RE: Sending File Data Over Webservice

2008-02-28 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Morning Mark, That's an excellent and thorough answer, thanks. It's nice to see someone who has tried this kind of approach themselves and got a little experience with it. I like this idea of issuing a token for the files, that's quite neat. Another great little idea is delivering the files

RE: Sending File Data Over Webservice

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Watts
What are the overheads like on using cfcontent to deliver a file opposed to simply having it available in a web accessible directory? Significant, in my past experience. The CFCONTENT request monopolizes a CF thread for the duration of the download. As an alternative, you might consider

RE: Sending File Data Over Webservice

2008-02-28 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Thanks Dave, Unix? What's that? Heh, I'm only pulling your leg, I know what Unix is. I thought that cfcontent would be an intensive little monkey, it doesn't surprise me to hear you've found that in the past, it's nice to have that confirmation. I think my real goal with this is to keep it as

Re: Help with Rewrite Rule! (circuit.fuseaction)

2008-02-28 Thread cf coder
Hi guys, I have one more questions on this topic. I've added a handful of rules and they work however all of the images on the site are broken. I have a virtual directory in IIS for my site called images and all the img tags on my pages start with for ex: images/foldername/imagename.gif. I

JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps shutting down

2008-02-28 Thread James Buckingham
Hi there, We've been having a lot of problems recently with one of our Cluster instances whereby it keeps either shutting itself down or starts to reject threads. There isn't a set pattern to when this happens but it is only happening on one instance (we have four in total separated 50/50 on

JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps shutting down

2008-02-28 Thread James Buckingham
Hi there, We've been having a lot of problems recently with one of our Cluster instances whereby it keeps either shutting itself down or starts to reject threads. There isn't a set pattern to when this happens but it is only happening on one instance (we have four in total separated 50/50 on

ColdFusion 8 ODBC Server ErrorCode=2300 connection unexpectedly closed by peer

2008-02-28 Thread Piet Bruins
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ColdFusion 8 ODBC Server ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this

emails stop being sent by CF

2008-02-28 Thread Piet Bruins
For no apparent reason, emails stop being sent by CF. This has happened on more than one server. This same issue was mentioned here as well: http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.coldfusion.server_administration/browse_thread/thread/33edf401eb8a6f11/a4eb4efb1190589e Please advice.

Prevent users from voting twice.

2008-02-28 Thread George Linderman
Hey guys, I've been spending practically every free moment of my time the past few months working on a project--and I've gotten some valuable help from the community here. Anyway, here I am again to ask for help :) I'm not going to go and explain the project right now, but the part for which

RE: Sending File Data Over Webservice

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Kruger
Daves right... Although cfcontent won't be as bad as opening the file as binary, encoding as base64 and then creating a vary large XML packet. I have never used the symlink idea - although I've heard him mention it before. I'd be interested in a code snippet on how to do this on the fly in

Re: emails stop being sent by CF

2008-02-28 Thread Jose Diaz
Hi Piet The spool may have stopped processing - I wrote a UDF for such a problem give this a whurl. http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?id=1511 HTH Jose Diaz On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Piet Bruins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For no apparent reason, emails stop being sent by CF. This has

Re: Prevent users from voting twice.

2008-02-28 Thread Adam Reynolds
The simplest way to do this is through a cookie. You can't lock down an IP as this is something that may not be unique to them. (e.g. AOL) If they block cookies don't let them vote. If they vote, clear cookies, vote again, so be it. If you want to prevent that, ask them to login/register (with

Re: Prevent users from voting twice.

2008-02-28 Thread George Linderman
Okay, got it. Thank you. Yeah, I was wondering if IPs were not going to work...but didn't know that they were *that* unreliable. How exactly would I implement the cookie option? I don't have any experience with cookies, aside from knowing that they are little files on the user's computer.

