Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Hastings
Jochem van Dieten wrote: > Have you checked MapServer: http://mapserver.org/ yes, mapserver would be my first choice for a free "host your own" web-based spatial data server. it has many options that allows you to be pretty flexible in how you build out your front-ends ("simple", WMS, tiled, etc

Re: Railo Hosting or a very basic VPS to install it on

2009-01-20 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
>IMHO kickassvps.com offers the best bang for the buck I have seen to date in >that price range (however cloud hosting is starting to look very >attractive). Another vote for KickAss. I have one client running Railo on their Windows VPS and haven't had any problems since setting it up about 6 mon

RE: Creating a PDF outline

2009-01-20 Thread Chuck
Thanks for the replies. I have it figured out. I will create a PDF with a bookmark in it using and bookmarks set to no when the file is uploaded. Chuck ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic rel

Re: cffile uploads and Load balancing

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Bailey
We always used a shared network directory when saving uploads when using load balancing, not sure if that would make any difference or not, though. It was always the rule of thumb Thanks! Robert Bailey 210.748.2363 Richard Steele wrote: > We are getting an HTTP 503 Upload Error when using cff

RE: cffile cannot access network drive

2009-01-20 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
If you cant change one, then change the other. As in, change CF to run as you. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com -Original Message- From: sam Detweiler [mailto:sdetw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:57 PM To: cf-talk Subject: R

Re: Railo Hosting or a very basic VPS to install it on

2009-01-20 Thread Gerald Guido
IMHO kickassvps.com offers the best bang for the buck I have seen to date in that price range (however cloud hosting is starting to look very attractive). Hosting is a lot like the old adage for pricing projects. Your options: Fast, Good or Cheap. Pick two. EX: If the service is inexpensive and y

Re: Railo Hosting or a very basic VPS to install it on

2009-01-20 Thread James Holmes
I'm going to +1 Viviotech here. If you're supplying Railo, Viviotech should be very cost effective. mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ 2009/1/21 Yves Arsenault: > Hey there, > I had an ultra root package @ http://viviotech.net also... now I have a >

Re: cffile cannot access network drive

2009-01-20 Thread sam Detweiler
> well, I don't know on the first.. the 'other system' is really a > virtual machine running under my userid with a shared drive. I can't > logoff or the VM will be shut down. > > I am using drive letters, not UNC > > Sam and it doesn't matter, fails with UNCs as well. Sam ~~~

Re: cffile cannot access network drive

2009-01-20 Thread sam Detweiler
>> thanks.. created a special account, but this didn't help >> either. > >Are you able to access the network shares with that account if you >login directly? Are you using drive mappings or UNC paths? > >Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >http://www.figleaf.com/ > well, I don't know on the first.

Re: Railo Hosting or a very basic VPS to install it on

2009-01-20 Thread Yves Arsenault
Hey there, I had an ultra root package @ http://viviotech.net also... now I have a dedicated server running BD7. I will say this about Viviotech Jordan, Mark and crew have always done a great job with any questions I've had and anytime I've submitted a support ticket they've been quick to reply

cffile uploads and Load balancing

2009-01-20 Thread Richard Steele
We are getting an HTTP 503 Upload Error when using cffile and uploading multiple files from one computer and load balancing. Without load balancing it's not a problem. What might be going on here? ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 softwa

Re: cffile cannot access network drive

2009-01-20 Thread Dave Watts
> thanks.. created a special account, but this didn't help > either. Are you able to access the network shares with that account if you login directly? Are you using drive mappings or UNC paths? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest cal

Re: iPhone Development

2009-01-20 Thread Chuck Wade
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Re: cffile cannot access network drive

2009-01-20 Thread sam Detweiler
> > thanks.. this is CF on tomcat.. tomcat is running on the system > account with permission > > to interact with the console.. > > That is not sufficient to access network resources. SYSTEM has no > access to network resources. You must run CF as an account with > explicit access to those resou

Re: iPhone Development

2009-01-20 Thread Chuck Wade
http://iphonetester.com/ ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Carl Von Stetten
Ian, You might look into MapGuide Open Source http://mapguide.osgeo.org Carl >Anybody out there work with serving GIS data on a website. > >We have our own, custom GIS data and we would like to serve it on our >website. I have looked an using the Google Map API and it can serve up >cus

Re: cffile cannot access network drive

2009-01-20 Thread Dave Watts
> thanks.. this is CF on tomcat.. tomcat is running on the system account with > permission > to interact with the console.. That is not sufficient to access network resources. SYSTEM has no access to network resources. You must run CF as an account with explicit access to those resources. Ideall

Re: cffile cannot access network drive

2009-01-20 Thread sam Detweiler
>sam Detweiler wrote: > >ColdFusion does not run as you, it does not have your permissions. You >have to configure it as a user that does have the desired permissions. thanks.. this is CF on tomcat.. tomcat is running on the system account with permission to interact with the console.. Sam ~

