Re: Remove all CF comments

2012-03-01 Thread James Holmes
This is why we pair program. Eventually everyone on the team has seen each bit of code in the app (or at least most of it) and when new people come along they get to sit with someone who knows the app well and can reinforce the design expressed in the tests. Regardless of skill level they can

Re: Remove all CF comments

2012-03-01 Thread James Holmes
I don't see why you care... -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 1 March 2012 22:30, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: I just don't see why that's the hill you want to die on. ~| Order the

Re: Remove all CF comments

2012-03-01 Thread James Holmes
Read the tests. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 1 March 2012 22:33, Michael Stemle themanchic...@gmail.com wrote: So what do you do ten years later when nobody on the team was there when the code was written?

Re: Remove all CF comments

2012-03-01 Thread James Holmes
That's misrepresenting the thread. This is more accurate: Me: Don't use comments, use tests. Cutter: Noobs can't read tests Me: That's why we pair program. Michael: What do *you* do if all the developers who worked on the project are long gone? You: Read the tests. (implication; I'm not a noob).

Re: Remove all CF comments

2012-02-28 Thread James Holmes
Try TDD. The unit tests express the design for the code; comments are therefore unnecessary. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 28 February 2012 22:04, Raymond Camden raymondcam...@gmail.com wrote: When you arrive in Heaven with all the perfect code,please send

Re: Remove all CF comments

2012-02-28 Thread James Holmes
Really good tests and self explanatory code do exactly that. Any code that isn't self explanatory is too complex and needs to be re-factored. Code that's so obscure that it needs a comment is silliness. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 28 February 2012 23:32,

Re: how deeply nested are your code comments?

2012-02-28 Thread James Holmes
Yes, I've seen code commented out with commented out code in it. Steps to fix: 1) Commit to Git 2) Delete everything that's been commented out. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 29 February 2012 01:03, Michael Dinowitz mdino...@houseoffusion.comwrote: I know

Re: Remove all CF comments

2012-02-28 Thread James Holmes
Those using comments to plan code probably don't have any tests. Tests are essential to allow re-factoring with confidence; comments don't provide that benefit. This is not a religious belief, it's something that can be demonstrated the first time you want to maintain a 1500 line file and all

Re: Remove all CF comments

2012-02-28 Thread James Holmes
, useful, and absolutely vital to modern development practice... but they are a poor substitute for documentation or debuggers. -- ~ Mike Stemle, Jr. On Feb 28, 2012, at 19:36, James Holmes james.hol...@gmail.com wrote: Those using comments to plan code probably don't have any tests. Tests

Re: Remove all CF comments

2012-02-28 Thread James Holmes
I should also have added, tests *are* the documentation. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 29 February 2012 09:48, Michael Stemle themanchic...@gmail.com wrote: Tests are great, useful, and absolutely vital to modern development practice... but they are a poor

Re: Session variables not working

2012-02-27 Thread James Holmes
Actually, a cfapplication tag will work fine outside of Application.cfm so technically this isn't true. Of course it makes sense to use Application.cfm or Application.cfc. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 28 February 2012 04:36, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk

Re: CF attack on a buddies server

2012-02-23 Thread James Holmes
This would confirm which patches are missing: http://www.hackmycf.com/ -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 24 February 2012 02:46, Pete Freitag p...@foundeo.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Ras Tafari rastaf...@gmail.com wrote: any idea how they

Re: CFScript Book

2012-02-21 Thread James Holmes
Well, nobody's better off writing in Java, but C# would be an alternative. On Wednesday, February 22, 2012, Russ Michaels wrote: cfscript to many defeats the who point of why they chose cf in the first place, because it was a html like easy to learn tag based language. When you go down the

Re: SOT: Eclipse RDS to VivioTech stuck at Contacting Server

2012-02-18 Thread James Holmes
My first guess is that the server's firewall rules are blocking RDP. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 18 February 2012 16:41, Michael E. Carluen mecarl...@gmail.com wrote: I am finally moving from Homesite to Eclipse. I installed