Re: JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps shutting down

2008-02-28 Thread AJ Mercer
I don't know if it is of any help, but when one of our instances stops receiving any requests, it takes a IIS restart to pick it up again. Bouncing the instance has no effect On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:02 PM, James Buckingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, We've been having a lot of

Re: JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps quot;shutting downquot;

2008-02-28 Thread James Buckingham
Thanks AJ. Is that the give it a kick approach :-) We actually had a phase before all this started where IIS stopped processing requests and then very kindly jammed up both server instances, stopping the site completely. It wasn't until we restarted it or the server that it would release the

Re: JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps quot;shutting downquot;

2008-02-28 Thread James Buckingham
Thanks AJ. Is that the give it a kick approach :-) We actually had a phase before all this started where IIS stopped processing requests and then very kindly jammed up both server instances, stopping the site completely. It wasn't until we restarted it or the server that it would release the

Prevent users from voting twice.

2008-02-28 Thread Daniel Kessler
The problem with using IPs or cookies to assure only one vote is that you're not assuring only one person vote, by one machine vote. When a machine is in a shared environment (school labs, libraries, one machine for a family), that machine will only get one vote. If that's fits your

RE: Signature Capture

2008-02-28 Thread E C list
Just a note for future searchers- I am still looking into the PDF solution, but I found something that might do the trick. I am using the applet mentioned and linked below to collect a signature. It will basically hand out a series of coordinates representing the signature. These coordinates can

Re: Prevent users from voting twice.

2008-02-28 Thread Adam Reynolds
Well ask yourself at what level would you like to be uniquely identified when visiting any website? I certainly don't want them to know my MAC address. Have a look at the cfcookie tag. Also be aware that cfcookie cannot be used with cflocation. The concept with cookies is : 1) Landing page

RE: Interesting idea for next CF - thoughts...

2008-02-28 Thread Brad Wood
Watch out for that though. I remember someone on this list who used to use the extends= attribute in their cfcomponent tags. That worked great until CF8 when Adobe actually implemented that attribute and all their code broke. :) ~Brad -Original Message- From: s. isaac dealey

RE: JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps shutting down

2008-02-28 Thread Brad Wood
That is probably because the JRun connector loaded in IIS is what divvies up the requests. ~Brad -Original Message- From: AJ Mercer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:38 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps shutting down I

RE: JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps quot;shutting downquot;

2008-02-28 Thread Brad Wood
Is it possible there is a connectivity issue which is causing the JRun connectors (which are loaded on the IIS box and control load balancing) to think that instance is down? I don't know off the top of my head if there is a log file on the IIS box. ~Brad -Original Message- From: James

Re: Interesting idea for next CF - thoughts...

2008-02-28 Thread s. isaac dealey
Watch out for that though. I remember someone on this list who used to use the extends= attribute in their cfcomponent tags. That worked great until CF8 when Adobe actually implemented that attribute and all their code broke. :) You mean with an empty value? -- s. isaac dealey ^ new

RE: Interesting idea for next CF - thoughts...

2008-02-28 Thread Brad Wood
They didn't use an empty value. They put in cfc names and/or notes as to what other component that component extended. Of course, the values they had been putting in there were not valid for CF8. The empty quotes were the lines your imagination was supposed to go between. ~Brad -Original

RE: How do I change my localhost setting in CF 8?

2008-02-28 Thread Rick Faircloth
Got it working, Dave... thanks! Rick -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:54 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: How do I change my localhost setting in CF 8? I tried changing the web-inf/jrun-web.xml file to add a virtual

Re: ColdFusion 8 ODBC Server ErrorCode=2300 connection unexpectedly closed by peer

2008-02-28 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Piet Bruins wrote: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ColdFusion 8 ODBC Server ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to

RE: JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps quot;shutting downquot;

2008-02-28 Thread Brad Wood
I just poked around my server a bit... Exactly what log file did you past from in the OP. If you have a dedicated IIS box and depending on your OS, I'm not sure if the directories will be the same, but do you have anything useful in these logs: C:\JRun4\lib\wsconfig\wsconfig.log

Re: Interesting idea for next CF - thoughts...

2008-02-28 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
You mean 'extends=' didn't actually extend a CFC? Wow, then my code was working through magic and incantation all that time! Hot Damn, call the Enquirer! ;) Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _

CF scheduled jobs just stop running...

