Re: Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs

2010-01-20 Thread Andy Allan
There was a lot of activity in Europe in 2009: * ColdFusion Insider Workshop Tour, which visited a good dozen European countries if not more * Ben Forta UG Tour, probably visiting half a dozen countries, if not more * Scotch on the Road UK and Scotch on the Road Europe, which visited Scotland, En

RE: Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs

2010-01-20 Thread William Seiter
I can't speak to your experience with [A] or [C], but I will try to do a parallel to [B]. In Los Angeles, we have had what amounts to a 'dead' CF user group. I think 2 meetings in the last year since it was resurrected, after being shelved for many many years. However, the job market for CF dev

Re: Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs

2010-01-20 Thread AJ Mercer
2010/1/21 Sean Corfield > > I don't actually see it locally - there are three CFUGs within easy > driving distance for me and they're all active and have lots of > interesting (and CF-focused) talks. But I am hearing it from various > parts of the world. Is it a UG manager problem perhaps? i.e

Re: Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs

2010-01-20 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Mike Kear wrote: > I know that's a 'Chicken Little" kind of subject line.  I hope my > impressions are wrong.   Might be - i have been wrong before.  I > remember i was wrong once when i thought i was incorrect, but i wasnt. Ah, Mike, how long's it been since you

Re: Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs

2010-01-20 Thread Mike Kear
Eric, I hope you're right and i'm just panicking unnecessarily. But when i see little or no promotion, very little discussion about CF, bugger all interest from the user groups, and no jobs that adds up to a pretty serious malaise i fear. Every night i have some of my favourite job boards se

RE: Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs

2010-01-20 Thread Eric Roberts
Three's not much hiring going on period. Just in case you have been living in a cave, we do have a crappy economy with buttloads of unemployment. I was getting several calls a week up until about June...then it died. It has nothing to do with CF, it has to do with lack of funds to do projects.

Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs

2010-01-20 Thread Mike Kear
I know that's a 'Chicken Little" kind of subject line. I hope my impressions are wrong. Might be - i have been wrong before. I remember i was wrong once when i thought i was incorrect, but i wasnt. Anyway, these are the reasons i think the trends tell me ColdFusion is either a dead duck of s

RE: ColdFusion|JRun CPU and|or memory problem.

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Kruger
I'll second that on the memory tracking - I wish I could disable the button so an unwary admin doesn't accidentaly crash the server for me (yikes). Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MCSE (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: b...@br

RE: 64bit CF Server and System DSNs - Solved

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Kruger
That is an outstanding tip... Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MCSE (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Bobby [mailto:bo...@acoderslife.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:14 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: 64bit CF Server and

Re: Article feed for website

2010-01-20 Thread Mike Little
basically something very light, that a visitor can embed in their own website code. it ultimately will show the latest articles posted on the clients website. a jquery solution may be good, however i wish to try and avoid the visitor having too complicated code to intregrate. i know i have used

Re: Can application scope gateways/DAOs returning an array of Objects?

2010-01-20 Thread Jonathan Price
I tried this, and I'm not seeing any of non-local scoped vars showing up. I see each of my DAOs and Gateways and each of their internal methods, but I don't see any reference to the non-local vars (of which, I know there are many). I'm just doing a , correct? Jonathan > Jonathan Price wrote

Re: 64bit CF Server and System DSNs - Solved

2010-01-20 Thread Bobby
There actually IS a 64bit version of the MSDASQL provider. After installing that and adding 'Provider=MSDASQL;' to all connection strings, everything started working fine. Bobby Hartsfiled wrote: > Normal > 0 > > false > false > false > > EN-US > X-NONE > X-NONE > > Microsoft

Re: Article feed for website

2010-01-20 Thread Qing Xia
Do you mean like an RSS feed...? On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Mike Little wrote: > > hi guys, > > my client wishes to make available code (javascript??) that website > visitors can embed in their own websites/blogs to display the most recent > articles. > > this is the first time i am tryin

Article feed for website

2010-01-20 Thread Mike Little
hi guys, my client wishes to make available code (javascript??) that website visitors can embed in their own websites/blogs to display the most recent articles. this is the first time i am trying this so any pointers in the right direction would really be appreciated. could this be an iframe

RE: ColdFusion|JRun CPU and|or memory problem.

2010-01-20 Thread brad
> Yes, looking at the task manager we clearly see one of the JRun services > spinning at 50% (we have a 2 cpu server). In that case, I would focus in on getting some stack traces of exactly what your server is doing while experiencing these problems. That can be done easily cfom the CF server m

Re: ColdFusion|JRun CPU and|or memory problem.

