Re: Database inserts seem to timeout

2013-05-10 Thread Mike Chabot
It could be a database resource locking issue. Try committing transactions in smaller batches, such as after every insert. -Mike Chabot On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Tom McNeer tmcn...@gmail.com wrote: @Chris, Thanks for the thought. Placing things in a array would require me to wrap

Re: CDC in sql 2008

2013-03-28 Thread Mike Chabot
code both at the application level and the database level. This assumes you are using the same database connection string for every Web site user and that you care about who makes the database changes. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Asim Manzur bytel...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: dragon dictation and CF

2013-03-22 Thread Mike Chabot
the presenter has a higher opinion of voice recognition software than I do. I only spent a day using Dragon before giving up on it. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Chad Gray cg...@careyweb.com wrote: Has anyone tried to use Dragon dictation software to write CF code? I saw

Re: Ajax tutorial or book

2013-03-21 Thread Mike Chabot
. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Huff, Jerome P (IS) jerome.h...@ngc.comwrote: I have been using CF for 8 years and now have a project that I think ajax will be great for, but I don't understand how to get started. I have looked at some tutorials, but I don't understand where

Re: Porting password hash mechanism from C#

2013-02-04 Thread Mike Chabot
Do you need to be able to validate the same password in both C# and CF? You might try a service like pastebin that formats code since in email all the tabs and line breaks go away making it hard to read. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bert Dawson bert...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: calling coldfusion page from SSIS package

2012-09-19 Thread Mike Chabot
it off to SQL Agent using the Execute SQL Server Agent Job Task. -Use the Web Service Task. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:57 AM, fun and learning funandlrnn...@gmail.comwrote: If it is the CF job that executes the SSIS package, surely the very fact that it running is proof

Re: Looking for Homesite+

2012-08-16 Thread Mike Chabot
If you have any old Macromedia demo/trial CDs, the full installer should be on those as well. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Michael Muller ad...@montaguema.netwrote: I recently bought a new laptop and am installing all my apps on it, until I realized I can't find my old

Re: CF upgrade - is it possible?

2012-06-20 Thread Mike Chabot
If you have a CF10 license you can get a CF9 serial number by contacting Adobe customer support. They might charge you $20. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Bryan Stevenson br...@electricedgesystems.com wrote: Hey All, We've got CF 9 developer edition on our DEV server

Re: Coldfusion 9 certification

2012-03-29 Thread Mike Chabot
the one Brainbench offers. If your main goal is to learn features that you haven't used before, read the developer guide and the manual cover to cover, followed by the Ben Forta books. Good luck, Mike Chabot On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:15 PM, fun and learning funandlrnn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All

Re: Opinion: Abuse of session variables

2012-02-01 Thread Mike Chabot
. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Robert Harrison rob...@austin-williams.com wrote: Thanks for all the input.  Besides the fact that the application could conceivably have hundreds of thousands of session Vars in memory, I'm concerned about collision too. I see no scope

Re: Opinion: Abuse of session variables

2012-02-01 Thread Mike Chabot
scopes. I think many developers would prefer to ignore the issue because locking isn't fun and race conditions are a challenging issue to understand. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: This is largely false since the release of CF6. Race

Re: Opinion: Abuse of session variables

2012-02-01 Thread Mike Chabot
navigation element (possibly controlled by a URL variable), starts running a page that takes so long to process that they hit the browser timeout before the code finishes processing, so they run it again, and likely some other scenarios. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:37 PM, James Holmes

Re: Best Practice question about database access between Dev and Production Servers

2012-01-28 Thread Mike Chabot
an embedded password. -Mike Chabot On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Brook Davies cft...@logiforms.com wrote: Hello, I'm setting up a new environment and I would like to have the ability, through a web UI to copy objects from our production database (separate server) to a development/debugging

Re: One app kills another's session

2011-12-19 Thread Mike Chabot
in the site. Make sure that your site actually uses client variables and that client variables are the most appropriate variable type choice. The majority of Web applications do not need client variables enabled. -Mike Chabot On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Nick Gleason n.glea...@citysoft.com wrote: Mike

Re: Cached query with execution time?

