Re: Future Proofing/Backward compatibility

2012-12-11 Thread Dave Merrill
+1 for Cameron's approach. I use that construct in lots of places internally to create value objects with default values for keys that weren't passed. Dave Merrill On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Chris Velevitch

Re: (ot) CF Builder SVN

2012-11-27 Thread Dave Merrill
+1 for visualsvn server if you'e hosting locally. Really straightforward. Dave Merrill On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Matthew a.matthe...@yahoo.com wrote: Out if interest, what OS do you develop on? If it's on windows OS have considered visualsvn server? http://www.visualsvn.com/server

Re: Best IDE for cfscript

2012-05-12 Thread Dave Merrill
I'm with Matt, IDEA is great. In many ways, big and small, it increases my productivity and code quality, and just improve the experience of coding all around. It's not without its warts, but it's improving all the time. I'd never go back. Dave Merrill On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Matt

Re: Fullasagoog not updating?

2011-03-30 Thread Dave Merrill
29, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Dave Merrill enigm...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if this is a live-under-a-rock-and-missed-the-news thing, but the latest post I see on fullasagoog is 3 weeks old. Is its collection mechanism not working? Please don't say it's going away, it's wonderful. Or maybe nobody

Fullasagoog not updating?

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Merrill
Not sure if this is a live-under-a-rock-and-missed-the-news thing, but the latest post I see on fullasagoog is 3 weeks old. Is its collection mechanism not working? Please don't say it's going away, it's wonderful. Or maybe nobody it watches is posting anything? That can't be right, right?

Re: REGEX hell

2010-11-25 Thread Dave Merrill
Be a little careful, Regex Coach works with perl regex syntax; cf needs java syntax usually, with some differences. I can't recommend Regex Buddy highly enough. It's not free, but it's really quite excellent, supports a variety of different flavors. Dave On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:17 AM,

Re: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ

2010-11-18 Thread Dave Merrill
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Dave Burns cft...@burnsorama.com wrote: I'm considering moving on from Dreamweaver and finally using a better IDE for CF work. I know of CFBuilder and have downloaded the trial to eval. I used IntelliJ for some Java projects 2 years ago and it was

Re: (ot) AWS / EC2 and SpamLists

2010-11-18 Thread Dave Merrill
Check out http://postmarkapp.com. Depending on the volume of mail you need to send, it's either pretty cheap, or worth it for their tracking tools. Dave On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Brook Davies cft...@logiforms.com wrote: This a bit OT. I just wanted to share what I'd found, in case

Re: Should a getMemento method return the results of getters if they exist?

2010-11-17 Thread Dave Merrill
With all due respect to all you far more OO-seasoned gentlemen than I, this isn't the response I expected. Here's what I was thinking: - On a gut level, though I appreciate the value of an object that hides its internals completely and provides no access to them other than through its methods,

Re: Homesite on Windows 7

2010-11-16 Thread Dave Merrill
IntelliJ IDEA with the CFML plugin, which I love, does create projects (and makes them very useful, as a search scope for instance), but it also lets you open any file, including as a right-click or default action for selected file types. If you *never* work on projects, I think you might still

Should a getMemento method return the results of getters if they exist?

2010-11-14 Thread Dave Merrill
In the cfproperty-oriented world, where properties get dumped into the variables scope along with your methods and anything else there, many folks including me have written getMemento methods to return a struct with the values of the object's declared properties, only. Do you suppose methods

Re: Homesite Comment Command

2010-11-14 Thread Dave Merrill
Haven't followed this whole thread, not sure what you're doing, but the CFML comment sequence should never print through to the output at all, ***when interpreted by a CFML engine***. If you're reading the file somehow, then it's not being handled as CFML, and you'll have to deal wiht it

Re: CF (8.0.0) performance vs PHP (5)

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Merrill
It may well depend on the size and number of the strings, since the main inefficiencies can be piling up of immutable strings and subsequent GC. And like they say, there's lies, damn lies, and statistics... d On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Larry Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: Yes,

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Merrill
Ii don't think many hosts prohibit CreateObject('component'), they're after the java/com/corba flavors. CreateObject('java') is mighty useful though; not sure if Mango uses it or not. Dave On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.com wrote: Mango Blog is great but it

