Re: XML Serialisation

2003-08-19 Thread zac spitzer
Neil Middleton wrote: Guys, I'm after a tag or function which can convert a complex cf data type into an xml packet. I've seen the ones on CFlib that convery queries and structs but I'm after one which can do combinations of datatypes all in one go and return a valid xml packet. I would use

Re: mx tag help/insight for studio 5

2003-08-19 Thread zac spitzer
Massimo Foti wrote: I have CF Studio 5 and am just starting to code for MX a bit. Is there anyway I can get tag insight and help files for the new MX stuff such as cfc's? I looked around on the macromedia site a bit but couldn't find anything. The files for Homesite+ should work just

Re: OT: packet sniffer

2003-08-18 Thread zac spitzer
Michael T. Tangorre wrote: I am in the hunt for a tool that will allow me see the http traffic to and from ym machine. I am trying to debug an application that makes http posts to some servers and need to see what im sending and receiving. I have ethereal now, are there any alternatives (free

Cold Fusion Studio 5 CFMX tag updater?

2003-08-14 Thread zac spitzer
is there a tag updater for cf studio 5.0 which contains CFMX tags, the only one i find on the MM site is http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusionstudio/productinfo/resources/tag_updaters/ and it doesn't contain anything except vtms for cf 5.0 era tags z

Mach II 1.0 released

2003-08-14 Thread zac spitzer
Mach II has been released http://www.mach-ii.com with three sample apps, roulette, contactmanager and shopping cart redsky required being australian, I am thinking this is more of the usual aussie jvm date problems as i'm hitting a date problem on the parsing of the xml config file.. anyone

Re: Mach II 1.0 released

2003-08-14 Thread zac spitzer
zac spitzer wrote: Mach II has been released http://www.mach-ii.com with three sample apps, roulette, contactmanager and shopping cart redsky required being australian, I am thinking this is more of the usual aussie jvm date problems as i'm hitting a date problem on the parsing of the xml

Re: CF tag for highlighting text in a textfield?

2003-08-01 Thread zac spitzer
Jerry Johnson wrote: I don't think you can highlight in a textarea. you can do this actually... you can also move the cursor in a text field or select part of it... here's a good start .. mozilla is way ahead on the easiness too.. ie is a bit more difficult FAQTs - Knowledge Base - View

Re: Page Context Bug?

2003-08-01 Thread zac spitzer
Matt Liotta wrote: It does make it difficult to write efficient frameworks using CFCs tho' so, for example, Mach II will require Red Sky to run efficiently. I'm glad you finally admitted that. so matt, you said a while back it was impossible to write mvc frameworks in cfmx, with the

Re: MachII Speed (was RE: Mach II)

2003-07-16 Thread zac spitzer
Haggerty, Mike wrote: 1) Speed. Each page took 700 ms to generate with debugging off. This was using a slow server: Apache / XP / RedSky / Celeron 733 with 512 MB RAM. However, FB3 pages doing just about the same amount of work average ~100 ms on the same server. coz of the page context bug,

Re: cf5 - ColdFusion Graphing Server = JRun??

2003-06-06 Thread Zac Spitzer
than generator (or graphing server) z -- zac spitzer - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fraggle.datagear.net/ radio://+61 405 847 168 / fixed://+61 3 9528 6775 ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm

Re: New to Java and MX

2003-03-05 Thread Zac Spitzer
I've tried this (mind you I am totally lost) cfobject type=JAVA action=Create name=myFtp class=Ftp cfset ret = myFtp.init() cfset ret2 = myFtp.main('ftp.server.org') The first two lines seem accepted fine, but when I add the third, it starts throwing errors. Any help would be

Re: all records deleted from table

2003-02-05 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kay Smoljak wrote: | A long time ago, I made a really stupid mistake that results in | deletion of all data from a table... | | | A tip I picked up from somewhere - it might even have been this list | - is to not ever actually delete records using

Re: all records deleted from table

2003-02-05 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochem van Dieten wrote: | Zac Spitzer wrote: | |Kay Smoljak wrote: || || A tip I picked up from somewhere - it might even have been this list || - is to not ever actually delete records using code. Instead, I have || a dtDeleted field, which is set

Re: Replication - Mirroring Software for Linux?