2011-12-19 Thread Mike Chabot
it likely means that the database is doing a complete table scan because it doesn't have a good index to use. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com wrote: It this right?  I thought if your cached a query there would be no execution time for the cached

Re: One app kills another's session

2011-12-18 Thread Mike Chabot
are showing personalized information on a site not protected by SSL, then you should consider disabling caching. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Nick Gleason n.glea...@citysoft.com wrote: Hi Mike, Thanks for the follow up.  It seems to only happen with certain computers and only

Re: One app kills another's session

2011-12-16 Thread Mike Chabot
Maybe see if you are up to date with CF patches. I would put in a lot of logging code to track the session tokens, as well as other session and cookie variables, and try to isolate exactly where the problem occurs. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Bryan Stevenson br

Re: One app kills another's session

2011-12-15 Thread Mike Chabot
computer or a different browser. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Bryan Stevenson br...@electricedgesystems.com wrote: Hey All, Can't say that I've bumped into this before. 1) 2 apps are involved and both use SESSION vars to store user details once they login. 2) Both

Re: Is the CF scheduler Reliable?

2011-12-05 Thread Mike Chabot
. If a page execution takes longer than the scheduled repeating interval, say it takes 15 minutes to run a page that is scheduled to run every five minutes, and there is no multi-threading protection in the code, then this can be another source of problems. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:25 PM

Re: PDF maker tag

2011-12-05 Thread Mike Chabot
, that had some generic name like HTMLtoPDF, although these days I might first look to the open source library that powers the modern cfdocument tag in CF9 called iText. Or you could upgrade to CF9. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Jim Mixon bigjim0...@yahoo.com wrote: Can anyone

Adobe Abandons Flex

2011-11-15 Thread Mike Chabot
Adobe announced this week that they are ending their commitment to further Flex development. Flex 4.6 will likely be the last version Adobe releases and the Flex SDK engineers will be reassigned to HTML 5 projects. Future Flex development will come from the open source community. The

Re: Adobe Abandons Flex

2011-11-15 Thread Mike Chabot
Open source is a phrase that can have a few interpretations. In this case it means Adobe is not going to devote any more company resources into future development. I think the outcome will be the same as what happened to Spectra, unless the Flex community convinces Adobe to change their mind. I

Re: Adobe Abandons Flex

2011-11-15 Thread Mike Chabot
, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Bryan Stevenson br...@electricedgesystems.com wrote: They say they are assigning some Flex SDK engineers to the open source team...did we read the same announcement?? On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 16:08 -0500, Mike Chabot wrote: Open source is a phrase that can have a few

Re: word doc to PDF

2011-11-08 Thread Mike Chabot
on servers without any notable reservations. PrimoPDF is another big name in this space, although I don't know much about their enterprise server products. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: anyone got any recommendations for DOC to PDF conversion

Re: Event gateway, cfmail?

2011-10-15 Thread Mike Chabot
Are you familiar with the cfpop and cfimap tags? These are probably the easier route to a solution that using the event gateway feature. I will assume you are already familiar with cfmail to send mail. -Mike Chabot On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Les Irvin les.cft...@gmail.com wrote: I want

Re: Event gateway, cfmail?

2011-10-15 Thread Mike Chabot
the scheduled task in ColdFusion Administrator. -Mike Chabot On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Les Irvin les.cft...@gmail.com wrote: I am familiar with those, but how could I use them to effectively create an immediate dynamic autoresponder? Wouldn't I have to set something up to initiate

Re: SOT: READ UNCOMMITTED

2011-09-30 Thread Mike Chabot
impact on the production database. -Mike Chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:45 PM, John M Bliss bliss.j...@gmail.com wrote: We have a fairly high-traffic ACF 8 site where SQL Server database gets hit with two types of queries: type 1 - about 1-5 SELECTS per

Re: CreateObject referencing a .NET assembly on Network Storage

2011-09-19 Thread Mike Chabot
Have you tried making sure your code works in a development environment with the DLL available locally? -Mike Chabot On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Andrey Baranov andrey.bara...@dmv.ny.gov wrote: The main issue is that the dll is not being found. I am getting the error: Class

Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

2011-09-07 Thread Mike Chabot
I normally build my own workstations, but if I were to buy a workstation today I would likely get one from Puget Systems, such as the Puget Serenity SPCR Edition. I've never ordered from that store, but they get universally good reviews. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Matt

