RE: Generating BarCodes in CF

2005-04-05 Thread Ali Awan
FYI incase anyone is wondering. Here is what I mean by 2D barcodes. I have attached the gif of what one looks like. If you have ever shipped a UPS package where you generated the package slip on their website or via EBay, then you have probably seen this. -Original Message- From:

RE: Generating BarCodes in CF

2005-04-05 Thread Ali Awan
It didn't make it I guess we can't send images on here Well the image is the first thing you see if you go to this page: http://grandzebu.net/informatique/codbar-en/pdf417.htm Ali -Original Message- From: Ali Awan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 10:35 AM

RE: Generating BarCodes in CF

2005-04-05 Thread Ali Awan
John, Firstly, thanks for taking the time to discuss this issue. Yeah, Google has been my friend for many years. Even as I posted this question on CF-Talk, I had downloaded and evaluated a couple of off-the-shelf solutions for generating the BarCodes that I needed. I can even invoke one of them

RE: Generating BarCodes in CF

2005-04-05 Thread Ali Awan
: Ali Awan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Generating BarCodes in CF John, Firstly, thanks for taking the time to discuss this issue. Yeah, Google has been my friend for many years. Even as I posted this question on CF-Talk, I had downloaded

Generating BarCodes in CF

2005-04-04 Thread Ali Awan
I was wondering if anyone knows of any CF apps, or used CF to connect to 3rd party apps to generate barcodes. Specifically 2D barcodes. If you are familiar with barcodes, you will know what that means :-) There are some off-the-shelf cfapps that generate barcodes but not in that format.

RE: CFMX 7, CFForms, and Javascript

2005-03-18 Thread Ali Awan
So then is it possible to do the same time of validation that Don has in Javascript, in ActionScript using CFForm type=flash? Or is this theif you want advanced features, roll your own Flash? Ali -Original Message- From: Don Neizer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 18,

RE: Parsing XML in CF5

2005-03-11 Thread Ali Awan
Try the custom tag SOXML. It works pretty well. I used it on a couple of sites that parsed search results from Google, and others that parsed News Feeds, and some that parsed Amazon product info and then passed them into DB tables. It worked extremely well in all those cases. Those were all a

RE: OT: RE: Has anyone tried out the SMS gateway on MX 7

2005-03-04 Thread Ali Awan
, Ali Awan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean I need to negotiate with a provider for my CF Application? Yes, because you need an SMSC setup so your CF server can behave as an SMS service, like Google's SMS search (46645). Read the docs about it - it explains the whole SMSC thing: http

RE: SQL Case Question?

2005-03-04 Thread Ali Awan
There is a function in SQL called IsNull which replaces a NULL result with whatever value you specify. Try doing this in the first line of your statement: SELECT IsNull(Count(OrderDate),0) AS TotalOrdersPerDay That way if the result set is NULL it will output a 0. Ali -Original Message-

Re: OT: SQL Case Question?

2005-03-04 Thread Ali Awan
I apologize if this is a double post, but it didn't go through the first time. There is a function in SQL called IsNull which replaces a NULL result with whatever value you specify. Try doing this in the first line of your statement: SELECT IsNull(Count(OrderDate),0) AS TotalOrdersPerDay

Has anyone tried out the SMS gateway on MX 7

2005-03-03 Thread Ali Awan
I'd be interested to know if anyone else has played with the SMS Test Server. I was just testing out the example apps provided, and was wondering how to use them to send myself a text message on my cellphone. Has anyone tried this out? If so, please relate your experience. I tried

OT: RE: Has anyone tried out the SMS gateway on MX 7

2005-03-03 Thread Ali Awan
- From: Ali Awan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:05 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Has anyone tried out the SMS gateway on MX 7 I'd be interested to know if anyone else has played with the SMS Test Server. I was just testing out the example apps provided, and was wondering

RE: RE: Has anyone tried out the SMS gateway on MX 7

2005-03-03 Thread Ali Awan
.-Original Message- .From: Ali Awan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 2:22 PM .To: CF-Talk .Subject: OT: RE: Has anyone tried out the SMS gateway on MX 7 . .Michael, . .I apologize for not understanding fully. .I can receive SMS message

