RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
y no doubt trust, and got talked into it because that's the only solution the bank has to offer. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trou

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
Like your company, correct? Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes, the easiest solution is the best solution. It would be really helpful if you would post actual information rather than making specious accusations that allude to your proprietary insight. It would also be helpful if you q

RE: Zip code radius database?

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
gic into the database. When you're done, it should return in milliseconds. It won't be as portable, but it will be much faster. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
d to create a spread sheet of various types of payment solutions. I came to the conclusion that it couldn't represent it in two dimensions. :) Seriously, though, I found that I had much better luck calling companies and talking to human beings than relying on their Web sites. And I'm a

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
count, we go with a regional credit union. As it turns out, despite the fact that we bombard them with thousands of small money checks, they actually end up paying us to have an account with them as opposed to the reverse. Anyway, I've already told you more than I know, so I

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
tly, you won't get a virtual terminal that will allow you to process credit card transactions yourself: all transactions will have to go through your Web site form. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~

RE: SOT - Ecommerce

2005-02-18 Thread Ben Rogers
nd this page. It looks like it covers this in a bit more detail: http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles2/back-end-ecommerce.htm Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a

RE: Internet Explorer 7 (no really!)

2005-02-17 Thread Ben Rogers
bed browsing, then I'd say that there's very little innovation at all right now. Regardless, I'm glad that there are browsers out there that may be pushing Microsoft to improve upon Internet Explorer. Frankly, I think that security -- perceived or otherwise -- is the real impetus. Bu

RE: Internet Explorer 7 (no really!)

2005-02-17 Thread Ben Rogers
ce new features -- and new bugs necessitating new security patches and bug fixes. If I want new features, I'll buy a new OS or install third party software on top of my existing OS. Regardless, you should read up on Windows XP Service Pack 2. It did, in fact, introduce many new features. Most wer

RE: Internet Explorer 7 (no really!)

2005-02-16 Thread Ben Rogers
I'm not convinced that's a poor distribution model. I tend to think it was poorly implemented and I have hopes that it will be fixed. I think Windows XP Service Pack 2 goes a long way towards that goal. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~

RE: Internet Explorer 7 (no really!)

2005-02-16 Thread Ben Rogers
I've got 10 things waiting to install. I installed at least 10 kernels alone in a one year period. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time track

RE: Internet Explorer 7 (no really!)

2005-02-16 Thread Ben Rogers
g to provide that, but I haven't seen it yet. > The IE security model is seriously broken, largely due to how well it's > integrated with the OS and due to the fact that practically everyone runs > IE > using administrative privileges. Jochem is absolutely right here (as >

RE: Internet Explorer 7 (no really!)

2005-02-16 Thread Ben Rogers
ault* tabbed browsing experience, well, good for them. It seems to me that browser innovation may really be dead when Web designers start trumpeting features like tabbed browsing. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~~~

RE: CFQUERYPARAM in CFC?

2005-02-15 Thread Ben Rogers
ty should be performed in layers, cfargument types do not correspond to SQL types. Also, I would generally *expect* parameterized queries to provide better performance than queries with inlined values. Parameterized queries can even provide better performance than stored procedures in some situations.

RE: Holy Security

2005-02-15 Thread Ben Rogers
way it should work because of some obscure assumption in the underlying implementation. Now, go fork off. :) We had an experience like this with RedHat tech support regarding SATA RAID on RHEL 3. Needless to say, we're no longer running it (Linux) anywhere as a Web server. Ben Rogers http://w

RE: Reinstall CFMX 6.1 Administrator only?

2005-02-14 Thread Ben Rogers
scussed in CF-Talk, and the MM forums (searchable via groups.google.com). Basically, the updater puts half its files in the wrong location (either under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ or C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war). Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 >

RE: Why would Firefox cause CF to error??

