RE: Mass Email Solution

2002-07-17 Thread James Maltby
We've been sending a regular newsletter (about 3k html each mail) to 13,000 members via cfmail (on v.5.x server) - no probs with it - but chunk the main into about 3,000 mails at a time and include a requesttimeout=2000 scope at the end of your calling page (if you are using one) as the mails

RE: Mass Email Solution

2002-07-17 Thread James Maltby
, 2002 17:09 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Mass Email Solution No probs but the only thing I noticed was that it took quite a while for all the mails to be sent -Original Message- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 July 2002 17:06 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Mass Email Solution

RE: help

2002-06-26 Thread James Maltby
Which emergency service do you require? -Original Message- From: Dave Babbitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:23 To: CF-Talk Subject: help help FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives:

RE: Admin Icons

2002-06-26 Thread James Maltby
We can design you some! :) J (email me off list if you want some...) -Original Message- From: Brad Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 17:11 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Admin Icons Does anyone know where I can get some decent looking (WinXP maybe) icons for

RE: AOL Problems

2002-06-21 Thread James Maltby
AOL used Motzilla engine aka nutscrape, altho the latest version I dunno -Original Message- From: Adrian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 17:32 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: AOL Problems I thought AOL used IE? -Original Message- From: Randell B

RE: AOL Problems

2002-06-21 Thread James Maltby
Actually check out this site - may be of some help: http://webmaster.info.aol.com/ J -Original Message- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 17:46 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: AOL Problems AOL used Motzilla engine aka nutscrape, altho the latest

RE: XML output

2002-05-30 Thread James Maltby
Yup - your browser will only do this if it has the extension .xml -Original Message- From: Andres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 15:56 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: XML output Thanks. It now displays on the browser, but as plain text. The browser still does not

RE: XML output

2002-05-30 Thread James Maltby
that... i've been using the samples given by SOXML v1.6 XML Interface for Allaire's ColdFusion. The example of converting cf to xml is a cfm page and yet it creates the xml code properly. -Original Message- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:55 AM

OT: XML Weather....

2002-05-24 Thread James Maltby
Do any of you fine people know of a free XML European wide weather feed? TIA J __ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics.

RE: Oracle 7 with MX

2002-05-15 Thread James Maltby
Kevan Give Ian an email as he may know the solution to this... It really depends on what version of MX you have I think... J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 09:40 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Oracle 7 with MX Trying to

RE: Macromedia Folks: What are you thinking?

2002-05-07 Thread James Maltby
Christine, Chris makes some valid and mute points please listen to him. To add to his perspective, here is my point of view: As a company owner with over 10 CF developers in the UK and NZ I came to use Cold Fusion back in the day when Nick Bradbury sold HomeSite 2.x to Allaire - and as I was

RE: Editor Woes (was RE: Macromedia Folks: What are you thinking? )

2002-05-07 Thread James Maltby
Yeah, but you got to remember that this list is 80%-90% American! ducks :) J -Original Message- From: Van Vliet, Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 17:29 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Editor Woes (was RE: Macromedia Folks: What are you thinking? ) I thought

RE: Macromedia Folks: What are you thinking?

2002-05-07 Thread James Maltby
the technologies, imagine what we can do with future releases - especially with your feedback. I hope that helps... Christine -Original Message- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:45 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Macromedia Folks: What are you thinking

RE: IIS 5 to Apache

2002-04-29 Thread James Maltby
The key thing you have to remember is that *nix systems are case sensitive, whereas *dose systems are not. Make sure that if you are linking to a page saved as (for example) Index.cfm - that you call it href=Index.cfm as index.cfm will fail. Best to keep all file names lowercase - except

XML to CF parser

2002-04-24 Thread James Maltby
Hi - does anyone know of a good - reliable xml 2 cf parser that will work on *nix based systems? So far have tried seven solutions including soxml (uses COM), cf_XMLParser, cf2xml to name but a few. We need to collect an .xml file from a remote server that holds (on average) 50 news items (over

RE: survey trouble

2002-04-15 Thread James Maltby
What about giving each a letter value = e.g. Strong A = A Agree = B Neutral = C Etc. Then on landing page converting the val via a switch statement into a value and inserting it into the database. cfquery datasource= name= UPDATE table cfswitch expression=#form.val# cfcase value=A SET

