FB 4 for CF 5? (was: Cons to Fusebox)

2003-07-17 Thread Brad Roberts
Is FB 4 for CF 5 still in the works? -Brad -Original Message- From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Cons to Fusebox On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 11:20 US/Pacific, Michael T. Tangorre wrote: Some

IHTK 3.17 THE CFMX UPDATE

2003-07-17 Thread Lewis Sellers
Speaking of CFMX After being bugged to death about it, I released a version of IHTK (3.17) that works with CFMX (no updates). Macromedia subscribed me to their beta program (I guess some of them were tired of being bugged about it as well) so I was going to do a little more testing of it

Re: IHTK 3.17 THE CFMX UPDATE

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 07:18 am, Lewis Sellers wrote: After being bugged to death about it, I released a version of IHTK (3.17) Of what ? No google hits -- Thomas C Advanced ColdFusion Programmer HANDLE WITH EXTREME CARE: This Email Contains Minute Electrically Charged Particles Moving

Re: OT: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 22:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sigh... That which can be run, can be cracked... It's a question of making it hard enough, that it discourages enough people, that you make the return on the investment you want. -- Thomas C Advanced ColdFusion Programmer HANDLE

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 22:27 pm, Mike Chambers wrote: Activation Demo / tour http://www.macromedia.com/software/activation/tour/ That's just comical: When you launch your software, it will detect the problem and offer to reactivate immediately -yeah, right. Our automated phone system will

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 08:41 am, Thomas Chiverton wrote: That's just comical: Oh, it gets *better*: License information is stored ... unused part of track zero of the hard drive *What* ! Why ? If my drive fails, it's no help. If I uninstall the product will it be removed ? If yes, then

SOT: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Tim Blair
* repost as a didn't get it through yesterday... Moring all... We are currently at the beginning stages of a large (possibly huge) CF project so now's the time we're looking at how to move forward. I've got about a million things to think about in respect of both architecting the application

RE: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Taco Fleur
I know using the client SCOPE will allow you to load balance session between a clustered environment, that is if you use a database as storage for the sessions. I thought MySQL just introduced Stored Procedures in its new version?? Just heard about it, I'm a MSSQL kinda guy myself.. Taco

Re: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 09:38 am, Taco Fleur wrote: *** Database We have generally always used MySQL as the database for sites we develop but considering the possible enterprise scale nature of this application we're starting to look elsewhere. In my opinion MySQL isn't quite there in that

RE: Load balanced code replication

2003-07-17 Thread webguy
Hi, On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 13:17 US/Pacific, Barney Boisvert wrote: We use rsync for doing all our installation and mirroring, be it code or data. Very nice, and works over an SSH connection for security. It's native to *nix, but I believe there is a Windows port. Yes, there

RE: Load balanced code replication

2003-07-17 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Hi, I posted this to another list with little success : does anyone know of a sql script which generates a random password for use in an sp? this is to work on SQL 7 so UDF are not an option :-( -Original Message- From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 July 2003 11:22 To:

SQL Random password..

2003-07-17 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
oops, wrong subject line... Hi, I posted this to another list with little success : does anyone know of a sql script which generates a random password for use in an sp? this is to work on SQL 7 so UDF are not an option :-( ~|

RE: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Sandy Clark
I had a discussion with Mike Chambers about the authorization scheme on Macromedia-Talk yesterday. http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=messagesthreadid=31; forumid=28#118 The activation software is by Macrovision, the same company which was behind Intuit's Activation Scheme

RE: FB 4 for CF 5? (was: Cons to Fusebox)

2003-07-17 Thread Sandy Clark
Yes, Core files will be released for CF5. It will also include full XML parsing abilities via a CFX tag which acts as a wrapper for JDOM and SAX See http://xml.fusebox.org for some more details. -Original Message- From: Brad Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17,

RE: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Sandy Clark
Actually using J2EE Sessions with a copy of CFMX for J2EE and your own J2EE server will allow you to use the J2EE clustering abilities with session variables. Ben Forta gave a presentation here last week which came up with that exact item. Very impressive! -Original Message- From: Taco

RE: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread webguy
hi, Sandy Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Said: Actually using J2EE Sessions with a copy of CFMX for J2EE and your own J2EE server will allow you to use the J2EE clustering abilities with session variables. Ben Forta gave a presentation here last week which came up with that exact item. Very