2005-02-14 Thread Ben Rogers
for reasons not to enable J2EE session management. When I didn't find any, I wondered why Macromedia gave us the option and assumed that it had to do with backwards compatibility. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~~

RE: Flex

2005-02-14 Thread Ben Rogers
uses and worms out their, I'm pretty sure I don't want to see most people hosting their own sites. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's c

RE: Firewall question

2005-02-09 Thread Ben Rogers
dows Server 2000 web server without it installed. That said, URLScan can be a pain to troubleshoot. I've gotten into the habit of checking the URLScan log files whenever I encounter bizarre behavior or non-descript errors. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.005

RE: Firewall question

2005-02-09 Thread Ben Rogers
chem noted, the most secure option is using both. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Andy Ousterhout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:42 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: OT: Firewall question

RE: Sourceless deployment in BlueDragon (was: CFMX 7 is released)

2005-02-09 Thread Ben Rogers
one with teams of consultants; and we don't fly the customer's employees half way around the globe for training: we develop the software for a company that does. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057

RE: Sourceless deployment in BlueDragon (was: CFMX 7 is released)

2005-02-09 Thread Ben Rogers
that question. In my previous message to Dave, I described a scenario that's more common for us, one that involves dozens of consultants on site "deploying" applications that I've written. Any tool that could help

RE: Sourceless deployment in BlueDragon (was: CFMX 7 is released)

2005-02-09 Thread Ben Rogers
ng a difference in scale. The companies buying the software in question fly a team of people out to take classes to learn how to use the software. If these people couldn't learn how to use the ColdFusion Administrator, then they sure as heck can't learn how to use the rest of our app. BT

RE: Sourceless deployment in BlueDragon (was: CFMX 7 is released)

2005-02-08 Thread Ben Rogers
nstalled application. > No source, no CF Admin. Simple to install for a J2EE shop, simple to > configure. I think we have different opinions of J2EE shops. :) I can't imagine a J2EE shop that can't figure out how to set up a data source using the ColdFusion Administrato

RE: Can you redistro developer version was: Re: Sourceless deployment...

2005-02-08 Thread Ben Rogers
ew questions that a lot of us on this list would like to know? Seriously, if you don't have anything to add to a conversation, don't post. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Discove

RE: Sourceless deployment in BlueDragon (was: CFMX 7 is released)

2005-02-08 Thread Ben Rogers
E), and installs the app. That the product runs on J2EE or takes the form of an EAR file is incidental. They buy it because it's NetWeaver certified and integrates with SAP Portal. At least, that's the way I understand it. I don't sell, market or install the product. In fact, our com

RE: Sourceless deployment in BlueDragon (was: CFMX 7 is released)

2005-02-08 Thread Ben Rogers
the stuff we write has to run in shared hosting environments (though they might not necessarily be deployed to shared hosting environments). We simply don't see a lot in between. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Dave Car

RE: Sourceless deployment in BlueDragon (was: CFMX 7 is released)

2005-02-08 Thread Ben Rogers
t front. I'm still having trouble seeing a use for EAR/WAR file deployment. Can you package your application up as an EAR/WAR file without ColdFusion (i.e for deployment on a running instance of ColdFusion)? Or, is ColdFusion alw

RE: Sourceless deployment in BlueDragon (was: CFMX 7 is released)

2005-02-08 Thread Ben Rogers
something, but why would I deploy as an EAR/WAR file when I have a full copy of ColdFusion Enterprise sitting on the shelf? Why wouldn't I install that and then install the application (either with or without source). Ben Rogers http://w

RE: Sourceless deployment in BlueDragon (was: CFMX 7 is released)

2005-02-08 Thread Ben Rogers
r, is that license then tied to the file or to a particular copy of the file installed on a J2EE server? Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 8:28 AM > To:

RE: Quick Poll - what kind of files do you use every day?

2005-01-30 Thread Ben Rogers
27;ve very intrigued by the question. :) Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:40 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Quick Poll - what kind of files do you use every

RE: Blackstone and XHTML

2005-01-28 Thread Ben Rogers
management, can make XSL templates unwieldy. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:51 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Blackstone and XHTML > > I

RE: CMS plain text data to Contribute 3

2005-01-27 Thread Ben Rogers
ns of problems with temporary files and lock files. Contribute seems to have problems cleaning up after itself. I've had to clean up such files for both our customers and those of other third party developers who host with us. These issues occur on various servers, including Windows 2000 an

RE: CMS plain text data to Contribute 3

2005-01-27 Thread Ben Rogers
not a full blown language or anything. Anyway, it was an interesting -- if imperfect -- solution. The customer got a very flexible WYSIWYG editor, and the developers didn't have to worry about Contribute trashing live Web pages. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 >

