Re: Handling invalid recipient in mailing list

[Mike K]

You probably know already, but I'll say it just in case ... you can rarely
have a 100% clean list. I have found that even after you just clean up
a list, your next mailing will have rejects in it.   Even if it's only a
few minutes since you last cleaned it up.

Your error handling needs to be able to differentiate between temporary
problems (e.g. mailbox full)  and permanent problems (e.g. that user not
known here) .  Your block of ip addresses can be blocked if someone in
the same data centre gets flagged as a spammer.   And that can be only
transient too, so next time you try to bulk email some of the ones that
were rejected as "sender address blocked" are not rejected now.

Then there are the ones that are rejected because their mailbox is full.
It might be full because it's an inactive email address (i.e. permanent) ,
or simply that they have been on vacation and havent picked up email for a
while (i.e. temporary).  Or they might be in arrears with the credit
department at their email hosting service,  which will be cleared again
once they pay their bill.

I usually flag bouncing email addresses  but still include them in the next
couple of emails.  If they bounce 3 times I consider them to be dead and
remove them from the list.


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Re: How to get emails unblacklisted by Cisco Senderbase

[Mike K]

G'day Ricardo,   thanks for your help.The actual error message is:

[quote]

Failed Recipient: < email address>

Reason: Remote host said: 554 icp-osb-irony-in9.iinet.net.au Your access to
this mail system from 199.115.219.138 has been rejected due to the sending
MTA's poor reputation. If you believe that this failure is in error, please
contact the intended recipient via alternate means.

[/quote]


According to iiNet's support guys,  that means Cisco's Senderbase  (the
service they use to identify spammers) has blacklisted my ip address.I
need to find out what has made them blacklist us  and what I can do about
it to get our reputation cleaned up.   I know no one has spammed, because I
know all these sites intimately - I built them all and manage them.
 There are a few newsletters sent out, but they are all opt in.  In fact
two of them can't just be added because you buy something - you have to
specifically request them on a form on the site.





On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Ricardo Russon 
wrote:

>
> What is the error they are returning when blocking your mail? There will
> usually be something in the mail logs on how to rectify the situation. Or
> at least an error code to help with further diagnosis.
>
> I've run some searches on their site of known spam domains and they seem to
> just be aggregating other blacklists. Do they actually maintain their own
> list?
>
> When you search your domain does it give any insight as to which monitors
> are actually blacklisting you?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Mike K  wrote:
>
> >
> > Has anyone had any experience with dealing with Cisco's Senderbase?
> >
> > Our small radio station has been blacklisted by Cisco's Senderbase as
> being
> > a spammer (we aren't - but we send out a bulletin of 650 recipients every
> > Saturday morning)  and now we can't send emails to any iiNet customer.
> > That means we can't send email to 3 of the directors from any radio
> station
> > email address.The web site can't send listener feedback to anyone
> that
> > uses iiNET or any of its subsidiaries as their ISP.  We can['t send
> > official emails to the regulator at ACMA either.
> >
> > We need to get un-blacklisted, but at senderbase.org there is plenty of
> > statistical information about who is spamming  but nothing I can see that
> > tells us what to do if we've been blacklisted and how to get
> > Un-blacklisted.
> >
> > Anyone know where I go from here?
> >
> > (when I called iiNet, they took 63 minutes to get to actually talk to me,
> > but their helpful suggestion was 'take it up with the web host'   - thats
> > me.then 'take it up with the web developer'.   Thats me. then ..
> > 'take it up with the domain registrar;.   That's me.   then 'take it up
> > with Cisco'  but you can't - there's no way to contact them that I can
> see)
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Mike Kear
> > Windsor, NSW, Australia
> > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
> > AFP Webworks
> > http://afpwebworks.com
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> >
> >
> >
>
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Re: Sending SMS

[Mike K]

<>


No.   Its your carrier not theirs.   Just like you dont need to know what
carrier someone is using to call them. Best is to use an aggregator if
you're sending any volume of messages.   The cheapest today wont
necessarily be the cheapest tomorrow.   I used a UK aggregator, and believe
it or not it was faster from my US server than using an Australian or US
service.   But only marginally.  Didn't make much difference in reality.
We set up races between mobile phones and the xml packet based aggregator
and several other combinations and the UK Aggregator beat all the other
ways by a second or two seconds,  even when it was routing the messages
through a South African carrier to an Australian carrier to another
Australian carrier to my phone.

The full mobile phone number will find the device  no matter where in the
world it is,  no matter what carrier they're connected to.

But as far as ColdFusion is concerned,  you'll either be making up an email
containing the message and sending it using CFMail  or using an XML packet
and sending that by cfhttp.  Depends on how your service is set up.Rest
assured it wont be the most difficult ColdFusion task you've ever done.

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Re: Non-profit donation providers

[Mike K]

I have dealt with Paypal in the past in a position similar to Al's.They
are totally impenetrable when it comes to discussing anything.There is
no way to get in contact with any human about anything.   All you ever get
is a form letter related to the first word the automated support system
recognises in your request. There is no one to phone,  no person you
can email, no office you can visit.

Their attitude related to any kind of customer complaint about software or
virtual goods (such as rights or licences or domain names etc)  where no
physical goods are shipped  is to reverse the transaction and that's it.
No appeal,  no discussion,  take it up with the customer.   So you are very
vulnerable to fraud if you are supplying anything where no physical goods
are shipped.  A donation is definitely in that  category.

I wouldn't touch Paypal with someone else's 40 foot barge pole - by their
attitude they actively encourage fraud.


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On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Rob Voyle  wrote:

>
> Hi Al
>
> Thanks for this. I will pass the info on to the group I am working with.
>
> Rob
>
> On 2 Nov 2014 at 11:16, Al Musella, DPM wrote:
>

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Re: Adobe is just a spammer now

[Mike K]

Jenny, thank you for your contribution.  I hate to disagree with you, but
since I knew the flash installer was going to try to force McAfee on me as
it did last time  (and really made a mess of my Norton - I had to reinstall
that too as a result), I was looking for the checkbox or button so I could
decline to install it. .

And it didnt appear.   I had no choice to not install McAfee.

I think there are different versions of the installer,  or it offers the
choice in some circumstances and not in others.But i DID NOT have the
choice to decline installing McAfee.





On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Jenny Gavin-Wear <
jenn...@fasttrackonline.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Yes you were.  It's just not very obvious.  It's in the middle of the top
> area of the screen.
>
> Regardless, it should default to unclicked.  I wrote to Adobe about this
> and
> got a prompt reply promising a change.  No change made, no change accepted.
> But when have Adobe ever listened to user feedback?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike K [mailto:afpwebwo...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 18 October 2014 21:08
> To: cf-talk
> Subject: Re: Adobe is just a spammer now
>
>
> You can say whatever you like, Eric but i was given NO OPPORTUNITY TO
> DESELECT the installation of the McAfee product which I definitely DO NOT
> WANT.
>
> I downloaded the flash installer,   then ran the installer,  and it went
> right ahead and installed two items - the flash player and then without
> pause the McAfee crap.
>
> Because of the treatment I received from McAfee a few years back, I
> resolved
> never EVER to do business with McAfee again, and so it's doubly bad that
> Adobe force it on me.
>
>
> Cheers
> Mike Kear
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
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> from AUD$15/month
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Eric Roberts <
> ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Yes...you can deselect it...it is a detestable practice that should
> > default to not checked rather than checked.
> >
> > --
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>
>
>
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Re: Adobe is just a spammer now

[Mike K]

You can say whatever you like, Eric but i was given NO OPPORTUNITY TO
DESELECT the installation of the McAfee product which I definitely DO NOT
WANT.

I downloaded the flash installer,   then ran the installer,  and it went
right ahead and installed two items - the flash player and then without
pause the McAfee crap.

Because of the treatment I received from McAfee a few years back, I
resolved never EVER to do business with McAfee again, and so it's doubly
bad that Adobe force it on me.


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On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Eric Roberts <
ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote:

>
> Yes...you can deselect it...it is a detestable practice that should default
> to not checked rather than checked.
>
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Re: Adobe is just a spammer now

[Mike K]

Nope Dave it has offered the option to deselect it in the past, but this
time just went on ahead and installed it without asking.So installation
of the flash runtime took twice as long this time i had to uninstall the
damned McAfee after the adobe installer finished.


On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Dave Watts  wrote:

>
> > In the process of installing it,  I have to also install McAfee, even
> > though I have paid for Norton's product.   Now i have the conflict
> between
> > the two.  I DONT BLOODY WANT McAFEE!!!
>
> I'm pretty sure you can deselect this during the installation.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> 1-202-527-9569
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> http://training.figleaf.com/
>
> Fig Leaf Software is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
> (SDVOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-
> authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite.
>

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Adobe is just a spammer now

[Mike K]

So I succumbed to temptation and installed the latest flash player.

In the process of installing it,  I have to also install McAfee, even
though I have paid for Norton's product.   Now i have the conflict between
the two.  I DONT BLOODY WANT McAFEE!!!

Then it opens a screen offering me other products I might want.  A couple
more Adobe products.I already have those.

So ADOBE are nothing more than sleazy spammers now.

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Re: Avoiding a boat load of queries inserting multiple records - Better Way?

[Mike K]

You do know that Microsoft changed the insert syntax as from SQLServer 2008
dont you?now you can insert multiple records in one go like this:

INSERT into Tablename (field1, field2, field3, field4 ) Values
( value1, value2, value3, value4 ... ;
value1, value2, value3, value4  ;
value1, value2, value3, value4 
)

IF you uave one of those fields as an index field (some databases call them
autonumber fields) you dont have to know what the current index value of
record 1 is when you insert record 2 .Or (i havent tried this buti
reckon it ought to work)  if say field1 was your index field,  you could
user the value Ident_Current('Tablename ')  as the value of field1 in the
subsequent records.

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On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Les Mizzell  wrote:

>
>  > Not knowing much about your overall process, I'll try to stick to some
>  > generic ideas. Let's assume you don't need this stuff dumped into the
>  > database the very second it gets sent to you.
>
>


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Re: Adding n characters to a string

[Mike K]

Damn!!! Thanks Bill  you posted this just seconds before I was about to
post that I'd found it.   Yes you're right, it's repeatstring( )  that i
want.

Thanks for your help anyway.


On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Bill Moniz  wrote:

>
> I think you're looking for repeatString(string, count).
>
> On 25 September 2014 13:54, Mike K  wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm having a brain fade - I know I've done this before but for the life
> of
> > me I can't find where it was.I hope someone can help me out here
> before
> > i go crazy ...
> >
> > I need to add (n) hard spaces ( ) before a string, so it indents the
> > string a variable amount depending on its level in a hierarchy.   I know
> > I've done something like multiply a character by a variable but I'm
> damned
> > if i can remember how.
> >
> > I tried #(n * " ")# but it doesnt work.   You can't convert a
> > character to a number to multiply it.   So how do I add (n) spaces to a
> > string?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Mike Kear
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Adding n characters to a string

[Mike K]

I'm having a brain fade - I know I've done this before but for the life of
me I can't find where it was.I hope someone can help me out here before
i go crazy ...

