Re: Where Woes

2010-12-20 Thread Jerry Johnson
you need to surround the program variable with single quotes, like so where programCode1='#program#' Please ask if you need an explanation of why. Jerry Milo Johnson On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Rob Voyle robvo...@voyle.com wrote: Hi Folks I have a mysql table that I am querying

Re: Developer with ten years experience looking for part-time gig

2010-12-20 Thread Jerry Johnson
criticism and criticism are not the same thing. And yes, I proved my own point with this reply. My 2 cents, Jerry Johnson On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Phillip Vector vec...@mostdeadlygame.comwrote: Michael, As mentioned before on the list, you are not doing yourself any favors

Re: Counting photos on a remote server

2010-12-15 Thread Jerry Johnson
can you call a remote script that returns a dir or ls to get the file list? On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Dave Long d...@northgoods.com wrote: Our server use ColdFusion 5 and MySQL 3.51. My application displays photos stored on a server remote from the server on which the app is

Re: REGEX hell

2010-11-22 Thread Jerry Johnson
no need to escape the space char with a slash. are you sure it is only 1 space, and are you sure it is a space char (chr(32))? If so, remove the slash in front of the space, and it should work. also, pet peeve, no need for the ## around the function. Works either way, though, so ignore if you

Re: Error: null null

2010-11-12 Thread Jerry Johnson
In my experience, this is usually caused by a date field being NULL unexpectedly, and CF trying to treat it as a date. FWIW Jerry Milo Johnson On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Robert Harrison rob...@austin-williams.com wrote: I made a change to a data base table on SQL server 2008 and

Re: Move CF website to non CF host

2010-08-13 Thread Jerry Johnson
broken links, or teach your web server to handle .cfm files as if they were just html, rather than coldfusion. (There are many exceptions to the above, but the options above cover most sites I've seen and dealt with) Jerry Johnson On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Jerry Cooper jcoo...@excite.com

Re: Move CF website to non CF host

2010-08-13 Thread Jerry Johnson
Exactly that. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Jerry Cooper jcoo...@excite.com wrote: In short, anything that already has a .htm or .html extension will run fine, anything with a .cfm extension will need to have it's rendered output saved as a .html file before it's moved to the new

Re: (ot) Google Analytics

2010-02-19 Thread Jerry Johnson
http://seojeff.com/2008/04/03/tracking-data-for-multiple-google-analytics-accounts-on-one-page/ On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Rick Root rick.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I'm helping run a large web site that hosts many sites using virtual domains. Each site is different though

Re: Validating that only .5 decimal gets through?

2010-02-19 Thread Jerry Johnson
multiple by 2, and check if it is a whole number? On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Marie Taylore mt4yl...@yahoo.com wrote: I have an app that I need to validate that they enter either whole numbers (1,2,3, etc.) or if they DO enter a decimal, it can only be in half increments, so 2.5 is

Re: Recent SQL Injection attacks

2010-01-12 Thread Jerry Johnson
Yes. All from ip 91.212.226.161 Which we have blocked at our firewall. Annoying, but we saw these coming 2 summers ago, and took steps. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Michael Dinowitz mdino...@houseoffusion.com wrote: Has anyone seen any recent SQL injection attacks on their sites or

Re: meta tag location

2010-01-07 Thread Jerry Johnson
Google doesn't use the keywords metatag http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html But... http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html Good explanation on what it does with each meta tag

Re: OT - MySQL List

2009-11-12 Thread Jerry Johnson
I use a combination of the mysqladministrator and the RDS Dataview tabs in CFBuilder. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html I also hear good things about Navicat, but haven't yet ponies up the money for a full license. http://www.navicat.com/en/download/download.html As for the

Re: TechCrunch calls ColdFusion outmoded technology

2009-11-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
That is just about the funniest article I ever read. Let's break it down again. The owner threw it together himself in 2000, using Coldfusion, and it built his business, and lasted for 9 years. A team started rewriting it 3 years ago in a more modern technology, and the new version just went

Re: Thinking of a career change.. how does one get into Technical Recruiting..

2009-03-12 Thread Jerry Johnson
Sell your wife, mother, and youngest child. Then have a heart reduction surgery (placing is in a secure storage facility) Rob a whole troop of girlscouts out of their cookie money. Dig a 20 foot hole in a sand trap with a sand wedge. And tell a bar full of Yankee fans that the Red Sox are a

Re: Thinking of a career change.. how does one get into Technical Recruiting..

