Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion
On 7/20/06, dcooper @ macromedia. com dcooper @ macromedia. com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, just doing some testing on these tags (cfthread and cfjoin) and I hope > to have them posted on my blog today or tomorow. They'l require CF7, but > Standard Edition is fine (Enterprise not required). > Awesome Damon-- this is something I've needed/wanted for quite some time. The applications I work with depend on multiple calls to slow, 3rd party resources. Being able to thread these calls and have their results returned (without depending on shared scopes) is going to make my life a whole lot better as a developer. Looking forward to it! - Brandon -- http://devnulled.com ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:247257 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Statistical computations in CF?
On 6/28/06, powell @ nauticom. net powell @ nauticom. net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on an app that pulls together a client's data for a given period > of time, and > produces a forecast for what future data might look like. Reed, I work a lot (on and off) with predictive algorithms, scoring and ranking of data, etc. In my experience there really isn't a cookbook for this sort of thing-- you basically need to get to know the data you're working with very intimately, determine what data changes should cause changes in your predictions, etc, and come-up with valid algorithms on your own (while hopefully utilizing some sort of statistics and math background). I don't know that you'll really find any common library to do what you're looking for, though I'm sure you'll find a lot of 3rd party tools to be beneficial depending on the complexity of what you're working on. I didn't really answer your question, but hopefully this is at least a little helpful? Thanks, - Brandon -- http://devnulled.com ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:245048 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: CFScript Quick Reference Guide?
On 1/23/06, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > any specific questions that we can take a shot at tho? > I know CFScript just fine so I don't have any questions about it, I was just looking for an old "Quick Start" guide that I used to have-- but thanks. :) I finally found it.. I've posted it here in case someone else would like it: http://www.content-type.com/-1407484951/cfscript.pdf.htm Unfortunately my VOIP router at home locks-up every so often and today is one of those days, so I'm unable to upload it to my server at home at the moment.. sorry. Thanks, - Brandon -- http://devnulled.com ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230254 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
CFScript Quick Reference Guide?
Some time ago I had a PDF which was a quick reference to CFScript. It was basically a quick and dirty two page overview which showed the various control structures available in CFScript. I've not needed it in quite a long time and don't seem to have it around any longer. That said, I was curious to see if anyone knows what document I'm talking about and happens to have a copy or knows where I can get it again? A Java programmer I work with is working on integrating something in Java to CF and keeps asking me control structure questions about CFScript. I've googled for the last 15 minutes without any luck finding it unfortunately. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, - Brandon -- http://devnulled.com ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230238 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Anyone use AbleCommerce, CFMX version?
On 1/16/06, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I notice that Tumi.com (they're an up and coming luxury luggage maker) is > >using some kind of Fusebox app, anyone know exactly what store they're > >using, or is it built internally? > > Hhm, that's certainly not a typical Fusebox application, and not any software > that I've run across. Looks home-grown to me. You could always email them and > see if they'd tell you for sure. Judging by both the industry and what the URL's look like, most likely that site is done at ebags.com. Actually I would say with a high degree of certainty that it's an ebags site after doing a dig of both URL's: ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.tumi.com. 3600IN A 66.179.113.186 ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.ebags.com. 3600IN A 66.179.113.187 FWIW, - Brandon -- http://devnulled.com ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229752 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: JRun Clustering Behavior?
Thanks for the reply Simon. It was behaving illogically when running through various tests which is why it wasn't making much sense to me. For example, if I stopped one particular instance, it would not end-up back in the cluster for quite a long time, but would eventually at random find it's way back in, however the other instances would behave as you said below. I ended-up reinstalling the web server connectors and now it seems to be behaving as one would expect it to. Thanks, - Brandon On Apr 12, 2005 12:19 PM, Simon Horwith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JRun has a cluster manager service. When a server is offline or stops > responding to requests, it's dropped from the cluster. If you attempt > to access something in the session scope and the server is unable to > access the session, it fails over to the other cluster member... but > only if you have fail over turned on (which you should). For the most > part, nothing much short of a crash, stop, or restart will remove an > instance from the cluster as far as I know. This is one of the reasons > you balance the instances. When it is restarted or started for the > first time, the cluster manager adds it to the cluster for you. > > ~Simon > -- -- http://devnulled.com ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:202493 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
JRun Clustering Behavior?