Need help with CFHTMLHEAD in CF 5.0

2005-03-02 Thread Ali Awan
I'm running into somewhat of a problem in a CF 5 app I'm running. I have a javascript snippet that checks for plugins before a specific page executes. Everything is working fine, except when I cflocation to the next page, the http headers are displayed on the page. This is what displays on

Re:Need help with CFHTMLHEAD in CF 5.0

2005-03-02 Thread Ali Awan
Firstly, I'd like to apologize if I end up sending 10 duplicate copies of this response. It didn't seem to work via the website. Anyway. To answer your question, Jochem. The CFHTMLHead is called before the CFLocation. However, the javascript that is included in the

Migrating to MX 7 from CF5

2005-02-09 Thread Ali Awan
I am interested to hear about people's experiences migrating from CF 5.0 to MX 7.0 I'm considering making the leap, having tested the code on MX6. Thanks in advance, Ali ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient

Re: MX Methodologies (Mach2?? Fusebox??)

2004-12-01 Thread Ali Awan
m all of a sudden I'm hungry for spaghetti bolognese what were we talking about again? :P While you can always write spaghetti code in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti. - Andrew Hunt, David Thomas :-)))

Re: MX Methodologies (Mach2?? Fusebox??)

2004-11-29 Thread Ali Awan
and info you posted, it's all beginning to make a lot more sense now. I think I might check out the books you recommend on your site. Ali On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:56:43 -0400, Ali Awan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still pretty fuzzy on the whole thing. I still can't figure out how to define

Re: MX Methodologies (Mach2?? Fusebox??)

2004-11-29 Thread Ali Awan
Simon, Thanks for your input. I do believe you are right. However, the company I work for is looking to adopt a widely used methodology, so that we can implement some sort of best practices and maintain consistency amongst our developers and applications. Since I was familiar with Fusebox

Re: MX Methodologies (Mach2?? Fusebox??)

2004-11-29 Thread Ali Awan
://www.happyhacker.com/ On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:22:15 -0400, Ali Awan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then my next logical step was to get familiar with them as much as possible and see which one to adopt and then start converting our CF5 apps over. So I turned to my respected friends

Re: MX Methodologies (Mach2?? Fusebox??)

2004-11-18 Thread Ali Awan
Thanks Mike and Doug, for pointing me in the right direction. I'm still pretty fuzzy on the whole thing. I still can't figure out how to define listeners and events, in a way that makes sense for the applications I write and work on. For now I'll probably stick to Fusebox 4, and troll the

MX Methodologies (Mach2?? Fusebox??)

2004-11-17 Thread Ali Awan
I was wondering if anyone on here has had any experience upgrading their CF apps (pre-MX) to the Mach2 framework? If so, how would you advise someone who was attempting to upgrade an app written for CF 5.0 to Mach2. (I'm upgrading to MX also, obviously). I have seen examples of Mach2, like

Using CF to create PCL files

2004-11-16 Thread Ali Awan
I was wondering if anyone had any experience writing Printer Control (pcl) files in cold fusion. I am working on a project in which hundreds of pdf's and rtf's are created dynamically via our coldfusion app. I am looking for an efficient way to print all of these documents. Thanks, Ali

Re: SQL: Passing vars to a LIKE statement

2004-09-23 Thread Ali Awan
didCursor SELECT * FROM #MonthyJoins GO Error Message: Server: Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Procedure GetMonthlyJoins, Line 51 Syntax error converting the varchar value 'FEB%' to a column of data type int. -Original Message- From: Ali Awan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

Re: SQL: Passing vars to a LIKE statement

2004-09-23 Thread Ali Awan
Message- From: Ali Awan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:21 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SQL: Passing vars to a LIKE statement Eric, Can you try just doing this first? AND demographicvaluedesc LIKE @month+'%' And do you still get the error? Then also

Re: SQL: Passing vars to a LIKE statement

2004-09-23 Thread Ali Awan
For this question, I would just do an inline sql query in ColdFusion and use a coldfusion variable for the tablename: select count(*) from #tablename# However, if it must be done in a stored procedure, then the following should work: @sqlstring varchar(255) SELECT @sqlstring = 'SELECT count(*)