2003-02-05 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Brunt wrote: | We are about to add a new production environment that will be CFMX on Linux. | Can anyone recommend good replication software for Linux as this will be a | clustered environment. rsync would be a good starting point z -BEGIN

Re: sql 2000 vs sql 2000 enterprise

2003-02-05 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Weeg wrote: | can someone explain to me, very high level, what the difference is | between | | sql server 2000 Standard Edition | sql server 2000 Enterprise Edition | | we have 2000 ent edition on our servers now, however we are about to |

Re: Character Encoding - Reward Offered!

2003-02-05 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Hoffman wrote: | The xml got changed this year and it all comes back UTF-8 encoding. Is | this what you are looking for? but then the xml version would need to be 1.1 at the start, otherwise not if it 1.0...i think z -BEGIN PGP

faxing from cf

2003-02-03 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 what r people using for online faxing solutions ( need to work in europe ) with only a tcp-ip connection z -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: Screening files before CFFile upload: Follow-up

2003-01-30 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 webguy wrote: | becuase you can do this | | cffile action=read file=ntuser.dat only when cold fusion is not running under a restricted user acount z -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Pet Market Benchmarks?

2003-01-23 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 does anyone know of some benchmarks of pet market against the java or .NET versions z -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: PDF Conversion Tools Question

2003-01-23 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 cflist wrote: | We use AdLib for converting large amounts of uploaded resumes in all | sorts of file formats to PDF. And it works great. | | We were using ActivePDF, and it worked well at converting, but the | application always seemed to hang and

SQL 2000 sp3

2003-01-21 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2000/sp3.asp z -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+LYPM1lRHdy8ASusRAofVAJ0Zz+wl/Rqa3wOuqXKE4oX+JLxWfACgrT/c

Re: Next N Navigation and query caching theory question

2003-01-17 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | needs to get run again? Should I do something like append the | CFTOKEN for that user's session to the query name so that it is | unique? Or should I store the query output as an array in a session | variable? store them in a session structure

OT: mac cfmx zdnn et confused!

2003-01-07 Thread Zac Spitzer
http://zdnet.com.com/2001-11-0.html?legacy=zdnn Macromedia heats up ColdFusion MX Adobe touts three new versions of its applications server software that will work with systems running on BEA's WebLogic, IBM's WebSphere and Sun's Sun ONE server software. adobe now makes mx? :-) z

OT: browser stats, mozilla rising

2002-12-19 Thread Zac Spitzer
few interesting stories around the web today about mozilla's market share rising... this is the stats from heise.de a big german news site, where mozilla based browsers now accounting for 19.4% of users

Re: How to do this without the subselect?

2002-12-19 Thread Zac Spitzer
Rick Faircloth wrote: Hi, all. How can I get the same results as this query with using the subselect? CFQUERY Name=GetWaivers Datasource=#DSN# Select UW.UtilityWaiverID from utilitywaivers UW where Month(UW.IssueDate) = #Form.Month# and Year(UW.IssueDate) =

Re: OT : Mac / IE / OS X

2002-12-18 Thread Zac Spitzer
Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: I'm running into some of the very problems you mention. I tried Decimal as the field type, but 100.5 gets rounded up to 101.00...not good. I tried Integer, but when, for example, 100.50 gets entered into a formfield, then inserted into the db, it gets

Working with CF MMS enabled phones

2002-12-17 Thread Zac Spitzer
anyone got any good pointers on working with these next gen gsm phones, like the nokia 7650 with the built in camera and GPRS? what do i need server side to recieve mms in coldfusion? i see there are two options, email or http(s) z

Re: Compare Two Lists - Keep What Is Similar

2002-12-17 Thread Zac Spitzer
Scott Brady wrote: Hi everyone. I am looking for a way to compare 2 different lists of information, and after comparing them keep which records are exactly the same. I'd probably convert them both to arrays. Then, I'd loop along the first array and look for each element within the second

Re: CFMX: Caching files

2002-12-17 Thread Zac Spitzer
Dave Carabetta wrote: Hey all, I am running into an issue with CFMX apparently not showing the latest files that I place on the server. If I make a change to a file, say showdetails.cfm on my machine and load that page from the webserver, it shows me the previous page, not the page I just

Re: Generating PDFs in CF

2002-12-17 Thread Zac Spitzer
Ciliotta, Mario wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any information on how to create a PDF on the fly in CF. I have been told to look at Active PDF, but right now there is no money to purchase that tool, so I was looking of either a custom tag or maybe an article or two on how to do