I've been setting-up/testing a simple JRun cluster with instances of ColdFusion MX 7.0 and one thing which does not seem to be documented well about JRun is what events signal adding/dropping instances from a cluster, what errors it can or can't recover from by switching to another instance in the cluster, etc. If someone could pass on a link about this that I haven't been able to find, that would be great. Otherwise I have a laundry list of questions below... Here is the setup I'm using (all are Windows 2003 servers): 1 Web server connected to 1 JRun Cluster JRun Cluster contains 2 servers Each JRun Server contains 2 instances of a given application, so there are basically 4 instances in the cluster total. No load balancing between the web server and the JRun servers or any of that sort of stuff yet, it's just a basic cluster I'm setting-up for a product beta. Here are my specific questions (that is, if there isn't anywhere I can read about this stuff)... 1. Other than stopping an instance, what events/exceptions would trigger a JRun application instance to be dropped from the cluster? 2. What events does using the JRun drivers pointing to a cluster (as in not using a load balancer) help catch gracefully? So far it looks like only when an instance has stopped. For instance I've got several "cannot connect to JRun" errors when I've intentionally made a server busy. I haven't tried shutting down a server completely then trying it out yet-- does it catch that? 3. How does an instance which has been restarted or otherwise dropped from the cluster make it's way back into the cluster? I've tried a lot of scenarios with this in particular, and can't figure it out. It just seems to eventually reappear, but it takes a very long time for that to happen. Mostly I'm just trying to get a good feel for how well or not this scenario works so that I can troubleshoot potential problems with it in the future. I'd greatly appreciate any advice or any useful links you could send my way. I've read tons and tons of stuff about clustering in JRun, but nothing specifically about how JRun clustering behaves/reacts in different scenarios. Thanks, - Brandon -- -- http://devnulled.com ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:202438 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: CF/programming experience from the list?
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:14:02 -0400, Will The Game <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to try and gauge where I'm at right now in terms of programming Sorry for the late bump, but I just came across this thread. I was reading and writing at age three and had my first exposure to computers at that age when I was in preschool (a Ti 99). My parents bought me one of those (my dad had been using Digital computers since the late 70's at that time).. then an Apple IIe when I was in First Grade. Finally in 3rd Grade I started teaching myself AppleBasic.. moved to a hand-me-down IBM 286 AT in 5th Grade and continued doing BASIC as well as batch files. Around age 10 or 11 I wrote a completely menu driven system to uncompress applications at runtime and then recompressed changed application data when an application ended on my 286 because my 20 MB hard drive was too small. I kept messing around in BASIC, batching, and Logo until early High School when I started to play around in "Turbo" C++ and a language similar to C++ called Synapps. I mostly wrote, uhh, well, innocent viruses that propagated through my High School's network but would clean themselves up and disappear after a couple of days. Mostly they just did really innocent things like disable the mouse input for about 30 seconds every 45 minutes and give error messages like "Computer is halting to let mouse cool, please standby". I think I had more fun writing the code to install and propagate the virus then clean itself-up and disappear than anything else (it was very stealthy and cool for the time period, IMHO); I've never really been malicious, but I did find people's reactions rather humorous. :) I also setup a BBS for the High School and eventually helped setup a proxy with 2 modems which served as an access point to the net for the school. I grew-up in a VERY rural area, so all things considered it was pretty advanced at the time. Once the web came around and I found messing around in Mosaic much more impressive that Gopher and BBS's, I got really interested in HTML, graphics, etc. which was my entry into the web and playing with HTML in late 94 or so. I'd also done a lot of sketching and so forth growing-up, so getting my hands on a copy of Photoshop really fascinated me. In 1997 I started getting fascinated with Unix, Linux and FreeBSD after graduating High School and spending too much time messing around on IRC. I started college, but left after a semester because the whole internet thing was too lucrative, and I didn't feel like I