Re: Installing CF9 on Windows 7 64 bit

2010-11-07 Thread Dave Merrill
+1 On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: The CF9 installers fails because it can't find the MDAC 2.6 or higher.  But, that object is now integrated into the OS directly.  So, it is available. Has anyone worked around this during the install of CF9? I've

Re: Formatting the output of a text datatype

2010-11-07 Thread Dave Merrill
Sorry, no, HTMLEditFormat replacesand and their unicode versions with the equivalent HTML entities. It doesn't turn CR or LF into br /, or fix any Word characters. Dave On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Larry Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: Look at the DeMoronize function on CF-Lib.org

Re: CF (8.0.0) performance vs PHP (5)

2010-11-07 Thread Dave Merrill
Yes, cfsavecontent appears to use a java buffer internally, and runs just about as fast. Pick whichever method gives you code you like better with your content, its source, and your coding style. Dave On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Larry Lyons larrycly...@gmail.com wrote: +1,000,000 for

What's the MySQL syntax for this query?

2010-11-01 Thread Dave Merrill
The SQL Server version of this query is this: UPDATE t1 FROM MyTable t1 SET Foo = 1 WHERE Bar = 99 AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM MyOtherTable t2 WHERE t2.SomeColumn = t1.SomeColumn AND t2.SomeOtherColumn = t1.SomeOtherColumn

Re: What's the MySQL syntax for this query?

2010-11-01 Thread Dave Merrill
.SomeColumn AND t2.SomeOtherColumn = t1.SomeOtherColumn AND t2.YetAnotherColumn = 42 ) Dave On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Dave Merrill enigm...@gmail.com wrote: The SQL Server version of this query is this: UPDATE t1  FROM MyTable   t1   SET Foo = 1  WHERE

Re: What's the MySQL syntax for this query?

2010-11-01 Thread Dave Merrill
This more straight ahead version also works for Oracle: UPDATE MyTable t1 SET Foo = 1 WHERE Bar = 99 AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM MyOtherTable t2 WHERE t2.SomeColumn = t1.SomeColumn AND t2.SomeOtherColumn = t1.SomeOtherColumn

Re: What's the MySQL syntax for this query?

2010-11-01 Thread Dave Merrill
@Azadi and Leigh, the oracle syntax gives this on mysql: Error Code: 1093 You can't specify target table 'dfv1' for update in FROM clause. Ended up with this for mysql: UPDATE MyTable t1 LEFT OUTER JOIN t2 ON t2.SomeColumn = t1.SomeColumn AND t2.SomeOtherColumn = t1.SomeOtherColumn AND

Re: What's the MySQL syntax for this query?

2010-11-01 Thread Dave Merrill
Yes, the actual query's different, that's why the msg about 'dfv1', which wasn't actually in the version I posted. Anyway, I'm good I think, thanks for checking. Dave On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Leigh cfsearch...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes, putting the JOIN in the UPDATE should work for

Re: CFLOOP Next Iteration

2010-10-29 Thread Dave Merrill
Just to say it, I too had lots of trouble with CFB, and while I liked some things about CFEclipse before that, its bloat and bugginess bummed me out (Eclipse more than CFE). But now I'm a happy camper, using IntelliJ IDEA with its CFML plugin. No, it's not perfect by any means, but it's just a

Re: Question about using javascript in .cfm files...

2010-10-28 Thread Dave Merrill
+1 On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: I'll +1 that. I generally only use CF to set js vars at the top of the head too. That way your js can stay pure js. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Rick Faircloth ric...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: Interesting

HTMLEditFormat() broken in CF9?

2010-08-15 Thread Dave Merrill
Hi folks, It looks to me that in CF9, HTMLEditFormat no longer escapes text that's already escaped. In other words, all these lines except the first one produce identical results inside cfoutput (except for the line number, and assuming this code makes it ok through email): 1 2 amp; quot;

HOF site down for several days?

2010-01-09 Thread Dave Merrill
I've been unable to get to the HOF site for a couple of days, it just keeps loading forever. I've tried from home and from work, same thing. Are other people seeing this? Thanks. Dave Merrill Web . Database . Interaction Design

RE: HOF site down for several days?

