Re: The long tail of ColdFusion fail

2014-03-26 Thread Ben Forta
Dave is spot on. If ColdFusion were a complete self contained black box then the suggestion would be valid, but as it relies on an underlying OS, an HTTP server, DBMSs and more, it is the admin's job to manage and understand all of those (and more). The fact that CF deployment and development

Re: The long tail of ColdFusion fail

2014-03-26 Thread Ben Forta
Sure, the installer could make things simpler, and maybe should. But, that's a double edged sword, make things easier and admins will be even less likely to learn and manage what they really need to. At the end of the day, whether it is Windows or Apache or your mail server or CF or Java or

RE: SQL Global String Replace

2014-03-04 Thread Ben Forta
Actually, that's the kind of operation that you'd not want to perform in CF (or PHP or any other database client). Unless you truly need all that data within a CF page for some other reason, you shouldn't be sending it all back and forth between DBMS and CF. --- Ben (Sent from my newest Android

Re: CF 10 on Mavericks AND Adobe download links not working

2013-10-28 Thread Ben Forta
Ok, I'll bite ... I am running Windows 8.1 on my primary laptop, and now an app that I need no longer runs. Actually, I've been running Windows 8.x for about a year now, and a few apps that I need (including one really critical one) still don't run. But that's a choice I made, I could have

RE: Adobe no longer supports ColdFusion??? Really?

2013-06-18 Thread Ben Forta
Two things ... 1: It's not just CF. I am hearing from ASP and ASP.NET users who are also wanting to know why DW won't open their files and where their server behaviors have gone. I'm trying to get details from the DW team. 2: I have to disagree with the assertion that CF Builder missing from CC

RE: Source control in CF

2013-01-30 Thread Ben Forta
This thread has gotten out of hand. So, Michael, if I may summarize ... 1: SVN, Git, ..., any option is better than no option, and you should research them all to figure out what works best for you. There is no one size fits all. 2: More importantly, development on a shared server is a big fat

RE: Does CF10 support 64-bit COM Objects?

2013-01-24 Thread Ben Forta
Wil, Honestly, I would not assume that you could easily just switch from a 32bit COM object to an equivalent 64bit COM object (if it were even to exist) and expect all to work as is. My gut feel is that if you really need to support legacy 32bit COM objects then you are better off installing a

RE: CFZIP file protection

2012-11-08 Thread Ben Forta
It's not a matter of sense. ColdFusion uses the java.util.zip APIs which does not support ZIP password protection. You'll have to use third party options. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Robert Harrison [mailto:rob...@austin-williams.com] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 4:23 PM To:

RE: Problem with CFX_Zip and page loading

2012-10-18 Thread Ben Forta
I'd not make them wait. If you have a long running process like this, fire off an asynchronous request and have it run out of process, tell the user you'll notify them when it's done, and then have that process send them a notification (perhaps email) with any follow-up. --- Ben

RE: Alternative to CFOBJECT

2012-08-30 Thread Ben Forta
Bruce, One word (well, ok, two words) - dump them. Use a host that will give you full control over your own instance or virtual machine. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:sor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 3:21 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Alternative

RE: cfmailparam

2012-08-22 Thread Ben Forta
Short answer: It's not going to work reliably. Longer answer: You can request notification, but there is no guarantee that servers or clients will provide it. You may have more luck determining that the message was delivered to a specific mailbox on the server depending on the server used, but

RE: cfcalendar does not work in chrome

2012-08-20 Thread Ben Forta
Honestly, I'd advise against using the CF UI widgets and control abstractions, including cfcalendar. They might have made sense way back when, but there are now far better ways to do this using JavaScript libraries and frameworks. Do a quick search for jQuery calendar and you'll find lots of

RE: Adobe drops Flsh for mobile devices

2011-11-09 Thread Ben Forta
And thank you for making that distinction, Bryan. It's amazing how the masses have chosen to ignore that little fact. We're backing away from Flash in-browser, but we're still hard at work on Flash for apps. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Bryan Stevenson

RE: Adobe drops Flsh for mobile devices

2011-11-09 Thread Ben Forta
it is truly amazing how much the media is assumed to be correct ;-) Mulder had it right - trust no one (except yourself that is) Cheers On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 14:46 -0500, Ben Forta wrote: And thank you for making that distinction, Bryan. It's amazing how the masses have chosen to ignore that little

