Re: WireFrame Viewer/Editor
A Google for Kevin Roche and coldfusion comes up with the likely suspect. On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Dan LeGate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was poking around sourceforge to see how to contact the author/s, but not having any luck, and the forum posts end in 2007, so I doubt anyone is watching those. Anyone know how I can get hold of them for help? Or whether there's a newer version of this software elsewhere out there? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309745 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Exporting from ColdFuion to a Excel file
You could also just use the CF XML functions to write the file out in OpenXML format for Office. See http://openxmldeveloper.org/ for docs on the format. Hofo -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:291018 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Security recommendations for a beginner
On 9/28/07, George Linderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thirdly, the security of transmitting data. I understand this massive security risk, just that I'm not sure where to even start getting SSL...or even what that really entails. As far as I understand it, it's a certificate saying that the data is being transmitted securely, which I'd expect it means it's encrypted. But, how can you use the encrypt() function, without sending the data to a processing page for encryption? This is obviously a problem...because the data would be intercepted before going to the action page, and the entire encryption system would be pointless. This is usually accomplished by using HTTPS connections on the websever instead of HTTP connections. HTTPS uses SSL to create a secure, encrypted connection between the web browser and the web server. Look through your web server's documentation to see how to set this up, it's very different server to server. The common thread is that you'll need an SSL Certificate. I'm pretty sure hostmysite has a discount program through an SSL certificate provider and can walk you through installing it on their servers. The point of encrypting the data on the server side is so if someone were to hack your database upload (not as hard as you might think as you're probably using ftp as hostmysite and all the passwords in FTP as clear text) and steal the database, it would be difficult to read anything in it if the data is encrypted. Of course encryption means you have to have a key and the key has to be stored somewhere, probably on the disk with the encrypted data, which means it's vulnerable. For passwords, I like to use hashing with a salt, rather than encryption. See http://blog.maestropublishing.com/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=449950B9-955F-B7CC-5DC0A6906F8999B4 and http://www.petefreitag.com/item/270.cfm. Use one of the SHA hash methodologies, not MD5 (MD5 has been reliably cracked). /hofo -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289721 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Automated Way of Getting # of lines of code?
http://blog.strikefish.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=02007134-1422-201A-550F66FDEA46EFAB, althought I haven't tried it myself... On 9/28/07, Rey Bango [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to grab the total # of lines of code that a particular CF app has? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289734 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: CFDocument - Another question
The only way I've been able to do this is to drop back to HTML 4.0 and ignore CSS altogether. My experience was in what I consider to be a really simple request. I've got tabular data, represented in a html table, and need the headers for that table running in the section header. The only way I could make it work is to use % widths for the columns in the header and the body. Even then, the fonts in the header are smaller than the body. And there is the gap you mention between the header and the body. No amount of fiddling with various margin settings can make this go away. I've been working with Adobe Support on this issue and was asked to submit a business case for fixing the issue before they could get a idea from development on how long it would take to fix.(!!!) I'm very disappointed with the output from a very simple piece of HTML. On 9/28/07, Aaron Bodell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one control the height, vertical alignment, etc of a cfdocumentitem header? I've tried several combinations of css and cfdocument attributes with no luck. I am actually trying to get the formatted table header to repeat on every page that has associated rows. I managed to get the header code (retyped separately in the cfdocumentitem) to repeat on every page other than page 1, but would really like to have it connected to the table data. I would settle for having the running header to follow the margin rules of the pdf page. any suggestions? Aaron ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289785 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CF 8 Book by Ben Forta, Ray Camden and others - now in stock
But keep in mind that the CF8 CFWACK is split into three pieces, this is just the first. Volume 3, the advanced section, has a December publication date, and I don't even see vol 2 on the Peachpit site at all. /hofo On 9/27/07, David Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted a while back when the release date came and went but Amazon was still showing a November ship date. Today I ran across a site that showed it in stock. I placed and order and then followed up with a call to them to ensure that yes it was in stock and would ship today. They said all web orders placecd before 11:30 AM EST should ship same day so for anyone else still looking for a source, check out the following link. Oh, another positive note - it cost $10 less than through Amazon as well. :) It shows at $5 less but when I answered a short 5 question survey I saved more. http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=032151548X ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289633 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: dynamic drop down box
Well, what's the error you are getting? You can't just barf the code like that and realistically expect an answer. If one were inclined to copy and paste your code to try and run it they couldn't because they don't have the database you're using (no, that's not an invitation to send the DDL along too). On 9/26/07, erik tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have CF component which supposed to populate the requirements and of thwe selected program. I wrote the code but there is something wrong -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finderproductID=1522loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289578 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Passing a Structure to a ColdFusion Report
On 9/26/07, Rob Parkhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Afternoon, How would one go about passing a structure to a CFR file and then access the data within the CFR. I have a lot of preprocessing to perform on the data before I can put it into the report (my DB designer decided to store raw values, but everyone wants to see calculated values... duh) I highly recommend doing as much data crunching as you can in the db. In my experience the db's optimizer usually is more performant for that sort of thing than doing it in SQL. It may mean learning some new SQL functions but you'll be better off. The easiest way I could come up with to create the calculated values was through the use of structures. I now need to pass three structures to the report. I guess that I can do that through the cfreportparam tag, but then how can I reference those struts in the report itself. Would the input parameter for the Report be an object? does that allow me access to the different levels of the Struct? I'm not certain if you can pass complex variables in the report parameters or not. If you can, they'll be accessible in the param scope in CFR. If you can't pass complex variables, you could serialize the structs using CFWDDX and pass the string value of each struct in separate parameters. Then use custom report functions to unserialize them into structs again and extract the values on demand. /hofo -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Scaffolding from CFCs?
Hey, I know scaffolding is all the rage right now. But all the examples I see use the database as the datamodel. But I don't want to use the database as the basis, it's old and crufty but I can't take the hit to restructure it right now, with all the associated data migration, etc. Is there a scaffolding solution that uses a CFC (or multiple CFCs) as the datamodel? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:274053 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
log4CF and other DRK goodies
Hey, Anybody know where the publicly available DRKs have gone in the post-Macromedia world? The Adobe.com site search finds a page for them, but links to the actual DRK content result in a 404 page. I was looking for log4cf, which I believe is in DRK 4. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gliddy glub gloopy / Nibby nabby noopy / La la la lo lo / Sabba sibby sabba / Nooby abba nabba / Le le lo lo / Tooby ooby walla / Nooby abba naba / Early morning singing song - Good Morning Starshine ~| 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:246887 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Installing CF 7.0.2 on RHEL 4 Update 3
Stephen Erat of TalkingTree has a great Breeze presentation on installing CFMX 7 on RHEL with SElinux. You might to check it out: http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2005/10/13/OCFMG20051013 On 7/15/06, Hans Omli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on what I see in /var/log/messages, this appears to be an issue with SELinux. In the example below, system boot paused at 'Starting coldfusionmx7: ' at 18:26:07 and didn't continue until I hit the Enter key at 18:41:15. Jul 15 18:26:06 localhost gpm: gpm startup succeeded Jul 15 18:26:07 localhost coldfusionmx7: Starting ColdFusion MX 7... Jul 15 18:26:07 localhost su(pam_unix)[2125]: session opened for user nobody by (uid=0) Jul 15 18:41:15 localhost su[2125]: Warning! Could not relabel /dev/console with user_u:object_r:console_device_t, not relabeling.Operation not permitted Jul 15 18:41:15 localhost su(pam_unix)[2125]: session closed for user nobody Jul 15 18:41:15 localhost coldfusionmx7: The ColdFusion MX 7 server is starting up and will be available shortly. Jul 15 18:41:27 localhost coldfusionmx7: == Jul 15 18:41:27 localhost coldfusionmx7: ColdFusion MX 7 has been started. Jul 15 18:41:27 localhost coldfusionmx7: ColdFusion MX 7 will write logs to /opt/coldfusionmx7/logs/cfserver.log Jul 15 18:41:27 localhost coldfusionmx7: == Jul 15 18:41:27 localhost rc: Starting coldfusionmx7: succeeded Jul 15 18:41:27 localhost crond: crond startup succeeded Guess it's time I get to know SELinux a bit more intimately. ;-) ~| 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:246670 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: CFMX 7.01 on Centos 4 (aka RHEL)
There is a tech note that addesses it, you download a new zip file that has the jar file. On 6/20/06, Denny Valliant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How did you get around the missing driver files? Sounds like a class-path issue, but besides that, no clue... :d -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The less you know, the more you believe. - U2, Last Night On Earth ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:244345 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: Who is using a large scale CMS?