RE: CMS plain text data to Contribute 3

2005-01-26 Thread Ben Rogers
appropriate toolbar command. I don't know if that makes a difference. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:19 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CM

RE: CMS plain text data to Contribute 3

2005-01-26 Thread Ben Rogers
enerated pages, extracting the content from the editable regions and inserting it into the database. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and T

RE: CMS plain text data to Contribute 3

2005-01-26 Thread Ben Rogers
nt at all. I ended up making the Contribute templates in HomeSite, which blissfully ignored all the template comments. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and conven

RE: Export to Excel

2005-01-26 Thread Ben Rogers
I haven't used it, but I believe quite a few people have: http://openxcf.sourceforge.net/ Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Asim Manzur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:29 AM > To: CF

RE: CFCs and virtual directories.

2005-01-25 Thread Ben Rogers
the server, then you probably won't see this as both JRun and ColdFusion are configured with a "/" mapping by default. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: DURETTE, STEVEN J (AIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tue

RE: John Dowdell Wants to Know What's Wrong with Macromedia

2005-01-13 Thread Ben Rogers
rs, I couldn't get it > going in my setup before I reached decision time. So I had to dump > it. If I'd bought and paid for it, I could have said "you guys fix it > so it works and dont whine to me about the cost". And most commercial companies will politely refund

RE: Debugging Server Hangs

2005-01-12 Thread Ben Rogers
gging enabled. So, you could be seeing the same behavior that I described in my previous message for a different reason. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Kazmierczak, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11

RE: Debugging Server Hangs

2005-01-12 Thread Ben Rogers
ke down an entire server when there would seem to be resources left to handle additional requests? Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Kazmierczak, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:06 PM >

RE: WIKI App?

2005-01-11 Thread Ben Rogers
Sorry, I was referring to SeedWiki. There were downloads listed. I took a look through each but couldn't make heads or tails of the site structure. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Keith Gaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: WIKI App?

2005-01-11 Thread Ben Rogers
I took a look at this, but couldn't quite figure out how to set it up. Specifically, I couldn't find a directory that looked like a web root? Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Keith Gaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Revised Thread - Uploading CSV and Validation

2005-01-11 Thread Ben Rogers
imple VB scheduler to manage all sorts of operations (data migration, work flow, data management, data validation, etc). It surprises me how many of the daily operations at several Fortune 500 companies are handled this way. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~~

RE: Revised Thread - Uploading CSV and Validation

2005-01-11 Thread Ben Rogers
and other such apps. They've already solved a good deal of the integration problems. DTS in particular provides a nifty wizard which lets the developer describe the CVS flavor that you have. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~~

RE: Revised Thread - Uploading CSV and Validation

2005-01-11 Thread Ben Rogers
d. You can have two CSV files which are perfectly valid in their own context but which can't be shared with other applications. There are quite a few articles on CSV formatted files and ways to parse them. I found this one in particular to be useful when I was writing a simple CSV parser: http:

RE: Configuring IIS to Handle 404 Errors

2005-01-11 Thread Ben Rogers
s. That just seems like a huge surface area and a possible source of conflicts. So, at least part of the reason I'm asking at this point is that I'm interested in eliminating the wildcard mapping altogether. Unfortunately, I can't find any documentation on it so I'm not s

SOT: Simple Content Management

2005-01-07 Thread Ben Rogers
ple provide the content. Does such a tool exist? We don't really care whether or not it's written in ColdFusion. It needs to run on Windows, however. I think we're looking for something Web based, but that's not a requirement (we have admin access to desktops and can install softwar

RE: CF - switching from MS-SQL to Oracle (neq Neo, Morpheus, Trin ity)

2005-01-07 Thread Ben Rogers
Small correction. The collation sequence stores the code page used, not the character set. That's determined by the column data type. My mistake. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Ben Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: CF - switching from MS-SQL to Oracle (neq Neo, Morpheus, Trin ity)

2005-01-07 Thread Ben Rogers
at the server, database, table, and column level. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting

John Dowdell Wants to Know What's Wrong with Macromedia

2005-01-06 Thread Ben Rogers
This is worth reading and commenting on: http://www.markme.com/jd/archives/006722.cfm Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer su

RE: Configuring IIS to Handle 404 Errors

2005-01-06 Thread Ben Rogers
Unfortunately, that won't work for us. We host multiple sites on the same server. The ColdFusion error handler is server wide. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: JediHomer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, Janua

Configuring IIS to Handle 404 Errors

2005-01-06 Thread Ben Rogers
wildcard mapping is used for? Am I going about this the wrong way? Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta http://www.houseoffusion.com/ba

RE: US Weather from NWS (was RE: CF-Tag Weather for UK (London)?)

2005-01-05 Thread Ben Rogers
Sadly, I've found quite a few Web services that can't be consumed by ColdFusion. ColdFusion simply does not provide enough information to debug these types of problems (the dreaded "argument type mismatch" is a perfect example). Consequently, I've taken to writing wrapper

RE: The Death of DevNet :-(

2005-01-05 Thread Ben Rogers
Actually, I have quite a few customers using Contribute. So, when the next version of Contribute comes out, I'll probably need to purchase that. But that alone is not enough reason to join a new subscription program. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -

RE: ASP help

2005-01-05 Thread Ben Rogers
eally declare option explicit at the top of every page. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Asim Manzur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:17 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: ASP help > > could som

RE: The Death of DevNet :-(

2005-01-05 Thread Ben Rogers
Just received mine. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Christian Cantrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:14 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: The Death of DevNet :-( > > On Jan 5,

RE: The Death of DevNet :-(

2005-01-05 Thread Ben Rogers
ew my subscription as recently as last week. I still have yet to receive anything from Macromedia notifying me that program was being phased out. They have my e-mail address. They have my mailing address. Do they need a blood sample before they'll tell me what the heck is going on? Ben

RE: The Death of DevNet :-(

2005-01-04 Thread Ben Rogers
#x27;ve been surfing the Macromedia site for the past hour trying to figure out exactly how much what I used to have will cost in the future and I still don't know. Looks like I have to call the Macromedia Call Center just to get a price quote. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.

RE: Well - I feel like an idiot.

2004-12-31 Thread Ben Rogers
re data pertaining to user sessions in the server scope. Personally, I'm not a big fan of this, but I'm sure others have their reasons. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Special thanks

RE: Well - I feel like an idiot.

2004-12-31 Thread Ben Rogers
ight. :) I actually had to write my own locking routines in ASP a couple of years ago. ASP lacks anything analogous to the cflock tag. To make a long story short, I discovered the hard way that locking was a far more intricate and delicate process than I had thought. I came back to ColdFusion with

RE: Well - I feel like an idiot.

2004-12-31 Thread Ben Rogers
condition and a deadlock is the same: inconsistent data. Instead of a race condition (which can often be harmless), you caused a deadlock. Neither process finished. Some data reflects the state before each template ran. Some data, after. With a deadlock, the user gets an error in the process. Be

RE: Well - I feel like an idiot.

2004-12-31 Thread Ben Rogers
end that you lock your code. Even understanding all this, I would recommend locking judiciously. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - New Atlanta h

RE: Check for next year

2004-12-30 Thread Ben Rogers
#month(theDate)# -- #year(theDate)# You can wrap month() in monthAsString() if you want to display the name of the month rather than the month as a number. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Robert Orlini [mailto:

RE: shopping cart, session variables - best practices

2004-12-29 Thread Ben Rogers
store complex objects such as CFCs in the session scope. Additionally, since the session scope is now thread safe, I don't have to worry about whether or not every developer is properly locking their code. Ben Rogers h

RE: My Init() in my CFC...am I on the right track?

2004-12-29 Thread Ben Rogers
Name = Session.SessionCFC.getUserCFC().getName() In this example, the getUserCFC() method belongs to the SessionCFC component. It is returning a UserCFC component, not "this". The getName() method belongs to the UserCFC component, not the SessionCFC component. The longer way to

RE: My Init() in my CFC...am I on the right track?

2004-12-29 Thread Ben Rogers
surprised if it were any faster than two lines of code. So, I was wondering if there were any other benefits or tricks that I'm missing. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Special thanks to the C

RE: My Init() in my CFC...am I on the right track?

