Re: float in DB becomes integer in CF?!

2007-01-17 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
What if you NumberFormat() it? I can't say for sure but I think it's expected behaviour for the number to appear like that, I seem to remember having that problem in cfmx/6 but not sure about 7. This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN,

Re: SQL Server Import Help Needed

2007-01-17 Thread Richard Cooper
Is this a one off import? If yes, I've never had a problem pasting excel into access. From there it should be easier to import into sql server. ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create

Re: SQL Join Data group output

2007-01-17 Thread Richard Cooper
Thanks for both your code examples. I'm succesfully testing both out now, not sure yet which route I will pick though. Very useful, thanks again. R ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create

What's a lovely hamper? (Was: RE: Client asked me: Why you use coldfusion?)

2007-01-17 Thread Earl, George
What is a lovely hamper? George Mike said: I did the arithmetic after i finally finished the job and worked out that i had earned the princely sum of 50cents an hour unless he came good on the promise to pay me more when he had some. He gave me a lovely hamper at Christmas time,

My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Ben Nadel
Last week, inspired by recent community conversations about ColdFusion certification, I built a proof of concept site to see if there would be any interest in a community-driven site for ColdFusion certification preparation. In a fit of unbridled enthusiasm, sheer laziness, and poor judgment, I

RE: What's a lovely hamper? (Was: RE: Client asked me: Why you use coldfusion?)

2007-01-17 Thread Andy Matthews
Basket of food. -Original Message- From: Earl, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: What's a lovely hamper? (Was: RE: Client asked me: Why you use coldfusion?) What is a lovely hamper? George Mike said: I did the arithmetic

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Nicholas M Tunney
Wow... that's a good apology. Something you don't see often in the community (coughRay Horn/cough). Good enough for me! Nic Ben Nadel wrote: Last week, inspired by recent community conversations about ColdFusion certification, I built a proof of concept site to see if there would be any

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
I know the one who has the most to lose, Brian, is the one whose acceptance of your apology matters the most, but your apology is perfectly acceptable to me... I never thought you had anything but good intentions. No one with ill intentions concerning Brian's exam material would have posted the

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
I can see why you took the approach to apologise (since according to him you bought the software), and I think many will applaud you for it but it is total nonsense to think that a) you did it out of spite for your own financial gain as we all know you virtually and otherwise and that b) any of

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Rey Bango
Hi Ben, It takes a big man to own up to his mistakes and you've done a great job of that. I personally don't feel any differently about your level of professionalism nor has your reputation been tarnished in my eyes. You've done the right thing by removing the site so just be sure to follow

A query errors referring to deleted columns yet it doesn't refer to them

2007-01-17 Thread Brent Shaub
Hello All, I'm wondering if anyone else has bumped into this oddity. I had a table with 25 columns that I had an update query update most of the fields. I then took out those fields from the query, and then the database. Happens all the time, right? For some reason, whenever I run the

RE: A query errors referring to deleted columns yet it doesn't refer to them

2007-01-17 Thread Ben Nadel
The database / ColdFusion might be caching the datatable structures. In the ColdFusion admin, tryin editing the datasource and unchecking the maintain connection box (advanced settings). Then re-run the page. If this works, then it was just a caching issue (go back in and re-check that box as it

Re: A query errors referring to deleted columns yet it doesn't refer to them

2007-01-17 Thread Brent Shaub
Thanks, Ben, I forgot to mention I tried that prior. I tried it one more time just to be sure: no luck. I do have the Max Pooled Statements set to 0 from the default of 1000 because of issues caching the * statements throughout the app. That 0 helped those work. No luck on these hidden

Sitemap or FLowchart

2007-01-17 Thread Richard Dillman
I need to some how document a site i just inherited. I'll need to visually show the flow through the site printed. Something i can refer to while cleaning the code. Any such animal out there? -- -- Richard Dillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (317) 916-8341 If you want happiness for an hour -- take a

Re: Icons?

