I'm seeing a broad increase in searches on ColdFusion terms and visits from
people looking for ColdFusion content. If you look in the statistics section of
the site you'll see the numbers for June with a graph showing site usage. Note
the nice spike in usage around mid May. This is not exact
Very true.
On that note, I have to say that this debate thread is nice and all but is
drifting past the point of being a ColdFusion technical thread into being a
general tech debate with lots of me too type comments. I may have to ask
it to be moved to CF-OT soon.
Well to be fair Mikethe
directory reads
going on be detrimental to the drive or any hardware?
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com
Adobe Community Expert
It's a DVD drive. I've got about 500 CDs and DVDs of comics to index for a
job. I didn't think the async idea would be a good one but it was just so
cool in theory. I just needed someone elses input to stop me before I do
cool things that result in bad things.
The theory
is solid but the
would also be a
great help. Any ideas?
Thanks
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com
Adobe Community Expert
~|
Introducing
I run the local CFUG (NYCFUG) and using the CFUG breeze is ok for a meeting
but I'm talking 2-3 times a week for a few weeks. I mean real classes with
people in my front room being broadcasted.
I've heard that local CFUGs have free access to breeze...maybe you can
tie this into your local
covers all of the
messages since the last regeneration.
Finally, what other features would you like me to add?
If you can email me off list, I'd appreciate it but onlist posts to this thread
is ok as it's site enhancements.
Thanks
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http
If you are getting the lists in digest mode and are having any problems from
5am today on, email me off list.
Thanks
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com
Adobe Community Expert
It's the lists. I've adjusted it so it should be back fast. I got the
digests rolling and that's more mail to the mix. I'm going to see what I can
do in the next day or so about getting a dedicated mail box separate from
House of Fusion server to handle the volume of page views and mail posts.
ColdFusion users apply the following update:
http://www.adobe.com/go/287ec799
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com
Adobe Community Expert
-reactor.com/fusiondebug/index.html
and if you want to buy it, there's a community discount code for 10% off. Use
CFCOMMUNITY on the checkout information page when ordering.
If anyone wants to mention the discount anywhere else, feel free. :)
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http
Email their support address and let them know. It might be the debugger
itself, a problem with the set up, a problem integrating with you version of
eclipse or with one of the plugins your using. Your feedback to them will
probably trigger a response to help get it working which in turn will
Can we please kill this thread so I don't have to do so in the list processing
code?
Thanks
~|
Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting,
up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers,
them directly to have my
content removed.
Thanks
(I'll be explaining what they are doing and how later today on Blog of Fusion.
it's a bit long and complicated)
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http
You're thinking about onlycoldfusionjobs.com
This is just a WAG, but I remember ColdFusionJobs.com used to be a real
site, with real CF Jobs listed. Looking at this site I thin what we are
seeing is whomever owned the domain let it expire and some A**hole grabbed
it up and is mis-using it.
I've
The person I talked to through Google was clueless and I asked for my issue to
be moved up the chain. I know how AdWords are supposed to be served but there
is a way of 'hacking it' by using the AdWords search feature and copying the
links from that. I'll explain it in detail on Blog of Fusion.
Jokes and trolls should be on CF-Community, not this technical mailing list.
Please move discussion with no merit what so ever to that list.
Thank you
~|
Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of
Sorry about that. I'm working on it. I've been doing a major overhaul of the
site UI and backend and the digests are being moved over to a new setup today.
The whole thing was in a single looped template but will be moved over to an
async process on a scheduled event. Much more efficient and
It's next on my list.
~|
Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting,
up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four
times a year.
I've done a major redesign of the House of Fusion user interface as well as the
backend system. Posting through the archives should work as long as your
subscribed to the list in question. The same goes for posting by email. If
there is a problem, you will get an error message as long as your
Feature. The email is a reminder to trim your posts, not a message saying that
the job has been done for you.
Error reporting feature is great, however, I got a message too long
error and it came through anyway... bug or feature?