2009-03-12 Thread Jerry Johnson
I was (mostly) kidding. But many programmers and tech types do not realize how _hard_ placement folk work to get someone into a job. It seems like free money when you see how much they added to your contracting rate, or how much you hear they get paid per permanent placement, but believe it or

Re: Use Wordpress or BlogCFC?

2008-12-05 Thread Jerry Johnson
He cannot handle the Mango. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Matt Quackenbush [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Use mangoblog. :) ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free

Re: Use Wordpress or BlogCFC?

2008-12-05 Thread Jerry Johnson
Old snl skit: http://snl.jt.org/char.php?i=470 On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Charlie Griefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: that a euphemism? On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jerry Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He cannot handle the Mango. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Matt Quackenbush

Re: Any regular expression guru here?

2008-11-13 Thread Jerry Johnson
Also try the HOF regex list (which gets monitored by many, although there are few postings) is that a line break before and after the b= line? On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Don L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'd like to want to do is to replace a value from a simple text which looks

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Jerry Johnson
Site runs fine for me speed, load, and %cpu-wise. ff3 I agree with most of the criticisms (except the creative, which reads fine to me), but those are NITS, the overall site rocks. Well done. A couple of tweaks will smooth out those rough edges, but I like it. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:07 AM,

Re: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site

2008-10-31 Thread Jerry Johnson
Keep up, Al. LOL. They had to revert to the old site, due to legacy files being used on other (client) websites. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Al Musella, DPM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love the way you disguise the cold fusion pages by using a php extension on the links..

Re: securing pdf's?

2008-08-04 Thread Jerry Johnson
You need to change your cf server (and webserver) to process pdf files through coldfusion. That will allow application.cfc/.cfm to fire before the pdf is loaded. (there are better ways, including using cfcontent to push the pdf content, but i will answer the question you asked, instead of

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

2008-07-22 Thread Jerry Johnson
The purpose of the hack is to change your website, so that each visitor is hit with a series of browser exploit attempts while reading your website. Some of the exploits attempted are handled by the MS patch. Some are not. (Examples of the exploits: Ms06-014, flash, SP2, Realplayer11, Norton,

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

2008-07-21 Thread Jerry Johnson
I have all of the js files open and saved to a text file, fwiw, from this morning. On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth, the specific URL that was injected in the sample I saw (http://1.verynx.cn/w.js) doesn't seem to work anymore.

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

2008-07-21 Thread Jerry Johnson
The attempts are based on a google search of .cfm files with parameters that can be exploited. (They have automated the page search, as well as the attack itself.) It is not a cf specific attack, but is also nailing php, asp, and .net sites. Here is a decent writeup of it all.

Re: Where Do You Put Your Error Checking Code?

2008-06-27 Thread Jerry Johnson
All of the above. The more user-friendly code and descriptions happen on the same page via js checks. The sql code typically throws a generic error. And the stuff in between is somewhere in the middle. On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Ian Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you are

Re: One thing I've always wanted to build... breadcrumb trail...

2008-06-10 Thread Jerry Johnson
solution? -Original Message- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: One thing I've always wanted to build... breadcrumb trail... maybe use the javascript history array? On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Rick

Re: One thing I've always wanted to build... breadcrumb trail...

2008-06-09 Thread Jerry Johnson
maybe use the javascript history array? On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not the one that represents a folder structure or hierarchy, but shows the exact places visited. Home Services Contact Pricing FAQ Anyone know of a tutorial on how to do

Re: Bug / Issue tracking

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry Johnson
I love lighthouse. Love it, love it, love it. We also use basecamp, but more for project knowledge sharing. If you need a hosted solution, find a small cf hosting shop, and see if they will install it for you, and charge you a monthly fee. On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Jeff Gladnick [EMAIL

Re: Adobe ColdFusion Survey

2008-06-03 Thread Jerry Johnson
I submitted without answering those. So I don't qualify for the drawing, but answered the poll questions. On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Phillip Vector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is pretty bad... I filled out the first 5 questions... Then I have to do research to answer the last 3?

Re: Achieve Masters that you deserve of Established Skilled Institution.