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Jordan
famfamfam.com has beautiful icons, but can have a tendency to look washed out depending on the background they're shown against. Chris Rey Bango wrote: Try famfamfam.com. They have a ton of icons although not sure if they'll have specifically what you're looking for. Rey On 1/16/07,

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Jordan
Ben, I visited your concept site, and thought it was great. I'd like to echo the sentiments of Rey and everyone else who's responded to your post. Your apology was top-notch, and your reputation is intact as far as I'm concerned. I don't know that Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.com or the CF

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
I reckon something must have happened if you look at http://www.centrasoft.com/stuff/index.htm -Original Message- From: Christopher Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 January 2007 15:47 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Turetsky, Seth
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/thread.cfm/threadid:49667#266496 -Original Message- From: Christopher Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Kevin Aebig
I love how he starts to publicly give away his content when he's got a problem with one of his clients publicly giving away his content. Anyone else find that a tad strange? !k -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Hastings
Kevin Aebig wrote: I love how he starts to publicly give away his content when he's got a problem with one of his clients publicly giving away his content. Anyone else find that a tad strange? no, it's brian's to give away as he so choses. if you intend to start dumping on brian for this,

SQL Link error

2007-01-17 Thread Bruce Sorge
I am getting this error on my development laptop but not on any other machine. I googled the problem but could not get anything very useful. [Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][ODBC Socket][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Optional feature not implemented I am using CFMX 7 and SQL Server 2000

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Jordan
hmm... I guess so. Well, while I see Brian's point, I have to agree with you Neil: Any one of us could have come up with these questions without prior knowledge of Brian's questions. Also, it's obvious that there was no malicious intent, and that Ben was *not* trying to achieve any sort of

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Kevin Aebig
I'm honestly beyond caring enough to point blame to anyone in this situation. My thought was that it's somewhat hypocritical as a few examples would've been more than enough. I can understand that he might've done it in frustration, but the fact that it's still online doesn't make very much

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Hastings
Kevin Aebig wrote: I'm honestly beyond caring enough to point blame to anyone in this situation. My thought was that it's somewhat hypocritical as a few examples would've been more than enough. ...and so you continue to dump on brian. swell.

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Brian Simmons
Kevin, I'm lost. How did I start to publicly give away my content? Are you saying my screenshot comparison is giving away my content? Please explain. Thanks, Brian Simmons I love how he starts to publicly give away his content when he's got a problem with one of his clients publicly giving

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Jordan
I agree Paul, and my following email is not an attempt to dump on anyone, but he does say: CFMX Exam Buster 7.0 was released to the public in July of 2005. I'm not a lawyer or anything, but how can he maintain control of something that he released to the public? Am I misconstruing

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
I say, let's put this to bed. Brian and Ben discuss offline etc about how to best reach the amicable agreement they both no doubt want. And to keep Paul happy, anyone got any localisation questions :-) -Original Message- From: Brian Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Jordan
It's hard to ignore an interesting debate though, isn't it? But then this is probably best served on another list. :o' Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: I say, let's put this to bed. Brian and Ben discuss offline etc about how to best reach the amicable agreement they both no doubt want.

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:17, Christopher Jordan wrote: it just seems a little petty to me. Welcome to the internet :-) -- Tom Chiverton Helping to seamlessly drive fourth-generation convergence This email is sent for and on behalf

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Kevin Aebig
I don't know, nor care about Brian or whoever else was involved, his feelings or whether he likes toast. I would've made the same comment if Rey, Neil or Mr.Camden himself had done that. It was never meant as a personal attack nor an attack at his character. I didn't say their was anything wrong

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Ben Nadel
Neil, Thank you. Once Brian posted his comments to my site, I immediately took down the questions, posted a brief apology, and then contacted him offline to see how I could go about making this right. A public apology was part of what we thought was best and something that I was more than happy

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Jake Churchill
Let me put in my $0.02. What happened happened. Let them work it out off list as was previously suggested. Mistakes happen and always will, it's how they are dealt with that really counts and I think this particular mistake, while probably avoidable, is being dealt with as well as possible.

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
hmm... I guess so. Well, while I see Brian's point, I have to agree with you Neil: Any one of us could have come up with these questions without prior knowledge of Brian's questions. Also, it's obvious that there was no malicious intent, and that Ben was *not* trying to achieve any sort

RE: SQL Link error

2007-01-17 Thread Ben Nadel
Bruce, I got that error what I was using CFQueryParam with CF_SQL_DATE. Apparently CF_SQL_DATE is not inherently supported. If you are using it, try switching over to CF_SQL_TIMESTAMP, which is supported by SQL Server. .. Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7