2008-02-28 Thread Piet Bruins
CF scheduled jobs that have run fine for days will sometimes just stop being run. There are no errors that we can find when this happens and the only indication of the issue (other than the jobs just not running) is that the scheduler.log file no longer shows [job name] Executing... lines for

Re: emails stop being sent by CF

2008-02-28 Thread Claude Schneegans
For no apparent reason, emails stop being sent by CF. I'm having this problem about once a year. The problem is cause by an invalid file in the spool. I mean a file that contains no information that could make a valid message. This causes the spooler to loop indefinitely on the problem. The

Re: Prevent users from voting twice.

2008-02-28 Thread Ben Doom
George Linderman wrote: Okay, got it. Thank you. Yeah, I was wondering if IPs were not going to work...but didn't know that they were *that* unreliable. Well, think about this: Everyone in my office is behind the same router. So there are 7 people in this office who would show up as a

Re: JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps amp;quot;shutting downamp;quot;

2008-02-28 Thread James Buckingham
The log file was from the failing instance. It was residing in the C:\JRuns\Logs\ folder. IIS is sitting on both boxes so I'm not sure if that classes as a dedicated IIS box. We have round robin on the DNS as well so requests are being passed to both boxes. I actually didn't know about those

Re: SOT - SQL Union Problem

2008-02-28 Thread Ben Doom
I'm not an SQL guru, so take this with a grain of salt: You could do a join on table1.firstname=table2.firstname and table1.firstname = table2.lastname to get all the results that match. You could union this to two unioned selects where there's an entry in table1 but not table2 and vice versa.

Re: JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps amp;amp;quot;shutting downamp;amp;quot;

2008-02-28 Thread James Buckingham
And why do I keep getting my replies in separate entries :-( Sorry people!! The log file was from the failing instance. It was residing in the C:\JRuns\Logs\ folder. IIS is sitting on both boxes so I'm not sure if that classes as a dedicated IIS box. We have round robin on the DNS as

cffile and security

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Fuqua
Good Morning, I have been working with cffile for the first time and in the process, read several places that you should upload files to a temp location outside your webroot for security reasons. My original problem was with trying to eliminate spaces from file names...so now this is the process

RE: Interesting idea for next CF - thoughts...

2008-02-28 Thread Brad Wood
Lol. You got me. I meant implements=, not extends=. That was the one CF8 introduced. :) ~Brad -Original Message- From: Cutter (CFRelated) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:48 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Interesting idea for next CF - thoughts... You mean

RE: unofficial ahphosting thread

2008-02-28 Thread Eric Roberts
My heads up was a buddy of mine telling me my sites were down Eric /*-Original Message- /*From: Azadi Saryev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /*Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:34 PM /*To: CF-Talk /*Subject: Re: unoffical ahphosting thread /* /*hmm... i never got any heads-up at all... /*

RE: JRun Clustering problem - Instance keeps amp;quot;shutting downamp;quot;

2008-02-28 Thread Brad Wood
Interesting. I've got to give credit to someone at Macromedia for using the work breakage. :) Well, it seems clear that IIS and the JRun connector are losing contact with the instance and subsequently removing it from the cluster. What we don't know is why. Did I understand that you have at

Re: unofficial ahphosting thread

2008-02-28 Thread Charlie Griefer
I got a heads-up email on feb 15th with a subject of AHPHosting Maintentance event - VPS Upgrade Notice. On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Eric Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My heads up was a buddy of mine telling me my sites were down Eric /*-Original Message- /*From: Azadi

Re: SOT - SQL Union Problem

2008-02-28 Thread Sonny Savage
This should do it. There's a union and a left outer join. I hope this works in Access, I've never used it... /* First Get Centennial Members */ SELECT FirstName , LastName , Address1 , Address2 , City , Country FROM tblCentennialMembers /* Now Get Members who are in the

RE: Sending File Data Over Webservice

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Watts
I have never used the symlink idea - although I've heard him mention it before. I'd be interested in a code snippet on how to do this on the fly in Linux. Would you have to pass arguments to a shell script Dave? Yes, or in Windows, to a batch file that runs the Sysinternals tool

OT - URL Rewriting, how many rules?

2008-02-28 Thread Adrian Lynch
Sorry, very quick OT. I have 20 odd rules in my .htaccess file and it may grow to 40 or 60. Is this too many? Can anyone claim to have more and do you notice any performance hit? Any links to info on this subject? Thanks. Adrian

RE: OT - URL Rewriting, how many rules?