Re: configure CF8 to use iPlanet instead of the internal web server

2009-01-20 Thread Dave Watts
> I am trying to configure our CF8 to use iPlanet instead of the internal > web server, and there is one line to be executed, I can't find the > definition anywhere: > > wsconfig -server coldfusion -ws iplanet -dir path_to_config -coldfusion > -v > > I am not sure what exactly the 'path_to_config'

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > I am not sure what format exactly our GIS is in. I know our > cartographer uses some level of ESRI's desktop GIS tools. I am trying > to get more specifics from him. > > At the least we would like to have something like a Google Map (but we >

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Parkhill
Ian Manifold comes with a 'web server' or at least a version of the program that will serve up maps from a specified directory. You have to put Manifold onto a computer and then set it up with your map data. As I read it, it seems relatively straight forward (although I am sure that there are som

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Skinner
Rob Parkhill wrote: > We have plans to do such a thing. We are looking at Manifold. It comes > with a IMS built in, and it is very inexpensive (relative to 'other' > solutions). > http://www.manifold.net/ > > Rob Thanks for the link, I'm reading now and the first thing I do see is a price tag m

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Skinner
Jochem van Dieten wrote: > In what format do you have your GIS data? What do you want to do with > it, just make it into pictures or overlay it on somebody elses > (Google, Yahoo etc.) dataset? > > Jochem I am not sure what format exactly our GIS is in. I know our cartographer uses some level of

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > We have our own, custom GIS data and we would like to serve it on our > website. I have looked an using the Google Map API and it can serve up > custom data, if you can get it 'tiled'. But I am finding that it can be > very challenging to get

Re: Railo Hosting or a very basic VPS to install it on

2009-01-20 Thread gary gilbert
I have a ultra root package with http://viviotech.net Full Root Access - 5 MB (50 GB) Disk Space - 1024 MB (1 GB) RAM - 2048 MB (2 GB) Swap - 1.5Mbps Unlimited* Transfer Which runs about 50 USD/month. Been running them since end of November no complaints so far. Gary Gilbert http://www.gary

Re: SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Parkhill
We have plans to do such a thing. We are looking at Manifold. It comes with a IMS built in, and it is very inexpensive (relative to 'other' solutions). http://www.manifold.net/ Rob On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > Anybody out there work with serving GIS data on a website.

configure CF8 to use iPlanet instead of the internal web server

2009-01-20 Thread DZIOBEK, JOSEPH (JOE), ATTSI
Hi, I noticed this ColdFusion Community page and would like to give it a try: I am trying to configure our CF8 to use iPlanet instead of the internal web server, and there is one line to be executed, I can't find the definition anywhere: wsconfig -server coldfusion -ws iplanet -dir path_to_confi

SOT: Serving GIS data on the cheap.

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Skinner
Anybody out there work with serving GIS data on a website. We have our own, custom GIS data and we would like to serve it on our website. I have looked an using the Google Map API and it can serve up custom data, if you can get it 'tiled'. But I am finding that it can be very challenging to g

Re: cffile cannot access network drive

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Skinner
sam Detweiler wrote: > I have an application that needs to access files on another machine, whose > drives are mapped here.. I can do anything I want from the commandline, or > browser or windows explorer on that drive.. but CF will not allow me to > access it.. > > read, write or list.. > > any

Re: cffile cannot access network drive

2009-01-20 Thread Andrew Scott
Have you checked to see that the account ColdFusion is running under has the correct permission on that server? On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:25 AM, sam Detweiler wrote: > I have an application that needs to access files on another machine, whose > drives are mapped here.. I can do anything I want

cffile cannot access network drive

2009-01-20 Thread sam Detweiler
I have an application that needs to access files on another machine, whose drives are mapped here.. I can do anything I want from the commandline, or browser or windows explorer on that drive.. but CF will not allow me to access it.. read, write or list.. anyone know of a workaround? thanks

RE: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the link...I look forward to following along! Rick > -Original Message- > From: Andy Matthews [mailto:li...@commadelimited.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:30 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: RE: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org? > > V1 is the current s

RE: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Andy Matthews
V1 is the current site: www.andymatthews.net It's modeled on code from my family blog: www.andyandjaime.com Which in turn is code that I've been tweaking for about 5 years now. I've been planning on rewriting the whole thing to use best practices, more efficient memory use, more use of JavaScri

RE: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Rick Faircloth
Very good... I'll be interested in following the development every day as I'm about to start down that path. I'll actually be developing two blog sites (just for personal use), but only one at the moment. I have a basic style for the interface started and I've got a database set up (I modeled it

Re: Coldfusion killed my query?

