RE: [ACFUG Discuss] OpenCMS Installation

2009-05-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
You'd need to install in the Enterprise/Developer Multiserver mode of deployment, in order to deploy a WAR-based app (like OpenCMS) alongside CF. Even then, it wouldn't really be running "in CF". It would be using JRun as the J2EE server on which it executes. (And no, as far as I know, one cannot d

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] OpenCMS Installation

2009-05-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Forest, it generally does not matter at all that you have many versions of the JRE or JDK. Most apps that need a particular one will include one within their own directory, as both CF and JRun (and I imagine Tomcat) do. And they also tend to set their own classpath within their startup scripts, s

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] OpenCMS Installation

2009-05-05 Thread Charlie Arehart
Sure, happy to help. /charlie -Original Message- From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Forrest C. Gilmore Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:19 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] OpenCMS Installation Charlie: I realized I was straying from CF top

getting remote assistance (was RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 7 + SQL Server 2000. 500 Operation failed on the data source named "XYZ".)

2009-05-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ajas, this seems a good time to make a suggestion: sometimes, trying to solve a challenging problem on a mailing list just isn't productive. There can be too many variables, and many hours are spent as different people throw out different suggestions, and you and they work to get to the point

RE: getting remote assistance (was RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 7 + SQL Server 2000. 500 Operation failed on the data source named "XYZ".)

2009-05-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks, Ajas. I do realize it seemed a possibly simple problem at first, but as the many comments have shown, there are many possible explanations, but they do all center on the matter of client variables. Indeed, I was tempted to write more yesterday to give you some direction, and in fa

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion 7 + SQL Server 2000. 500 Operation failed on the data source named "XYZ".

2009-05-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
I'll throw out that if you had FusionReactor or SeeFusion, you could enable their datasource monitoring feature to be able to see each SQL statement sent to the DBMS, which may also have helped you see when/where the problem was (and was not) occurring, since it may be that it happens sometimes and

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Encrypting URL Parameters

2009-05-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
Clarke, besides considering the other useful suggestions about whether it’s appropriate to even try those, or if there may be alternatives, I’ll say that I’ve done it before for other reasons, with code like this (where string was what needed to be encrypted, and key was the key for encoding/dec

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Global Knowledge Ten Dying IT Skills

2009-05-18 Thread Charlie Arehart
Oy, so much palaver. Their very numbers show CF as having 30% more jobs than their self-ascribed "language of the moment" Rails, and yet they still want to label CF as dying. Indeed, one could argue static numbers aren't a good measure. Trends are what matter, and if they showed that CF was t

[ACFUG Discuss] No CFUG meeting this month: so go see Dean Saxe at OWASP that night instead

2009-05-26 Thread charlie arehart
Hey folks, since we're not having a regular CFUG meeting in June (first Wednesday), due to the "Ben" meeting on the 8th (more at ACFUG.org), here's a great way to spend that night. Our own Dean Saxe is presenting to the OWASP Atlanta group that now-free Wednesday night, June 3. For more on his

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Web Service Problem

2009-05-26 Thread Charlie Arehart
Well, there's one other difference: both the CFARGUMENT's have "required" and "default". If you think about it, these are mutually exclusive. If you must specify an arg, then there's no need for a default. Of course, it's CF that shouldn't allow them, and I don't know that they should result in the

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Web Service Problem

2009-05-27 Thread Charlie Arehart
So are you saying that in fact things are ok, if you don't use that tool? And as far as tools to analyze web services, there are those built into Dreamweaver and Eclipse (with the Adobe CF Extensions). Have you tried either of those? Each of these can explore any web service URL you provide, and s

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion

2009-05-28 Thread Charlie Arehart
Clarke, I wouldn't rely on the server monitor as proof of whether the thread runs. For one thing, you have to have "start monitoring" enabled, which isn't on by default. Just thought I'd clarify that if it might be the only reason you don't see them. Even then, the threads could run very fast.