RE: CF vs. Java Web Developer

2011-06-20 Thread Ben Forta
CF=automatic, Java=stick-shift You can start with one and then learn the other, but stick-shift drivers can learn to drive automatic far easier than the reverse. When done, both benefit from the added expertise, the stick-shift driver can benefit from automatic simplicity (and be more productive

RE: So to flog the preverbial undead horse

2011-06-14 Thread Ben Forta
This is not a CF issue as much as it is a don't be a one trick pony issue. Regardless of the language or product or technology you focus on, you absolutely need to also branch out and broaden your skills. And this is not a new issue, back in the 90's I wrote about how the best ColdFusion

RE: email from variable?

2011-06-14 Thread Ben Forta
Web browsers don't just tell the server the user email address because a form was filled in. You need to ask for it in your form (or have a login page before it and know who the logged in user is and have that information perhaps in a profile). --- Ben -Original Message- From: Orlini,

RE: How secure is RDS

2011-02-28 Thread Ben Forta
Short answer, how secure RDS is or isn't is really not the issue. What is more important is that security fundamentals demand that you don't run anything not completely necessary on production boxes. Your HTTP server is necessary, remote access services (be it RDS or FTP or ...) are generally not

RE: CFImage at 300dpi

2011-02-03 Thread Ben Forta
Why not create a PDF form formatted exactly as you need, and then use CF to populate the form fields? Seems like you'd get more control that way. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Terry Troxel [mailto:terry.tro...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:26 PM To: cf-talk

RE: Anyone know anything about this new ColdFusion conference?

2011-01-31 Thread Ben Forta
I officially nominate this thread as the least productive on cf-talk ever. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:ju...@wiredotter.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 7:58 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about this new ColdFusion conference? On Mon,

RE: Anyone know anything about this new ColdFusion conference?

2011-01-31 Thread Ben Forta
Good point, I guess I blocked those from my memory. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to ignore this pointless banter up for a few more days before the thread makes it to the CF-Talk Rogues Gallery. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Monday,

RE: Anyone know anything about this new ColdFusion conference?

2011-01-31 Thread Ben Forta
need to do is steer the discussion in a direction where it's more productive and constructive. Assuming that direction... y'know... exists. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Ben Forta b...@forta.com wrote: Good point, I guess I blocked those from my memory. Oh well, I guess I'll just have

RE: Extracting a date from a string

2011-01-26 Thread Ben Forta
Assuming that the dates are always in mm/dd/ format, I'd use a regular expression, something like this: cfset string=*Department Summary by Employee 10/27/2010 - 10/27/2010* cfset dates=REFind([0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/[0-9]{4}, string) disclaimer Code written on the fly with no testing ;-)

RE: Extracting a date from a string

2011-01-26 Thread Ben Forta
-talk Subject: Re: Extracting a date from a string This give me the value of 32 cfset string=Department Summary by Employee 10/27/2010 - 10/27/2010 cfset dates=REFind([0-1][0-9]/[0-3][0-9]/[0-9]{4}, string) cfoutput#dates#/cfoutput On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Ben Forta b...@forta.com wrote

RE: why is cf_builder so expensive?

2011-01-26 Thread Ben Forta
I know I should ignore this thread, I know I should, but ... Perhaps the folks at Adobe even want to kill it off, judging by the price charged for their Enterprise version. And if you talk to the ColdFusion sales reps (all of them over the years, Allaire reps, Macromedia reps, and Adobe reps)

RE: Coldfusion8: Multiple checks within a CFIF for a valid date

2011-01-24 Thread Ben Forta
Sounds like you are retrieving data and then filtering on the client with CF based date math. And if so, then the best advice I can give you is don't. This is the type of thing you need to do at the database level (in a SELECT statement or a view or a stored procedure etc.). DBMSs are really good

RE: Coldfusion8: Multiple checks within a CFIF for a valid date

2011-01-24 Thread Ben Forta
One more note ... Do you have any control over table schemas? If you have to filter on that many columns, and every row has all those columns, then the table really needs to be broken into three, one with the profiles, one with the certifications, and one joining the two with the expiration