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Watts
I have 20 odd rules in my .htaccess file and it may grow to 40 or 60. Is this too many? Can anyone claim to have more and do you notice any performance hit? Any links to info on this subject? The most I've seen in a production application was about 300, and it didn't cause any noticeable

Re: JRun Clustering problem - Instance shutting down

2008-02-28 Thread James Buckingham
Right here's hoping that this doesn't start another thread as this is getting embrassing!!! That second set are logs are obviously related to the drop of the instance and JRun starting to hand the sessions across to the other server. Not very helpful but still more information I can work on.

Re: OT - URL Rewriting, how many rules?

2008-02-28 Thread Barney Boisvert
mod_rewrite is a drop in a bucket compared to the ocean of a JEE stack, let alone one with CF on it. Using .htaccess is going to be more of a performance penalty, because of all the extra per-request file IO. Unless you have a compelling reason (like shared hosting), you should put all your

Re: OT - URL Rewriting, how many rules?

2008-02-28 Thread Barney Boisvert
mod_rewrite is a drop in a bucket compared to the ocean of a JEE stack, let alone one with CF on it. Using .htaccess is going to be more of a performance penalty, because of all the extra per-request file IO. Unless you have a compelling reason (like shared hosting), you should put all your

Does Java version matter with cf8 (standard) performance?

2008-02-28 Thread Don L
Per Mark Mandel's following piece, http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPostID=270 Your thoughts/experience? Thks. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free

RE: Sending File Data Over Webservice

2008-02-28 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
I wonder if this can also be done using underlying JAVA classes and things like that? Might be worth looking around for some libraries. Rob -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 February 2008 16:36 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Sending File Data Over

Re: Help with Rewrite Rule! (circuit.fuseaction)

2008-02-28 Thread cf coder
Here's an example, I have a rule that translates http://mysite/index.cfm?offers.booksbookid=1 to http://mysite/offers/books/somebook however none of the images on this page get displayed. I looked at an image property and the src which had the following src:

RE: Sending File Data Over Webservice

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Kruger
Dave, What's your take on heavy use of cfexecute and the shell - at least in Windows we have found it to be a little dicey. Sometimes command shells are left in the process space without terminating. -Mark -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

RE: unoffical ahphosting thread

2008-02-28 Thread CF Developer
I am not going to blame Greg for SWSoft's F-up Is AHP just one guy? What were you guys expecting? Greg chose to use SWSoft software. They may be at fault but he is responsible. Also if he makes an upgrade and doesn't have enough help if things go wrong, that is also his fault. SWSoft isn't to

schedule tasks gone missing?

2008-02-28 Thread Nick Tong
Hi All, I've just been shocked by looking in my schedule tasks (after a cf upgrade) to find no schedule tasks showing. Now the tasks are running but i just can't see them to administer them? Does anyone know how i can access these or make them show again? A quick web search didn't return

Re: Interesting idea for next CF - thoughts...

2008-02-28 Thread Jim Davis
Jim Davis said: I know it won't validate, but can't you do that now? I would expect CF to ignore any unknown attributes. Way back when, CF5 and prior, it would throw errors on attributes it didn't recognize. When CF6 was introduced they allowed you to add whatever arbitrary attributes you

Re: Does Java version matter with cf8 (standard) performance?

2008-02-28 Thread Tom McNeer
Don, On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Don L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Per Mark Mandel's following piece, http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPostID=270 Your thoughts/experience? Unfortunately, the answer is the usual: it depends. Certainly, it depends on your application(s). And

Re: Does Java version matter with cf8 (standard) performance?

