RE: 2007 Web Design Survey

2007-10-19 Thread Rick Walters
From the point of view of the small business sector and for-hire consulting and design groups, I could see how someone might see cold fusion and web design work as code monkey tasks. But, in your larger, more established IT departments, there are jobs you can only hold with a dozen years of

Graphing Solutions Beyond CFGraph

2003-09-18 Thread Rick Walters
Hi list, I am searching for a graphing engine that will allow me to display 2 Y axis, one on the right and one on the left. Ordinarily I am not interested in people trying to peddle non-CF solutions, but I don't think CFGraph is going to help me with this problem. So, if you know a good

RE: Graphing Solutions Beyond CFGraph

2003-09-18 Thread Rick Walters
intuitive chart builder application. It works with .NET, CF, Java, ASP very well. You can check it out at www.corda.com. HTH Bruce -Original Message- From: Rick Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Graphing Solutions Beyond

RE: Graphing Solutions Beyond CFGraph

2003-09-18 Thread Rick Walters
at www.corda.com. HTH Bruce -Original Message- From: Rick Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Graphing Solutions Beyond CFGraph Hi list, I am searching for a graphing engine that will allow me to display 2 Y axis, one on the right

RE: Re[2]: Preventing user from going back

2002-05-31 Thread Rick Walters
If the question has turned into: can you secure an application on the client side? the answer is no. If a user has access to the security source code then a way can always be devised to crack it. In my own investigation of this same topic I have concluded that the javascript cache clearing is

RE: Back button-refresh

2002-05-23 Thread Rick Walters
I have never been able to get the Meta Expire to work correctly. Is there a cross browser solution to successfully expire the page cache so you can't hit the back button and return to already rendered pages? I especially wanted to use this to clear the cache after people logout of the

Macromedia Forums (aka FuseTalk)

2002-05-20 Thread Rick Walters
Dear MM, Your forums blow. I have tried to log in many times and it seems almost random if I get in. Anyway, I figured I would post something here so you know why I am not going to waste my time trying to tell you about your preview product. If others are having close to the same level of

Apology

2002-05-20 Thread Rick Walters
I'd like to apologize for insulting the MM Forums. I'm quite sure I'm mad at something else and was just frustrated by the boards when I really need the time right now. Sorry to vent on the list. Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800)

Re: cfreport

2002-05-17 Thread Rick Walters
Don't know if this will help. http://www.macromedia.com/v1/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=16757Method=Full There are undocumented properties of the CFReport Tag. Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 604-5227 x 3525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/02

RE: cfreport

2002-05-17 Thread Rick Walters
More specifically, Crystal now has it's own webserver. So, the best option seems to be to set up the crystal webserver and then run it in a frame. I'm not fond of it because it sidesteps site security. Unless someone out there has a way to integrate it with existing security, I don't think

Re: cfreport

2002-05-17 Thread Rick Walters
is generated, I serve it to the user via CFContent. It's kind of a convoluted way of doing things, but I didn't care for the crystal reports server either. Marlon - Original Message - From: Rick Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:38 AM

Re: cfreport

2002-05-17 Thread Rick Walters
, but mostly prove unusable :) ). After the PDF is generated, I serve it to the user via CFContent. It's kind of a convoluted way of doing things, but I didn't care for the crystal reports server either. Marlon - Original Message - From: Rick Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [admin] List status - A CHALLENGE

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Walters
Perhaps we should start planning the CF-Talk Expo here in Florida? Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 604-5227 x 3525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/15/02 01:36PM We get a free gift with our donation, but we have already been consuming that

RE: [admin] List status - A CHALLENGE

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Walters
say that over and over. Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 604-5227 x 3525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/15/02 02:07PM No way, everything happens in Florida, time to share the wealth. What about Buffalo, NY? -Original Message- From: Rick

RE: [admin] List status

2002-05-14 Thread Rick Walters
Being able to search the archives might even be worth a donation to many of us. I know it would help me out on occasion. It would greatly reduce the number of emails I save in my CF Archive folder. Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800)

RE: Geographical redundancy?

2002-05-13 Thread Rick Walters
BoardWatch Magazine publishes a summary of country-wide backbone providers once or twice a year. If you look specifically for this publication you can get a good overview of which networks connect to which cities and NAPs (MAE-East is a NAP). Personally, I don't think you're really looking

Re: can this be done?

2002-05-13 Thread Rick Walters
Yes, Just create the two new columns and do like you suggested, find the first space and insert the name into the firstname column and then copy the remaining length of the string into the lastname column minus the space. Then run a quick output to visually inspect the contents of the fields.