RE: Checking how many checkboxes were selected

2003-07-17 Thread Bushy
Is there a way to pass the results of Form.Dir_Access list to a different template other than actDirectoryUpdate.cfm in the form tag? On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:05:26 -0400, Dave Watts wrote: Is there a way to check or display to an action page how many checkboxes where selected from the

Re: Homesite 5.2 imagemap editor

2003-07-17 Thread Calvin Ward
Dear Macromedia Naw, skip that, quit dragging feel (j/k), and make DW as effective a code editor as Homesite, so's that I can have my cool component, server debug, live data view, find and replace, check in/out functionality in DW with my cool dual file panel with divided folders/files,

siteminder :: CFserver 5 :: what's it do??

2003-07-17 Thread Ihrig Paul E Cont 88 ABW/EM
hey guys. i cant find any good info on what site minder is or does. i know its a part of some security feature in 5 but not sure if it is needed, on our internal server.. any links or info? thanks -paul ~| Archives:

RE: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Hagan, Ryan Mr (Contractor ACI)
MySQL has not (as of version 4.1) included stored procedures, constraints or triggers in their database. These are all planned for 5.0 release. http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Introduction.html# TODO_MySQL_5.0 -Original Message- From: Taco Fleur

RE: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Hagan, Ryan Mr (Contractor ACI)
Out of curiosity, what is the problem with limiting each session to the same box on a load-balanced system? We use a web farm here and we restrict each session to only one box with no problems. I don't really see this as much of a constraint and it certainly makes the programming a lot easier.

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 12:05 pm, Sandy Clark wrote: (which means that piracy for MS products hasn't stopped. All you need is one non-activated copy out there). Which is then rendered inoperable by the next service pack. Which, of course, you have to apply to get support, protection from

CFMX and UNC paths

2003-07-17 Thread Bosky, Dave
Has anyone experienced any issues using UNC paths on CFMX? I upgraded a server from CF5 to CFMX and now it doesn't recognize my UNC paths when using CFCONTENT. Thanks, Dave HTC Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from

Re: SOT: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Tim Blair wrote: We have generally always used MySQL as the database for sites we develop but considering the possible enterprise scale nature of this application we're starting to look elsewhere. In my opinion MySQL isn't quite there in that respect -- lack of stored procs, relationships

RE: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread webguy
Hi, From: Hagan, Ryan Mr (Contractor ACI) Out of curiosity, what is the problem with limiting each session to the same box on a load-balanced system? We use a web farm here and we restrict each session to only one box with no problems. I don't really see this as much of a constraint and it

Re: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Thomas Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 09:38 am, Taco Fleur wrote: We have generally always used MySQL as the database for sites we develop but considering the possible enterprise scale nature of this application we're starting to look elsewhere. In my opinion MySQL isn't quite there

Re: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 13:46 pm, Jochem van Dieten wrote: We used to use it, it scaled well to start with, but by the end we were having to rebuild our indexes almost weekly, by hand. cron + REINDEX takes care of that for BTREE indexes, but RTREE, Hash and GIST indexes don't need

OT? jrun.dll file

2003-07-17 Thread Hawkes, Keith A CIV
Don't know if this OT for the list, but we just discovered we're having a jrun.dll load failure and wonder if anyone has had the same problem? Thanks, Keith ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4

Interface Assessment

2003-07-17 Thread Don
http://68.32.61.40/DataData/DataMan.cfm Oh man, I need more sleep, and thanks. I must have missed the first message - I never saw the interface before it improved. However you'll need to send another link - you made the same mistake that I ALWAYS do: sent a local link to public people. ;^)

RE: siteminder :: CFserver 5 :: what's it do??