Re: SOT: Eclipse RDS to VivioTech stuck at Contacting Server

2012-02-18 Thread James Holmes
Ah sorry, misread. RDS (not RDP) communicates via port 80, so that's not likely the issue. However, I might add that enabling RDS for a production server is an incredibly bad idea. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 18 February 2012 16:48, James Holmes james.hol

Re: Accessing the Application Scope of another App

2012-02-08 Thread James Holmes
Did you know you can just write a new cfapplication tag to swap to the other app, delete the key and then swap back again with a subsequent cfapplication tag? -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 9 February 2012 04:13, Brook Davies cft...@logiforms.com wrote: Hi,

Re: New computer set up

2012-02-04 Thread James Holmes
Just email coldfusionbuil...@freeriatools.adobe.com and let them know what's happened. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 5 February 2012 13:08, Steven Durette sdure...@prodigy.net wrote: Thanks for the idea, but I am a student and this is a

Re: Opinion: Abuse of session variables

2012-02-01 Thread James Holmes
Race conditions in session variables can only occur when two requests from the same session execute concurrently. This is more likely with ajax requests or framesets. Since everyone uses ajax requests these days (even though no-one uses framesets any more), it is still an issue, as you say. --

Re: opencfsummit.org may have saved my job

2012-01-07 Thread James Holmes
As an aside, if a client wants to cut costs they can always go with Railo, into which they can port CF code almost as-is. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 7 January 2012 20:39, Donna Bing bingdo...@ymail.com wrote: Hi all! I asked about this conference

Re: XML! Aaargh! How do I do this?

2012-01-01 Thread James Holmes
Try searching directly for the modelName: cfset result = xmlSearch(xmllennox-products,//modelName) Dump that result to see how to get the name. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 2 January 2012 09:18, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: At this

Re: XML! Aaargh! How do I do this?

2012-01-01 Thread James Holmes
BTW, the issue with the existing code is this: xmllennox-products CF thinks you are trying to do maths on xmllennox and products by subtracting one from the other. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 2 January 2012 10:10, James Holmes james.hol...@gmail.com

Re: XML! Aaargh! How do I do this?

2011-12-30 Thread James Holmes
If you are just after products, you can dramatically simplify the code by using xmlsearch() to get them with xpath instead of manually looping multiple levels down. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 31 December 2011 08:50, Justin Scott leviat...@darktech.org

Re: Converting scientific notation to pure numeric

2011-11-26 Thread James Holmes
Try removing the space between the E and the exponent, or replacing it with + -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 26 November 2011 15:30, Mike Kear afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having a brain fade at the moment, or perhaps it's a senior moment.Hopefully

Re: Adobe drops Flsh for mobile devices

2011-11-11 Thread James Holmes
Sure - on CF Community. This is a technical mailing list, not Oprah. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 12 November 2011 08:16, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: I don't know, Wil, I think that the topic of tone and tenor of responses to mailing lists

Re: CF in the news

2011-10-21 Thread James Holmes
Either bad reporting or the politician involved is a lunatic. How is the logging portion of ColdBox supposed to track all internet users' activity? -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 21 October 2011 23:32, John M Bliss bliss.j...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting:

Re: Shouldn't these statements work?

2011-10-15 Thread James Holmes
Also not a word. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 15 October 2011 17:58, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: dictionaryophile ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: cfobject dotnet assembly

2011-10-15 Thread James Holmes
You can't create an instance of that class that way. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.web.administration.sitecollection(v=vs.90).aspx says, public sealed class SiteCollection : ConfigurationElementCollectionBaseSite This class is sealed and does not implement a public

Re: Amazingly annoying concurrent CFC variable issue

2011-10-15 Thread James Holmes
I'll bet you didn't var the query as well: cfset var GetRecord = cfquery name=GetRecord datasource=#Application.AppDatasource# SELECT RecordID,RecordTitle FROM Records WHERE RecordID = cfqueryparam value=#arguments.RecordID# cfsqltype=CF_SQL_NUMERIC /cfquery Using the local scope (as others

Re: encrypted files

2011-10-10 Thread James Holmes
Don't do anything else without your lawyer going over the original contract under which the software was supplied. The original devs may be correct and for all you know your current clients may be attempting to have you violate copyright. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog

Re: detecting mobile devices

2011-10-04 Thread James Holmes
Yes: use WURFL. This might be useful: http://cfwurfl.riaforge.org/ -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 4 October 2011 22:20, Don danfar...@hotmail.com wrote: We have a requirement to 'detect mobile devices'. ... are there any recommendations.

