Re: Patch/update 9.0 help
Yeah, I was able to restore the VM backup that was made earlier in the day. On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Carl Von Stetten vonner.li...@vonner.netwrote: Did you do a backup of your computer before the upgrade so you can revert? If so, take a look at the Unofficial Updater 2 http://www.uu-2.info/ to make the patching process a bit easier. -Carl V. On 3/21/2014 4:49 PM, Pete Ruckelshaus wrote: Awesome. Ran the 9.01 updater and the CF service won't restart now. This is why I don't update unless I have to. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358076 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Printing barcode labels from CF
I'm building a membership system where I will need to print barcode labels (Code128) from a CF app. I've got the barcode creation down (using a JQuery plugin), but haven't started the label creation piece. I was thinking of using CSS + cfdocument, but am concerned that PDF's crappy support of CSS will cause me trouble. Has anyone else done something like this? What do I need to look out for? Thanks Pete ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358077 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Printing barcode labels from CF
A number of years ago I accomplished a similar need through the utilization of a client side print ocx which allowed the user to select a printer to be used for label printing. Once they selected the printer, I was able to manipulate the required settings and query paper size information that I would pass back to my label designer and return the HTML that I would then send to the printer. It worked beautifully and the clients loved it. I do not remember the name of the control, but it was a commercial ocx. Our clients did a lot of label printing so installing the ocx was not an issue for them. I do not know how if you are intending for the client to print barcodes or not, but if this will be an administrative function it might be something to consider. David Phelan Web Developer IT Security Web Technologies Emerging Health Montefiore Information Technology 3 Odell Plaza, Yonkers, NY 10701 914-457-6465 Office dphe...@emerginghealthit.com www.emerginghealthit.com www.montefiore.org From: Pete Ruckelshaus pruckelsh...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:23 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Printing barcode labels from CF I'm building a membership system where I will need to print barcode labels (Code128) from a CF app. I've got the barcode creation down (using a JQuery plugin), but haven't started the label creation piece. I was thinking of using CSS + cfdocument, but am concerned that PDF's crappy support of CSS will cause me trouble. Has anyone else done something like this? What do I need to look out for? Thanks Pete ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358078 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Printing barcode labels from CF
Yay! I'm useful for something. I have much experience with barcodes printing. Part of the system I work on includes creating barcodes for E-Tickets to be used for admission to amusement parks. A couple resources for you to use: http://cfbarbecue.riaforge.org/. It's a CF wrapper to a Java library that can create images of barcodes. Once you install it into your CF server (copy some files to a directory, restart CF), you can call the component to create a CFIMAGE and it will spit out a PNG or JPG or what ever other format it supported. If you're planning on creating a PDF, a couple things you'll have to remember: CFIMAGE and CFDOCUMENT uses an HTTP call to generate those files (or something like that). You'll have to either A) edit your host files to accept your domain B) reference the image using file:\\\. http://www.ravenglass.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/6/9/Including-Images-in-a-PDF-created-in-CFDOCUMENT http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10637542/coldfusion-cfdocument-creates-a-red-x It isn't as complicated as it sounds, just a couple gotcha's you have to be prepared for. Hope that helps. I'm building a membership system where I will need to print barcode labels (Code128) from a CF app. I've got the barcode creation down (using a JQuery plugin), but haven't started the label creation piece. I was thinking of using CSS + cfdocument, but am concerned that PDF's crappy support of CSS will cause me trouble. Has anyone else done something like this? What do I need to look out for? Thanks Pete ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358079 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Printing barcode labels from CF
Sorry if I misunderstand the issue. I've used cfbarbecue http://cfbarbecue.riaforge.org/ in a number of apps with no problems. It simply uses cfimage to print the barcode to the screen. I opened that document in a small window and sent it to label printer using JS window.print(). Then using any label printer I have been able to print the barcode perfectly. HTH ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358080 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Displaying page loading message
