RE: Software Recommendations
I used Mango on a couple of projects, one right out of the box easy to use and configure, overall very happy with it. On the other project I had to do some customizations to it, that was extremely painful, if you plan customizing anything in it you might want to compare blogs very carefully. -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:rcam...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 4:21 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Software Recommendations I definitely prefer BlogCFC. ;) On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Will Swain w...@hothorse.com wrote: Are people generally preferring Mango to Ray's BlogCFC nowadays? I've done a few blogs with blogCFC, but haven't tried Mango yet. -Original Message- From: Christopher Stowell [mailto:christopher.stow...@yahoo.com] Sent: 13 May 2010 22:03 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Software Recommendations ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333823 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: cfdocument / cflocation
Dave, Thanks very much for the iframe idea. I will give that a try. Nando On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: No, that's not the outcome desired, of course. I want the download window to pop up and then when the accept the download, they are redirected. OK, if the user's clicking a link to get to this download in the first place, you can probably do this pretty simply with an HTML page containing an iframe with the link to the download. Put an onclick handler on the link to cause the page to redirect. Maybe I can get close wrapping the cfdocument tag in a cfthread? No, CFTHREAD won't help you here, as it only lets you handle concurrency on the server, not in the browser. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333824 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Checking Existence of Verity Collections
Hi All, Is there a way to programmatically determine if a Verity collection exists? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333825 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
In theory - site search and auto-suggest
Working on a search for a site that's 100% database driven. Not sure I'm going to be able to use Verity on it, so looking at other methods. I believe I have a view worked out in the database that I can query and generate the proper URLs to get where needed. But, the client has now thrown in a slight monkey wrench - he wants the search form to suggest stuff when you start typing. Using cfinput auto-suggest isn't too much trouble, but there's going to be a *TON* of data being searched and I'm not sure how to handle that. You simply can't return every piece of text, minus common words, from the database as a list of any type to suggest. Or can you? How are others handling this sort of thing? __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5130 (20100519) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333826 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
AJAX Question
Looks like the AJAX forums is not active, so I thought I will post my question here. What is the difference between onload and onreadystatechange event in AJAX? Can either of the function be used to check if the XMLHTTPRequest state has been changed? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333827 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Force SSL
In IIS Website Properties Directory Security Secure Communications Edit Check Require Secure Channel In IIS Website Properties Custom Errors Find 403.4 (that's SSL required error page). Change the page it directs to to a custom-written CFM page that does a replace of HTTP to HTTPS in the URL and then redirect to that URL. - Matt Small Does anyone know of a way to force SSL for all files in a web site? This solution should handle non-Coldfusion pages such as PDF files as well. I am using Windows 2003 with IIS. Thanks, Donnie ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333831 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
CF 9 local scope gotcha
I believe this behavior is as expected, however it breaks our code that worked in CF 8. Similar issues have been discussed here and maybe even raised on the bug tracker, but I didn't see an example quite like this, so I wanted to share. Basically, when in a function (where local scope is automatically created) and looping over a query or a list, you may reference a column name or the list index without adding a scope. For example, myQuery has a column named key. cfloop query=arguments.myQuery cfset local.key = key /cfloop On the first iteration through the loop, the variable local.key does not exist. The column key is found in the query, and now local.key equals that value; say it is 1. On the next loop iteration, CF sees that local.key indeed does exist and never looks to the query for the column key. The scope hierarchy looks in LOCAL before it looks to the query we are looping over. So each subsequent assignment of local.key will equal 1. There are several fairly simple workarounds: don't use the same variable name for the local scope; scope the right side of the assignment; etc. The point is you will need to watch out for this on legacy code if you're upgrading to ColdFusion 9. I don't think this should be filed as a bug, although the current scope hierarchy could be debated. That is why I'm posting here and on my blog which also has sample code for download: http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntryentryId=B5EBBF4F-0C02-AEAF-607ECCAD91A37089 Just FYI. Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I couldn't find a similar post. -Matt W ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333829 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
HowTo Convert a String to an Array?
Given the following string in Coldfusion: ul[0][id]=main1 ul[0][children][0][id]=child2 ul[0][children][0][class]= ul[1][id]=main3 ul[2][id]=main4 ul[3][id]=main5 I'm looking for help understanding how to use the string above to create an array, which will then allow be to later build out the following: UL LI id=main1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur UL LI id=child2 In hac habitasse platea dictumst. UL/UL /LI /UL /LI LI id=main3 In hac habitasse platea dictumst. UL/UL /LI LI id=main4 In hac habitasse platea dictumst. UL/UL /LI LI id=main5 In hac habitasse platea dictumst. UL/UL /LI /UL Thanks for any help! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333828 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Checking Existence of Verity Collections
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error performing a file operation write on file
I am creating a csv file from oracle, then writing it to a shared server to be accessed by another system. When I run the program on my test server (which is inside the domain), the program runs fine and the file writes to the share server. When I run this in production (our web server) I receive the following error. An error occurred when performing a file operation write on file \\server\directory\file.csv. The cause of this exception was: java.io.FileNotFoundException: \\file \\server\directory\file.csv. (Access is denied). brThe error occurred on line 18. In the scheduled task I am logging in as a domain admin, coldfusion is also logging in as a domain admin. any ideas? here is line 18 in case cffile action=write file=\\server\directory\file.csv output= nameconflict=overwrite ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333832 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
CF 9 Hosting
Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333833 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
cfc accessing session scope - bad?
Is it a bad practice to have a cfc access a session variable? Should the session variable be passed in as an argument instead? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333834 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: cfc accessing session scope - bad?
Best practice is to pass in the session variable. There can be issues with calling a persistent scope directly within a CFC, typically around application performance and proper garbage collection. Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Community Professional - ColdFusion Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Co-Author of Learning Ext JS http://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js/book _ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Matthew P. Smith wrote: Is it a bad practice to have a cfc access a session variable? Should the session variable be passed in as an argument instead? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333835 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: cfc accessing session scope - bad?