was learning much. I didn't really get back into programming again until I started playing around with ColdFusion in 1998 or so when I was a Graphic Designer at a small web company. By 2000 I was working as a full-time CF Developer. >From 2000 until now I've played around in Java, Python, and PHP for the most part, not to mention ColdFusion. I also started going to college on and off again.. lately I've been going very regularly and have learned C, Assembly, UML, I start a Java class tomorrow, and C++ in a couple of months, etc. I should graduate before too long with a CS Degree and am about 90% sure I'll be doing grad school as well provided my GPA stays up and I can get accepted. Post grad school I see myself working towards a Software Architect type role or perhaps some sort of R&D, but that's still quite a ways off. I somewhat regret messing around so long and taking so long to do my undergrad, but at the same time I really appreciate what I'm learning and have a much better understanding of what it takes to be a good software developer, as well as have a good bearing on what I want to do with my career. In the beginning of the web career I really struggled in deciding which way to go because I could make a living doing graphic design, or sys admin, or programming, but realized I enjoy writing software the most of the three. I mean I find myself reading books like "The Art of Unix Programming" and "Code Complete" for fun.. yikes! And honestly it was the joy of programming in CFMX that really sealed the deal for me on wanting to really focus on being a software developer. So that's the long answer... the short being I've been programming for around 18 years, and doing ColdFusion for almost 7 years. - Brandon -- -- http://devnulled.com ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:197643 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Limitations of CFMX 7.0 Developer Version Gateways?
> Double-check the JVM version that CF is using (SYSTEM INFORMATION in > the top nav of the CF Admin). A colleague same this behavior on a > system that had the 1.4.0 JVM. Thanks Sean. I'd actually tried another JVM as well just in case-- the default one which came with JRun (I did the multiserver install), as well as 1.4.2_06, but forgot to mention that. This morning I reinstalled CFMX 7 as the time limited Enterprise version rather than the Developer version and it seemed to clear up the problem. Previously it appeared that the Damon Cooper's gateway example would just sort of hang after 10 calls to the gateway, and now it runs all 100. So now I'm curious as to what way the gateways are limited in the Developer's version so I'll know to look out for that "gotcha" in the future. As an initial guess, it looks like you're limited to 10 gateway calls per server request? Thanks, - Brandon -- -- http://devnulled.com ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:194095 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Limitations of CFMX 7.0 Developer Version Gateways?
I'm currently working with the CFML asynch gateway in CFMX 7.0 using the Developer edition and I seem to be having various problems with events not running. Essentially I'll fire off about 5 events, and only 2 of them ever complete even though they are queued successfully. Nothing shows-up in any of the JRun or CF logs, so it doesn't quite make sense. I also tried Damon Cooper's demo file app and it doesn't work correctly either-- it seems to die after about 10 threads or so. I've played around with the various settings available via the CF Admin as well as the jrun.xml file just in case, and nothing seems to change anything. I was wondering if someone from MM could comment on the limitations of the event gateway in the Developer version of CFMX 7.0 as I couldn't find any documentation for it? I suppose I'll probably try installing the Enterprise trial tomorrow to test out this particular functionality, but it would be good to know what the limitations are in the Developer's edition. Thanks, - Brandon -- -- http://devnulled.com ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:194009 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: SQL Server Deadlock & timed out queries while Enterprise Manager is Open
Your problem is not a CFMX problem, it's an Enterprise Manager problem. Our DBA's at work got us out of the habit of using that and now we only use the Query Analyzer to look at and change data. IIRC, Enterprise Manager locks the rows which are open in the display pane (so that you can edit them). - Brandon On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:59:56 -0800, Brook Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We recently added a second server to our CFMX application and are running > now in this 2 server clustered environment. In the past we have always been > able to open SQl Server enterprise manager and view/edit data at the > database level. However, when we do this now, it looks like the CFMX > database requests on BOTH servers start to get queued. When we close the > table in the enterprise manager, the queued requests complete. > > In the CFADMIN we do NOT have a limit on the number of simultaneous DB > connections. Is this a setting within SQl Server somewhere? > > Brook > > ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - CFDynamics http://www.cfdynamics.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:188189 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Apache and CF