Re: SQL Question

2002-05-10 Thread Rick Walters
I use where clause join syntax for more reasons that just portablity. Besides the fact that the tables involved in the query are easier to identify and my opinion that it's easier to read, I find it easier to write dynamic sql using this syntax. For example: cfset thePeopleId= cfif

Re: Studio/DWMX comparisons

2002-05-07 Thread Rick Walters
__ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives:

RE: Coldfusion MX

2002-05-02 Thread Rick Walters
Christine, What about those of us who have yet to upgrade to CF5? Will the jump from 4.5 to MX be a larger change, should I expect more code incompatibilites? Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 604-5227 x 3525 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: CF MX Books

2002-04-29 Thread Rick Walters
Bold post, Jeff. Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 604-5227 x 3525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/29/02 03:27PM At the risk of blatant self-promotion.. My new book will be out sometime in June also (ColdFusion MX: The Complete

Re: contacting congress /

2002-04-23 Thread Rick Walters
That's not entirely true, David. I worked on Capitol Hill for several years as a contractor and was able to visit almost all of the offices of our elected officials. It is true that all of the offices will screen your mail, and that this process may boil your comments down to a check box in the

RE: CF and Business Logic

2002-04-19 Thread Rick Walters
I think I would have taken a different tact with your subcontractor. Beginning with the assumption that he considers himself the center of the known universe and probably has had some dealings with asking his IT department for something unnecessisarily complex in the past... I would have to

Re: OT: UNION vs JOIN

2002-04-18 Thread Rick Walters
Union Adds the rows from a second table, Join combines the tables. It's conceivable that they produce the same result if you're using an outer join, but they're different. Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 604-5227 x 3525 [EMAIL

RE: UNION vs JOIN

2002-04-18 Thread Rick Walters
If you have a single table with fields from other tables you can join them all fairly simply. Consider the following four tables: cars carid cartypeid carcolorid carmodelid carmodel carmodelid model carcolor carcolorid color cartype cartypeid type You can get

Re: RE: Preventing SQL injection attacks...?

2002-04-12 Thread Rick Walters
This code would fail my own code review. I don't allow any url. or form. variables inside CFQUERY statements. This, however, might pass. !--- Validate ID --- cfif #isdefined(id)# is true cfset theId=#val(htmleditformat(REreplacenocase(id, [*,;^:?|\], , ALL )))# cfelse cfset

RE: Crosspost: Escaping single quotes

2002-04-12 Thread Rick Walters
If you're trying to perserve the quotes so that SQL will recognize them and end or begin a string, then you use perservesinglequotes(). If you are trying to escape a single quote but keep it in your database, then you need to use htmleditformat(). Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster,

RE: Crosspost: Escaping single quotes

2002-04-12 Thread Rick Walters
Rats.. that won't work.. so much for code humor. Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 604-5227 x 3525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/12/02 03:53PM cfset theVariable = #evaluate(chr(39) Smith's shorts chr(39))# cfquery name=queryit

SQL Server 2000 and @@Identity

2002-04-11 Thread Rick Walters
Hi List, I recently upgraded from SQLServer7 to 2k and the @@identity in the code below now returns a null string. Anyone know why this might be happening? code block~~ !--- insert user info --- cfquery name=insertPeople datasource=#dsn# set

RE: SQL Server 2000 and @@Identity

2002-04-11 Thread Rick Walters
Message- From: Rick Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: SQL Server 2000 and @@Identity Hi List, I recently upgraded from SQLServer7 to 2k and the @@identity in the code below now returns a null string. Anyone know why this might

Re: An IMG instead of a form SUBMIT button ?

2002-04-10 Thread Rick Walters
Go check out www.htmlgoodies.com. There's lots of info about simple html stuff and Joe Burns makes it very easy to understand. Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 604-5227 x 3525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/10/02 11:38AM How can I have the

RE: CF VS ASP - let the trolling being

2002-04-03 Thread Rick Walters
Honestly, If he's willing to pay you to cross train in ASP, why complain? I'm assuming that you have already written a score of reports and tools that will all need to be translated into ASP and who would know the reports better than their author. ASP isn't that different from Cold Fusion.

RE: CF VS ASP - let the trolling being

2002-04-03 Thread Rick Walters
a little sour on the subject, would have no problem learning more of it, but to ask me to abandon CF totally gets to me since I am very fond of using CF Rob -Original Message- From: Rick Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:46 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF

Re: CFREPORT and Error 500

2002-04-02 Thread Rick Walters
In the CF Forums you can find a lot about using CFReport. Last I checked the tag was depreciated since version 5 of Crystal Reports. Crystal has it's own webserver product now. Crystal seems to have spent a good deal of time integrating their product with ASP. I also remember some

MSSQL 2K Transaction Error

2002-04-01 Thread Rick Walters
Hi, Anyone seen this error before? (I'm using SQL Server 2000) [[ ODBC Error Code = 01000 (General warning) [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server][OLE/DB provider returned message: New transaction cannot enlist in the specified transaction coordinator. ] SQL = update

Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Rick Walters
Wow that article was negative. Maybe we should just go back to using smoke signals to communicate. One day a few years from now when the HTML web as we know now seems as archaic a presentation medium as ASCII graphics of the war games era, the person who wrote that article will likely shrug and