I think Voice of America is using CommonSpot (ask someone from FigLeaf), and I think PGA.com uses it as well. On 1/27/06, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm...Surely there must be someone?!?! -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 January 2006 09:48 To: CF-Talk Subject: Who is using a large scale CMS? All, How many of you are currently working and deploying on a large scale CF CMS such as CommonSpot or Hot Banana? N This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Oriel House, 26 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DL, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions. Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230589 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: Coldfuion Life Spam
Advise them not to build a company strategy on rumors and press releases? On 1/26/06, Andy Jarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was talking to someone today who has said that now adobe has taken over macromedia that they will consentrate on flash and the life of coldfusion will becoming to an end. I am about to build a major system using coldfusion but the company now has doubts over the future of coldfusion. I know its not going anywhere but is there anything I can provide to this company to stop there fears. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The less you know, the more you believe. - U2, Last Night On Earth ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230619 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: Scope Woes Virtual Directories
On 1/24/06, jonese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: right but how can we do this and still maintain the fact that these files are shared among 50 other sites, with 50 unique application names? I dimly remember some Java trickery you can do (in MX of course) to grab variables from the server for a given application. However, that path is likely fraught with peril. My first inclination would be to create a central repository for shared variable values. Much like the way CF can save client scopes to a database. Create a database table that stores the session, using some user value that is unique across applications as the primary key (could be session, I can't remember if they are unique to the server or to an app). Create a custom tag that reads and writes an arbitrarily named struct (sharedVariables for instance) to this table. Put this custom tag in Application.cfm and OnRequestEnd.cfm so the shared variables struct is refreshed and saved for each request. When you need to read or write a variable that should be shared, you use the sharedVariables struct as the scope. Pros: no additional work when you add a 51st application. Cons: read and write to the database for each user request, requires a user unique key. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230319 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: Scope Woes Virtual Directories
Another thing I've done when I needed to pass session info into a system that didn't share sessions (CF into PHP, or Perl into CF) is to create a script on either side that receives the variable data as URL parameters, then creates the session accordingly. You direct every site-to-site link through this script. One parameter is the eventual final URL and all the others are variables to stuff into the new session. The downside here is that URL parameters are inherently insecure. On 1/24/06, jonese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howard: Nice idea but the SQL cost is more than we want to deal with. John: Our applications have to have unique names so that we don't have application scoped vars over written (thinks like DSN, file paths etc are stored in the application scope). Any other ideas or thoughts?? I wish CF would just see this directory as a sub directory of each of my sites. Eric Jones On 1/24/06, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need unique application names. Lets say you have one site and at the top of it you have cfapplication name=myApp then you set some application variables somewhere in there. Then, you have another site on the same server, you can put cfapplication name=myApp in that site and it will have access to the variables that are set in the first site. However, keep in mind, you want to be careful about multiple sites setting and getting variables to make sure that you're not relying on a variable that may not have been set. Especially when the server is rebooted or something like that. Many people have the misconception that the cfapplication tag has to go in the Application.cfm but that's not true. It can go at the top of each individual page and you could leave out the Application.cfm altogether. The Application.cfm just makes it easier because it gets called everytime. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Scope Woes Virtual Directories right but how can we do this and still maintain the fact that these files are shared among 50 other sites, with 50 unique application names? On 1/24/06, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends on the scope you're using. If you're talking application and session variables, you need cfapplication to define that these pages are part of the application, thus allowing it to access the scoped variables. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Scope Woes Virtual Directories Ok here's the scenario. We have 50 sites on a server using our CMS. Each of these sites has an IIS virtual Directory called global. global is a mapped directory in CF Admin. The problem we are having is when a person referances http://theresite.com/global/ticket/index.cfm the code doesn't have access to many of the scoped variables. Any ideas how we can get global to see all the scoped variables? jonese ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230366 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: Web Analytics
Prior to its acquisiton Google Analytics was known as Urchin. On 12/11/05, Dan O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did this product become Google Analytics? Dan -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~| 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:4:226770 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: CF Server stops without a whisper
On 12/9/05, Marlon Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I was able to find the error in the jrun logs. Now I just have to translate just what the h3ll it means. What does it say? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~| 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:4:226675 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: Small CF Job
After some Googling, I'm going to guess evolutionary multi-criterion optimization. On 11/29/05, Kevin Aebig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EMO? Ah... out of curiousity, what's that? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~| 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:4:225673 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: Reset the 6.1 Developer Edition IP address
Stop and start the server? On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:37:37 -0500, Matthew Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it's in the archive, but I haven't been able to find it. Help, please? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~| Protect your mail server with built in anti-virus protection. It's not only good for you, it's good for everybody. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=39 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:189974 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: RDS support (was Re: CFEclipse release - beta
Access? You were lucky. At work we used to have three Mindspring shared hosting accounts and had to store everything in flat files and string everything together with server-side includes and Perl! You try to tell today's young programmers that and they won't believe you. (With apologies to Monty Python) -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 16, 2004, at 11:21 AM, Paul Kenney wrote: Just think of those poor developers that are forced to work off of shared hosting accounts with no WebDav, a single FTP account, an Access database and no RDS access.Oh, the humanity!They could all be saved! [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: rualivecftalk
All your list are belong to us. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 2, 2004, at 9:45 AM, Tony Weeg wrote: speak to me cftalk, are you alive today [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: eclipse install
What version of Eclipse will He3 require? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 2, 2004, at 5:52 PM, Matt Liotta wrote: On a side note, the He3 beta goes into CD production this Friday for CFUN-04. I expect people to have any easy time installing it. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Mach-II
On May 28, 2004, at 1:10 AM, Andrew Tyrone wrote: What I object to is your implication that if someone doesn't use an approved framework, they are re-inventing the wheel and not trying to solve real-world problems. No, no, no. That's not what I'm implying. That may be what you're interpreting, but that's your choice, as it is was Claude's choice to read OO allows code reuse as OO allows code reuse for the first time in the history of mankind. However, by definition if one creates a product that accomplishes the same task as another product, they are reinventing that product. Approval is a different matter entirely. My choices are just that. Mine. They are based on my personal experience and they are thus affected by every project I have worked on and will work on. But those choices are necessarily subjective because they are based on my judgement and standards. Perhaps those people who complain about code bloat have tighter standards than I do. Maybe they evaluate the tradeoff of shaving 10 milliseconds from response time versus the 2 hours it may take to reach that point differently. These are personal decisions. There is no Underwriter's Laboratories saying that your application will fail because you wrote your own framework. What I object to is the lack of reasoned answers. Surely these people bright enough to write their own scalable, lightening fast, lean, reusable-to-the-nines frameworks are also bright enough to realize that there are at least two sides to every issue. That few things are truly all black or all white. When someone asks, Hey, I'm new to frameworks. Should I use FB and/or Mach-II? it serves little of the collective good to stand up with a flamethrower and blast everything that is not customized for a specific project. The if you're not with us, you're against us mentality some Fusecattle hold is just ridiculous.Just because someone creates their own framework doesn't mean they are detractors.Let's face it, just because people didn't follow the path you've taken to acheive development Nirvana doesn't mean they went about it the wrong way.I don't like a lot of things; does that mean I detract from them? No, but if all you do is say bad things about the things you don't like then yes, you are detracting from them. Detractor, noun: one who disparages or belittles the worth of something. Also, I don't understand how using OS X and Linux cuts down on your administration time.These things are fallable just like everything else. In my experience, it is skill coupled with patience and the leveraging of specific tools (in some instances) that gets the job done. Yes, everything is fallable. My PowerBook locked up hard last night, to the point I had to power cycle it to recover. I'm sure there are Windows users who can sympathize. I'm dissatisfied with almost every method of software delivery and packaging in Linux with the instances of cascading dependencies. Patience is sometimes not my long suite. My experience in computers has shown that more often than not, I get better results quicker by using OS X (and Macintoshes in general) and Linux than attempting the same with Windows. I'm know there are those with exact opposite experiences. I know that leveraging the tools of OS X, FB, and Linux will the most of the jobs done that I encounter. Perhaps if I had more patience I could swallow spending the extra time developing the skills to accomplish the same thing in Windows. I choose not to. That doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't. Somethings are worth specialization, some things aren't. Again, your choice. One size doesn't fit all, whether it is FB, Mach-II, onTap, JSP, Tapestry, or WebObjects. But each has it's good and bad points. It is counterproductive to present subjective, one-sided answers to those looking for an objective view. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: download cf5
Kola, If you search the list archives at houseoffusion.com you'll find this was answered not too long ago. Sorry, don't remember the answer off the top of my head. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 28, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Kola Oyedeji wrote: Anyone have the link to the CF5 download? I can't find it on the MM site. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Mach-II