Re: WSDL 404 Error

2011-09-24 Thread James Holmes
Back on our old CF servers (6 or 7, I can no longer remember) we needed to create a mapping that matched the physical path to fix this issue. So if our cfc was in http://mydomain.com/some_folder/hello.cfc, we needed to create a CF admin mapping for /some_folder/ to the physical path. -- Shu Ha

Re: CF Standard License

2011-09-23 Thread James Holmes
Have you considered Railo? Its pricing is really, really competitive. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 24 September 2011 01:45, Richard White rich...@j7is.co.uk wrote: Hi, Am i right in understanding that the only places to get CF9 Standard licenses are

Re: *OT* CVS for NT

2011-09-09 Thread James Holmes
Consider Git with TortoiseGit as well. Git has made our lives better than they were while using SVN. -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 9 September 2011 21:51, Greg Morphis gmorp...@gmail.com wrote: Okay cool, I'll install SVN on our dev server and see how it

Re: Workstation recommendations

2011-09-07 Thread James Holmes
You know the hardware has absolutely nothing to do with getting a virus, right? -- Shu Ha Ri: Agile and .NET blog http://www.bifrost.com.au/ On 8 September 2011 09:28, Peter Donahue pdonah...@satx.rr.com wrote: Good evening everyone, This past week must have been computer-workstation

Re: How do you compose your dev teams?

2011-09-03 Thread James Holmes
You mentioned that all of your team are remote workers, right? Distributed Agile is painful. Latitude hurts and longitude kills. This is really good advice: http://agileinaflash.blogspot.com/2011/04/rules-for-distributed-teams.html Agile is hard enough to introduce when everyone is in the same

Re: Problem with pound signs

2011-08-23 Thread James Holmes
Alternatively, set the the outgoing mail's failto address to a different mailbox, so you know that all mail going to that box is a failure. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 23 August 2011 20:07, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: yes but auto

Re: Developer edition not recognizing 9.01

2011-08-09 Thread James Holmes
Which executable did you run: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/coldfusion/updates/901/ColdFusion_update_901_WWEJ_win.exe or http://download.macromedia.com/pub/coldfusion/updates/901/ColdFusion_update_901_WWEJ_win64.exe -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/

Re: Method Opinion

2011-08-01 Thread James Holmes
Avoid the delimited list idea; it always bites you on the arse eventually. Use the first option. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 1 August 2011 21:46, Robert Harrison rob...@austin-williams.com wrote: Curious as to what you all think is the best method

Re: Method Opinion

2011-08-01 Thread James Holmes
And I was almost going to say, but Claude will post that a delimited list is a great idea to save you the trouble. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 2 August 2011 02:43, wrote: A cross table is definitely THE standard way to do it. Although it is not

Re: Method Opinion

2011-08-01 Thread James Holmes
I'm not sure how your religious prejudices come into this, but whatever. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 2 August 2011 08:08, wrote: I just hate ayatollahs ~| Order the Adobe

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread James Holmes
I guess when Google+ finally destroys Facebook, the same open source tools he's glorifying will have caused that failure. Regardless, Myspace hasn't run on CF for a long time (as suggested, they migrated to .NET via BlueDragon ages ago). Myspace failed because it was full of ugly sites with

Re: Passing a Ref_cursor to Oracle Stored procedure

2011-07-22 Thread James Holmes
The short answer is that you can't do this from CF. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 23 July 2011 00:09, Dave Smith cyl...@yahoo.com wrote: Has anyone ever passed a cf_sql_refcursor as an IN param to an oracle stored proc?  I am getting the following

Re: Iphone app

2011-06-29 Thread James Holmes
One free alternative is Sencha Touch (http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/), but I'd probably try to stick with jQuery Mobile too. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 29 June 2011 22:47, Al Musella, DPM muse...@virtualtrials.com wrote: Hi  I need to

