes, that works too. In this case dbUnit's restore capability is a better fit. I got a good quickstart to dbUnit thanks to Rich's script and I'm really liking it so far :) Thanks for the suggestion guys. Janet ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290609 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Need an active Javascript discussion group
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/javascript/ but doesn't seem to be too much activity :( tell you what? i'll subscribe if you subscribe. see if we can change that :) On 10/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a good site with activity like here on houseoffusion.com? Thanks D ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290610 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Need an active Javascript discussion group
Javascript mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/javascript Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a good site with activity like here on houseoffusion.com? Thanks D ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the What's New PDF now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290611 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
SQL Select Question
I am having a total mental block with this select query and I am hoping someone might be able to unstick my thought process; I have a table Looking something like this (abbreviated for the list) ImageID GameID ImageID is a unique ID number and there can be multiple images for each GameID. What I am trying to do is create a query where I can select 6 random imageID's each for a different GameID. Or another way, get one image from the many for six different gameID's Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Dennis Powers UXB Internet - A website design and Hosting Company 690 Wolcott Road P.O. Box 6029 Wolcott, CT 06716 Tel: (203)879-2844 http://www.uxbinternet.com/ http://www.uxb.net/ ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290612 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: SQL Select Question
What RDBMS? That would help mucho... On 10/8/07, Dennis Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a total mental block with this select query and I am hoping someone might be able to unstick my thought process; I have a table Looking something like this (abbreviated for the list) ImageID GameID ImageID is a unique ID number and there can be multiple images for each GameID. What I am trying to do is create a query where I can select 6 random imageID's each for a different GameID. Or another way, get one image from the many for six different gameID's Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Dennis Powers UXB Internet - A website design and Hosting Company 690 Wolcott Road P.O. Box 6029 Wolcott, CT 06716 Tel: (203)879-2844 http://www.uxbinternet.com/ http://www.uxb.net/ ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290613 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