RE: survey trouble

2002-04-15 Thread James Maltby
and know how many users voted for each question J -Original Message- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 14:17 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: survey trouble What about giving each a letter value = e.g. Strong A = A Agree = B Neutral = C Etc

RE: CF VS ASP - let the trolling being

2002-04-04 Thread James Maltby
I think you're confusing your Enterprise with your Babylon 5 Andy - CF Express - limited but free, CF Professional - full version but does not allow clustering, CF Enterprise - full version, but also allows clustering and beaming stuff up.. :) J -Original Message- From: Andy Ewings

RE: Run EXE File

2002-03-27 Thread James Maltby
Use cfexecute E.g. CFEXECUTE NAME=C:\WinNT\System32\yourfile.exe /CFEXECUTE HTH J -Original Message- From: romulogomes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 09:31 To: CF-Talk Subject: Run EXE File How can i run an exe file in the server with a CFM page?

RE: Run SHELL

2002-03-27 Thread James Maltby
As far as I am aware cfexecute only runs on NT and UNIX platforms - whether that means Linux I dunno - worth a try I guess - you can use the optional ARGUMENTS syntax to pass command-line arguments to a program, elements of the ARGUMENTS array is copied into a corresponding array of exec()

RE: [SOT] CF on OS X... just venting

2002-03-20 Thread James Maltby
Can you rack-mount those new iMacs? Nope, but if you lick their bases you can stick them to a window! :) J -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 18:38 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: [SOT] CF on OS X... just venting It's more a what

RE: What is the Limit of CFSCHEDULE

2002-03-19 Thread James Maltby
My advice is Don't use it - especially if you are using 4.5 or lower (not sure about CF% tho.) - far better to use the NT scheduler (if it's on NT) or (SQL scheduler) as both rely on the OS system clocks. CFSCHEDULE is flaky at the best of times... J -Original Message- From: John

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-13 Thread James Maltby
LOL! Fair point there! But what's in a name? A coder by any other name would code just a neat! :) J -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 17:58 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

RE: Fusebox pros and cons

2002-03-12 Thread James Maltby
Can open, worms all over the floor! IMHO - Fusebox is a methodology with a lot of dedicated followers - if you come to CF from a coders background it's very rare for you to adopt fusebox (unless you are first taught this way), however if you come to CF from a programmers background you will take

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread James Maltby
Coder = Someone who can work predominately with Mark Up languages Programmer = Someone who can work predominately with lower level languages Just terms we use here when invoicing clients. J -Original Message- From: Matthew R. Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12,

RE: What's the difference between a coder and a programmer??

2002-03-12 Thread James Maltby
Dave, at the end of the day it boils down to semiology - ye may as well call them ducks and dogs - we differ our billing around whether someone could (for example) buy a magazine, install a free dreamweaver trial and build a web page (duck/coder/muppet/whatever) and someone who can write (for

RE: Parsing and combining large files

2002-03-06 Thread James Maltby
CF can - but my guess is you want to use CF as a dash-board to drive MS SQL Stored Procedures (which can handle it)... But that's only a guess... J -Original Message- From: Rosa, Issac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 15:30 To: CF-Talk Subject: Parsing and

RE: suggestion on complicated form design.

2002-03-06 Thread James Maltby
If you need all the fields filled then whatever you do you should enforce entry (handy also to have the old html * next to each required field). How you build the form depends on your target audience - younger users will not want to enter 12 names on one form as it will involve scrolling -

RE: can someone see a problem with this!!!

2002-03-05 Thread James Maltby
Are: mensapparel=#Form.mensapparel#, womensapparel=#Form.womensapparel#, maternity=#Form.maternity#, AccessoriesJewelry=#Form.AccessoriesJewelry#, ChildrenApparel=#Form.ChildrenApparel#, FoodDrink=#Form.FoodDrink#, toysgames=#Form.toysgames#, HomeFurnishings=#Form.HomeFurnishings#,

RE: NT authentication

2002-03-04 Thread James Maltby
OK - you are gonna have to do two things here - the first is to make sure that NT logins are attached to specific IP addresses - so that when a user logs in to their machine there's an NT/IP match. Secondly you will have to create a set-up screen so that the first time they look at the Intranet

RE: someone want to help me?