My apologies. In my venting I did blow your statement out of proportion. However, OO allows code reuse does not say OO does code reuse better than anything else or OO is the only way to accomplish code reuse. The statement merely illustrates a capability of OO. If someone made the second and third statements they would, as you point out, be incorrect. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 28, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Claude Schneegans wrote: as it is was Claude's choice to read OO allows code reuse as OO allows code reuse for the first time in the history of mankind. C'mon, please be honest, this is NOT either what I said. But when some one says OO allows code reuse it is AT LEAST presented as an advantage, either because it does it better, OR because other solutions don't allow it. What I say, is that in both cases it is just a false statement. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Mach-II
Will I have to spend $15 on a set of blades to use it? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 27, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Alexander Sherwood wrote: Look for the release of Mach-3, a combination of both FuseBox 4 and Mach-II. Framework should be out mid-July along with mailing lists, web site and documentation. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Mach-II
The key word here is likely. Yes, there are things that will fail no matter what as the technology isn't sufficient to reach the goal or the goal is simply impossible or you're trying to do 30 hours of work in a 24 hour day. But for the vast array of tasks that do not fall into that category, there is no substitution for good planning. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 27, 2004, at 9:36 AM, Alexander Sherwood wrote: At 06:48 AM 5/27/2004, you wrote: just plan it very well at first and document it very well. This might account for a large portion of the 9500h you plan to spent on it. But it is well worth it, even on relatively small projects. Tom stated it perfectly. It's all about planning. Well planned projects are more likely to be successful regardless of framework or methodology. No way Jose. Nearly a decade of programming with CF and other languages, I can tell you this is dead wrong. You can plan for 2 years on the best way to cross the Atlantic. If you planned to use a canoe, regardless of how well you planned, you're doomed. You're better of flying. The same goes for frameworks. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Mach-II
Nor did I. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 27, 2004, at 3:44 PM, Michael Haggerty wrote: I'm people. I would not read it that way. Was there supposed to be a disclaimer stating someone else did this before? M Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you can point to a place where someone has claimed OOP is the original means of reusing code? No one will claim this in such an acurate way, but one can read alomost every where, like for instance here: http://www.developerfusion.com/show/80/3/ that OOP allows developers to reuse code and data together through inheritance. Now this tends to make people believe that code reuse was not allowed or possible before OOP and inheritance, and this is just not true. Then another one: By inheriting from predefined objects, developers can more rapidly construct complex applications. Since writing new code always has the potential for incorporating bugs, reusing tested code minimizes the chances of additional bugs. This is absolutely fallacious: this almost claims that there was no predefined objects before OOP and that one had to rewrite code in order to reuse it. This not only completely false, it is absolutely ridiculous. Wether some code lies inside a library, in another part of the code or in an OOP object, one can reuse it AND make bugs by not using it the right way, just as well. -- ___ See some cool custom tags here: http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Mach-II
I don't get it. No matter what list I'm on, sooner or later or every 3 months, someone asks for an opinion on FB (now Mach-II). The detractors are usually the first out of the gate. I create my own enterprise level frameworks using hand-crafted bits and a time-tested event model I first palyed around with when punch cards were new. Everyone should create their own frameworks because preexisting frameworks have wy too much code-bloat and they can't possibly address my situation as well as I can. And the battle rages for a while. Then some gets around to saying, well, really I'm an advocate for the right tool at the right time. Why don't these people realize that sometime it is more useful to spend time solving problems rather than crafting tools to solve problems. Because I know I can make a better framework is not always a good excuse. This is why I use Fusebox for my web application framework, OS X for my development platform, and Linux for my server platform. They work, and I can spend my time solving problems created by my business users and less on creating tools to do so, or workstation administration, or server administration. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 27, 2004, at 10:34 PM, Claude Schneegans wrote: For me what's important is using the right tool in the right circumstance, and what it has been designed originally for, not any new thing just because every body talks about it and you don't want to look like you are left behind. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Don't mean to be picky
Huh? I don't understand what you mean. I use a ton of CSS with FB3 and have no problems. Where's the deficiency? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 21, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Chunshen (Don) Li wrote: Has anyone looked into the deficiency of CSS for presentation (with a twist if necessary) without Fusebox (not implying that Fusebox excludes CSS for presentation)? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Serious breach of NDA - a polite warning
So in order to keep certain things secret, you publicly alert people who may not know they are talking about secrets to the fact that secrets are being discussed? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 14, 2004, at 5:24 AM, Peter Tilbrook wrote: Knock any further discussion of the breach on the head until MM themselves say otherwise. Report anything to MM themselves. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Serious breach of NDA - a polite warning
Well, I interpreted this as that Peter knows that someone on the list is under NDA and has been talking about something they shouldn't. But calling attention to secrets is no way to keep them so. -- Howard Fore, Web Developer, Professional Career Development Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED], 770-729-8400, x5258 On May 14, 2004, at 7:51 AM, Tom Smith wrote: apart from that, surely everyone would like something in the next version of CF...MM might be working on it, and you might happen to discuss it in here, not knowing... would you get a slap on the wrists for that??? now I am very confused. - Original Message - From: Howard Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Serious breach of NDA - a polite warning So in order to keep certain things secret, you publicly alert people who may not know they are talking about secrets to the fact that secrets are being discussed? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 14, 2004, at 5:24 AM, Peter Tilbrook wrote: Knock any further discussion of the breach on the head until MM themselves say otherwise. Report anything to MM themselves. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: OT Qforms Gone?
I still get a few every so often. There's usually a burst when someone has a question and then nothing for a while. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 13, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Dave Carabetta wrote: Hi All, Sorry for being OT.But I am sure that many people use Qforms on this list.Has their list been deactivated?Is Qforms still around? It used to be a very active list now nothing, I was wondering if it was my mail server or if the list has really stopped? qForms is definitely still around and being actively developed (Dan's working on the 2.0 release). However, it does look like the Yahoo group hasn't seen new messages in a couple days. Maybe something wierd on Yahoo's end? Regards, Dave. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: http_referer
I think the point was that when you create the UUID to put in the hidden form field, you also stick it in a persistent variable scope. That way you can compare the submitted UUID with the original value. If they don't match, you know the form has been spoofed and can act accordingly. This method will stop the submission of form data without having actually filled the form, but it wouldn't stop screen-scrapers reading the hidden field as well as the visible ones. For that you'd need one of those type the word you see in the graphic thingies (I know there's a name for them but can never remember it). -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 10, 2004, at 10:37 PM, Andrew Grosset wrote: I don't follow...couldn't I just copy the uuid and place it in a hidden field in MY form and submit that? Stick a uuid in a hidden field and check that you get the same one back. cgi.http_referer can't be trusted as it can be easily spoofed. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
The other shoe drops
At work a couple of weeks ago the Manager of IT was informed that he has a new boss as Directory of IT, to better set strategic direction and bridge the gap between IT and the user community. One of the new strategic directions is towards Java/J2EE/JSP. We've been having some serious memory leaks with JRun/CFMX J2EE/Linux that have been locking up our servers about once a month. (It was once every two weeks, so IT decided to throw RAM, about 4.5GB per server, at the problem.) The new guy comes from a major web hosting shop and has some poor opinions of CF (I don't know what versions he has experience with). Rather than isolate the issue to CFMX or the underlying J2EE server, he's decided to switch major directions. While I am predicting that soon I will be moved from Marketing (back) into IT due to my role, I don't have the political will/pull to question his move, all I can really do is brush off my Java skills and roll with the punches. The question (I'm sure you were wondering) is how usable is Fusebox in JSP? I'd rather not go back to Struts, although I may not have a choice. FB just makes more sense to me than Struts. I know there are other frameworks (Velocity, Tapestry) - can someone make a comparison between them and the way FB works? Is there anyone working one Mach-II for Java? It's possible I'm leaping to conclusions. I'd be happy moving data access to an EJB middle tier and keeping the user interface in CF but I'm betting the new guy won't like that. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: The other shoe drops
On May 11, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Matt Liotta wrote: Increasing the amount of RAM never fixes memory leaks. Further, unless you are using a 64bit CPU and OS, then you can't make use of more than 4GB of RAM anyway. In fact, most 32bit operating systems won't allow you to even use all 4GB. Hmm, top is showing Mem:3870956k av, 3853716k used,17240k free, 0k shrd, 227888k buff 2836168k actv,879872k in_d,22252k in_c Swap: 3072216k av, 1535548k used, 1536668k free 589904k cached So that's about 3.6GB total memory (((3853716k + 17240k) / 1024) / 1024) right? Maybe I'm reading it wrong, Linux admin isn't my strong suit. Right or wrong, I think IT's point was to increase the time between crashes so they could collect more metrics information to share with Macromedia support. We've an open ticket but until another crash MM says they can't tell us anything useful. I think the Java stack heap is filling up. Don't do that. EJB is a bear that has little benefit for you in this case. It would take less work to find the memory leak than it would to implement an EJB middle-tier. I would recommend trying a different J2EE application server. Sun One and JBoss are both freely available. But neither are officially supported CFMX platforms by MM, right? And as far as that goes, the choices as I understand them are Weblogic and Websphere. From past experience I believe that either would make the software investment in CFMX seem like a drop in the bucket. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: The other shoe drops