2008-02-28 Thread Don L
Thank you for your thoughtful follow-up, Tom. Don Don, Unfortunately, the answer is the usual: it depends. Certainly, it depends on your application(s). And to some extent, it may depend on who you talk to. So how much of a problem the Java bug is -- or whether it's a problem for you at

Re: Help with CFLDAP and AD

2008-02-28 Thread Bonnie Woods
Thanks to you both for setting me on the right path. I figured out what I needed to do, and I'm now able to authorize users depending on their OUs. I really appreciate the help! Bonnie ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the

Re: Help with CFLDAP and AD

2008-02-28 Thread Bonnie Woods
Thanks to you both for setting me on the right path. I figured out what I needed to do, and I'm now able to authorize users depending on their OUs. I really appreciate the help! Bonnie Hi: I'm having trouble getting CFLDAP to work with my Active Directory. Here's what I have so far:

CFLDAP Security groups

2008-02-28 Thread Dan beauchemin
Hi - Trying to query a security group in Active Directoy to determine if a person belongs to it. I am getting no results when I run the below code - but I know they are a memember of the Students group. Any ideas appreciated. Dan B cfldap action=QUERY name=auth2

RE: CFLDAP Security groups

2008-02-28 Thread Dawson, Michael
Rather than querying the Students group, query the user account. The attribute you want is memberOf. It will give you a list of groups to which the user belongs. Then, search that list for Students. m!ke -Original Message- From: Dan beauchemin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: CFLDAP Security groups

2008-02-28 Thread Ian Skinner
Dan beauchemin wrote: cfldap action=QUERY name=auth2 attributes=samaccountname start=CN=Students,OU=_Groups,OU=_Users,DC=xx,DC=xx filter=samaccountname=dbeauchemin You are only returning the 'samAccountName' attribute which is just the account name of the Group itself. You

Re: Interesting idea for next CF - thoughts...

2008-02-28 Thread s. isaac dealey
I've actually gone further and created my own comment tag and parsing engine for CFC development... probably worse that this to many people but it works wonders for me and allows me to self-document my code pretty darn well. Not all that far-out for those of us who've worked with Fusedocs for

Re: Interesting idea for next CF - thoughts...

2008-02-28 Thread s. isaac dealey
Lol. You got me. I meant implements=, not extends=. That was the one CF8 introduced. :) Oh interfaces... that makes more sense. -- s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch isn't it time for a change? ph: 503.236.3691 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog

comparing data in a loop

2008-02-28 Thread Richard White
hi, i know there must be a simple answer to this but i am braindead right now and cannot think of it. this is more of a logic question, and i am lacking it right now :) i would appreciate your help please i have data in a query, e.g. col1 col2 col3 --- 1 2 3 1

Re: SOT - SQL Union Problem

2008-02-28 Thread Sonny Savage
Did that work for you Mark? On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Sonny Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This should do it. There's a union and a left outer join. I hope this works in Access, I've never used it... /* First Get Centennial Members */ SELECT FirstName , LastName ,

Re: comparing data in a loop

2008-02-28 Thread Sonny Savage
It might be useful to know that you can reference query objects like a struct of arrays: QueryName['ColumnName'][1] So cfset ColNameA = col1 cfset ColNameB = col2 cfloop query=QueryName cfif QueryName[ColNameA][QueryName.CurrentRow] EQ QueryName[ColNameA][ QueryName.CurrentRow]

Re: comparing data in a loop

2008-02-28 Thread Sonny Savage
Copy and paste error: cfif QueryName[ColNameA][QueryName.CurrentRow] EQ QueryName[ColNameB][ QueryName.CurrentRow] On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Sonny Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might be useful to know that you can reference query objects like a struct of arrays:

RE: comparing data in a loop

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Fuqua
Combine the columns using an alias and query for DISTINCT? -Original Message- From: Richard White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:16 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: comparing data in a loop hi, i know there must be a simple answer to this but i am braindead right

Re: comparing data in a loop

2008-02-28 Thread Charlie Griefer
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Richard White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i know there must be a simple answer to this but i am braindead right now and cannot think of it. this is more of a logic question, and i am lacking it right now :) i would appreciate your help please i have

An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficient

2008-02-28 Thread Don L
Sam Farmer got me started with YSlow (performance tool), thanks, Sam. With this tool, one can tell, some of the major memory hoggers include: ext-core.js (77k) grid.js (53k) -- when one looks at all the amenties, needed or not, one would know this thing is going to cost ya, now, if I may, it

Re: comparing data in a loop

2008-02-28 Thread Richard White
hi, thanks for all your replies and thanks charlie this is a very elegant solution :) i didn't even know about this function, thanks again richard ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release

Re: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficient

2008-02-28 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
So, use the CF8 components for rapid prototyping. Refactor with straight Ext for final app, optimizing what you need when you need it, and packed in any fashion you find appropriate. You said that App memory load with FckEditor was 1338k? I'm guessing you mean your client side memory load on

Re: comparing data in a loop

2008-02-28 Thread Richard White
thanks this is a good idea ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive:

How accurate is IP address / Geocode lookup?