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Mandel
+1 to Dominic Very useful tool! and can be setup so you can access the server remotely - it doesn't have to run on the same server. Mark On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Dominic Watson < watson.domi...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Something else to look at is jConsole. It comes with the Java SD

Re: ColdFusion|JRun CPU and|or memory problem.

2010-01-20 Thread Ian Skinner
On 1/20/2010 3:03 PM, b...@bradwood.com wrote: > Is the jrun process specifically consuming the CPU usage, or is another > process using it? Is SQL Server or any thing else also running on this > box? > Yes, looking at the task manager we clearly see one of the JRun services spinning at 50%

Re: ColdFusion|JRun CPU and|or memory problem.

2010-01-20 Thread Dominic Watson
Something else to look at is jConsole. It comes with the Java SDK and will let you look at any java app's memory, thread and cpu usage in detail (you'll need to change jrun's JVM args to have it report those stats). Something like SeeFusion will have some more ColdFusion specific stuff (long runni

Re: ColdFusion|JRun CPU and|or memory problem.

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Mandel
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Ian Skinner wrote: > > First of all - having memory tracking enabled in your production server > is > > going to make it crawl ;o) > > > > Well, this is an Intranet web server that has a minimal load probably > measured in a dozen or two simultaneous requests

RE: ColdFusion|JRun CPU and|or memory problem.

2010-01-20 Thread brad
Is the jrun process specifically consuming the CPU usage, or is another process using it? Is SQL Server or any thing else also running on this box? Also, how much memory does jrun usually use? What are you min and max heap arguments? Windows may have 1 Gig allocated to jrun, but you may only b

RE: CF9 equivalent of getPageContext().getBuiltInScopes()

2010-01-20 Thread brad
I don't know the answer to your question, but you can poke around by dumping out the object and/or Java Reflection to see what methods/properties exist in the page context object now. You might get lucky and find the method was just renamed. Then again, CF9 might have totally re-worked that and

Re: ColdFusion|JRun CPU and|or memory problem.

2010-01-20 Thread Ian Skinner
On 1/20/2010 1:57 PM, Mark Mandel wrote: > First of all - having memory tracking enabled in your production server is > going to make it crawl ;o) > Well, this is an Intranet web server that has a minimal load probably measured in a dozen or two simultaneous requests at most. So while t

Re: Random "Error Occurred on Line -1" CF Errors

2010-01-20 Thread Gerald Guido
Unfortunately I know exactly what you are talking about. You aren't using Rob Gonda's sql.cfc by chance? http://sqlcfc.riaforge.org/ That is where we ran into it. It was truly a phantom bug as in we could *never* replicate it. It happened randomly and if you refreshed the page after you got the

Re: ColdFusion|JRun CPU and|or memory problem.

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Mandel
First of all - having memory tracking enabled in your production server is going to make it crawl ;o) I would start with thread dumps. You can do this through the monitor (there is a snapshot feature that I believe does this), although setting up a cron job or similar to fire the Java command

RE: ColdFusion|JRun CPU and|or memory problem.

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Kruger
Ian, Doing triage I always look at (in order). 1) client vars - are they stored in the registry? If so you could have an issue deleting that that "shows up" as the purge process starts hitting actual values to attempt to delete. 2) DB issues - Trouble on the DB spells trouble for the CF Server f

ColdFusion|JRun CPU and|or memory problem.

2010-01-20 Thread Ian Skinner
Any good information on how to track down what is causing a ColdFusion server to behave badly. The symptoms we have to date: 1) Starting January 5th, our Windows 2003, ColdFusion Web Server will suddenly jump from under 5% CPU usage to an average over 50% with frequent spikes to 80%, 90% and

Re: Random "Error Occurred on Line -1" CF Errors

2010-01-20 Thread Kyle McLean
Gerald: Thanks for your help! Do you know of any way that this missing array value can be triggered via CF code? Based on the debug output it looks like this is an array issue thrown from deep down in the bowels of ColdFusion through Java. I haven't been able to replicate it using some intenti

RE: Homesite on Windows 7 x 64?

2010-01-20 Thread Justin Scott
> Yeah. You have to install it using compatibility mode. I have > it running fine on Win7 64. Seconded. I was able to install HomeSite+ 5.5 in Windows XP Compatibility Mode and it works like a charm. -Justin ~| Want to reac

RE: FedEx web service

2010-01-20 Thread Leigh
> I can send you the XML they are sending me if you would > like to look at it to see what I mean. Yes, feel free send it off-list if you prefer. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let t

Re: Homesite on Windows 7 x 64?

2010-01-20 Thread Gerald Guido
Yeah. You have to install it using compatibility mode. I have it running fine on Win7 64. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=compatibility+mode+windows+7&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS324US324&ie=UTF-8&aq=0&oq=compatibility+mode+wi On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Greg Luce wrote: >

Homesite on Windows 7 x 64?