Re: (ot) Need info on attempted acquisition by MS in 1995

2011-08-24 Thread Mike Chabot
that never happened. The topic of the conversation seems interesting. If you would like feedback on what you were thinking of talking about, go ahead and post it to the list (maybe a different thread though). -Mike Chabot On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Billy Cravens bdcrav...@gmail.com wrote

Re: (ot) Need info on attempted acquisition by MS in 1995

2011-08-24 Thread Mike Chabot
Be careful with that aspquery tag example. ASP.NET does have something very similar to cfquery called SqlDataSource. It looks like this: asp:SqlDataSource SelectCommand=SELECT LastName FROM Employees / -Mike Chabot On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Billy Cravens bdcrav...@gmail.com wrote

Re: (ot) MS SSIS (BIDS) 2008 options

2011-08-19 Thread Mike Chabot
shouldn't have to delete the package and start over again based on that encryption setting. Just have the package creator open the package, change the setting, and resave it. -Mike Chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) sd1...@att.com

Re: Committing Line by Line Changes?

2011-07-27 Thread Mike Chabot
lines of code to commit. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Shannon Rhodes shan...@rhodesedge.comwrote: I've been charged with choosing versioning software for our team, and I'd like to recommend Subversion but there's a developer who wants a feature that I'm not sure Subversion

Re: CF vs. Java Web Developer

2011-06-21 Thread Mike Chabot
to address the current shortage of good CF programmers in various regions. Rhode Island (where the OP is), is not a hotbed of CF talent, but it is surrounded by some of the world's best universities that pump out a fresh crop of Java programmers every year. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:46 AM

Re: Retrieve data in groups

2011-06-21 Thread Mike Chabot
Yes, it means you are likely out of memory, probably because you are loading too much database data into the server's RAM. You can reduce the amount of RAM used by reducing the number of database columns or database rows retrieved by the Web page that is running out of RAM. -Mike Chabot On Tue

Re: CF vs. Java Web Developer

2011-06-20 Thread Mike Chabot
What you heard is false. I agree with what Jason said. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:18 PM, scott bloodworth sbloodwo...@rinovelty.com wrote: Have heard that these two skill sets work hand in hand. One can easily learn the other environment fairly easy, is this true

Re: CF vs. Java Web Developer

2011-06-20 Thread Mike Chabot
CF 9 provides nearly every feature a Web site could need without having to extend it in any significant way. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Andrew Scott andr...@andyscott.id.auwrote: Actually than can work hand in hand, there are a lot of things that ColdFusion can't do out

Re: Retrieve data in groups

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Chabot
is a reasonable number for CF to handle, although processing each row individually probably bumps up against the default timeout limit. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Torrent Girl moniqueb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All. Is there a way for me to retrieve records from a db in groups? I

Re: CFPDF Performance Issues

2011-06-14 Thread Mike Chabot
all the images from the PDF, is there still a noticeable speed difference? -Mike Chabot On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Edward Chanter firew...@cc.uk.com wrote: I'm having a bit of a weird issue with the creation of PDFs. The issue is quite simple, we have two servers and one is generating

Re: CFPDF Performance Issues

2011-06-14 Thread Mike Chabot
Image handling is the most likely cause of the slowness. The first test I would do is to temporarily take out every image, or knock out all HTML tags if you are pulling content from CFHTTP, to see how many seconds those tags contribute to the creation time. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Jun 14, 2011

Re: Homesite 5.5

2011-06-11 Thread Mike Chabot
, but it is there. You have to find the HomeSite folder on the CD and install it separately from everything else. HomeSite might also be found on the various trial or demo CDs Macromedia used to hand out. -Mike Chabot On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:20 AM, edmo...@sitecon.com edmo...@sitecon.com edmo...@sitecon.com

Re: scoping

2011-05-19 Thread Mike Chabot
to a function. This is a common problem and it is absolutely a best practice to identify local variables as being local variables. Not doing so is a coding mistake, and one that is quite common. -Mike Chabot On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: A good

Re: scoping

2011-05-18 Thread Mike Chabot
variables does more good than harm. Even though scoping local variables doesn't add much value to the Web site, it does help separate you from the masses of inexperienced CF programmers, and that is enough of a reason to do it. -Mike Chabot On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Eric Roberts ow