RE: A query errors referring to deleted columns yet it doesn't refer to them

2007-01-17 Thread Ben Nadel
Did you double check your data source? Perhaps you are calling an outdated database?? Other than that, I am out of suggestions. Good luck! .. Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Hastings
kevin, my apologies, i hadn't realized calling some one hypocritical was a complement. i'll try shrieking that a traffic cop on my way to work tomorrow morning ;-) ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7

Multiple DISTINCT

2007-01-17 Thread coldfusion . developer
I'm so sorry, but this is my favorite forum and they are so many sharp people out here and I know I can get a quick answer to what shoud be a sql question. I want to pass two values to distinct in a query. How do I do that? I want to pass both MONTH(recw_assign_month) AS Month

Re: Multiple DISTINCT

2007-01-17 Thread Jim Wright
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm so sorry, but this is my favorite forum and they are so many sharp people out here and I know I can get a quick answer to what shoud be a sql question. I want to pass two values to distinct in a query. How do I do that? I want to pass both

RE: Multiple DISTINCT

2007-01-17 Thread Ben Nadel
I am confused... Is that not working? Or are you asking if it is a good idea? .. Ben Nadel Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer www.bennadel.com Need ColdFusion Help? www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Multiple DISTINCT

2007-01-17 Thread coldfusion . developer
Your comments gave me the answer I was looking for! Thank you so much! It just needed to be changed to ... SELECT DISTINCT MONTH(recw_assign_month) AS month, YEAR(recw_assign_month) AS year FROM dbo.tbl_recipe_monthly_winner WHERE (recw_assign_month '') I am confused... Is that

Re: Multiple DISTINCT

2007-01-17 Thread Charlie Griefer
you really should alias those columns to something else. both 'Month' and 'Year' are built in functions in CF and as such, are reserved words. On 1/17/07, coldfusion. developer @ att. net coldfusion. developer @ att. net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your comments gave me the answer I was looking

Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread K Fassman
I am new to running CF on a Linux box - and I know virtually nothing about Linux. I have all of my pages working correctly, but in one instance I am calling on the CFFILE command to move a CSV file from one directory to another. The file is getting copied to the new location, but not deleted

Intellectual property (was: RE: My sincerest apologies ...)

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
... it is total nonsense to think that a) you did it out of spite for your own financial gain as we all know you virtually and otherwise and that b) any of those question which have BOOLEAN answers could ever be considered unique or copyrightable. Any one of us could have built a page

RE: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
I am new to running CF on a Linux box - and I know virtually nothing about Linux. I have all of my pages working correctly, but in one instance I am calling on the CFFILE command to move a CSV file from one directory to another. The file is getting copied to the new location, but not

Re: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Jordan Michaels
Hello K, Unfortunately this is one of the problems with CF: There's no command-line parser for it so you cannot execute it as a different user easily. While I probably can't give the best advice without knowing the details of your situation, you could potentially create a cron job (the Linux

RE: Intellectual property (was: RE: My sincerest apologies ...)

2007-01-17 Thread Andy Matthews
That article on West Publishing is a really interesting read, thanks Dave. andy -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:36 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Intellectual property (was: RE: My sincerest apologies ...) ... it is total

Re: old topic: CF Excel

2007-01-17 Thread todd sharp
I tried that. I even copied and pasted it directly. Either I am not calling the file correctly or something As it only displays the numbers in a few rows in the browser not an excel file. However, mine did not have The INLINE attribute. When adding that parameter I get the following error: XML

Re: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Dave Watts wrote: Failing that, you could conceivably write a shell script to do what you need, and call that through CFEXECUTE. Anything you call using cfexecute will run as the same user CF runs under, i.e. the user apache so that won't help. What you need to do is have the admin write a

Re: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Ken Fassman
That might be a good option. Thanks for both replies! On 1/17/07, Jordan Michaels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello K, Unfortunately this is one of the problems with CF: There's no command-line parser for it so you cannot execute it as a different user easily. While I probably can't give

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Matt Robertson
As I recall, in the U.S. at least if you do not aggressively protect your IP rights upon discovery of theft -- be it malicious theft or incidental and of innocent intent -- you forfeit them. There is no legal middle ground. I would have published the evidence of the theft if it had happened to me

RE: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
Failing that, you could conceivably write a shell script to do what you need, and call that through CFEXECUTE. Anything you call using cfexecute will run as the same user CF runs under, i.e. the user apache so that won't help. What you need to do is have the admin write a shell script

Re: Intellectual property (was: RE: My sincerest apologies ...)

