RE: Development and Testing Environment Recommendations

2010-03-11 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Just some more things for you to think about... Since I am the one to maintain our environments, I am very fond of virtualization (VMWare in particular) for the simplicity of creating snapshots and being able to roll the servers back to those snapshots so easily. It is also very simple to get

Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
I've been re-testing CFBuilder over the last week and *every* time I run it, it locks up after a few minutes of normal use. It just decides to stop working even when I'm just editing files. I'm running Win7 Home Premium 64-bit. It's responding well (when it's running) on my new

SOT: Lessons from a lost decade: Developing for a disposable Web

2010-03-11 Thread John M Bliss
Building applications for today's Web is a lot different than it was in those early days. Gone are the costly, monolithic e-commerce engines and content management systems written in C/C++, largely replaced by open source alternatives in more agile languages, such as Java and PHP. Meanwhile,

Re: Upgrading Multi-home CF8 to CF9 on a Solaris 10 server

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Williams
Don't forget that there was also a JRun update between 8-9. If you've not already run it, unintalling the whole shebang will also get you that update. Matthew Williams Geodesic GraFX www.geodesicgrafx.com/blog ~| Want to

Re: chossing a methodolgy

2010-03-11 Thread Matthew Smith
Yay! lol. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Maureen mamamaur...@gmail.com wrote: Expect to accomplish a lot more with less work. ;-. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Matthew Smith chedders...@gmail.com wrote: so two people mention fw/1. Haven't had a chance to look at it yet but will

Re: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread Dorioo
Go to the preferences, Coldfusion Server Settings and uncheck build server settings. I'd also uncheck Coldfusion Startup build CFC's in project on startup. It worked better for me with those disabled. - Gabriel On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote:

Re: Make HomeSite+ Open Source? (WAS: RE: Development Apps - Does anyone use homesite still?)

2010-03-11 Thread Raymond Camden
While I'm firmly in the CFBuilder camp - for those who say Dreamweaver is slow and bloated... have you tried it lately? I had to use DWCS4 for some articles I wrote for Adobe last year and I was _damn_ impressed. It isn't as good as CFBuilder, but it worked very well and has some incredible

RE: Phantom Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Bryan S
The data are the same for both the desired call and the unexplained call to the URL exactly five minutes later. The five minute interval is very puzzling as is the fact that it only happens when Event1 is run *from the Cold Fusion 7 scheduler*. If I run event1 in a browser the second URL call

RE: Phantom Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
Is the CF7 server fully patched? I seem to remember a fix for scheduled jobs running twice. I could be remembering incorrectly though. Steve -Original Message- From: Bryan S [mailto:bryansgroup...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:37 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Phantom

RE: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the tip, Gabriel... I did that upon startup this time and so far, so good. We'll see what happens after more time. Rick -Original Message- From: Dorioo [mailto:dor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:08 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Anyone else have the latest

capture a search string

2010-03-11 Thread Orlini, Robert
Hello, Is there some CF coding that I can employ that will capture a search string when users type a search and later on provide it in a report. At minimum we should capture the dateTime, userIP, search string and number of search results. The data will be stored in an SQL table. Thanks.

RE: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread Roger Austin
For me, CFB beta 3 has been unstable to a point where I went back to text editors to get work done. There is a problem when I cut and paste a lot. Every paste would set off something in CFB which seemed to need to time out before it came back to life. Also, there were problems when I would

RE: capture a search string

2010-03-11 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
That sounds like an application specific question. The search string is most likely submitted via form field so you can grab that from the form scope obviously. The ip address can be grabbed from cgi.remote_addr The date/time can come from #now()# The result count comes from your queries

Re: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread scott stewart
In addition to this check out this stackoverflow thread on optimizing Eclipse http://stackoverflow.com/questions/142357/what-are-the-best-jvm-settings-for-eclipse The caveat is that it assumes that you're using Eclipse 3.5 + Once you have Eclipse's memory handling tweaked you should see better