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:03:15 -0400, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While you can't read the IIS metabase directly very easily, IIS isn't prone > to having people screw up the httpd.conf file with typos, either. In > addition, it's very easy to see what's going on in the IIS management > console. > This is a pretty easy problem to work around (though these are the paths for FreeBSD): $cp httpd.conf httpd.conf.bak $ee httpd.conf (edit file here with your editor of choice) $/usr/local/sbin/apachectl configtest (if it fails, you can revert to the backup, or compare them... also configtest will give you verbose output as to where/why it failed) $/usr/local/sbin/apachectl restart There are a few different web/GUI based ways out there of mucking around in httpd.conf as well if it's too scary for someone. - Brandon -- -- http://devnulled.com http://spooled.net [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Blackstone @ CF-FUN '04
Dick, You might want to check out REALbasic, it seems to have most all of what you are looking for: http://www.realsoftware.com/ I've never used it myself, but one of my friends at IBM uses it to write cross platform utilities. Hopefully that's of some help. - Brandon -- -- http://devnulled.com http://spooled.net [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: OT: Measure Application Bandwidth
Chris, Ahh, so you want something on the client side. Check out NetStat Live by AnalogX: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/nsl.htm - Brandon On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:23:08 -0500, Chris McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's an http based coldfusion application. Basically what I am looking > for is something I can put on a users machine and track how much > bandwidth they use while they use the application. > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > > > Chris McGrath wrote: > > > > > > I am in search of a tool that will allow me to measure how much > > > bandwidth an application uses per user(average). > > > > What sort of application? If you mean a HTTP based application > > just get it from your webserver logfiles. If you mean something > > else, please elaborate. > > > > Jochem > > > > > > > > [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: OT: Measure Application Bandwidth
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:47:49 -0500, Chris McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am in search of a tool that will allow me to measure how much > bandwidth an application uses per user(average). The tools that comes to mind to keep track of this sort of stuff are either web stats, or something which actually tracks the bandwidth used on your network and you can do the calculations yourself. Here are a couple of free packages which might get you started down that path (both of which I've used and like) AWStats: http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ MRTG: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/ Not sure if either of those are quite what you're looking for, but it's a start I suppose... - Brandon -- -- http://devnulled.com http://spooled.net [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Apache, CF5 and CFMX Question
> > I am trying to set up a local dev server that is running Virtual Hosts. > > I would like some of the virtual hosts to run on CF 5 and another to > run on CFMX, has anyone achieved this? Mark, I've never tried that myself, but it seems like a pretty novel idea. I'm curious, if you reverse the order of the VirtualHosts in the httpd.conf file, does anything change? (I.E., CFMX works but CF5 doesn't?) - Brandon -- http://devnulled.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Securing CF Apps against SQL Injection & Cross Site Scripting