2004-12-28 Thread Ben Rogers
e me was just being cute to save himself from having to type a few extra characters. Anyway, I'm just wondering if there's something I'm missing here. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > > Why? I think there's a psychological "hint" beh

RE: Prefixing local variables

2004-12-24 Thread Ben Rogers
apt to forget to var my function level variables. Now, I *always* create a local scope if I have local variables. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sp

RE: AW: Prefixing local variables

2004-12-24 Thread Ben Rogers
ion is also a pretty wordy language: it's hard enough as is to visually parse a block of ColdFusion code. Finally, the cfdump tag goes a long way towards making up for a debugger. So, going back to my original argument, I think the benefits to type notation depend on many, many factors. Y

RE: In One?

2004-12-23 Thread Ben Rogers
Performance often comes at the sake of good design. Good design should always come first though. :) Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Micha Schopman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:19 AM >

RE: css - height 100% - i'd like to kill the crack-addicts who wrote the w3c box model

2004-12-22 Thread Ben Rogers
d better understand it), but it goes a long way towards separating presentation from content. All in all, that's a pretty good example. I still think CSS is screwy in this regard, but at least there are workarounds. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~~

RE: css - height 100% - i'd like to kill the crack-addicts who wrote the w3c box model

2004-12-21 Thread Ben Rogers
ays of doing it. If you show me what you're trying to > do, I could probably come up with a solution. I posted a simple table example, but don't feel obliged to come up with a CSS2 equivalent. I was just trying to better explain wha

RE: css - height 100% - i'd like to kill the crack-addicts who wrote the w3c box model

2004-12-21 Thread Ben Rogers
Leaving out the URL invokes quirks mode in most modern browsers. That's OK as long as it solves your problem. However, it doesn't solve the problem in standards mode because the standard simply doesn't support relative sizing based on the available content area. Ben Rogers http

RE: css - height 100% - i'd like to kill the crack-addicts who wrote the w3c box model

2004-12-21 Thread Ben Rogers
t there. I might have to look into it more. > I don't think it's unfortunate really, I think that's just what the > solution calls for, and that's part of what fixed positioning is there > for in the first place. Well, assuming that you

RE: css - height 100% - i'd like to kill the crack-addicts who wrote the w3c box model

2004-12-21 Thread Ben Rogers
Correction on this. I had a mental lapse between fixed and absolute positioning. CSS level 1 did not support fixed positioning at all. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Ben Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, De

RE: css - height 100% - i'd like to kill the crack-addicts who wrote the w3c box model

2004-12-21 Thread Ben Rogers
er 6 does not support CSS level 2. The standard is old enough that support for it could have made it into Internet Explorer 6. Nevertheless, since Internet Explorer is still the dominant browser, your solution isn't really practical. For what it's

RE: css - height 100% - i'd like to kill the crack-addicts who wrote the w3c box model

2004-12-21 Thread Ben Rogers
You're apparently new to this whole Internet thing so I'll kindly suggest that you try a different e-mail client. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, Decembe

RE: css - height 100% - i'd like to kill the crack-addicts who wrote the w3c box model

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Rogers
tored in the navigator and window objects in one application (for which we had several different versions). I was using those to track whether or not a frame had loaded. Turns out, Windows XP Service Pack 2 didn't like that very much. Your way sounds much safer than mine. :) Be

RE: css - height 100% - i'd like to kill the crack-addicts who wrote the w3c box model

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Rogers
size of the content. Since this can't be calculated until after the element is rendered, any element within it can't use relative sizes. However, I was unable to eliminate the vertical scroll bar. I'm not even quite s

RE: time to cluster, I thinkL

2004-12-20 Thread Ben Rogers
my experience, it actually takes quite a bit of work to convince SQL Server that it's not the only application on the server. In particular, watching SQL Server duke it out with the Sun JVM over memory is not a pretty sight. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Origi

RE: cfeclipse + phpeclipse?

2004-12-18 Thread Ben Rogers
agree, and I'm looking forward to it. > Thanks for trying it out Ben, if you give it another go, join the > cfeclipse mailing list and we'll try to get you going. Will do. I'm already subscribed to many mailing lists. I get roughly 1000 (legitimate) messages a day. So, I

RE: cfeclipse + phpeclipse?