RE: Coldfusion8: Multiple checks within a CFIF for a valid date

2011-01-24 Thread Ben Forta
Exactly. So, you have 4 columns that are for each certification. Those belong in their own table that may look like this: profileID (FK) certID (FK) certExp certCompanu certImage certOnFile You'd have another table of cert types: certID (PK) certName And then another table for the profiles

RE: Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-06 Thread Ben Forta
BrowserHawk is a really nice commercial solution for this one, and has built-in CF support. http://www.cyscape.com/ --- Ben -Original Message- From: Mike Kear [mailto:afpwebwo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 6:49 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Detecting Mobile user agent -

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Ben Forta
Change hosting companies. Really. --- Ben (Sent from my Flash enabled Android device) On Nov 9, 2010 2:35 PM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) sd1...@att.com wrote: Hi all, So I haven't blogged in about a year because of different issues with my website provider... Any how I'm looking to

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Ben Forta
There are indeed inherent risks and limitations with shared hosting. But there are solutions, including ones less expensive than dedicated hosting. Sandboxing is one option, although not an absolutely perfect one. The preferred option (these days) is the one Dave mentioned, visualization, where

RE: Memory Upgrade - Revisited

2010-10-21 Thread Ben Forta
I know others have said this already, but it's worth reiterating. Database access is almost always an application bottleneck, especially for highly data-centric apps like the typical ColdFusion app. Microsoft Access *will* be a choke point for your app. A powerful new machine, lots of memory,

RE: Can't figure out a query to accomplish this...

2010-10-03 Thread Ben Forta
SELECT MINUS is indeed supported by MySQL 4.1 and later. But, basically it is just an alternative for a subquery with a NOT IN. (Internal processing is actually different, and the subquery option may perform worse with larger data sets). So, the following 2 statements should do the same thing:

RE: Adobe Security update: Hotfix available for ColdFusion

2010-08-10 Thread Ben Forta
I believe it addresses a potential vulnerability in ColdFusion Administrator. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:mdino...@houseoffusion.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:37 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Adobe Security update: Hotfix available for ColdFusion They

RE: php.org is written in ColdFusion

2010-06-21 Thread Ben Forta
Does not seem to be a valid site, more of a traffic troll, I think. :-( -Original Message- From: Andy Allan [mailto:andy.al...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 4:49 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: php.org is written in ColdFusion It's just a resource site sitting on a CF shared

RE: php.org is written in ColdFusion

2010-06-21 Thread Ben Forta
to appreciate the irony :) On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Ben Forta b...@forta.com wrote: Does not seem to be a valid site, more of a traffic troll, I think. :-( -Original Message- From: Andy Allan [mailto:andy.al...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 4:49 PM To: cf-talk

RE: New CF security bulletin

2010-05-12 Thread Ben Forta
The majority of users who applied the hotfix did not run into issues, but several have. So please make backups BEFORE applying the hotfix. The CF team is looking into this one. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 2:57

RE: New CF security bulletin

2010-05-12 Thread Ben Forta
Message- From: Ben Forta [mailto:b...@forta.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 3:01 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: New CF security bulletin The majority of users who applied the hotfix did not run into issues, but several have. So please make backups BEFORE applying the hotfix. The CF team is looking

RE: New CF security bulletin

2010-05-12 Thread Ben Forta
Ugh. Engineering team was able to recreate the issue on 64bit CF, but some are seeing it on 32bit CF, too. They are working on a fix right now. If you have yet to apply the patch, I'd suggest waiting a little longer. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Ben Forta [mailto:b...@forta.com

RE: ColdFusion 9 WACK

2010-04-06 Thread Ben Forta
To add to what's been said, existing CF users will likely NOT want Volume 1, as the only significant change in it is coverage of ColdFusion Builder. Real coverage of all that's new in CF9 is in Volumes 2 and 3. This is intentional. I broke out Volume 1 last time into its own volume so that

RE: CF Education (was: ColdFusion Builder Released!)

2010-03-23 Thread Ben Forta
Actually, ColdFusion has been free for educational use for a long time now. https://freeriatools.adobe.com/coldfusion/ And ColdFusion Builder is now also free for educational use: https://freeriatools.adobe.com/cfbuilder/ --- Ben -Original Message- From: Jordan Michaels

RE: CFC Newbie

2010-03-22 Thread Ben Forta
These are old, but may answer the question: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/intro_cfcs.html http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/extreme/bforta_cfc.html --- Ben -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 3:44 PM To:

RE: CFIF within CFmail?