2008-05-21 Thread Jerry Johnson
Kill what? Your inner demons yearning to spam your hard-won list of emails? LOL. Even if the email came with a couple of lines that said This really, really is from Michael, it would take me a while to believe it. I am always amazed at how clean this list is, in regards to spam. Even valid

Re: Embedded YouTube movies

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry Johnson
And still the crowd yells for more. What exactly is the value for video? Can you go to that link in your browser (and it comes up?) On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Torrent Girl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry. The movie looks as if it is loading but never comes up. It's not working I

Re: Embedded YouTube movies

2008-04-21 Thread Jerry Johnson
What is the url? On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Torrent Girl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And still the crowd yells for more. What exactly is the value for video? Can you go to that link in your browser (and it comes up?) On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Torrent Girl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need Include to be first thing after BODY tag

2008-03-25 Thread Jerry Johnson
Not to help you at all, and providing info you didn't ask for, but... Best practices when counting pages is to wait for the page to load, or most of the page to load, before counting that page. This is especially true when counting advertising page views, or counting pages read for subscription

Re: Need Include to be first thing after BODY tag

2008-03-25 Thread Jerry Johnson
their call I'm afraid. Yes, your question is correct, this is the javascript report the page view so in the end it must go on all. Thanks, Gerald -Original Message- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:53 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Need Include

Re: Which approach to take?

2008-03-22 Thread Jerry Johnson
My personal preference is a riff of version 1. I input the text info, and hit save (or add photos or step 2) The data gets validated and written, and now I get the input fields for the photos (on a new page, or on the same page with a new section added at the bottom) On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:10

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Jerry Johnson
I couldn't quite tell from your sentence whether you were saying Derby doesn't have a good managment tool like MySQL, or if you thought MySQL doesn't have a good management suite. Just in case it was the latter, or in case anyone else isn't aware of it, I'll bore you with a gushing mention of the

Re: Holy Grail? Hosting?

2008-02-18 Thread Jerry Johnson
That feature alone may get me to rethink my hosting. Thanks for keeping us informed of your findings, William. On Feb 18, 2008 3:07 PM, William Seiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While CT appears to require the user to handle the redirect of the multiple domains to the specific directory

Re: SOT: Holy Grail? Hosting?

2008-02-16 Thread Jerry Johnson
Dave, as a fairly impartial observer, talking general professional and personal respect, you aren't going to win this one against Jim, I don't think. Lol! On Feb 16, 2008 5:51 PM, Dave l [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And your lil quote below is exactly how you are as well Well then they don't

Re: SOT: Holy Grail? Hosting?

2008-02-15 Thread Jerry Johnson
I've been using them for about 7 years. Never a blip, never a problem. I forget they are even there. Even the price is so low on my monthly bank statement, I go months without thinking about them much at all. Which is just what I want in a host. It just works. On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:24 PM,

Re: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?

2008-02-14 Thread Jerry Johnson
Dont take so long on each task. break them down smaller, into more granular pieces. dont process them all at one whack, but build a queue of items to process, and then run through them individually or in much smaller groups. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?

2008-02-14 Thread Jerry Johnson
If so, I'd like that list as well - to make sure I never host with them. lol! On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically it comes down to this. Are there any shared CF web hosts that allow to have an high number of scheduled tasks be run daily knowing

Re: Dead Beat Clients.

2008-02-03 Thread Jerry Johnson
I think unions are the single biggest evil in America today. If unions started making their way into programming, I would gladly trumpet my non-union status, and if it ever became impossible to do work without a union card, I would find another line of work. On Feb 3, 2008 3:36 PM, William

Re: WOW, what a plight!!

2008-01-26 Thread Jerry Johnson
It is not always an intentional bait and switch Sometimes it is people fooling themselves into believing their own hype (or plans without substance). Sometimes it is just people who are so unorganized and confused (or without any real understanding of the job and needs and how to get work done)

Re: [Fwd: Cold Fusion Web Developer-- BOSTON AREA]

2008-01-23 Thread Jerry Johnson
Personally, this is the most interesting thread yet today! =) I find the tone and punctuation and capitalization entertaining, and the quips are taken right out of my head, I think. On Jan 23, 2008 1:28 PM, Bobby Hartsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't you have anything better to do today

Re: Should jsstringformat do more?

2008-01-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
_New_ function, not a change (potentially breaking existing applications). On Jan 2, 2008 3:05 AM, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If enough people do so, I can almost guarantee that the Adobe dev staff will take notice, and look at including that or a similar function in the next

Re: Should jsstringformat do more?