I need to add (n) hard spaces ( ) before a string, so it indents the
string a variable amount depending on its level in a hierarchy.   I know
I've done something like multiply a character by a variable but I'm damned
if i can remember how.

I tried #(n * " ")# but it doesnt work.   You can't convert a
character to a number to multiply it.   So how do I add (n) spaces to a
string?


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Re: CF9/Windows how to push data to HTML page

[Mike K]

Ideally I'd like it updating while he's looking at it .  rather the way
Facebook does.

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On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:17 PM, John M Bliss  wrote:

>
> Are you talking about updating the page while end-user is looking at it? Or
> do you just need to have it updated on load / refresh?
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Mike K  wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a radio station site, and I want to be able to update the pages
> > automatically as events happen.  For example on the section where it says
> > "what's on air now"  i want it to automatically change as the hour ticks
> > over and the new show startsOr as the live call of the sports ends
> and
> > we return to music.
> >
> > Does anyone have a way to do that?   I have been unsuccessful at using
> > now() as a function in a CFC because the CFC stays in memory and doesnt
> > necessarily update the data it works with.   In fact the "what's on
> today"
> > doesnt always have today's program listing - it often has yesterday's,
> even
> > though it's based on now() as a parameter in the cfquery on the database
> > programming table.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Mike Kear
> > Windsor, NSW, Australia
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> >
> >
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CF9/Windows how to push data to HTML page

[Mike K]

I have a radio station site, and I want to be able to update the pages
automatically as events happen.  For example on the section where it says
"what's on air now"  i want it to automatically change as the hour ticks
over and the new show startsOr as the live call of the sports ends and
we return to music.

Does anyone have a way to do that?   I have been unsuccessful at using
now() as a function in a CFC because the CFC stays in memory and doesnt
necessarily update the data it works with.   In fact the "what's on today"
doesnt always have today's program listing - it often has yesterday's, even
though it's based on now() as a parameter in the cfquery on the database
programming table.

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Re: need help with two sites - willing to pay $45/hour

[Mike K]

I can help you.   I've been building coldfusion sites for about 15 years
now.  I have 39 sites I look after,  some of my own,   and all coldfusion
based.

I have some time available now to take on new projects. Let me know if
you are interested.

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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Matthew Smith 
wrote:

>
> I have two sites with minor issues I need help with.
>
> http://www.theartoflovingcatsanddogs.com
> http://www.fatcate-juice.com
>
> The first is an image reference issue and the second has to do with a cfc
> issue.
>
> Please let me know if anyone is interested.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards,
> chedder is bedder
>
>
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Re: Testing

[Mike K]

Nope.  I never received it Rick.



On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Rick Faircloth
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> Testing...
>
> 

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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Thanks Andrew.   I bow to your experience and wisdom.   I was just going on
the words of Adobe where they have videos telling about the synchronisation
and the ftp settings etc in the app.There's my stupidity. I should know
better than to believe anything those buggers say.  They have fallen short
so many times I dont know why I keep getting sucked in by them.

Jeez on an area where I do have considerable experience and expertise,
their major accounts sales effort is not even up to the standard of basic
learner beginner sales rep standard.  And that's a long way ahead of their
marketing. So why I thought their IDE would be of a higher standard
when they've just gone and broken their main development tool
 (Dreamweaver) i dont know.

More fool me.

Thanks for tolerating me and not calling me a fool.  I'll do that all by
myself.

Cheers
Mike Kear


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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Thanks Brian,   I think you might be right.   After all the 'mine's bigger
than yours' and 'you should be using a REAL IDE'  pi$$ing contests over the
years between Eclipse users and Dreamweaver users, I figured since Adobe
are ashamed of ColdFusion and dont want Dreamweaver users to be able to use
it,  I might as well see if the CF Builder approach was a better one.

So far it's cost me over $1000 in lost time and I'm nowhere near to doing
with it what I used to do  in Dreamweaver. Sadly I can't go back to
Dreamweaver, because the last update to the CC version broke it and the CS6
versions so that when you use .cfm or .cfc files it can take as long as 5
minutes to switch between two open files.   I dont know what it's doing in
the background.   Maybe spellchecking "War and Peace" or something.

So I have to persevere.  But I'm NOT a happy camper!!

I think they should have waited a bit longer to release the new version
until someone had actually used it in the wild.   Didn't they do any beta
testing?



On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Bryan Stevenson <
br...@electricedgesystems.com> wrote:

>
> Mikenot that this helps you in anyway, but all your issues is why I
> use code editors for writing code - period
>
> I use an FTP client for moving files and I use SVN for knowing what to
> upload
>


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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

I've had enough of this damned ColdFusion Builder 3 for now.   It's just
too bloody frustrating.   Maybe I might come back to it,  maybe not.

The FTP/Synchronise thing is just barely something you would expect a
beginner programmer to produce.Trying to make it work is groping in the
dark because the help is not related to this product.  Instructions on
setting up FTP begins :


   1. Right-click the project in the Navigator view.
   2. Click Synchronize > Create New Synchronize Connection.

But there's no Synchonize option to choose from.  So it's a loser right
there.The only thing i can find about uploading files to the remote
server is "Export..."  but there's no help file for that.  Therefore what
information goes where is just a guess. But dont get anything wrong,
because you can't change anything.  There's no way to edit your ftp
settings.And what's worse  once you've set up a ftp spec for a site,
you can't edit it or set up another one with that same address.   Too bad
if you have to change your password for any reason.And you can't delete
an existing one and set it up again if you got your guess wrong the first
time.


In Dreamweaver, to upload a modified file to the site takes 2 clicks.
 Select the file, then click the up arrow.   It automatically creates
folders on the remote server if the folder doesnt exist and just puts the
modified file in there.

In ColdFusion Builder - it's a bloody complicated process. Every time you
try to export a file,  it downloads the whole file directory from the
remote site.  If there are hundreds of files on that site, you have to wait
while it downloads all the file names, dates, etc. It doesnt remember
the last one - upload a file,  make a single little change, wait while it
downloads the directory of the remote site all over again,  then take a few
seconds  to upload your revised file.In one case, it takes 5 minutes to
upload a 15kb file because of all that fussing about.

I made an error the first time I set up export specs (probably forgot a
trailing '/' or something) and now I can't fix it,  can't delete it and do
it again,  can't synchonise at all.   That site is no longer able to be
uploaded from ColdFusion Builder 3.

I'm trying really hard, because I honestly want to be open minded about it.
  But I'm not becoming a fan of ColdFusion Builder 3 yet.



On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Andrew Scott wrote:

>
> Feel your pain Mike, but perseverance can fix that at times.
>
> The root, is what I stated earlier, when I said I usually just set it to
> the root for ColdFusion and that is the wwwroot in ColdFusion itself and
> not inetpub or your projects. Yes I agree this area is not well documented
> nor blogged, because people just don't use the line debugger and its power.
> I guess you can lead a horse to water but you cant make them drink it.
>
> Cheers
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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

So far this has cost me about 8 hours of billable time to setup,  and its
only required because Adobe decided to take ColdFusion out of Dreamweaver,
 the tool I've been using for years and years.   It's proving a BLOODY
EXPENSIVE tool.

A little bit of progress at last. I have to say this term "root" is
causing me a lot of confusion - document root,   server root,  context root
  web root.which is which in any location in the server set up.
 There are so many possibilities at any point its very confusing.

At last I have a setup that will give me 'run as' that opens my default
browser and displays the page. For the record, even though I have a
jrun setup,  i found it will display in a browser  if i dont have J2EE
 settings in the server setup.I still havent found a way to have it
show the page in CFBuilder - it opens a new window in the default browser.
   No way yet found to open the file in any other browser.  Perhaps when i
get to the part about live update and mobile devices etc it will come
clear.

But debug doesnt work.   It gives me an error message:

Next to work on making the FTP work.   (That took me about 5 minutes to get
to work when I was learning Dreamweaver).

But I'm sticking with it for now, and I'm still prepared to be convinced
that ColdFusion Builder is a worthwhile IDE.   But the product has a way to
go to convince me yet.

Cheers
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On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Andrew Scott wrote:

>
> Dave answered what I was going to say next.
>
> Regards,
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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

The administrator is found at
http://localhost/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm and its physically at
D:\Sites\webroot\htdocs\CFIDE\administrator\index.cfm




On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Andrew Scott wrote:

>
> lol... np...
>
> Well what is the URL you access the Administrator with, does it have
> cfusion in it?
>
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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Thanks Dave.  That clears that up.Now I understand what 'context'
means, I realise I set it up as you suggested.I didn't understand what
"context" means because it's something i've never used, apart from setting
up "/" as the context root as one of the many settings when I installed
ColdFusion.

Thanks for explaining that.




On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Dave Watts  wrote:

>
> > So I hate to be keeping on about it but I dont understand what a context
> > is.  Do i have one?  Why do i want one?
>
> A context root is a URL pattern to which all URLs identified as
> possibly to be processed by CF will conform. In the vast majority of
> cases, it's simply a single slash:
>
> [snip]


>
> Cheers
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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Oops.   How rude.   Thanks ANDREW!!!   Sorry :)




On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Mike K  wrote:

> Thanks Scott but i DO have a J2EE server.  That was how we all set up
> coldfusion from MX because that's how shared hosting was set up.  So anyone
> using shared hosting set dev servers up the same.
>
> So I hate to be keeping on about it but I dont understand what a context
> is.  Do i have one?  Why do i want one?
>
> I have a CF9 setup as J2EE which is what most people did for CF9, as I
> believe.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Andrew Scott wrote:
>
>>
>> Mike,
>>
>> Context only applies if you install ColdFusion as a J2EE server instance,
>> and you have a context to access that instance. If you only have a
>> standalone / Multi (pre CF 10) then you will not need to worry about it,
>> which I said earlier.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andrew Scott
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Mike K  wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Andrew,  thanks .   I'm not trying to be stupid here, but I am not
>> 'getting
>> > it' yet. " the context if if your using an instance under a
>> context."
>> >  What does that mean? How to i know if i'm using a context?I
>> just
>> > installed ColdFusion using the defaults that come with the jrun install.
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Mike Kear
>> >
>>
> --
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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Thanks Scott but i DO have a J2EE server.  That was how we all set up
coldfusion from MX because that's how shared hosting was set up.  So anyone
using shared hosting set dev servers up the same.