Well, that's good to know, sort of. MM says they support Sun ONE 7. Sun says that Sun ONE 7 is supported on Red Hat 7.2. Good grief! RH just sent me the End Of Life email on RH 9. If it's not one thing, it's another. However, Sun ONE is certainly something to try on one of our testing boxes. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 11, 2004, at 12:25 PM, Dave Watts wrote: I would recommend trying a different J2EE application server. Sun One and JBoss are both freely available. But neither are officially supported CFMX platforms by MM, right? Sun ONE is supported, JBoss is not: http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/systemreqs/ Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: add a column in oracle
I don't have my big red book handy, but isn't there a restriction in Oracle where you can add columns but not drop them (or vice versa)? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 5, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Daniel Kessler wrote: I'm trying to add a column in my DB in Oracle.I'm doing: ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD (imagevarchar2(100)); I also tried: ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD column imagevarchar2(100); but I get the error about line 4 of the cfm.This is a reference to the text field from the form that contains the above line (alter table...): The error occurred in hhp/htdocs/HHPv1/WNFunctions/DatabaseFunctions/addsql.cfm: line 4 2 : BODY 3 : CFQUERY NAME=SQLEXE DATASOURCE=dpch 4 :#sql_statement# 5 : /CFQUERY 6 : BSQL Statement Executed/B Also, can anyone tell me how to query for just 3 records in Oracle? I know how to do it in mySQL, but... thanks. -- Daniel Kessler Department of Public and Community Health University of Maryland Suite 2387 Valley Drive College Park, MD20742-2611 301-405-2545 Phone www.phi.umd.edu [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: add a column in oracle
As for your other question: SELECT TOP 3 FROM FOO -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 5, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Daniel Kessler wrote: I'm trying to add a column in my DB in Oracle.I'm doing: ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD (imagevarchar2(100)); I also tried: ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD column imagevarchar2(100); but I get the error about line 4 of the cfm.This is a reference to the text field from the form that contains the above line (alter table...): The error occurred in hhp/htdocs/HHPv1/WNFunctions/DatabaseFunctions/addsql.cfm: line 4 2 : BODY 3 : CFQUERY NAME=SQLEXE DATASOURCE=dpch 4 :#sql_statement# 5 : /CFQUERY 6 : BSQL Statement Executed/B Also, can anyone tell me how to query for just 3 records in Oracle? I know how to do it in mySQL, but... thanks. -- Daniel Kessler Department of Public and Community Health University of Maryland Suite 2387 Valley Drive College Park, MD20742-2611 301-405-2545 Phone www.phi.umd.edu [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: add a column in oracle
Sorry, wrong database... SELECT * FROM foo WHERE rownum 4 -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 5, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Howard Fore wrote: As for your other question: SELECT TOP 3 FROM FOO -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 5, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Daniel Kessler wrote: I'm trying to add a column in my DB in Oracle.I'm doing: ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD (imagevarchar2(100)); I also tried: ALTER TABLE whatsnew ADD column imagevarchar2(100); but I get the error about line 4 of the cfm.This is a reference to the text field from the form that contains the above line (alter table...): The error occurred in hhp/htdocs/HHPv1/WNFunctions/DatabaseFunctions/addsql.cfm: line 4 2 : BODY 3 : CFQUERY NAME=SQLEXE DATASOURCE=dpch 4 :#sql_statement# 5 : /CFQUERY 6 : BSQL Statement Executed/B Also, can anyone tell me how to query for just 3 records in Oracle? I know how to do it in mySQL, but... thanks. -- Daniel Kessler Department of Public and Community Health University of Maryland Suite 2387 Valley Drive College Park, MD20742-2611 301-405-2545 Phone www.phi.umd.edu [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: ColdFusion and XML
What kind of encoding? Do you mean that the XML document you posted is the value of a form element, a textarea for instance, and you'd like to access the data in the XML document? -- Howard Fore, Web Developer, Professional Career Development Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED], 770-729-8400, x5258 On Apr 16, 2004, at 7:42 AM, chad wrote: I generated a cfm page that process a xml document that is submitted in a form. The problem is the XML document is encoded and it causes my cfm page to error out. Does anyone know how to decode an encoded xml page? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Fusebox on a web hosting service?
I think most people are using FB3 because it's been around longer. If I were starting from scratch I'd use FB4 or Mach-II. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 15, 2004, at 11:15 PM, Johnny Le wrote: Thank you, Cameron.Which version of Fusebox do you think I should use?I know it has fusebox 3, 4, and Mach-II, but most people seem to use fusebox 3.Is fusebox 4 and Mach-II harder to use? Johnny Johnny, Fusebox is just a buncha CF code.You should be able to use any hosting service with it. -Cameron - Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- land:858.509.3098 cell:678.637.5072 aim:cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Johnny Le [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Fusebox on a web hosting service? Hi, I want to use fusebox for my web site, but can use any web hosting service for it? Or do I have to carefully choose the ones that support fusebox?I know that you have to download a core file before you can use it.So can we put the core file anywhere or it has to be at a specific location that I would not be able to do it if the web hosting service doesn't support it? Johnny [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Proving you are legitimate from CFMail
On Apr 14, 2004, at 1:05 PM, Craig Earls wrote: I am developing a service that sends email to registered users about upcoming events.I keep getting errors about my mails being bounced as spam.Even test emails I am sending to myself are getting bounced by my ISP.What procedures does a business need to go through to prove they are legitimate? NonTechnicalAnswer There is no silver bullet. To paraphrase an old adage, one man's email is another man's spam. The problem is that the definition of spam is subjective. Some people (and software) will tell you that using certain phrases (Earn money in your sleep while increasing the size of your manhood and losing weight by working from your home.) qualifies as spam. Others will tell you that email you didn't specifically ask for is spam (Click here to receive mail from anyone that pays us enough money to be loosely defined as a business partner). Still more will define as being anything they just don't want to read, regardless of the source or reason for reception. At work (not hofo.com), my employer sends out millions (no joke) of emails a week through companies that have lists of email addresses that supposedly meet one demographic or another. These companies have all signed statements that affirm the lists were obtained legitimately. That is, these people knowingly (or unknowingly) checked (or unchecked) a little box on a form somewhere that said send me information about something.Of course, I personally don't believe that all the addresses are legitimate, there are just too many of them (but I also don't have the pull to force the validation of these millions of addresses). Some of the lists had to have had beginnings with address harvesters. Or the user may have signed up for information from some company back before privacy statements were de rigeur for websites. The company sold your email address and interest preferences to someone else, who resold it, ad nauseum. Then again, my employer also sends email to people who went to our website and filled out a form that said I'm interested in this product, send me information. They send something out right away. In the absence of a sale, they also do a followup 60 to 90 days or a year later (an accepted marketing practice), the person doesn't remember they wanted information and cries foul. Thus it is spam, even though the recipient initiated the one-to-one contact. The best you can do is to: - make all information requests obviously opt-in - keep decent records of when the person asked for email (the lawyers will come for you, trust me): their name, email address, IP address used for the request, and timestamp. - keep records of what you sent when to whom, matchable to when the person asked for the information. - make opt-out provisions obvious on the email and your website. - be sure the opt-out solution is functional, and record these actions as well - some people are cynical enough not to believe any opt-out form is actually going to do so, but you can't not have it. IMHO, I wouldn't even bother with the spam filter testing. The phrase triggers and thresholds in SpamAssassin and the like are admin configurable and thus subjective at the admin level. Bayesian filtering (you gotta love it) is even more subjective, but better because this can be done at the user level, and will in theory separate spam from ham. In my experience with Bayesian filtering in OS X Mail, this can be defeated by conversational phrasing or the latest trick, using a paragraph of words that are legitimate dictionary words but aren't in most people's common vocabulary. These words don't appear in the token list from previous emails and skew the probability towards ham. /NonTechnicalAnswer -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
End of session
Hi, Parts of the application I'm working on are usable to unauthenticated users and parts are not. In my cflogin I'm looking at whether the user's request should be authenticated or not. The issue I've run into is when the user's session times out while they're using the app, and the next click is for an unauthenticated area. Rather than have the user continue to the unauthenticated area and receive the public navigation bar (as opposed to the authenticated navigation) I'd like the user to be forwarded to the login screen. In the list archives there's an exchange about wanting an ASP-style OnEndSession event and how that doesn't really exist in CF. Assuming that's still true, does anyone have a workaround? One thing that comes to mind is letting the user know their session is timing out via popup. The other option might be appending a URL parameter whenever the user is logged in. The logic in the cflogin would see that the user isn't logged in and that the URL parameter says they were and therefore the user should be directed to the login screen rather than the public area they were requesting. Any comments/ideas/suggestions? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Need some backup here
No multicast packets were received. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 7, 2004, at 1:05 PM, Cutter (CF-Talk) wrote: I need a favor. Internal debate going on here about the feasability of multicast streaming. I'm being told that multicast enabled routers are not in high enough proliferation to warrant considering multicast applications. The following link is a test page for multicast (every router between you and the site would have to be multicast enabled in order for the test to be successful.) If any of you would please take thirty seconds to see if you pass and let me know what the results are I would appreciate it. TIA. The link: http://www.multicasttech.com/?main=mt/index2002.php3 Cutter [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Script vs Tags (was Re: ColdFusion Coding Contest)
If you can do everything you need in cfscript, it's much more readable IMHO. However the functionality gap between cfscript and cf tags negates this to some degreee. In my experience switching back and forth between tags and cfscript has yielded some very awkward code. I've almost completely stopped using cfscript altogether, simply because of the time I lose trying to maintain a logical block of code in one paradigm or the other. As always your mileage may vary, products may settle during shipping, and objects may be closer than they appear. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 5, 2004, at 8:40 PM, Philip Arnold wrote: There is the one advantage to CFSCRIPT over tags Readability If you can read Script easier than reading tag based code, then use Script [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: desktop application
I'm not sure how far it's gotten, but there is the XRE: XUL Runtime Environment, so you can have standalone apps without bundling (or requiring) Mozilla. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/xre.html -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 6, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Dave Watts wrote: Except for the fact that very few people use Mozilla. I use it, and like it, but if I wanted to provide an application that everyone could use without having to download and install a browser, I'd choose Flash. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Devnet Pro now only $599!