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] antiquated question about upgrade from 6.1 to 7

2009-05-31 Thread Charlie Arehart
But to get back to your original question, if someone for some reason did NOT want to do an update, yes, you could call upon better encryption functions than those includes in CF 6, by calling on them in the underlying Java JVM (or whatever library the encryption functions live in). Someone may kno

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: CF 7 & tif images

2009-06-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ajas, I'll share my thoughts. I'm no expert in this subject, and things may have changed, so someone can counter my observations. First, the latter problem (of how files/pages opened via the browser open in an unexpected program) is normally a matter of configuring the browser to tell it how to

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: CF 7 & tif images

2009-06-05 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yes, and for that, Mischa's idea was a clever solution to consider. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Ajas Mohammed Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:05 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: CF 7 & tif images Thanks Mischa and Charl

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF8 Rich Text Editor

2009-06-15 Thread Charlie Arehart
Following up on that, note that you can also control where the tag (CFTEXTAREA) expects to find the editor code. It only defaults to /CFIDE/scripts/ajax/FCKEditor. You can change it on the fly in the tag, using the basetag attribute. More at: http://www.cfquickdocs.com/cf8/#cftextarea Of course,

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] single sign-on issue CF 8

2009-06-17 Thread Charlie Arehart
Sravan, CF will only create a new cfid/cftoken if they are not passed into a request, whether via a cookie pair or on the URL (or in a form field, I suppose). Whatever that other server's technology is for sending a request, see if they're passing the data any of these ways. You can also check

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] single sign-on issue CF 8

2009-06-18 Thread Charlie Arehart
.because you would instead need to be sending the jsessionid cookie instead. I was about to write the same answer as Cameron, but adding that little detail. ;--} /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Cameron Childress Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:22 PM

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] single sign-on issue CF 8

2009-06-19 Thread Charlie Arehart
I saw your later note saying you're sending those session keys as URL parms. Since you say things are failing on posts, how about getting the posting app to try sending them as cookies instead? Maybe some aspect of the http spec (or the web server) is not letting query strings in on form posts. Jus

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] single sign-on issue CF 8

2009-06-23 Thread Charlie Arehart
Sravan, as for your request for "other ideas", you didn't reply to the couple of ideas I offered in my last email, attached. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of sravan kumar Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:07 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG D

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] cfcookie with the domain attribute

2009-06-24 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yeah, adding to what Howard noted, the DOMAIN attribute isn't there for the reason you're using it. It's instead for controlling use of cookies on that "single domain" that's setting the cookie, but controlling whether and how it works for any subdomains under it. You can't simply name another dom

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] cfcookie with the domain attribute

2009-06-25 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yes, and Clarke, I would highly recommend you drop a feedback into the livedocs on that (the CF8 ones, not 7 or 6, as I don't know that they go back and review those for ideas, though they should, since some find them while doing searches.) /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] NEVERMIND RE: CF in the database?

2009-07-01 Thread Charlie Arehart
FWIW, I'll note that while I appreciate the cons of the idea, I also know that others have seen the pros of it, and the BlueDragon engineers did as well, and they added a Render function to let you execute CFML code as found in any variable, whether from a DB query, a shared scope variable, etc.

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] NEVERMIND RE: CF in the database?

2009-07-01 Thread Charlie Arehart
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RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF Attacks in the wild

2009-07-02 Thread Charlie Arehart
I'm curious about their phrasing of "older installations of Cold Fusion applications" and FCKEditor. It was only included as of CF8 (codenamed scorpio, as mentioned in this news from the fckeditor folks: http://www.fckeditor.net/Adobe_to_embed_FCKeditor_in_ColdFusion). So it's too bad that the open

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF Attacks in the wild

2009-07-02 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yep, and it seems (as also discussed in John Mason's entry, at http://www.codfusion.com/blog/post.cfm/cf8-and-fckeditor-security-threat) that the problem goes beyond just what can be abused if one uses CFTEXTAREA richtext="yes", but in fact what the hackers can do leveraging the FCKeditor directly.

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFu...I mean Homesite is dead!

2009-07-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Well, I don't know. I think it's just that it was written in Delphi, and perhaps Adobe doesn't have enough (or want to bother with) Delphi skills to keep it going. It was brought forward from Allaire, and when Macromedia already had DW it kind of spelled the beginning of the end. The first step was

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFu...I mean Homesite is dead!

2009-07-05 Thread Charlie Arehart
Sure, but let's not dismiss as hopelessly incapable of supporting source code control. It does. It has built-in support for the SCC API, which is supported by many source code control apps. I've hooked it up to SVN. Conversely, Eclipse can certainly be hooked directly to a remote server via FTP. Ho

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFu...I mean Homesite is dead!