2009-01-20 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Adrian Lynch wrote: > Is it true that the SQL will perform better if you cfqp any static values > too? So: > > WHERE > > over: > > WHERE id = 1 I'm sure you can design scenario's where that will be faster (mainly where you are approaching the maximum number of pre

RE: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Andy Matthews
Yes I am. My current blog is running on v1. It's mostly spaghetti code, not well formed, etc. Part of my goal is to document the rewriting process and blog about it WHILE I'm in the middle of the conversion. I started off as a designer so I've got a lot of good ideas on how to improve the interface

RE: Railo Hosting or a very basic VPS to install it on

2009-01-20 Thread Rick Faircloth
Been with http://www.kickassvps.com since July without 1 single problem! And no downtown. Good VPS package with CF8. I installed MySQL. Rick > -Original Message- > From: Gerald Guido [mailto:gerald.gu...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:23 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re:

AW: Railo Hosting or a very basic VPS to install it on

2009-01-20 Thread Gert Franz
Hi Adrian, I was just about to recommend the same hoster: kickassvps.com The guys there are doing a tremendous job. First heard of them by Mary Jo Sminkey from cfwebstore. If you need any help, let me know. Greetings from Switzerland Gert Franz Railo Technologies GmbH gert.fr...@railo.ch www.rail

Re: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Raymond Camden
Pinging is done via a set of URLs, with a few shortcuts. If you put @technorati as a url, it will ping technorati. Ditto for @weblogs and @icerocket. I built those in as I thought (back then) that they were common ones folks would want, AND they have special requirements. Any other URL is simply do

Re: Railo Hosting or a very basic VPS to install it on

2009-01-20 Thread adrian lynch
The lack of RAM really. I was hoping I'd pay less by dropping ColdFusion and get more RAM at the same time. I like HMS, their tech support has been awesome although I would have liked never to have had the need to talk to them, but when I do they're always there and very helpful. I wanted to

RE: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Andy Matthews
Ray... As a curiousity, in BlogCFC, how do you manage pinging? What I mean is do you have to ping every aggregator? Is CFBloggers built in? What about Full as a Goog? Feedburner, etc? I mistakenly assumed that if my blog was grouped in CFBloggers that new posts would automatically get picked up.

RE: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Rick Faircloth
(Sorry to jump into this thread, but...) I just wanted to ask you, Andy, if you were blogging about your work on your blog software. I'm getting ready to do the same thing and would love to see how you're proceeding, what your considerations are, etc... Rick > -Original Message- > From

Re: Railo Hosting or a very basic VPS to install it on

2009-01-20 Thread Gerald Guido
http://www.kickassvps.com I have been running on Railo for about maybe 4-5 months. No complaints. none. G! On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Adrian Lynch wrote: > I'm looking to reduce costs by getting a basic VPS package and installing > Railo, Apache, Tomcat/Resin and SQL Server 2008 Express.

Re: Railo Hosting or a very basic VPS to install it on

2009-01-20 Thread Charlie Griefer
if you're happy with HMS, why not just go for their base VPS package? http://www.hostmysite.com/vps/windows/base/ you can install the apps you're talking about on there. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Adrian Lynch wrote: > I'm looking to reduce costs by getting a basic VPS package and installi

Railo Hosting or a very basic VPS to install it on

2009-01-20 Thread Adrian Lynch
I'm looking to reduce costs by getting a basic VPS package and installing Railo, Apache, Tomcat/Resin and SQL Server 2008 Express. I've been with Crystaltech and HostMySite for a while now, I love the whole VPS approach but the cost is a bit much for some projects so I thought I'd give the above t

Re: Creating a PDF outline

2009-01-20 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Chuck wrote: > Thanks for the reply, but I'm not creating the individual PDFs. I'm merging > together multiple PDFs that the site user has uploaded. The uploaded PDFs > are scanned documents, so they are images and not text. http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8

Re: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Raymond Camden
Yep, any good blog software should support 'ping on post'. Worse comes to worse, you can bookmark it of course. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Andy Matthews wrote: > So moving forward, should I be pinging CFBloggers after each blog post? I'm > in the process of writing my own blog software so

Re: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Raymond Camden
Didn't take it that way at all. :) I just worry as I occasionally see posts here about my sites/products, and since I'm not on the list every day, I want to make sure folks know they can contact me. As it stands, my code is 100% perfect and bug free, so it's not like I have anything to worry about

RE: New Project: shrinkURL - API wrapper for URL shortening services

2009-01-20 Thread Andy Matthews
Actually, it got approved sooner than I was expecting, sometime either early this morning, or late last night. I wasn't expecting it until around work start time and I would have been waiting with the zip file. You're just too fast for me Ray. -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mai

RE: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Andy Matthews
So moving forward, should I be pinging CFBloggers after each blog post? I'm in the process of writing my own blog software so it's not built in like it might be with BlogCFC. andy -Original Message- From: gary gilbert [mailto:g...@garyrgilbert.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:35