In general, yes. The exceptions are if you have a method specifically meant to encapsulate access session scope so that other methods in the object can get to that data (i.e. a getCurrentUser() method in a UserService), or if you create a dedicated SessionProxy object that other objects use to access data in the session scope. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Matthew P. Smith m...@smithwebdesign.netwrote: Is it a bad practice to have a cfc access a session variable? Should the session variable be passed in as an argument instead? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333836 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: cfdocument / cflocation
Thanks for the code block Bryn. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Bryn Parrott bryn_parr...@internode.on.net wrote: Dave, No, that's not the outcome desired, of course. I want the download window to pop up and then when the accept the download, they are redirected. Maybe I can get close wrapping the cfdocument tag in a cfthread? Nando Faced with a similar problem in CF 8 some time ago, I used some javascript (not cflocation) at the bottom of the document like this: cfdocument filename=#tempfile# format=PDF pagetype=A4 margintop=0.5 marginbottom=0.5 marginright=0.5 marginleft=0.5 orientation=portrait unit=cm encryption=none fontembed=Yes overwrite=Yes backgroundvisible=Yes bookmark=False localUrl=yes your pdf html code goes here. . . /cfdocument cfif fileexists(tempfile) and attributes.command eq 'file' cfset thisresult = ordersobj.sendpdfquotefile(session.user, client_order_id, tempfile) cfif thisresult.insertsuccess script language=JavaScript alert(The Job Sheet PDF File has now been sent via email); parentWin=self.opener; parentWin.location.reload(true); window.close(); /script cfelse cfoutput script language=JavaScript alert(There was a problem generating and sending the PDF file: #thisresult.msg#); window.close(); /script /cfoutput /cfif /cfif Do whatever you want in the Javascript...including 'window.location' There is also the possibility of making use of the 'OnRequestEnd' event, and perhaps you could do a cflocation in there if you are wedded to this (but I have found that window.location works fine for me; as it acheives the same end.) IHTH. Bryn Parrott ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333837 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
it doesn't show it here (yet) but FASThit have CF9 hosting http://fasthit.net/ On 20 May 2010 06:10, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333838 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
http://www.viviotech.net/ mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ On 20 May 2010 06:10, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333839 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Checking Existence of Verity Collections
I use these two functions... cffunction name=catalogExists access=public returntype=boolean output=false hint=Checks to see if a catalog exists by attemtping to perform a search. cfreturn CatalogStats().recordcount GT 0 /cffunction cffunction name=catalogStats access=public returntype=query output=false hint=Returns all the catalog statistics cfset var q = cflock name=#variables.instance.searchHash# type=readonly timeout=20 cfcollection action=list name=q /cflock cfquery name=q dbtype=query SELECT * FROM q WHERE name = cfqueryparam value=#variables.instance.catalog# cfsqltype=cf_sql_varchar maxlength=100 /cfquery cfreturn q /cffunction Paul -Original Message- From: Robert Nurse [mailto:rnu...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:09 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Checking Existence of Verity Collections Hi All, Is there a way to programmatically determine if a Verity collection exists? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333840 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: CF 9 Hosting
I've been using hostek for awhile and really like it. http://hostek.com/ One of the best features I think is that you can run cf9 applications, asp.net applications and php applications all from 1 hosting package which is awesome since I develop in all of those languages. Also they're CF package is only $5/month which is awesome. One down side I think is the hosting control panel isn't all that great, but it works well and does that I want. Regards, Paul Alkema http://paulalkema.com/ -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:james.hol...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:10 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF 9 Hosting http://www.viviotech.net/ mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ On 20 May 2010 06:10, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333841 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: In theory - site search and auto-suggest
Lee, You didn't mention the database. I know Microsoft SQL Server has a nifty text search capability built in. We had someone do a meeting on it for us one time and its lightening fast and less overhead to get setup than Verity. I am pretty sure that you can use Verity as well to search a database in case that isn't an option. If speed is still a problem, launch without it and find out your most popular searches. Then build a small table for just the 500 most popular searches that will popup quickly and most users will be satisfied. Rick On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Les Mizzell lesm...@bellsouth.net wrote: Working on a search for a site that's 100% database driven. Not sure I'm going to be able to use Verity on it, so looking at other methods. I believe I have a view worked out in the database that I can query and generate the proper URLs to get where needed. But, the client has now thrown in a slight monkey wrench - he wants the search form to suggest stuff when you start typing. Using cfinput auto-suggest isn't too much trouble, but there's going to be a *TON* of data being searched and I'm not sure how to handle that. You simply can't return every piece of text, minus common words, from the database as a list of any type to suggest. Or can you? How are others handling this sort of thing? __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5130 (20100519) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333842 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
Thanks. Although I use them now, they go down 2-3 times a day. Far too much for my client, they want to move. I've been using hostek for awhile and really like it. http://hostek.com/ One of the best features I think is that you can run cf9 applications, asp.net applications and php applications all from 1 hosting package which is awesome since I develop in all of those languages. Also they're CF package is only $5/month which is awesome. One down side I think is the hosting control panel isn't all that great, but it works well and does that I want. Regards, Paul Alkema http://paulalkema.com/ http://www.viviotech.net/ mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ On 20 May 2010 06:10, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333843 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
Actually while hostek's prices are great, the fact that they go down 2-3 times PER day is far too much for my client, which is why I'm looking to move. Should have mentioned anyone but hostek. I've been using hostek for awhile and really like it. http://hostek.com/ One of the best features I think is that you can run cf9 applications, asp.net applications and php applications all from 1 hosting package which is awesome since I develop in all of those languages. Also they're CF package is only $5/month which is awesome. One down side I think is the hosting control panel isn't all that great, but it works well and does that I want. Regards, Paul Alkema http://paulalkema.com/ http://www.viviotech.net/ mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ On 20 May 2010 06:10, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333844 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: CF 9 Hosting
Um, that's not good. That's odd, I've never had my site go down. Oh well, good luck anyway. :) -Original Message- From: Kelly Matthews [mailto:ke...@webdiva.org] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:41 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF 9 Hosting Actually while hostek's prices are great, the fact that they go down 2-3 times PER day is far too much for my client, which is why I'm looking to move. Should have mentioned anyone but hostek. I've been using hostek for awhile and really like it. http://hostek.com/ One of the best features I think is that you can run cf9 applications, asp.net applications and php applications all from 1 hosting package which is awesome since I develop in all of those languages. Also they're CF package is only $5/month which is awesome. One down side I think is the hosting control panel isn't all that great, but it works well and does that I want. Regards, Paul Alkema http://paulalkema.com/ http://www.viviotech.net/ mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ On 20 May 2010 06:10, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333845 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