Re: CF vs. Java Web Developer

2011-06-25 Thread James Holmes
Anyone who wants to fix the problem of distracted programmers in the office should try Pair Programming. http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 25 June 2011 02:10, Aaron Rouse aaron.ro...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: application.cfm

2011-06-25 Thread James Holmes
No. Happy now? -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 26 June 2011 07:19, wrote: My question was is it possible to get around this. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: So to flog the preverbial undead horse

2011-06-14 Thread James Holmes
As far as I can tell, when a larger entity swaps away from CF it's generally in favour of C# on .NET. My employer and a few of the larger dev shops I talked with have been making this move. If you're spending time on .NET, I suggest getting into MVC3 and sticking with C#. -- WSS4CF -

Re: Debugging SOAP

2011-05-24 Thread James Holmes
One issue the OP faces is that the traffic is HTTPS. The request will have to change to HTTP before anything useful will show up. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 24 May 2011 16:14, Jochem van Dieten joch...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at

Re: Debugging SOAP

2011-05-24 Thread James Holmes
SSL is designed to stop you doing exactly that. You would need to send your request to a proxy that has a spoofed certificate, all of which is a pain to organise. On Tuesday, 24 May 2011, Robert Rhodes rrhode...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that is the case.  And all my attempts so for to view the

Re: Debugging SOAP

2011-05-24 Thread James Holmes
-- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 24 May 2011 22:07, Brook Davies cft...@logiforms.com wrote: I use Fiddler (http://www.fiddler2.com/Fiddler2/version.asp ) for debugging web service calls and it can dump the raw XML request/response and allows you to

Re: Debugging SOAP

2011-05-24 Thread James Holmes
Yes, the fiddler proxy is worth a shot. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 24 May 2011 22:07, Brook Davies cft...@logiforms.com wrote: I use Fiddler (http://www.fiddler2.com/Fiddler2/version.asp ) for debugging web service calls and it can dump the raw

Re: SQL Quandary

2011-05-22 Thread James Holmes
Why not just add the subquery in as part of the where clause for each type of record you want? On Monday, 23 May 2011, Jenny Gavin-Wear jenn...@fasttrackonline.co.uk wrote: Thanks Russ, I agree, I can't see a way around it using CASE or JOINS. -- -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF

Re: SQL Quandary

2011-05-22 Thread James Holmes
It can be. Taking your last example: IF (SELECT checkProjected FROM tbl_Params WHERE siteID = 1) = 1 select projected from tbl_stockItems where projected 10 else select projected from tbl_stockItems where projected 10 This can be written as: select projected from tbl_stockItems where (

Re: ColdFusion and AJAX choices

2011-05-19 Thread James Holmes
1) It's 90k minified 2) Those 10 lines will inevitably be 1 line of jQuery 3) Those 10 lines will work in your favourite browser; then you find that IE x has some quirk you didn't count on, etc 4) You and Claude S will best friends, I can tell -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF

Re: ColdFusion and AJAX choices

2011-05-17 Thread James Holmes
Yes; ignore everything in that list and use jQuery. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 17 May 2011 23:50, Darius Florczyk dar...@cybermash.com wrote: Hi, I need to add AJAX functionality in a new project and wondering if anyone had any recommendations

Re: Ack! CF9 pages not serving pages on IIS7.5 (404.3 error)

2011-05-12 Thread James Holmes
On 13 May 2011 13:08, Robert Rhodes rrhode...@gmail.com wrote: There just has to be a decent workaround for this problem. There is: http://projects.apache.org/projects/http_server.html ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology

Re: Migrating a DB from MS SQL 2000 into MySQL latest release

2011-05-11 Thread James Holmes
Works for me. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 11 May 2011 11:26, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: You could always both swap to a real database: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/express-edition/overview/index.html Your DB2 link is

Re: Migrating a DB from MS SQL 2000 into MySQL latest release

2011-05-11 Thread James Holmes
No. Not all DB's are equal just because they all run SQL. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 11 May 2011 10:45, Maureen mamamaur...@gmail.com wrote: They are all real databases.  The majority of  the problems that website databases have are caused by