2002-02-28 Thread James Maltby
Three stage process: 1. secure connection to enter info (card details) - either unique or third party vendor 2. checking system - either unique or third party vendor 3. paying system - either unique or third party vendor The best solution for a simple fix is to go with a third party vendor who

RE: Visual Equation Building

2002-02-28 Thread James Maltby
CF + FLASH would/could work in theory - the visual system would have to have symbols (flash term) for each character/symbol you needed (perhaps with a scrolling up/down sort of fly-wheel system of choosing them) - which could then be dragged and dropped onto a math page - this would trigger an

RE: Color picker?

2002-02-26 Thread James Maltby
I give up - what? So they can co-ordinate their offices? So they can colour their nails? What, what? J -Original Message- From: Kris Pilles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 15:27 To: CF-Talk Subject: Color picker? Anyone out there know a way that I can use

RE: CFQUERYPARAM dbname attribute

2002-02-26 Thread James Maltby
Dunno about most of it, but the sky is blue because it reflects the sea :) J -Original Message- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 17:19 To: CF-Talk Subject: CFQUERYPARAM dbname attribute Hey All, The CF docs seem to be lacking an

RE: Problems with CFGridUpdate

2002-02-18 Thread James Maltby
This may not be a helpful answer but my advice would be to not use CFGID at all, it has always been flaky at the best of times and has always had problems with vars like date/time functions. Best to create a table version of what you want to do and use SPs on the server instead. J

RE: Release Database

2002-02-07 Thread James Maltby
You need to do one of two things: 1) go the cfadmin and to the ODBC connection to your database (Access I am guessing) then turn off the keep connections alive until you are ready to go live with the whole thing. 2) copy the db, paste the copy and append a _a or whatever to the end - then go to

RE: Rendering WAP

2002-01-22 Thread James Maltby
Or you could just use OPERA 5.x plus - they all render wml - it's different (obviously) that an emulator - but it still works. A good emulator/tool is Waptor - with a sort of home-site style wml layout and built in emulator - also IDEs can be got from Motorola, Nokia, Erickson, etc... J

New Kind of Error

2002-01-14 Thread James Maltby
We are getting the following error from one of our sites: Error Diagnostic Information Cannot load template file /xxx/xxx////xxx/index.cfm (removed the path myself) The template file exists, however, it either cannot be opened for reading, or it is

RE: New Kind of Error

2002-01-14 Thread James Maltby
Message- From: Ian Lurie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 January 2002 15:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: New Kind of Error I've seen this one when an FTP fails part way through the upload - ColdFusion is forced to access a partial template. -Original Message- From: James Maltby

RE: New Kind of Error

2002-01-14 Thread James Maltby
if it is encrypted or corrupted? Bryan Stevenson VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. p. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com - Original Message - From: James

RE: New Kind of Error

2002-01-14 Thread James Maltby
time in MS Word (even if it is a HTML file). James Maltby wrote: We are getting the following error from one of our sites: == Error Diagnostic Information Cannot load template file /xxx/xxx////xxx/index.cfm (removed the path myself) The template

RE: Footer

2001-12-18 Thread James Maltby
use OnRequestEnd.cfm - it's like the Application.cfm in that it is the last page always looked for, while the Application.cfm is the first page always looked for. HTH J -Original Message- From: Shahzad Butt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 December 2001 11:25 To: CF-Talk Subject:

RE: Oracle and CF

2001-11-30 Thread James Maltby
. I've yet to venture that direction, but I have to soon. Does CF run on True64? What should I watch for? Dave - Original Message - From: James Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:00 PM Subject: RE: Oracle and CF Talking

RE: Oracle and CF

2001-11-29 Thread James Maltby
There are some probs with SQL syntax and autonumbering, but these should be easy for you (if you are used to ANSI SQL then you have to re-learn some syntax - such as adding schema dot notation before all table calls and creating server-side auto numbering formats and calling them from the code.