2004-12-18 Thread Ben Rogers
d do the same. I believe plug-ins can also be distributed in jar form (tld.domain.project_0.0.0.jar). I think you drop these files right in the plugins directory, but I'm not too sure about this. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- >

RE: cfeclipse + phpeclipse?

2004-12-18 Thread Ben Rogers
ay, I think Eclipse is a great idea, and I really -- really -- like the work going into CFEclipse. Unfortunately, I'm not able to use Eclipse for my daily tasks quite yet. But, if the rate of progress on just the CFEclipse plug-in is any sign, I have a hunch that this time next year, I'll hav

RE: cfeclipse + phpeclipse?

2004-12-18 Thread Ben Rogers
oding, but these files crash Eclipse every time. So, now I'm back to VisualStudio 2003 for XML documents. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Spons

RE: OT - coding fonts

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Rogers
I don't know what the console font on a Mac looks like, but I find that Lucida Console is pretty easy on the eyes. I usually set it to between 12px and 14px (8pt to 10pt) on a 1280 x 1024 screen resolution. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original

RE: ASPImage replacement (cfmx)

2004-12-17 Thread Ben Rogers
I'll second this one. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:01 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ASPImage replacement (cfmx) > > Vheck out

RE: css - height 100% - i'd like to kill the crack-addicts who wrote the w3c box model

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Rogers
yer thinks, I think these types of designs are fairly common. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Greg Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:32 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: css - heigh

RE: What's A Good Forum Program

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Rogers
If you're subscribed to DevNet, the one in the latest DRK seems pretty good. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Tom Forbes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:36 PM > To: CF-Talk > Su

RE: css - height 100% - i'd like to kill the crack-addicts who wrote the w3c box model

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Rogers
t (from Eric Meyer's blog): http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/03/sliding-faux-columns/ Original source: http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2004/09/03/liquid-bleach.html Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > > Before you say it -- yes, I've as

RE: Mail Server Software

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Rogers
Just to clarify, *upgrading* our current solution is cheaper. If we were to buy a fully redundant solution from scratch, modusMail would be significantly more expensive. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Ben Rogers [mailto:

RE: Mail Server Software

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Rogers
d a system with similar capabilities for that money. That's significantly more expensive than what we'd end up paying to get redundant with our current solution, modusMail. Maybe modusMail pricing isn't as bad as I had thought. :) Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net

RE: Mail Server Software

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Rogers
much faster at performing routine mail tasks. And did I mention it had a fully functional GUI? Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - C

RE: Mail Server Software

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Rogers
port 25 on your router. No changes to the > existing systems required. It looks like they get really expensive for per-mailbox settings? Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~| Special thanks to the

RE: Mail Server Software

2004-12-14 Thread Ben Rogers
t of having to write a mail server from scratch with all the functionality in an application like modusMail is pretty daunting. Building a spam filtering engine alone is not insignificant, much less keeping up with it. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Origi

RE: Mail Server Software

2004-12-14 Thread Ben Rogers
. The spam filtering is nothing short of amazing. But their sales and pricing tactics are terrible. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 > -Original Message- > From: Mark Leder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:07 PM > To:

RE: SOT moving to FireFox

2004-12-13 Thread Ben Rogers
ackasswards, that would have been a personal attack. I was > attacking on your view, not you. My apologies, if you were offended. It > wasn't my intent to pick a fight, I was just offering an alternative > solution to quirks mode. An "e

RE: CF vs ASP.NET! GET YOUR FRESH POPCORRRRN!!

2004-12-13 Thread Ben Rogers
constructs like , the .Net framework is not necessarily Web friendly. You have to write a lot of implementation code in ASP.Net that you don't have to write in ColdFusion. Ben Rogers http://www.c4.net v.508.240.0051 f.508.240.0057 ~

RE: SOT moving to FireFox

2004-12-13 Thread Ben Rogers
ll for that. > Either way I have no > problems at all developing for IE 6 in standards mode, while maintaining > support for IE 5.x. You are forced to use hacks that exploit undocumented behaviors and outright

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