Just to put them in the Mix... www.crystaltech.com I've hosted dozens of sites there, great company, few issues... =] On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Paul Alkema paulalkemadesi...@gmail.comwrote: Um, that's not good. That's odd, I've never had my site go down. Oh well, good luck anyway. :) -Original Message- From: Kelly Matthews [mailto:ke...@webdiva.org] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:41 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF 9 Hosting Actually while hostek's prices are great, the fact that they go down 2-3 times PER day is far too much for my client, which is why I'm looking to move. Should have mentioned anyone but hostek. I've been using hostek for awhile and really like it. http://hostek.com/ One of the best features I think is that you can run cf9 applications, asp.net applications and php applications all from 1 hosting package which is awesome since I develop in all of those languages. Also they're CF package is only $5/month which is awesome. One down side I think is the hosting control panel isn't all that great, but it works well and does that I want. Regards, Paul Alkema http://paulalkema.com/ http://www.viviotech.net/ mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ On 20 May 2010 06:10, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333846 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
I'll +1 for CrystalTech. I've been using them for years. Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Alan Rother wrote: Just to put them in the Mix... www.crystaltech.com I've hosted dozens of sites there, great company, few issues... =] On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Paul Alkema paulalkemadesi...@gmail.comwrote: Um, that's not good. That's odd, I've never had my site go down. Oh well, good luck anyway. :) -Original Message- From: Kelly Matthews [mailto:ke...@webdiva.org] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:41 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF 9 Hosting Actually while hostek's prices are great, the fact that they go down 2-3 times PER day is far too much for my client, which is why I'm looking to move. Should have mentioned anyone but hostek. I've been using hostek for awhile and really like it. http://hostek.com/ One of the best features I think is that you can run cf9 applications, asp.net applications and php applications all from 1 hosting package which is awesome since I develop in all of those languages. Also they're CF package is only $5/month which is awesome. One down side I think is the hosting control panel isn't all that great, but it works well and does that I want. Regards, Paul Alkema http://paulalkema.com/ http://www.viviotech.net/ mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ On 20 May 2010 06:10, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333847 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
++1,000,000 for http://www.viviotech.net/ Best customer service I have experienced in my 13 years in the biz. They go above and beyond my expectations as a matter of course. G! On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:09 AM, James Holmes james.hol...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.viviotech.net/ mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ On 20 May 2010 06:10, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333848 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
How open are they to giving you 1 step up from webroot access? On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Eric Cobb cft...@ecartech.com wrote: I'll +1 for CrystalTech. I've been using them for years. Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Alan Rother wrote: Just to put them in the Mix... www.crystaltech.com I've hosted dozens of sites there, great company, few issues... =] On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Paul Alkema paulalkemadesi...@gmail.comwrote: Um, that's not good. That's odd, I've never had my site go down. Oh well, good luck anyway. :) -Original Message- From: Kelly Matthews [mailto:ke...@webdiva.org] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:41 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF 9 Hosting Actually while hostek's prices are great, the fact that they go down 2-3 times PER day is far too much for my client, which is why I'm looking to move. Should have mentioned anyone but hostek. I've been using hostek for awhile and really like it. http://hostek.com/ One of the best features I think is that you can run cf9 applications, asp.net applications and php applications all from 1 hosting package which is awesome since I develop in all of those languages. Also they're CF package is only $5/month which is awesome. One down side I think is the hosting control panel isn't all that great, but it works well and does that I want. Regards, Paul Alkema http://paulalkema.com/ http://www.viviotech.net/ mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ On 20 May 2010 06:10, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333849 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
To quote the great Jedi Master himself, You probably won't find a 5 dollar a month hosting option for CF like you can with PHP. But basing your business on a host that charges as much as an imported beer is probably not a good idea. http://www.cfgears.com/index.cfm/2009/5/21/Best-ColdFusion-quote-EVER :) Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Kelly Matthews wrote: Actually while hostek's prices are great, the fact that they go down 2-3 times PER day is far too much for my client, which is why I'm looking to move. Should have mentioned anyone but hostek. I've been using hostek for awhile and really like it. http://hostek.com/ One of the best features I think is that you can run cf9 applications, asp.net applications and php applications all from 1 hosting package which is awesome since I develop in all of those languages. Also they're CF package is only $5/month which is awesome. One down side I think is the hosting control panel isn't all that great, but it works well and does that I want. Regards, Paul Alkema http://paulalkema.com/ http://www.viviotech.net/ mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ On 20 May 2010 06:10, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333850 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Checking Existence of Verity Collections
Is there a way to programmatically determine if a Verity collection exists? Sure. Try to create it within a CFTRY/CFCATCH. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333851 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: error performing a file operation write on file
I am creating a csv file from oracle, then writing it to a shared server to be accessed by another system. When I run the program on my test server (which is inside the domain), the program runs fine and the file writes to the share server. When I run this in production (our web server) I receive the following error. An error occurred when performing a file operation write on file \\server\directory\file.csv. The cause of this exception was: java.io.FileNotFoundException: \\file \\server\directory\file.csv. (Access is denied). brThe error occurred on line 18. In the scheduled task I am logging in as a domain admin, coldfusion is also logging in as a domain admin. Is the production web server in the domain? From the console of the production server, can you log in with the same account used by CF and access that UNC path? Is it possible the the file is being locked on the other server? By the way, you REALLY shouldn't run CF as a domain admin. That's just asking for trouble. Use a domain account with fewer privileges - a regular user account will do, given the privilege to run as a service and given the appropriate filesystem permissions (read/execute on your web root, rwxd on the CF/JRun install directory). Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333852 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
I have used them for years too -- but I have recently had a really bad experience with them. I signed one of my new customers up under a shared hosting account -- just a small application. The server he was on kept crashing. Their technical support told him that the problem was Coldfusion and that he needed to switch to another technology. They said Coldfusion is going out of business and know one uses it any more. Anyway -- I don't user them any more for my smaller customers that can't afford a dedicated server. I'll +1 for CrystalTech. I've been using them for years. Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Alan Rother wrote: ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333853 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: CF 9 Hosting
Coldfusion is going out of business and know one uses it any more? Ignorant scum. -Original Message- From: Dawn Sekel [mailto:dawnt...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:57 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF 9 Hosting I have used them for years too -- but I have recently had a really bad experience with them. I signed one of my new customers up under a shared hosting account -- just a small application. The server he was on kept crashing. Their technical support told him that the problem was Coldfusion and that he needed to switch to another technology. They said Coldfusion is going out of business and know one uses it any more. Anyway -- I don't user them any more for my smaller customers that can't afford a dedicated server. I'll +1 for CrystalTech. I've been using them for years. Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Alan Rother wrote: ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333854 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: CF 9 Hosting