2009-07-05 Thread Charlie Arehart
Well, Steve, I don't know if you meant me in the "you guys", but I had said in my note yesterday (to which Doug was replying) that, "I really think it's just part of the economic times". I offered the rest because I do think a lot of people don't know about the fact that HS was written in Delphi, o

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF Attacks in the wild

2009-07-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
Well, yeah, it could. But the thrust of the attack (and the focus of this one) has been on sites that DO have it pre-installed, which is as of CF8. No denying, of course, that sites that added FCKeditor themselves would be vulnerable as well, but then it wouldn't be anything CF-specific at that p

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion and MySQL

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Arehart
And for those not on CF8, there are still other ways that don't require CFEXECUTE or direct access to the server. Here's a blog entry I did on 3 ways to find info on the version of DB drivers being used by CF, varying based on what level of access you have to the server: http://www.carehart.org/bl

broken urls in email RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion and MySQL

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Arehart
ySQL Charlie, I think that your URL broke across two lines. http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2006/8/8/checking_jdbc_driver_version The above link should work. Teddy R. Payne, ACCFD Google Talk - teddyrpa...@gmail.com On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Charlie Arehart wrote: A

RE: broken urls in email RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion and MySQL

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Arehart
Eh? I don’t understand, honestly. How does a broken URL affect bandwidth? I’ll assume you don’t mean bytes but time. You mean it’s regard as an offense if a URL breaks? But it’s not something people do intentionally. It’s done by their mail clients. The solution is just to hit reply, so

RE: broken urls in email RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion and MySQL

2009-07-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
Just to be clear, I didn’t take it as patronizing. “We cool.” :-) But I stand by my statement (and confused by Jasun’s laughter. I was being serious. But maybe that’s what he was laughing at.) /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Teddy R. Payne Sent: We

RE: broken urls in email RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion and MySQL

2009-07-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ah, ok. Thanks. :-) And to be clear, Teddy, I did in my reply say that you could have meant either form of bandwidth. Meant to clarify that in my note below. Juggling many things today, including a very cool announcement to come later today about a special CF Meetup event. Will share more

[ACFUG Discuss] Ultimate Centaur/Bolt User Group Tour event, online Monday at noon EDT

2009-07-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
Hey folks, hope you won't mind me sharing this here but I assume many will be interested. This coming Monday (July 13) at noon US EDT we'll be having an extra special session of the online CF Meetup (coldfusionmeetup.com), where Adobe has offered to host a special two-hour session, "Centaur and

RE: broken urls in email RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion and MySQL

2009-07-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
Just posted it (on the meetup site), and was about to send it to the group here. Coming right up. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Teddy R. Payne Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:13 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: broken urls in email RE: [ACFUG

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] cfexecute, shared hosting, and security

2009-07-10 Thread Charlie Arehart
Clarke, in addition to the good stuff Shawn shared [and btw, Shawn, I'd enjoy seeing that code :-)], I'll note that at least as far as the point he made: > So the hoster is left with a hard choice: disable CFEXECUTE, CFOBJECT, > CreateObject(.NET), CreateObject(COM) and CreateObject(JAVA) or accep

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 9 and CF Builder beta are now public

2009-07-13 Thread Charlie Arehart
Well, you can also do it with the Server mode. Have been able to since CF 6 (but I know many prefer multiserver mode for many reasons). The challenge is just the web server integration, which is why (since 6) there has been the built-in web server as an alternative, so that the new CF edition d

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Atlanta Flex meeting tomorrow

2009-07-15 Thread Charlie Arehart
Natlya, the AFFUG meets in the same place as the ACFUG, the offices of: Echo Eleven 3525 Piedmont Rd NE Building 7, Suite 400 Atlanta, GA 30305 770-337-8363 That number is for EchoEleven, as offered in the meeting detail page shown to meetup members who RSVP. I don't think it would be a number to

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning a ColdFusion Framework

2009-07-19 Thread Charlie Arehart
Uh, here it comes, the annual framework debate. :-) I’m only joking, Clarke. It’s a reasonable question. The good news is that you will indeed get opinions. You’ll just have to sift through them. I think the problem with the discussion is that there’s no one good answer. As with so many thin

