RE: Client Vars expiring? When?

2002-02-11 Thread Mark Smyth
hi this code will expire the client variables when the browser closes hth mark cfif IsDefined( Cookie.CFID ) AND IsDefined( Cookie.CFTOKEN ) cfset localCFID = Cookie.CFID cfset localCFTOKEN = Cookie.CFTOKEN cfcookie name=CFID value=#localCFID# cfcookie name=CFTOKEN

Re: Help with insert statment into sql 2000

2002-02-11 Thread Santhosh
Hello David, In your Insert statement table columns 14 is there and you are paasing th e values 15. and there is no need single quotas if the database column is numeric datatype. From T.santhoshkumar - Original Message - From: Andy Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL

RE: SQL Server on a separate machine

2002-02-11 Thread Bill Grover
Sorry to hear about your problems. What we have done is to create a specific domain admin user for CF to run under. Then we configured CF to start as this user. Whenever CF wants to access something (databases, files, sql server, anything) either locally or on the network it will access the

RE: QueryNew - order by

2002-02-11 Thread Herbener, Martin - School Information Technology
A couple on Macromedia's dev ex: http://devex.macromedia.com/developer/gallery/info.cfm?ID=CA3470F8-283 0-11D4 -AA9700508B94F380method=Full http://devex.macromedia.com/developer/gallery/info.cfm?ID=44C48F77-35E 9-11D4 -83D700508B94F85Amethod=Full

RE: Dear Allaire/Macromedia Engineers: WDDX support for Recursive Str uctures

2002-02-11 Thread Brendan Avery
Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't seem to make sense to me. Recursion typically works from the top down - or more appropriately in this case, from the outside in, structural recursion (without conditional constraint syntax) is by definition 'infinitely' recursive. but that's

RE: Jeremy Allaire interview (is: GUI)

2002-02-11 Thread Dave Watts
Well, I could also breed beluga and make caviar from scratch :) You could, but that's a flawed analogy. You write a code module once, and use it forever. I don't think you can eat the same fish eggs over again. Are you suggesting that I could call modules that generate this code with

Upgrading to CF5 Server on Sun Solaris

2002-02-11 Thread Bruce Holm
Upgrading CF4.5 Server - CF5 Server Now that probably everyone has upgraded their CF servers to v.5 and are seasoned experts... We are finally ready to do it here. We are running CF 4.5.1 SP 2 on Sun Solaris box...no ClusterCats or Advanced Security. 1. Installation guide does not say what

RE: CF Certification - feedback needed.

2002-02-11 Thread John Wilker
I completely agree. If you plan (I'm not saying you do) to rest just on the paper it's not worth much. After all it's just a test, I've seen people pass the MCSE exams without actually having any experience, they took classes and read books. That's not to say they are better qualified than an

RE: Upgrading to CF5 Server on Sun Solaris

2002-02-11 Thread Dave Watts
Upgrading CF4.5 Server - CF5 Server Now that probably everyone has upgraded their CF servers to v.5 and are seasoned experts... We are finally ready to do it here. I'm hardly an expert when it comes to Solaris, but here's my two cents anyway. We are running CF 4.5.1 SP 2 on Sun Solaris

Re: CF Certification - feedback needed.

2002-02-11 Thread Jeffry Houser
This is an interesting conclusion, but you probably do not have a big enough sample to say for sure. I think there are a lot of plusses to certification, especially if you are consulting. It makes you an expert to people who don't know any better. And, just about every company uses some

RE: CF Certification - feedback needed.

2002-02-11 Thread Steve Oliver
That's usually where a portfolio comes in to play. If you (with no CF cert) show someone your work, and it's excellent work, then someone with a CF cert shows them some work, and it's shabby, they're more then likely going to go with the one with better skills and experience.

RE: Anybody heard of this?

2002-02-11 Thread Justin Greene
You can write to the registry on IE with a signed applet so make sure that you are set to warn you before running such things. This is probably what happened. Justin -Original Message- From: Dave Hannum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:26 AM To:

RE: CF Certification - feedback needed.

2002-02-11 Thread John Wilker
Totally true. It's the cert and the portfolio and the... And the... And a few... And of course, the... There's no one thing. For example I have almost no portfolio except for screen captures of sites long since changed or gone altogether. I do intranet apps so it's hard to point people to the

sql server / cf security

2002-02-11 Thread Jim Priest
I'm getting around to moving to SQL server (finally) and am curious about setting it up securely, in particular in relation to Cold Fusion. I know I should setup a 'Cold Fusion' user, run the CF service as that and allow that CF user access to SQL Server. But what rights does that CF user need

OT: Years of experience.