2007-01-17 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
I agree that IP should be protected but I can bet that some of the more absurd cases are US based or EU (mainland EU not country specific law such as English or Scottish here in the UK - we are way more liberal than our neighbours!) Nuff said, cf-community. This e-mail is from Reed

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Jordan
Dave, strictly on the topic of intellectual property and copyrights, and not on what Ben and Brian decide to do, I don't feel like I can let that go. ;o) Your example, in my opinion (which I fully realize is probably *contrary* to what the law says about intellectual property), compares

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
I think they tried this with the DaVinci Code :-)... and failed, even when any fool could have seen that he ripped it off from other prose! Maybe the UK just don't care about it as much as we do other laws... This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant,

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
As I recall, in the U.S. at least if you do not aggressively protect your IP rights upon discovery of theft -- be it malicious theft or incidental and of innocent intent -- you forfeit them. There is no legal middle ground. Actually Matt, that applies more to trademarks than copyright. It's

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
We're talking about test questions here. Not a novel, or even a book that contains *original* thoughts and musings as you suggest in your example. Doesn't matter. You can't decide on your own that someone else's work is more or less deserving of copyright protection. The law already does

Re: Intellectual property (was: RE: My sincerest apologies ...)

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Jordan
Dave, See my post to your comment under the old thread name. *In my opinion* things like test questions shouldn't be copyright-able. Also, *in my opinion* the use of arrangement and formatting in considering something copyrightable is , *in my opinion* -- have i mentioned that this is just

SOT: mobile browser detection

2007-01-17 Thread Jim Wright
Does anyone have a list of keywords or code for detecting if a request is coming from a mobile browser? I don't need it to be perfect, but I'd like to redirect most mobile users to some optimized pages...I'm figuring that I could probably compare a list of keywords to the HTTP_USER_AGENT or

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Jordan
Damn, I just can't seem to stay away from this thread and get any work done. :o) Mary Jo Sminkey wrote: We're talking about test questions here. Not a novel, or even a book that contains *original* thoughts and musings as you suggest in your example. Doesn't matter. You can't

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
Dave, strictly on the topic of intellectual property and copyrights, and not on what Ben and Brian decide to do, I don't feel like I can let that go. ;o) Your example, in my opinion (which I fully realize is probably *contrary* to what the law says about intellectual property), compares

Re: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Eric Haskins
You can also set permissions on the folder to 777 or change ownership of the folder to the same user CF/Apache runs as. That would allow it to function as is no additional Cron job Eric Haskins Web Systems Developer On 1/17/07, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Failing that, you could

Re: SOT: mobile browser detection

2007-01-17 Thread Claude Schneegans
Does anyone have a list of keywords or code for detecting if a request is coming from a mobile browser? I don't know, but I think that testing the total screen width should be accurately enough. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See

RE: mobile browser detection

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
Does anyone have a list of keywords or code for detecting if a request is coming from a mobile browser? I don't need it to be perfect, but I'd like to redirect most mobile users to some optimized pages...I'm figuring that I could probably compare a list of keywords to the HTTP_USER_AGENT

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Jordan
Dave Watts wrote: Legal advice from programmers is about as useful as program code from lawyers. And yet we're all doing it right now. I've stated in other comments on the other thread, that what I'm arguing is the way I wish the law were and not what it is now. This is exactly why I vote.

Re: SOT: mobile browser detection

2007-01-17 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
You may also be to tell by the OS version. This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
Damn, I just can't seem to stay away from this thread and get any work done. :o) Well, I personally am more than happy to continue the debate...but not on this list. If you want to continue it, take it over to CF-Community and I'll be happy to join you there (as would many others I'm sure!)

RE: SOT: mobile browser detection

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
I don't know, but I think that testing the total screen width should be accurately enough. Mobile devices do not always provide that information. I think, actually, that most don't. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber

Re: SOT: mobile browser detection

2007-01-17 Thread Jim Wright
Claude Schneegans wrote: I don't know, but I think that testing the total screen width should be accurately enough. Are mobile browsers to the point that a large percentage of them would support the js functions to allow this?

Re: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Rob Wilkerson
As a general rule, I do what Eric suggests. I run CF and Apache under the same user (usually apache) and then make that user the owner of my web root with perms set to 755. Just a practice that I've found works for me. On 1/17/07, Eric Haskins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also set

Re: mobile browser detection

2007-01-17 Thread Jim Wright
Dave Watts wrote: This list is updated regularly: http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ There are some other approaches, outlined here: http://www.thewirelessfaq.com/how_to_distinguish_a_mobile_browser_from_a_des ktop_browser Good links...thanks Dave.