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning a ColdFusion Framework

2009-07-20 Thread Charlie Arehart
On top of what Teddy offered in reply to your question, Tim, I’d point out as well that despite CF9 having ORM built-in, the other ORM frameworks could continue to exist for years if only to serve those who don’t move to 9 (there’s traditionally a long slow march to any new release, taking years

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] dreamweaver cs4 component error

2009-07-21 Thread Charlie Arehart
Just to be clear, Robert, the listing of the components in the DW feature is driven from the server-side via RDS (just like the list of datasources, etc.), so if there's a problem with DW seeing it, it's not about the setup of your site (assuming your site points to the server with the CFCs) but ra

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] verity basics and troubleshooting

2009-07-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
Well, one thing to consider it to optimize the collection (can be done in the CF Admin or with CFCOLLECTION). /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Howard Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:47 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] verity b

[ACFUG Discuss] "cheap" CF hosting (was RIApodcast recording after tonight's meeting)

2009-08-05 Thread Charlie Arehart
Beyond John's helpful info (and I recommend his hosting), I will say to address Timothy's concern that there are in fact many low-cost CF hosts. I list them in a category of my CF411 site: ColdFusion Hosting Alternatives http://www.cf411.com/#cfhost I don't identify their prices, so you would nee

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ADobe ColdFusion Builder

2009-08-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
Hey Sean, that wouldn't be a problem with the RDS implementation. That would be with the aspect of adding a server to be managed from within CFB. I do so lament that they have gone this way of kind of forcing people into thinking that they need to "add their server" to CFB, and that they need to

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ADobe ColdFusion Builder

2009-08-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
o, I'm wishing I was presenting "Using That Shiny New Coldfusion Builder", but alas I'm not. I see a good topic for someone to step up and present on here. Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Charlie

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ADobe ColdFusion Builder

2009-08-10 Thread Charlie Arehart
Not a word has been spoken. :-) /charlie > -Original Message- > From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Mike Staver > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 12:58 PM > To: discussion@acfug.org > Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ADobe ColdFusion Builder > > Does anyone know an est

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning a ColdFusion Framework: Update

2009-08-17 Thread Charlie Arehart
Hey Clarke, I caught your comment here, that > I was originally going to start with ColdBox to learn a ColdFusion framework. But, I quickly got lost in the complexity. To really use ColdBox, you > end up needing to know Coldspring and Transfer. But, since each of those has a learning curve,

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Learning a ColdFusion Framework: Update

2009-08-17 Thread Charlie Arehart
Well, I don't use ColdBox myself, so I can't answer your question about whether CB expects one to use an ORM. Maybe someone else can chime here, or again the CB list/forum would be a great place to ask. I just wanted to clarify that one point about it not needing transfer or coldpsring to do develo

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Charlies presentation - CFApplication tag without clientmanagment sessionmanagement means registry populated every time???

2009-08-18 Thread Charlie Arehart
tation "Sessions and Clients and Crashes, Oh My!", with Charlie Arehart at this link http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/10155133/?from=list <http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/10155133/?from=list&offset= 0> &offset=0 I had a question pop up today a

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Charlies presentation - CFApplication tag without clientmanagment sessionmanagement means registry populated every time???

2009-08-18 Thread Charlie Arehart
No worries. Just clarifying. Will look forward to your reply there. Nothing to see here folks. Move along. :-) Or, "Turn to the cfmeetup message board for continued coverage of this breaking story." :-) /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Ajas Moha

RE: SPAM-MED: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] cfdiv not working on host but works locally

2009-08-27 Thread Charlie Arehart
Did identifying the server version solve your problem, Andrew? I'd think not, as I'd expect instead for you to get a CFML compilation error using a tag that's not supported by an older version. Instead, I would wonder if the problem is really with the underlying Javascript libraries that are used

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Tonight's meeting

2009-09-02 Thread Charlie Arehart
And third, if you get the announcements didn't notice, the topics and speaker lineup have changed as of yesterday. Briefly, it's John Mason leading a "CFUnited Conference Review" and then giving a talk on "Some of the New ColdFusion 9 Features". Not sure the order they will be offered, but they'r