Coldfusion is going out of business and know one uses it any more? What's the name of the company that said this. I'll twitter that I heard they are going out of business and get my 1,200 followers to retweet it. One good false rumor deserves another :-) Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive Services Austin Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 P : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 http://www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be either/or. It must be . Plug in to our blog: AW Unplugged http://www.austin-williams.com/unplugged __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333855 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
create cf-tags as code for a file
I want to generate a file (by code) that has CF tags in it so that it can be included into another file. I can write in the # by escaping them, but I also want to escape the cold fusion tags so that they're not enacted when I write the file, but rather when that generated file is included in another file. cfsavecontent variable=xml_counts ul style=margin-top:-10px; cfloop condition=ea_date gte start_date cfoutput --- I don't want the following cfoutput tag to be enacted by rather written into the file, so that when it's included into another file, it has the cfoutput tag to work. I need to escape the tag. How to do that? --- cfoutput lia href='##the_page##?archive=#the_content#/li /cfoutput /cfloop /ul /cfsavecontent ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333856 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: In theory - site search and auto-suggest
Interesting problem.. perhaps create a separate table of search terms and results. When someone starts typing, after maybe 5 characters, search this table and if found, display those results. IF it is not in the search table, do a real search, but only retrieve the top 5 matches- order by popularity or if you don't track popularity, by date or whatever... and then also insert that search term and result into the search table. If the site changes frequently, run an automated task every night to refresh those search terms. You can perhaps manually edit them also if you want certain words to be suggested in the future At 11:37 AM 5/20/2010, you wrote: Lee, You didn't mention the database. I know Microsoft SQL Server has a nifty text search capability built in. We had someone do a meeting on it for us one time and its lightening fast and less overhead to get setup than Verity. I am pretty sure that you can use Verity as well to search a database in case that isn't an option. If speed is still a problem, launch without it and find out your most popular searches. Then build a small table for just the 500 most popular searches that will popup quickly and most users will be satisfied. Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333857 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: In theory - site search and auto-suggest
You didn't mention the database. I know Microsoft SQL Server has a nifty text search capability built in. Don't have a problem setting up the search itself. I've got it worked out using either just CF code, or letting SQL handle part of it. The concern is the auto-suggest part. I'm searching large news releases. I just don't see a way to put every word in there (minus common terms) into any sort of list to use for the auto-suggest. My recommendation back to the client is that have them enter in up to 10 search keywords for each article they enter and build the list from those. Unless somebody has a better idea __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333858 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: create cf-tags as code for a file
This is the right way to do it, in general: cfsavecontent var=content #chr(60)#cfoutput li.../li #chr(60)#/cfoutput /cfsavecontent It's kind of ugly, however, and this will often work: cfsavecontent var=content [cfoutput li.../li [/cfoutput /cfsavecontent cfset content = replace(content, [cf, cf, all) / cheers, barneyb On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:02 AM, daniel kessler dani...@umd.edu wrote: I want to generate a file (by code) that has CF tags in it so that it can be included into another file. I can write in the # by escaping them, but I also want to escape the cold fusion tags so that they're not enacted when I write the file, but rather when that generated file is included in another file. cfsavecontent variable=xml_counts ul style=margin-top:-10px; cfloop condition=ea_date gte start_date cfoutput --- I don't want the following cfoutput tag to be enacted by rather written into the file, so that when it's included into another file, it has the cfoutput tag to work. I need to escape the tag. How to do that? --- cfoutput lia href='##the_page##?archive=#the_content#/li /cfoutput /cfloop /ul /cfsavecontent ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333859 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: create cf-tags as code for a file
This is the right way to do it, in general: cfsavecontent var=content #chr(60)#cfoutput li.../li #chr(60)#/cfoutput /cfsavecontent hey thanks! That worked very well. yay! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333860 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: In theory - site search and auto-suggest
Just a wild thought. Why not use a Nouns list (there are many publicly available) and then use that to determine keywords in the news releases. You can remove duplicates, but you could also include a rank systems for each noun found in the new article. +1 for every time the noun is in the news release and +1 if it is in the title. I think with some experimenting and tweaking you could make a pretty good system for searching. Just a thought? Wil Genovese One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. On May 20, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Les Mizzell wrote: You didn't mention the database. I know Microsoft SQL Server has a nifty text search capability built in. Don't have a problem setting up the search itself. I've got it worked out using either just CF code, or letting SQL handle part of it. The concern is the auto-suggest part. I'm searching large news releases. I just don't see a way to put every word in there (minus common terms) into any sort of list to use for the auto-suggest. My recommendation back to the client is that have them enter in up to 10 search keywords for each article they enter and build the list from those. Unless somebody has a better idea __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333861 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
Believe it or not it has actually been three different companies in the past few months. supp...@crystaltech.com - they said Cold Fusion is problematic and is requires constant restarts and advised us to move to a different technology. My customer said they told him Coldfusion wasn't a viable solution for today's webservers. It should be noted that this is in a shared Server environment. The next was goDaddy.com. My customer wanted to use them as a hosting service -- I haven't ever used them and we have had all sorts of problems with them. Again a shared server environment. They keep asking my customer to switch to PHP or ASP. The last was http://www.ablecommerce.com/ They were a Coldfusion shop for years and I have installed their Shopping cart software for many customers in the past. One of my old customers contacted me and said that they stopped supporting Coldfusion and no longer support it. When I called them, they said that they felt Coldfusion was no longer a market leader and it wasn't worth their investment to support that market base. Sigh Coldfusion is going out of business and know one uses it any more? What's the name of the company that said this. I'll twitter that I heard they are going out of business and get my 1,200 followers to retweet it. One good false rumor deserves another :-) Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive Services Austin Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 P : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 http://www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be either/or. It must be . Plug in to our blog: AW Unplugged http://www.austin-williams.com/unplugged __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333862 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: cfc accessing session scope - bad?
I've got an example of a Session Facade (or Session Proxy?) on my site: http://www.iknowkungfoo.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/2/12/Using-a-Session-Facade-to-handle-evolving-session-variables --- Adrian In general, yes. The exceptions are if you have a method specifically meant to encapsulate access session scope so that other methods in the object can get to that data (i.e. a getCurrentUser() method in a UserService), or if you create a dedicated SessionProxy object that other objects use to access data in the session scope. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Matthew P. Smith m...@smithwebdesign.netwrote: Is it a bad practice to have a cfc access a session variable? Should the session variable be passed in as an argument instead? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333863 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: cfc accessing session scope - bad?