RE: capture a search string

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Nicholas Sweeney
I do exactly what Bobby suggested: On the search results page I save the user info (IP, if logged in, etc), date-time stamp and whatever was in the form field(s) to a table in the DB. However - I do not save the results - just what was searched for. - Nick

Re: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread Roger Austin
Thanks Scott. I did do that some time ago and it made almost no difference. I did install the standalone CFB version and some folks have suggested that I get Eclipse and then download the add on CFB version. I just haven't had the time and don't think that I will until the final CFB version

CFChart, CFChartSeries with ItemColumn and ValueColumn

2010-03-11 Thread vidya yegnaraman
Hi, I am using cfchart to plot a graph. It pulls data from the database for the plot values. The value from the database columns is fed as the value for the attributes itemcolumn and valuecolumn. Since, it take the db values, the graph units for the x axis and y axis come as some float

Re: Phantom Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Dorioo
After restarting the server, the scheduled tasks are activated twice. ?? http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/coldfusion/mx702/cf702_releasenotes.html - Gabriel On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:33 AM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) sd1...@att.com wrote: Is the CF7 server fully patched?  I

Re: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread Gerald Guido
One of the first things that I do with a fresh Eclipse install is jack up the ram limits in eclipse.ini. Basically everywhere I see 256 I bump it up to 512. If you find Eclipse getting slow try jacking up the ram. That will often speed things up considerably. G! On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03

RE: Phantom Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Bryan S
Gabriel and Steve There is no indication in the Cold Fusion Scheduled Task log that the Scheduled Tasks are activating twice. There is no indication in the Cold Fusion Scheduled Task log that the Scheduled Tasks are running twice. There is no indication in my application logs that Event1 which

Re: Phantom Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Dorioo
Is your scheduled task scheduled to run every 5 minutes? Do you have the latest updater for CF7 installed? Or original CF7? - Gabriel On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Bryan S bryansgroup...@gmail.com wrote: Gabriel and Steve There is no indication in the Cold Fusion Scheduled Task log that

RE: Phantom Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Bryan S
The scheduled task is scheduled to run every 10 minutes. There is no indication in the Cold Fusion Scheduled Task log that a Scheduled Task fires when it isn't scheduled to. I will check with our server administrators if the latest updater is installed. I would be surprised if it were not. I

Re: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
I'll try a delete and re-install, too. Anyone know of any issues running CFB on 64-bit Win7? Yes, a lot of us saw a lot of crashes on this latest build, particularly on Win7 64. I was lucky enough to have one of the CFB team get in touch with me and have been able to work with a later build

Re: Phantom Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Ian Skinner
I have not followed this thread to know if this has been asked. But have you confirmed that there is not another ColdFusion server (development, testing, cluster, something) calling that URL as another scheduled taks on that system. I've seen that in the past where somebody sets a schedule

Re: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread morgan l
That's good to hear, thanks for the info. I don't know the exact schedule, but beta 3 expires March 31, so a new build should be available by then, at least. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey mary...@cfwebstore.comwrote: I'll try a delete and re-install, too. Anyone know of

RE: capture a search string

2010-03-11 Thread Orlini, Robert
Thanks. Working good. RO -Original Message- From: Bobby Hartsfield bo...@acoderslife.com Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:57am To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: RE: capture a search string That sounds like an application specific question. The search string is most

RE: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks, Mary Jo... -Original Message- From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:mary...@cfwebstore.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:47 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly? I'll try a delete and re-install, too. Anyone know of any issues

Re: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Roberts
I have been running into the same issue, where it freezes ad locks or just completely crashes. I am also running Win7 64 bit (I have Ultimate) Eric On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.comwrote: I've been re-testing CFBuilder over the last week and *every*

Two CFQUERY statements?

2010-03-11 Thread Steven Sprouse
I have someone who has two separate databases and they want me to write a Web form generating option menus from both databases. I have set up both as separate data sources in my Coldfusion administrator and have included one cfquery at the head of my document generating a list of locations.

Re: Two CFQUERY statements?

2010-03-11 Thread Barney Boisvert
You can happily query multiple databases within the same request; what you can't do is query multiple databases within a single transaction. So as long as your CFQUERY tags don't share a CFTRANSACTION block you should be fine. Can you post the actual error message? cheers, barneyb On Thu, Mar

RE: Two CFQUERY statements?