2008-01-01 Thread Jerry Johnson
If anyone really feels strongly about this, they should create a function that does what they want, name it something more useful and specific, and place it on cflib.org Then put a note on the livedocs pointing to the new function. Finally, watch and see how many people then go download the

Re: Should jsstringformat do more?

2007-12-31 Thread Jerry Johnson
My feeling would be no. I like the way it currently works. JSStringFormat does what the function says. It is not called JSSafeFromAnything. As you point out, it is only unsafe under certain conditions. So I am glad it does not always strip everything out that might possibly meet a seldom seen

Re: Want to move into .Net?

2007-12-21 Thread Jerry Johnson
Nice Larry. Exactly. Where did everyone's sense of humor go? I thought the original email was a little lacking in CF thrust for an email on a coldfusion jobs list. (I personally would have emphasized more the need for a skilled Coldfusion programmer to own the existing app to understand the

Re: Convert Letters to Numbers in Phone Numbers

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry Johnson
Ain't good. Crude. No error handling. No exception handling. But gives you a starting place, maybe. cfscript function convertPhonePad(str) { alphaList=a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z; numeralList=2,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,5,5,5,6,6,6,7,7,7,7,8,8,8,9,9,9,9; numString=; for (i=1;i LTE

Re: Convert Letters to Numbers in Phone Numbers

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry Johnson
); } On Dec 4, 2007 12:28 PM, Jerry Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ain't good. Crude. No error handling. No exception handling. But gives you a starting place, maybe. cfscript function convertPhonePad(str) { alphaList=a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z; numeralList

Re: escaping # signs in image file names

2007-11-30 Thread Jerry Johnson
Maybe replace the # with %23? On Nov 30, 2007 12:22 PM, Charlie Griefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: img src=/_images/#replace(filename, '##', '###', 'all')# width=164 height=140 border=0 / ? (might need 4 # there in the 3rd arg) On Nov 30, 2007 8:54 AM, Crow T. Robot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Converting PDF to Flashpaper in cfmx7

2007-11-30 Thread Jerry Johnson
Sadly, I went with an iframe of the pdf, and a link to the pdf in the case where iframes are disabled. cribbed from: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/iframe-pdf.html On Nov 30, 2007 1:41 PM, Jerry Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like Dave Watts definitively answered this back in July

Re: Converting PDF to Flashpaper in cfmx7

2007-11-30 Thread Jerry Johnson
Looks like Dave Watts definitively answer this back in July: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:284679 Shucks. I have a whole pile of pdf files on disk. Is there a way to convert those PDFs on the fly to Flashpaper, and allow me to use the flashpaper embed object

Converting PDF to Flashpaper in cfmx7

2007-11-30 Thread Jerry Johnson
I have a whole pile of pdf files on disk. Is there a way to convert those PDFs on the fly to Flashpaper, and allow me to use the flashpaper embed object on a page? I can easily do it with html content (thanks to Terry Ryan), but would _love_ to handle pdfs this way. Thanks, Jerry

Re: How do I get the characters after the last period in a string?

2007-11-07 Thread Jerry Johnson
Use the list functions, with the period as the delimiter could there be more than one period? If so, you need to decide between two options (if not, then either will work) If you only want to remove the very last extension after the last period, cfset name=listDeleteAt(file,listLast(file,.),.)

Re: How do I get the characters after the last period in a string?

2007-11-07 Thread Jerry Johnson
this will work for 1 or more, but will NOT work for none! (it will return an empty string) you should do a listLen(file,.) gt 0 test to make sure before you start. On Nov 7, 2007 1:21 PM, Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry... I'll modify my code to use:

Re: ColdFusion to Generate Cutlists?

2007-10-31 Thread Jerry Johnson
I wrote one 20+ years ago in Autolisp and C. Wasn't easy, cost the government a ton of money, and don't have any of the source. On 10/30/07, Matthew Reinbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a fairly common optimization problem and there are hints of other stuff being out there. For example,

Re: Developing software for touch screen?

2007-10-31 Thread Jerry Johnson
As a side note, anyone need some 10 year old elographics touch screens? (SAW, 19 and 12, glass, never mounted, serial, with cables) I have about 25 left I think. Jerry ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion

Re: Developing software for touch screen?