2010-01-09 Thread Dave Merrill
All three seem fine now. Odd, dns hiccup maybe. Thanks for checking Michael. Dave Merrill Web . Database . Interaction Design I haven't seen any problems with the site for the last few days. Can you hit www.fusionauthority.com or www.blogoffusion.com? They are on the same machine

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

CFLOCATION, but with a form

2007-12-18 Thread Dave Merrill
an actual html form, along with javascript to submit it. Is there an alternative? Thanks, Dave Merrill ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http

RE: CFLOCATION, but with a form

2007-12-18 Thread Dave Merrill
-relevant: cfhttp can submit a form with specified data to a specified url, but the whole thing happens on the server, without the browser relocating anywhere. What I'm looking for is just like that, but navigating the browser to that submitted pg. Dave Merrill -Original Message- From

RE: CFLOCATION, but with a form

2007-12-18 Thread Dave Merrill
Ian, that's exactly what I was looking for, a server response that asks the browser to submit a form, the form analog of what cflocation does. It doesn't surprise me that no such thing exists. Dave Merrill -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:09

Re: PostgreSQL Case Sensitive Data?

2007-01-13 Thread Dave Merrill
Frankly, I agree with Matt that search behavior really should be case insensitive. I've wanted to check out postgres for a while, but finding this out may well slow me down. If, like most other dbs, searching for calculated expressions (LCASE(some_column) = 'foo' etc) is significantly

Re: CF and OOP - Controller

2006-12-30 Thread Dave Merrill
Question # 1: Am I correctly understanding what a 'controller' is? As I understand it, in an MVC environment, the controller is what handles all the various tasks required prior to rendering the requested page. I think of the controller as the orchestrator, the one who examines the context,

RE: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-04-02 Thread Dave Merrill
. Recruiters, on the other hand, regardless of where they're from, that's another story (;-0)... Dave Merrill ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:11:2998 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists

Annoyances with cfencode

2006-02-20 Thread Dave Merrill
; the error msg is just annoying, and makes it hard for an Ant script know if it did actually work. Is that what you see? If not, any idea what might be different about how we're using it? My basic code is: cfencode *.cfm /q /r /v 2 Thanks much, Dave Merrill

RE: Annoyances with cfencode

2006-02-20 Thread Dave Merrill
that this behavior is what you see too? You work around it by not asking it to do more than one file at once? A bit odd that after all these years, basic functionality of this tool is so broken. Thanks, Dave Merrill ~| Message: http

RE: Annoyances with cfencode

2006-02-20 Thread Dave Merrill
I know. As they say, it keeps honest people honest, nothing more. Dave Merrill Keep in mind that cfencoded templates are easily decoded. Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:232956 Archives

RE: OT: text editor that allow a tab

2005-11-13 Thread Dave Merrill
In a very similar situation, I've allowed ^t to stand for a tab; just replace when the page is submitted. Some editors use that shorthand in replace dlogs, so it's not completely foreign. Dave Merrill From: Ryan Guill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well im looking for an actual tab character

Named anchor + url params in IE

2005-11-13 Thread Dave Merrill
#help_sql?method=goaction=showHelp no joy in either browser. Has anyone else seen this behavior? More importantly, got a workaround? Thanks, Dave Merrill ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time

RE: Cold Fusion Job Resources

2005-06-11 Thread Dave Merrill
, not everything they find shows up in their rss feed or email alerts; check the feed (easy in Firefox) and set up emails, but go to the site too. Good luck, Dave Merrill I don't seem to find a list of sites that are good resources for finding Cold Fusion work and wondering if anyone would like

RE: Can Homesite+ use Homesite settings?

2005-06-07 Thread Dave Merrill
environment to another machine easy. Dave Merrill As far as I know, it should work. HS+ is basically CF Studio. CF Studio is basically HS with the db interaction, debugger and a couple other things. The files in the UserData folder are the same. However, everytime I try to copy my settings

Can Homesite+ use Homesite settings?