So I hate to be keeping on about it but I dont understand what a context
is.  Do i have one?  Why do i want one?

I have a CF9 setup as J2EE which is what most people did for CF9, as I
believe.




On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Andrew Scott wrote:

>
> Mike,
>
> Context only applies if you install ColdFusion as a J2EE server instance,
> and you have a context to access that instance. If you only have a
> standalone / Multi (pre CF 10) then you will not need to worry about it,
> which I said earlier.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Scott
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>
>
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Mike K  wrote:
>
> >
> > Andrew,  thanks .   I'm not trying to be stupid here, but I am not
> 'getting
> > it' yet. " the context if if your using an instance under a context."
> >  What does that mean? How to i know if i'm using a context?I just
> > installed ColdFusion using the defaults that come with the jrun install.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Mike Kear
> >
>
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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Andrew,  thanks .   I'm not trying to be stupid here, but I am not 'getting
it' yet. " the context if if your using an instance under a context."
 What does that mean? How to i know if i'm using a context?I just
installed ColdFusion using the defaults that come with the jrun install.


Cheers
Mike Kear


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Andrew Scott wrote:

>
> Actually I did mention the J2EE aspects, the context if if your using an
> instance under a context.
>
> I don't use the run as / view so I am guessing, but you did RMB on the
> project and select the server to use for this project?
>
> Regards,
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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Thank you for persevering with me, Andrew.   I'm glad it's not just me
being dense.   This is still very confusing.  I suppose once I've set up  a
couple of projects it might be understandable.  I'd hope so - i have 39 to
set up!!

Dean, thanks for the reassurance that code insight actually does work.  I
can make code insight work as far as the application.beanfactory.getbean()
part - Typing 'application.' will result in getting the insight into the
coldspring CFCs.   but when i type the bean name, and want the methods
inside my CFC, it doesnt work.  So I suspect the reason for that is that I
havent got the server set up properly in the project.Therefore I'm
putting this aside for now and I'll come back to it once I've worked out
the server settings


I'm not sure this is a public beta.  Adobe doesnt say so on the web site.
I never use beta software - ever since those awful consequences of using
the WIndows95 beta all those years ago.   I'd have noticed if the Adobe
website said the word "beta"  I feel sure.


i'm putting aside the FTP and code insight things  for the moment and I'll
come back to that.   It's quite likely the problems I'm having there are
because I havent set up the project's 50,000 settings correctly.   (ok
slight exaggeration - its only 35,498 settings ) .I doubt they're goign
to work properly if i havent got the folder settings right in the project
setup.

So here's my structure:

I have a coldfusion jrun installation, set to all the default locations.
 So it's at c:\jrun4
I have apache web server running, with a document root
at D:\Sites\webroot\htdocs

All my site files are on my d: drive   for example i have the following
structure for one of my sites:

D:\Sites\MySites\atalkingdog.com.2006
D:\Sites\MySites\atalkingdog.com.2006\local-logs   (apache's logs )
D:\Sites\MySites\atalkingdog.com.2006\Resources(for working files and
notes and bits of images etc)
D:\Sites\MySites\atalkingdog.com.2006\site\web(the root of the site).

The project still isnt set up properly in CFBuilder, because the 'run as'
function gives the error:  "selected file is not in the root of the server"
  This happens even after I set up a linked folder to the document root.

So I guess the problem is that I havent set up the server correctly.Can
someone help me with this please?  or point me towards a tutorial or a blog
entry that covers this aspect?   Sadly the majority of the resources I've
found just skip over the tricky bits I'm not understanding.

Like for example what is the context root of the server?   No one ever
explains the term "context root" as distinct from 'server root' and 'web
root' and 'document root'.

And in any case, I set up my coldfusion server a year ago on a very
stressful day for other reasons.  I can't remember what I typed in as the
context root at the time.How do i find out now?


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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Ok that's good news, Dean. I see code insight as a  big benefit of
ColdFusion Builder, but so many things are going wrong these days I was
getting to assume that this was just not going to work for me.
 (Sometimes I think there's a malicious supreme being looking over me
saying "nah ah.   you can't do that" )

So when i create a new CFC, I have to enter it into the ColdSpring.XML so
Coldspring can find it and also into the CFC Mappings in CFBuilder, as you
described.   Right?

Cheers
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On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Dean Lawrence  wrote:

>
> Mike,
>
> Code insight does work on CFC that have been invoked using ColdSpring, you
> just need to tell CFB where to find the CFC. Just follow these steps:
>
> 1. In the project properties, click on the "CFC Mappings" link.
> 2. Click on the "New" button in the "CFC Variable Mapping" section.
> 3. Enter usersDAO for the variable name
> 4. Enter the dotted path from the website root to the CFC (I keep mine in
> model directory so I would enter model.userDAO)
> 5. Click "Ok" to save and exit the properties dialog.
>
> After you do this, whenever you create a variable named usersDAO, CFB will
> present code insight for any methods found in usersDAO CFC. So your example
> would work fine.
>
> usersDAO = application.beanfactory.getbean("usersDAO")
>
> Cheers
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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Ah so since i use  http://dev.sitename as my local url,  I should name the
server connections dev.afpcms and dev.afpwebworks and dev.sitenameis
that how you mean?

Cheers
Mike Kear



On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Andrew Scott wrote:

>
> Actually that was probably a little vague, what I mean is if you need to
> connect to more than website using the same ColdFusion instance. In CFB you
> will need to add a server connection for each website.
>
> Regards,
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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

So to summarise then,   ColdFusion Builder 3 is a great IDE, except that
the following important features dont work for me,  and no one has been
able to show me that they can work for me ...

[A] FTP doesnt work, and no one has yet offered me any way to make it work.

[B] Code insight apparently doesnt work if you use ColdSpring to
instantiate the CFCs
[C] You can't use the view in browser function - apparently it's been
removed from ColdFusion Builder 3.(Unless someone can tell me where to
find it).

I can't see the point in paying all that cash for something that doesnt
even do what UltraEdit can do.

Or have it got it all wrong?Where are the fanboys now that were
berating me for using Dreamweaver all these years? All these functions
worked in Dreamweaver right up till Adobe decided that ColdFusion wasnt
worthy of being in their product.



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Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Actually I only have ColdFusion set up on my desktop machine (at least as
far as this issue is concerned anyway) .  It's a high end standalone PC.  I
dont have multiple ips and server instances.I just set it up as
localhost/port 80 /  c:\jrun4 No?   I dont recall entering any ip
addresses but the ip address of this box on my local network is 10.1.1.9
and that went in somewhere -I think ColdFusion Builder must have picked
that up by itself.Not sure what happens if i reboot my router and get a
new ip for that machine.

I'm not sure why I'd have multiple servers, unless i have different
versions of CF or maybe Railo as well on the box.Is there any other
reason to have multiple servers?

Does anyone know if it's possible to have the page run inside CF Builder?
 Or can i stop looking because it's been removed from version 2 to version
3?

Cheers
Mike Kear





On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Andrew Scott wrote:

>
> Mike,
>
> There are a few things that you haven't said if you have setup or not, I
> have never liked the way CFB defines things and where it is all over the
> place. Anyway lets start with a few basics.
>
> 1) Server setup.
>
> When setting up a server in CFB you need to do this for each and every IP
> and Port. In here you tell it where your website files are located and
> where CF is located, as well as other things. That part is important for
> what your looking for.
>
> 2) Project Setup
>
> It sounds like you have the basics of the project setup. But you need to
> tell the project which server your using, which is done by RMB on the
> project and going to properies, which from here you can go into the
> settings and select which server the project is to use.
>
> Also in the project settings in the above step, you also can tell it any
> mappings you need the IDE to know about, so in the example of custom
> mappings they can also be added at the above step.
>
> Hopefully that can get you going some more, if not ping me.
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Scott
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>
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Mike K  wrote:
>
> >
> > Please - I dont want this to degenerate into a 'my ide is better than
> your
> > ide'. I'm not going back to CF Studio.  I dont REALLY even want to
> > leave Dreamweaver - i dont have the time to learn a new IDE now but I'm
> > forced to because Adobe wont allow sensible use of Dreamweaver for
> > ColdFusion even though they  have every other technology known to man in
> > there.
> >
> > Thank you Will.   Actually I'm not using file view - I'm still learning
> the
> > terminology for CFBuilder 3.  I have made a project for one of my
> existing
> > sites.  I can see all my files there on my dev machine.  But I can't make
> > it link to the remote (production) server so I can upload files.But
> > when I do try to export using the FTP setup,  i get an error message that
> > says "/AFPCMS6p2/wwwroot  is already mapped to
> > org.eclipse.team.ftp.FTPDeploymentProvider"(the /AFPCMS6p2/root
> is
> > the root folder of my site on my dev machine)   I have no idea what the
> > org.eclipse.team.ftp.FTPDeploymentProvider is referring to.   Can't find
> a
> > reference to that anywhere. And when I cancel out of that after
> getting
> > the error,  i get another message saying "should the deployment mapping
> > specified in the wizard be remembered?  Yes/No".   If i select 'no' i
> just
> > get the message back again.  It will only go away if i answer 'yes'.
> >
> > Thank you Dean.   You're very helpful too. I get the project concept.
>  That
> > makes sense.   Soon as i created a second project I could see how that
> > aspect works.  What I dont get is how CF Builder will introspect CFCs
> > instantiated by Coldspring.   I call those in my pages with something
> like:
> >
> > usersDAO = application.beanfactory.getbean("usersDAO")
> >
> > but when I do, there is no sign of any kind of hinting or introspection
> or
> > code insight.It just stares at me.  I put the period after the string
> > above, hoping that i'd see a drop down list of the available methods as
> it
> > does in the video, but no such luck.
> >
> > So right now,  what we're looking at is a very expensive text editor that
> > lots of other people say has the potential to save me a lot of work and
> > make things happen faster.  But which isnt showing me any such benefits.
> >
&g

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Please - I dont want this to degenerate into a 'my ide is better than your
ide'. I'm not going back to CF Studio.  I dont REALLY even want to
leave Dreamweaver - i dont have the time to learn a new IDE now but I'm
forced to because Adobe wont allow sensible use of Dreamweaver for
ColdFusion even though they  have every other technology known to man in
there.

Thank you Will.   Actually I'm not using file view - I'm still learning the
terminology for CFBuilder 3.  I have made a project for one of my existing
sites.  I can see all my files there on my dev machine.  But I can't make
it link to the remote (production) server so I can upload files.But
when I do try to export using the FTP setup,  i get an error message that
says "/AFPCMS6p2/wwwroot  is already mapped to
org.eclipse.team.ftp.FTPDeploymentProvider"(the /AFPCMS6p2/root is
the root folder of my site on my dev machine)   I have no idea what the
org.eclipse.team.ftp.FTPDeploymentProvider is referring to.   Can't find a
reference to that anywhere. And when I cancel out of that after getting
the error,  i get another message saying "should the deployment mapping
specified in the wizard be remembered?  Yes/No".   If i select 'no' i just
get the message back again.  It will only go away if i answer 'yes'.