2010-02-22 Thread Ben Forta
Try this: cfset arguments=StructNew() cfset arguments.from=FORM.email cfif form.intype=K-12 cfset arguments.cc=te...@test2.com /cfif cfmail attributeCollection=arguments ... /cfmail -Original Message- From: Orlini, Robert [mailto:rorl...@hwwilson.com] Sent: Monday, February 22,

Re: remote FTP directly from client browser

2009-11-23 Thread Ben Forta
CF9 virtual file system may do what you need. You'll be able to read and write and access files, but they'll not be written to disk on the server. --- Ben (Sent from my phone, please pardon the typos) On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Robert Schimmel rschim...@spectir.com wrote: So, here

Re: remote FTP directly from client browser

2009-11-23 Thread Ben Forta
to touch the file at all - memory or disk notwithstanding :) -Mark Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MCSE (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Ben Forta [mailto:b...@forta.com] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 9:35 AM To: cf

Re: ColdFusion 9 books

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Forta
Application Construction Kit series by Ben Forta. Thanks! -- === === = Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master Email: r...@camdenfamily.com Blog : www.coldfusionjedi.com AOL IM : cfjedimaster Keep up to date

Re: Free Database Enginer for ColdFusion

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Forta
How about Apache Derby which is included with ColdFusion 8 and 9? --- Ben (Sent from my phone, please pardon the typos) On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:49 PM, Arsalan Tariq Keen arsalk...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi fellows, does anyone know of a lightweight free database engine that I can bundle

RE: (ot) Server Backup Software

2009-09-21 Thread Ben Forta
Hey Rick, You did not mention the OS you are using, but, if Windows, and if you are backing up to a storage device (as opposed to tape or something else) then this is what I use: http://www.backupforworkgroups.com/ It's lightweight, cheap (I think it starts at $100 per client), supports SQL

Re: ColdFusion Builder - free or commercial product?

2009-08-25 Thread Ben Forta
We've not made any announcments regarding packaging and pricing yet. Stay tuned. --- Ben (Sent from my phone, please pardon the typos) On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:11 PM, David McGuigan davidmcgui...@gmail.com wrote: I'd heard that a set number of Builder licenses came with every server

RE: CF9 and Bolt in eWEEK

2009-07-17 Thread Ben Forta
As he said, this is a public beta, designed so that you can provide feedback before it's too late to implement them. Take a big deep breath, and file all bugs and enhancements requests, and the sooner the better. --- Ben -Original Message- From: b...@bradwood.com

RE: Adobe's CF IDE, Bolt

2008-12-04 Thread Ben Forta
The formal Bolt beta has not yet started, so the fact that you've heard nothing yet does not mean that you won't be. Hang in there ... --- Ben -Original Message- From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:52 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re:

RE: Adding Updating empty values

2008-10-28 Thread Ben Forta
How do I get passed the q1 is not defined in Form CF error? All I want to do is enter an empty value. How can I allow it to do that for insert and updates? Actually, you'd never want to have to deal with not defined errors in your core code. That's what cfparam is for, all form fields should

RE: CFML Advisory Committee (was: Alternative to coldfusion8)

2008-10-24 Thread Ben Forta
And another portion (myself) utterly buried under MAX prep. But, we'll get there ... --- Ben -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:06 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CFML Advisory Committee (was: Alternative to coldfusion8)

RE: CF8 enterprise, CF8 Standard, CF7 Standard on same computer?

2008-09-07 Thread Ben Forta
You'll want to reinstall if you want the J2EE installation (the one that will let you have multiple isolated dedicated instances of CF on a single box). If you want to use CF Enterprise in standalone mode, just go into the system info page in CF Admin and provide the new serial number. No restart

RE: CF8 enterprise, CF8 Standard, CF7 Standard on same computer?