Re: SQL: Passing vars to a LIKE statement

2004-09-22 Thread Ali Awan
I need to pass some varibles into a LIKE clause in a SELECT statement. I am having trouble with the format. AND valuedesc LIKE '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@year%' is what I was doing and know this is wrong cause it see that garb as a literal string. How do I pass this so the vars show? Eric, I

Looking for Live Chat Application

2004-08-26 Thread Ali Awan
I was wondering if anyone had any experience with integrating Cold Fusion with a Java Chat Application using win sockets.There are several out there that use a database and constantly refresh.I'm not interested in those.I'm looking for ones that do not require constant refreshing nor hitting the

Re: Looking for Live Chat Application

2004-08-26 Thread Ali Awan
Thanks Rob, I'll check out your app. I don't know about win sockets, but I've done a chat app with cfc's, _javascript_ and web services on the HTML side, and then connected to the web services using a standalone java application - meaning you could chat on line or with the standalone app.

Re: Looking for Live Chat Application

2004-08-26 Thread Ali Awan
Thanks Rob, I'll check out your app. I don't know about win sockets, but I've done a chat app with cfc's, _javascript_ and web services on the HTML side, and then connected to the web services using a standalone java application - meaning you could chat on line or with the standalone app.

Re: Writing Websites for Phone Web Browsers

2004-05-13 Thread Ali Awan
From: Ali Awan I did some minor experimentation when WAP first came out, so my knowledge is a little rusty Using CFCONTENT you should be able to tell the browser that it's using WML, and as long as you use WML tags, then all should work Dynamic content from CF shouldn't be a problem, as you

Writing Websites for Phone Web Browsers

2004-05-11 Thread Ali Awan
I was wondering if anyone has any experience making their websites accessible via Phone Web-Browsers? What I am planning to do is check what kind of browser the client is using and based on that, they would view the WML version of the website. The thing is how do you program a CF page to be a

compare 2 files

2001-07-24 Thread Ali Awan
the filenames. I am looking for something that I could run automatically and feed in the filenames programmatically. If anyone has any insight I'd appreciate it, thanks, Ali Awan Software Engineer Dev-Tech, Inc. http://www.dev-tech.com (206) 956-0888

RE: compare 2 files

2001-07-24 Thread Ali Awan
files Yes there is a great tool for that I use it all the time. Here you go! DLSuperC http://dlsuperc.com/ -Mark -- Original Message -- from: Ali Awan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:27:58 -0700 I was wondering

OT: Javascript Date Comparison

2001-07-05 Thread Ali Awan
I apologize for asking a non-cf question on here, but hey maybe there's a CF solution to it. I have a page where a user enters two dates in a form. A Start Date and an End Date, I want to write a Javascript Validation function that compares the two dates to make sure that the End Date is not

cflock question

2001-05-24 Thread Ali Awan
I have just created a login process for my app, and locked all my session variables, yet when I try to login I get an timeout error. I have enabled Session variables in my administrator, and have set checking to Full for testing purposes. I have also checked the Single Threaded Session box.

RE: cflock question

2001-05-24 Thread Ali Awan
Thanks for the tip, I tried that, but I'm still getting a timeout error when the server tries to create an exclusive lock. Ali -Original Message- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:51 AM To: Ali Awan Subject: Re: cflock question I am not sure

Transferring data between two datasources

2001-05-24 Thread Ali Awan
I am trying to upload data from a tab delimited file into a SQL Server database. I have a separate datasource set up for the tab delimited file. The file is about 50 megs roughly. I'm querying the flat file and comparing it to the records in teh SQL Server database and inserting the new ones.

RE: [cfdjlist] RE: Upgrading from CF 4.0 to 4.5

2001-05-03 Thread Ali Awan
this would effect the upgrade? Thanks Ali Awan -Original Message- From: Joseph Opacki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:19 AM To: CFDJList Subject: [cfdjlist] RE: Upgrading from CF 4.0 to 4.5 I just upgraded from 4.01 to 4.5SP2 this last weekend. Everything

Upgrading from CF 4.0 to 4.5

2001-05-02 Thread Ali Awan
information is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ali Awan ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http

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