thank you Jonah. Your solution helped On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:00 PM, .jonah jonah@creori.com wrote: Display a page with the loading message then a client-side (meta or js) redirect to the slow page. On 3/24/14 1:53 PM, fun and learning wrote: All, I have an issue with displaying a page loading message on a page with heavy database queries. My page has two frames, and I am trying to display loading message on the second frame. I am using cfflush to show the loading message but to no avail. The frame looks blank for 15 seconds and then loading message as well as data is displayed. Can anyone advice what is the best approach to resolve this? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358081 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Printing barcode labels from CF
Thanks. I think I'm going to try using CSS and print as an HTML file first, and if I run into issues, I'll go with cfdocument. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Akos Fortagh akos.fort...@yahoo.comwrote: Sorry if I misunderstand the issue. I've used cfbarbecue http://cfbarbecue.riaforge.org/ in a number of apps with no problems. It simply uses cfimage to print the barcode to the screen. I opened that document in a small window and sent it to label printer using JS window.print(). Then using any label printer I have been able to print the barcode perfectly. HTH ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358082 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: CFML tags was: The long tail of ColdFusion fail
Good summary, Rick. Aside from a few customers I still support I'm not looking for more. I found CF very easy to learn because it was a tag based system and I already knew html, it felt familiar. I can just about work out what's going on in a piece of c++, for example, but it's so much easier in CF. I'm strangely sad to leave CF behind, but nothing lasts forever. I do feel that if Adobe had supported the product and marketed it, it would have lasted a little longer and been a lot more fun while it was in it's heyday. One thing that I have noticed is often overlooked. PHP developers generated a LOT of pretty darn good open source applications. CMS, countless eCommerce apps, BBS/forums. I often wonder why so little was done like this by developers for CF. -Original Message- From: Rick Sanders [mailto:r...@webenergy.ca] Sent: 18 March 2014 17:53 To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CFML tags was: The long tail of ColdFusion fail I come from the days of Everyware and Pervasive using the Tango technology. Same idea as CF being a tag-based language with an application server. Tag-based is easier to learn and has many benefits. When Macromedia bought CF, it was a God-send to integrate CF and Dreamweaver together without having to use Homesite or the bulky Allaire CF editor. Unfortunately, Macromedia bombed when it came to marketing Cold Fusion. Remember Ultradev? Macromedia's response to a WYSIWYG java, html, database application which was supposed to replace Dreamweaver? Macromedia focused too much on Ultradev and ignored the much needed CF marketing. Fast forward to Adobe (The document and printing solutions company) with failing web products to buy Macromedia. Like everyone, I was hoping for a re-brand of CF. Nothing happened. They never marketed it. At a trade show in New York (Internet World) I went to the Adobe booth. No one wanted to talk about CF, and there was one brochure with a paragraph mentioning CF that's it. Adobe came out with Cold Fusion Builder which is sort of nifty, but not nearly as good as Dreamweaver for building CF websites. Now Adobe is pushing their Creative Cloud (copying Office 365 are we?) which I would never use because of the continuous hacks to Adobe's servers and private information breaches. So what are the alternatives? PhP. Not secure, messy code, can't load balance between multiple servers unless you BUY an app server for it. Most PhP hosters throw the web server, database server and email server on the same box and call it a day. I programmed PhP code for a year and will never do it again. The problems with hacking, SQL injection attacks, URL hacks etc... take up time to fix at the developer's expense. PhP, Linux, MYSQL, Cpanel, Wordpress Joomla and many others are free. You get what you pay for. A proper coded CF site won't get hacked if the code is well written and the server is configured properly. There's ASP.net but personally I don't want to program something for 3 months in .NET that takes 3 weeks in CF. Plus Microsoft changes things around way too much, and Visual Studio is stupid expensive. Sure there's Expression web (does anyone really use it?) and some plugins for Dreamweaver. There's Dot Net Nuke if you have lots of time on your hands too. Most of my clients don't want to wait. And .NET developers are the snobs of the development community expecting high hourly rates. Content Management Server was a nice touch if you had deep pockets and lots of