RE: Oracle and CF

2001-11-29 Thread James Maltby
. Dave - Original Message - From: James Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:16 PM Subject: RE: Oracle and CF There are some probs with SQL syntax and autonumbering, but these should be easy for you (if you are used to ANSI SQL

RE: BOOKS for XML

2001-11-01 Thread James Maltby
XML BIBLE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 November 2001 14:51 To: CF-Talk Subject: BOOKS for XML any good book for xml? ycc PGI - The Event and Communications Agency Experience. The Difference. http://www.pgi.com GOD BLESS AMERICA !

RE: Greeting Card Script

2001-10-04 Thread James Maltby
Why not write your own? All you need is the following pages/database: Back-end: 1. Database with - id/email/name/message/senderemail/sendername/pic_id View: 2. View page - which is populated by a cfquery to database Choose/Send: 3. Page 1 - choose image - thumbnails of card/s - when thumbnails

RE: Greeting Card Script

2001-10-04 Thread James Maltby
-Talk Subject: Re: Greeting Card Script Easy layout but it'll be a lot of work.. and its not that I mind the work, its the total lack of time to do it.. -- Search the Holy Bible: http://www.bibleclicks.com - Original Message - From: James Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL

RE: VSS

2001-09-24 Thread James Maltby
I thought you had to create a project then right-click on the project and choose source control, etc still there in 5 J -Original Message- From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 September 2001 14:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: VSS I can't seem to find the setting in CF 5

RE: Apache, Coldfusion, PHP

2001-09-20 Thread James Maltby
Yes it is. J -Original Message- From: P Broussard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 September 2001 16:38 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Apache, Coldfusion, PHP Is it possible to run Coldfusion and PHP with Apache at the same time? TIA Phillip

RE: problem with images

2001-09-14 Thread James Maltby
Had a similar problem with cfx_graph recently - got round it by using a java ap instead, but did look into the problem - sometimes the server will lock a file/s in a queue - I created a tool that created a new graph based on variables then updated this as and when, but when you went back to

RE: Message Board Threads confusion

2001-09-07 Thread James Maltby
Hi - you need to get your head around topics, threads and posts matey Topics are the top level - e.g. ColdFusion. Threads are the conversations - e.g. Writing a message board in ColdFusion Posts are the messages based around the thread - e.g. Message Board Thread confusion If you ID the

RE: Checking for NULL

2001-09-06 Thread James Maltby
Depends on your database - some will accept: cfif qQuery.field eq and others will accept cfif qQuery.field eq null HTH J -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 September 2001 15:48 To: CF-Talk Subject: Checking for NULL How do I compare a field

RE: brain far

2001-09-05 Thread James Maltby
What type of field is Venue_City_ID? J -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 September 2001 14:54 To: CF-Talk Subject: brain far Question, I am having a brain fart. I am entering information into a database, and one of the fields takes in a comma

OT: Obtree C3

2001-08-21 Thread James Maltby
Hi - does anyone have any experience and/or knowledge of Obtree's C3 CMS? TIA J ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq

RE: WAY OT: Project Management Tools

2001-08-21 Thread James Maltby
we wrote our own took about 2 weeks J (it's bespoke for our own requirements though - with a project tool, scheduler, QnA Tool, Wireframe Tool and project timesheet) -Original Message- From: Shawn Grover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 August 2001 16:31 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE:

RE: Urgent ! CFHTTP ....Connection Failed

2001-08-07 Thread James Maltby
Jamie - we are working on an out-of-the-box custom tag application that you could just plug-in to your website (using CF) with a subscription to an SMS service centre (it will cost to send per message). If you are interested we could organise a beta test for you... Also, I know that Singapore

RE: CFML-PDF

2001-08-07 Thread James Maltby
There's a custom tag on Allaire that will do this http://devex.allaire.com/developer/gallery/info.cfm?ID=8565C4A3-BA51-11D4-AA B000508B94F380method=Full HTH J -Original Message- From: Simon Whittaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 August 2001 15:42 To: CF-Talk Subject:

RE: default.ida?