2003-07-17 Thread Dan Phillips
Siteminder is part of the Sandbox security technolgy. I don't see the need for it on your internal server unless you want to restrict access to certain directories on the server. Dan Phillips www.CFXHosting.com 1-866-239-4678 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ihrig Paul E Cont

RE: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Tim Blair
Basically that is Sticky Sessions. The only problem with this is if you establish a session on box1, and box1 fails you loss your session state. If you are using cluster wide sessions, your session can just continue on another box. Thats the main difference. This may or may not be an

RE: CF And Quick Books

2003-07-17 Thread Bryan F. Hogan
If anyone does have information about this, please put it ON-LIST. I'm interested in hearing this also. I'm getting ready to do this with the Offline versions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject:

OT: MS SQL Replication question

2003-07-17 Thread Eric Creese
Nobody have an idea or a stored proc that they know of? ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ:

Cons to Fusebox

2003-07-17 Thread Brian Kotek
Yeah Shawn, FB has come a ways since FB2, it's a whole lot more structured and efficient. But I confess that I fall into your second group, a person who learned HTML first and slowly got into programming. I'd like to think I've gotten pretty good at it, but there's always much to learn. It's

cf based inventory tracking system

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Weeg
does anyone know of a cf based inventory/rma tracking system? thanks! tony weeg uncertified advanced cold fusion developer tony at navtrak dot net www.navtrak.net office 410.548.2337 fax 410.860.2337 ~| Archives:

Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Jeff Small
I had always thought, that if I put a column in my table for users' roles that it could be a list, and IsUserInRole() would return a true or false if the user's role was contained in the role assigned in the cfloginuser tag. In other words, I had always thought you could have a role column

Re: Thinking about application architecture... (db issues)

2003-07-17 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
- Original Message - From: Thomas Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:08 AM Subject: Re: Thinking about application architecture... On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 09:38 am, Taco Fleur wrote: *** Database We have generally always used

RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Raymond Camden
You set your roles to admin, creative ? Notice the space before creative. creative is not equal to creative === Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc (www.mindseye.com) Member of Team Macromedia

RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Weeg
how about a listContains in there :) cfif listContains(roleList,'admin') --admin stuff /cfif cfif listContains(roleList,'creative') --creative stuff /cfif tony weeg uncertified advanced cold fusion developer tony at navtrak dot net www.navtrak.net office 410.548.2337 fax 410.860.2337

RE: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Peter Harrison
What kinds of things will you be needing your session state for? - Peter -Original Message- From: Tim Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 July 2003 14:13 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Thinking about application architecture... Basically that is Sticky Sessions. The only problem with

Re: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Jeff Small
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:41:30 -0500 Raymond Camden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You set your roles to admin, creative ? Notice the space before creative. creative is not equal to creative You da man...and my forehead hurts from banging it on my desk.

RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Raymond Camden
Folks, please do not remember that listContains is NOT the function you wanto use 99% of the time. Imagine your security system only wants a person who has a role of admin. If you do listContains and I have foolishadmin,gorf listContains will return 1 because it will match _inside_ item one.

RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Raymond Camden
One thing to remember. If you do isUserInRole(a,b) It's an AND check. Ie, the user has to be in both. If you want the logic of IsUserInANYRole(a,b) You have to write a UDF for it. I wrote one for CFLIb.org. This also means you can't apply that logic to CFC methods using roles=a,b in the

RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Weeg
ahhh listContains doesn't mean whole word, it like a match anywhere in the string will match? tony weeg uncertified advanced cold fusion developer tony at navtrak dot net www.navtrak.net office 410.548.2337 fax 410.860.2337 -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL

More Info (WAS: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?)

2003-07-17 Thread Scott Wilhelm
I see that there's alot of other user control's that I can use, but I haven't learned yet... Would anyone know of a resource where I could find out more information specifically on user login's things like that (as well as being discussed in the current thread)? Thanks! Scott

RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread stephen
Tony, You mean ListFind(roleList,'admin') ;o) If your roleList was like this (creative,creativeadmin) and you used ListContains to find admin, you'd get a false positive, as ListContains would find the admin in the second item creativeadmin, which is not the same as the admin role. Regards

RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Raymond Camden
Exactly. Take a list: alpha,beta,raymond,gamma You want to see if ray is in the list. If you use listContains(list,ray) it will return 3 since ray is in raymond. What you really want is listFind (or listFindNoCase). A blog entry on this:

RE: More Info (WAS: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?)

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Weeg
go to cfstudio (if you have it) and look at every function, tag etc...then make a mock up page of each to test its functionality, and then you will have snippet pages with demo's that you made, and then you can take that toolbox of stuff and apply accordingly in your apps! or get the CFMX WACK

RE: More Info (WAS: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?)