staff to maintain multiple servers but Microsoft did away with that too. Is CF dying? It is dying a slow death in my opinion. Adobe has dropped the ball with marketing. Heck, they don't even use it on their own site! PhP is the internet king for programming, and Wordpress is keeping developers making thousands of plugins for it. In the technical colleges and universities they teach PhP, Java, and .NET. New developers aren't even exposed to CF anymore. When you say Adobe, the first 2 things that come to mind are PDF and Photoshop. I'll continue to use CF for as long as I can, then just leave the web development game since the only player is PhP and I don't have the time nor desire to get into that technology. Kind Regards, Rick Sanders T: 902-401-7689 W: www.webenergy.ca -Original Message- From: Jon Clausen [mailto:jon_clau...@silowebworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:32 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CFML tags was: The long tail of ColdFusion fail On Mar 18, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Adam Cameron dacc...@gmail.com wrote: Tag-based code is godawful anywhere other than in a view, or some other situation in which text-processing is needed. Which does not describe an awful lot of CFML code out there. That Macromedia/Adobe pushed the tag side of CFML over the script side is probably the worst strategic move they ever made. Agree, now. I think at that moment in webdev history, it served a purpose, which was ease of entry in to development. Now, it's a liability, seems
RE: The long tail of ColdFusion fail
+1 -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: 17 March 2014 22:40 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: The long tail of ColdFusion fail CF should install locked down out of the box, there really should be no need to follow a complex lockdown guide to make it secure. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Justin Scott leviat...@darktech.orgwrote: On another hand, why Adobe hasn't change the way CF is installed if its not safe? Layers... it's all about layers. If a vulnerability is found in the CF admin or some other exposed piece, you don't want an attacker to be able to take over the whole operating system. The lockdown guide shows you how to configure everything around CF so that in the event of a breach you're not letting it be a path into your entire server. Many of the vulnerabilities found in CF wouldn't be a big deal if people configured the server CF runs on in a more secure manner. This is the whole reason the credit cards companies bang the PCI-DSS drum so hard... they want multiple layers of security and access controls so that the failure of any one of those layers will not leave the entire system out in the open. -Justin ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358085 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: The long tail of ColdFusion fail
And why is it such a pain in the rear to keep CF up to date/patched? -Original Message- From: Claude Schnéegans schneeg...@internetique.com [mailto:=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claude_Schn=E9egans schneegans@interneti=71?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ue.com=3E?=] Sent: 17 March 2014 21:50 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: The long tail of ColdFusion fail and then when their site gets owned, CF gets the blame. On another hand, why Adobe hasn't change the way CF is installed if its not safe? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358084 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: CFML tags was: The long tail of ColdFusion fail
I think that comes down to the fact that cf itself was not free so did not encourage the development of foss. They all wanted to make money from their work. It also comes down to sheer number of developers I think, which encourages collaboration, which was also lacking in cf land. Russ Michaels www.michaels.me.uk cfmldeveloper.com cflive.net cfsearch.com On 26 Mar 2014 00:56, Jenny Gavin-Wear jenn...@fasttrackonline.co.uk wrote: Good summary, Rick. Aside from a few customers I still support I'm not looking for more. I found CF very easy to learn because it was a tag based system and I already knew html, it felt familiar. I can just about work out what's going on in a piece of c++, for example, but it's so much easier in CF. I'm strangely sad to leave CF behind, but nothing lasts forever. I do feel that if Adobe had supported the product and marketed it, it would have lasted a little longer and been a lot more fun while it was in it's heyday. One thing that I have noticed is often overlooked. PHP developers generated a LOT of pretty darn good open source applications. CMS, countless eCommerce apps, BBS/forums. I often wonder why so little was done like this by developers for CF. -Original Message- From: Rick Sanders [mailto:r...