Thank you Dean.   You're very helpful too. I get the project concept.  That
makes sense.   Soon as i created a second project I could see how that
aspect works.  What I dont get is how CF Builder will introspect CFCs
instantiated by Coldspring.   I call those in my pages with something like:

usersDAO = application.beanfactory.getbean("usersDAO")

but when I do, there is no sign of any kind of hinting or introspection or
code insight.It just stares at me.  I put the period after the string
above, hoping that i'd see a drop down list of the available methods as it
does in the video, but no such luck.

So right now,  what we're looking at is a very expensive text editor that
lots of other people say has the potential to save me a lot of work and
make things happen faster.  But which isnt showing me any such benefits.




On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:00 AM, <> wrote:

>
>  >>Does anyone actually use CF Builder for multiple projects?
>
> Nothing beats good old CF Studio ! ;-)
>
>
> 

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More CFBuilder 3 frustration

[Mike K]

Does anyone actually use CF Builder for multiple projects?

Everything I've seen so far seems to assume I'm working for a company with
one web site.  There's nothing I've found so far showing how to set it up
for multiple web sites.

I thought I'd done it right, but apparently not, because I can't preview
any pages.  I've seen a video on the Adobe web site about using CF Builder
for Dreamweaver users.The guy just clicks a tab at the bottom of the
screen called "Safari" and sees the page run right in the window.I
can't find that tab or any menu item or link where I can do the same thing.


So after messing about with this damn thing for 4 hours now, I've got
nowhere.Can't preview a page.  Can't upload anything to the server.
It's just an expensive text editor so far.

I can't use code insight either because unless I've missed something, it
doesnt insight into CFCs instantiated with Coldspring.

Has anyone managed to make CFBuilder introspect CFCs instantiated with
ColdSpring?


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CF Builder 3 frustrates!!!

[Mike K]

I have taken the advice of several members of this list   and installed
ColdFusion Builder 3.   For the last hour I have been frustrated, trying to
upload a single file to my production server.

It's quite likely I'm coming at this from the wrong angle (i'm a CFBuilder
novice after all) but from what I can see, CFBuilder will only upload any
files if it has uploaded them all.   Apparently, you have to either upload
the entire project,  or a file that has been uploaded previously by
CFBuilder but changed since it last uploaded the project. If it didnt
upload the project last time (because it's on the production server
already)  you can't upload anything.

Or have it missed something?

I even tried deleting everything off the production server, so CFBuilder
could upload them all and then be happy.  But it didnt like that either.
 It says the local folder is already mapped to something else and wont
upload anything. And not only that, when I try to cancel the ftp
upload, it asks if i want CFBuilder to remember and wont accept anything
but 'yes'.  In other words,  you'd better get all the details right first
time or you're screwed.

Are there any help files that are more than utter basic kindergarten files
yet?   OR tutorials?The only tutorials I've found are either for
previous versions,  or are telling me how to install everything.   I dont
need that.  I need to know how to use this damned application, since Adobe
are now preventing me using Dreamweaver for CF applications.

How do I tame the FTP and synchronising functions?

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Dreamweaver CC - anyone been able to create CF files with it yet?

[Mike K]

Has anyone been able to force Dreamweaver CC to create .cfm and .cfc files
yet?

I havent even been able to find out how to add my standard
comments/owner/creator block to the top of all new files.   Has anyone
found out how to do that yet?

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Re: CF9 java applet error. any solutions?

[Mike K]

Russ is this a new thing? I have an application that used to work ok
using CFGRID all over the placeSuddely they dont work.I had to run
through the whole app and change the CFGRID's to tables and recode them.

Are you saying that something's changed in ColdFusion that those applets
can never work safely in production because they rely on RDS?

Cheers
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On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Russ Michaels  wrote:

>
> the java applets in the cfadmin, such a sthe file browser, require that RDS
> be enabled, which you should not do on a production server.
>
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Re: CF9 java applet error. any solutions?

[Mike K]

If i go to that url, Dave, I get a messages asking if i want to open or
save cfapplets.jar, so I guess that url is exposed.

I'm running the browser on my dev machine over the internet, rather than
the server console.   When I run the CFAdministrator on the server itself,
i get the message:

[quote]
This applet displays a file-tree of the server to enable the user to browse
its contents. Your browser is not configured correctly to use java applets.
Please install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and be sure to install
the browser plugins
[/quote]

So I assume the JVM is not running on the server. Since you mention it,
 I checked and my dev machine gives the same result for both the server's
CFServer and my dev machine's CFServer.


Cheers
Mike Kear



On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Dave Watts  wrote:

>
> > I am getting an error whenver I use the java applets in Coldfusion,  such
> > as the CFGRID and the tree displays in the CF Administrator.i have
> > searched for a solution in all the normal places and don't see one.
> >
> > Does anyone know what to do about this?
>
> Are you running the browser on the CF server itself - for example, to
> access the CF Administrator? Typically, the browser on your server
> might not have a JVM installed.
>
> Or, if that's not the problem, maybe you haven't exposed the URL path
> for those applets to be downloaded. What happens if you go to this
> URL?
>
> http://your_server/CFIDE/classes/cfapplets.jar
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> 1-202-527-9569
> http://www.figleaf.com/
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>
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CF9 java applet error. any solutions?

[Mike K]

I am getting an error whenver I use the java applets in Coldfusion,  such
as the CFGRID and the tree displays in the CF Administrator.i have
searched for a solution in all the normal places and don't see one.

Does anyone know what to do about this?

My CF server is v9,0,2,282541
My JRE Runtime is JRE version 1.7.0_51-b13


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Re: Very disappointed in Viviotech

[Mike K]

Ok so now I'm ok with Viviotech again.They're a fine company and
sensitive to customers hot buttons. The support guy I spoke to said
something that really pressed a button and in my usual hot-blooded fashion
I went incandescent.I really should learn to take a deep breath once in
a while.

Anyway the result is when I called Viviotech back again after I'd cooled
off a bit ( and i sincerely regret I didnt wait to send the above post to
CF-TALK )   the same guy had had a think about our previous conversation
and took a different tack.We got me set up for managed support and in
the mean time he had researched the answer to my problem, and we went on
from there. Also, Jordan Michaels the co-owner of Viviotech wanted to
talk to me too.I thought he was going to give me a lecture about
patience (he'd have been justified ) but no, he was ready to listen and
understood my issue entirely.

My issue is now resolved, and my anger has gone away.   And I'm impressed
that no one at Viviotech made any attempt to wiggle their way away from me
and onto something else (the standard tactic when you call plenty of other
companies)  - they stuck with the problem until it was resolved.

So i'm having a bit of a roller coaster of a day.   Began high in positive
energy,  went downhill when I coudln't get my first account up and going,
 then back up again when they dealt with me so well.  I'm sure some of you
already know I can be a difficult bugger to deal with if you press the
wrong buttons, and Viviotech handled it all well.

I'm a happy customer.




On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Mike K  wrote:

> So I signed up with Viviotech - got a VPS.  Started setting up my first
> hosting space after reading the documentation -   had a question about why
> I was getting an error message that didnt seem to be covered by the
> documentation anywhere.
>
> Rang Viviotech.
>
> Got a jerk that told me that since I didn't have managed support, he
> wouldn't answer my question, and nor would he tell me where in the
> documentation I could find out about the error message.
>
> That guy should be sacked.
>
> I understand about paying for support, and I understand they dont provide
> 24/7 support for nothing, but I would have thought a new customer might
> have been able to at least get a little bit of handholding at first.   I
> would have thought I'd have been able to get a LITTLE bit of help setting
> up my first site so I understand their concepts.
>
> Cheers
> Mike Kear
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
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>



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Very disappointed in Viviotech

[Mike K]

So I signed up with Viviotech - got a VPS.  Started setting up my first
hosting space after reading the documentation -   had a question about why
I was getting an error message that didnt seem to be covered by the
documentation anywhere.

Rang Viviotech.

Got a jerk that told me that since I didn't have managed support, he
wouldn't answer my question, and nor would he tell me where in the
documentation I could find out about the error message.

That guy should be sacked.

I understand about paying for support, and I understand they dont provide
24/7 support for nothing, but I would have thought a new customer might
have been able to at least get a little bit of handholding at first.   I
would have thought I'd have been able to get a LITTLE bit of help setting
up my first site so I understand their concepts.

Cheers
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Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

[Mike K]

Thank you everybody, I'm glad I asked.I have changed my plan now.
 Cameron and others  made a  good point.   I was trying to do too many
thing at once. My plan now is to get a new hosting environment as
similar as possible to my current one, so its gives me the most chance that
I'll be able to just copy everything over and most of it will work as is.
 Then work from there on the transition to Linux or the cloud and Railo in
two more steps.

Thanks to a suggestion from another member of this list off-list I'm not
going with the cloud just yet,  I'll go with a VPS at Viviotech and work
from there.   So far every question I've asked they have said "yes we can
do that all you do is    "

Once again this group helps me out.  In this case, I can see if I had gone
with my original plan,  it MIGHT have worked out ok, but with my luck the
odds were that it would give me a lot of grief before it was all said and
done.Thank you all

I'll let you know how it all turns out.


Cheers
Mike Kear



On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Money Pit  wrote:

>
> Having been there/done that myself, I would follow Cameron's described
> route.  You don't want to be debugging so many different issues at once on
> an OS you aren't intimately familiar with (and maybe not familiar at all).
> You mentioned you are on Win2003.  Have you by chance missed out on running
> CF on a 64-bit Win OS?  That was like manna from heaven when I first
> switched.
>
> Consider a Windows VPS from Viviotech.  They can license you a copy of CF
> Enterprise *very* inexpensively.  They are surprisingly robust for the
> prices charged, they are CF-literate and an excellent firm on general
> principles.  From there consider leasing another Windows VPS and put Railo
> on it (Viviotech will do this for you for a small setup fee or for free
> IIRC).  Then tinker away, migrate a low-profile site over when you're ready
> etc.  This is what I did with my personal sites.  You could take it a step
> further and after mastering Railo, retire the Windows/Railo VPS, fire up
> one with linux and start over again on the tinkering so you limit your
> issues to that part of the change.
>
> If you need more horsepower and have the budget for a CF license, look at
> the blade servers at Cybercon; check out their hardware configs.  I don't
> see how you can beat those prices.  My servers there have been absolutely
> reliable.
>
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Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

[Mike K]

Yes yes yes, I know its been done and done again here.I'd like to know
the opinion of some of you who've been down this road a few times  - its
quite a while since I've moved hosts.. here's my issue:

I need to move to a new hosting company from the one I have my small
business sites on.   These are the mom-pop businesses that make up quite a
bit of my business.Typically they're relatively stable sites with a
SQLServer2005 database in a shared hosting environment.