2001-08-03 Thread James Maltby
doh! If you didn't have red wormy you'll probably get it now - posting ip's to a chat list - shame on you... ;-) J -Original Message- From: Edward Chanter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 August 2001 15:50 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: default.ida? 193.122.20.5 - Production

RE: default.ida?

2001-08-03 Thread James Maltby
there's something SERIOUSLY wrong with your DNS Thomas - I'd sort out that dodgy 10 mate - it's reserved for M$ back-office! :-) J -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 August 2001 16:47 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: default.ida? doesn't need me or

RE: default.ida?

2001-08-03 Thread James Maltby
good bit of a boost for your page impressions though (as everyone on the list browses and pings you) eh? ;-) J (our IP is http://194.164.87.20 if anyone wants to have a look!) -Original Message- From: Edward Chanter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 August 2001 16:16 To: CF-Talk

RE: Mail Client

2001-08-01 Thread James Maltby
go buy Ben Forta's CF Book - there's a whole chapter about rolling your own pop3 cfmail app. J -Original Message- From: CF_SANTHA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 August 2001 12:59 To: CF-Talk Subject: Mail Client Hi Everyone, I need some help from you. I have a yahoo mail

RE: PWS on ME

2001-07-23 Thread James Maltby
coming in on the end of this thread here, but it is possible to run PWS on Win ME (after spending over 8 hours researching and installing the thing!) The best scenario for this is to have CF and PWS on win 98 and upgrade to ME - which then seems to run OK - if you have to start from scratch then

RE: http server for windoz ME?

2001-07-23 Thread James Maltby
The short trick is to only install the other services, reboot, then install the PWS part of the install - alternately install apache - this is stable and much better than PWS on ME - we've got five ME dev. boxes here, with only 1 running PWS - and it's not happy - the other 4 all run apache as

RE: Questions to ask for CF developer

2001-07-19 Thread James Maltby
Go out and buy Ben Forta's Certified ColdFusion Developer Study Guide - have a look at the questions in there and select a few that a relevant to your company's use of CF - then re-write them in your in-house style J -Original Message- From: Janine Jakim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: Questions to ask for CF developer

2001-07-19 Thread James Maltby
hire them! -Original Message- From: Kola Oyedeji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 July 2001 14:32 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Questions to ask for CF developer ah, but what if they're allaire certified, brainbench certified and already own the Forta study guide? ;-) KOla

RE: Questions to ask for CF developer

2001-07-19 Thread James Maltby
yeah and now Andy works for a company that tells him that the Beatles are better! :) J -Original Message- From: Andy Ewings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 July 2001 14:16 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Questions to ask for CF developer I used to work for a company that asked Which was

RE: CF 4.5 and SourceSafe

2001-07-16 Thread James Maltby
Check out: http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=14856Method=Full That lets you know how to share projects - http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=14802Method=Full lets you know how to set up a project in VSS/Homesite (aka studio) Depending on what working methodology you have

RE: CF 4.5 and SourceSafe

2001-07-16 Thread James Maltby
Yup - knew that :) What I meant to imply was if Percy is using VSS within a development environment (using the roll-back ideology) purely to protect his build from external/part-time developers coming in and changing code (i.e. breaking it) - it may be easier to implement the working build

CF5 + iPlanet Fast_track

2001-07-06 Thread James Maltby
Hi guys - does anyone have experience of CF5 Ent on Solaris 8 with iPlanet 4.1 Fast_track webserver? I know that it should run with CF5 Ent on Sol 8 with iPlant 4.1 Ent - but the Fast_track version is free J ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code

RE: CFSCHEDULE in background

2001-06-11 Thread James Maltby
There is no way really - unless you upgrade to cf hawaii (5-0h) and use cfflush (or unless you use js to open a remote window that calls the cfschedule page in the background (i.e. under the main window) - then use a close window function at the end of the schdule page - while you also use a

RE: certified CF developer

2001-06-07 Thread James Maltby
Take it now and be grand-fathered into CF 5 when the exam comes out - but you will have to be quick as the deadline is something like July 12 J -Original Message- From: Chang Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 June 2001 17:16 To: CF-Talk Subject: certified CF developer hi

RE: Your site's easy to navigate? You Think so?