Me too! Me too! Me too! :) http://www.cfgears.com/index.cfm/2009/12/3/Using-a-Session-Facade-in-ColdFusion I can vouch for Adrian's article, though. When I first started working with Session Facades in Mach-II, the post he linked to below went a long way in helping me understand them. Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Adrian Moreno wrote: I've got an example of a Session Facade (or Session Proxy?) on my site: http://www.iknowkungfoo.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/2/12/Using-a-Session-Facade-to-handle-evolving-session-variables --- Adrian In general, yes. The exceptions are if you have a method specifically meant to encapsulate access session scope so that other methods in the object can get to that data (i.e. a getCurrentUser() method in a UserService), or if you create a dedicated SessionProxy object that other objects use to access data in the session scope. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Matthew P. Smith m...@smithwebdesign.netwrote: Is it a bad practice to have a cfc access a session variable? Should the session variable be passed in as an argument instead? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333864 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Checking Existence of Verity Collections
CFCOLLECTION can return a list of all collections as a query, so then just QoQ that: cffunction name=verify access=private returntype=boolean output=No hint=check whether or not a collection exists cfargument name=collectionName type=string required=yes / cfset var existingCols = queryNew(EMPTY_) / cfcollection action=list name=existingCols / cfquery dbtype=query name=existingCols SELECT * FROM existingCols WHERE name = cfqueryparam cfsqltype=CF_SQL_VARCHAR value=#arguments.collectionName# / /cfquery cfreturn existingCols.recordCount / /cffunction ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333865 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
re: CF 9 Hosting
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Re: CF 9 Hosting
Wow, CrystalTech has been nothing but great for me. Solid beta of CF9 before they released it commercially, too, so they are definitely on the ColdFusion train. Not sure why you got a bad tech there, but that has certainly never been their attitude to me, and I've hosted with them for years. From: Dawn Sekel dawnt...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:02 PM To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: Re: CF 9 Hosting Believe it or not it has actually been three different companies in the past few months. supp...@crystaltech.com - they said Cold Fusion is problematic and is requires constant restarts and advised us to move to a different technology. My customer said they told him Coldfusion wasn't a viable solution for today's webservers. It should be noted that this is in a shared Server environment. The next was goDaddy.com. My customer wanted to use them as a hosting service -- I haven't ever used them and we have had all sorts of problems with them. Again a shared server environment. They keep asking my customer to switch to PHP or ASP. The last was http://www.ablecommerce.com/ They were a Coldfusion shop for years and I have installed their Shopping cart software for many customers in the past. One of my old customers contacted me and said that they stopped supporting Coldfusion and no longer support it. When I called them, they said that they felt Coldfusion was no longer a market leader and it wasn't worth their investment to support that market base. Sigh Coldfusion is going out of business and know one uses it any more? What's the name of the company that said this. I'll twitter that I heard they are going out of business and get my 1,200 followers to retweet it. One good false rumor deserves another :-) Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive Services Austin Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 P : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 http://www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be either/or.� It must be�. Plug in to our blog:�AW Unplugged http://www.austin-williams.com/unplugged __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333867 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: In theory - site search and auto-suggest
Another option might be to have the auto-suggest test ONLY against article titles and return a list only of article titles, even though the search might cover body content and other things as well. Would at least reduce the overhead of the auto-suggest while at the same time returning specifically relevant options in the list. From: Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:26 PM To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: Re: In theory - site search and auto-suggest Just a wild thought. Why not use a Nouns list (there are many publicly available) and then use that to determine keywords in the news releases. You can remove duplicates, but you could also include a rank systems for each noun found in the new article. +1 for every time the noun is in the news release and +1 if it is in the title. I think with some experimenting and tweaking you could make a pretty good system for searching. Just a thought? Wil Genovese One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. On May 20, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Les Mizzell wrote: You didn't mention the database. I know Microsoft SQL Server has a nifty text search capability built in. Don't have a problem setting up the search itself. I've got it worked out using either just CF code, or letting SQL handle part of it. The concern is the auto-suggest part. I'm searching large news releases. I just don't see a way to put every word in there (minus common terms) into any sort of list to use for the auto-suggest. My recommendation back to the client is that have them enter in up to 10 search keywords for each article they enter and build the list from those. Unless somebody has a better idea __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333868 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
GearHost has all of their servers on CF9. I just spoke to Adam Patton in sales who confirmed that the servers are updated, but the website hasn't been yet. http://www.gearhost.com/hosting/shared/coldfusion/ William -- William E. Seiter On May 20, 2010, Kelly Matthews ke...@webdiva.org wrote: Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333869 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Re: CF 9 Hosting
I wouldn't use them anymore at all, if they had told one of my clients that. William -- William E. Seiter On May 20, 2010, Dawn Sekel dawnt...@yahoo.com wrote: I have used them for years too -- but I have recently had a really bad experience with them. I signed one of my new customers up under a shared hosting account -- just a small application. The server he was on kept crashing. Their technical support told him that the problem was Coldfusion and that he needed to switch to another technology. They said Coldfusion is going out of business and know one uses it any more. Anyway -- I don't user them any more for my smaller customers that can't afford a dedicated server. I'll +1 for CrystalTech. I've been using them for years. Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Alan Rother wrote: ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333870 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! + 1000 for viviotech. They rock. Will ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333871 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Re: CF 9 Hosting
I too have been with Crystaltech for years. Something you should have done if you had a tech talking like that is report it in the satisfaction survey they send out after every ticket is resolved. One thing I have learned is that *all* hosts, sooner or later, decrease in tech support quality. The trick is to find the one who declines the least, where that decline doesn't affect you because you put yourself in charge of the job.. Its helpful when you can do your own work and don't have to rely on anyone. Which brings me to my next point: Stop trying to get decent CF service on shared hosting. It only takes one moron writing bad CF code (and lets face it, CF has more than its fair share of those per capita, thanks to its shallow learning curve) to crush the life out of the server. Stop wasting your time swimming upstream. Drop the coin to get yourself a dedicated box and a CF license. Then only your own code - which is of course rock solid - is affecting the box. You have a high nut to make for the month, sure. But its peanuts compared to the profit you can make off of a dedicated box where you charge customers $20-$50 per month for hosting / email *and you get to keep all of that*. Same with things like secure certificates. 10 minutes worth of effort and $30 in actual expense. Bill it out any way you please. I jumped ship off of shared hosting years ago. Never looked back. -- -...@robertson-- Janitor, The Robertson Team mysecretbase.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333872 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Re: CF 9 Hosting
VPS on Viviotech is my favorite nowadays-- I highly recommend them. The pricing is good, and the service is scalable as your needs grow. My last 2 requests to support were after 2AM and both were responded to within an hour-- the first was in 10 minutes. (no kidding.. after 2AM EST) My client registered a domain and emailed me around 2AM, I updated the DNS records to point to Viviotech then sent a domain request to Viviotech support. I didn't even get an email back out to my client yet and Viviotech support responded back that the request was completed. The DSN was already resolved and serving files from the new domain on my VPS. Needless to say my client was very impressed with the speed that his domain came to life, as was I. The Viviotech VPS control panels are top notch, and you can almost anything you can think of, adding FTP clients/domains is a breeze. Addn: I also use CTEK for a few clients, but I too have heard that BS about CF and other stuff from them. They also told me that osCommerce and Gallery2 was bad and insecure. :\ I had to explain to them they need to keep their opinions to themselves, telling a client that any app or language that they use is bad or dying is only feeding the fire of their own demise. Especially someone like me, I use CFML and OsCommerce extensively (all PCI compliant too), my clients do millions of dollars in transactions on this software, and suddenly its bad? What exactly qualifies support staff to say this type of thing i'll never know, but I do know that CFML is awesome, anyone attempting to bash CFML looks comical to me. -- /Kevin Pepperman They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333873 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