Re: Migrating a DB from MS SQL 2000 into MySQL latest release

2011-05-10 Thread James Holmes
Or like this: http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=ms+sql+express+corrupt+tables -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 10 May 2011 22:31, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: The common problems and issues can be googled, like this

Re: Migrating a DB from MS SQL 2000 into MySQL latest release

2011-05-10 Thread James Holmes
You could always both swap to a real database: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/express-edition/overview/index.html :-O -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 11 May 2011 08:51, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: lol, of course not :-) We

Re: Bless cfqueryparam - helped defend against a persistent hack attempt

2011-05-02 Thread James Holmes
Sure, your MS Access DB doesn't cache execution plans, but real databases do. On Tuesday, 3 May 2011, wrote:  cfqueryparam creates bound sql parameters, which improve query performance. This is purely theoretical, in practice, the gain in performance is neglectible. I prefer have a

Re: Any secure data transfer methods avaiable for very large files?

2011-04-24 Thread James Holmes
It doesn't have to be expensive: http://openvpn.net/ -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org On 24 April 2011 10:25, Jenny Gavin-Wear jenn...@fasttrackonline.co.uk wrote: It is unlikely to be a cheap solution, but it will have the potential to be a robust and

Re: GeoTrust SSL importing cert to server store doesn't help

2011-04-12 Thread James Holmes
Yes. Vist the URL for the test site in your browser and view the cert details. Go to the certification path and you'll see it's a chained cert with two CAs in the path. You need to export both of them from your browser and then bring both into the CA keystore with keytool. -- WSS4CF -

Re: GeoTrust SSL importing cert to server store doesn't help

2011-04-12 Thread James Holmes
for the quick response! Yes. Is that a yes because its a new fancy certificate, or I need all the certs? When I look at the hierarchy, there are 3 each with different serials. Do I need just the two geotrust ones, or the securepay one too? On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:01 PM, James Holmes

Re: I hate CFScript and I'm willing to pay for a CFScript -- CFtag parser

2011-04-09 Thread James Holmes
That is the greatest thing ever. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 9 April 2011 04:55, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Start here, Michael: http://www.pcworld.com/article/224722/new_commodore_64_is_finally_herefor_real.html

Re: 9.01 updater - the nightmare relived

2011-03-25 Thread James Holmes
On 25 March 2011 23:48, Dan Baughman dan.baugh...@gmail.com wrote: The tag handler application does not have a setter for the attribute datasource specified in the Tag Library Descriptor. Does anyone have the final solution/fix for this? http://www.getrailo.org/

Re: coldfusion service stop rsponding or CPU goes up tp 100%

2011-03-22 Thread James Holmes
Your perm size is way too small for a heap of 4GB (assuming you use a good portion of that heap). Check the logs for error messages just before the service locks up and you'll probably see out of memory errors. If so, make the perm size larger. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF

Re: ColdFusion 9 Enterprise Features

2011-03-21 Thread James Holmes
http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/editions/ -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 21 March 2011 17:15, Richard White rich...@j7is.co.uk wrote: Hi, I am assuming it means i am getting a bit rusty at searching the web, but i cannot seem to find

Re: Application.applicaitonName not avialable in a webservice.

2011-03-12 Thread James Holmes
On 12 March 2011 06:51, Bobby Hartsfield bo...@acoderslife.com wrote: The problem I have run into is that application scope (and thus application.applicationName) is not available from within the webservice. Why not? Is the webservice CFC not part of the same directory structure that has your

Re: Database Lookup - Possible with CF?