All I ask is that people trim content from their posts that is not
important. I think the filter is set to 100 lines, which is usually more
than enough for anyone. :)
As for the new features, they've been on my list for a while and I just
needed to get them in. If there's any others you would
Those who have had problems posting should be able to without any problems.
There was an old spam rule that had to be removed and a fix for people with
multiple accounts.
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http
the other week.
Those who have had problems posting should be able to without any
problems.
There was an old spam rule that had to be removed and a fix for people
with
multiple accounts.
Michael Dinowitz
hmmm...I had problems posting a week + agao, but I'm not subscribed under
more
than
Repost the message that didn't go through and CC me directly on it. I'll look
at the content and see if something is blocking it. Remember that HTML only
messages are blocked as the list depends on a message having plain text
content. There are some messages sent in HTML format without the
mismatches, etc. would be appreciated. This will help me make the method better
able to handle and parse the different stacks out there.
Thanks
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com
Adobe Community
If you have not yet seen this, check it out. Not that this is an official Adobe
survey, but if there's a huge developer call for some specific features, then
it may have an effect. It has in the past:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=354942405396
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
Is there a single PDF with all of the model-glue docs in it? The model-glue
site has a robohelp type documentation setup that kind of sucks for printing.
Thanks
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http
Please send the message again and CC me directly with it.
I have sent the same message about 3 times too and it hasn't shown up.
Stu
~|
Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting,
up-to-date
It was a mistake. The user was already subscribed and accidently sent a
subscribe message to the list. I have not added a direct email subscribe
handler to the system yet as the subscriptions have always been from the list
interface. I'll alter this to avoid such mistakes in the future.
I just got an email from them to a real beta site with the latest beta and
docs. If you have not gotten one yet, go to the site and sign up.
i would like to see a beta of this software.
On 7/12/06, Munson, Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've seen this but due to the way the list is coded, the reason is that the
sender sent more than one post. Basically, each email has a messageid which is
unique (unless forged). I treat each messageid as unique and if I get a message
with the same ID, I dump the duplicate.
Also, I have
I was told a suggested price point between $300 and $399 and I've been talking
to them and saying that a price point of $250 would be one that developers
would be 'happier' about. I feel a bit bad 'stepping into' their business but
I'm trying to play both sides. I want them to succeed and I
I once read in a book that the middle of the second quarter is when
corporations make their major changes to affect the rest of the business year.
The date is perfect for that especially as the increase is not a one time thing
but a standard (and growing) trend.
There was no news, no events,
://www.nycfug.org) meeting!
** Michael Dinowitz, head of House of Fusion, will be demoing the beta
version of FusionDebug (http://www.fusion-reactor.com/fusiondebug/), a
hot new debugger for ColdFusion (from the makers of FusionReactor)
that will work in any Eclipse environment!
** He will also
debugger
is now something we can appreciate.
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com
Adobe Community Expert
- Original Message -
From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk cf
Better debugging is on my CF8 wish list but not high up. I'll have to get my
worst practices = faster CF article out so I can say what is on the top of
my list. :)
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 09:09, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote:
But I think you will agree it should be in ColdFusion out of the
I'll be honest and say that they have lots of cash and throw money and servers
at a problem rather than tight code. I've talked to them in the past about
different things on the site and the results have been all of nothing. Of
course this was before the move to bluedragon (from CF 5) so things
I can guarantee that it's not due to Flex for a number of reasons. I have
specific 'channels' to watch Flex vs. ColdFusion searches and I am actually
paying Google AdWords to 'attract' Flex as well as ColdFusion searches. I have
top 1-2 ad position for Flex and the amount of searches and clicks
How about we keep it civil on this technical only discussion list. I'd hate to
have to write moderation software to do what civilized humans should be doing.
Thanks
Your list admin
~|
Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly
repost due to error:
I am having a hard time invoking the ws below in a Unix/CF7/Apache 2.0
environment. I can query the WSDL and it works successful in a windows dev
environ. However when going to UNIX it is unsuccessful. I am thinking that
it is a permissions issue or something. Further more I
section of House of Fusion built out a bit more in the
next few weeks. My first order of business is the Fusion Authority Quarterly
Update and making sure everyone from everywhere can subscribe (Google Checkout
is great but US only)
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http
June 2006
The graphic is January 1st to June 30th but the numbers are from June 1 to
June 30 alone.