The online store has that price as an upgrade from Studio MX. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 6, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Kwang Suh wrote: Blark, it's actually only for renewals.Ah well. - Original Message - From: Irvin Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2004 3:18 pm Subject: Re: Devnet Pro now only $599! Mine only said that the DevNet Essentials subscription was discontinued. That would be good news, though... Whoa, just got an email from MM saying that Devnet Pro is now only US$599.That's the deal of a lifetime. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Code formatter?
Hmm. I found: - http://www.ringlord.com/products/prettyhtml/ - For linux, v2.0 not downloadable (yet) - a Windows program called PrettyHTML (http://mpp.at/pretty/ph_370.zip), gives 403 Forbidden error. As I'm a Mac user, this wouldn't be very useful anyway. I also found a project called Checkstyle (http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/) and an accompanying Eclipse plugin, Checkclipse (http://www.mvmsoft.de/content/plugins/checkclipse/checkclipse.htm). It's designed to evaluate Java code against a set of Sun coding guidelines. I think this could be adapted after overcoming the obstacle that it's designed for a language that has tighter restrictions on structure than CFML/CFscript does. For CFC's I think it would be easy, but I'm not so sure about anything else. Checkstyle seems to use a class that creates a tree of the code being evaluated. I suppose if someone has CFML/CFC/cfscript parsers in Java maybe all it would take is creating the same thing and convincing checkstyle to use it. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 1, 2004, at 11:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: look up a program called prettyhtml does wonders! it supports cfml gives u several choices of how it can be done too Anybody know of a pretty printer for CFML? I'd like to run my code through something to standardize the indents, tag case, etc. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Code formatter?
Anybody know of a pretty printer for CFML? I'd like to run my code through something to standardize the indents, tag case, etc. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: FLEX: are you HERE or are you NOW?
On Mar 31, 2004, at 3:26 PM, Christian Cantrell wrote: Here is information on why the Flex trial is only currently available on CD: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/faq/#item-36 From that URL: Why is the Flex trial only available on CD? Flex is an advanced enterprise server product that has generated massiveinterest and anticipation across the industry. Macromedia wants toensure that early Flex customers get the support they need toevaluate the product successfully. A downloadable version of the Flex trial may become available in the future. Maybe I'm just not good at reading between the lines. Are there extras on the CD that will give early Flex customers get the support they need toevaluate the product successfully? It sounds like marketing double-speak to me. Perhaps they could be a bit more forthcoming at how paying $US 8.95 for a CD will give customers support. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: FLEX: are you HERE or are you NOW?
On Mar 31, 2004, at 5:58 PM, Dave Watts wrote: Just as we're free to criticize their distribution and marketing decisions, MM is free to disregard our freely offered marketing advice. I can only add that MM is marketing Flex the way a lot of enterprise products are marketed. Try downloading an evaluation version of a typical enterprise portal, KM or ECMS product - you'll typically have to jump through flaming hoops to get a time-limited evaluation CD. Yet another reason why many software consultants are more familar with and more likely to recommend open source software: because they can easily get a copy to develop on and learn with. Sure, software vendors can do what they want. But if I can't easily get a copy, I won't be able to tell my clients any more than they could read themselves on the website. And yes, paying less than $10 for a trial copy does count as easily obtainable, I just object to the marketing double-speak. If they want to keep closer tabs on who's downloading it, fine by me. Just say so. It's not like they don't make you register for downloads in the first place... -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: How do I perform a radius search based on zip code?
Link for the raw formula: http://www.meridianworlddata.com/Distance-Calculation.asp A UDF for doing the calculation http://cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=502 -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you understand that what you've heard is not what I meant. President Richard Nixon On Mar 19, 2004, at 2:00 PM, Scott Weikert wrote: How do I perform a radius search based on zip code? For instance, suppose I have a database of graphic artists.How do I find all graphic artists within a 20 mile radius of the given zip code.Is there a service that provides such information?Is something like that even possible with just zip code? There's zip code databases out there that have latitude/longitude data, and then there's some algorithm (I don't have it here) that you can feed it two lat/long pairs and it will tell you the mileage between, as the crow flies. Can't just do it with zip codes by themselves, you need locational data. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
CFFILE to NFS issues?
Hey, I'm having issues using CFFILE to move a file from a the CFMX server to a NFS mounted server. Has anyone done this sort of thing? From the shell on the Linux (CFMX) serve I can see the mounted directory and interact without issue. cfdirectory can create directories on it and read directories from it. But cffile refuses to write to it, giving me an error about the attribute source in the tag being invalid. I know this is not the case, because i can change the destination to be another directory on the local server and the tag completes successfully. The remote NFS server has read/write turned on for the directory as well as treat remote root as local root. Suggestions? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
cffile and invalid source attribute
Hi, I've got an app where the user uploads a fille via cffile. After I check for allowed mime type, run it through the virus checker and some other nonsense, I use cffile to move it the file to the final location and appropriate filename. CFMX is telling me that the source attribute on my last cffile call is invalid. However I can take the value of the attribute, drop into a shell on the box and ls to it all day. I found an earlier thread where CF supposedly sometimes means that the destination is invalid, but that filepath value is similarly valid. Ideas? Here's the code: !--- upload file --- cffile action=""> filefield=#key# destination=#getTempDirectory()# nameconflict=makeunique / cfset variables.uploadFileFullPath = getTempDirectory() cffile.serverFile / !--- check for viruses, mime type, file size --- !--- move to final resting place --- cffile action=""> source=#variables.uploadFileFullPath# destination=#variables.finalDestinationDirectory#/ #session.credentials.studentSequence#_#variables.fileCount# / -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Split screen editor for two files
Jedit (http://jedit.org/) does split screen. See Joshua Miller's site at http://www.joshuasmiller.com/jedit/ for info on macros and plugins to emulate some of the bu8ilt-in functionality of Dreamweaver/Homesite. I've been using it a while. It's not bad, the code insight provided through the XML plugin needs some work but it's a very usable editor. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything Nellie McKay On Mar 11, 2004, at 11:19 AM, Jeff Beer wrote: Anyone know of a decent editor for CF that allows split screens for two or more files? I'm working with a template that's about 1500 lines and need to refer to the original pretty often. I'm currently using CF Studio 5.. I'm downloading Eclipse right now - it's super slow at about 9KB per.. but I don't really know if it does split screens yet. Thanks! [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: OT: Interesting article on Macromedia Central...