2003-07-17 Thread Raymond Camden
You mean on roles-based security? I have a preso on it - search for it on my web site (I'm too lazy to find the direct link). Also, all of the CFMX books should cover it, especially Mastering ColdFusion MX. Of course, I have no reason to push that book. None. Really.

RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Weeg
so listContains() looks inside strings, I did want listFind, but its early...and I cant get my mind of my tournament Sunday (the buick scramble local round!!!) adios. tony weeg uncertified advanced cold fusion developer tony at navtrak dot net www.navtrak.net office 410.548.2337 fax 410.860.2337

RE: More Info (WAS: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?)

2003-07-17 Thread Scott Wilhelm
Oh, is role based security only for MX? Scott -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:03 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: More Info (WAS: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?) You mean on roles-based security? I have a preso on

Re: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Michael T. Tangorre
Ray, Just so I am clear, are you saying that if a user logs into my system and has the roles set role1,role2,role3 and I want to allow users with different roles access to different areas of the site such as: IsUserInRole(role1) the user above in role1, role2 and role3 will notr gian access

RE: More Info (WAS: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?)

2003-07-17 Thread Raymond Camden
Yes. Before that the 'native' security in CF was Advanced Security. Advanced Security was a wonderfully complex system. It had, unfortunately, um, a few issues. That's about as diplomatic as I can be. I can say that when I mentioned AS was removed from CFMX a while back, no one cried. :) You can

RE: More Info (WAS: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?)

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Weeg
I am still personally a firm believer that a smooth system that uses sql server (or any db server) mixed with some cf based login forms and username/password validation against the db server is prolly the best in my book, and something we use religiously...that way, if either of the two is

VIRUS WARNING

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Weeg
im not sure if you all will get it as well, i just got an email with an attachment from jessica, the main person from the redSky beta list, and it had a viral attachment. of course norton got it, but just an FYI in case you have an open email client with no virus protection (tsk tsk tsk) tw tony

RE: More Info (WAS: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?)

2003-07-17 Thread Scott Wilhelm
That's basically what I'm using now...Although, I'm in need of something that requires either encryption, or case sensitivity... Any ideas? -Original Message- From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:14 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: More Info (WAS: Can

RE: VIRUS WARNING

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Weeg
although, upon further review, the email address really isnt hers, just a version of hers with her name in the prefix ok, but with macromedia redsky beta text in it as well just be aware! tony weeg uncertified advanced cold fusion developer tony at navtrak dot net www.navtrak.net office

RE: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Raymond Camden
Nope, sorry if I wasn't clear. The problem is not setting a user to roles A,B,C. There is no problem saying IsUserInRole(A). If the user has roles A,B,C then they will be ok. The problem is this: If you do cfif isUserInRoles(a,b) You may think, This is how I check for A OR B However, what it's

RE: More Info (WAS: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?)

2003-07-17 Thread Tony Weeg
create a UUID createUUID() set a cookie on their browser with that UUID that gets sent also to the db as well, and if the two don't match, sorry no login, must relogin, reauth yourself.xs tony weeg uncertified advanced cold fusion developer tony at navtrak dot net www.navtrak.net office

Re: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?

2003-07-17 Thread Michael T. Tangorre
ahh yes, that is what I thought, I just wanted to make sure because my code is working and it would be a miracle if I was using it wrong yet the code still worked.. :-) thanks for the clarification. Mike - Original Message - From: Raymond Camden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL

Re: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Thomas Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 13:46 pm, Jochem van Dieten wrote: cron + REINDEX takes care of that for BTREE indexes, but RTREE, Hash and GIST indexes don't need reindexing. (This was fixed for BTREE indexes in CVS 2 months ago so once 7.4 is released it will be completely

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Chambers
From the Product Activation FAQ My hard drive died. If I didn’t deactivate the software, will I be able to reinstall the product and reactivate it? http://www.macromedia.com/software/activation/faq/#itemE-6 mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Thomas Chiverton

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Chambers
We have a question on the FAQ which addresses that exact question. My hard drive died. If I didn’t deactivate the software, will I be able to reinstall the product and reactivate it? http://www.macromedia.com/software/activation/faq/#itemE-6 mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Chambers
Most of these questions are addressed in the FAQ: http://www.macromedia.com/software/activation/faq/#itemE-6 mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Thomas Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would be *very* wary about having to 'activiate' a server before I can use

cfimport

2003-07-17 Thread Jordan Thomas
Hi, How do I import my tag libs? Can I use a mapped directory for my taglibs? It would seem No. For instance I have a mapped directory: /mysite/www/WEB-INF Which points to: D:\Clients\mysite\www\WEB-INF\ However whenever I use cfimport prefix=layout taglib=/mysite/www/WEB-INF/cftags/layout