2010-01-20 Thread Greg Luce
I have lived without Homesite's awesome search and replace for over a month but couldn't stand it any longer. (I've been using the latest CFBuilder) But I tried installing Homesite+ and Homesite 5.5 with no luck. Homesite+ installed but then wouldn't start up. Homesite 5.5 won't even make it throu

Re: CF5 download

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Pepperman
Pablo (webmas...@easycfm.com) and Dan Blickensderfer originally provided it for me. I credit them for providing it for me when I needed it. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on t

RE: FedEx web service

2010-01-20 Thread Chad Gray
Huh... I just noticed that the ground service GROUND_HOME_DELIVERY only have two "ratedShipmentDetails" nodes. Why do all the other service types have four? I guess the safest way is just to grab the first "RatedShipmentDetails" node data and add TotalNetCharge and EffectiveNetDiscount to g

RE: FedEx web service

2010-01-20 Thread Chad Gray
Leigh, I have a customer that gets a discount on their FedEx shipping because of the quantity they ship. If a FedEx account that does not get a discount have this same structure that I am getting? I don’t want to put code up on the code.google.com if it is not accurate for all account types.

Re: More Efficient (Faster) Method

2010-01-20 Thread Leigh
> Basically, you want to figure out what > the program should do, build the program, and deal with > performance problems if they exist - they may force you to reconsider > what the program needs to do, or they may force you to identify > better ways to do the same thing. That, added to Sean's co

CF9 equivalent of getPageContext().getBuiltInScopes()

2010-01-20 Thread Larry Lyons
Greetings. In CF8 there was a great undocumented function within the getPageContext() method called getBuiltInScopes() that basically returns all the scopes available to the request. Unfortunately this doesn't exist within CF9, or so it appears. Does anyone know of the equivalent in CF9? many

RE: FedEx web service

2010-01-20 Thread Leigh
> Seems more stable to FedEx's changes. It is also much easier to debug ;) ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.hou

Re: CF5 download

2010-01-20 Thread Karen Reali
Thank you a ton... you really have no idea how much! On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Kevin Pepperman wrote: > > I will send you a link off list. > > Give me a few to upload it. > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Karen Reali wrote: > > > > > Thanks - Since I have to have this done by tomorro

Re: CF5 download

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Pepperman
I sent you a link off list Karen. I am out the door right now but will be around this evening if I you need any more help. /K ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of F

Re: cfmail through google

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Pepperman
You may also be able to do it using sTunnel. I was able to get the commercial version of BlueDragon JX to talk to gmail with it. These are the stunnel.conf settings. client = yes debug = debug [pop3s] accept = 127.0.0.1:1109 connect = pop.gmail.com:995 [smtps] accept = 127.0.0.1:259 connect =

Re: More Efficient (Faster) Method

2010-01-20 Thread Dave Watts
> Well Dave  - First, thanks for not restraining yourself. If I wanted people > to restrain themselves - I probably wouldn't have asked the question in a > public forum. So, I appreciate you chiming in. ;) > > ... I was going to type out a long reply to this, but Sean did the job better than I co

Re: cfmail through google

2010-01-20 Thread denstar
There's a cfjavamail tag for railo that should be easy to modify to work with CF7. http://trac.getrailo.org/railotags/wiki/CfJavaMail There is a folder with some mxunit tests that work for GMail a couple directories up in the repo (link to source is at the top of the wiki page). :den -- I do

Re: CF5 download

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Pepperman
I will send you a link off list. Give me a few to upload it. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Karen Reali wrote: > > Thanks - Since I have to have this done by tomorrow, I think I'm at the > point now where I have to move to Windows ... and find an install disk > (anyone?) - I've got the licen

Re: CF5 download

2010-01-20 Thread Karen Reali
Thanks - Since I have to have this done by tomorrow, I think I'm at the point now where I have to move to Windows ... and find an install disk (anyone?) - I've got the license key and its valid (called Adobe - they won't provide a download link). On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Kevin Pepperma

Re: CF5 download

2010-01-20 Thread Kevin Pepperman
> > You could have left it running there using the built in web server, and > linked > it into your Apache install via. mod_proxy rather than mod_jrun, not that > it > matters now. Tom mentioned this quote above, but you may have to do some more research. I have not attempted it yet. On Wed,

Re: Random "Error Occurred on Line -1" CF Errors

2010-01-20 Thread Gerald Guido
Looks like an array is missing a value. I have seen the -1 error before and most of the time (in my case) it has to do with an array missing a value. These point to an array issue too: >>java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException : Index: 2, Size: 2 >>java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(ArrayList.java:547)