2005-06-06 Thread Dave Merrill
Could I just copy my UserData folder from Homesite 5 to another machine running Homesite+? Anyone tried this, or tried using HS 5 settings with HS 5.5? Thanks, Dave Merrill ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient

RE: Send email in Outlook

2005-06-03 Thread Dave Merrill
Fred Flintstone says: If it's a single msg, purely text info (no styling or rich text), and not too long, a mailto url might do it: a href=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]body=gark%20spootMail Me/a Or are you trying to move contacts into the Outlook adr book? Dave Merrill I just got an interesting

RE: Storyboard Tool

2005-06-03 Thread Dave Merrill
this iteration, but the last time I tried something similar (but large, covering a biggish section of a wall), the resolution of the camera wasn't good enough to capture needed details. That was a long time ago though, and digital camera tech has come a long way since. Dave Merrill

RE: Typing test for programming?

2005-06-02 Thread Dave Merrill
, it was material he (obviously) knew really well. Still, I wish I could do that. Dave Merrill ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent

[OT] GMail and Norton Aniti-Virus

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Merrill
My ancient copy of NAV doesn't see the GMail accounts I have set up in Outlook. Does anyone have this working with a recent version of NAV? Or does it just not work period, maybe because GMail's POP setup is SSL secured? Thanks, Dave Merrill

RE: Typing test for programming?

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Merrill
A bunch of people have suggested 'Typing of the Dead' as a really fun typing game that gets your speed up. Demo version is a free download various places. Dave Merrill ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk

RE: Typing test for programming?

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Merrill
can write a program to simulate shuffling a deck of cards and then dealing them out to several players in four characters, none of which appear on a standard keyboard. — David Given Dave Merrill ~| Find out how CFTicket can

RE: CF vs LAMP

2005-05-31 Thread Dave Merrill
, in features, scalability, ease of admin etc. Many of the MySQL features that bring it anywhere near the same level of functionality are brand new, FWIW. Dave Merrill ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time

RE: DB Design, Engineering Re-Engineering Software

2005-05-21 Thread Dave Merrill
free? Any idea when that'll happen? Dave Merrill ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http

RE: DB Design, Engineering Re-Engineering Software

2005-05-21 Thread Dave Merrill
that if that's true, it'd be cool, not having tried it. I wouldn't expect any low-cost alternatives to match an Oracle product for features or stability. Or am I just buying the hype? Dave Merrill ~| Logware (www.logware.us

RE: DB Design, Engineering Re-Engineering Software

2005-05-21 Thread Dave Merrill
their product in favor of this free alternative. Not that I really know anything, but I'd be surprised if any company felt that threatened, and if they did, thought that snipes like this would have much effect in the long run. IMO the random vandals theory is much more likely. Dave Merrill

RE: DB Design, Engineering Re-Engineering Software

2005-05-21 Thread Dave Merrill
. There was a couple things I liked about DDS better, but overall CaseStudio won out. I rolled this out to my entire team (six developers) and everyone loves it. www.casestudio.com Bruce, could you say some more about what made CaseStudio win out over DDS? Dave Merrill

RE: DB Design, Engineering Re-Engineering Software

2005-05-20 Thread Dave Merrill
, triggers, reverse engineering from existing dbs, or splitting big projects into multiple models. The $400 version does. Dave Merrill Any recommendations on DB software much less expensive then Erwin? Andy ~| Logware

RE: [OT] Free ftp/sftp server

2005-05-19 Thread Dave Merrill
Thanks, looks like this may be the one to go with. Wish it was cross-platform, but that's not a real need, just a preference to learn the quirks of one app for future situations. Thanks again, Dave Check out the FileZilla project on sourceforge. Their main product is an ftp/sftp client, but

[OT] Free ftp/sftp server

2005-05-18 Thread Dave Merrill
- appears to be brand new, win only, does sftp I think FtpGoServer - cross platform java War FTP Daemon - win, been around for ever Anyone have experience with any of these, or good alternatives? Thanks, Dave Merrill ~| Logware

Anyone know anything about R.L. Stevens?