@webenergy.ca] Sent: 18 March 2014 17:53 To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CFML tags was: The long tail of ColdFusion fail I come from the days of Everyware and Pervasive using the Tango technology. Same idea as CF being a tag-based language with an application server. Tag-based is easier to learn and has many benefits. When Macromedia bought CF, it was a God-send to integrate CF and Dreamweaver together without having to use Homesite or the bulky Allaire CF editor. Unfortunately, Macromedia bombed when it came to marketing Cold Fusion. Remember Ultradev? Macromedia's response to a WYSIWYG java, html, database application which was supposed to replace Dreamweaver? Macromedia focused too much on Ultradev and ignored the much needed CF marketing. Fast forward to Adobe (The document and printing solutions company) with failing web products to buy Macromedia. Like everyone, I was hoping for a re-brand of CF. Nothing happened. They never marketed it. At a trade show in New York (Internet World) I went to the Adobe booth. No one wanted to talk about CF, and there was one brochure with a paragraph mentioning CF that's it. Adobe came out with Cold Fusion Builder which is sort of nifty, but not nearly as good as Dreamweaver for building CF websites. Now Adobe is pushing their Creative Cloud (copying Office 365 are we?) which I would never use because of the continuous hacks to Adobe's servers and private information breaches. So what are the alternatives? PhP. Not secure, messy code, can't load balance between multiple servers unless you BUY an app server for it. Most PhP hosters throw the web server, database server and email server on the same box and call it a day. I programmed PhP code for a year and will never do it again. The problems with hacking, SQL injection attacks, URL hacks etc... take up time to fix at the developer's expense. PhP, Linux, MYSQL, Cpanel, Wordpress Joomla and many others are free. You get what you pay for. A proper coded CF site won't get hacked if the code is well written and the server is configured properly. There's ASP.net but personally I don't want to program something for 3 months in .NET that takes 3 weeks in CF. Plus Microsoft changes things around way too much, and Visual Studio is stupid expensive. Sure there's Expression web (does anyone really use it?) and some plugins for Dreamweaver. There's Dot Net Nuke if you have lots of time on your hands too. Most of my clients don't want to wait. And .NET developers are the snobs of the development community expecting high hourly rates. Content Management Server was a nice touch if you had deep pockets and lots of staff to maintain multiple servers but Microsoft did away with that too. Is CF dying? It is dying a slow death in my opinion. Adobe has dropped the ball with marketing. Heck, they don't even use it on their own site! PhP is the internet king for programming, and Wordpress is keeping developers making thousands of plugins for it. In the technical colleges and universities they teach PhP, Java, and .NET. New developers aren't even exposed to CF anymore. When you say Adobe, the first 2 things that come to mind are PDF and Photoshop. I'll continue to use CF for as long as I can, then just leave the web development game since the only player is PhP and I don't have the time nor desire to get into that technology. Kind Regards, Rick Sanders T: 902-401-7689 W: www.webenergy.ca -Original Message- From: Jon Clausen [mailto:jon_clau...@silowebworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:32 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CFML tags was: The long tail of ColdFusion fail On Mar 18, 2014, at
Quick Survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5XYDGRG One question, You've used CFML as your primary source of income for one or more years. Now / soon you are learning / will learn which of the following because you believe it may be / become a better source of income? Please let me know if this survey (or similar) has already been done in the last six months or so. I will share results next week. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5XYDGRG -- John Bliss - http://www.linkedin.com/in/jbliss ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358087 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Quick Survey
P.S. None / sticking with CFML for now people need not take survey. :-) This is just for people who're specifically learning a new, non-CFML language for income reasons. For those people only, I'm wondering, which one(s)? On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:43 PM, John M Bliss bliss.j...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5XYDGRG One question, You've used CFML as your primary source of income for one or more years. Now / soon you are learning / will learn which of the following because you believe it may be / become a better source of income? Please let me know if this survey (or similar) has already been done in the last six months or so. I will share results next week. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5XYDGRG -- John Bliss - http://www.linkedin.com/in/jbliss -- John Bliss - http://www.linkedin.com/in/jbliss ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358088 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