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:31 AM 07/17/03 -0400, Mike Chambers wrote: My hard drive died. If I didn't deactivate the software, will I be able to reinstall the product and reactivate it? http://www.macromedia.com/software/activation/faq/#itemE-6 The only experience I've had with activation is with MS. I've had to

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 15:31 pm, Mike Chambers wrote: My hard drive died. If I didn’t deactivate the software, will I be able to reinstall the product and reactivate it? http://www.macromedia.com/software/activation/faq/#itemE-6 Not helpful. I can't just untar/cvs checkout my cf_root (etc)

RE: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Stacy Young
I highly doubt this would be used for a server product. That would be just craziness. STace -Original Message- From: Sandy Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:05 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Macromedia Updates Contribute I had a discussion with Mike Chambers

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Chambers
Of course, you are speaking completely in the hypothetical, since ColdFusion does not contain product activation, and we have not said anything to indicate that it will. mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Thomas Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Chambers
If you know in advance that you are going to need to reactive some software, then you can do it all yourself. Curiously enough, this is also covered in the FAQ: http://www.macromedia.com/software/activation/faq/#itemE-4 mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Thane

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Chambers
I am not aware of any other server platforms that include activation. Does anyone know of any? mike chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Stacy Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:47 AM Subject: RE: Macromedia Updates

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:49 AM 07/17/03 -0400, Mike Chambers wrote: If you know in advance that you are going to need to reactive some software, then you can do it all yourself. Curiously enough, this is also covered in the FAQ: http://www.macromedia.com/software/activation/faq/#itemE-4 The question was in the case

RE: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Dave Watts
I am not aware of any other server platforms that include activation. Does anyone know of any? Windows Server 2003 requires activation. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 15:35 pm, Mike Chambers wrote: Most of these questions are addressed in the FAQ: Read it. Nope. Ditto the technical white paper. These are serious concerns about how this new 'feature' will impact if (when ?!?) it is applied to server products, and they don't seem to

Re: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Thursday, Jul 17, 2003, at 01:38 US/Pacific, Taco Fleur wrote: I know using the client SCOPE will allow you to load balance session between a clustered environment, that is if you use a database as storage for the sessions. Yes, if you're using CF5 and earlier. With CFMX you'd probably want

RE: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Tim Blair
What kinds of things will you be needing your session state for? I would imagine (I haven't gone that deeply into it just yet) just basic state session info -- user id, partner id, possibly affiliate id -- all simple variable types, no structs etc ...

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 15:47 pm, Stacy Young wrote: I highly doubt this would be used for a server product. That would be just craziness. :points at what Microsoft is doing with Windows (server). -- Thomas C Advanced ColdFusion Programmer HANDLE WITH EXTREME CARE: This Email Contains Minute

RE: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Matthew Fusfield
Windows Server 2003 (at least some of the editions) require a similar activation process to that used in Windows XP. Matt -Original Message- From: Mike Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:56 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute I am

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Chambers
You can find info on that here: http://www.macromedia.com/software/activation/faq/#itemA-5 It takes under 5 minutes. The price of Contribute is $99. (the upgrade for Contribute 1.0 users is $9.99). You can find pricing info here:

Re: Thinking about application architecture... (db issues)

2003-07-17 Thread Jochem van Dieten
John Paul Ashenfelter wrote: All that said, the memory cache built into MySQL 4 beats anything from Oracle, MS, etc. You can set the cache size to whatever you wish and the db handles all the caching. Huge performance increase. And what makes it even nicer, is that MySQL *TODAY* is shipping

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Howie Hamlin
Windows 2003 Server - Original Message - From: Mike Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:56 AM Subject: Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute I am not aware of any other server platforms that include activation. Does anyone know of

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Chambers
- Original Message - From: Thomas Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To summerise the main one playing on my mind: 1) Once registered, what happens if there is a DNS or other problem that prevents the deamon phoning home or successfully talking to MM? Will the server be shut down ? From

Re: More Info (WAS: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?)