2005-05-16 Thread Dave Merrill
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RE: Client side include

2005-05-12 Thread Dave Merrill
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[OT - JS] onsubmit state

2005-05-11 Thread Dave Merrill
for each submit btn. Anyone have any other strategies? Dave Merrill PECULIAR ASIDE: Interestingly, to set the value of that hidden field, you use: form.form_action.value = whatever, even though there's a hidden field plus multiple submit btns, all with that name. Typically you'd need

RE: [OT - JS] onsubmit state

2005-05-11 Thread Dave Merrill
, even though there are multiple form objects with that name. It still works without the hidden field. Still odd, or I'm doing a brain blank again. Dave Merrill Say you've got a form with multiple submit btns, each given the name form_action, but with different values. When the form is submitted

RE: Re-ordering items in a list

2005-05-11 Thread Dave Merrill
, clean and simple. Dave Merrill I have a need for users to re-order 10-20 items in a list, easily. Normally I would do this in one of three ways: 1. List the items in order on a normal html page, and add move up/move down links 2. List all the items in the left column of a two column format

RE: [OT - JS] onsubmit state

2005-05-11 Thread Dave Merrill
The point is that regardless of what btn was clicked, its value hasn't taken effect yet during onclick or onsubmit. How does giving them different names help? Dave Merrill Without knowing what exactly you're using it for, I'd say give the submit buttons different names rather than values

RE: HE3?

2005-05-10 Thread Dave Merrill
releases of He3 until we can ensure that it is a proper replacement for ColdFusion Studio/Homesite. Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ Team Fusebox -- http://fusebox.org/ Dave Merrill A question was posted in Cf-OT a while back with no response...not sure how much traffic OT gets so

RE: Bug? Semicolon blows up Flash CFGRID

2005-05-10 Thread Dave Merrill
Leaving aside whether this is a bug or not, suppose you replace all semicolons w Chr(59). Haven't tried it, so I don't know if that will either prevent the problem or display as a semicolon from inside cfgrid, but funky or not, it's worth a shot. Dave Merrill So, does anybody out

RE: HASH() reverse

2005-05-08 Thread Dave Merrill
text was required, a hash of it wouldn't be a sensible thing to store. Dave Merrill ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project

RE: HASH() reverse

2005-05-08 Thread Dave Merrill
a technique for finding MD5 collisions quickly: eight hours on 1.6 GHz computer. See here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/03/more_hash_funct.html and: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/cryptanalysis_o.html Dave Merrill

RE: HASH() reverse

2005-05-07 Thread Dave Merrill
explanation Jim (:-) It's sometimes hard for people to understand this basic concept. That was the simplest, clearest, most common-sense take on hashing I've seen. I'll remember it if I need to go through this with a client. Dave Merrill

RE: Bug? Semicolon blows up Flash CFGRID

2005-05-06 Thread Dave Merrill
If I'm remembering right, the same thing happens with CFTREE, or at least it did in older CF versions. Not that that's much help... Dave Merrill Here's a strange one... If the text in a cell of the selected row of a CFMX7 Flash CFGRID contains a semicolon that is NOT the last character

RE: Bug? Semicolon blows up Flash CFGRID

2005-05-06 Thread Dave Merrill
, it was discovered when we moved to MX61. Don't know if ti's still an issue in MX7. Dave Merrill For what it's worth, I experimented with CFTREE and couldn't reproduce the problem there. Seems to be just CFGRID. Joy At 04:43 PM 5/6/2005 -0400, you wrote: If I'm remembering right, the same

RE: Basic web interface question

2005-05-05 Thread Dave Merrill
In my own applications I tend to send the user back to the list page (typically not a search page, just a sortable list that's optionally paginated based on their user preferences -- these pages can become search pages pretty easily because the framework automates filters on their columns,

Basic web interface question

2005-05-04 Thread Dave Merrill
and they don't even realize it's a new window. - Back to the search screen? Kind of annoying if it didn't remember their search criteria, so see above. - Back to the record list, but with only that one record showing? Not particularly functional. Other ideas? Dave Merrill

RE: Anchors and CFLOCATION

2005-05-02 Thread Dave Merrill
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RE: Anchors and CFLOCATION

2005-05-02 Thread Dave Merrill
screw up the anchor, presumably since it's no longer at the end. Dave Merrill ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48