On Mar 2, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Rob wrote: ActionScript is not powerful enough for me to just trash everything I have learned an learn a new thing. Goodness. Trash everything? How do you manage to do web development in ColdFusion when you have to remember HTML, CFML, _javascript_, and maybe some webserver configuration to boot? Example. _javascript_, Java, C++ -- how different are they? Does CF have the same concepts and names for things as those languages? How about VB? C#? yes they do ... ok then theres ActionScript - I am not going to learn it becuase there are few commonalties, and it's too much of a pain. I would like to use Flash, it seems like it has potential but there is no need for me to learn that Stage is the same as Screen (again this is several people talking not just me). I was thinking about this just the other day. I'm trying to learn Italian for an upcoming trip to Tuscany, and it would be so much easier if they could just all speak English. After all, a lot of their words do convey the same concepts. I would like to be able to communicate clearly with Italians while I'm traveling, but why do I need another way to say good morning? It's pretty common knowledge that people learn by drawing from past knowledge and making parallels between new infomation and old information - Like when you realized that stage == screen. Anyway when people go out of their way to make their own editors you know something is wrong. Like that CF plugin for Eclipse? Hmm. Maybe I haven't had enough caffeine yet... -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Transfer to Mac OS X Server
Sangeeta , I do all my CFMX development on OS X. I really don't see much difference between running JRun/CFMX on Windows and Mac. I changed the install directories from /opt/jrun4 to /Applications/jrun4 and /opt/cfmx to /Applications/cfmx. It isn't necessary but to work in /opt you need to be root, and the Finder (the Mac equivalent to Windows Explorer) by default hides a lot of those directories (/etc, /opt, /var) from the user thus it's much harder to work in them. From inside the JRun and CFMX admins, the only difference you'll really notice is that your directory delimiter is different, from \ on Windows to / on the Mac OS. I wonder about your save all the database in db folder statement. Are you using MDB files (from Access)? If so, you'll need to find some other option. There really is no comparable db in the Mac world that is usable by ColdFusion. MySQL will run just fine (get the distribution from http://www.entropy.ch/) but there's no built in GUI. However there are a number of excellent third-party JDBC interfaces available (SQLGrinder, phpmyadmin, sql4x). OS X uses Apache as it's web server and has that installed by default. The default location for the server (http://localhost/) webroot is /Library/Webserver/Documents, but user's web documents (http://localhost/~username) are in /Users/username/Sites. In my experience this doesn't really lend itself to portable development. I set up aliases to localhost using Netinfo Manager and an Apache configuration file with NamedVirtualHosts (if you save this into /private/etc/httpd/users/ any upgrades to the OS won't overwrite them). I'm sure I left something out... -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. (Philip K. Dick) On Feb 17, 2004, at 1:56 AM, Sangeeta Karmokar wrote: Can anyone help me Please Intially I was working on PC so Coldfusion Server was running on PC, but now in my office they have shifted PC to Mac OS X. You know in PC how we cansave all database in db folder and cfm pages in WWWroot folder of the server and then later from Admin section we can map the folder. but in Mac Server I am not sure where to save the database files and cfm files? I know we have to create a separate server for each project but where to save the database file and cfm pages and how to map it? I will be thankful if you can help me Regards Sangeeta [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Clustering and cfadmin
Hi, When clustering CFMX 6.1 is it necessary to make changes to each instance of CFMX in a cluster for those changes to affect the cluster as a whole? We've got two physical servers, fronted by a Cisco load balancer. Each is running Redhat Enterprise Linux with Apache, with JRun and CFMX 6.1 This setup serves 7 different domains. Each domain has their own virtual host in Apache and has a individual instance in JRun. Each instance of JRun is running an individual instance of CFMX. Each domain has a cluster that has both JRun instances for each domain on each box. For example. the domain foo.com would have JRun instances on each box (foo.com1-0, foo.com1-1, foo.com2-0, foo.com2-1) and they are all members of the foo.com cluster that is defined on each box. Currently this means that if I want to add/change/delete a datasource, I have to repeat the operation on four individual CFIDE interfaces. Surely there's a better way. I know I can migrate some settings via exporting and importing CAR files, but still. If this is a cluster, why must I repeat myself? Please tell me I have this configured wrong. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Clustering and cfadmin
Well, it probably seems like a bigger pain than it is. Mostly because I
end up doing these things at 3 am on about 4 hours of sleep (bad
planning on my part).
However, it does seem a bit odd to me. As Dave says the cluster is jsut
a bunch of individual servers. However, they are a bunch of individual
servers that are supposed to act a cohesive unit. With memory
replication a request to one is supposed to be as good as a request to
another. If the members of the cluster can share objects between one
another why can't they share parts of configurations? It would
certainly cut down on the chance of a request going awry because part
of a cluster has one config and the rest has another, as the human
doing the updating can go only so fast.
--
Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Beyond the Euphrates began for us the land of mirage and danger, the
sands where one helplessly sank, and the roads which ended in nothing.
The slightest reversal would have resulted in a jolt to our prestige
giving rise to all kinds of catastrophe; the problem was not only to
conquer but to conquer again and again, perpetually; our forces would
be drained off in the attempt. - Emperor Hadrian (Roman, AD 117-138)
On Feb 11, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Barney Boisvert wrote:
Just curious, but how much of a problem is this to people?Maybe it's
just
me, but this hardly seems like an issue worth addressing with how
infrequently it is needed.We moved our main apps to a new server
cluster
back in October.In four and a half months, I've logged into the
master
server once to set up a scheduled task, and had to add a JRun mapping
to
jrun-web.xml as well ('course I cheated and used rsync to propogate).
Do
people make configuration changes on a frequent enough basis to warrant
trying to make configuration changes easier across a cluster?
Just curious,
barneyb
-Original Message-
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 4:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Clustering and cfadmin
When clustering CFMX 6.1 is it necessary to make changes to each
instance of CFMX in a cluster for those changes to affect the
cluster as a whole?
Yes, you do. A cluster is still just a bunch of individual
servers, really.
Surely there's a better way. I know I can migrate some settings via
exporting and importing CAR files, but still.
You can use CAR files (and automate the distribution and
restore process) or
you can copy the configuration files directly and cycle the
appropriate
services.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
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Re: OT: Good beginner cold fusion book
From my experience most tech books fall into one of two camps, tutorial or reference. I usually end up buying the tutorial first and then the reference close behind. There are some books that form the gray area in the middle, like Forta's excellent two ColdFusion books. They have a lot of tutorial, but there's a great tag/function reference in the back. However, lately I've been using ColdFusionMX Bible (ISBN 0764546228) for the tutorial and Programming ColdFusion MX (ISBN 0596003803) for the reference. I can't see me doing good coding without both sides of the coin (unless you've a photographic memory and can speed read. Then you just need to spend a Saturday in your local book store's computer section...). -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln On Feb 9, 2004, at 3:27 PM, Rob Rohan wrote: I have a friend who, for some unknown reason, wants to learn CF :). Anybody have a recommendation for a good beginning cold fusion book for someone without any coding experience? Or perhaps a class in the San Francisco Area. I am pretty sure he knows HTML; it would be nice if the book covered MX too. I figure Ben Forta would have at least a couple (and amazon says he does), but I've never read any cold fusion books let alone a beginning one so I can't in good conscience recommend any. Any input is welcome Thanks -- Vale, Rob Luxuria immodica insaniam creat. Sanam formam viatae conservate! http://www.rohanclan.com http://treebeard.sourceforge.net http://ashpool.sourceforge.net [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: SQL Server on VPC 6 for Mac OS X
A friend of mine did this. The biggest issue was trying to get CFMX on OS X to talk to SQL Serveron VPC, when the PowerBook wasn't plugged into a network. He finally got it working, though it seems like it shouldn't, see http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031101210620201. He said it was a little sluggish, but not too bad for development. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma. - The Great Oz On Jan 28, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Matt Liotta wrote: For various reasons I need to setup a local install of SQL Server for development purposes. My primary machine is a Powerbook, so obviously that is a problem. I initially thought about buying a new PC just for this development work, but between the delay in getting the actual machine from Dell and the fact that it seems silly to buy a new machine just for this purpose I was considering alternatives. I was curious if anyone had tried running SQL Server on VPC 6 for Mac OS X. Looking around on Google didn't seem to find any information other than someone having success with Oracle. Thoughts? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CFDJ isn't exactly kicking bootay
So the Design Pattern series was invaluable. How much time did that series save you to be able to work on extra projects? How much is your time worth per hour? I'd bet that over the course of the subscription year, the product of number of hours saved multiplied by your hourly rate is more than the cost of the subscription. And if properly applied, those techniques won't save you time and money just this year, but in the future as well. That's how I justify it at least. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Much of life is Dutch one-digit operations in which legions of big robust people crouch behind badly cracked dike systems attached by the thumbs their wide balloon-pantsed rumps up-ended to the northern sun while, back in town, little black-suspendered tulip magnates stride around. - Dutch, Kay Ryan On Jan 8, 2004, at 1:26 AM, Dave Carabetta wrote: Your monthly column contribution is useful (along with your papers on www.how2cf.com/), and Brendan O'Hara's Design Patterns series was invaluable (at least, to me). [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Best Practices for configuration file dependencies?