www.hosting.com Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333874 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 local scope gotcha
My experience has always been that inside a cfloop on a query, you must specify the scope. Inside a cfoutput on query you do not need to specify the scope. Cheers, Kris I believe this behavior is as expected, however it breaks our code that worked in CF 8. Similar issues have been discussed here and maybe even raised on the bug tracker, but I didn't see an example quite like this, so I wanted to share. Basically, when in a function (where local scope is automatically created) and looping over a query or a list, you may reference a column name or the list index without adding a scope. For example, myQuery has a column named key. cfloop query=arguments.myQuery cfset local.key = key /cfloop On the first iteration through the loop, the variable local.key does not exist. The column key is found in the query, and now local.key equals that value; say it is 1. On the next loop iteration, CF sees that local.key indeed does exist and never looks to the query for the column key. The scope hierarchy looks in LOCAL before it looks to the query we are looping over. So each subsequent assignment of local.key will equal 1. There are several fairly simple workarounds: don't use the same variable name for the local scope; scope the right side of the assignment; etc. The point is you will need to watch out for this on legacy code if you're upgrading to ColdFusion 9. I don't think this should be filed as a bug, although the current scope hierarchy could be debated. That is why I'm posting here and on my blog which also has sample code for download: http://www.mattjanell.com/index.cfm?event=showEntryentryId=B5EBBF4F-0C02-AEAF-607ECCAD91A37089 ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333875 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
SQL 2k8 Datasources on CF9 64-bit on Win7
We're experiencing some strange behavior in CFAdmin setting up a datasource to a SQL 2k8 server. Datasource sets up fine on 32 bit machine. And we've had 2 64-bit Win7 instances able to setup the DSN successfully as well. But this one system just won't cooperate. It throws: Connection verification failed for data source: dbnamehere java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Cannot open database dbnamehere requested by the login. The login failed. The root cause was that: java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Cannot open database dbnamehere requested by the login. The login failed. We found a post that suggested that the JRE needed to be upgraded or switched to the full JDK (it was already the JDK) for multi-language support. We looked into that. Still no success. What fixed the immediate issue: Copied the neo-datasources.xml from another system. The datasources work fine. But we still can't create new datasources to SQL 2k8 servers. Thoughts? Cheers, Kris ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333876 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Re: Adobe ColdFusion Anthology released
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM, William Seiter will...@seiter.com wrote: I bought mine through amazon a couple weeks ago. Can you let us know what was wrong with the original so that we can verify we didn't receive a corrupted copy? Chapter 7 is missing (and the 'Part 2' intro page appears between chapters 6 8 instead of 5 6 and the 'Part 3' intro page is missing - it should be between 7 8). Apress are reprinting this week or next week and will be shipping new copies shortly after. They seem to be making quite an effort to recall all the faulty copies. If you get a misprinted version, go back to the seller and ask them to replace it with a reprinted copy. If that fails, contact Apress directly. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwoo ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333877 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Any ideas for this mapping problem?
Hi folks! I'd like to serve up some CFML from a mapping, without using JRun or its connector. This works fine in Railo, but for CF9 (and below), I can only cfinclude stuff that doesn't actually exist in the WAR directory (vs. browsing directly to it). A bit more depth: There's a mapping for /tests, but no cfusion.war/tests folder. I browse to localhost/tests/index.cfm. I get cannot find template From cfusion.war/folderexists/index.cfm, I can cfinclude /tests/index.cfm, but that bypasses the /tests/Application.cfc. If I create a folder in cfusion.war/tests, and put stuff in there, ColdFusion is happy. There are various tricks I've used in the past to get around this problem, but none of them are a general solution. Specific solutions are easy to cobble together, but this needs to be general, and as hack-free as possible (read: no changes to target source code). The best idea I've come up with so far is a servlet filter that just copies resources (if they've changed) into the cfusion.war directory, plain ditching the mapping. Since I only need to do this stuff while developing, the overhead of doing that is OK... but there has *got* to be a better way. Come to think of it, I haven't updated my cf9 cfusion.war in a while, perhaps a hotfix made this magically work! Doubtful, be I. Anyone have any ideas? To make it a little easier, using the UrlRewriteFilter, I can call java classes on resources-- meaning, if someone knows of something like coldfusion.runtime.Template.run(path/to/cfml/file) which takes Application.cf[c|m] into consideration, that would work fine. Perhaps there is no elegant way of doing what I want. Creating another context would work, but I don't want a WEB-INF folder in with my sources, either. It's a conundrum. :) :Den -- Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Immanuel Kant ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333878 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jason Fisher ja...@wanax.com wrote: Wow, CrystalTech has been nothing but great for me. Solid beta of CF9 before they released it commercially, too, so they are definitely on the ColdFusion train. Not sure why you got a bad tech there, but that has certainly never been their attitude to me, and I've hosted with them for years. Definitely a YMMV issue since I've had bad experiences with CrystalTech with more than one client site over the years. Mostly stability problems with their servers (and occasionally very slow and/or uninformed responses from support). GoDaddy are very much a case of you get what you pay for and their support is *awful*. I host a number of HTML sites with them and their cheap Linux hosting is pretty good but their CFMX7(!) offering is heavily restricted (sandbox security) and they know zero about ColdFusion. I had everything with HostMySite but their service has gone dramatically downhill lately (under Hosting.com) so I moved all but one site to Edge Web Hosting who I love to bits. Vlad Friedman and his team are very knowledgeable and responsive. I've also heard good things about Vivio (who also offer a true root VPS with Railo for $180/year). Most of the hosting companies will tell you - sometimes off-the-record, over a beer - that shared hosting is just plain ol' going away. They've been saying it for years. The margins are too small and the stability problems are pretty much insurmountable due to software out of their control (a customer's poorly written app) - regardless of technology. VPS is the new shared hosting and there's already a move to cloud-like configurations with some hosting companies. One of the cheapest shared hosting offerings around at the moment is Alurium's mini plan at just over $3/month: https://alurium.com/clients/cart.php?gid=1 It's Railo-based - which means you get full Web Administrator control, even on shared hosting, and they offer a free trial so you can see how your code runs. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwo ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333879 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Aaron Neff w...@itisdesign.com wrote: www.hosting.com Formerly HostMySite. See my other post in this thread about a decline in support (and stability too). I could not recommend them - and I'd been with them for years, initially on shared hosting, then on a VPS (after they killed off Linux shared hosting for ColdFusion - due, they said, to problems keeping it stable). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333880 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 Hosting
Since all my competitors are being listed here, I feel its only fair that I should get a mention too. I have CF9Enterprise, with SQLServer2005, MySQL, PHP4 and PHP5, ASP, ASPX, unlimited email accounts, unlimited ftp accounts and lots more stuff too. The environment is shared hosting but nearly all the sites are coldfusion. Because nearly everyone using my system are coldfusion developers, we have optimised it for CF Developing. Few restrictions on tags, mappings etc. It's a bit of a risk but over more than 10 years now we have found it pays off. We have a lot of sites using us for development, staging or test environments while their production sites are on dedicated servers, because they can have their test sites set up identically to the way their production sites are set up. You can see the details at http://afpwebworks.com/hosting.When you look at that, bear in mind that the prices shown are Australian dollars. US dollar equivalent is about 25% lower, so hosting is from US$10 a month, depending on what you need. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month Anyone know any good, reasonable CF 9 hosting companies w/ mysql. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333881 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: CF 9 Hosting