My hosting wholesaler has pissed me off once too often and I am going to
move that part of my business somewhere else.

I am thinking of a virtual server in the cloud,  moving to Linux and Railo
from Windows2003 Server and ColdFusion.

[A]  OS move:
I'm aware from past experience that I'm going to get some links that fail
because Linux is case sensitive in filenames and Windows isnt.   I've tried
to be disciplined in using filenames because of that but I just know there
are going to be some links or cflocations that fail on that account.

Are there any other 'gotchas' moving from windows to linux?

Is there any benefit of one flavour of Linux over another?

[B] Server environment move:

How about moving from ColdFusion (currently v9) to Railo?Is it REALLY
compatible?   Am i really likely to be able to just copy my files to a
Railo environment and have most of them work ok?   What's been your
experience with that move?



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Re: Honest question about cfform

[Mike K]

Gerald, I used to use CFFORM,  and it quickly got outdated as HTML and CSS
and Javascript and jquery moved on. These days HTML5 is the go with
CSS3.  CFFORM doesnt produce those.   Therefore things like client side
validation,  placeholder text,  cross-browser issues,   mobile devices are
all possible but much more difficult to allow for with CFFORM than with the
newer HTML5/CSS3 approach.  Those new features are all built in with
the new HTML5/CSS3 approach.

Believe me, you'll get a much better result if you go to the trouble of
converting to HTML/CSS3.  You will have more control over the displayed
result,  you'll have better client-side scripting with inbuilt html
features and jquery  and the resulting form on a mobile device will be a
far better product.

As I said, I used to use CFFORM and at the time, it seemed like the bees
knees.  But now it just seems SOO old fashioned.

I inherited a site that had CFFORM and the java applets all over it (CFGRID
etc) and it pretty soon showed that it was a nightmare to do updates on,
and as more and more of our users wanted to use devices that didnt have
flash and java on them, we got more and more problems. It soon proved
that we needed to change to a pure HTML/CSS3/jquery  approach for all
client-side stuff, leaving ColdFusion to handle the backend server-side
stuff, which is where CFML really struts its stuff and knocks everything
else out of the park.  (Sorry about the mixed metaphor!)

Cheers
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On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Wil Genovese  wrote:

>
> There is always better ways to do things than using the client side CF
> code.  I have not looked at the output of CFFORM JavaScript in ages, but if
> it has not been updated at all there's a good chance it's not fully
> compatible with today's browsers.
>
> There are also form validation frameworks. One that I know of is
> ValidateThis http://www.validatethis.org/  I'm not sure if this will work
> in your case. It's worth at least looking into it.
>
> There are options and most will be better than CFFORM.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Wil Genovese
> Sr. Web Application Developer/
> Systems Administrator
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>
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Re: Possible time out

[Mike K]

To check your theory,  try setting the timeout to a large number and see if
the problem goes away.Then you know for sure what is causing the
problem.   There are a number of things you can do to  reduce the impact of
a long processing time:

[A] look for ways to reduce the processing time.I dont know what you're
doing so I can't be specific about what you could do but maybe combine some
of those checkbox results so you have only one query between them.  Or
cache some of the queries so they come back faster from the database.

[B] If you can't speed up the processing time,  look for ways to reduce the
effect.   For example use threading (CFTHREAD tag)  to run simultaneous
queries and start displaying the result even though not all the queries
have processed yet.You can use force coldfusion to display the
incomplete page if you use CFFLUSH tags to output the page up to that
point, even though the page processing isnt complete yet.   Often, even
though you can't speed up the page process, you can give the user the
appearance of a faster page process by displaying parts of the page while
processing still continues.

[C]   Use both A and B above.

Cheers
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Hope this helps.   Probably I've just told you something you already know,
and if so, I'm sorry.  If you give us more details or maybe some code
to look at,  no doubt we can think of other things you can do too.



On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Rob Voyle  wrote:

>
> Hi Folks
> Running CF9 developer
>
> I have a form with 24 items and check boxes.
> When over 13 check boxes are checked the screen just goes white,
> no error message is displayed, nor is the CF debug info shown.
>
> Each check box initiates Database queries.
> Total time on the template is 2449 ms when 12 boxes are checked.
>
> The timeout request in CF is not checked.
>
> I don't have any problems on the production server with exact same
> template.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
>


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Getting the date next (Saturday)

[Mike K]

I have a schedule function, where i need to display the date and time of
hte next occurance of an event, that is scheduled every  at


for example,   one event is every Saturday (day='7') at midnight.
Another event is every Sunday (day="1') at 9pm.

How can i calculate the date of the next occurrence of these events so I
can display it as :  "coming up at  on "?

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Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

[Mike K]

I dont have any more time to spend on this tonight - i have a radio show to
do  but i'll have to come back to it over the weekend.

Russ for the record, I was using an incognito window for the very reason
you said.   I thought that's what would do the trick.   But it doesnt  in
my case apparently.  And now my client has no way to get into his own gmail
account, and I have no way to clear the details (except password) of mine.


It seems.  I can't believe that's normal behaviour so clearly I've missed
something somewhere.

Cheers
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Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

[Mike K]

What I'm wondering is,  'why doesnt this happen in public libraries and
internet cafes and other multiple-use situations?

Cheers
Mike Kear



On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Mike K  wrote:

> Yes   its chrome browser and the login hint is in the title,  which
> says: G O O G  L E   - Sign In With your Google Account.
>
> Cheers
> Mike Kear
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Timothy Heald wrote:
>
>>
>> What is and browser?
>>
>> Do you mean the chrome login?
>> On Jan 31, 2014 3:57 AM, "Mike K"  wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Here's how scary, Jonah.  In an incognito window,  I go to the help
>> file,
>> >  "Disabling automatic sign-in"  and see up in the top right corner a
>> button
>> > saying "sign in".Good, that would mean that I'm signed out now, so
>> I've
>> > achieved what I wanted.Right?WRONG!
>> >
>> > I click that "Sign in" button, and since I unchecked the "remember me"
>> > checkbox, I should get a blank login form.   Or so you'd think.
>> Nope.
>> >  I get the same signin as before - with my name,  my email address,
>> (and
>> > no way to change them if it's now my client trying to log in to his own
>> > account) and the field to enter the password.  As far as I can see
>> > there's no way for the client to get to his own email account now,  and
>> no
>> > way for me to remove my own.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Mike Kear
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> 

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Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

[Mike K]

Yes   its chrome browser and the login hint is in the title,  which
says: G O O G  L E   - Sign In With your Google Account.

Cheers
Mike Kear



On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Timothy Heald wrote:

>
> What is and browser?
>
> Do you mean the chrome login?
> On Jan 31, 2014 3:57 AM, "Mike K"  wrote:
>
> >
> > Here's how scary, Jonah.  In an incognito window,  I go to the help file,
> >  "Disabling automatic sign-in"  and see up in the top right corner a
> button
> > saying "sign in".Good, that would mean that I'm signed out now, so
> I've
> > achieved what I wanted.Right?WRONG!
> >
> > I click that "Sign in" button, and since I unchecked the "remember me"
> > checkbox, I should get a blank login form.   Or so you'd think. Nope.
> >  I get the same signin as before - with my name,  my email address,
> (and
> > no way to change them if it's now my client trying to log in to his own
> > account) and the field to enter the password.  As far as I can see
> > there's no way for the client to get to his own email account now,  and
> no
> > way for me to remove my own.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Mike Kear
> >
> >
> >
>
> 

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Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

[Mike K]

Here's how scary, Jonah.  In an incognito window,  I go to the help file,
 "Disabling automatic sign-in"  and see up in the top right corner a button
saying "sign in".Good, that would mean that I'm signed out now, so I've
achieved what I wanted.Right?WRONG!

I click that "Sign in" button, and since I unchecked the "remember me"
checkbox, I should get a blank login form.   Or so you'd think. Nope.
 I get the same signin as before - with my name,  my email address,   (and
no way to change them if it's now my client trying to log in to his own
account) and the field to enter the password.  As far as I can see
there's no way for the client to get to his own email account now,  and no
way for me to remove my own.

Cheers
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Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

[Mike K]

Thanks Andrew.  I thought that's what that was for too.  But it's an
incognito window I'm talking about.

Cheers
Mike Kear


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Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

[Mike K]

Seems like an awful lot of effort just to get the privacy they are bragging
about all the time

Thanks Jonah.

Cheers
Mike Kear



On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:46 PM, .jonah  wrote:

>
> There used to be some sort of sign-out completely link but I can't find
> it right now.
>
> Just go into their prefs. and clear cookies for the google.com domain...
>
> On 1/30/14 11:44 PM, Mike K wrote:
> > I recognise the auto form fill in - in chrome it colours fields yellow if
> > it thinks it knows the answer.No i'm talking about something more
> > elabourite here - its the whole login form, with my name, my username,
> >   even my image.The form is headed up :  One account. All of Google.
> Sign
> > in to continue to Gmail
> > Then under that the circle with my image in it,   my name,  my username,
> my
> > email address - the whole thing except my password. that's not just
> > auto form fill in is it??
> >
> > Cheers
> > Mike Kear
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Timothy Heald  >wrote:
> >
> >> Oh without the password?
> >>
> >> That's auto form fill. Again in browser's options.
> >> On Jan 31, 2014 2:33 AM, "Mike K"  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks Timothy.  It's a new behaviour i havent seen before.
> >>>
> >>> I'm at a client's office.  I look into my gmail,   i sign out,  then
> just
> >>> to be sure i'm signed out i go to http://mail.google.com  adn there i
> >> am -
> >>> ready to log in just add password - it's saying it's remembered my
> >> account
> >>> on this computer just in case i want to log in again some time in the
> >>> future.
> >>>
> >>> It's one thing to do that on my own computers, but how do i stop it
> doing
> >>> that on my client's computers?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Mike Kear
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Timothy Heald <
> timothy.he...@gmail.com
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>> There should be a master password list on the preferences/options
> >>> security
> >>>> tab.
> >>>>
> >>>> It's different by browser. Google had nothing to do with it.
> >>>> On Jan 31, 2014 2:08 AM, "Mike K"  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Sorry for the OT post, but I dont know how to get any help from
> >> Google.
> >>>>>   Only boilerplate answers to questions I havent asked.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does anyone know how to clear your login details from a browser if
> >>> you've
> >>>>> logged into gmail on someone else's computer? As far as I can see
> >>> it
> >>>>> 'helpfully' remembers your account details so you can log in easily
> >>> next
> >>>>> time - but so also can anyone else  leaving only the password as the
> >>>> single
> >>>>> protection from others getting in.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Cheers
> >>>>> Mike Kear
> >>>>> Windsor, NSW, Australia
> >>>>> Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
> >>>>> AFP Webworks
> >>>>> http://afpwebworks.com
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> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
> 

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Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

[Mike K]

I recognise the auto form fill in - in chrome it colours fields yellow if
it thinks it knows the answer.No i'm talking about something more
elabourite here - its the whole login form, with my name, my username,
 even my image.The form is headed up :  One account. All of Google. Sign
in to continue to Gmail
Then under that the circle with my image in it,   my name,  my username, my
email address - the whole thing except my password. that's not just
auto form fill in is it??