RE: What's your setup for multiple developers

2005-05-01 Thread Dave Merrill
the cmd line or a .bat file. There are a ton of task types predefined, including file and ftp operations. Is anyone using Ant for deployment in a cf environment? Dave Merrill On my team of about 10 developers, 4 of us have stepped out of the dark ages and are using CVS, actually only 2 of us

RE: Build SQL Statement and cfqueryparam

2005-04-28 Thread Dave Merrill
is down. Thanks, Dave Merrill ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free

[OFF] Discover an XML namespace

2005-04-27 Thread Dave Merrill
Please excuse the basic XML question, but how do you find out what a namespace referenced like this looks like: html xmlns:v=some_domain.com or html xmlns:v=urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml Is that possible remotely? Are the two references equivalent? Dave Merrill

RE: cfheader/cfcontent, auto-downloading a file, and IE woes

2005-04-27 Thread Dave Merrill
to window.parent.name. Don't know why this helps; we just bushwacked, trying to get IE to not be thinking about that window. HTH, sorry to be vague. Dave Merrill Got a stumper here (at least on my end). In my main project, I've got a page that is basically a DB table exporter - user specifies what fields

RE: CrystalTech Users Beware

2005-04-23 Thread Dave Merrill
Interesting, wasn't aware of that. Is there any way to guard against that kind of exploit, other than encrypting everything in application and session scope, which would be very inefficient and annoying? Dave Merrill Hashing your app name isn't going to protect you from others on a shared

RE: ? and #

2005-04-23 Thread Dave Merrill
# Dave Merrill I know it's been asked but I can't find it in the archives or stored on my machine. How do I use the syntax http://somewhere.com/mydir/myfile.cfm?#SESSION.AddToken#; and combine it with a page jump #pageLocation ? I've tried putting it different places in the URL and can't

RE: OT: Just a touch of Javascript

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Merrill
T o expand on this, is it really ok that this just not work at all if js is disabled? I'd stronlgy suggest *some* other architecture for gluing these two apps together. Dave Merrill In retrospect, now that I know this is just an interrim page between your client's site and CartServer, why

RE: OT: Just a touch of Javascript

2005-04-11 Thread Dave Merrill
If that code is verbatim, the /form tag hasn't happened yet when the script is called. The form object doesn't exist until its end tag closes it. Dave Merrill Oh yea - if I do a view source on the page that comes up and isn't submitting, I'm getting exactly what I'm supposed to see

RE: What do you use for project management?

2005-02-14 Thread Dave Merrill
I have a spreadsheet that does ok for tracking time, also invoiceable and overhead expenses. A fellow I've done a lot of work with I think uses QuickBooks. Dave Merrill Just wanted to get an idea of what tools everyone use for project management. I've been looking at Traxtime for managing

RE: Any sites using the new Flash foms?

2005-02-14 Thread Dave Merrill
Except that it's desirable for an app to have a consistent look and feel for users. My impression is that Flash forms look, and behave, a bit different from std html. Dave Merrill In my testing, a simple form with, say, 4 text inputs plus a submit button will take quite a bit to load (when

CFMX 61 to CFMX 70 migration

2005-02-10 Thread Dave Merrill
Any comments on migrating from CFMX 61 to CFMX 70, issues beyond what's listed in cfmx7_migrating.pdf? Would you consider the 70 release stable enough for production use? Any noticeable change in performance? Thanks, Dave Merrill

RE: how to display data in two select boxes where the second one's display depends on the first one

2005-02-10 Thread Dave Merrill
: This particular code was built for IE specifically, and I haven't done any cross-browser testing of it. Dave Merrill ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting

[Way OT] Anyone traveling from UK to US soon?