Re: Good CF Host in Texas

2011-04-16 Thread Mike Chabot
instances with Rackspace. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Les Mizzell lesm...@bellsouth.net wrote: Client is requesting that hosting *has* to be in Texas. I've NO idea why. But - anybody familiar with good reliable, CF hosting in Texas with *helpful* 24/7 tech support? Most of my stuff

Re: cfquery returning 0 in scientific notation in CF 8 but not CF 7

2011-02-17 Thread Mike Chabot
the problem. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:44 PM, James Skemp jsk...@wisbar.org wrote: Looks like you might need to revise the procedure to CAST the calculated value back to Numeric(10,2) before returning it? Carl Yeah, which is what we're doing for this one to resolve the issue

Re: cfquery returning 0 in scientific notation in CF 8 but not CF 7

2011-02-16 Thread Mike Chabot
using? -Mike Chabot On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:20 AM, James Skemp jsk...@wisbar.org wrote: Greetings. In one of our systems we're upgrading from ColdFusion 7 to CF 8. While testing a piece of functionality we were getting 0 returned as 0E-8 for a query using a stored procedure. If the value

Re: cfquery returning 0 in scientific notation in CF 8 but not CF 7

2011-02-16 Thread Mike Chabot
, the value pulled directly out of a database table and placed in the cfquery record set, the variable that is being assigned the value, or both? -Mike Chabot On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:29 PM, James Skemp jsk...@wisbar.org wrote: Thanks for the clarification questions, Mike. What is the data type

Re: cfquery returning 0 in scientific notation in CF 8 but not CF 7

2011-02-16 Thread Mike Chabot
to your question, I don't have one. Perhaps someone else has seen this issue when upgrading CF. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:43 PM, James Skemp jsk...@wisbar.org wrote: It occurred to me that I should first ask if this issue is causing any problems, or if it is only an unexpected way

Re: Database connection cross over

2011-02-10 Thread Mike Chabot
have seen the issue with the symptoms that you describe it turns out to be a developer-caused error, not a server error, network error, or a random bug. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Matt Williams mgw...@gmail.com wrote: Basics: Windows 2003 server, CF 7.0.2, SQL Server 8

Re: Database connection cross over

2011-02-10 Thread Mike Chabot
for use [database] SQL. Following that, run a SQL trace to try to capture the event occurring, which should reveal enough details about the user account, application name, and the exact SQL that is run, to identify where the source of the problem is. -Mike Chabot

Re: Mobile Editor: What's the best one?

2011-02-08 Thread Mike Chabot
on a Web site. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Matthew Lowrey rid...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all: I just got my first android (tMobile myTouch 4G) and I'm excited to dive into doing things on my phone I would normally do on my laptop. One of them is building webpages or developing

Re: Math weirdness

2011-02-03 Thread Mike Chabot
- 3.2 + 8 - 8# = 0 #3.2 + 8 - 3.2 - 8# = -8.881784197E-016 #0.6/0.2# = 3 #0.6/0.2 - 3# = -4.4408920985E-016 -Mike Chabot On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Jen McVicker snarkmeis...@gmail.com wrote: OK, a coworker sent this over to me and I am puzzled: cfset number1 = evaluate(12.5 * 1.1

Re: Exporting query data

2011-02-02 Thread Mike Chabot
The easiest way is to do this within SQL Server Management Studio. There are a few methods of exporting data built into that product, all of them easy to use. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Richard Steele r...@photoeye.com wrote: Is there an easy way to export SQL query data

Re: Anyone know anything about this new ColdFusion conference?

2011-01-31 Thread Mike Chabot
You forgot the link: http://instantrimshot.com/ http://instantrimshot.com/This thread reminds me of the movie Inception. Multiple layers and some confused people. I think Donna fell into limbo. It started out ok. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:24 PM, andy matthews li

Re: why is cf_builder so expensive?

2011-01-29 Thread Mike Chabot
user base. Nick Bradbury did an amazing job with HomeSite. -Mike Chabot On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Scott Brady dsbr...@gmail.com wrote: To be fair to Adobe, two of the products you mentioned they killed off were a result of the Macromedia purchase which led to them having duplicate

Re: why is cf_builder so expensive?

2011-01-28 Thread Mike Chabot
the product myself method of persuasion/sales can be very effective in any industry. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: I disagree with the suggestion that the technologies major companies decide to use is unimportant to developers. I am active

Re: why is cf_builder so expensive?