Re: Verity vs. SQL Server 2000 Full-Text

2002-12-16 Thread Zac Spitzer
Matt Kornguth wrote: Would love to hear people's feelings and relative advantages/disadvantages of each.Need to make a decision and I'm vacilating between the two. really simple advantage of verity is that it's way more intelligent than sql-2000/full text/index server truy searching on

Re: Verity vs. SQL Server 2000 Full-Text

2002-12-16 Thread Zac Spitzer
paul smith wrote: In my experience with storing recordsets in cached structures, subsequent reading records from the structure was slower than reading the same records from a cached query. Is this expected behavior, or did I screw up? (first time again) probably, show us your code... you

Re: mySQL CF (url injection info)

2002-12-16 Thread Zac Spitzer
Cary Gordon wrote: CFQueryParam gives you an easy way to validate the query params. Some clever, bored hackers have figured out how to do things like pass a drop table query through the header. It is an even easier exploit if you are passing query parameters through the url string. a

Re: CF 5 PDF - FDF files

2002-12-10 Thread Zac Spitzer
You really only NEED activePDF (or something similar) if you want the users to be able to save the generated PDF files with the fields filled out. If you just want them to print it (without being able to save the files), you can do it all within CF. (I believe there is a custom tag which

Re: Lists vs. Arrays vs. Structures

2002-12-09 Thread Zac Spitzer
Michael Dinowitz wrote: I think that a new array search function might be in order here. Something to look through an array for a value and return its index. I'm not sure what you are really trying to accomplish here. I agree with matt, are you working on the maketree tag in cf? lets talk

Re: Lists vs. Arrays vs. Structures

2002-12-09 Thread Zac Spitzer
Michael Dinowitz wrote: You can see the code here: http://www.houseoffusion.com/_library/maketree.txt Your example will fail as there can be more than one item with the same 'parent', which is what we're looking for. No matter what, we have to do a search and the list search functions seem to

Re: Lists vs. Arrays vs. Structures

2002-12-05 Thread Zac Spitzer
Michael Dinowitz wrote: isn't structkeyexists better than structfindvalue? as our jedi friend says, after not evalutating, cflocking I think that's his next biggest tip It's better if you just want to know if the value exists. I need to know where it exists. my experience is that

Re: Lists vs. Arrays vs. Structures

2002-12-04 Thread Zac Spitzer
Michael Dinowitz wrote: I'm rewriting my CFMakeTree tag in order to make it tighter and work in CFMX better. One of the assumptions I had was that Lists would be problematic in comparison to Arrays or Structs. My first test was to find a value in one of these data collections. For Lists I

Re: Nested Query Loops

2002-12-04 Thread Zac Spitzer
Jeff D. Chastain wrote: I was referring to the inner query using the full scoped name - variables.queryName. So, why does setting newQueryName = variables.queryName PRIOR to looping the first query change anything? Both variables are in the variable scope and are created prior to the first

Re: Nested Query Loops

2002-12-04 Thread Zac Spitzer
Jeff D. Chastain wrote: I am not even making it that far. I am getting an error on cfloop query=qry2 stating that qry2 is not a recordset. If I do a cfdump prior to the first loop, qry2 is a recordset with several rows of data. If I do a cfdump right before the second loop (i.e. inside the

Re: Checking SESSION variable

2002-12-03 Thread Zac Spitzer
FlashGuy wrote: Hi, I have session variable that contains the directory name session.strFileName. I also have another session variable session.ShowMe that contains multiple directory names (comma-delimited) which i'm setting from my database. Basically, i need to check if the directory

Re: CFX_Image - Quality of images not good when rotating

2002-12-03 Thread Zac Spitzer
Craig Dudley wrote: I'd stick to cfx_image then, it works well, can read and convert many, many formats. It's fast enough as well, as long as you don't run it on the front end of your site. just make sure your using the latest version too http://www.kolumbus.fi/jukka.manner/ z

Re: When CFHTTP fails, use WGET

2002-11-26 Thread Zac Spitzer
Craig Dudley wrote: I use a self written java cfx, took 2 hrs to write (I'm a java n00b) and is massively faster than cfhttp, granted it's a little more simple but it works well. Using a w32 utility with cfexecute is likely to be even slower than cfhttp, I wouldn't go there to be honest. If

Re: Application variables

2002-11-25 Thread Zac Spitzer
Bryan Stevenson wrote: You have to restart CF to reset APPLICATION vars (timing out the app might work too). application=strucnew(); z ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription:

Re: How to get a JPEG's width/height (not cf_imgagesize)?