I'm jumping a little late into this discussion, but I see a couple of things which haven't been discussed. I think you need to do protection against XSS and SQL Injection in multiple layers. 1.) Web Server / Application Server Layer 2.) Pre-Application Execution 3.) Post User Input / Pre Query 1: On IIS you can use the Microsoft tool URLScan for this, or the Aqtronix Web Knight. I believe this capability is built into IIS 6 on Win2K3, but I haven't used it yet to know for sure. For Apache, you should check into mod_security. I was pretty happy when this was released, and use it on my site. 2: I essentially wrote a custom app which checks various scopes for various RegEx's related to XSS and SQL Injection which are ran from Application.cfm, as well as the detection of buffer overflow attempts, etc. If something is violated, we get an e-mail with the details about it, and the user is redirected gracefully. 3: Make sure you scrub all user input, including checking the Len(Trim)) of each parameter to make sure it's not too long. Never trust anything which is coming in via form, url, cookie, or client variables (such as CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT. And as others have mentioned, proper granular security on databases. This is a bit on the anal side, but the software I work with requires it. Note that pretty much all of these solutions assume you have a decent grasp of writing RegEx's, as well as know how the various exploits can be performed. Thanks, - Brandon http://devnulled.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Resolved: Re:CFMX and Fedora
> > Of course, this tells me nothing. > > I tried recompiling the connector several times, once when I initially encountered the problem, once early this morning, and also about an hour ago. After the third recompile, ColdFusion started working. > > The only thing I have noticed that seems odd about the system right now is that sendmail takes almost 10 minutes to start since installing ColdFusion. > > M > Something to check for the Sendmail problem... make sure you can actually do nslookups from the DNS servers which you have in /etc/resolv.conf I'm used to FreeBSD now so I'm not sure if that is the correct path. If you can't find that file, use the command 'locate resolv.conf' as root to find it. - Brandon http://booms.net [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Strangeness in DWMX with circuits.xml.cfm files
Massimo, Here is the test case. I had a couple of other co-workers try it-- one with DWMX Fusedocs installed, and one without, and they weren't able to repeat the problem unfortunately. 1.) Create a new file.. I /think/ you should be able to name it anything, but I happen to be using a FB4 file named circuits.xml.cfm. I've saved this file on its own, as well as into VSS, and the same problem happens each time. 2.) Copy and paste the below content into it: 3.) Save the file 4.) Close the file 5.) Reopen in DWMX or anything else (preferred) and see if the file now looks like this: < access="internal"> One other thing I have noticed-- it seems to save fusebox.xml.cfm files correctly which have a structure like this (related to the word "circuits"): Hopefully that's of some help. Thanks, - Brandon --- http://booms.net ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Strangeness in DWMX with circuits.xml.cfm files
(x-posted to the fusebox.org forums) I'm currently working on a project in Fusebox 4 using Dreamweaver MX 6.1, and it seems to be stripping the word "circuits" out of any circuits.xml.cfm file. I haven't really altered the config of DWMX very much, other than adding Fusedocs to it (which I suspect could be part of the problem?) For instance, a file which looks like this: Will end-up looking like this when I reopen it: < access="internal"> Has anyone else came across this problem or have any ideas on how to fix that behavior? Meanwhile, I guess I'll just use CF Studio. Thanks, - Brandon --- http://booms.net ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
CFMX Running on FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For the 2-5 people in the ColdFusion community that might actually be interested... :) I finally got a chance to play with installing CFMX on FreeBSD again, and have it up and running! I'm pretty excited-- this is something I've wanted to have working for a long time-- my favorite web dev language running on my favorite OS. I wish I had a beefier box to try it out on-- I don't think the Celeron 466 with 256 MB of RAM its on will really be a good testament to its performance, but it's what I have. I'm running a few sample Fusebox 3 apps that don't really do any queries or anything special, and they are taking around 2.3 seconds per page to run (and yes, I realize they have to compile on the first load). Anyone ran CFMX on a Windows box with similar hardware? I'm curious about the difference in performance since FreeBSD is a pretty Java unfriendly platform, but it's getting better. Anyhow, I still have a lot of stuff to finish configuring before I can give much of a review on it. I'll document the process and post it somewhere once I'm farther along than just having the CF Administrator and some demo code working... its actually pretty easy, just needed 4-5 extra hours to play and some hardware to get to try it out again. I must mention-- thanks to Macromedia for documenting the OSX install which helped me with this one. You can find a couple of screen shots here (though you'll probably kill my server.. its getting ready to be replaced shortly): http://booms.net/gallery/CFMXonFreeBSD - - Brandon - -- http://booms.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+++gKItvhVYbHj70RAi/MAKCQQkaRarVTeb3gK5T4STd+NKx9EACgjoDA X6ienbLpdIs0uJzwQGBXaxA= =/K2C -END PGP SIGNATURE- ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: CFMX on FreeBSD