2010-03-11 Thread LRS Scout
That isn't true in the least, you can certainly have more than one db queried in a request. I have to hit 3 or 4 just for authentication, single sign on, personnel records and other info that's spread all across the University I work for. What are the errors? Are you nesting queries outputs

Re: Two CFQUERY statements?

2010-03-11 Thread Casey Dougall
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Barney Boisvert bboisv...@gmail.comwrote: You can happily query multiple databases within the same request; what you can't do is query multiple databases within a single transaction. So as long as your CFQUERY tags don't share a CFTRANSACTION block you

Re: Two CFQUERY statements?

2010-03-11 Thread Steven Sprouse
You'll have to excuse me, I'm still sort of a CF novice so I'm not too familiar with how to use CFTRANSACTION. What I was doing was just putting two separate CFQUERY statements at the head of my document, each with a different name attribute and different data sources. When I did my cfoutput

RE: Anyone else have the latest CFBuilder crashing constantly?

2010-03-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
I turned off Syntax Checking: Preferences ColdFusion Editor Profiles Editor Syntax Checking Turned off Build Server Settings Preferences ColdFusion Server Settings Build Server Settings Turned off Build CFC's in project on Startup Preferences ColdFusion Startup Build CFC's in project

cfchart and bar colors

2010-03-11 Thread Larry Lyons
Greeting, I have a cfchart where we display percent responses by department. While cfchartseries will set the colour for all the bars, the powers that be want the color to be different for each bar depending on the response percentage, as in:. 0 - 49 % red 50-74% orange 75%-89% green 90%+

Re: Two CFQUERY statements?

2010-03-11 Thread Roger Austin
Steven Sprouse sspro...@ccboe.com wrote: If one of the databases was converted into a table and placed into the other database, I'd have no problem with this, but for some reason I'm getting tripped up with the different data sources. More than likely, this is a permissions issue on

Re: Two CFQUERY statements?

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Cobb
Sounds like ColdFusion is having problems connecting to one of your databases. Try this: 1) make sure you can verify both datasources in your ColdFusion Administrator. 2) make sure you didn't misspell one of the datasource names in your cfquery tags. thanks, eric cobb ecar technologies,

populate cf variable using javascript array

2010-03-11 Thread Charles Heizer
Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to set a coldfusion variable from a javascript array? If so how? What I really want to do is populate a cfinput with the values from the javascript array. Thanks, Charlie ~| Want

Re: populate cf variable using javascript array

2010-03-11 Thread William Seiter
Hey Charlie, Once the 'cfinput' is viewed in the browser, it is translated into a regular input statement (view source to see) Javascript only runs after the page is translated to the regular input statement, so you should be able to interact with that input with javascript directly (no need

iText PDF signature

2010-03-11 Thread Chad Gray
Hello, I am working with iText that comes with CF8 and I don’t see these methods in com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfSignatureAppearance setRenderMode setSignatureGraphic I want to create a signature in a PDF that has an image like this example code is doing:

RE: Phantom Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Bryan S
Ian Yes I have looked at that on numerous occasions. In addition there is logging in my application that would indicate if that were happening. Thanks for trying to help. Bryan -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:h...@ilsweb.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:54 PM To:

Re: Phantom Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Dorioo
Something to test: I'd change the scheduled task to run at something other than 10 minutes and see if it affects that 5 minute timeframe. Then you'd at least know that the second one is definitely tied into the first one as the 5 minute window changes when you changed the 10 minute window. -

SOT: Default Flash behavior when crossdomain.xml is absent

2010-03-11 Thread brad
Quick question-- I swear I've Googled the crap out of this and for the life of me I can't get a definitive answer. We have two domains. www.oursite.com www.ourcdn.com We have a SWF player hosted at www.oursite.com which loads mp3s (among other things) from www.ourcdn.com. www.ourcdn.com does