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] SEO and domain fwd

2009-09-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Just to forestall saying, "that doesn't work for me", the nifty ability to do the statuscode in CFLOCATION is new in CF8. :-) /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Cheyenne Throckmorton Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 1:52 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject:

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Mura Content Management System

2009-09-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yep, that talk, from 6/11/09 is available at recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com. Thanks for mentioning it, Tom. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Tom McNeer Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 10:47 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Mura

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Mura Content Management System

2009-09-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks for the kind regards, Clarke. :-) /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Clarke Bishop Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 6:04 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Mura Content Management System Thanks Tom and Charlie! I had a

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Student discount for MAX

2009-09-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
Kristine, the blog entry pointed to clarifies that it DOES NOT apply to teachers. Teachers do get a discount, though (to $995, if they use the code EDU966). Of course, that's not nearly as deep as the student discount. /charlie > -Original Message- > From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad

[ACFUG Discuss] no acfug meeting tonight

2009-10-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
For those who may not have heard otherwise, nor saw the announcement posted on the web site, this month's meeting is not tonight (as usual) but instead next week, primarily because of conflicts with Max. /charlie - To unsubscribe

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Development vs Production Application.cfm and other things...

2009-10-24 Thread Charlie Arehart
Or on may find it a little easier to use ini files, and CF's functions to read them (added in CF 6), such as getprofilestring, getprofilesections, setprofilestring. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Wes Byrd Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 6:03 PM To: dis

[ACFUG Discuss] My CFBuilder Hidden Gems talk at ACFUG will offer more content than my CFMeetup version

2009-10-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
I just thought I should offer a heads up about why you’ll want to attend next week’s ACFUG. If you hadn’t seen the announcements list note Wednesday, I’ll be the speaker at next week’s ACFUG meeting and I’ll be presenting “Hidden Gems in CFBuilder”. Well, some of you may also have notic

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] My CFBuilder Hidden Gems talk at ACFUG will offer more content than my CFMeetup version

2009-10-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
Do you mean will I record the ACFUG meeting? No, we've just found that that rarely works well, when you record an in-room presentation. But given that your in Colorado, I certainly would then recommend that YOU go ahead and just attend the online CF meetup :-), which is at 6pm Eastern on Thursd

[ACFUG Discuss] Live, free Adobe Flex Training for ColdFusion Developers, Nov 18 in Atlanta

2009-11-03 Thread Charlie Arehart
Hey folks, check this out, just for CFers, and happening in Atlanta on Wed Nov 18. It's great that Atlanta is one of the several cities chosen. It seems like just the ticket for those of us who have been on the fence about Flex as CF developers. :-) I've registered, but don't know anything more abo

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Development vs Production Application.cfm and other things...

2009-11-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ajas, you mention some loving/some hating XML files. I didn't see any reply from you on my note offering yet another alternative (sent 10/24), where I said simply: "Or one may find it a little easier to use ini files, and CF's functions to read them (added in CF 6), such as getprofilestring, ge

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Development vs Production Application.cfm and other things...

2009-11-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Good point. I did say I realized that ini files weren’t as “robust or flexible”. :-) But WDDX files are definitely a step above that before making up one’s own XML. They all have their place, so good to be reminded every once in a while. And thanks for the concurrence on INI files, Wes. :-)

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] browser based IDE?

2009-11-19 Thread Charlie Arehart
Wes, check out nocCode, http://noccode.riaforge.org/, a web-based editor with specific CFML support. Speaking of that, if anyone ever has a question like "are there any tools or resources for xxx", please try to remember (and recommend to each other) my CF411.com site. There, I have a category

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Fwd: [AFFUG Discuss] Looking for Flex positions

2009-11-27 Thread Charlie Arehart
Darren, if among those "miscellaneous staff" you may want to outsource some CF admin/install/config/tuning/troubleshooting help, I'm available for that kind of work on a contractual basis. Same offer goes to anyone needing that kind of help, really. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mail

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Dean Saxe: congratulations on your move to Seattle!

2009-12-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Wow, well with all that foundation money, they've found the right guy to guard it. :-) I know, I know, there'd be no connection between the site and the money. Just having fun. We'll certainly miss you, Dean, personally and professionally. Maybe you'll choose to remain on the list and contribute as

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Dean Saxe: congratulations on your move to Seattle!