2011-03-03 Thread James Holmes
(Apologies for going off topic) Forget MVC2 - MVC3 is far more flexible and has made a lot of improvements. In the long run, getting up to date with MVC3 now is going to be worth it. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 3 March 2011 19:11, Ian Vaughan

Re: Storing decimal parts of a second cfqueryparam

2011-02-28 Thread James Holmes
You need to set the scale attribute in the cfqueryparam tag. http://cfquickdocs.com/cf9/?getDoc=cfqueryparam -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 1 March 2011 10:43, Pete Ruckelshaus pruckelsh...@gmail.com wrote: Primarily because it's easier and more

Re: Re: Change in ColdFusion management

2011-02-15 Thread James Holmes
Well, here's Adam's promotion: http://www.adrocknaphobia.com/post.cfm/i-lvl-d-up-flash-builder-product-manager I'll leave it to others to decide if they are in the wrong job. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 16 February 2011 02:17, Russ Michaels

Re: Re: Change in ColdFusion management

2011-02-14 Thread James Holmes
For the many CF customers outside of the US, these positions have always been offshore. Time to join the rest of us on the planet. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 15 February 2011 11:52, cft...@fusionlink.com wrote: I did use the word offshore,

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread James Holmes
Not many, in my employer's case. Now I'm a .NET developer. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 14 January 2011 22:06, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: How many times does a company have to look for CF devs and not find any before they

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-13 Thread James Holmes
Railo. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 14 January 2011 09:03, Charlie Griefer charlie.grie...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, but PHP, Ruby and other languages don't have an up front cost associated with them.

Re: Accessing Specific CF8 Instances

2011-01-05 Thread James Holmes
You can access the administrator for a particular instance using the internal JRun webserver port. If you want to get to your apps on a particular instance you'll have to manipulate cookies (assuming you're using sticky sessions) so that the session ID starts with the the correct prefix for the

Re: CF8 Administrator's Debugging Options

2011-01-04 Thread James Holmes
Visitors to your production server should never see the raw exception information, robust or not. Debugging should also be turned off on a production server. Create a custom exception handler template that either displays to you the necessary info based on IP address or alternatively sends to

Re: What Notable Differences are there between Railo, Open Bluedragon, and Adobe Coldfusion? [Stackoverflow.com]

2010-12-20 Thread James Holmes
http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/documentation/compatibility/cfml-compatibility/ -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 21 December 2010 01:20, wrote: The least would be some good docs about what's in CF and is not in Railo, and vice versa.

Re: how to mail merge in coldfusion

2010-12-10 Thread James Holmes
clfock can be used for any shared resource where access needs to be synchronised (e.g. files, search collections etc). -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 10 December 2010 06:36, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: It looks to me like you keep overwriting

Re: how to mail merge in coldfusion

2010-12-10 Thread James Holmes
*cflock (my typing sucks). -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 10 December 2010 18:32, James Holmes james.hol...@gmail.com wrote: clfock can be used for any shared resource where access needs to be synchronised (e.g. files, search collections etc

Re: lost cf server mx disc

2010-11-30 Thread James Holmes
People can also use Railo for free and get more functionality than a CF 6.x release. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 30 November 2010 22:23, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: That said, why did you purchase such an old version? The latest version

Re: function parameters problem

2010-11-23 Thread James Holmes
In other words, call your own function something other than insert because that's already the name of a CF function. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 23 November 2010 16:49, Maureen mamamaur...@gmail.com wrote: The error not with your arguments.  It is

Re: CFCs for AJAX

2010-11-16 Thread James Holmes
Create a proxy (or facade) object that you can call via AJAX. In this object you can access the instantiated objects that are in the session or application scope. As long as you know that only this one proxy object accesses those scopes directly (and in fact that's its purpose) then you won't run

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-13 Thread James Holmes
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WS61C07B60-3D65-4d71-8F2A-8411D8010E60.html -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 13 November 2010 20:19, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: This new function -Original Message- From:

Re: Where to put your code

2010-11-13 Thread James Holmes
as smart/ingenious/resourceful/creative (and of course, the flip side dumb, foolish, flawed etc) as they were since the beginning of recorded history. We just stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. G! On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:05 PM, James Holmes james.hol...@gmail.comwrote: I'd

Re: Where to put your code

2010-11-13 Thread James Holmes
at 12:02 AM, James Holmes james.hol...@gmail.comwrote: When was the last time you wrote a web app with a flint ax ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag

Re: Coldfusion and Jquery UI Dialog

2010-11-13 Thread James Holmes
Have you tried putting method=post on the form (and an action of it's supposed to go somewhere else)? form id=dialog-form title=Login method=post action=login_page_here.cfm -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 14 November 2010 10:58, fun and learning