2002-11-21 Thread Zac Spitzer
Bob Haroche wrote: I need to determine the width and height of JPEG's being uploaded. I've used the free cf_imagesize but it sometimes returns the wrong dimensions. I'm told it's just buggy with JPEG's. I'm deploying to a shared hosting situation so I can't control what can be installed on

Re: Gif Pipes

2002-11-20 Thread Zac Spitzer
Jochem van Dieten wrote: Adrian Lynch wrote: www.depressedpress.com used to have something but the site isn't working for some reason. another way to do this that is becoming more common is like this document.write('script src=j.cfm?id=3opt=4/script'); j.cfm then returns javascript which

Re: java cfx and administrator woes

2002-11-13 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Any suggestions on what to try next? do you have the CF 5.0 hotfixes installed? z -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: OT: good Meta taggers

2002-11-12 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlisle, Eric wrote: | Hi CF-Talkers, | | I'm looking for a good meta tagging mechanism -- something that'll build | good description and keyword meta tags from text content. FYI: meta keywords are dead, google never even read them

cfqueryparam in MX

2002-11-12 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Well, it's good to learn Rick. For further reading on cfqueryparam | check out Ben Forta's article: | | http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/articles/ben_forta_faster.html | | Anyway, I would advise anyone working with *any* db

Re: Compare code on two pages...

2002-11-12 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Lynch wrote: | Print out both versions, put them together and hold them up to the light :OD | | | -Original Message- | From: Chris White [mailto:whitec;earthlink.net] | Sent: 12 November 2002 13:10 | To: CF-Talk | Subject: Compare code

w2k optimal directory size?

2002-11-11 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 anyone know what w2k ntfs5 's optimal file count per directory is? ie I have 1,000,000 files, splitting them in to dirs with 5000 files, or 1000 files per directory... this is for cfcontent returned content, linked to a db with a security check, so

Re: JSP share with CF 4.5?

2002-11-08 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Norloff wrote: | I have a request to get JSP's and CFML (CF 4.5) to share data. My first response is to say Easy - buy CFMX | | In the meantime, they'd like JSP's and CFML to share data. Can they share jsessionid or something? use your database

Re: Simple serial interface and CF???

2002-11-08 Thread Zac Spitzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Pilles wrote: | Can I read data vai SSI into a CF application??? | | We have symbol datawand III and I would like to read the data from the | wand directly into my app... can I do this??? if you can find a commandline tool (ie dos ) you can

Re: Deleting duplicate values in list

2002-11-06 Thread Zac Spitzer
Dowdell, Jason G wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of an easy way to delete duplicate values from a list. For example: List = Jason, Jeremy, John, Jason, Jack i think the quickest way is to create a struct, make each list item a key in the struct and then return the structkeylist z

Re: Running custom tag

2002-11-06 Thread Zac Spitzer
FlashGuy wrote: Hi, I downloaded the custom tag cf_sleep. I changed the path of my custom tags directory to e:\inetpub\customtags and added the custom tag path via CF Administrator and deleted the default path of c:\cfusion\customtags. When I run my template with the cf_sleep I get the

Re: Max length of Text Data?

2002-10-24 Thread Zac Spitzer
Matthew Walker wrote: You can't apply max() to a text datatype. So how about: SELECT MAX(LEN(CAST(textdatafield AS nvarchar(4000 If the result is 4000 then it will work. If not, it won't. Or you could use varchar(8000). and you can only stored 8000 bytes in varchars in a row

Re: How can you get the latest version of a page.

2002-10-18 Thread Zac Spitzer
Adams, Stephen wrote: Hi all, How can I get the latest version of a CF page. I am opening a page in a popup window and I want the latest version, not the one stored in the cache, I'm not sure how to do this can anyone give me any pointers. CFHEADER NAME=cache-control

Re: Page Expires

2002-10-11 Thread Zac Spitzer
Everett, Al wrote: This is what I use: CFHEADER NAME=Expires VALUE=#DateFormat(Now(), 'ddd, dd-mmm-')# 00:00:00 GMT CFHEADER NAME=Pragma VALUE=no-cache CFHEADER NAME=cache-control VALUE=no-cache you can also use the confusingly named GetHttpTimeString(date_time_object) function