2003-07-17 Thread Jeff
on 7/17/03 10:02 AM, Raymond Camden at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean on roles-based security? I have a preso on it - search for it on my web site (I'm too lazy to find the direct link). Also, all of the CFMX books should cover it, especially Mastering ColdFusion MX. Of course, I have no

RE: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Peter Harrison
Cookies and cached queries spring to mind. However, Sean's suggestion about the J2EE session variables sounds nicer. - Peter -Original Message- From: Tim Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 July 2003 16:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Thinking about application architecture... What

RE: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Hey Mike, Is it me or poeple just not reading the link you are posting ;-) -Original Message- From: Mike Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 July 2003 16:15 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute - Original Message - From: Thomas Chiverton [EMAIL

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Jim Campbell
Activating a product, per se, doesn't particularly concern me - and I highly doubt it will ever be required for ColdFusion or JRun, as issues which result from activation or the presence of a Macrovision software lock program that interfered with server operations would be disastrous for MM's

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Thomas Chiverton wrote: To summerise the main one playing on my mind: 1) Once registered, what happens if there is a DNS or other problem that prevents the deamon phoning home or successfully talking to MM? Will the server be shut down ?

RE: More Info (WAS: Can the user's role in CFLOGIN be a list?)

2003-07-17 Thread Raymond Camden
I probably need to make a Breeze preso out of it then. It will also may need to be updated for RedSky. Anyway, thanks for the kind words Jeff. :) === Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 16:15 pm, Mike Chambers wrote: So, the answer to your question is No. Once activated, your software does not need to be online (it is a one time process). Right, so why is there a license deamon running in the background then ? It specifcaly says that this deamon will

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Jeff Garza
But only if its not on a volume license. Which I beleive will be the same as for Contribute... Jeff - Original Message - From: Howie Hamlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:14 AM Subject: Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute Windows 2003

RE: Thinking about application architecture...

2003-07-17 Thread Ken Wilson
enable J2EE session variables and take advantage of the clustering and fail over capabilities of the underlying J2EE app server (e.g., CFMX for J2EE on JRun gives you session replication in real-time). Are these clustering and fail-over capabilities available if you are using the regular

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 16:19 pm, Jim Campbell wrote: that will use Macrovision's activation scheme), as I do not want any machines in my company or for my own use crippled or otherwise impaired by software that patently assumes I'm a criminal. :nods You note under the MM EULA[*] that they are

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 16:24 pm, Jochem van Dieten wrote: 1) Once registered, what happens if there is a DNS or other problem that prevents the deamon phoning home or successfully talking to MM? Will the server be shut down ? http://www.macromedia.com/software/activation/faq/#itemA-15

RE: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Stacy Young
Well in my eyes a production environment is equivalent to a sealed laboratory where every process and communication is deliberate and necessary. i.e. things need to be predictable. The last thing you would want is an activation process going haywire for some odd reason and can't communicate to

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Chambers
- Original Message - From: Thomas Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:24 AM Subject: Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute RULE : Mike Chambers mentioned On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 16:15 pm, Mike Chambers wrote: So, the answer to your

RE: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Stacy Young
Hence one of the reasons why we don't use them in production environments. ;-) Stace -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 15:47 pm, Stacy

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Christian Cantrell
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 11:00 AM, Thomas Chiverton wrote: These are serious concerns about how this new 'feature' will impact if (when ?!?) it is applied to server products, and they don't seem to have been addressed anywhere. Let's not get too ahead of ourselves here. Although I am

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Mike Chambers
- Original Message - From: Thomas Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] RULE : activation On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 16:24 pm, Jochem van Dieten wrote: 1) Once registered, what happens if there is a DNS or other problem that prevents the deamon phoning home or successfully talking to MM?

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Christian Cantrell
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 11:24 AM, Thomas Chiverton wrote: Why did that last company to use this tech. give it up as a bad idea ? People should know that we paid very close attention to Intuit's use of activation, and we learned a great deal from their experience. If we thought that

Re: Macromedia Updates Contribute

2003-07-17 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Thomas Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 16:24 pm, Jochem van Dieten wrote: 1) Once registered, what happens if there is a DNS or other problem that prevents the deamon phoning home or successfully talking to MM? Will the server be shut down ?

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