Cheers
Mike Kear



On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Timothy Heald wrote:

>
> Oh without the password?
>
> That's auto form fill. Again in browser's options.
> On Jan 31, 2014 2:33 AM, "Mike K"  wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks Timothy.  It's a new behaviour i havent seen before.
> >
> > I'm at a client's office.  I look into my gmail,   i sign out,  then just
> > to be sure i'm signed out i go to http://mail.google.com  adn there i
> am -
> > ready to log in just add password - it's saying it's remembered my
> account
> > on this computer just in case i want to log in again some time in the
> > future.
> >
> > It's one thing to do that on my own computers, but how do i stop it doing
> > that on my client's computers?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Mike Kear
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Timothy Heald  > >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > There should be a master password list on the preferences/options
> > security
> > > tab.
> > >
> > > It's different by browser. Google had nothing to do with it.
> > > On Jan 31, 2014 2:08 AM, "Mike K"  wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for the OT post, but I dont know how to get any help from
> Google.
> > > >  Only boilerplate answers to questions I havent asked.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know how to clear your login details from a browser if
> > you've
> > > > logged into gmail on someone else's computer? As far as I can see
> > it
> > > > 'helpfully' remembers your account details so you can log in easily
> > next
> > > > time - but so also can anyone else  leaving only the password as the
> > > single
> > > > protection from others getting in.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Cheers
> > > > Mike Kear
> > > > Windsor, NSW, Australia
> > > > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
> > > > AFP Webworks
> > > > http://afpwebworks.com
> > > > ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> 

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Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

[Mike K]

Thanks Timothy.  It's a new behaviour i havent seen before.

I'm at a client's office.  I look into my gmail,   i sign out,  then just
to be sure i'm signed out i go to http://mail.google.com  adn there i am -
ready to log in just add password - it's saying it's remembered my account
on this computer just in case i want to log in again some time in the
future.

It's one thing to do that on my own computers, but how do i stop it doing
that on my client's computers?

Cheers
Mike Kear




On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Timothy Heald wrote:

>
> There should be a master password list on the preferences/options security
> tab.
>
> It's different by browser. Google had nothing to do with it.
> On Jan 31, 2014 2:08 AM, "Mike K"  wrote:
>
> >
> > Sorry for the OT post, but I dont know how to get any help from Google.
> >  Only boilerplate answers to questions I havent asked.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to clear your login details from a browser if you've
> > logged into gmail on someone else's computer? As far as I can see it
> > 'helpfully' remembers your account details so you can log in easily next
> > time - but so also can anyone else  leaving only the password as the
> single
> > protection from others getting in.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Mike Kear
> > Windsor, NSW, Australia
> > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
> > AFP Webworks
> > http://afpwebworks.com
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> >
> >
> >
>
> 

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(ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

[Mike K]

Sorry for the OT post, but I dont know how to get any help from Google.
 Only boilerplate answers to questions I havent asked.

Does anyone know how to clear your login details from a browser if you've
logged into gmail on someone else's computer? As far as I can see it
'helpfully' remembers your account details so you can log in easily next
time - but so also can anyone else  leaving only the password as the single
protection from others getting in.

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Re: Adobe take over a MONTH to advise me my credit card details are stolen

[Mike K]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.   @Jochem, I had no idea about that
escalation address.   Thanks for that.@Dave Watts, as always a
thoughtful and considered response.  I have actually done all those things,
with some success, as you'll see if you read on.   @Russ, I took your
approach with the next guy I had on the live chat - I imagine he has some
eloquent names for me now. @Mac,  I am now looking at alternatives to
the Creative Cloud.It's clear that if anything goes wrong with my
relationship with Adobe, or anything happens to Adobe,  I'm screwed.
(Based on the state of the Australian Adobe, it's not far-fetched to
consider them disappearing entirely from the landscape).

And thanks to @Ray Camden for offering to step up and go to bat on my
behalf.  It's not his role there and not a problem of his causing, but he
volunteered to try to fix it for me.


First of all,I cannot talk to ANYONE at Adobe on the phone.
 Australians cant call US 1800 numbers  they dont work.   and anyway I
can't call internationally on my mobile phone.  I dont have a big enough
mortgage.   I have been trying to call someone in the Australian end of
Adobe for almost a month, and you can never get through to anyone.   They
dont answer the phone.   All you get is a message bank,  and then they
don't call back.

Secondly, I have already gone up the support tree several times to what the
person on the live chat window says was "the appropriate team".  (when i
ask what the name of that team is,  I dont get an answer.)   I have had a
bucket full of promises and assurances that came to nothing.   "It will all
be fine within 24 hours" I've been repeatedly assured, only to see nothing
happens - 3 days later I'm still getting the "you have xx days before your
subscription lapses." message.

Thirdly,  I never store my files on the cloud exclusively.  I will do my
own backups and have control of what happens to them,  and have a backup on
the cloud as double indemnity.I'm talking about being able to start
Photoshop,  Fireworks,  Edge, Dreamweaver, Audition etc.   With no Creative
Cloud subscription valid, they will stop or be crippled.

Fourthly,  the situation is now resolved.   I got pretty aggressive in yet
another online chat (the only way I can interact with Adobe - they dont
have any email addresses published so I can't send emails and can't phone
them), because if I can't run Audition before my radio show starts I'm in
deep trouble preparing it. Radio has very inflexible deadlines.   I
felt a bit sorry for the poor support guy on the end of the chat because he
copped it all.   It wasn't his fault but where else could I apply any
pressure to get this resolved since I couldn't talk to anyone on the phone
and until Jochem gave me the email address, I had no way to communicate by
email either? To his credit, he remained calm although I am sure he was
swearing at me behind the keyboard, and he told me someone from "the
appropriate team" would call me.   I demanded that the call be NOW while I
am here and that he remain on the chat until its resolved.   To my
surprise, someone did indeed call me right then and we got the matter
resolved.   My credit card is processed and my Creative Cloud
subscription is once again current.

And they've given me 2 months free as compensation. I feel its pretty
small compensation given the amount of billable time I've wasted extracting
empty promises and assurances from Adobe, but it's something so I'll live
with that.


The base problem is this:
[A]  if my credit card payment didnt go through the first time,  I should
have had an email informing me, and they should have attempted the charge
again a few days later.   That's what everyone else in the world does.
[B] I shouldn't have  had to update my account details in order to prompt a
re-billing.  The details were correct.  It's an account I keep a very small
balance in, so if i get my details stolen, I can't lose too much.
[C]  When i DID try to update my details (change them to what they already
were), I sometimes got error messages saying the update was invalid.
Nothing about whether it was my fault or theirs.  So should I go back and
try to update again or not?   A bit of usability testing required there, I
think.
[D] once the problem had emerged, it shouldnt have required me to spend 7.5
hours of billable time getting it resolved.   It's a simple matter (or at
least it ought to be) and I shouldnt have been given assurances and
promises that didnt happen.
[E] The Australian subsidiary should have a phone number that people
actually answer.   If they dont talk to anyone on the phone it's no wonder
the Australian company is a basket case.Most of the time when I called
them, I didnt say WHY i wanted to talk - for all they knew i could have
been wanting to buy a thousand copies of Photoshop or something

This is not advanced customer relationship management - its basic stuff
that trainees know before they eve

Re: Adobe take over a MONTH to advise me my credit card details are stolen

[Mike K]

Apparently,  Adobe are unable to process ANY credit card details,

And it would seem they are unable to have anyone in Australia take a phone
call.  I have been trying for nearly a MONTH to get to talk to someone
about this and never get to anyone. I leave messages and no one ever calls
me back.

There was an issue with my credit card when they went to process my
November Creative Cloud payment,   but instead of just trying it again a
day or so later as most companies do,  I had to go and update my CC
details.  I did that (the details were correct already but I updated them
anyway)  and would expect a new attempt at payment in a day or so and all
would be well. NO such luck with Adobe.I keep getting messages when
I open any CC application saying I have xx days to update my details or it
will be cancelled.

I have contacted their support  THREE times - and been assured the issue
will be resolved.I  have been promised that someone from "the
appropriate team" will contact me.No such luck.   I have been assured
that my card will be charged within 24 hours and all will be well.   NO
such luck.   I have used a new credit card.That hasnt been charged
either.   I have now tried changing the credit card details back to the
original card.   Still hasn't charged, therefore my CC subscription is
STILL unpaid.

Now I have only 5 days left before my creative cloud subscription expires
and I assume I'll be unable to open my CC applications at all.

If i can't get to talk to anyone at Adobe on the phone,   multiple contacts
to the support centre have come to nothing,   several emails have had no
result,  I dont know what choices I have left.

Apart from going to the NSW Department of Fair Trading and complaining,  or
taking Adobe to the small claims court,   or exploring the possibility of
pirate copies,   what the hell else can I do?I NEED those applications.

Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Cameron Childress wrote:

>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Bruce Sorge wrote:
>
> > Same here John. Emails stating that my password might have been
> > compromised as well.
>
>
> I got a few emails to various addresses. Some arrived right after the
> breach and others much later (a month maybe). IIRC, none were about credit
> card data, only about UN/PW breach.
>
> Sounds like they were not using a tokenization service and were storing the
> PCI directly? Odd that they would be stored in the same location as the
> UN/PW (assuming they are both part of the same breach). Usually vendors
> with Payment Card volume as high as Adobe are required to keep PCI on
> totally isolated systems. But then, you'd assume that about the source code
> that was stolen as well.
>
> So the breach was 1) authentication information AND 2) Payment Card
> Information AND 3) source code? Presumably all available via the same
> breach? Each of which should have been isolated systems. Someone got pwned.
>
> Not Adobe's finest hour.
>
> -Cameron
>
> ...
>
>
> 

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Adobe take over a MONTH to advise me my credit card details are stolen

[Mike K]

We all heard about the Adobe security disaster here,  but finally now,
 OVER A MONTH later,   Adobe have finally got around to informing me that
my credit card info and other details were stolen, possibly creating an
identity theft issue for me.

And they thought so much about it, and were SO concerned for my security,
they didnt even bother to sign the letter.