2009-12-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
t doing any dev work, I'll be working > in InfoSec on security across the board (development, network, os, > etc.). > > -dhs > > On Dec 4, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Charlie Arehart wrote: > > > Wow, well with all that foundation money, they've found the right guy > to

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion debugging info

2009-12-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Besides Cam's useful ideas, since you say you're running multiserver, I'll suggest one other possibility: are you sure you enabled the debugging in the right CF Admin? There's the cfusion one (on the main port, like 8300 if using the built-in web server), then there's the one for each instance you

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion debugging info

2009-12-05 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks for the clarification, Clarke (and yep, Cam's the man!). As for your question, yes, this (stopping the cfusion instance in the multiserver deployment, when it's not needed) is an optimization that I often point to my customers (for CF Server troubleshooting, tuning, etc.). Of course, you

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion debugging info

2009-12-08 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yep, if one runs the instances as services, that’s an easy way to start them, as Arun said. If you don’t want to run them as services there are of course still other ways to stop/start the instance. And either way, there are options to start them from the command line or a shortcut. Fir

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion debugging info

2009-12-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
sage- > From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Cameron > Childress > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:52 PM > To: discussion@acfug.org > Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion debugging info > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Charlie Arehart > w

[ACFUG Discuss] more on ACFUG Holiday Party Next Week

2009-12-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
Hey folks, some will have gotten an email on the announcements list about next week’s holiday part. I wanted to offer an update. While it mentioned Artuzzi’s for dinner and WhirlyBall after that, it didn’t mention the after party at ComputerArena, just around the corner. I’ve just updated the e

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion debugging info

2009-12-09 Thread Charlie Arehart
...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Cameron > Childress > Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:18 AM > To: discussion@acfug.org > Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] ColdFusion debugging info > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Charlie Arehart > wrote: > > I don&#

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Ideal memory & Configuration for CF Production server?

2010-01-14 Thread Charlie Arehart
Wow, guys, I would offer significant caution about a lot of the assertions here. It's NOT always true that increasing memory will improve performance. Not at all. Indeed, there are times when increasing the heap could cause MORE problems (and even just raising it from 512 to 768). It's too much t

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Ideal memory & Configuration for CF Production server?

2010-01-14 Thread Charlie Arehart
To be clear, I wasn't referring at all to anything about you or setup Derrick. :-) Still, as you're saying, yes there are also those kinds of issues that can cause problems as well. Good that you've isolated a lot of them. That said, as for your moving to BD, I will argue that when some have asser

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Ideal memory & Configuration for CF Production server?

2010-01-15 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks, and to your next observation, I'll note that I do list resources listing sites using CF in my CF411: http://www.carehart.org/cf411/#cfpowered /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Derrick Peavy Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:31 PM To: discussio

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Error with Java Object

2010-01-21 Thread Charlie Arehart
Just a couple more thoughts: if you really are just interested in the time of execution for the *complete* request, then besides adding logging in your application.cfc (as Cam helpfully suggested), note as well that info maybe available in your web server logs. I know it's an option you can enable

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Ideal memory & Configuration for CF Production server?

2010-01-25 Thread Charlie Arehart
No matter what, find a way. Because thats what winners do. You can't improve what you don't measure. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Ideal memory & Configuration for CF Production server?

2010-01-25 Thread Charlie Arehart
t become what we need to be, remaining what we are. No matter what, find a way. Because thats what winners do. You can't improve what you don't measure. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution;

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Ideal memory & Configuration for CF Production server?

2010-01-25 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ajas, while you await Derrick's reply, I'll point out that the details for how to purge database-driven CF client variable repositories is indeed documented, but only in a technote: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/185/tn_18514.html As for FR helping you see the time being spent per request and that thi

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Ideal memory & Configuration for CF Production server?

2010-01-26 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yep, Ajas, that's the one. It's a SERIOUS drain on most servers (for reasons I elaborate on in the resources I linked to). So yes, if you do use the client.lastvisit variable, you will want to seriously consider how valuable it is and whether you might get value doing it otherwise. /charlie

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Ideal memory & Configuration for CF Production server?