GoDaddy is on 8 BTW...I dont have any complaints with them, but then again, I am not doing anything fancy either that could run afoul of any restrictions... If you need something cheap and quick...they are the ones to go to. Eric -Original Message- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:57 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF 9 Hosting On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jason Fisher ja...@wanax.com wrote: Wow, CrystalTech has been nothing but great for me. Solid beta of CF9 before they released it commercially, too, so they are definitely on the ColdFusion train. Not sure why you got a bad tech there, but that has certainly never been their attitude to me, and I've hosted with them for years. Definitely a YMMV issue since I've had bad experiences with CrystalTech with more than one client site over the years. Mostly stability problems with their servers (and occasionally very slow and/or uninformed responses from support). GoDaddy are very much a case of you get what you pay for and their support is *awful*. I host a number of HTML sites with them and their cheap Linux hosting is pretty good but their CFMX7(!) offering is heavily restricted (sandbox security) and they know zero about ColdFusion. I had everything with HostMySite but their service has gone dramatically downhill lately (under Hosting.com) so I moved all but one site to Edge Web Hosting who I love to bits. Vlad Friedman and his team are very knowledgeable and responsive. I've also heard good things about Vivio (who also offer a true root VPS with Railo for $180/year). Most of the hosting companies will tell you - sometimes off-the-record, over a beer - that shared hosting is just plain ol' going away. They've been saying it for years. The margins are too small and the stability problems are pretty much insurmountable due to software out of their control (a customer's poorly written app) - regardless of technology. VPS is the new shared hosting and there's already a move to cloud-like configurations with some hosting companies. One of the cheapest shared hosting offerings around at the moment is Alurium's mini plan at just over $3/month: https://alurium.com/clients/cart.php?gid=1 It's Railo-based - which means you get full Web Administrator control, even on shared hosting, and they offer a free trial so you can see how your code runs. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwo ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333882 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Re: Re: Adobe ColdFusion Anthology released
good to know, Thanks! -- William E. Seiter On May 20, 2010, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM, William Seiter will...@seiter.com wrote: I bought mine through amazon a couple weeks ago. Can you let us know what was wrong with the original so that we can verify we didn't receive a corrupted copy? Chapter 7 is missing (and the 'Part 2' intro page appears between chapters 6 8 instead of 5 6 and the 'Part 3' intro page is missing - it should be between 7 8). Apress are reprinting this week or next week and will be shipping new copies shortly after. They seem to be making quite an effort to recall all the faulty copies. If you get a misprinted version, go back to the seller and ask them to replace it with a reprinted copy. If that fails, contact Apress directly. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwoo ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333883 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: CF 9 Hosting
I also had great service with AHPhosting...they at least used to host HOF. You can get a VPN with at least 8...I am sure they have moved on to 9 for about 100/month last I checked. Uplinkearth, service wise was great...but they got greedy with the prices and when I left them, they wanted to charge a fee for CF per site. That was back when 7 came out...so they may have wizened up since then. The servers were rock solid. Eric ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333884 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: In theory - site search and auto-suggest
Jason Fisher wrote: Another option might be to have the auto-suggest test ONLY against article titles and return a list only of article titles, even though the search might cover body content and other things as well. I suggested adding an extra keywords field to the admin forms for entered articles. I got a oh, we'll never take time to do that reply back. Sheesh... So, what I finally got them to agree to was to index article titles and authors for the auto suggest - minus common words of course. Code in progress over the weekend... Thanks all that replied. There's an interesting possibility or two I might look at for other projects... __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5133 (20100520) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333885 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: CF 9 Hosting
KickAssVPS.com Nearly two years with them and zero down-time. Fast, responsive support. Been on CF9 for several months now. $100 per month... Rick -Original Message- From: Eric Roberts [mailto:ow...@threeravensconsulting.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:27 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CF 9 Hosting I also had great service with AHPhosting...they at least used to host HOF. You can get a VPN with at least 8...I am sure they have moved on to 9 for about 100/month last I checked. Uplinkearth, service wise was great...but they got greedy with the prices and when I left them, they wanted to charge a fee for CF per site. That was back when 7 came out...so they may have wizened up since then. The servers were rock solid. Eric ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333886 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
CF Administrator won't load...
Dear list, I have a server running CF 8.01 on Windows server 2008 64 bit in multi server mode. We have three instances that are configured in a cluster, along with the default instances (admin and cfusion) and a test instance that we've never really used. At least, not in a long time. I can get into the coldfusion administrators for the clustered instances with no problem. I recently attempted to access the coldfusion administrator for the test instance as well as for the cfusion instance, and it hangs after giving me the login screen - I can't log in. Eventually, FusionReactor kills the request, but here's the stack trace for the hanging thread. Anyone got any ideas what's going on here? I kinda need to get into the CF Admin =) Thanks. Rick Root coldfusion.compiler.ClassReader.skipFully(ClassReader.java:78) coldfusion.compiler.ClassReader.readCpool(ClassReader.java:150) coldfusion.compiler.ClassReader.findEndOfClass(ClassReader.java:224) coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.parseClasses(NeoTranslator.java:401) coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:278) coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:119) coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$1.fetch(TemplateClassLoader.java:310) coldfusion.util.LruCache.get(LruCache.java:180) coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$TemplateCache.fetchSerial(TemplateClassLoader.java:254) coldfusion.util.AbstractCache.fetch(AbstractCache.java:58) coldfusion.util.SoftCache.get(SoftCache.java:81) coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.findClass(TemplateClassLoader.java:476) coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:79) coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70) coldfusion.filter.BrowserDebugFilter.invoke(BrowserDebugFilter.java:74) coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28) coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46) coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) coldfusion.filter.RequestThrottleFilter.invoke(RequestThrottleFilter.java:126) coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:175) coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89) jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86) com.intergral.fusionreactor.filter.FusionReactorFilter.b(FusionReactorFilter.java:386) com.intergral.fusionreactor.filter.FusionReactorFilter.c(FusionReactorFilter.java:264) com.intergral.fusionreactor.filter.FusionReactorFilter.doFilter(FusionReactorFilter.java:174) jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42) coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46) jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101) jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106) jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42) jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286) jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543) jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203) jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428) jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66) ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333887 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF 9 local scope gotcha
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Kris Jones kris.jon...@verizon.net wrote: My experience has always been that inside a cfloop on a query, you must specify the scope. Inside a cfoutput on query you do not need to specify the scope. That's been my experience as well, and an annoying one at that. I try to avoid using local variable names that are the same as a query I'm looping through, if I can. Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333888 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Now() vs getDate() MsSQL CFMX
Now() is also database independent, which is generally a good thing IMO =) Avoid using database-specific code whenever possible unless said database specific code provides a not insignificant performance advantage. I suspect GetDate() vs. Now() is pretty insignificant. Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333889 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF Administrator won't load...