Hi, In my current development environment we have 4 levels of deploying apps: - actual coding takes place on the developer's workstation - daily builds are deployed to a development server - testing builds are deployed to a testing cluster - production builds are deployed to the production cluster What I'm running into is that we have some interdependencies between apps that run on different domains. An action by a user in foo.com may redirect them to bar.com. What I would like is that when I'm viewing dev.foo.com (an Apache virtual host on the development server) the action would send the user to dev.foo.com rather than the production foo.com. I dimly remember that in the Java world, Ant can be used to change deployment settings like this. Has anyone done anything similar in CF? One solution I've been contemplating is a global config file that would list local, development, testing, and production settings for each website. These would be loaded into Application.cfm. Then when a script needed to redirect somewhere it would pull the appropriate variable from the loaded config file. I could either set the appropriate configration data set according to a variable in Application.cfm, or hard code the data set choice to be dependent on the machine name. Any other ideas? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. (Philip K. Dick) [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Using CAR files as configuration files?
Hey, I've got two servers, each with 9 different virtual hosts that each have two instances of CFMX running on them. I'd like to make the same settings for several things, datasources, cf tags mappings, etc. Can I use the CAR files from the CF admin Archives and Deployment section to distribute these changes across the difference CFMX servers? It seems to work ok, but I can't find anything that says the settings are specific to the server I created the CAR on and that they can or shouldn't be deployed to different servers. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Much of life is Dutch one-digit operations in which legions of big robust people crouch behind badly cracked dike systems attached by the thumbs their wide balloon-pantsed rumps up-ended to the northern sun while, back in town, little black-suspendered tulip magnates stride around. - Dutch, Kay Ryan [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: CFMX, JBoss
Simon, can you expand a bit on what steps you did to deploy on JBoss? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amazing how a human being can crawl three miles after their arms are ripped out, but five seconds without Amazon, and you'd think they were on the wrong end of the Spanish Inquisition. - John C Welch On Dec 15, 2003, at 4:45 PM, Simon Horwith wrote: I've deployed CFMX on JBoss and didn't have any problems.Any error messages you can share? ~Simon [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
CFMX integration with virus scanners?
Hi, I'm working on an application where the users will frequently upload document files from Word, Excel, Project, etc. through the HTTP Upload method. IT is wondering how we can interface the application with a virus scanning engine so that as soon as the file is saved to the server, it will be scanned and dealt with. Does anyone have any experience they could share about hooking a web app to such an engine? I've looked at the Symantec Antivirus Scan Engine but not enough to tell if it will do what we want. Also, the engine should run on Linux. Thanks. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Fwd: Clustercats and Apache 2?
Hi, Has anyone had success in running ClusterCats with Apache 2? My IT guys at work are trying to bring up a testing cluster using CFMX 6.1, JRun 4 Updater 2, and Apache 2.0.46 (I think) on beta 2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS. They're hitting an error along the way and have narrowed it down to a variable APACHE_DUMMY_MUTEX (again, I think) that is in Apache 1.3.x and doesn't exist in Apache 2.0.x (that they can find). Any ideas or suggestions? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] If everything's coming your way, you may be in the wrong lane - Old Farmhand, Prairie Home Companion [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Clustercats and Apache 2?
FYI, I've been told that MM answered a tech support request and said that ClusterCats will not be ported to support Apache 2, and are recommending a hardware solution. We're looking at Cisco's LocalDirector line. Any other vendor suggestions? On Tuesday, Oct 7, 2003, at 08:08 US/Eastern, Howard Fore wrote: Hi, Has anyone had success in running ClusterCats with Apache 2? My IT guys at work are trying to bring up a testing cluster using CFMX 6.1, JRun 4 Updater 2, and Apache 2.0.46 (I think) on beta 2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS. They're hitting an error along the way and have narrowed it down to a variable APACHE_DUMMY_MUTEX (again, I think) that is in Apache 1.3.x and doesn't exist in Apache 2.0.x (that they can find). Any ideas or suggestions? -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you understand that what you've heard is not what I meant. President Richard Nixon [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: SOT: SSL Load Balanced CF
On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 15:29 US/Eastern, Justin Hansen wrote: I'm starting a new project that will require SSL and I have a few questions... If a user is on Server(A) and has and SSL session going what happens if Server(A) goes down? When Server(B) picks up the user will the SSL be broken? I haven't tried this (but will Real Soon Now), but given that HTTP and HTTPS are not persistent connection protocols, I think the SSL browser-server handshake has to happen each time a HTTPS connection is requested. So the important part would be that each server that could answer the request has a valid certificate. Both servers have to have different keys right? Yes. You have different certs for the same domain on different boxes. Wouldn't that break the users session? What would happen user? I don't think (though I could be wrong) that the browser compares the SSL certificate from one connection to the next. The only things the browser cares about is that the certificate is from an accepted CA and that the domain name on the cert matches the domain in the request. Sessions as far as CF cares about don't have anything to do with SSL. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you understand that what you've heard is not what I meant. President Richard Nixon ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 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: Beta Testing RedSky
On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 06:15 US/Eastern, Calvin Ward wrote: Having said that, is there more material available on Mach-II somewhere? The PowerPoint from Hal and Ben's presentation at CFUN-03 is available at http://www.cfconf.org/cfun-03/talks/FuseboxMXII_Helms.ppt -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] If everything's coming your way, you may be in the wrong lane - Old Farmhand, Prairie Home Companion ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=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 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Beta Testing RedSky
On Tuesday, Jul 8, 2003, at 08:24 US/Eastern, webguy wrote: AFAIK was fusebox 4 , now mach II FB4 and Mach II are different beasts. Mach II is the framework that had previous been referred to as Fusebox MX. Currently the Mach II code can be requested from Hal Helms, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] If everything's coming your way, you may be in the wrong lane - Old Farmhand, Prairie Home Companion ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=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
Accessing fragment ID from URL?
Hi, Maybe I'm just missing it, but how do I access the value of a url's fragment id? That is, given a url of http://somehost.com/pagename.cfm?param1=foo#bar; how do I find bar? It's not in the CGI or URL scopes as far as I can see with CFDUMP. I was coding this in Javascript, I'd use location.hash. Thanks. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trust but verify: Yeah, I backed up the hard drive. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Host with the leader in ColdFusion hosting. Voted #1 ColdFusion host by CF Developers. Offering shared and dedicated hosting options. www.cfxhosting.com/default.cfm?redirect=10481 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Accessing fragment ID from URL?
On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 10:50 US/Eastern, Adrian Lynch wrote: ListLast(http://somehost.com/pagename.cfm?param1=foo#bar;, ##) Not sure if there's a CGI var for this. Sorry, I should have been more clear. I'd like to be able to detect the fragment ID within the requested page. The page receiving the request is acting as a dispatcher and I need to be able to read the fragment ID from the incoming URL as it were and then pass it along to the eventual CFLOCATION call. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trust but verify: Yeah, I backed up the hard drive. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=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
Re: Accessing fragment ID from URL?