2007-10-31 Thread Jerry Johnson
Are you looking for a standalone screen, or are you looking for a small form factor PC attached to a regular touchscreen? I would (personally) go with the later. I have 20 years of experience with touchscreens, but today's hardware is cheap, easy to use and maintain, and easier to develop for.

Re: Developing software for touch screen?

2007-10-31 Thread Jerry Johnson
If you go with one of the many panel-pcs (full pc integrated into the panel. Think a laptop bent in the other direction or a tablet PC), they are full pcs running normal os (windows XP for example). Something like this: http://igopanelpc.com

Nice cf8 writeups on today's TechRepublic We Dev Zone alert

2007-10-30 Thread Jerry Johnson
http://nl.com.com/view_online_newsletter.jsp?list_id=e055 Kudos to Brian Kotek! Jerry Johnson ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now

Re: 2007 Web Design Survey

2007-10-19 Thread Jerry Johnson
I was somewhat kidding. I don't (at this point) want to give up coding. I don't want to manage people I don't want to worry about other people's paychecks I actually don't want to worry about mine. I do like some of the technologist and business analysis work I am doing now, but I still prefer

Re: What can PHP do that CF can't?

2007-10-19 Thread Jerry Johnson
Ummm, never learned perl? T-SQL? Unary and dereferencing in C? One thing php can do that cf cannot. Run wordpress and phpBB. Which right now makes me sad. On 10/19/07, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything that php can do that CF can't? Yeah: having all variable

Re: 2007 Web Design Survey

2007-10-19 Thread Jerry Johnson
Me! I also like writing code. I do it in my spare time, too. (Especially when work is not as fun as it should be, and I need a creative release) My favorite time in the entire year is not Christmas or even my birthday, it is the 4 day weekend at Thanksgiving where I pick a single project, and

Re: Exporting from ColdFuion to a Excel file

2007-10-11 Thread Jerry Johnson
cfcontent type=application/vnd.ms-excel cfheader name=Content-Disposition value=filename=#filename#.xls cfoutput#pageContent#/cfoutput I assume this will still work on 8 Jerry On 10/11/07, Steve Sequenzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please give me some insight into exporting data to

Re: Detableize

2007-10-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
This detabler assumes linefeeds between each cell. To get it to work on all tables, in the UDF, change /*table to /*table *[^]* (maybe) On 10/2/07, Randy Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am having trouble getting this udf to handle the opening table line

Re: Detableize

2007-10-02 Thread Jerry Johnson
(The first line was just a reminder/note of caution, and not actually germane to your question.) On 10/2/07, Jerry Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This detabler assumes linefeeds between each cell. To get it to work on all tables, in the UDF, change /*table to /*table *[^]* (maybe

Re: minus 30

2007-09-27 Thread Jerry Johnson
CFIF #get.enddate# eq #dateformat(dateAdd(m,-1,now()),MMDD)# (you need to do the dateAdd, and then do the dateFormat, and then do the compare). (you can also look at dateCompare rather than the eq, if you want) On 9/27/07, Orlini, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How can I subtract

Re: minus 30

2007-09-27 Thread Jerry Johnson
the endate is 9/1/2007...how can I subtract 30 days from that? That's where I got: #DateAdd(d, -30, enddate)#. -Original Message- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:31 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: minus 30 CFIF #get.enddate# eq

Re: Text Editor Preferences?

2007-09-21 Thread Jerry Johnson
I still miss the Turbo Pascal editor. And I miss Brief (by UnderWare) every day. I don't use a plain text-editor very often, as homesite+ is still working well for those files, but I do still find occasion to use a hex editor. What does everyone use for that? On 9/21/07, John Paul Ashenfelter

Re: RSS feed

2007-09-08 Thread Jerry Johnson
If on MX, but not 8, you can use Ray Camden's cfrss cfc http://cfrss.riaforge.org/ Writing the xml for the feed is only part of the project. deciding where and when to write it is another. So, a couple of implementation questions/ideas first. (I am guessing RSS generation is new to you, so

Re: RSS Feed

2007-09-08 Thread Jerry Johnson
It is that simple, hence the name Really Simple Syndication. (And don't anyone correct me with the older names ... Site Summary, cause I don't care! lol!) That should be all there is to it, but you may want to add a link on the web page as well, for those with older browsers or news readers.