2011-01-28 Thread Mike Chabot
. GoLive, Freehand and Spectra come to mind. Granted, Adobe is nowhere near as bad as Microsoft in this regard. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: Microsoft's uncertain commitment to Silverlight is the biggest area of concern for many Microsoft

Re: Insert without checking existance

2011-01-28 Thread Mike Chabot
. If there are a lot of deletes and updates, locking becomes more important. -Mike Chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Michael Dinowitz mdino...@houseoffusion.com wrote: Yes. if exists(statement) something else something else The question I have to look

Re: Insert without checking existance

2011-01-27 Thread Mike Chabot
: there is a near zero risk of two inserts happening at the same time. If this assumption is false, then the recommended solution changes because it is not thread-safe. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: Is exists() more efficient than

Re: why is cf_builder so expensive?

2011-01-27 Thread Mike Chabot
in that they acquired most of their major development products, but that excuse cannot be used forever. -Mike Chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: if you go on mailing lists for those other products

Re: favorite coldfusion host

2011-01-26 Thread Mike Chabot
that lets you see all the prior answers to these questions. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Michael Firth mfsqlser...@gmail.comwrote: Curious to see what everybody's favorite coldfusion host is also? Hostek? CrystalTech? DailyRazor

Re: why is cf_builder so expensive?

2011-01-26 Thread Mike Chabot
, newness, learning curve, etc. HomeSite, Eclipse, and Dreamweaver are still popular alternatives. I would guess that ColdFusion Builder is in 4th place in terms of popularity. -Mike Chabot ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology

Re: Cache on Updates

2011-01-20 Thread Mike Chabot
When I make a change to a .js file or a .css file and I want to be sure that users have the latest version, I change the name of the file, such as script1.js, script2.js, etc. I think this is the best way. Maybe you could put a dummy URL variable on the path as an alternative. -Mike Chabot

Re: html to pdf... again.

2011-01-14 Thread Mike Chabot
tables to precisely control the layout instead of CSS positioning. Third party commercial programs do a better job at turning HTML into PDFs. ActivePDF is a popular third party tool that works well. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Les Irvin les.cft...@gmail.com wrote: This should

Re: html to pdf... again.

2011-01-14 Thread Mike Chabot
There are a lot of settings, many of which are important, such as those controlling image handling and page margins. The reference guide lists all of them. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Les Irvin les.cft...@gmail.com wrote: Are there innumerable options and settings needed

Re: Open source - No Mortgage

2011-01-13 Thread Mike Chabot
Many, if not most, of the successful established open source projects have large corporate, governmental, or educational backers that pay the contributors to these projects (aka, their employees) very well. I have gotten paid for all the open source projects I have worked on. -Mike Chabot

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Chabot
certain problems. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Irvin Gomez ir...@pixel69.com wrote: Coming from a design, not programming, background, I embraced Coldfusion for all the well-known reasons: easy to use, easy to learn, easy, easy...you get the idea. With the advent of more

Re: compare using cfcase

2011-01-11 Thread Mike Chabot
I know this is not a direct answer to your question, but in your scenario you should not be using cfcase. You should be using cfif/cfelse since there are only two possible conditions. Also remember that the Compare function is case-sensitive. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:08 PM

Re: Mailing List program

2011-01-07 Thread Mike Chabot
You might want to be more specific. Your question could be interpreted in a few different ways. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Asim Manzur bytel...@gmail.com wrote: Any recommendation for the CF mailing list application

Re: SQL 2008 standard vs. web

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Chabot
version and switch to the more expensive version later on, unless there is a feature of the Standard version that you know is essential, such as the disaster recovery features that only exist in the more expensive versions. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Michael Dinowitz mdino

Re: Auto Incrementing Seed vs CF UUID

2010-12-20 Thread Mike Chabot
. Kimberly Tripp is an authority on this subject and has lot of information on her Web site and in the PowerPoint slides from her classes. Her PowerPoint slides might not be on her public Web site. -Mike Chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12

Re: coldfusion json truncates leading zeroes

2010-12-14 Thread Mike Chabot
You might consider exploring the open-source JSON functions instead of using the built-in ColdFusion function. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/747765 -Mike Chabot On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:52 AM, fun and learning funandlrnn...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All - I am using jquery jqgrid