Re: SOT: Default Flash behavior when crossdomain.xml is absent

2010-03-11 Thread Dave Watts
Quick question-- I swear I've Googled the crap out of this and for the life of me I can't get a definitive answer. We have two domains. www.oursite.com www.ourcdn.com We have a SWF player hosted at www.oursite.com which loads mp3s (among other things) from www.ourcdn.com. www.ourcdn.com

Re: populate cf variable using javascript array

2010-03-11 Thread Tony Bentley
Here is with JQuery: rry = []; $(input :checkbox :checked).each(function({ rry.push($(this).val(); }); $(input[name=textinput]).val(rry); Sorry, I'm not a big native javascript guy. Much easier with JQuery. ~| Want to

Re: iText PDF signature

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Hastings
On 3/12/2010 5:12 AM, Chad Gray wrote: I want to create a signature in a PDF that has an image like this example code is doing: http://itextpdf.com/examples/index.php?page=exampleid=221 that's for the latest version of iText not the one shipped with cf. you can drop the new version into

Daylight Savings Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Terry Ford
I have had the following problem the last couple of time changes, and would like to know if there is a simple solution to fix it: I have a number of tasks that I need to run just after midnight, local time (CT), whether it's standard CST or daylight CDT. 12:01 AM. I use CF scheduler with

RE: Phantom Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
Bryan... Have you tried deleting your scheduled tasks and then re-entering them? Might clear the cobwebs... Rick -Original Message- From: Bryan S [mailto:bryansgroup...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:29 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Phantom Scheduled Tasks Ian Yes I have

RE: Daylight Savings Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew Scott
I personally would not have DST switched on for a server, and have it disabled. But I guess the only other solution would be to have the script run before the DTS changes, don't know how the computers do it but the DTS should change at a given time so you might want to make sure the task is run

Re: Make HomeSite+ Open Source? (WAS: RE: Development Apps - Does anyone use homesite still?)

2010-03-11 Thread Jerry Barnes
I have cs4 installed. Maybe I should fire it up for my next project. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Raymond Camden rcam...@gmail.com wrote: While I'm firmly in the CFBuilder camp - for those who say Dreamweaver is slow and bloated... have you tried it lately? I had to use DWCS4 for some

Re: Daylight Savings Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Kym Kovan
On 12/03/2010 12:33, Terry Ford wrote: I have had the following problem the last couple of time changes, and would like to know if there is a simple solution to fix it: I have a number of tasks that I need to run just after midnight, local time (CT), whether it's standard CST or daylight

Re: Daylight Savings Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Terry Ford
I personally would not have DST switched on for a server, and have it disabled Thanks for the response. I just switched DST off on the server (RHEL linux: ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+6 localtime). However, the scheduler.log is still picking up CST somehow after a CF reboot: task --

Re: Daylight Savings Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Brad Wood
I usually use the following JVM arg (I'm in the central time zone): -Duser.timezone=America/Chicago ~Brad - Original Message - From: Terry Ford terryfor...@yahoo.com To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:48 PM Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Scheduled

RE: Daylight Savings Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew Scott
When making changes to the local and region settings ColdFusion must be restarted, I am assuming you did that? -Original Message- From: Terry Ford [mailto:terryfor...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:48 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Scheduled Tasks I

Re: SOT: Default Flash behavior when crossdomain.xml is absent

2010-03-11 Thread Brad Wood
My understanding is that the default behavior is the same for Flash 7 and higher. It should deny access from your swf to content fetched from another domain unless that domain has the appropriate cross domain policy file allowing content to be fetched from the domain containing your swf.

null500 on nested custom tag

2010-03-11 Thread Me Too
This is driving me nuts. Pretty simple, I have a little custom tag that runs through a pivot table trying to reach the bottom (categoryID=0) of a category tree by way of active (bActive=1) categories. The logic is: It starts by assuming that the tree is bad (goodcat=0). If it finds a level

Re: null500 on nested custom tag

2010-03-11 Thread Brad Wood
You should try a variable called lolcat. :) Seriously though, it sounds like an endless loop to me. If you check your server's coldfusion-out log you will probably see an out of memory exception. Put in some external logging to a text file or something to follow what is happening to your