> > Has anyone been able to get CFMX and FreeBSD working together? > I got it working on CFMX RC1 last Spring or so with FreeBSD 4.5. Keep in mind that working means in standalone mode only and that Verity will probably never work. I didn't try to setup an ODBC connection. > If so, have you experienced problems with this setup? Solutions? After I finally got it setup, I realized the same flaw as when I got JRun 2 running on FreeBSD. Its kind of pointless to do because there are no connectors to get it to work with Apache. It's a fun project I guess, but without being able to do much with the standalone webserver such as multihoming, its not of any use to me. Here are some very rough notes of my install if you're curious: http://booms.net/article.php?story=20030104145852802 They are by no means thorough since I decided it was sort of a waste of time to go back and document it properly, but perhaps it will be of some help. It was really pretty easy. - Brandon ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
CFMX Error Template
Just thought I'd pass along an interesting difference I found in CFMX today with error templates since I finally have it in a production setting. Its probably already been covered somewhere, but it can't hurt to share. If multihoming on a server, you will want to create a virtual directory in the CF Administrator to somewhere that your error templates are located. Otherwise they will not work as you would expect them to. If your error template depends on anything from a tag or something else such as that in Application.cfm/OnRequestEnd.cfm AND the error handler is not in the same directory as those files, you'll need to them manually. They are not ran during the error handler request if they reside in a different directory (such as if they further up the directory tree.. normally they would be ran). Be sure to wrap the include(s) in tags (obviously). Secondly, if a page cannot be compiled because of something like a syntax error, it will not use the error template and will dump a regular error message to anyone who hits that page. So if you're depending on some sort of mechanism in your error template to log/report errors, please make sure to check the application log for errors in pages that can't be compiled (of course you should already be checking it anyhow...). Hopefully someone will find this useful. - Brandon -- http://booms.net http://spooled.net ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
RE: CF Instant Messaging
An option besides those old tags is PresenceWorks ( http://www.presenceworks.com ). I've worked enough with it enough to get something basic working in CF 5, then another project came along and I haven't gotten back to it yet. Perhaps I'll be able to write it as a CFC by the time it's a priority again and open source it at CFLib or something along those lines. I don't remember what the service cost of PresenceWorks is offhand, but its very reasonable. The support is very good as well-- when I had some questions I ended-up talking to the person who wrote their Java API. I think combining PresenceWorks with the open source work which has already been done to figure out the AIM/ICQ (they both use the same login servers now.. rumor is they are working to merge protocols, finally!), MSN, and Yahoo protocols, I suppose you could eventually roll something together. However it seems like a pretty big PITA and potentially maintenance heavy item if its not core to you or your clients business. - Brandon -- http://booms.net http://spooled.net ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
Typos in "Method selection Exception" Error
I wasn't sure where to submit this, but I know there are Macromedia types on the list and its past my bedtime. There are typos in this error message in CFMX (updated with the Updater v1): Error Occurred While Processing Request Method selection Exception. An exception occurred during method selection process for Method CreateContext The cause of this exception was that either there are no methods with the the specified method name and argument types, or the method CreateContext is overloaded with arguments types that Coldfusion can't decipher reliablly. Use javacast function to reduce ambiguity. reliablly should be reliably There are repeated "the"'s in the text "either there are no methods with the the specified method name and argument types" Thanks, - Brandon -- http://www.booms.net ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
RE: RE :set email timezone?