What's the time period for these stats?
http://houseoffusion.com/statistics/
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http
In order to make the digests better, I used a 'cut down' function that I use on
the archives to remove extra quoted text and address blocks. This was a great
idea except that the full function also modifies the text for web display. I've
cut the function in half so that it'll trim but not
It's actually not any sort of scanning of the lists for email addresses. It's
either sending under my name (doubtful) or they've found a hole in one of the
forums posting pages that allow it. Probably the latter from what I can see.
I'll look into it more asap. I've been a bit tied up showing
I'm at CFUnited and just got online. I'll hunt it down and deal with it.
Sorry about that.
~|
Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:245002
Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4
A CFThrow tosses an error up to the parent of a template. An application.cfc in
some ways acts as the parent of the template but if you do a CFThrow inside of
it when using a gateway, there's nowhere for the error to go other than the
global error handler. Better to call the onError method
I'm modifying blogCFC to replace it's forms with flash forms. I'm also adding
in a security stamp to make sure that the form post is from the site page. The
concept here is that a flash form is a flash movie where the user has no clue
what form fields are being used, what data is hidden in the
If you want to send me a sample of the data I can play with it. My first
reaction is that your numbers are outside the range of an integer and this
might be the problem but I don't really see that being a problem in the code
itself. Also, what version are you using?
Michael Dinowitz
President
I'm using lists for sorting (they work very well) and I don't see anywhere that
I really use any numbers as numbers. The problem with using structures is that
you can't keep it in a specific 1,2,3 order like lists and arrays. You can fake
it with a position value, but it's more work than it's
I'm working with a flash form and I'd like to center align the submit button.
Anyone have advice? I've tried a number of approaches and they've all failed.
Thanks
http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/messages.cfm/forumid:30/threadid:57
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http
Thank you Dave. You've just make the fight against spam a little prettier.
:)
I'll explain more soon on Blog of Fusion after I finish some code and wrap
it up for people.
I'm working with a flash form and I'd like to center align
the submit button. Anyone have advice? I've tried a number of
connections.
2. The DB or CF is holding DB connections and there are none left in the 'pool'
for use.
Any possibilities I may have missed?
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com
Adobe Community Expert
I'm doing some work with flash forms and I'd love to be able to drag and drop
elements onto a page like flex builder can. Is this supported in dreamweaver?
In flex builder?
Thanks
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http
Just as a note to those who don't visit House of Fusion on a regular basis. I
put up a CFUnited list as per request. Have fun:
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CFUnited
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http
I made a number of changes to the site and digests was one of them. I'll look
into that asap. Sorry about that.
Hello,
I am receiving the digests from the address test@houseoffusion.com,
which means they are all dropping into my inbox... Is this the new
address for the list or will this be
If anyone else on digest mode is getting the list to an address other then
CF-Talk, please email me off list. I'm not getting a problem but at least
one person is and I'd like to kill any errors.
Thanks
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher
Proper usage of H tags, links, keywords in actual sentences and the like are
more important by far. I've tried moving things around and it really had no
effect that I could see. Of course that may be due to my position to start,
but
I'd have a proper distribution of links, sentences and
Use this to see what the spiders see:
http://www.dlperry.com/what_search_engine_spiders_see.html
My goal is to have 1 H1, a few H2's, a few H3's, a few related external
links and a good distribution of keywords in sentence format (more important
than you would think). Looking at the bottom part
There is a simple solution to this. Flash Forms.
These little buggers drive me CRAZY! They visit your guest books and
other forms and put in the most unimaginable porn links and crap ...
~|
Message:
CF-Community or CF-OT would be the best places but I'll put up a CFUnited list
tonight.