Re: ColdFusion and MySQL Web Hosts

2007-09-01 Thread Jerry Johnson
I have had nothing but a good experience with crystaltech for the past 4 years. On 9/1/07, Richard White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anyone knows of any good ColdFusion and MySQL web hosting companies? We are based in the UK but wouldn't mind hosts in the UK or USA.

Re: CF Studio Browse tab doesn't work

2007-08-27 Thread Jerry Johnson
You need to tell studio how to translate file paths into urls. You do this on the Debug - development mappings. On 8/27/07, Dave Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, I've never been able to develop mappings to preview .cfm pages in the Browse tab of CF Studio, probably because I

Re: best way to store search terms entered on a website?

2007-08-24 Thread Jerry Johnson
Yes, but the rows are not (duplicate). The time, the search string. Potentially the IP address. in combination, always unique. On 8/24/07, stylo stylo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seriously just keep adding row upon (duplicate) row every day for years and years? That's a hell of a lot of rows

Re: best way to store search terms entered on a website?

2007-08-23 Thread Jerry Johnson
In my mind, logfiles should be lean, simple and fast. no thought, just entry. Write only. Just the facts, ma'am Once the data goes in, reporting from it is a different matter. queries, olap apps, and any rolled up or calculated data happen during a different process. Thoughts? Jerry On 8/23/07,

Re: What application platform is this? Could it be CF

2007-08-23 Thread Jerry Johnson
Haven't found which cms it is, but notice that sometimes the folder is /omapps, and sometimes /servlet, depending on the site. It appears to be used in a _lot_ of very large sites. http://www.ford.com.au/servlet/ContentServer?cid=1137384335443pagename=Pagec=DFYPage

Re: any idea how to

2007-08-08 Thread Jerry Johnson
There is probably a trick i don't know, but something like... dTemp=createODBCDate(mid(date,3,2)right(date,2)left(date,4)) sDate=dateFormat(dTemp,m/d/) On 8/8/07, Scott Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Convert 20060523 Into 5/23/2006 I'm at a loss.

Re: [NEWS] Top 100 ColdFusion websites by Alexa rank

2007-08-06 Thread Jerry Johnson
that gotCFM site maxes out my machine for a good 396 seconds. On the List of sites page, it loads all items as the default, and it takes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freezes the whoe danged thing (other firefox windows, outlook, windows explorer, gtalk.)

Re: Help with Google Adwords API SOAP Request

2007-08-03 Thread Jerry Johnson
Or maybe, just maybe, it's time to learn CF? On 8/3/07, Al Zan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really!!! Is it possible nobody is working with Google Adwords API in CF? That amazes me. I guess it's time to learn PHP... It's sad, after 9 years with CF.

Re: news and press releases - need help!

2007-07-23 Thread Jerry Johnson
The steps are pretty simple. Front end Form to allow people to subscribe to the email. Form to allow people to UNSUBSCRIBE from the email When they ask to subscribe, add them to the database When they ask to unsubscribe, remove them from the database (or mark them inactive) Backend Form to

Re: Stopping a Screen Scrape

2007-07-18 Thread Jerry Johnson
As we all know, the bane of scraping is inconsistency, and changing specs. So, make sure your page is inconsistent and changes constantly. Add extra divs, change the id and names of the divs, change the style and other attributes on each page load, Change the number and attributes or div, span,

Re: Yet another article about how 'coldfusion never took off'

2007-07-13 Thread Jerry Johnson
Definitely flame bait. They want you to respond, and spread the article around. Step away from the keyboard. Jerry On 7/13/07, Peterson, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheesh, they are comparing Coldfusion to the likes of ALGOL and something called 'Befunge'. Where do these editors come

Re: Spam to my CF-Talk address

2007-07-05 Thread Jerry Johnson
http://www.google.com/search?source=ighl=enq=james-cftalk%40goqs.combtnG=Google+Search Its right out there for any bot to harvest. On 7/5/07, James Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a custom address which only receives mail for CF-Talk. I have shared this address with no one and have not

Re: Date and Time

2007-06-26 Thread Jerry Johnson
The easiest way is to set up a default value for that field in your database, so it gets automatically inserted when you create a new record. SQL Server? MySQL? Something else? If sql server, you would put getDate() as the default value for that field. This will automatically insert the current

Re: jobs for cf vs .net

2007-06-25 Thread Jerry Johnson
And why is water wet? On 6/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please tell me why there are more .Net job than cf jobs? I can't understand why most jobs are .Net and not CF jobs. ~| ColdFusion MX7

Re: List of Forum Software and chat services/software?