Re: CF5 download

2010-01-20 Thread K Rea
Hello - new to the CF group and it looks like I'm facing a similar problem as you may have faced. Need to move my CF5 implementation to a new server. Problem is its Ubuntu running Apache 2.0.6. Install with the modules for previous versions of Apache) aren't working, nor did the CGI implemen

Re: cfmail through google

2010-01-20 Thread Larry Lyons
>To my knowledge there is no way to use with gmail on CF7. The >appropriate hooks (TLS/SSL) were not added into until CF8. About the only way to do this as far as I can see is to use the javaMail packages from Sun to access GMail under CFMX 7. see http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/ I ha

Random "Error Occurred on Line -1" CF Errors

2010-01-20 Thread Kyle McLean
I'm currently debugging a project, and every so often I'll get a troubling error reported from CF: Index: 2, Size: 2 null body: The error occurred on line -1. In the CF server monitor the error appears as such: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException : Index: 2, Size: 2 This error comes up very s

Re: (ot) ColdFusion as Best Bowhunting Product

2010-01-20 Thread Judah McAuley
I have a friend who has a business making yoyos for serious competitors. Yes, there are such people. Lots of them in Japan apparently. And they make a titanium yoyo that goes for $170 and is sold out. Their general competitive models go for around $100 I believe. Strange stuff. Judah On Wed, Jan

Re: cfmail through google

2010-01-20 Thread Matthew Smith
>To my knowledge there is no way to use with gmail on CF7. The >appropriate hooks (TLS/SSL) were not added into until CF8. Thanks to everyone for the help. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want?

RE: FedEx web service

2010-01-20 Thread Chad Gray
Looks like I had to do it so I was looping over "RequestedPackageLiteItem" not the "sequencenumber - weight" chunk of XML. Now it looks like this and so far no errors. I will keep testing. LIST 2 INDIVIDUAL_PACKAGES 1 USD 100

Consume Web Service In Coldfusion Error

2010-01-20 Thread Matt G
I'm having a problem using cfinvoke or adding this web service url in the coldfusion admin. http://www.fortedata.com:8080/axis2/services/FdsWebService?wsdl"; refreshwsdl="yes" method="PostLead"> I get the error for cfinvoke "Cannot generate stub objects for web service invocation. "

Re: (ot) ColdFusion as Best Bowhunting Product

2010-01-20 Thread Gerald Guido
> > Enterprise Edition, I assume. > If there ever was an Enterprise grade yoyo it surely would be the Cold Fusion yoyo. It's a very nice yoyo. > Indeed. G! On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:32 AM, wrote: > > Enterprise Edition, I assume. It can be deployed anywhere. > > ~Brad > > Origi

RE: FedEx web service

2010-01-20 Thread Chad Gray
Leigh, have you ever tried to do multiple boxes in this CFFedExRates CFC? I structured the package data like this. LIST 2 INDIVIDUAL_PACKAGES 1 USD 100 LB 50 2

RE: (ot) ColdFusion as Best Bowhunting Product

2010-01-20 Thread brad
Enterprise Edition, I assume. It can be deployed anywhere. ~Brad Original Message Subject: Re: (ot) ColdFusion as Best Bowhunting Product From: Dave Watts Date: Wed, January 20, 2010 9:36 am To: cf-talk >> Here's my favorite non-Adobe "Cold Fusion" product: >> http://www.t

Re: (ot) ColdFusion as Best Bowhunting Product

2010-01-20 Thread Dave Watts
>> Here's my favorite non-Adobe "Cold Fusion" product: >> http://www.theyoyostore.com/coldfusionyoyo.html >> > > $100 for a yoyo? Dayyymn. And I thought Adobe CF was pricey. It's a very nice yoyo. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf S

RE: FedEx web service

2010-01-20 Thread Chad Gray
I am switching to CFFedExRates like you recommended. http://code.google.com/p/cffedexrates/ Seems more stable to FedEx's changes. I just need to tweak it to do multiple boxes. -Original Message- From: Leigh [mailto:cfsearch...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 7:17 PM To: cf-

Re: (ot) ColdFusion as Best Bowhunting Product

2010-01-20 Thread Gerald Guido
> > Here's my favorite non-Adobe "Cold Fusion" product: > http://www.theyoyostore.com/coldfusionyoyo.html > $100 for a yoyo? Dayyymn. And I thought Adobe CF was pricey. G! On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Dave Watts wrote: > > > This made me smile: > > > http://www.bowhunting.com/blog/post/2

Re: (ot) ColdFusion as Best Bowhunting Product

2010-01-20 Thread Scott Brady
Given how dissimilar the products are, they'd have a hard time winning that case. A trademark doesn't usually cover all products in all markets -- assuming the logo for this product doesn't include a lightning bolt. :) Scott On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Scott Stewart wrote: > > What is tha