Re: coldfusion json truncates leading zeroes

2010-12-14 Thread Mike Chabot
Which JSON libraries did you observe not performing well? -Mike Chabot On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Brook Davies cft...@logiforms.com wrote: Note that they are considerably slower than the built in serializeJSON() functions on large objects.. Brook -Original Message- From

Re: coldfusion json truncates leading zeroes

2010-12-14 Thread Mike Chabot
Thanks for the clarification. Also, by killed I assume that you mean serializing JSON is generally much faster than serializing WDDX. I have read other people make this observation as well. -Mike Chabot On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Brook Davies cft...@logiforms.com wrote: I tested

Re: Log That Keeps Track of Scheduled Tasks

2010-12-11 Thread Mike Chabot
In addition to the built-in scheduler log in ColdFusion administrator, you can also look at your Web server logs. Custom logging is fairly easy to add as well. If you were expecting emails that you didn't get, be sure to check the undelivered mail folder in the ColdFusion directory. -Mike Chabot

Re: COMODO Wiper - Currupt Files - Anybody Know How To Get Them Back?

2010-11-24 Thread Mike Chabot
Comodo is a large for-profit company. They have a phone number that you can call to get help with their products. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Matthew Lowrey rid...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Fellow HoFers: I have a very big problem and I'm hoping to find a solution.  I've

Re: What was that security again?

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Chabot
GRANT SELECT GRANT EXECUTE Is that what you are looking for? -Mike Chabot On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Brian Polackoff bpolack...@gmx.com wrote: I admit this question is a touch off topic, but the SQL list is not nearly as active. Can anyone tell me what the minimum MS SQL server 2005

Re: What was that security again?

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Chabot
if users need to truncate though. -Mike Chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: Yes but it is a safe role, you can;t do anything dodgy -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: 18

Re: coldfusion standard edition version switched to developer edition?!

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Chabot
The easiest thing to do would be to enter the CF8 standard serial number. That is what I would do in your situation. I wonder what caused it to happen. Maybe the config file got messed up. If you keep server backups you could restore your CF config files from backup. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Nov

Re: Where to put your code

2010-11-15 Thread Mike Chabot
? This security application logic could require a cflocation, cfinclude, or cfabort tag. Do cflocation tags go into the CFC? Yes you could do all these things in a CFC, but it is ideal? -Mike Chabot On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Paul Alkema paulalkemadesi...@gmail.com wrote: I think that when working

Re: Where to put your code

2010-11-12 Thread Mike Chabot
opinion might be different. In at true OO language, I put functions into objects without hesitation. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Paul Alkema paulalkemadesi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I recently had a discussion with some other programmers on my team dealing with where

Re: Where to put your code

2010-11-12 Thread Mike Chabot
, the phrase my preferred location in order to keep coding styles consistent throughout the application might be better. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:04 PM, James Holmes james.hol...@gmail.com wrote: Why not create the CFC in the application scope to cache it in RAM? On 13 November

Re: Best Way to Trap SQL Error

2010-11-08 Thread Mike Chabot
A good site-wide error handler that sends alert e-mails would help. The cferror tag is one method that works well. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Rick Colman rcol...@cox.net wrote: What is the best way to gracefully trap this sort of error ... Error Executing Database Query

Re: Algorithms

2010-10-04 Thread Mike Chabot
The topics on that page won't be obviously beneficial to most ColdFusion programmers. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:25 PM, fun and learning funandlrnn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All- This question is not directly related to Coldfusion. I just came across the below lectures

Re: Managed Exchange Host

2010-10-02 Thread Mike Chabot
Microsoft offers managed Exchange hosting. I don't have any direct experience with them, but I think Microsoft uses that same service internally, which I would assumes motivates them to do a good job. http://www.microsoft.com/online/exchange-hosted-services.aspx -Mike Chabot On Sat, Oct 2, 2010

Re: cfoutput or cfloop? which is the more practical solution

2010-09-26 Thread Mike Chabot
The grouped output doesn't work because the exact years are not known in the query output. Only the date range is known. -Mike Chabot On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: did the grouped cfoutpout not work for you then ? On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:55 AM

Re: cfoutput or cfloop? which is the more practical solution

2010-09-26 Thread Mike Chabot
numbers 1900 - 2100 or so, to cover the years someone would be in office. The only purpose the table would have would be to join to the start and end date ranges to create artificial rows that can be grouped on. I suppose you could call your table years instead of numbers. -Mike Chabot On Sat, Sep 25