Re: What is MX

2002-04-01 Thread Rick Walters
tools. Rick Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/01/02 01:13PM Wow that article was negative. Maybe we should just go back to using smoke signals to communicate. One day a few years from now when the HTML web as we know now seems as archaic a presentation medium as ASCII graphics of the war games era

DHTML Layers

2002-03-29 Thread Rick Walters
Hi Everyone, While this is not a Cold Fusion question, someone out there might have run into this problem before. I am creating dynamic javascript to control a set of drop down menus. My problem arises when I have a page with form input fields. Whenever there are form input fields on the

RE: DHTML Layers

2002-03-29 Thread Rick Walters
you're using Netscape for this, as in IE the select boxes are system object and thus override everything else on the screen. -Original Message- From: Rick Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 8:45 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: DHTML Layers Hi Everyone, While

RE: DHTML Layers + Flash!

2002-03-29 Thread Rick Walters
me know. I would like to see what you came up with. Justin Hansen -- Uhlig Communications Web Developer / Programmer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 913-498-0123 ext 284 -- -Original Message- From: Rick Walters [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Creating update statements on the fly

2002-03-29 Thread Rick Walters
There's always the ASP way... !--- build the query --- cfset sql=update tablename set cfif condition1... cfset sql=#sql# columname=value /cfif cfif condition2... cfset sql=#sql# where columname = 1 /cfif cfquery name=myquery datasource=#dsn# #sql# /cfquery Good Fortune, Richard

RE: Anyone from Orlando not in the CFUG?

2002-03-27 Thread Rick Walters
No really, Orlando's CFUG really is quite good. I have moved about quite a lot as a contractor and have seen more than a few alternatives. It is pleasant to report that Orlando's group remains more interested in coding than marketing. While it is important that CFUG's help promote CF as the

Re: Closing window

2002-03-27 Thread Rick Walters
Without using Javascript or another client side language? You can't. You could manually close the window or have a client event trigger some other process. Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 604-5227 x 3525 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Closing window

2002-03-27 Thread Rick Walters
Disregard this.. I read your question incorrectly. Good Fortune, Richard Walters, Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 604-5227 x 3525 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/27/02 01:19PM Without using Javascript or another client side language? You can't. You could manually close

Re: Sprectra (WAS: KILL THE BROADVIEW!)

2002-03-13 Thread Rick Walters
I don't think anyone doubted there would be patch releases to Spectra. If I have been reading this thread correctly, those of us who do not already have Spectra don't plan to buy a copy anytime soon. However, if it were handed out to developers, we would certainly help support it. :) Good

ArrayAvg()

2002-02-26 Thread Rick Walters
Has anyone ever used the ArrayAvg Function with a multi-dimensional array? I have a two dimensional array[questionnumber][answer]. The answers are all values 1-5 and I need the average for each question. Good Fortune, Rick Walters Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services Office: (800) 604-5227

RE: Joining Tables from Different Datasources... Possible?

2002-02-23 Thread Rick Walters
to out would make better sense. This might apply if your webserver runs SQL Server locally in a DMZ. Good Fortune, Rick Walters Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services Office: (800) 604-5227 Cell: (407) 491-9848 -Original Message- From: Jamie Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday

RE: CF-Talk-list V1 #141

2002-02-20 Thread Rick Walters
No no, thanks for the clarification. I didn't set up the sequences when I was working with Oracle. I'm always happy to know more. Good Fortune, Rick Walters Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services Office: (800) 604-5227 Cell: (407) 491-9848 -Original Message- From: Kreig Zimmerman

FTP vs HTTP

2002-02-20 Thread Rick Walters
of *.cfm requests. Anyone out there with an opinion please chime in. Or, if you know where I could find more information on this topic, send me a note. Thanks. Good Fortune, Rick Walters Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services Office: (800) 604-5227 Cell: (407) 491-9848

RE: FTP vs HTTP

2002-02-20 Thread Rick Walters
- From: Rick Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:37 PM Subject: FTP vs HTTP Hi Everyone, I'm searching for opinions and perhaps metrics that might suggest when it is better to channel downloads using FTP vs HTTP from a single web

RE: Inserting and CFTransaction

2002-02-15 Thread Rick Walters
Procedure and lock the tables while executing the methods above. Good Fortune, Rick Walters Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services Office: (800) 604-5227 Cell: (407) 491-9848 __ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256

RE: Inserting and CFTransaction (correction)

2002-02-15 Thread Rick Walters
cfquery name=insertPeople datasource=#dsn1# set nocount on insert into people (password, username) values ('#thepassword#', '#theusername#'') SELECT lastid = @@identity set nocount off /cfquery Good Fortune, Rick Walters Webmaster, Davita

RE: Inserting and CFTransaction

2002-02-15 Thread Rick Walters
, they became my best friends. I will admit, however, that they clutter the code a bit. Good Fortune, Rick Walters Webmaster, Davita Laboratory Services Office: (800) 604-5227 Cell: (407) 491-9848 -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:34 AM