Re: Counting Page Views

2002-10-11 Thread Zac Spitzer
I have a spec on a project that has me counting page views in order to generate a 'most popular' list of the 10 most commonly clicked on links. Has anybody done anything like this? Initially I was thinking of a db counter that incremented a field in my db as people viewed the page. Is there

EU internet law resources

2002-10-08 Thread Zac Spitzer
I'm looking for some information regarding EU law and the internet, with regards to user agreements, privacy and what is legal and what isn't, in plain english or better from a developer point of view things in the direction for example that the MS eula is not legal in the eu and what

Cumulative Patch for SQL Server (Q316333) Crtical for 2000

2002-10-03 Thread Zac Spitzer
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-056 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-056.asp have fun, yet another crappy m$ patch from with no installer and 2 pages of instructions and it's rated critical for all internet instances z

Re: QofQ weirdness when using QueryNew

2002-10-03 Thread Zac Spitzer
Ryan Kime wrote: OK, I really need some help on this one. I have a query I create on the fly using QueryNew/QueryAddRow/QuerySetCell. Everything is fine until I try to use a cfquery with dbtype=Query on the created query to order the results - it throws a QofQ runtime error. If I comment

Re: CFM Files are Locked?

2002-10-02 Thread Zac Spitzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIS likes to lock files for a little while if they have been recently accessed from the web. If you wait about 30 mins, they'll be freed. Annoying. rename then delete then write a new file always seems to work for me in w2k z

opinions about XSL

2002-10-01 Thread Zac Spitzer
is found this article talking about why xsl is bad http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/05/xsl/xslconsidered_1.html any comments? I haven't personally looked into xsl, the syntax always looked like RTF :-) through babelfish and it looks like doing client side work on the server ( ie browser stuff )

Re: opinions about XSL

2002-10-01 Thread Zac Spitzer
Alex wrote: What other option is there to transform xml docs? convert the xml to dom, do your mods and then back to xml, as a CF developer, it much easier to work IMHO with the xml dom as structures etc than messing around with... apparently one of the problems with XSL as an approach

Re: opinions about XSL

2002-10-01 Thread Zac Spitzer
Tony Weeg wrote: zac. can u explain in brief, or give a brief example of taking an xml node(s) and sending that to a structure? using an xml parser in cf 5 or native in MX, you can convert an xml document into a dom object... like a tree of objects or structures of structures take an xml

Re: Using the Verity Engine on non-cf apps

2002-09-30 Thread Zac Spitzer
Bruce Sorge wrote: If you have CFMX and .net apps running on the same server, is it possible to use the K2 Verity engine on the .net apps, or does this require one to purchase and install the K2 product? sounds like you coud expose it via a web service :-) that would be the license

Re: NSLookup

2002-09-24 Thread Zac Spitzer
James Smith wrote: Hi all. Here is a problem I have been pulling my hair out over. I want to do an NSLookup directly (ie: no custom tags if it can be avoided) and have tried both w3sockets and TCPClient to open the socket but not for love nor money can I find the appropriate commands to

Re: NSLookup

2002-09-24 Thread Zac Spitzer
James Smith wrote: The reason for attempting direct interaction is that the page I have here has about 200+ domains on it and it is growing every day and every custom tag I have tried can't cope with the volume. like always, cache your results, if it's possible, most likely the results your

Re: IIS Security

2002-09-24 Thread Zac Spitzer
Candace Cottrell wrote: What is the disadvantage of using the native IIS directory security functionality over using a cf-based login? you don't have so much control over the interface ( ie browser login dialogs ) and it generally more flexible via cf logins with error handling.. ie you

Re: IIS Security

2002-09-24 Thread Zac Spitzer
Robertson-Ravo, Neil (REC) wrote: I am pretty sure that there are Netscape issues with IIS/NT security based systems. only with NTLM/kerbos auth, use basic security... NTLM is not secure anyway coz it's flawed (crackable) ... if you are worried about passwords in clear text then use ssl z

Re: QueryNew() Filtering Problems

2002-09-24 Thread Zac Spitzer
Raymond Camden wrote: Can we see your code? I had no issues with this on either CF5 or MX. Here is the code I used: cf_querysim name=foo price name 6000 foo 1 goo 2 moo /cf_querysim cfdump var=#foo# cfquery name=test dbtype=query select price fromfoo

Textarea manipluation with JS ( IE Moz)