Re: cfoutput or cfloop? which is the more practical solution

2010-09-26 Thread Mike Chabot
If someone is in office with a range of 2004 - 2006, the year 2005 does not appear in the SQL results, yet 2005 needs to be grouped on. You can't group on a value that doesn't exist. There is no year column in the output to group on, only a start date and an end date. -Mike Chabot On Sun, Sep

Re: cfoutput or cfloop? which is the more practical solution

2010-09-26 Thread Mike Chabot
= ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON, FILLFACTOR = 100) ON [PRIMARY] ) ON [PRIMARY] declare @counter int set @counter = 0 begin tran while @counter 8000 begin set @counter = @counter + 1 INSERT INTO numbers (number) VALUES (@counter) print 'The counter is ' + cast(@counter as char) end commit -Mike Chabot

Re: cfoutput or cfloop? which is the more practical solution

2010-09-25 Thread Mike Chabot
, then cfoutput the array or structure. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:28 PM, GLM g...@glmdesigns.com wrote: Thanks Mike, I'm not a SQL expert but I don't see how. I can do something with particular fields such as the year the person was elected (governorDateStart) or when the person

Re: cfoutput or cfloop? which is the more practical solution

2010-09-24 Thread Mike Chabot
Are you able to craft a query that will return the results you need without ColdFusion having to do any extra parsing of it? That is the first thing I would try. In your brief example it seems like that would be solved using a GROUP BY statement in the query. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Sep 24, 2010

Re: WHERE Left(str,5) = 'string' VS WHERE str LIKE 'string%'

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Chabot
is wildly complex relative to what the function is doing for you. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: What about mySQL? Do you know if this is documented and easy to find? On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:23 PM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) sd1

Re: WAY WAY OT: Book Readers, and your own words

2010-08-09 Thread Mike Chabot
The Mac Break Weekly crew was discussing an iPad app called Teleprompt on episode 200 that might be relevant to your interests. http://www.bombingbrain.com/teleprompt.html -Mike Chabot On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Marc Funaro subscripti...@advantex.net wrote: This is way OT, won't blame

Re: Stored Procedure or ORM

2010-08-08 Thread Mike Chabot
is that ColdFusion creates a temporary stored procedure on the server, then executes that temporary stored procedure. Even people who don't like using stored procedures are using them without realizing it. :) Enjoy, Mike Chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Matthew

Re: Secure Hosted Subversion Services: Suggestions and experiences?

2010-08-05 Thread Mike Chabot
source code. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Dominic Watson watson.domi...@googlemail.com wrote: Key features: * Security (proven enough to convince legal types to trust their data with) * Performance * Scalability Tales of joys / woes with hosts would be much appreciated. TIA

Re: SOT: SQL Server Performance

2010-07-29 Thread Mike Chabot
if it is RAID 10. Adding RAM takes pressure off the hard drives and is usually a good idea. 4 GB is considered a small amount of RAM for a production SQL Server box. Even 8 GB might be too little depending on what you are doing. -Mike Chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:40

Re: displaying editing text strings w/ embedded cr/lf pairs

2010-07-23 Thread Mike Chabot
is the assumption I am making, then storing two copies of the same content isn't a good idea because you would have to manually maintain both copies. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ben Conner b...@webworldinc.com wrote: Hi, I have a products table where the descriptions came

Re: Need Advice on Processing After a Page Has Been Rendered

2010-07-19 Thread Mike Chabot
edition of CF. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Che Vilnonis ch...@asitv.com wrote: I have a script that pulls data from several external sources and returns the top 500 results and takes about 3-5 seconds to render. To speed things up, I want to database the results for later use. How

Re: Is Rick Root OK? Has anyone contacted him lately?

2010-07-18 Thread Mike Chabot
At this time of year the assumption would be that he is on vacation. This is especially true for someone who works for a university and likely gets an above-average amount of paid vacation time. -Mike Chabot On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Mike Kear afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: I sent

Re: Best conference?

2010-07-14 Thread Mike Chabot
papers, articles and blog posts, all of which are free. Check out this list of conferences. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/21/web-conferences-roundup-events-from-around-the-globe/ Have fun! -Mike Chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Andrew Clarke s

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