RE: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
As a general rule, I do what Eric suggests. I run CF and Apache under the same user (usually apache) and then make that user the owner of my web root with perms set to 755. Just a practice that I've found works for me. The users used by Apache and CF shouldn't be able to change all the

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
And yet we're all doing it right now. Speak for yourself. I'm not taking legal advice from anyone here, and the things I have learned about IP, I've learned from either (a) paying lawyers, or (b) having a lawyer for a spouse, or (c) my own work as an expert witness with regard to technical

Coldfusion and Spry

2007-01-17 Thread Chad McCue
I created a search page that allows the admin to search for accounts in the database. When they first come to the search screen all accounts in the database are returned and presented to them. The xml document that SPRY reads gets generated with all accounts in the DB. When the admin conducts a

CFoutput using DISTINCT in a QUERY

2007-01-17 Thread coldfusion . developer
CF follow up to my previous post. I can't get the values of my DISTINCT query spit out correctly. In SQL Enterprise Manger I get the results I want which are ... Query: cfquery name=rsContestwinners datasource=#datasource# SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(recw_assign_month) AS Expr_Year,

RE: What's a lovely hamper? (Was: RE: Client asked me: Why you use coldfusion?)

2007-01-17 Thread Earl, George
Andy said: Basket of food. Oh. Around here a hamper is where we toss our dirty laundry . . . not often referred to as 'lovely' . . . :) George ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create

RE: What's a lovely hamper? (Was: RE: Client asked me: Why you use coldfusion?)

2007-01-17 Thread Andy Matthews
Sure...but then I think the OP is in the UK, where hamper means a a gift basket of sorts. -Original Message- From: Earl, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What's a lovely hamper? (Was: RE: Client asked me: Why you use

Re: Coldfusion and Spry

2007-01-17 Thread Raymond Camden
Are you using the same URL for the dataset? Maybe consider adding a no cache directive to the dataset. On 1/17/07, Chad McCue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created a search page that allows the admin to search for accounts in the database. When they first come to the search screen all accounts in

Re: dmoz

2007-01-17 Thread Al Everett
Just an FYI: The tool to allow the public to suggest sites is once again working. Simply go to the most appropriate category, click Suggest URL and follow the instructions on the form. While it is in the guidelines and displayed prominently on the form, I would like to reinforce that these are

Re: SQL Link error

2007-01-17 Thread Bruce Sorge
Thanks Ben, I will give that a try when I get home. I just find it odd that on my test server at home and the production server, it I have no issues with this. It is only my laptop. The only difference in my laptop and the test and production servers is that the laptop is running Windows XP

RE: Coldfusion and Spry

2007-01-17 Thread Chad McCue
This is what I am using to get the XML CFOUTPUT var dsRecruitments = new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet(../DisplayPages/admin/Administrators/Administrator _#Session.AdminID#/Recruitments.xml,Recruitments/Recruitment, { filterFunc: MyPagingFunc }, {useCache:false}); /CFOUTPUT function MyPagingFunc(ds,

Re: A query errors referring to deleted columns yet it doesn't refer to them

2007-01-17 Thread Brent Shaub
Yep, it's the right datasource. I'll just use the workaround of having the fields there and not use them. I just hope this issue isn't the tip of some greater iceburg. Did you double check your data source? Perhaps you are calling an outdated database?? Other than that, I am out of

Re: Coldfusion and Spry

2007-01-17 Thread Jim Wright
Chad McCue wrote: The problem is the browser after the search is conducted still sees all accounts even though the XML document only shows the results searched for. Is this in IE? .. http://www.google.com/search?q=spry%20ie%20caching

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Jordan
Dave, sorry, I meant here we all are giving advice (or more to the point our opinion), not here we are taking advice. That's what I meant by doing it. ;o) While you list of experience with this matter that you listed is impressive, it still doesn't make you a lawyer, and so anything you say

RE: Coldfusion and Spry

2007-01-17 Thread Chad McCue
IE and Mozilla Chad McCue Advanced Media Productions 251 West Central St. Suite 28 Natick MA, 01760 [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 508.647.5151 ext 16 f: 508.647.5150 -Original Message- From: Jim Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:59 PM To: CF-Talk Subject:

RE: SQL Link error

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
I am getting this error on my development laptop but not on any other machine. I googled the problem but could not get anything very useful. [Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][ODBC Socket][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Optional feature not implemented I am using CFMX 7 and SQL

Re: SQL Link error

2007-01-17 Thread Eric Haskins
VMware baby!! No honestly that is why I use VMWare on my Dev Server and my Laptop. At anytime I can spin up similar enviroments Linux,Win2k3, etc . Best 200.00 I spent :) Eric Haskins Web Systems Developer On 1/17/07, Bruce Sorge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ben, I will give that a try

Re: CFoutput using DISTINCT in a QUERY

2007-01-17 Thread Jake Churchill
Try this: cfoutput query=rsContestwinners #trim(Expr_year)# #trim(Expr_month)#br /cfoutput I don't see any reason why you'd be getting a line break in the middle. This code should display everything exactly like in Enterprise Manager. The dateformat was changing the number to the month

Re: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Eric Haskins
If you were worried about that you could just give the write permissions on the destination directory only. I never give webuser permission to the whole webroot only the directory it needs to write to. Eric Haskins Web System Developer On 1/17/07, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a

Re: CFoutput using DISTINCT in a QUERY

2007-01-17 Thread Jim Wright
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CFOUTPUT ... cfoutput query=rsContestwinners #trim(dateformat((Expr_month), ))# #trim(Expr_year)# /cfoutput gives me ... December 2005 December 2006 January 2006 January 2006 January 2006 January 2006 Try this instead... cfoutput

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Mark A Kruger
You want to be careful declaring option b too painful there dave... Unless you have a comfy couch (hehe). -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:13 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons,

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Eric Roberts
Different case...you are presenting this book and profiting from it as your own material. Ben was presenting it more as proof of concept, as stated in his email and he did not state that he came up with the questions on his own. His only mistake was not citing Brian on it. He used the questions

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
Different case...you are presenting this book and profiting from it as your own material. If I give it away? Ben was presenting it more as proof of concept, as stated in his email and he did not state that he came up with the questions on his own. His only mistake was not citing Brian on

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J \(ASI-AIT\)
Ok, this is a stupid question but... We are talking about practice test questions. Does that mean if the question comes up on the exam and is worded exactly the same (because there is no other way to ask the question that makes sense), that Adobe would then be on the wrong end of copyright

Re: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Jordan
You're a consultant. How would you like it if your clients redistributed your work, without the right to do so? Would your panties be unbunched? I don't get paid for my code. I get paid for the time I took to write the code and any time I spend maintaining it. The code belongs to the

RE: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Eric Roberts
Never assume Dave ;-) I have an off topic question. How does one write a script to have subversion automatically update the live directory when someone commits? I found a few scripts, but they don't make sense to me...I hate Linux (my personal mantra hehhe). This is the only part I don't

Intellectual property (was: RE: My sincerest apologies ...)

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Watts
We are talking about practice test questions. Does that mean if the question comes up on the exam and is worded exactly the same (because there is no other way to ask the question that makes sense), that Adobe would then be on the wrong end of copyright infringement? If that were the

RE: My sincerest apologies to Brian Simmons, CentraSoft.Com, and to the entire ColdFusion community

2007-01-17 Thread Eric Roberts
I think it has been a good and interesting discussion...albeit at Brian and Ben's expense ;-) Eric snipped I'm not even sure why this debate has come up. Ben admitted he infringed, it's not even a question. snipped --- Mary Jo

Re: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Eric Haskins
Eric, I haven't used Subversion in awhile we currently use Serena VM with Eclipse Rich Integration. If you send the commands you do to update and how they comit I could write you script. I hate windows :) but need it to function Eric Haskins Web Systems Developer On 1/17/07, Eric Roberts

RE: Setting Linux user

2007-01-17 Thread Eric Roberts
You can also set group permissions and make the CF/apache user part of that group. Eric -Original Message- From: Eric Haskins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:48 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Setting Linux user You can also set permissions on the folder to 777

WebDrive FTP Client

2007-01-17 Thread Richard Colman
Has anyone out there used the Webdrive FTP Client (Swouth River Technologies) with CF? This product is supposed to map an external ftp server as a network drive, hopefully enabling seemless access to external files through CFFILE, etc. I sort of have it working, but not entirely successfully. If

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