2010-01-26 Thread Charlie Arehart
wer." -Steve Jobs "A good deal that used to be a great deal, is not nearly as good as an awful deal that was once a horrible deal." - Dan Gilbert, http://bit.ly/8gUruX _ On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Charlie Arehart wrote: Derrick, I'll offer a

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Ideal memory & Configuration for CF Production server?

2010-01-26 Thread Charlie Arehart
ed Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:03 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Ideal memory & Configuration for CF Production server? Thanks Charlie for confirming that setting. Do you want to know where I learned that? The answer is : From Mr.

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Ideal memory & Configuration for CF Production server?

2010-01-26 Thread Charlie Arehart
tion for CF Production server? Come on Charlie, don't be so humble. You're one of the community stars, and have been for years. Revel in some kudos for a moment... _ From: Charlie Arehart To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Tue, January 26, 2010 11:22:46 AM Subject: RE:

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] cfdocument error

2010-02-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Yep, sometimes it's a browser caching thing. Try adding a querystring with random numbers to the page to force a browser refresh (?xyz, for instance). /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of John Youngman Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:17 PM To: discussion

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Query or Stored Proc calling

2010-02-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ajas, given your experience with CF, I'm a little confused how to reply. If this was a brand new user, I'd say that they have things backward and even then still misunderstood. First, the main difference is that the code in blue would execute once for each query result, whereas the code in red wou

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] cfdocument error

2010-02-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
Is this 8.01, Howard? Since you refer to images, if you may be processing them with CFIMAGE, there's a hotfix for image processing specifically related to problems with the resulting files, and it may be connected to your problem. See: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/403/kb403411.html And note that whi

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Query or Stored Proc calling

2010-02-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
I offered my reply before seeing yours here, Derrick. Doh. But thanks for the confidence that I'd have something to offer. :-) As to your last point, I don't know. I mean, sure, those who move to more OO-like development will tend to consider options where query results are generated in a CFC met

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Query or Stored Proc calling

2010-02-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
g] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:12 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Query or Stored Proc calling Ajas, given your experience with CF, I'm a little confused how to reply. If this was a brand new user, I'd say that they have thin

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] cfdocument error

2010-02-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
plies will seem out of order, if not "out of the blue". :-( /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 5:33 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] cfdocument error Is this 8.01, How

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] getPageContext() and low-level internals

2010-02-05 Thread Charlie Arehart
Does that last "update" on the question indicate this is now answered for you, Clarke? It's hard to tell the relative time of that, compared to when you asked this. :-) /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Clarke Bishop Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 2:50

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] cfdocument error

2010-02-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
Jeff, one other thing: if you're on CF8 or above, use the new localurl attribute (of CFDOCUMENT) which was introduced in CF8. Under the covers, if there are images (or other file references) in the CFDOCUMENT, CF will generate an HTTP request for them by default. Using this attribute, you're tell

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] input type=datefield validation question

2010-02-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
Jeff, I don't have enough experience with this to offer any answer, but I will make a suggestion: what version of CF is this, and what level of cumulative hotfixes are installed? You can see this in the "system information" page of the CF Admin. It's possible that this issue has been addressed by

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] C# keyword search problem

2010-02-06 Thread Charlie Arehart
Kristine, you may want to clarify what's doing the searching. We'll assume you're talking about a CF page, but are you using Verity? Solr (new in CF9)? SQL Server's text searching? Plain SQL? It may help for us to know. While we await that, I have a thought: since you say that c## became c# (in

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] C# question clarified

2010-02-08 Thread Charlie Arehart
Kristine, besides Teddy's helpful info today, had you seen my reply to your note from over the weekend, attached? /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Kristine Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 12:50 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] C# quest

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] C# question clarified

2010-02-08 Thread Charlie Arehart
:47 PM, Charlie Arehart wrote: Kristine, besides Teddy’s helpful info today, had you seen my reply to your note from over the weekend, attached? /charlie - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] RE: Coldfusion Tabs vs JQuery Tabs

2010-02-08 Thread Charlie Arehart
To Steve's last point, you can see the recording of his CFMeetup talk, like all CFMeetup talks, at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Drucker Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 8:44 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subj

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] cfdocument error

2010-02-10 Thread Charlie Arehart
Was this helpful, Jeff? I realize it may not be, but since it's both a new (since 8) and under-discussed feature, I want to make sure it's not the solution for you. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart Sent: Saturday, February 06,

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