RE: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Will Swain
Google and meta tags: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywo rds-meta-tag.html -Original Message- From: Kevin Pepperman [mailto:chorno...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 January 2010 06:16 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: meta tag location >From my research on severa

Re: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Kevin Pepperman
>From my research on several large commerce websites I have worked on, Google does not even use the Meta Description, page Title or URL for page rank or position. It may look like they do since they highlight the keywords in the results, but that does not mean it is used that way. Google does no

Re: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Dave Watts
> I think you better rethink that one. The Title Meta tag and the Meta > Description tags are 2 very, very important tags as far as the search > engines go. Yes the meta keywords is no longer in use but for proof look in > the organic search for a top ranking page and then view source and a good >

Re: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Dave Watts
> I usually put a few meta tags in the application.cfm file, and a few > more on the individual pages.  Is there any danger to not keeping all > the meta tags in one place?  A client claims their google ranking has > fallen since this has been done. They should ideally all be in the HEAD of the d

RE: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Terry Troxel
I think you better rethink that one. The Title Meta tag and the Meta Description tags are 2 very, very important tags as far as the search engines go. Yes the meta keywords is no longer in use but for proof look in the organic search for a top ranking page and then view source and a good percentag

Re: CF5 download

2010-01-06 Thread Kevin Pepperman
So, Just a follow up. I received a copy of CF5 enterprise from kind members of this list, thanks again. The original license I had was only for Linux. Since it was given to the company I am working at for free when Macromedia Generator was phased out. So I did a test install in a Ubuntu VM, only

Re: Is it possible for a ColdFusion web service method to return an object?

2010-01-06 Thread Leigh
I am pretty sure you can return complex objects. But I do not know what the limitations/compatibility issues might be. I tried your code with CF9 last night, and it does work. I do not have access to CF8 right now, but have you tried something like this: TestWebservice.cfm http://localhost/web

RE: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Jacob
What are the meta tags? Meta tags are 99% useless for search engine ranking. Remove them and see what happens. -Original Message- From: Les Irvin [mailto:les.cft...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:41 AM To: cf-talk Subject: meta tag location I usually put a few meta ta

ImageFlare / Efflare Licensing Issues

2010-01-06 Thread Alan Rother
Hey Does anyone know how to ACTUALLY get hold of someone from Efflare? I've called the phone number on their website and filled out their support form... No response... I have to get an answer on a license issue ASAP... Lawyers from a Fortune 500 company are asking questions... These are people

Re: meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Casey Dougall
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Les Irvin wrote: > > I usually put a few meta tags in the application.cfm file, and a few > more on the individual pages. Is there any danger to not keeping all > the meta tags in one place? A client claims their google ranking has > fallen since this has been d

meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Les Irvin
I usually put a few meta tags in the application.cfm file, and a few more on the individual pages. Is there any danger to not keeping all the meta tags in one place? A client claims their google ranking has fallen since this has been done. Thanks, Les ~~~

Re: Is it possible for a ColdFusion web service method to return an object?

2010-01-06 Thread Judah McAuley
I believe you can send complex objects with SOAP but I never utilized that feature and haven't worked with SOAP in some time. I'd start by looking at the docs for SOAP services in CF and see where that leads you. Judah On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Ian Skinner wrote: > > I am experimenting t

Re: How to query encrypted password

2010-01-06 Thread Judah McAuley
Encryption is not the same thing as Hashing. Encryption is reversible, hashing (ideally) is a one-way function. Common hashing algorithms include MD5 and SHA1 Common encryption algorithms include AES, RSA and Blowfish Hashing of passwords and storing them in the database unencrypted is the most

Re: Is it possible for a ColdFusion web service method to return an object?