There is a forum up on the cfunited site
(http://www.cfunited.com/fusetalk/forum), but yeah, the HoF lists
probably get much more traffic. Depending on how much of a hassle it
is to set up a new list, might
on Regular
Expressions by our own Ben Forta:
Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672325667/houseoffusion
Good luck with the contest
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http
Having already built something exactly like this for anti-spam work, I can say
that just about every rule I have is a Regular Expression. The only rules that
aren't are the len(from), len(to), len(subject) rules.
The issue of Regular Expressions is control. How can you check if there are
pound
This article may help you. It's what I use for House of Fusion's URLs.
http://www.fusionauthority.com/Techniques/4226-Search-Engine-Safe-SES-URLs.htm
What are some ways to make URLs more friendly for our product pages?
My marketing guy wants to put these types of URLs in his ads:
product codes are actually only two letters he wants it like this (and
here is a real example ya'll can go to).
http://www.keystonesymposia.org/E6
Matt
On 6/8/06, Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This article may help you. It's what I use for House of Fusion's URLs.
http
Looks like a site wide error. I'm sure it'll be handled soon enough.
any one having issues with the http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/ site??
~|
Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:242770
Archives:
a coincidence?
On 07/06/06, Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks like a site wide error. I'm sure it'll be handled soon enough.
any one having issues with the http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/ site??
~|
Message: http
Sorry. Server issues. I've been working on it. I would have had everything
moved over to the new hardware last week but between a funeral, major holiday
and the flu (currently), I've been a bit tied up. Everything's fixed now and
the move to the new hardware will be happening soon.
I'll also
to have the funeral tomorrow morning and then be back in NY
before 7:30 for a major holiday.
Thanks and sorry again for the OT post.
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com
Adobe Community Expert
to write my own?
Thanks
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com
Adobe Community Expert
~|
Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com
if
they happen at the same time. In an application.cfm this is handled by doing a
check to see if an application variable exists, if not lock the application and
then check again.
If no one has solid data on this then I'll be testing it out and posting the
results here and on Blog of Fusion.
Michael
and then check again.
If no one has solid data on this then I'll be testing it out and posting
the results here and on Blog of Fusion.
Michael Dinowitz
Host: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com
Always a good idea to test the docs, especially when you have an article on
it in the upcoming print edition of the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update.
From the LiveDocs
(http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/0696.htm)
Use this method for application initialization code;
I'll have to test that as it sounds logical but doesn't 'feel' right. Your
probably totally correct, but
Sessions and applications are entirely different beasts here. For both
the starting point is the part of the manual James referred to. But
for sessions there is an additional
?
On 5/23/06, Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
~|
Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:241215
Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4
Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com
Ray, Have you given any thought of moving the reinit out of the
application.cfc and into an admin section or the like? I'm never happy about
allowing 'just anybody' who visits my site the ability to reinitialize it.
About 99% of the code I've seen out there just set a bunch of
Application
That's the difference between marketting and what the software actually reports.
8.5 is now version 9.0
~|
Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:241119
Archives:
Here are some stats I can get from analytics for House of Fusion alone in
the last week (14-20):
Number of new, unique users:28435
Number of unique returning visiters:3844
Google is responsable for 88.05% of hits on the site (almost all due to
search)
Google is responsable for 32603 visits
India
over 1.5% are using 9)
Don't you mean 8.5?
-Original Message-
From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 May 2006 19:51
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Google Analytics?
Here are some stats I can get from analytics for House of Fusion alone in
the last week (14-20
http://www.google.com/analytics/
Michael Dinowitz
Host: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
http://www.fusionauthority.com
And there's a whole lot more
That sounds interesting, how do you get
This request comes up every month or so and as we've seen from long subjects,
it's more of a waste of space than anything else. I rewrite the from line to
ALWAYS contain the same text per list and you can sort on that. Additionally,
any House of Fusion email will come from 64.118.74.230, 245,
If the lists are down the best thing to do is give me a call. My number is on
the top right hand side of the House of Fusion and Fusion Authority websites (2
different machines).