2001-06-04 Thread James Maltby
You should take a look at bobby and the WAI guide. Bobby is a collaboration project between (amongst others) SUN microsystems and Microsoft (gasp!) (http://www.cast.org/bobby/) - you can either download the java based tool or use the website to check a website you have built for accessibility,

RE: Your site's easy to navigate? You Think so?

2001-06-04 Thread James Maltby
Kola, as I said earlier - the quickest short cut to this is to download Lynx (text only flavour browser) (http://lynx.browser.org/) - as this will act as a text reader (which is how voice browsers work in effect - they usaully read out from top let across the page to top right, then down a line,

RE: can anyone help?

2001-05-31 Thread James Maltby
Win2k does not really support PWS it is no longer supported on this OS (legacy issues) - you should be using IIS5 (which will be on the CD) if you are using Professional, if you are using ME then use Apache instead. J -Original Message- From: sebastian palmigiani [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Redirect From Popup

2001-05-22 Thread James Maltby
Actually it may work better like this: popupdate.cfm: cf_update stuff here cfquery - max id collect name=getid then... cfoutput html script language=JavaScript function closeit() { window.opener.location=querylandpagename.cfm?id=#getid.id#; window.close(); } /script /cfoutput body

RE: Redirect From Popup

2001-05-22 Thread James Maltby
You need to add the following code to the bottom of your update page within the pop-up child: html script language=JavaScript function closeit() { window.opener.location=querylandname.cfm?var1=xvar2=y; window.close(); } /script body onload=closeit()/body /html Where var1=x and var2=y

RE: CF + Flash

2001-05-17 Thread James Maltby
www.flashcfm.com is an example site, with tutorials on (also built in CF + Flash itself) J -Original Message- From: ibtoad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 May 2001 14:27 To: CF-Talk Subject: CF + Flash Does anyone have any working example sites of a Flash website with a CF

RE: Send SMS

2001-05-17 Thread James Maltby
If you want to do it yourself try out someone like http://www.wapmx.com/ where you can subscribe to their online service, or buy the hardware to do it yourself... HTH J -Original Message- From: Rif Kiamil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 May 2001 13:14 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Send

RE: Send SMS

2001-05-17 Thread James Maltby
You may also want to try out http://iilcorp.com/web/en/dev/moffy.htm Moffy is a free server side solution to SMS (plus other stuff) J -Original Message- From: Rif Kiamil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 May 2001 13:14 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Send SMS Trying 2 find info on this

RE: Mailing s

2001-05-17 Thread James Maltby
Yeah - upgrade to CF Hawaii (5.0) - you can route mail directly - avoiding the spool - or use a dedicated mail tool for the job J -Original Message- From: William J Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 May 2001 17:59 To: CF-Talk Subject: Mailing s We send out tens of

RE: best search

2001-05-15 Thread James Maltby
engine :) Michael. - Original Message - From: James Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:15 PM Subject: RE: best search It really depends on how your content is being displayed - if it's flat-file then Verity is OK - if it's a combination

RE: Restarting CF from Web

2001-05-15 Thread James Maltby
You can set up a batch file stop/start function and call it via telnet - safer than the http version in 4 On NT the code is something like: @echo off echo stopping ColdFusion... net stop Cold Fusion Application Server echo restarting ColdFusion... net start Cold Fusion Application Server

RE: best search

2001-05-15 Thread James Maltby
Sure - for v. big sites I have used AltaVista (www.dfee.gov.uk for example) and this is coolio - if I was to do it again though I would probably use Atomz.com stuff - for various reasons. Rationale for splitting full address into 3 parts: 1) Holding one url field means that you may as well use

Load me up

2001-05-15 Thread James Maltby
Anyone used RadView? What do you think? Else anyone suggest a good CF compatible server load testing app? TIA J The Force is strong in this one... - Darth Vader ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official

RE: best search

2001-05-14 Thread James Maltby
It really depends on how your content is being displayed - if it's flat-file then Verity is OK - if it's a combination of SQL and Verity then pass your query through both database and verity, if it's all sql held then rely on sql/verity collections (faster than plain sql requests), however