2007-06-25 Thread Jerry Johnson
http://galleon.riaforge.org/ On 6/25/07, Rey Bango [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, I need a good forum software package, preferably CF-based. I'm currently looking at CFMBB but wanted to know if there were any other good options that are skinnable and can use an existing member table for

Re: OT: My eyes, my eyes!

2007-06-13 Thread Jerry Johnson
i had eye surgery last week, and have been using safari since monday because the anti-aliased text is MUCH easier to read. I like the text. I like the browser. (I have NOT uninstalled Firefox, fwiw) On Wednesday 13 Jun 2007, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: Anyone downloaded and used the

Re: Jr. Going to Hendrick

2007-06-13 Thread Jerry Johnson
I don't know that there is a top dog on that team. It seems like they run each shop in friendly competition, all sharing the same information and experts. But when the last lap is going on, its every man for himself. There isnt a Let Lance win the stage preference for one driver over another.

Re: Jr. Going to Hendrick

2007-06-13 Thread Jerry Johnson
ouch. twice. ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales marketing dashboard RIA’s for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive:

Re: OT:Great CSS Selector test suite

2007-06-12 Thread Jerry Johnson
looking at that test, firefox failed in exactly the same spot on each test as safari did. (11 failures for each, in the same tests for the same libraries) In what ways (truly interested) is Safari harder to accommodate for? On 6/12/07, Rey Bango [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Performance isn't the

Re: I love CF but it's not fair

2007-06-12 Thread Jerry Johnson
There are also a lot of jobs for McDonalds late shift workers. =) My current programming job is 95% coldfusion, and the ad was for a perl developer. My last job was 85% coldfusion, 15% Director and the ad was for web developer My previous job was for Foxpro Developer, and it was 25% foxpro, 50%

Re: I love CF but it's not fair

2007-06-12 Thread Jerry Johnson
Another thought: You don't need 2334 jobs. You need one job (ok, maybe 2) Hopefully it's the quality not the quantity that matters. On 6/12/07, Ali Majdzadeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I was searching for job offers in Australia in here http://mycareer.com.au/ If you search for CF job

Re: pink folders

2007-06-11 Thread Jerry Johnson
Because you code like a girl, and even Dreamweaver knows it? Are these folders on your testing server? Try to check your IIS settings, and make sure the profile you are running as has permissions, or at least correct anonymous permissions in IIS. On 6/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDF to Image

2007-06-07 Thread Jerry Johnson
This one works pretty well, too, but it is a .net app http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/pdfthumbnail.asp On 6/7/07, Pete Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Lewis wrote: I am trying to convert the front page of a PDF doc to an image. My target server is Coldfusion 5 but if necessary

Re: Custom tag for generating rss feeds

2007-06-01 Thread Jerry Johnson
Ray Camden had a tag, either on his site, or on cflib.org, to do this. I can't remember any specifics. On 6/1/07, John P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a custom tag which you can create an RSS feed from a cfquery? I've attempted to use Tom Muck's but I get the follow error.

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-24 Thread Jerry Johnson
i use google custom pages, now called iGoogle. I have tabs and sets of feeds for different disciplines, like coding,news business, woodworking, hiking/kayaking/outdoors, green architectures, etc. On 5/24/07, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a conversation I had with Sean Corfield

Re: OT: is this wrong on my client's part?

2007-05-15 Thread Jerry Johnson
If his needs are that strict, make him provide an exact duplicate system for development and testing, so you can test in an exact replica of his environment, without being on his servers. This will save money in the long run, by cutting down on testing rounds, and providing a good platform for

Good cf-compatible javascript library to handle dragable page sections

2007-04-09 Thread Jerry Johnson
like this, but am reluctant to sink the hours at the moment into building it myself. thanks for any info, Jerry Johnson ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create powerful cross-platform RIAs http

Re: Good cf-compatible javascript library to handle dragable page sections

2007-04-09 Thread Jerry Johnson
Thanks, Jon, That is exactly what I was hoping for. I realize that a given javascript implementation is not always tied directly to the application server technology, but there are always favorites and people who've already done it I am hoping to piggyback onto. On 4/9/07, Jon Clausen [EMAIL

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