I was out at a client most of the day and didn't see the emails till I was on
the bus. I was able to reset the mail
When creating a query using QueryNew() you can add an optional second
attribute to it which will define each column as a specific data type. This
will avoid the error:
QueryNew(columnlist, [columntypelist])
Michael Dinowitz
Host: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher
-
From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 9:42 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Query of Queries
When creating a query using QueryNew() you can add an optional second
attribute to it which will define each column as a specific data type.
This
will avoid
This is covered in the following Adobe tech notes:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=42dcb10a
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/coldfusion/mx701updater/oracle10g.html
Good afternoon HOF users,
I'm a first time poster and I'm a business analyst...
so I'm not that
I was on the labs site and no matter what browser I use I just can't download
anything. I looked for a help, feedback, problems, or whatever button and no
luck. Anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong?
I log in wth my username/password and then try to download. IE gets this url
and an error:
a bunch of searches on
the site for the thread.
Thanks
p.s. If the url is too long, I can give you a smaller and cleaner version based
on the new rollout of the site (still under wraps).
Michael Dinowitz
President: House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Publisher: Fusion Authority
of 3 hits, and lower that to 1 hit.
color me crazy, but i like dollars in my pocket, and i know google ads
pay... so why not get the extra views?
tw
On 5/11/06, Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While I appreciate people blogging about specific topics and discussions
that come up
While I appreciate feedback on the features I supply to the list, I do request
that non-tech discussions be moved to either CF-Community or for those who
don't want to take part in the insanity over there, the CF-OT list.
Thank you
Looks like a plugin
Just curious -- which role does this authentication.cfc have? Is this a
plugin? You can find out my examining mach-ii.xml what role this does
have.
~|
Message:
Might be code logic, might be outside tags (if you have CFX tags), might be a
bad admin setup. Have you moded the settings? Change the JVM or concurrent
processes? There were a few great threads about optimizing CF on the list. I'll
try to dig them up.
Hello.
I have just migrated an
I had mentioned a problem with an app I was debugging in this thread:
http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/messages.cfm/forumid:4/threadid:45659
My solution was to write a function that mimicked the functionality of a QofQ
without having to use it. The function (with some mods) was posted here:
In what piece of the code do you see this by the way? Listeners and the
model shouldn't touch the request scope... (and preferably not plugins
or filters either)
The functionality is authentication.cfc. From what I can see, these queries are
needed per run because they contain announcements and
I assume what your seeing is a firewall alert saying CF wants to connect? If
so, just let it connect even if there is no connection to the net. It may be a
number of things but allowing it doesn't hurt at all. I have CF on my laptop
and have allowed this and no prob.
Things it can be are:
CF
For immediate release - April 28, 2006
- Cartweaver 2.17.11 update released -
This free incremental update is released to address a potential issue with
erroneous values passed to a query in a URL variable. Cartweaver 2 CF has
always used Custom Error handling to present benign error
Beta release of next version of JRun appserver code named Cheetah, is
available. Adobe JRun Team is inviting serious evaluators to give feedback on
this beta release. Contact '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to be included in the Beta
program.
We plan to give away JRun licenses for the top 3 finders of
I subscribed a few weeks back and have seen nothing. On the other hand, I have
been seeing the Mach II list from topica but they will not let me post. This is
another reason I just don't join lists there (besides spam).
OK, so I've been having problems with Topica lately. I can't seem to
I'm debugging a Mach II app and there is a massive bottleneck in a single
portion of it where a query that is stored in memory is queried against using
an IN statement. The IN statement is using over 20 UUIDs as the elements to
find which is quite insane, especially as none of the queries are
Ah, but that brings it back to the issue of QofQ being a bottleneck. Doing a
QofQ per row that we want to keep is less efficient than doing a number of
OR statements inside the QofQ.
There may be no QueryDeleteRow() in CF, but I find that I can easily
make
that functionality by doing a
I've posted the Query of Query function code to Blog of Fusion with some
comments. I'll be testing it on the client in a few minutes and will post if
it solves the spike.
http://www.blogoffusion.com/index.cfm/2006/4/25/Query-of-Query-function
I'm debugging a Mach II app and there is a massive
501 - 600 of 2843 matches
Mail list logo