2008-09-07 Thread Ben Forta
Yes, you can indeed install CF Enterprise in JE22 server configuration while CF7 and CF8 are installed, but there are some gotchas to consider. The CF service names are different, and the default HTTP ports are different, too. However, installing additional services (like the ODBC services) will

RE: Lean, 'mean' cf8

2008-08-13 Thread Ben Forta
There are other J2EE options. CF officially supports JBoss as of CF8. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/systemreqs/ --- Ben -Original Message- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:44 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Lean, 'mean' cf8 So

RE: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-08 Thread Ben Forta
Yep, I turned e-mail notifications off too, leave it on and you can inadvertently turn blocking SQL injection attacks into a self-imposed DoS attack. Fun stuff. On the plus side, it's nice to see CF finally getting the recognition it deserves, even if it is from parasitic bottom-feeding bots

RE: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-08 Thread Ben Forta
to have them shut down infected users until they are cleaned. ~Brad - Original Message - From: Ben Forta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:50 AM Subject: RE: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion Yep, I turned e-mail notifications

RE: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-08 Thread Ben Forta
Darn, I blew my cover! ;-) --- Ben -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 12:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion Ben Forta wrote: ... parasitic bottom-feeding bots created by despicable scum

RE: Chinese characters in CF

2008-08-01 Thread Ben Forta
I did something similar for CFFAQ. It supports all sorts of languages, including Chinese and Urdu (a right-to-left language). Default:http://www.cffaq.com/ Chinese:http://www.cffaq.com/index.cfm?language=cn Urdu: http://www.cffaq.com/index.cfm?language=ur Russian:

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head... To Ben Forta

2008-07-25 Thread Ben Forta
RIAForge is back up ... -Original Message- From: Radek Valachovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 2:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head... To Ben Forta I have it installed already, but other guys in forums asking

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-24 Thread Ben Forta
Fine, it's always a good idea to never use * ;-) --- Ben -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:13 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head... it's safe to say that avoiding * is a

RE: (ot) URL Hack Attempt Leaves Me Scractching My Head...

2008-07-24 Thread Ben Forta
MAXLENGTH would typically be the maximum the underlying table allows or the maximum you want to accept. And MAXLENGTH is optional. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Radek Valachovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: (ot) URL Hack

RE: Galleon Forum - Ray Camden's Forum project

2008-07-08 Thread Ben Forta
DSN setting, and all settings, in settings.ini.cfm file. Read the docs, Ray spells it all out in detail. --- Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Galleon Forum - Ray Camden's Forum project

RE: Any Gotcha's in using CF UUID for db record primary key?

2008-03-24 Thread Ben Forta
Whether it is a UUID created in ColdFusion or some other unique value...you KNOW what it is...every time, because you set it, not the DB. Until you need to use another database client, one other than ColdFusion, then things get messier. If you need to manually insert rows, or do a batch import,

RE: LinkedIn CF group

2008-03-06 Thread Ben Forta
And here's a Flex group, just coz ;-) http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/65596/7DF3445D30E0 --- Ben -Original Message- From: James Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: LinkedIn CF group I'm not sure what purpose it serves, but I

CF8 Wins 2008 Jolt Awards!

2008-03-06 Thread Ben Forta
http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/portal/archives/2008/03/jolt_award_winn.html --- Ben == Ben Forta - Adobe Systems Inc. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (248)351-6275 Fax:(248)351-2699 Adobe: http://www.adobe.com

RE: How accurate is IP address / Geocode lookup?

2008-02-28 Thread Ben Forta
I've used this product, integrates with CF, too: http://www.cyscape.com/products/chawk/ --- Ben -Original Message- From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: How accurate is IP address / Geocode lookup? From what I

RE: No 64-bit on Windows for CF8?

2008-02-15 Thread Ben Forta
64bit CF8 is in final beta, watch for an announcement in the very near future. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Gaulin, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 1:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: No 64-bit on Windows for CF8? Hi Based on the CF8 feature list here

RE: No 64-bit on Windows for CF8?

2008-02-15 Thread Ben Forta
life? Go to: www.winninginthemargins.com Enter passkey: goldengrove Web Developer / ColdFusion Programmer http://William.Seiter.com -Original Message- From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 10:53 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: No 64-bit on Windows for CF8

RE: No 64-bit on Windows for CF8?