RE: CF function to manipulate a date

2001-05-14 Thread James Maltby
Use something like: cfset myMonth = #lsdateformat(myDate, mm)# cfset myYear = #lsdateformat(myDate, )# Then use the two vars myMonth and myYear to compare. I guess James -Original Message- From: Julie Clegg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 May 2001 16:54 To: CF-Talk

RE: test

2001-05-09 Thread James Maltby
Can see it - J -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 May 2001 15:46 To: CF-Talk Subject: test All my mails to CF Talk are vanishing... test resub... if you see this, reply directly :-) Regards, Thomas Chiverton Intranet Architect and Desktop

RE: CFEXPRESS

2001-05-01 Thread James Maltby
Next one up is Professional - you have a much wider range of functionality like CFX and custom tag generation, wddx, cfupdate etc. - you can link to a much wider range of odbc data-sources, you get verity search engine and loads of other stuff - the one up from that is Enterprise - which is the

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-27 Thread James Maltby
Well, personally I get a feeling that this is the first nail in the coffin of CF Application Server - see the logic - increase the price to push it up to be in the same league as Broadvision and Vignette - drop spectra as the webtop never worked - over price the back end middle ware and wait and

RE: Large recordset = large whitespace???

2001-04-27 Thread James Maltby
You could also try cfsetting enablecfoutputonly=Yes before your cfcode and cfsetting enablecfoutputonly=no at the end if you are collating or concatenating the results in anyway - or calling a custom tag, etc J -Original Message- From: DeVoil, Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: hosting

2001-04-26 Thread James Maltby
In the UK we rent dedicated servers from Londonweb (londonweb.net) - premier hosting partner with Macromaire/Allmedia - they know their stuff (prices range from about £7.5k pa to £10k+ pa depending on size, etc) - we currently have 3 dedicated servers with them, we also have 5 dedicated servers

RE: hosting

2001-04-26 Thread James Maltby
It's very much up to the individual company - how do you want to set the server up? How much space allocation are you going to offer? What kind of support are you going to give? Can you/your server provider offer 99% up time? Do you want to offer mail? If so should you get a dedicated

RE: Newbie CF architecture question

2001-04-25 Thread James Maltby
COM objects can be called from outside a page. J -Original Message- From: Julie Clegg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 April 2001 14:16 To: CF-Talk Subject: Newbie CF architecture question Hello, I have a genreal question concerning how CF embeds other code into its code.

RE: ' in SQL 2000

2001-04-25 Thread James Maltby
Andy's thinking about sex at work again! passiong! J -Original Message- From: Andy Ewings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 April 2001 17:31 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ' in SQL 2000 ok...well it doesn't look like it's due to dynamic field names as the error is occuring in the value

RE: HTML editor for idiots? recommendation?

2001-04-18 Thread James Maltby
If you use Dreamweaver you can create template files that allow you to "lock" sections of the page that you don't want the cl-idiot-nt touching. J (alternately suggest re-building the whole site with a remote management system that hold editable content in a huge database and create a js pseudo

RE: moving CF from Windows to HP-UX?

2001-04-18 Thread James Maltby
a KEY point to remember when moving from win to x systems is that linux and unix are case sensitive - so calling an image "image.gif" from you code, while storing it as "Image.gif" on the server - will throw an error - same goes for page links, calls to datasets, etc. The best method is to

RE: CSS

2001-04-17 Thread James Maltby
Use something like: input type="text" name="whatever" style="background-color: FF; border: 1 solid FF" Or whatever - the style is the important inline code - or you could css the input tag if you prefer - however "flat" drop down select, radio and check are nearly impossible - you can

RE: Scheduled tasks using CF

2001-04-06 Thread James Maltby
cfscheduler is renown for being unreliable - we've had two examples of scheduled events working fine on a daily basis for over a year or so, then failing completely - either not running at all, or having to be manually triggered in the administrator, or running but outputting 0kb size files.

RE: Import data to ACCESS

2001-04-05 Thread James Maltby
no offense James, if it has to be csv you could have the csv as an ODBC datasource and loop round in CF to do it. -Original Message----- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 March 2001 11:45 To: CF-Talk Subject: Import data to ACCESS Here's a dudy for y'all - SCENARIO: curren

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