I recently attempted to access the coldfusion administrator for the test instance as well as for the cfusion instance, and it hangs after giving me the login screen - I can't log in. Eventually, FusionReactor kills the request, but here's the stack trace for the hanging thread. Anyone got any ideas what's going on here? I kinda need to get into the CF Admin =) I would try clearing the compiled classes and then restarting the instance. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsit ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333890 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Now() vs getDate() MsSQL CFMX
Now() is also database independent, which is generally a good thing IMO =) Avoid using database-specific code whenever possible unless said database specific code provides a not insignificant performance advantage. I suspect GetDate() vs. Now() is pretty insignificant. Well, actually, I'd recommend the exact opposite in many cases. It's a good thing to centralize time management wherever possible, and you're typically going to have a single database server servicing one or more application servers. Ideally, all of the servers should use the same NTP server, but even so having a single time source in your application is a good thing. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsit ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333891 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Now() vs getDate() MsSQL CFMX
An excellent point! On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: Now() is also database independent, which is generally a good thing IMO =) Avoid using database-specific code whenever possible unless said database specific code provides a not insignificant performance advantage. I suspect GetDate() vs. Now() is pretty insignificant. Well, actually, I'd recommend the exact opposite in many cases. It's a good thing to centralize time management wherever possible, and you're typically going to have a single database server servicing one or more application servers. Ideally, all of the servers should use the same NTP server, but even so having a single time source in your application is a good thing. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsit ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333892 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF Administrator won't load...
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: I would try clearing the compiled classes and then restarting the instance. You mean the stuff in here: C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF\cfclasses and C:\JRun4\servers\cf8test\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF\cfclasses I stopped the instances, cleared the class files from these folders, and restarted the instances. Same issue. Interestingly, the only file that shows up there after I try to log in is this: cfcomponent2ecfc1678768361.class Rick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333893 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: CF Administrator won't load...
You mean the stuff in here: C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF\cfclasses and C:\JRun4\servers\cf8test\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF\cfclasses Yeah, that's what I meant. Are you able to run other CF files successfully on those instances? Are you sure your /CFIDE folder is mapped to the right place? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333894 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Creating Facebook Notification type functionality
Hi all I would like to develop some event notification functionality similar to the Facebook Notifications functionality. Could anyone direct me to links relating to the architecture of such functionality or provide me with high level advice as to how to go about accomplishing this please? I have thought of an approach but am not sure whether this is the right way to go or not. Here is a high level overview: STEP 1: Collecting data: * Create a Trigger on every table you want to track / audit / follow * On Insert / Update to that table, add a record to the Notifications table which contains info relating to the changes. * You now have a notifications table containing data. STEP 2: Generating Notifications and displaying to user: (not too sure about this approach but listed it anyway) * Subscribe the User to certain notification types * Either via schedule, or on User login, generate and save records to the UserNotifications table based on the notifications that the user is subscribed to in the Notifications table * Display these notifications to the user and marked as read once viewed. I'm sure there are many ways to skin this cat - but I am looking at the most efficient way possible in a high load environment. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. FYI: Railo3 and MySql 5 Thanks ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333895 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Now() vs getDate() MsSQL CFMX
For all the time I've been hosting my own sites, I have been hosted on servers in different time zones to my own. So i have adopted a practice as follows: [A] I never use now() [B] i have a request variable called request.austime set in the application.cfc which is the current local time in Sydney. [C] request.austime is based on the server clock, adjusted for the timezone offset, returned by the excellent cfc timezone.cfc. [D] timezone.cfc accesses the java routines that provide the timezone info, including daylight savings etc. Using this technique, the same code works on my dev machine which is sitting in my own timezone, and on a site i have at fasthit in perth, western australia, and on my shared hosting on servers in california. And except in the one case where the java timezone routines didnt keep up with the political changes of timezones here in NSW, the time automatically changes to and from daylight savings correctly. The only hiccup i'd say I found is that because of the time differences between Australia and California, the Californian based sites dont recognise the switch to/from daylight savings time till about 2pm the following day, rather than at 2am on the day. The code I use in my application.cfc is as follows: cfset timezonecfc = createobject(component,cms.cfcs.utilities.timezone) / cfset hometimezone =Australia/Sydney / cfset request.austime = Timezonecfc.castFromServer(now(), hometimezone ) / As long as the server clock doesn't wander too far from actual time, everything else flows through the site where i need it. In audit records in teh tables, i use #createodbcdatetime(request.austime)# or i use cfqueryparam value=#request.austime# cfsqltype=CF_SQL_TIMESTAMP/ By preference I'd like the server to connect regularly to an internet time server to correct its clock so that could keep my site timely to the millisecond. But by using this method i dont have to touch anything to do with setting time or daylight savings from one year's end to the next, regardless of where the server sits in the world, or whether or not it's set to UTC or local time or whatever. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Rick Root rick.r...@gmail.com wrote: An excellent point! On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: Now() is also database independent, which is generally a good thing IMO =) Avoid using database-specific code whenever possible unless said database specific code provides a not insignificant performance advantage. I suspect GetDate() vs. Now() is pretty insignificant. Well, actually, I'd recommend the exact opposite in many cases. It's a good thing to centralize time management wherever possible, and you're typically going to have a single database server servicing one or more application servers. Ideally, all of the servers should use the same NTP server, but even so having a single time source in your application is a good thing. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsit -- ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333896 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