2008-02-15 Thread Ben Forta
: No 64-bit on Windows for CF8? HELP! I just bought a 64-bit windows server. What versions of CF7 or CF8 can I run on this machine? Rick Colman -Original Message- From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 10:36 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: No 64-bit

RE: CFC, YES OR NO

2008-02-06 Thread Ben Forta
Hi, The answer is a definite yes, you need to learn how to use CFCs. In fact, just as in David Gassner's tutorials, in my own ColdFusion books I introduce CFCs very early, and make them very usable and without adding complexity. You are probably going to get quite a few responses to this

RE: Duplicates in Arrays or Lists

2008-01-30 Thread Ben Forta
And in general, don't use lists for large amounts of data. A list with 15,000 elements is generally not a good idea at all. Remember, lists are not a true type (like arrays are, for example). A list is a string, and extracting values, or traversing the list, or manipulating it in any way, requires

RE: CF8 and IPv6

2008-01-29 Thread Ben Forta
Yes, CF8 does support IPv6 for debugging IP addresses. CF7 does have some IPv6 support, but (if I remember correctly)) not for debugging addresses. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Brian Kotek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:08 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re:

RE: CFIMAGE- stacking images

2008-01-29 Thread Ben Forta
ImageNew() to create a new blank image. ImageRead() and ImagePaste() to paste first image, then another ImageNew() and ImagePaste() setting the x and y so that it is where you want it relative to first image. Or just take all of that and make a ImageAppend() function that dos it for you. --- Ben

RE: CFIMAGE- stacking images

2008-01-29 Thread Ben Forta
(resultImage, img1, 0, 0) !--- Paste second image --- cfset ImagePaste(resultImage, img2, img2x, img2y) cfreturn resultImage /cffunction -Original Message- From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:18 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFIMAGE

RE: Adobe ColdFusion IDE survey

2008-01-07 Thread Ben Forta
Todd, You are jumping to conclusions. No one has said that we'll not do what you are suggestions. Actually, at this point no one has said anything at all, other than A) a CF IDE ranks as one of the top feature requests, B) we'd like more input from the community to help drove decision making.

RE: Adobe ColdFusion IDE survey

2008-01-07 Thread Ben Forta
Claude, To be brutally blunt, that's far too expensive an option. CF Studio (and HomeSite) are built in a language that is used for almost nothing else in the company, and keeping a team of Delphi developers on just for that product is hard to justify. Plus, the reality is that we've done nothing

RE: Adobe ColdFusion IDE survey

2008-01-07 Thread Ben Forta
. Anyway I know I can dream :-) On 1/8/08, Ben Forta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd, You are jumping to conclusions. No one has said that we'll not do what you are suggestions. Actually, at this point no one has said anything at all, other than A) a CF IDE ranks as one of the top feature requests

RE: Adobe ColdFusion IDE survey

2008-01-07 Thread Ben Forta
was asking for Coldfusion itself to be free. And I would pay for the IDE :-) On 1/8/08, Ben Forta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, free is a valid option, which is why it is listed there! :-) --- Ben -Original Message- From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January

RE: Adobe ColdFusion IDE survey

2008-01-07 Thread Ben Forta
I am not sure that we have really definitive numbers. But, the last time we did some analysis, about 75% of CF servers were running on Windows, and the number of ColdFusion developers who developed on Windows was even higher than that, a lot higher. Having said that, multi-platform is indeed

RE: Adobe ColdFusion IDE survey

2008-01-07 Thread Ben Forta
Larry, Yep, there were lots of Macs. And in fact, the entire evangelism team use Macs, with only two exceptions (one of whom is yours truly). But keep in mind that CFUnited appeals to the high end ColdFusion developers, and the demographic present at that event is absolutely not indicative of the

RE: Select different records based on user input.

2007-12-27 Thread Ben Forta
Do you want to OR or AND those fields? If OR, the SQL IN clause lets you specify a list if values, something like WHERE key IN (117,123,141). So, if #cb# is the field with the list you can do WHERE key IN (#cb#). If AND, then just loop through the list and AND conditions. -- Ben

RE: FCKEditor Integration with CF8 for cftextarea use

2007-12-27 Thread Ben Forta
Actually, DBML was used in Cold Fusion 1.x only. It became CFML in Cold Fusion 2, at the same time that CGI was replaced as the default interface in favor of WSAPI and then NSAPI (ISAPI came much later). And here's a fun fact for you. The old DBML syntax was supported for many more versions,

RE: What is happening to my request variables?

2007-12-17 Thread Ben Forta
You should not be creating the REQUEST structure with StructNew(), REQUEST is already there, just assign the variables. And generally you want to define APPLICATION variables in OnApplicationStart and SESSION in OnSessionStart. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner

RE: To AIR or not to AIR?