2002-09-24 Thread Zac Spitzer
the following link show how to create controllable textarea's for editing, ie get selection, insert at selection with both mozilla and IE 456 ( diff methods, but same results ) hope it saves someone some time :-) http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1052/fid/130

Re: UUID's ( maybe OT)

2002-09-19 Thread Zac Spitzer
Bryan Love wrote: Not really true. The word terrible is a vast overstatement. Assuming you use char (or varchar) for the UUID (char is better since the size is constant)... The difference btwn string keys and numeric keys (performance-wise) is pretty much null until you get up into the

Re: Returning columns with null values when specific columns are unknown at runtime

2002-09-19 Thread Zac Spitzer
null values are not indexed btw. (maybe thigs have changed in the last few years but) using a value like 0 as a quasi null means that select user_id from users where b_sysadmin is null versus select user_id from users where b_sysadmin = 0 do an explain plan in oracle or execution plan in sql

Re: more cfstoredproc issues -- ARGH!!

2002-09-18 Thread Zac Spitzer
S. Isaac Dealey wrote: Yea, it turned out to be the cf_sql_date that was causing the wrong number of parameters error message... so changing that to cf_sql_timestamp solved the problem... Better support for cfstoredproc ( naming and better error handling in particular. ) would be _great_ to

UUID's ( maybe OT)

2002-09-18 Thread Zac Spitzer
I am probably OT here, but I see so many people using UUID's when simpler normal numeric keys are better... a classic example for me is article id's... look at cfcomet for example... the article ids aren't user friendly, it reminds me of good old lotus notes and we all know how short urls are

Re: FW: Jsp Vs Cfm (CFMX) -- Test Code

2002-09-17 Thread Zac Spitzer
snip Anyone else have any ideas? try scoping your variables z __ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ:

Re: FW: Jsp Vs Cfm (CFMX) -- Test Code

2002-09-17 Thread Zac Spitzer
and writeoutput in cf 5.0 is slower than cfoutput, did you try the same test with cfml and not cfscript ? z __ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community.

Re: Recursion

2002-09-13 Thread Zac Spitzer
S. Isaac Dealey wrote: Before you give up... There's a couple of things you can do for the recursion in the db... One is to create a cross-reference table which shows the parent-child relationship between all records in the table... Alternatively, you could try this: cfset rs =

Re: Saving a static version of a website

2002-09-08 Thread Zac Spitzer
Jason Miller wrote: I have been unsuccesful as well with some of the download utitilies. This would be great if UltraDev did indeed have this. Just wanted to post my interest if this is found - I would appreciate a note to the list. I will do the same if I should happen to solve the issue

Re: upload multiple image files

2002-09-06 Thread Zac Spitzer
Chris Edwards wrote: how do I access a file's information after uploading multiple images in a single form? the default is FILE.stuff. or CFFILE.stuff.. cfset this_file_info=duplicate(cffile) i think u need the duplicate because otherwise as cffile is a struct, when cffile changes

Re: html2jpg

2002-08-30 Thread Zac Spitzer
James Smith wrote: Some time ago there was a thread about HTML2JPG (http://www.html2jpg.com/) and using it to create screen shots of web sites. Has anyone got it to work with the cfexecute tag? It works just fine when I execute it directly or with a batch file from windows, but either

Re: Programmatically Control IIS with CF.

2002-08-29 Thread Zac Spitzer
Bryan F. Hogan wrote: I'm faced with a task of creating an app for our company where a sales person can input a new client and have it create the needed information within IIS. I have been able to do this with my registrar for domain names and have it programmatically create the needed DNS

Re: Managing Software Versions

2002-08-28 Thread Zac Spitzer
If I needed to handle this, I'd do each version as a separate directory - i.e. http://mydomain/myapp/ver1/index.cfm and http://mydomain/myapp/ver2/index.cfm you could also put in a application layer, moving your code directly out the web path and using sessions to select which code base to

Re: HTML to Image

2002-08-27 Thread Zac Spitzer
Does anyone know of a custom tag (or anything else) that can create an image based on HTML input (like CF_HTML2PDF2 but to an image)? To everyone who was asking about getting website screenshots this week, Mike took it up as a challenge today and wrote a simple cfx_url2bmp. You can

Re: Anybody using large scale CFMX and MYSQL?