Re: Where to put your code

2010-11-12 Thread James Holmes
Why not create the CFC in the application scope to cache it in RAM? -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 13 November 2010 06:22, Mike Chabot mcha...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer using include files and caching common functions in RAM when the application

Re: Where to put your code

2010-11-12 Thread James Holmes
I'd argue that CF didn't allow for well written applications before CFCs came along. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 13 November 2010 02:16, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: Functions existed well before CFCs - does that mean that well-written

Re: Working with cfqueryparam

2010-11-12 Thread James Holmes
In this; cfqueryparam cfsqltype=cf_sql_date value=#CreateODBCDateTime(Now())#/ CreateODBCDateTime() is unnecessary. Also; cfqueryparam cfsqltype=cf_sql_integer value=#Trim(FORM.Contributed)# null=#IIF(Trim(FORM.Contributed) EQ '', true, false)# can be reduced to this cfqueryparam

Re: Best Way to Trap SQL Error

2010-11-08 Thread James Holmes
Have you tried cftry/cfcatch? -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 8 November 2010 23:07, Rick Colman rcol...@cox.net wrote: What is the best way to gracefully trap this sort of error ... Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC

Re: Oracle 11g Upgrade Unable to select from CLOB datatype

2010-11-05 Thread James Holmes
Which version of CF are you using? -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 5 November 2010 15:50, Noveta Wimbley noveta.wimb...@sjcd.edu wrote: We have just upgraded from Oracle 10g to 11g. Now we have an application that will not select from clob datatype

Re: Oracle 11g Upgrade Unable to select from CLOB datatype

2010-11-05 Thread James Holmes
CF8 doesn't support Oracle 11G, so you may be out of luck getting any official resolution. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 5 November 2010 21:24, Wimbley, Noveta noveta.wimb...@sjcd.edu wrote: CF8 -Original Message- From: James Holmes

Re: Installation Instructions Coldfusion Enterprise 9

2010-10-25 Thread James Holmes
Well, that's just wonderful help from Adobe. It's like they've just given up on person-to-person support. The install guide is here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Installing/index.html. Your install method is about right too - download it and then put in your Serial Number. You'll

Re: CF (8.0.0) performance vs PHP (5)

2010-10-17 Thread James Holmes
If you're appending text line by line to a memory variable, you're probably having issues relating to java strings being immutable. If you're appending to a file each time, that's probably slowing you down. Try the loop without writing any strings out and see what the difference is. If that's

Re: cfdocument text cuts off at page break

2010-10-15 Thread James Holmes
I'll +1 flying saucer. I've just implemented it using JavaLoader (the iText version required clashes with that on CF8) and it works well (better than cfdocument). -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 15 October 2010 09:37, denstar valliants...@gmail.com

Re: Detecting Mobile Devices

2010-10-13 Thread James Holmes
Try WURFL: http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 13 October 2010 21:16, Steve LaBadie slaba...@po-box.esu.edu wrote: I have just finished the development of a mobile site for our university. I have placed a redirect script on

Re: Uploading photos to Facebook - ColdFusion REST API

2010-10-10 Thread James Holmes
Perhaps Facebook is looking for the params in form variables rather than the URL since it's a post? -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 10 October 2010 18:59, David Six david.six...@gmail.com wrote: cfhttp

Re: report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-07 Thread James Holmes
Is the cf reporting feature not suitable? -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 7 October 2010 20:25, Richard White rich...@j7is.co.uk wrote: Hi, we would like to include a feature into our software that allows users to create any report they like to

Re: Beta Testers Wanted - TrafficMunkey - A New CF Framework

2010-10-05 Thread James Holmes
Ah, free as in beer but not free as in speech. Yeah, I'll stick to FOSS or pay for a commercial license, thanks. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 5 October 2010 18:04, Peter Boughton bought...@gmail.com wrote: I went to go take a look at it, and got

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

2010-10-04 Thread James Holmes
Are you using select * to get the records? If so, get rid of that and name the select columns from p. select p.area, p.bedrooms, p.bathrooms from ... etc -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 4 October 2010 11:28, Rick Faircloth ric...@whitestonemedia.com

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