Hmm. Isn't HTTP_REFERER actually the request for the previous page? If page A is requested with http://somehost.com/pageA.cfm?param1=foo#barA and has a link to http://somehost.com/pageB.cfm?param1=foo#barB when pageB.cfm executes, won't the HTTP_REFERER be http://somehost.com/pageA.cfm?param1=foo#barA as pageA.cfm's URL produced the HTML with the link to pageB? For some reason unknown to me, IE and Mozilla are reading the fragment ID on the original link and applying it to the page they are redirected to via cflocation. Safari and Opera don't exhibit this behavior however. Any more ideas? On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 11:18 US/Eastern, Dave Wilson wrote: On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 10:50 US/Eastern, Adrian Lynch wrote: ListLast(http://somehost.com/pagename.cfm?param1=foo#bar;, ##) Not sure if there's a CGI var for this. Sorry, I should have been more clear. I'd like to be able to detect the fragment ID within the requested page. The page receiving the request is acting as a dispatcher and I need to be able to read the fragment ID from the incoming URL as it were and then pass it along to the eventual CFLOCATION call. (for your example) ListLast(#cgi.http_referer#, ##) (if you want the full query string) ListLast(#cgi.http_referer#, ?) HTH, Dave ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=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: Accessing fragment ID from URL?
On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 12:12 US/Eastern, Dave Wilson wrote: I just did a quick test and notice the anchor parameter isn't available to CF at all, which suggests to me that it is clientside. It may not be available from CF, but it's certainly available in the call to the webserver, before the request is passed to CF. Perhaps someone at Allaire decided that not everything was that useful. How about using a document.location call with javascript instead of cflocation? This should let you use location.hash (sorry my javascript is terrible). Unfortunately this would make my current MVC setup way too complicated. I have another way to approach it that I was hoping to avoid. Programatic access to the fragment ID would have been far more elegant and less tightly coupled. Thanks anyway. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trust but verify: Yeah, I backed up the hard drive. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=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
Re: Whaling? Whaling? C'mon people....
On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 12:41 US/Eastern, John Stanley wrote: ...get with the plan...mammals are supposed to be slaightered in huge factories (**munching on a burger for lunch**...not in their natural habitats... http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/06/16/whaling.conference/ My feelings on cetaceans aside, please tag your subject line as off-topic if it doesn't pertain to CF. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trust but verify: Yeah, I backed up the hard drive. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=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
Re: Weird XMLTransform error (long)
On Tuesday, Jun 10, 2003, at 17:02 US/Eastern, Massimo, Tiziana e Federica wrote: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: with-param attribute is not allowed on the xsl:call-template element! But I'm not doing any with-param call (though I'd like to). Here's the XSL: Yes, you are, the XSL template expect three of them: Yes, I'm using parameters. But the message says, 'with-param attribute is not allowed on the xsl:call-template element!' and I fail to see where I'm performing with-param on call-template. I was doing this, but eliminated it when I hit the error. However, the error persisted. xsl:param name=isAuthenticatedyes/xsl:param xsl:param name=sectionIDprofile/xsl:param xsl:param name=pageIDprofile/xsl:param Unless you provide default value for them, it throws an error. Correct. As I read the XSL spec, there's no difference between xsl:param name=foobar/xsl:param and xsl:param name=foo select='bar' / However this is either incorrect, or the transform engine doesn't recognize it as such. When I use the later format, it works just fine. So it appears that the error is worded incorrectly. It should have said something to the effect of Parameter is undefined if that's the error, rather than telling me to correct a statement that didn't exist. BTW XmlTransform() doesn't allows you to pass parameters to an XSLT file, if you would like to work around this, check: Right again, but I'm not passing parameters in to the XMLTransform call. I'm using Dan Switzer's xslt UDF ( http://cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=899) as the workaround. if you would like to work around this, check: http://www.cfmentor.com/code/index.cfm?action=scriptid=123 Your code throws two variable undefined errors. This are eliminated if you change the names of the input variables to xmlstring and xslstring from xmlinput and xslinput respectively. Thanks for your help. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trust but verify: Yeah, I backed up the hard drive. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=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
Weird XMLTransform error (long)
Hi,
I'm trying to do some XMLTransform operations and am getting the
following error:
javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException:
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException:
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: with-param attribute is not
allowed on the xsl:call-template element!
A [Transformer] object cannot be created that satisfies the
configuration requested. This could be due to a failure in compiling
the [XSL] text. javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException:
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException:
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: with-param attribute is not
allowed on the xsl:call-template element!
But I'm not doing any with-param call (though I'd like to). Here's the
XSL:
xsl:transform version=1.0
xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform;
xsl:template match=menu
table
xsl:apply-templates select=item /
/table
/xsl:template
xsl:param name=isAuthenticatedyes/xsl:param
xsl:param name=sectionIDprofile/xsl:param
xsl:param name=pageIDprofile/xsl:param
xsl:variable name=imageRoot/student/images/nav//xsl:variable
xsl:template match=item
xsl:choose
xsl:when test=(requiresAuthentication = 'yes') and
($isAuthenticated = 'yes') and (sectionID = @pageID)
xsl:call-template name=menuItem /
/xsl:when
xsl:when test=(requiresAuthentication = 'yes') and
($isAuthenticated = 'yes') and ($sectionID = sectionID)
xsl:call-template name=menuItem /
/xsl:when
xsl:when test=(requiresAuthentication = 'no') and ($isAuthenticated
= 'yes') and ($sectionID = sectionID)
xsl:call-template name=menuItem /
/xsl:when
xsl:when test=(requiresAuthentication = 'no') and ($isAuthenticated
= 'yes') and (sectionID = @pageID)
xsl:call-template name=menuItem /
/xsl:when
xsl:when test=(requiresAuthentication = 'no') and ($isAuthenticated
= 'no')
xsl:call-template name=menuItem /
/xsl:when
/xsl:choose
/xsl:template
xsl:template name=menuItem
tr
td
xsl:choose
xsl:when test=$pageID = @pageID
img
xsl:attribute name=srcxsl:value-of
select=$imageRoot/xsl:value-of
select=image/_on.gif/xsl:attribute
xsl:attribute name=altxsl:value-of
select=alternateText//xsl:attribute
xsl:attribute name=namexsl:value-of
select=imageName//xsl:attribute
xsl:attribute name=idxsl:value-of
select=imageName//xsl:attribute
xsl:attribute name=border0/xsl:attribute
/img
/xsl:when
xsl:when test=$pageID != @pageID
a
xsl:attribute name=href/student/xsl:value-of
select=link
//xsl:attribute
xsl:attribute
name=OnMouseOutMM_swapImgRestore()/xsl:attribute
xsl:attribute name=OnMouseOverMM_swapImage('xsl:value-of
select=imageName/','','xsl:value-of
select=$imageRoot/xsl:value-of
select=image/_over.gif',1)/xsl:attribute
img
xsl:attribute name=srcxsl:value-of
select=$imageRoot/xsl:value-of select=image/.gif/xsl:attribute
xsl:attribute name=altxsl:value-of
select=alternateText//xsl:attribute
xsl:attribute name=namexsl:value-of
select=imageName//xsl:attribute
xsl:attribute name=idxsl:value-of
select=imageName//xsl:attribute
xsl:attribute name=border0/xsl:attribute
/img
/a
/xsl:when
/xsl:choose
/td
/tr
/xsl:template
/xsl:transform
Any ideas?
--
Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Context Sensitive, dynamic navigation include? How to accomplish?
On Tuesday, Jun 3, 2003, at 10:31 US/Eastern, Jeff wrote: Any ideas? In the past I've done this with a single page with all the navigation. It cfswitches to display the appropriate parts based on a variable set in the page that included it. As for the application.cfm execution, I think it will only execute once per request not per include. For instance, if you had a page that ended in a cflocation to another page, the application.cfm would execute twice. However a page that includes another will only execute application.cfm once. I think cfmodule would fall in the same category as cfinclude. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] If everything's coming your way, you may be in the wrong lane - Old Farmhand, Prairie Home Companion ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=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
Re: Context Sensitive, dynamic navigation include? How to accomplish?
On Tuesday, Jun 3, 2003, at 11:29 US/Eastern, Jeff wrote: But like I said, I'm in the early stages of just figuring out if I can even DO it, and it's mainly for an estimate for time. I figure with the amount of pages this site will contain, if I could do a dynamic navigation, that would shave hours as compared to creating several versions of the navigation, which just talking about gives me the willies, not to mention just *sounds* wrong. Lol. It doesn't just sound wrong, it is wrong. Think about what you'll need to do when (not if) you need to add a section. Anyway, I've been forced to beef up the navigation on my current project to do this exact thing. It wasn't my fault the designer didn't communicate exactly how the nav should graphically behave (though it is my fault that I didn't pull the teeth to find out). I'm about halfway through building a XML based solution, inspired and borrowing from Ben Forta's article on this subject on DevNet ( http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/extreme/ ). My end product will be a bit more elaborate than his example, as our menu will be more than simple text lists. When I'm done, I'll post it if anyone's interested. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] If everything's coming your way, you may be in the wrong lane - Old Farmhand, Prairie Home Companion ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=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
