OT: Driving cross country w/ CFMX and a mobile card

2007-08-03 Thread Jonathan Block
Thought some other CF developers might like to hear how I'm using cfmx right now in my car Many of my friends already know this - I'm driving across the United States. I've got a Sprint Sierra Wireless AirCard 595U plugged into my laptop. There's an option to enable a NMEA port from within the

OT: Where can i get a javascript tree control for a taxonomy?

2007-06-26 Thread Jonathan Block
I need a tree control... something similar to the yui javascript tree control... but specifically for taxonomies. Imagine if there were a "Sports" node with 2 child nodes of "Baseball" and "hockey". If someone selects "Sports", I only want sports to be checked. Seems like the YUI tree control autom

does cf7 work with sql 2005?

2007-05-17 Thread Jonathan Block
do the db drivers in cf7 work well with a sql 2005 database? Jon ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIA’s for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Ar

OT: CF makes me look like a champ yet again

2007-05-10 Thread Jonathan Block
In record time I was able to create a tool that allows people to see who uses any website with on HTML tag or firefox extension... and its all powered by CF in the background. Behind the scenes, its dialing into a CF powered mashup which does geo IP locations and mixes it into google maps. This wa

Re: This is why CFMX kicks ass

2007-03-29 Thread Jonathan Block
gt; wrote: > > I remember when it was just called Remote Scripting and didn't have any > funky names... lol > > ~Terry > > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 13:47 > To: CF-Talk &

Re: This is why CFMX kicks ass

2007-03-29 Thread Jonathan Block
eyes.) -Jon On 3/29/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Awesome. If you would have used jQuery it would have taken you a few weeks > less. > > LOL > > Nice site though...it's really well done and looks great too. > > -Original Message- >

Re: Spent the last few hours monkeying with this and I'm getting nowhere...

2007-03-29 Thread Jonathan Block
"*Spent the last few hours monkeying with this and I'm getting nowhere..." that's my life! Jon * On 3/28/07, john mcdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If anybody has an idea on this I'd sure be apprecieate your input. > > I am displaying a form that the user has filled out before, and I am > re

This is why CFMX kicks ass

2007-03-28 Thread Jonathan Block
Over the past couple of months, I used CFMX to hack together a social network for video gamers with all kinds of web 2.0 tricks like yui and spry. If you want to check it out, surf on over to www.connectedbythings.com My point is that over a couple of months, I wrote this site in my free time whe

You think you know OOP.. but you don't

2007-03-22 Thread Jonathan Block
Why do so many articles get published in the CFMX world about OOP. I've read though several, not going to mention names here... but you read it and it makes you think.. wow .. i thought I understood OOP but maybe I don't. Factories... abstraction... models... patterns... that's too much crap

OT: Movie listings in my web application?

2007-03-22 Thread Jonathan Block
What's the best approach to integrating movie listings into your web application. Are there any good web services or feeds you can tap into? Thanks, Jon ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10

i hope they fix cfcache in scorpio

2007-03-22 Thread Jonathan Block
Dear the CF Product team, Please make sure the cfcach'ed pages do not have an HTML comment as the first line in the cfcach'ed page. That' breaks CSS. Thank you, Jon ~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with

Can I use CLIENT variable storage with MySQL 5?

2007-03-11 Thread Jonathan Block
I'm trying very hard to figure out how to get MySql 5 to work with CF client variable storage. I need that... its a requirement. Has anybody done it before? The CF administrator does not have it built in, and when I try to manually create CFDATA and CFGLOBAL, my front end app errors out with a "500

DST Time Zone Java Patch For ColdFusion MX - Help needed

2007-03-08 Thread Jonathan Block
I found this technote: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=d2ab4470 Describing looming problems I'm going to have with ColdFusion dates. I don't understand the solution. They tell you to "upgrade the ColdFusion MX/JRun applications with the 1.4.2_11 JVM.". Although there is a

why is my cfmx reporting the wrong time?

2007-03-03 Thread Jonathan Block
System Information Server Details Server Product ColdFusion MX Version 7,0,2,142559 Edition Standard Serial Number xx Operating System Windows 2003 OS Version 5.2 JVM Details Java Version 1.4.2_12 Java Vendor Sun Microsystems Inc. Java

CFMX Reporting Times 5 Hours Ahead of Current Time

2007-03-03 Thread Jonathan Block
Although my production server has the system clock set correctly in the correct time zone, when I use the coldfusion now() function, its reporting the time being 5 hours ahead. What can i do? My dev box has the same version of coldfusion and its working correctly on dev. Help!? Jon ~~

Going back in browser cache shows super old page

2007-01-29 Thread Jonathan Block
I just got this from one of my users: -- "I'm sure you've noticed this, too, but when you try to navigate backwards on the site -- say you were reading a full artcile and wanted to click the "go back" button on your browser and view the\ home page -- the site takes you to a homepage that i

SeeFusion Rocks

2007-01-11 Thread Jonathan Block
I must give kudos to the makers of seefusion. Today I had another ulta frustrating problem with my CF app and it was clues I got from using SeeFusion that helped me fix the error. Jon ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgra

OT: Best free support (ticket) system?

2007-01-11 Thread Jonathan Block
Any suggestions on a free customer support ticket system? We use OTRS but it's seems very out dated... but what it does it does pretty well. We have several employees who use it to manage support tickets that were sent in via email from many customers. I'm not looking for something that's specifica

How would you solve this?

2007-01-11 Thread Jonathan Block
I have a long running routine (usually 10-15 seconds under normal conditions) that gets called each night by a scheduler. It's a critical procedure that has always worked and must always work. The other night, I see that it started, but it never finished. I have exception handling with CFTRY that

Why doesn't cftrace work?

2007-01-11 Thread Jonathan Block
When i go into logs/ there is no cftrace file. If I make one, it doesn't get appended to. What am I missing? Jon ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick

Can cflogin help me block basic http authentication?

2007-01-03 Thread Jonathan Block
If I know the username + password for an area of my site that requires basic http auth, can i use a cf tag to preset the authentication credentials that the browser will be passing when the user logs into my site so that when they hit the "locked" pages, that they never see the prompt? Jon ~