2005-02-09 Thread Dave Merrill
, then shipping them to her in Austin. Long shot, but contact me off list if you know anyone likely, and I'll connect the two of you. Thanks, Dave Merrill ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking

RE: [SOT] Supporting multiple browsers and versions

2005-02-06 Thread Dave Merrill
Thanks Jim, comments below. Dave Merrill - What's an accurate, up to date source of info on html, css, and js capabilities and quirks for a lot of different browsers and versions? The JavaScript and DHTML guides at MSDN.microsoft.com are pretty good and inform you of which features

RE: [SOT] Supporting multiple browsers and versions

2005-02-06 Thread Dave Merrill
are separate from the programmers. - Some prospective clients are dis-impressed. Dave Merrill Same here... I've lurked around some CSS-related newsgroups and even some of the die-hard CSS fans still use tables for layout and dress it up with CSS. I NEVER put in a hack. NEVER! I have never

[SOT] Supporting multiple browsers and versions

2005-02-05 Thread Dave Merrill
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RE: [SOT] Supporting multiple browsers and versions

2005-02-05 Thread Dave Merrill
Current windows versions only? Dave Merrill I do all development for FireFox, then fix the little things from IE and NetScape. Thats the only ones I deal with honestly. Dave Merrill wrote: I've been doing intranet work for a while now, where the only browser we had to support

RE: [SOT] Supporting multiple browsers and versions

2005-02-05 Thread Dave Merrill
, but haven't owned one for years. Dave Merrill Dave Merrill wrote: - Do you serve different style sheets or pages depending on the browser and version? How many? No. But I might serve additional ones for certain browsers (IE). - Are you coding to W3C standards? Which one(s)? How

cfsetting showDebugOutput?

2005-02-02 Thread Dave Merrill
it having is to disable debug output if Enable Debugging is checked and you pass showDebugOutput=false. I don't see the point of this. I'm much more likely to want to turn debugs ON locally if they're globally off, than to disable them locally if they're on. Am I missing something? Dave Merrill

Changing debug settings with CFML

2005-02-02 Thread Dave Merrill
Somewhere, I think I remember seeing code to add debugging IP addresses programmatically. Does that ring a bell with anyone who knows where I could find it? Can you enable and disable debugging some similar way? Thanks, Dave Merrill

RE: Restart CFMX with CFML?

2005-01-31 Thread Dave Merrill
Server net stop ColdFusion MX Application Server sleep 10 REM start all CF services net start ColdFusion MX Application Server net start ColdFusion MX ODBC Server net start ColdFusion MX ODBC Agent - If anyone has any idea how to do this, we'd love to know. Thanks, Dave Merrill

RE: Restart CFMX with CFML?

2005-01-31 Thread Dave Merrill
restart. Dave Merrill I think that when ColdFusion executes a command or bat file via CFEXECUTE the external script stops when ColdFusion stops. When ColdFusion calls the bat file below it gets to the part where the jrun.exe process is killed, and then because the bat file process is child

RE: Using Coldfusion with XML

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Merrill
Is there really a requirement to go through csv? Why? If the point is to get the data into a db, what's the reason to pump it through a csv file on the way? (Assuming that cf has access to the db.) Am I missing part of your stated needs? Dave Merrill The end point is with the fixed with CSV

RE: ColdFusion 5 RDS Visual Source Safe

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Merrill
if you haven't changed it, maybe 8500 if you're using the built-in MX server w its defaults.) Dave Merrill RDS uses an HTTP port (80 as far as I'm aware) and routes itself through IIS (This is proven when you stop the IIS site with CFIDE in it and RDS stops working). What you could try

RE: CF and Cloudscape/Derby

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Merrill
Marco, do you have any experience using Cloudscape? With CF? If so, any comments on performance, features, stability? Setup hints for connecting w CFMX61? Thanks, Dave Merrill Portable? Or Embeddable? Postgre(30MB RAM space) and MySQL(50MB RAM space) may be Portable but Cloudscape(2MB RAM

RE: CF and Cloudscape/Derby

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Merrill
impression? That's an important point for both developers and their clients. Dave Merrill I'm hearing about Cloudscape/Derby as a reasonable database alternative to MySQL etc. Is anyone here using it? Comments on performance? Scalability? Stability? Features? With Tracking-Tools, I offer it as one

RE: .net will

2005-01-24 Thread Dave Merrill
though it may be, isn't exactly the highest profile player. Surprising. Doesn't speak so well of the health of CF here, I'd say, but then again, I'm not much for sky-is-falling theories. Dave Merrill ~| Find out how CFTicket can

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