2008-02-28 Thread Jeff Chastain
I have a client that is looking to ascertain the state ( or country if not US based ) of the current visitor to their web site. One possibility has been to use their IP address and a geocode lookup, which I have never done before. So, how accurate is doing a geocode lookup based upon IP? Does

Re: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficient

2008-02-28 Thread Tom McNeer
if I may, it would be so desirable to have, say, two options, a) light version; b) heavy one (load whatever you want)... I believe that you can load only the js pieces you need. By default, they all come in. But I believe you can import them separately. Check the docs. I'm pretty sure you

Re: Help with Rewrite Rule! (circuit.fuseaction)

2008-02-28 Thread Kay Smoljak
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:46 AM, cf coder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: however none of the images on this page get displayed. I looked at an image property and the src which had the following src: http://mysite/offers/books/images/bookimage/somebook.gif I want it to be

Re: comparing data in a loop

2008-02-28 Thread Richard White
you guys have really helped me out, thanks!!! i didnt even realise that i could do a query on a query. this will help tidy my code and business logic up no end. i am trying to do a combination of some of your suggestions as follows: --- this is the unique column array --- cfset

Re: How accurate is IP address / Geocode lookup?

2008-02-28 Thread Dae
I don't know what your idea of accurate is and I've never tested a large enough sample size to be sure, but I say it's not accurate. I say this because when I checked my IP address, it said I was in NJ. Grabbed another IP and it showed PA. I'm in MD. I checked a friends IP and it nailed him to

Re: How accurate is IP address / Geocode lookup?

2008-02-28 Thread Ben Doom
From what I understand, it's usually the ISP. However, it is often the last hop before the actual client, so it would only be inaccurate if, say, the person was in TN and the ISP was in KY. That said, at my last job, we were in KY, and we showed up as in (I think) PA, since that was where

RE: How accurate is IP address / Geocode lookup?

2008-02-28 Thread Jeff Chastain
Accurate as in at the state level within the US and from what you have said plus a few tests I have run, this does not seem to be the case. Thanks was what I needed. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Dae [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:41 PM To: CF-Talk

Re: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficient

2008-02-28 Thread Don L
Yes, I meant, client/browser side memory. Ok, so, show me some trick on trimming down ext-core.js (repackaging vs ?) , and how not to load fukEditor-gecko.js. Wny? I want it to speed up. Thanks. So, use the CF8 components for rapid prototyping. Refactor with straight Ext for final app,

Re: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficient

2008-02-28 Thread Gerald Guido
I have been evaluating inline JS editors for years and I can say that I have not very been happy with any of them so far. Even with the best of them a user can mangle a well formed page in no time flat. And not to mention that JS can be extreemly picky and temperamental. We are dealing with a

RE: Prevent users from voting twice.

2008-02-28 Thread Porter, Benjamin L.
Why not use some sort of captcha they have to enter in addition to selecting the item they wish to vote for. It is hard to automate reading captcha. That combined with a cookie will reduce the amount of duplicates. This

Re: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficient

2008-02-28 Thread Don L
Tom, thanks for the pointer... after scanning the relevant doc a bit more... Particuarly the following on the CFAJAXIMPORT tag, You can have only ONE scriptsrc attribute on a page, in a cfajaximport tag or a cfform tag. You can use a scriptsrc attribute in a cfajaximport tag to apply its value

Re: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficient

2008-02-28 Thread Don L
Thank you for sharing your insights, Gerald, option one of redoing the design for optimal performance gain on the part of the inadequacy of some of the core js compoments within the cf8 context would be very time-consuming... option two of nudging/pleading with Adobe to add more best