> > mind to tell me how to check the zone please? thanks > I don't know if there is a command line way (doubtful...), but double click on the clock in the System Tray, and click on the time zone tab. As far as synching time, there is no reason to install unnecessary software. Just setup a script that runs this command once a week from the command line: net time /setsntp:ntpservergoeshere.com (If you have a server farm, set up an internal server with NTP and let everything update off of it instead of a public NTP server) BTW-- if you run the above command and suddenly the time is definitely off compared to what the local time is, then the time zone is set wrong on that machine. - Brandon -- http://spooled.net http;//booms.net FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Hacking" a shared SQL server
> granted that that is true. however doesn't CF or any other programming > language do the same thing. and if the way your getting at > the data is by > using form and url parameter, then it's very easy for me to > do from the > website and not even bother to try hack the database. using > client variables > and session variables make this a little harder but not > impossible. I was just thinking about this issue today myself since I'm currently working on something that involves the privacy issues of a lot of users. My initial thought was to do something such as just using Encrypt() and Decrypt() to put all variables encoded into one long form/url string. Though on a page with a lot of links, that would be way too CPU intensive, and its just a hack job around a good security plan (though I can see its usefulness as just one small part of a plan-- I tend to encrypt any somewhat sensitive or easily altered data in Client/Cookie/Session scopes for instance). The solution would be to make a role based security scheme to take care of that problem. In theory, it shouldn't matter if someone is manually entering in ID's of things via Form/URL strings which they want to see so long as you are checking their permission level to that specific record. > Also if > you're the type of person that likes to use integers for primary keys > instead of unique identifiers, then I can see you getting at > anything in the > database from a stored procedure. > As others have said, you could probably just use GUID's if you are that worried. The additional layer of security would negate the minute added CPU time needed to generate GUID's if the application needed the additional security. Again, if you are controlling / checking access to records (essentially treating all data from forms and URL's as if it were a virus), it shouldn't be a problem to begin with. One of the other things I could think of being bad about using plain incrementing integers is that unless you start at a random point of assigning ID's, people could perhaps get a general idea of how many records for that type of data exist in the database. Random ID's (a la Access) are very problematic if you ever need to 'upsize' data to a different database server or environment (i.e. I could see how they could be a pain for clustering and/or replication). Or maybe just the recent experience of upsizing a replicated Access DB pool w/ random ID's to SQL Server has left a bad taste in my mouth. :) - Brandon -- http://spooled.net http://booms.net FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: FreeBSD and Java = CFMX???
> From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You have to be realistic and have a little business savvy. Concur. I've seen maybe 3-4 people mention they were interested in seeing it on FreeBSD? So I'm curious, has anyone been able to get the Linux version of CFMX running on FreeBSD 4.5? Believe it or not, I once had JRun running on a FreeBSD 3.4 box a couple of years back just to see if I could get it up and running. It was slow and it crashed a little too often, but it worked at least. I do remember seeing something about CFMX on FreeBSD in the beta forums, but I don't remember coming across anyone claiming to have of gotten it working. Anyhow, one of the projects I'm planning on pursuing over the weekend is trying to get CFMX working on 4.5 with Linux emulation. If it runs reasonably, I could certainly justify purchasing a copy of it to use on my personal server so long as the final version still work on it. I'm in the process of throwing some hardware together to try it out since I don't have anything newer than a firewall/NAT box running 4.3 around, and I really don't want to do a buildworld on my personal server to upgrade it since its pretty customized at this point. I don't think I could swallow having to move back to Linux or Win2K on my personal server, unfortunately. I hope I can get it to work. Otherwise I'm stuck with PHP for now. - Brandon -- http://spooled.net http://booms.net FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: mySQL vs. Access
> > mySQL, hands down. With the right GUI front end you also have an easy > and very powerful environment to work in. The free/donationware > mySQLFront (http://www.mysqlfront.de) is my favorite. > Thanks for the tip-- this is definitely the best Windoze MySQL front-end I've used. I've been using MyCC for close to a year, and its super quirky. I've been using it with in combination with phpMyAdmin to get past its shortcomings. I just used the "Export Tables" tool in MySQL-Front to move data from one database to another, and it worked flawlessly. If you didn't know it already, phpMyAdmin is an awesome web-based front-end for MySQL. I love the command line, but its just not a sufficient tool for managing a database. (I use MySQL on Linux and FreeBSD) As far as MySQL vs. Access, it will certainly take more time to configure and learn MySQL, but you'll be glad you did in the long run. Downloading the above GUI will make it very simple to work with once you get it setup. IMHO, if you need a book, the best MySQL book is MySQL by Paul DuBois. Personally, I think anyone having problems with Access that can't afford MS SQL Server should really consider moving to MySQL. - Brandon -- http://spooled.net http://booms.net FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: apache 2 - windows
> > I vaguely remember this being discussed a while back and > can't find the thread in the archives but... >Has anyone built a coldfusion module to load with the new > apache windows version ? > What version of ColdFusion are you looking to get the shared object for? I'm not sure what the differences are in the Preview Release and Release Candidate versions of CFMX, but CFMX RC 1 does have an SO for Apache 2.x on windoze. - Brandon -- http://spooled.net http://booms.net FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