I have my email address on file because I'm a Creative Cloud subscriber,
but did they send me a warning that way?   NO!  Merely sent a letter by
snail mail on 13 October and couldn't even put a name to the person sending
it.

I dont have many complimentary words for these &*^$#@@&s.

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Re: How to refresh part of a page automatically

[Mike K]

Ray, thanks for this.  I can see you get your kicks writing bits of code
like this dont you.   You've gone wy past answering my question as
you usually do,  and I'm most grateful.   I have a suspicion your idea of a
relaxing evening on your vacation is a coding problem and a laptop, where
the rest of us will waste our time on a cold beverage and warm company on
the couch.

Actually Ray waiting for the image to finish uploading IS an issue.We
frequently see the webcam page with no image on it because the page
refreshed while the new image was uploading.  I experimented with getting
ColdFusion to read the file and write it out to another file, and have the
page call that one, but coldfusion still hiccupped when there wasn't a
complete image.  ( I never got to finishing writing a handler for that -
this is a probono site for me and I had to move on to paying work.)

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Raymond Camden wrote:

>
> If you want to get anal, you could set a setTimeout and listen for the load
> event on the image. That way if it takes a bit longer to load an image one
> time the code will hold off on firing another request. (Probably not an
> issue though if you are waiting 60 seconds.)
>
>
>
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How to refresh part of a page automatically

[Mike K]

I have a page with a webcam image in it.   The webcam uploads a new image
every 60 seconds, and I use a HTML refresh to refresh the whole page every
60 seconds.

It seems a bit clunky to me.   It's worked just fine for several years, but
I'd like to see if i can find a way to refresh only the div that contains
the image.  (or iframe if that's a better way to do it but i'd like ot stay
away from frames and iframes if i can).

Does anyone know how I could do this?  i.e. just refresh part of the page
automatically?Is there a jquery plugin that would do that?  It needs to
be fully automatic so the page just changes, a bit like the way facebook
changes all by itself as new material is received.

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Re: Best way to use LESS CSS with CF?

[Mike K]

>t why rewrite
>the wheel when documented frameworks already exist
>
>Learning another language to do what can be done as easily by the language
I've been using for years looks like reinventing the wheel to me.

That's the advantage of Less (and SASS too for that matter) - you dont
learn any new syntax.  It uses CSS syntax to do nearly everything.

I was thinking about how I could write my own preprocessor because I have a
CMS that i customise by changing colours mostly, and i was thinking about
how I could have a settings table or something and use CFFILE to output a
stylesheet   when I heard about LESS and to my delight - there it was!
The very thing I was planning to write,  was already written!And it
took me about 10 minutes to learn what I needed to learn to use it.



"The best way to predict the future is to help create it"
>
> On 9/10/2013 10:56 AM, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claude_Schn=E9egans wrote:
> > Apparently, this looks like a CSS prepocessor.
> > But I do not see anything that cannot be done with CF.
> > So what is the advantage of using yet another technology?
> >
> >
> >
>
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Re: Confused: java.lang.NullPointerException CF9

[Mike K]

It looks like this problem is solved, because while it's been intermittent,
I haven't had the error for a couple of days.

So that means the problem was the timezone.cfc CFC by Paul Hastings.  It's
an excellent component, but the version I had was old.   It's been rock
solid for years and years, but something changed in the JVM and it gave
errors.

However the fix was easy - just download a current version and replace the
old version on the site.
The new version has updates from August 2010 and adds new methods too.

Problem apparently solved.

Cheers
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On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Mike K  wrote:

> One possibility in my Application.cfc onRequestStart method is
> Timezone.cfc.I'm using that to convert time from UTC to my timezone.
>  But the timezone.cfc file I'm using is dated 2005.I seem to recall
> there were changes made to the java related to time, and some people had
> issues with timezone.cfc.But it's been rock solid for me and I'm using
> it on lots of sites without problems.
>
> Does anyone know if this could be the source of the problem?  (Obviously
> I'm going to get a new version and see if the problem goes away but I'd
> rather know if there are still issues with timezone.cfc)
>
> Cheers
> Mike Kear
> Windsor, NSW, Australia
> Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
> AFP Webworks
> http://afpwebworks.com
>
>
>
>
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Re: Confused: java.lang.NullPointerException CF9

[Mike K]

Hey Kym!!  I thought you were going to the beach to put your feet up and
watch the sunrise nowadays. What are you doing here??

But thanks for the suggestion.  As always, giving me a sensible, workable
solution that I ought to have done myself.But too stupid to do it.


On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Kym Kovan wrote:

>
> I'd try sticking a  at the end of OnRequestStart to see if you
> get that far and then place it in the middle, then the middle again up
> or down depending on the error being there or not, rinse and repeat etc
> to find what is causing the error.
>
> Kym
>
>
> --
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Re: Confused: java.lang.NullPointerException CF9

[Mike K]

One possibility in my Application.cfc onRequestStart method is
Timezone.cfc.I'm using that to convert time from UTC to my timezone.
 But the timezone.cfc file I'm using is dated 2005.I seem to recall
there were changes made to the java related to time, and some people had
issues with timezone.cfc.But it's been rock solid for me and I'm using
it on lots of sites without problems.

Does anyone know if this could be the source of the problem?  (Obviously
I'm going to get a new version and see if the problem goes away but I'd
rather know if there are still issues with timezone.cfc)

Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com


On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Byron Mann  wrote:

>
> I'm thinking something with the Application.cfc, based in the stack. Maybe
> posting that we can help a bit further.
>
> Can your host take a look at the exception.log to see if any additional
> errors are being logged.
>
> Byron Mann
> Lead Engineer & Architect
> HostMySite.com
> On Jul 20, 2013 11:01 AM, "Mike K"  wrote:
>
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Re: Confused: java.lang.NullPointerException CF9

[Mike K]

Thanks Matt.  I dont use mappings so that rules that out.  So I'll
check all my CFC calls and see if that points me to it.

Thanks.

My confusion came because none of the googling i did led to that as the
source.  It's all about drivers and server versions and JVM etc.   But none
of the other sites on that same box exhibit the problem.

If anyone has any other ideas as to what I can examine I'd be grateful.




On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Matt Quackenbush wrote:

>
> Without seeing any code we're just grasping at straws. My first guess is
> that you have a mapping that's not set correctly, and a call to a CFC (or
> perhaps an include) is not finding its target.
>
> Sent from a mobile something
> On Jul 20, 2013 11:01 AM, "Mike K"  wrote:
>
> >
> > Can anyone give me some pointers as to where to look for the source or
> > maybe the solution to this problem please?
> >
> > I'm confused - I am getting java.lang.NullPointerException error on a
> site
> > on a shared server, but not getting the error on other sites on that same
> > server.So presumably the error is something to do with the code on
> that
> > site.
> >
> > But the error isnt happening on my dev environment, so maybe it's not my
> > code after all.
> >
> > I've looked at all the notes I can find about this and can't see anyone
> > with my environment who's reporting that same error so I can compare
> notes
> > - at least as far as I can tell.
> >
> > Our setup is:
> >
> > Windows2003
> > CF9:   9,0,2,282541   Enterprise
> > Database:   MSSQLServer2005
> >
> > Here's my stack trace if it helps:
> >
> > coldfusion.runtime.EventHandlerException: Event handler exception. at
> >
> coldfusion.runtime.AppEventInvoker.onRequestStart(AppEventInvoker.java:266)
> > at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:349)
> > at
> >
> coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48)
> > at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40) at
> > coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:94) at
> > coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70) at
> >
> >
> coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
> > at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) at
> > coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46) at
> > coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) at
> > coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) at
> > coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62) at
> > coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:200) at
> > coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89)
> at
> > jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86) at
> >
> >
> coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42)
> > at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)
> > at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) at
> > jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101) at
> > jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106) at
> > jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42) at
> > jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286)
> > at
> > jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)
> > at
> >
> >
> jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)
> > at
> >
> >
> jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)
> > at
> >
> >
> jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)
> > at
> >
> >
> jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)
> > at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66) Caused by:
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Mike Kear
> > Windsor, NSW, Australia
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> >
> >
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Confused: java.lang.NullPointerException CF9

[Mike K]

Can anyone give me some pointers as to where to look for the source or
maybe the solution to this problem please?

I'm confused - I am getting java.lang.NullPointerException error on a site
on a shared server, but not getting the error on other sites on that same
server.So presumably the error is something to do with the code on that
site.

But the error isnt happening on my dev environment, so maybe it's not my
code after all.

I've looked at all the notes I can find about this and can't see anyone
with my environment who's reporting that same error so I can compare notes
- at least as far as I can tell.

Our setup is:

Windows2003
CF9:   9,0,2,282541   Enterprise
Database:   MSSQLServer2005

Here's my stack trace if it helps:

coldfusion.runtime.EventHandlerException: Event handler exception. at
coldfusion.runtime.AppEventInvoker.onRequestStart(AppEventInvoker.java:266)
at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:349)
at
coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48)
at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40) at
coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:94) at
coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70) at
coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) at
coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46) at
coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) at
coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) at
coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62) at
coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:200) at
coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89) at
jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86) at
coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42)
at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)
at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) at
jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101) at
jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106) at
jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42) at
jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286)
at
jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)
at
jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)
at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)
at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)
at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)
at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66) Caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException



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Re: Adobe no longer supports ColdFusion??? Really?

[Mike K]

Thanks Les!   That helps a lot.Jeez why didnt Adobe just say that
instead of all that 'deprecated' business?   Or as you say include an
option to have .cfm and .cfc files associated with Dreamweaver, just like
they did with .js and .css ??

Anyway  -  moving on now.  a carer's work is never done.

Thanks




On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Les Mizzell  wrote:

>
> On 6/18/2013 9:31 PM, Mike K wrote:
>
> > Again, I might be wrong here, but if you make ColdFusion
> > sites, Dreamweaver CC is impossible to use
>
> Not impossible. But Adobe, for one reason or another, has made it
> dificult...
>
> Do this:
>
> 1. Go to preferences
> 2. In the "choose external applications" section, hit the "+" and enter
> ".cfm". In the editor window, select your Dreamweaver app and make it the
> primary editor.
>
> Done
>
> Note: if you enter ".cfm" in the "Open in Code View" list, you will ONLY
> be able to open CF pages in code view. Probably not what you want.
>
> They really need to just add a checkbox to choose Coldfusion if you want.
> Shouldn't have to jump through the hoops above.
> Write them a letter and bitch about it...
>
>
>
> 

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Re: Adobe no longer supports ColdFusion??? Really?

[Mike K]

I should add, I'm not a DEVELOPER.  I run  a one-man shop - i am Designer,
 Coder, Developer,  Strategist, Consultant, Hosting company, Domain
Registry - I do the whole thing.   I dont just cut code.I'm in a very
large group of people who arent working in a development team. It makes
no sense to be switching from application to application if the whole job
can be done in the one.