2010-01-06 Thread Cutter (ColdFusion)
I don't have a ton of experience with web services, but I would think the answer is no. Web services generally return string representations of data, either in the form of XML or JSON. You could use something like cfajaxproxy to create a js proxy object to a cfc, but even then you would need t

RE: How to query encrypted password

2010-01-06 Thread Dave Phillips
Oh yeah, YES - It's the Yodeling Encryption System - the method is quite simple actually, but deeply mathematical in principle - Each encryption is done using a key of the binary data produced by a 10 second yodeler. No two yodels are alike, of course, so that produces a mathematically impossible

Re: How to query encrypted password

2010-01-06 Thread Dave Watts
> Interesting - I have never heard of the encryption algorithm called "Yes". It's very flexible! Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VSOB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber v

Is it possible for a ColdFusion web service method to return an object?

2010-01-06 Thread Ian Skinner
I am experimenting to see if it is possible for a ColdFusion web service method to somehow return another object of some sort. I am not having any luck with either my code or searching Google, but I wanted to ask before I gave this up as impossible. My last experiment looked something like

Re: How to query encrypted password

2010-01-06 Thread Cameron Childress
Interesting - I have never heard of the encryption algorithm called "Yes". -Cameron On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Nathan Chen wrote: > Yes, and it is in Oracle 11g. > > Nathan > > -Original Message- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] > > How was the password encrypted in

RE: How to query encrypted password

2010-01-06 Thread Nathan Chen
Yes, and it is in Oracle 11g. Nathan -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 9:05 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: How to query encrypted password > I need to query an Oracle user table where username and encrypted > password are stor

Re: McAfee OnAccess Scan and ColdFusion Servers: Performance

2010-01-06 Thread Dominic Watson
Thanks Dave. 2010/1/6 Dave Watts > > > AV programs can cause major performance issues on database servers and > > Web servers. I've seen servers so taxed by active virus scans that > > they no longer accept incoming connections. Servers generally don't > > need any AV programs, unless you allow

Re: McAfee OnAccess Scan and ColdFusion Servers: Performance

2010-01-06 Thread Dominic Watson
Thanks alot Mike, that's really helpful. Dominic 2010/1/6 Mike Chabot > > AV programs can cause major performance issues on database servers and > Web servers. I've seen servers so taxed by active virus scans that > they no longer accept incoming connections. Servers generally don't > need any

Re: McAfee OnAccess Scan and ColdFusion Servers: Performance

2010-01-06 Thread Dave Watts
> AV programs can cause major performance issues on database servers and > Web servers. I've seen servers so taxed by active virus scans that > they no longer accept incoming connections. Servers generally don't > need any AV programs, unless you allow anonymous people to upload > files to them, i

Re: McAfee OnAccess Scan and ColdFusion Servers: Performance

2010-01-06 Thread Mike Chabot
AV programs can cause major performance issues on database servers and Web servers. I've seen servers so taxed by active virus scans that they no longer accept incoming connections. Servers generally don't need any AV programs, unless you allow anonymous people to upload files to them, in which ca

McAfee OnAccess Scan and ColdFusion Servers: Performance

2010-01-06 Thread Dominic Watson
Afternoon all, We have McAfee enterprise running on our live webservers and I've noticed performance issues that may be to do with the OnAccess scanner scanning .jar and possibly .class files. One very obvious symptom occurs when restarting CF: with scanning turned off, a restart happens nearly i

RE: (ot) Powerpoint question

2010-01-06 Thread Dave Merrill
I think that PowerPoint lets you draw directly on slides within PowerPoint itself, in full screen mode. There are keyboard shortcuts to erase annotations, show and hide the mouse pointer, etc. Dave Merrill Web . Database . Interaction Design > -Original Message- > From: Stefan Richter

(ot) Powerpoint question

2010-01-06 Thread Stefan Richter
Hi all, sorry for the OT question but I think someone here may be able to advise. Is it technically possible to keep an application (for example a Windows executable of some kind) on top of a Powerpoint presentation which is in fullscreen, presenter mode? Imagine I was presenting a PPT file and