2002-02-11 Thread John Wilker
Hi all. This is cross posted (sorry Listserv, friends) I am working on a book and wanted to get a feel for the community. If it's not too much trouble I'd greatly appreciate any one who can take a minute to email me off list with their years of experience, rough numbers are ok. No names will be

RE: sql server / cf security

2002-02-11 Thread Dave Watts
I'm getting around to moving to SQL server (finally) and am curious about setting it up securely, in particular in relation to Cold Fusion. I know I should setup a 'Cold Fusion' user, run the CF service as that and allow that CF user access to SQL Server. But what rights does that CF user

OT: running IIS with a different port (not 80)

2002-02-11 Thread Bryan Stevenson
Hey All, Well my inital Google searches aren't panning out to well so I though I'd toss this one out to the list ;-) I'm wanting to change the port IIS uses from 80 to anythig else. Any thoughts? I know someone out there knows the answer...but you East coasters are probably all tucked in

RE: Future of the internet

2002-02-11 Thread Shawn Grover
I hear all this talk of limited Broadband. Maybe I'm just lucky living in a metropolitan area in Canada - DSL and Cable are the same price and is fairly affordable (about $40 Cdn / month). It'd be nice if it were cheaper, but this isn't too bad. Then again, I have heard some grumblings that

Re: running IIS with a different port (not 80)

2002-02-11 Thread Jim McAtee
In the IIS management console, under the properties for each IIS virtual site, there's an IP address (at least one) that is to be bound to the site. Click the 'Advanced' button and you'll see the option to bind to a different port, as well as the option to set up additional

RE: running IIS with a different port (not 80)

2002-02-11 Thread Dave Watts
I'm wanting to change the port IIS uses from 80 to anythig else. You can do this for each individual virtual web server. Just go into the IIS MMC, right-click on a virtual server, select Properties, select Web Site, and in the TCP Port field, put whatever port you like. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig

RE: CF and Machine Names on Domain

2002-02-11 Thread Dave Watts
Accessed their domain and got a list of machine names on their network? You should be able to do this with a combination of CFEXECUTE and net view, I think. Also, I want to know if it is possible to not only access the list of names, but to add machine names, and remove all using CF. I

RE: High Thread Count Question

2002-02-11 Thread Dave Watts
Just curious...what's the highest someone has set their 'simultaneous requests' setting in the CF Admin to? I wonder if setting it to 100 (on a big dual PIII box) would screw things up? Yes, it probably would. I've seen appropriate values (determined by load-testing) between 4 and 12

Pausing execution

2002-02-11 Thread Kay Smoljak
I have a password system that requires a two second delay after a failed password attempt, to foil brute force automated cracking attempts. There's two tags in the developers exchange - CFX_Sleep and CF_aSleep. CFX_Sleep is free, but I don't really want to go to the bother of getting a CFX

Re: CF Certification - feedback needed.

2002-02-11 Thread Jeffry Houser
( The one thing I didn't say which may or may not have been implied is that if Mike's Guitars Magazine company fails, it is probably not due to misunderstanding web technology ) At 09:12 PM 02/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: This is an interesting conclusion, but you probably do not have a big

RE: Pausing execution

2002-02-11 Thread Jared Clinton
Kay, If you search this lists archive this article shows how to delay execution: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/msg69317.html -snip CFSET started = now() !--- set the number of seconds to wait --- CFSET finished = DateAdd(s, 3, now()) CFSCRIPT x = 1;

Re: CF Certification - feedback needed.

2002-02-11 Thread NathanielHorwitz
Thanks guys for all of your feedback. Since there's a glut of programmers out there and I'm simply looking for ways to seperate myself from the rest of the programmers who may be mis-representing them. I thought in this case, macromedia certification may be able to seperate those 2 groups. My

Re: running IIS with a different port (not 80)

2002-02-11 Thread Joseph Thompson
open IIS, right click/properties. You should see the name and the port (say..81). change it there. Now.. if you want to view the site you must type: http://mysite.com:81 Hey All, Well my inital Google searches aren't panning out to well so I though I'd toss this one out to the list ;-)

RE: CF Certification - feedback needed.

2002-02-11 Thread John Wilker
Then I'd do it. I think it will do what you are hoping, it's all in how you present it IMHO. My personal opinion and the way I present it is, I took the time to quantify and prove what I know, did the other guys and gals applying for this job? If the answer is yes as it is sometimes, move on to

Re: CF Certification - feedback needed.

2002-02-11 Thread Jeffry Houser
At 10:57 PM 02/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: Thanks guys for all of your feedback. Since there's a glut of programmers out there and I'm simply looking for ways to seperate myself from the rest of the programmers who may be mis-representing them. I thought in this case, macromedia certification may

RE: CF Certification - feedback needed.

2002-02-11 Thread Brian Simmons
My opinion of (any) certification: 1) A Certification does not a good developer make. 2) But, with that said it does show a commitment to your craft and could separate you from other job candidates. If you're going to take the CF 5.0 certification exam, be sure to check out CF_Buster at

Re:Pausing execution

2002-02-11 Thread James Sleeman
Kay Smoljak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2/12/2002 4:46:30 PM: Has anyone used this tag? I don't mind forking out the $5 (actually $10 in Australian pesos) but does it really work? Does anyone have a better way of delaying the user for a certain amount of time? I would use a deadlock situation to

RE: CF Certification - feedback needed.

2002-02-11 Thread John Wilker
Yeah, very true. Nothing really Makes a web developer. We are all web developers with/without certifications, and any other activities.. Anything we do above and beyond our roles as developers is extra. For what ever it may be worth in interviews and what not.. J. John Wilker Web

Re: Pausing execution

2002-02-11 Thread Kay Smoljak
Thanks for these suggestions - very clever. I don't suppose there's any performance difference between using this cfscript or the exclusive deadlock method posted as well... Both would only affect the current request yeah (if the cflock name was unique for each request that is)? And I need to

RE: Pausing execution

2002-02-11 Thread Jared Clinton
I would suggest that the cflock solution is much better. It does not actually do any processing while waiting, its probably exactly how cf_asleep works. In the past I have implemented N-try then lockout systems. Three attempts then your account is locked, contact admin to unlock. You may also