RE: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Andy Matthews
Hey Ray... My email was no criticism of you, or your site (just so you know). I just didn't want to bother you with something that was most likely my fault. Trying to take care of it on my own before having to come to you about a small thing. Thanks for your input everyone. andy -Original

Re: New Project: shrinkURL - API wrapper for URL shortening services

2009-01-20 Thread Raymond Camden
Yeah that dang RIAForge admin is a slow sob. ;) (Sorry for the OT Michael, don't hate me!) On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Andy Matthews wrote: > HAH! > > I couldn't upload a file for the project until it was approved (which wasn't > until this morning). I'll upload a zip file in a short while.

RE: New Project: shrinkURL - API wrapper for URL shortening services

2009-01-20 Thread Andy Matthews
Okay...sorry about that. Download link is place now. andy -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:li...@commadelimited.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:45 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: New Project: shrinkURL - API wrapper for URL shortening services HAH! I couldn't upload

Re: Strange error with cffeed

2009-01-20 Thread James Holmes
Yes, I think that qualifies as a bug and I'll report it. If I were also theoretically on a beta for CF9 I'd be hypothetically testing it there too and reporting it if it still happens. Perhaps people who are in that beta can check. Jochem lists other tags that need special sandboxing - this is als

RE: New Project: shrinkURL - API wrapper for URL shortening services

2009-01-20 Thread Andy Matthews
HAH! I couldn't upload a file for the project until it was approved (which wasn't until this morning). I'll upload a zip file in a short while. andy -Original Message- From: Che Vilnonis [mailto:ch...@asitv.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:32 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: New Proj

Re: Strange error with cffeed

2009-01-20 Thread Raymond Camden
Big +1 here. Please log a bug for this (www.adobe.com/go/wish). CFFEED is a nasty beast that has had many bugs over the past. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Matthew Williams wrote: > Wow.. that's obscure. I need to bookmark this as we're moving to > sandboxing in the future. Are you planning

Re: Creating a PDF outline

2009-01-20 Thread Raymond Camden
Oh, you mean bookmarks I think. CF8 supports that. Just read the docs for cfdocument and cfdocumentsection. It is VERY helpful. I use it at the ColdFusionCookbook.com site to generate the PDF. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Chuck wrote: > Let me explain what I'm looking for. > > Sometimes when

RE: New Project: shrinkURL - API wrapper for URL shortening services

2009-01-20 Thread Che Vilnonis
Where's the link to download... -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:andymatth...@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:51 PM To: cf-talk Subject: SOT: New Project: shrinkURL - API wrapper for URL shortening services Just wanted to take a minute to announce a new proj

Re: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Raymond Camden
Gary had the best idea, well, the second best idea. You do know you can contact me via the site, right? Or email me at r...@camdenfamily.com. I don't mind direct emails and it is probably best as I don't monitor cf-talk religiously. The ping option is best. The scheduled task runs every 20 minutes.

Re: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread gary gilbert
I believe there is a 30 minute scheduler running that goes through all the feeds, though it could be a bit longer. You could also ping cfbloggers in my case: http://www.coldfusionbloggers.org/ping.cfm?burl=http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog That will naturally force an immediate update of your si

Re: How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
Check your feed for bad characters. The last time this happened to me I had a bad character, which prevented CFB from picking it up. Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Co-Author of "Learning Ext JS" http://www.packtpub.com/learning-ex

RE: Creating a PDF outline

2009-01-20 Thread Chuck
Thanks for the reply, but I'm not creating the individual PDFs. I'm merging together multiple PDFs that the site user has uploaded. The uploaded PDFs are scanned documents, so they are images and not text. You did give me some ideas that I will try thou. Thanks again, Chuck ~~

Re: Strange error with cffeed

2009-01-20 Thread Matthew Williams
Wow.. that's obscure. I need to bookmark this as we're moving to sandboxing in the future. Are you planning on reporting this to Adobe as a bug? Matthew Williams Geodesic GraFX ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most

How long to get new posts picked up by CFBloggers.org?

2009-01-20 Thread Andy Matthews
Ray added me to CFBloggers.org about 5 days ago. Since then I've made two new posts but neither of them have gotten picked up by the site. Do I need to do something specific or should it be automatic? I posted this on the 17th: http://www.andymatthews.net/read/2009/01/17/Locks-of-Love:-or-how-I-

Re: SOT: New Project: shrinkURL - API wrapper for URL shortening services

2009-01-20 Thread Andy Matthews
>Hi Andy, > Looks nice, but why wouldn't you just create the short URL using >your own domain? I do that, and it allows me to count how many >people click each short link, and also lets me put links back to my >website all over the web, instead of links to the short url websites? > Al I per