Re: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficient

2008-02-28 Thread Gerald Guido
If you are looking fir some pre-rolled alternatives to CF's AJAX offerings you can take a look here. http://ajaxrain.com/ This WYSIWYG was on the front page: http://projects.bundleweb.com.ar/jWYSIWYG/ I just ran into this today BTW so I cannot comment on their offerings On Thu, Feb 28, 2008

RE: SOT - SQL Union Problem

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Henderson
Sonny, Sorry for the delay, as your original message got eaten by NoSpamToday on our Exchange server (go figure) and my time zone tends to have me in bed when the *rest of the world* is hard at work. Awesome, thanks (yes I think it worked)! I do have one question however - when I do the

RE: SOT - SQL Union Problem

2008-02-28 Thread Mark Henderson
And thanks to Ben as well (and anyone else I missed), who also went into NoSpamToday (usually a product I have no hassles with). Mark -Original Message- From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 February 2008 04:42 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT - SQL Union Problem I'm not an

RE: How accurate is IP address / Geocode lookup?

2008-02-28 Thread Ben Forta
I've used this product, integrates with CF, too: http://www.cyscape.com/products/chawk/ --- Ben -Original Message- From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: How accurate is IP address / Geocode lookup? From what I

Re: How accurate is IP address / Geocode lookup?

2008-02-28 Thread Paul Hastings
Jeff Chastain wrote: I have a client that is looking to ascertain the state ( or country if not US based ) of the current visitor to their web site. One possibility has been to use their IP address and a geocode lookup, which I have never done the location you often get is where the IP block

RE: Interesting idea for next CF - thoughts...

2008-02-28 Thread Jim Davis
-Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:13 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Interesting idea for next CF - thoughts... Watch out for that though. I remember someone on this list who used to use the extends= attribute in their

RE: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficie nt

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Watts
And on js, Gzip components is recommended, does the current cf8 standard support that? For instance, ext-core.js is called by cf server instance, not manually called by a developer. Yes, if your web server is configured to gzip static files, these files will be gzipped. All CF does is write

Re: comparing data in a loop

2008-02-28 Thread Richard White
i have seen the documentation on the query on a query and it says that distinct can be used and i have it exactly as in the example so i really dont know why that error is showing! anyone seen this error before? thanks ~|

CFLDAP problem

2008-02-28 Thread david reiter
I'm having a difficult time with a client's LDAP server. I'm using the routine 2-query CFLDAP auth scheme that first confirms the username on the nameserver using admin creds, then matches the username and password using the user's creds. The code works fine on multiple other instances. But I

Re: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficie nt

2008-02-28 Thread Don L
Thanks for the idea, Dave, unfortunately my version of the web server does not seem to support compression, oddly it has a dll for compression... I'll probably need to do more research... Don Yes, if your web server is configured to gzip static files, these files will be gzipped. All CF does

Re: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficie nt

2008-02-28 Thread Rick Root
Yeah, that kind of compression is almost always a web server function. On 2/28/08, Don L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the idea, Dave, unfortunately my version of the web server does not seem to support compression, oddly it has a dll for compression... I'll probably need to do more

RE: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficie nt

2008-02-28 Thread Russ
IIS supports compression, but it's a PITA to configure. Of course MS doesn't provide any sort of GUI for this and you have to edit their xml file... Apache also supports compression and is much easier to configure. FusionReactor supports compression as well for CF content. Russ

RE: An effort to make cold fusion 8 standard edition more efficie nt

2008-02-28 Thread John Mason
IIS supports compression, but it's a PITA to configure. Of course MS doesn't provide any sort of GUI for this and you have to edit their xml file... Actually you don't, if you want to use IIS compression, there is a plugin called HttpZip by Port80. It's a GUI plugin to manage the IIS settings

No focus on page, when page loads

2008-02-28 Thread ismail cassiem
Hi, i'm using an xslt file that loads my page - which does not use a body. The problem i have is that everytime i open the page the focus is on the submit button. I don't really want that - where i just want no focus when the page opens up. I geuss a javascript is needed but i also dont have a

Experienced CF Dev seeking telecommute work between June and August

2008-02-28 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
Hi All, Here's my situation. I am a ColdFusion developer with 10 years of CF experience going from CF8 all the way back to CF3. I am also (primarily, since this year) a high school computer science and web design teacher and I am looking for something to keep myself busy during the summer