And here Adobe is, trumpeting the benefits of doing mobile development
including PhoneGap in the new Dreamweaver, right there with all your other
development,  but at the same time other people in his team are telling me
I have to chuck Dreamweaver out and change to something else that doesnt
integrate with the workflow.

Do you get the impression that i'm REALLY GRUMPY about this??



On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Mike K  wrote:

> Ray, removing CF File support from Dreamweaver means the WHOLE PRODUCT is
> useless in ColdFusion sites.   You can't use any of the Dreamweaver product
> to develop a ColdFusion site because you can't open the files.  Unless
> you build a whole bunch of static html pages,  lay them out and design them
> and do all that stuff,   THEN convert them to ColdFusion pages,
>  Dreamweaver's useless.
>
> But not if you build them in the competitor's technology PHP instead.
> Why on earth would they retain support for the competitor, but not their
> own for pete's sake??   What sense does that make??
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Raymond Camden 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Mike K  wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Adobe really have no clue how to support and market any server products.
>> >   I said that when i saw what a fiasco the forms product was for them,
>>  now
>> > it looks like ColdFusion is 'deprecated' too.
>> >
>>
>>
>> *sigh*
>>
>> Let me repeat myself.
>>
>> The ColdFusion team is working on 11. Right now.
>> The ColdFusion team is working on an update to ColdFusion Builder. Right
>> now.
>>
>> If you want to consider the removal of *file* support from one product as
>> MORE IMPORTANT then the actual product itself - so be it.
>>
>>
>> 

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Re: Adobe no longer supports ColdFusion??? Really?

[Mike K]

Ray, removing CF File support from Dreamweaver means the WHOLE PRODUCT is
useless in ColdFusion sites.   You can't use any of the Dreamweaver product
to develop a ColdFusion site because you can't open the files.  Unless
you build a whole bunch of static html pages,  lay them out and design them
and do all that stuff,   THEN convert them to ColdFusion pages,
 Dreamweaver's useless.

But not if you build them in the competitor's technology PHP instead.   Why
on earth would they retain support for the competitor, but not their own
for pete's sake??   What sense does that make??


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Raymond Camden wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Mike K  wrote:
>
> >
> > Adobe really have no clue how to support and market any server products.
> >   I said that when i saw what a fiasco the forms product was for them,
>  now
> > it looks like ColdFusion is 'deprecated' too.
> >
>
>
> *sigh*
>
> Let me repeat myself.
>
> The ColdFusion team is working on 11. Right now.
> The ColdFusion team is working on an update to ColdFusion Builder. Right
> now.
>
> If you want to consider the removal of *file* support from one product as
> MORE IMPORTANT then the actual product itself - so be it.
>
>
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Re: Adobe no longer supports ColdFusion??? Really?

[Mike K]

Again, I might be wrong here, but if you make ColdFusion sites,
 Dreamweaver CC is impossible to use, because you can't render any of the
pages,  use any of the responsive features, or the site management
features, or use any live view.  It wont even open the files.You can't
use it to do the layout either unless you first do your page in html,  then
change them to .cfm pages.

Dreamweaver, for me the principal reason to buy the CC subscription,  is no
longer any use for me so I might as well cancel my subscription.

Now after about a decade of using various versions of Dreamweaver, I'm
going to have to learn a whole new IDE.

Adobe really have no clue how to support and market any server products.
  I said that when i saw what a fiasco the forms product was for them,  now
it looks like ColdFusion is 'deprecated' too.

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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions <
ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Mark Drew  wrote:
>
> > I thought you could get a free version of CFBuilder??
>
>
>
> You can... go to ColdFusion Summit and you get a copy for free!
>  http://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
>
>
> 

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Adobe no longer supports ColdFusion??? Really?

[Mike K]

Have I missed something here?   I upgraded my Dreamweaver CS6 to
Dreamweaver CC and  ColdFusion is no longer supported apparently.

There are no CFM file types,  no tag hinting or code completion etc for
ColdFusion, apparently.

Unless I've missed something somewhere and I have to change a setting or
install an extension or something.

Has anyone else found a fix for this?   Or have I got it wrong?

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Re: Checking if a file exist - then choice to overwrite or not ...

[Mike K]

Why not use the functionality that is already built into the html/cfm
scripts?At the point of asking which file to upload,   why not ask
there "if the file you are about to  upload already exists, what do you
want to do?Overwrite?   Skip?  .  then use that to set you
overwrite="true" or overwrite="false" parameter in the CFFILE tag

So that decision is already made before the "Submit" button is clicked.

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Re: Easy CFC question (I hope)

[Mike K]

Bruce I wouldn't sweat about making a rookie mistake.We all do.   Mine
is usually confusing 'eq' and '='.   as in ...

  

and



I usually find out I've got them the wrong way round when I get an error
message.   You'd think something as simple as that would be easy to
remember,  if only because it trips me up so many times.But no.
So don't worry about it.   Anyway,  any programmer that tells you they
usually write code that works first time as advertised is quite probably a
liar.

What is important is to learn how you diagnose your own errors and fix them
yourself before anyone else gets involved.  You're going to keep making
mistakes,  either simply syntax mistakes or errors in code logic.The
skilled programmers learn how to look for potential minefields as they go,
and check each segment of code as they develop, so the finished code is as
robust as it's possible to be before they let anyone else test it.That
way they get the reputation of being invincible. It's all smoke and
mirrors though.   They're not invincible - they just paper over the cracks
 before anyone sees  (to mix metaphors).

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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Bruce Sorge  wrote:

>
> Already done. And I'm stepping away from the computer or a bit. Heh.
>
> Sent from my iPhone 4S.
>
> On May 9, 2013, at 12:10 PM, "DURETTE, STEVEN J"  wrote:
>
> >
> > You might want to remove the  since it isn't
> used then. Clean code is easier to troubleshoot.
> >
> > That's just my .01 (I'm too cheap to give 2 cents!) LOL.
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:sor...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 12:06 PM
> > To: cf-talk
> > Subject: Re: Easy CFC question (I hope)
> >
> >
> > I just did what dave and morgan suggested and it worked like a charm.
> Embarrassed that I made this beginner mistake. I have about six or so more
> functions above this one that all work fine, just didn't pay attention to
> details on this one.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
>
> 

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How to learn to build mobile apps..

[Mike K]

I need to learn how to build mobile apps for iPad/iPhone and Android.

I have been building responsive web sites for mobile devices and think I
have a reasonable understanding of the issues involved with that, but I
have a project coming up that will require a full-on app not just a web
site.

So here's my question to those of you who build mobile apps ... how would I
go about learning this?   Is there a course i can take?   On line course?
Books?Where do i gather the skills?

I dont have a tertiary qualification in programming - everything I've
learned so far I've picked up along the way, so I have quite a steep
learning curve for building mobile apps, I think.


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Re: Now() offset by 1 hour

[Mike K]

I might be wrong ( i sometimes have been known to be wrong, but not very
often) but I thought GMT didnt have daylight savings.   I thought GMT was
the same all year round, and it was the timezone at London that changed
daylight savings.

Or is it just that UTC was constant and sometimes was the same as GMT but
not always.

But if i'm right, maybe you need to set your locale timezone to something
other than GMT, thereby automatically adjusting for daylight savings.

I dont have the problem, because my timezone is Sydney/Australia - and
while my servers are in California and Texas,  i have no problem keeping
all my ColdFusion time clocks at Sydney time automatically.  The server
clocks are set to UTC however and I set the timezone to Sydney/Australia.
 Done.

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On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Richard White  wrote:

>
> Yes, looks like i need to update. Thanks Wil
>
> > Which version of ColdFusion are you using? All you said was 9.  9 and
> > 9.0.1 with NO updates will not work on JVM 7. You need to fully
> > update/patch ColdFusion 9.
> >
> >
> > Wil Genovese
> > Sr. Web Application Developer/
> > Systems Administrator
> > CF Webtools
> > www.cfwebtools.com
> >
> > wilg...@trunkful.com
> > www.trunkful.com
> >
> > On Apr 2, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Richard White 
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I have downloaded the latest version although when I amend the jvm.
> > config and attempt to restart CF it does not restart correctly, very
> > odd!
> > >
> > >
> > >> Download it here and install. http://www.oracle.
> > >> com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html  I keep my JVM
> > >> Install for ColdFusion separate from the default Java that the OS
> > is
> > >> using.  Typically I change the default location of the install to
> > be
> > >> in a top level folder named /java/ So c:\Java or D: java on Windows.
> >
> > >> On Linux I use the /opt folder because ColdFusion is installed in
> > /opt
> > >> so it would be /opt/java/
> > >>
> > >> Then you need to edit your jvm.config file and point the "java.
> > home="
> > >> to the new path of your newly installed JVM.  Be sure to backup
> > your
> > >> jvm.config.
> > >>
> > >> So the JVM config line might look something like this. You'll have
> > to
> > >> make sure you get the path correct for your OS.
> > >>
> > >> java.home=C:/java/jvm_16xxx/jre
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Wil
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Wil Genovese
> > >> Sr. Web Application Developer/
> > >> Systems Administrator
> > >> CF Webtools
> > >> www.cfwebtools.com
> > >>
> > >> wilg...@trunkful.com
> > >> www.trunkful.com
> > >>
> > >> On Apr 2, 2013, at 3:26 PM, Richard White 
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks guys. After running this code I can see I am running 1.6
> > >>> Please excuse my ignorance but i have been searching on how to
> > >> upgrade to 1.7 and have found no instructions on where to download
> > it
> > >> or upgrade.
> > >>>
> > >>> I have downloaded the JVM 7 Update 17 but it appears this isnt the
> >
> > >> same thing
> > >>>
> > >>> thanks for any guidance
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> >  It may be worth double checking that you are using the version
> > you
> > >> think
> >  you are using:
> > 
> >  This will tell you:
> >  #CreateObject("java", "java.lang.System").getProperty("java.
> > >> version")#
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >
> > >
>
> 

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Re: Hosting A to Z

[Mike K]

Matt, if you're using Windows7 or later,  the +infiinity button is the
combination ALT+F4

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On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Matt Quackenbush wrote:

>
> Where the hell is the +infinity button?
>  On Feb 15, 2013 10:07 PM, "Maureen"  wrote:
>
> >
> > VivioTech has the best customer service that I've encountered in nearly
> > forty years in technology.  I highly recommend them.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Eric Bourland 
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I've mentioned before how competent and pro-active are the folks at
> > > Viviotech.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>

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Re: Possible Hack?

[Mike K]

I have had this same code added to one of my sites too.  (I'm checking now
to see if it's just one)

Did you find out yet where the access point was to modify your code?

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