2002-08-21 Thread Zac Spitzer
Adam Hope wrote: Hi All, I am currently re-evaluating our database needs and I was wondering if anybody was using MySQL wired to CFMX for any large scale production environments. If you are, are their any major issues? what's your application requirements? :-) mysql is not a full blown

Re: CFMX: Debugging times or page processing times

2002-08-21 Thread Zac Spitzer
Stacy Young wrote: What if u turn off debug and use getTickCount to measure speed on cfmx? good idea esp because it's the old uncertainty principle with debug... u can't measure something without changing it in the process... and I think debug in MX has more overhead than 5.0 z

Re: cfqueryparam

2002-08-16 Thread Zac Spitzer
Paul Giesenhagen wrote: If using cfqueryparam does it matter if you have queries named the same but do different things (on different pages but in the same application and using the same db)? Example one query named getProduct uses a cfqueryparam, while another query named getProduct

Re: Exclude pages from Verity collection

2002-08-15 Thread Zac Spitzer
Al Musella, DPM wrote: I may do things the hard way, but the approach I take is to put a comment in the files that I do not want indexed, like: ! DO NOT INDEX!!! -- Then, when indexing them, I use cffile to list the files in the directories, and cfhttp to read them. I look for

Re: RESOLVED: Re: 33 and 33d the same?

2002-08-14 Thread Zac Spitzer
so basically as much as I hate to pose the question, CF5 apps on CFMX are likely to have problems with logic??? when is sp1 then? z __ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at

Re: OT: Automated FTP

2002-08-14 Thread Zac Spitzer
Phillip B wrote: I have to find a way to download a file from one ftp server and also upload a file to another ftp server. This will be done on my W2K box running only SQL server. Anyone have some good suggestions? gnu wget is good for downloading automatically via http and ftp

Re: List Inserts

2002-08-13 Thread Zac Spitzer
Jim Mixon wrote: er, sorry . . I do not understand . . . how does CFFILE get a line of text from a list of lines of text inserted into and existing table?? sorry i thought you wanted to append a record to an existing dataset in a comma delimted file.. then from what I understand... then

Re: cfdev

2002-07-29 Thread Zac Spitzer
Tilbrook, Peter wrote: This is only supported by IE. and mozilla! z __ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm

Re: Idea Incubator - javax.imageio.ImageReader

2002-07-18 Thread Zac Spitzer
Raymond Camden wrote: I'd kill for a CFX/whatever that would make a thumbnail of a URL. (Or just an image of a URL - I know making thumbnails is pretty easy.) http://www.gotdotnet.com/playground/services/ThumbnailGen/instructions.aspx feel free to make a nice cfx around this.. or at least

Re: CFHTTP alternatives for Unix?

2002-07-16 Thread Zac Spitzer
Dave Carabetta wrote: Are there any reliable alternatives for using CFHTTP on Unix (in my case, Solaris, but migrating to Linux in the near future)? I need to pass large WDDX packets to a Python server extensively, and CFHTTP is just not an adequate, scalable solution. Time is also a big

Re: Storing Queries in Application Scope

2002-07-12 Thread Zac Spitzer
Dave Watts wrote: Why can I not just reference my queries at application.[queryName].[value] throughout my application? You can. This is actually described near the bottom of the technote. I'm not sure why the writer bothered with all that copying queries to arrays stuff at the top.

Re: onTap Flash MX chat room and Mozilla

2002-07-11 Thread Zac Spitzer
S. Isaac Dealey wrote: Okay ... so ... the latest news is this: I've redesigned the chat room to take advantage of the new flashVars parameter in Flash MX which allows up to 64kb of data to be transferred to the movie on load without any javascript ( yea! ). I had hoped that this would

Re: onTap chat room...FLASH and Moz

2002-07-10 Thread Zac Spitzer
S. Isaac Dealey wrote: SID http://www.turnkey.to/talkontap SID It's the first commercial release. Still can't get the chat box to display in Moz 1.0. Is this something you're working on? Oh hey Chris, I'm sorry I forgot to mention this in my last post... Yes I'm working on it ... I

Re: onTap chat room...FLASH and Moz

2002-07-10 Thread Zac Spitzer
Error: document.swf_TalkOnTap.SetVariable is not a function Source File: http://www.turnkey.to/talkontap/index.cfm?talkaction=ENTERuniqueid=5A00E13C-5B88-48D2-8866B6A91CA3657Dnick=4534534room=Lobby Line: 43 I have noticed that mozilla is very tricky with flash sometimes correction, it

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