2007-12-14 Thread Ben Forta
AIR apps are indeed desktop apps. But most AIR apps also need back-end integration (to get to data, send e-mail, authenticate logins ... everything CF is used for). And ColdFusion can indeed be the back-end for an AIR app, allowing communication via Web Services, Flash Remoting, as well as via

RE: Coldfusion Consuming a .Net Control

2007-11-27 Thread Ben Forta
Actually, that won't work. CF8 can consume .NET classes etc. You have access to the .NET framework and any .NET code you write yourself. But CF cannot use ASP.NET controls. I see that Vince also responded, and he is correct. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Coldfusion Consuming a .Net Control

2007-11-27 Thread Ben Forta
. :) -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer SSTWebworks 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC. 27616 (703) 220-2835 http://www.sstwebworks.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/sstwebworks Boycott Sys-Con http://www.sstwebworks.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/16/Boycotting-SysCon -Original Message- From: Ben Forta

RE: sms

2007-11-12 Thread Ben Forta
Yes, you need an account with a provider, and ColdFusion essentially logs in to the network as if it were a phone or a device. See this post for some links: http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=A61BC261-3048-80A9-EFAA F627F9FBAB1E --- Ben -Original Message- From: Chad

RE: Stop View Source

2007-10-19 Thread Ben Forta
Do you mean the browser view source option, where the client-side code (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc.) can be seen? If so, then yes, there is one way and one way only to prevent the source from being seen - simply disconnect your web server from the Internet. Other than that, no. --- Ben

RE: Galleon page

2007-10-16 Thread Ben Forta
Just to be fair to Ray, it was not his problem. I moved DNS between servers, and some of the changes talk longer to propagate than others. But, all seems to be working now. Sorry about this guys. --- Ben -Original Message- From: mac jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: OT Sys-con at it again

2007-10-12 Thread Ben Forta
Oh, I couldn't help myself. :-) No links, but ... http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/12/A-Moment-Of-Silence-For- --- Ben -Original Message- From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:51 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT Sys-con at it again Yep

RE: OT Sys-con at it again

2007-10-12 Thread Ben Forta
Yep, I am not responding on my blog either. I don't want to give them the traffic. But Jason Delmore did respond ... http://www.cfinsider.com/index.cfm/2007/10/12/Is-Adobe-Officially-killing-Co ldFusion --- Ben -Original Message- From: Ryan, Terrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Exporting from ColdFuion to a Excel file

2007-10-11 Thread Ben Forta
Or, if the data is query data, use cfreport which can output to Excel. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Exporting from ColdFuion to a Excel file cfcontent

RE: Security Questions

2007-09-24 Thread Ben Forta
If what they want is to separate ColdFusion from the web server, then sure, it is called distributed mode. While I am not sure I buy into the assumption that this is more secure, it will do exactly what they want. So, yes, CF can do, and has done it for years. --- Ben -Original Message-

RE: cf8 book by Ben Forta - release date?

2007-09-20 Thread Ben Forta
- From: Scott Slone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: cf8 book by Ben Forta - release date? Amazon had my ship date for volume one as Sept. 17 until this morning, when they changed it to: Updated Shipping Estimate: November 19, 2007 Two

RE: cf8 book by Ben Forta - release date?

2007-09-16 Thread Ben Forta
No, I don't have copies to sell. But I am talking to the publisher and Amazon about getting these dates cleared up. --- Ben -Original Message- From: Scott Weikert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:37 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: cf8 book by Ben Forta

RE: cf8 book by Ben Forta - release date?

2007-09-16 Thread Ben Forta
Working on that. --- Ben -Original Message- From: DataPacks.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: cf8 book by Ben Forta - release date? Hey Ben, will there be a package price for buying all three when they're all released

RE: cf8 book by Ben Forta - release date?

2007-09-12 Thread Ben Forta
Volume 1 is indeed shipping. Volumes 2 and 3 to follow shortly. --- Ben -Original Message- From: David Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:33 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: cf8 book by Ben Forta - release date? Amazon had the date as being today but I

RE: CF8

2007-08-15 Thread Ben Forta
Um, it sounds like you are asking whether or not you'd get away with installing the same license on two boxes. ahem If you don't want to buy two licenses, but need two servers, you may want to install CF on top of JRun (on a single box) but create two different instances. The license does indeed

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