MX 6.1 W2K3 Installation Hangs

2004-09-07 Thread Alistair Davidson
please - if it was up to me we'd certainly be using Apache as a webserver, probably on RedHat Enterprise, but it's not my call unfortunately) All help greatly appreciated Alistair Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com -- HEADSHIFT

RE: MX 6.1 W2K3 Installation Hangs

2004-09-07 Thread Alistair Davidson
to win2k3 as well.. Cheers G On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:39:47 +0100, Alistair Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All We have a completely fresh, pristine and virgin installation of Windows Server 2003 Standard, and we're trying to install MX 6.1 Pro onto it. Every time we try, it goes right

RE: MX 6.1 W2K3 Installation Hangs

2004-09-07 Thread Alistair Davidson
You're saying that the install runs the web server configuration utility even if you choose the JRun web server during the installation? I've never seen that happen before. Hey, Dave, come on over to our place! You can watch it happening over and over again! ;D Anyway, Brandon Purcells tip about

RE: Security gurus out there?

2004-09-02 Thread Alistair Davidson
of info on why it's really NOT suited to a server environment... Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com -- HEADSHIFT   www.headshift.com T: 020 7357 7358  -- smarter    simpler    social  Personal

RE: Regex Question: All punct except...

2004-08-20 Thread Alistair Davidson
One solution I've used before in vaguely similar situations is to replace the / character with a placeholder, do the nice clean reg ex, then put the slashes back: myString = replace( myString, /, PLACEHOLDER, ALL ); myString = REReplace( myString, [[:punct:]], , ALL ); myString = Replace(

RE: wwokey hole was Re: cf tree menu

2004-08-17 Thread Alistair Davidson
http://www.i-r-genius.com/rudeplaces.html some people have WAY too much time on their hands ;) _ From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 August 2004 00:52 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: wwokey hole was Re: cf tree menu Wookey Hole iscave which is amazing, ifI remember

RE: weird but consistent behavior

2004-08-13 Thread Alistair Davidson
I've heard of similar things happening on queries where you use SELECT * (see http://www.1pixelout.net/index.cfm/blog/entry/cfqueryparam.htm ) Are you using select * ? If so, consider the error a slap on the wrist! ;) Cheers, Alistair Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com

RE: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-11 Thread Alistair Davidson
own entirely custom architecture. Ditto for its maintainability, extensibility, bug-fixing, etc etc etc. Just my two pennorth. ( If this ends up as yet another my framework is better than your framework flame war, I'm off to the pub! ;) ) Cheers, Alistair Alistair Davidson Senior Technical

RE: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-10 Thread Alistair Davidson
I haven't seen the petmarket example, so I can't comment on that particular case, but I can say that - Yes, in general, that's a very bad thing. I'm not going to go into detail about WHY it's a bad thing, because I'll be rabbiting on for hours, but in practical it harms the flexibility,

RE: Calendar data structure

2004-08-09 Thread Alistair Davidson
Read up on the iCal / vCal formats - they're attempted / de-facto standards for transfer of calendar data between applications, and they handle repeating events in a fairly straightforward manner. Last year I had to completely re-write a massive international calendar app from scratch, and the

RE: cleaning up

2004-07-28 Thread Alistair Davidson
Hi Simon, If all else fails, you can use the System.gc() function to give the java garbage collector a nudge - it might not work, but it's worth a try. I blogged about this here : http://instantbadger.blogspot.com/2004/06/collecting-your-garbage-in-cfm x.html Hope that helps Alistair Alistair

RE: Webservice returning CFC in a different directory

2004-07-14 Thread Alistair Davidson
* Have you tried downing your instance and blowing away the contents of both your cfclasses and cfc-skeletons directories. Yup - tried it many times, no luck... [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]

RE: Hot Button - English pedantry

2004-07-13 Thread Alistair Davidson
(Damn!, ended a sentence with a prep.) ...and followed an exclamation mark with a comma ;-) [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]

RE: Webservice returning CFC in a different directory

2004-07-13 Thread Alistair Davidson
In desperation, I've now set up an IIS (...ick...) virtual directory pointing to the directory with all my cfcs in, and lumped the interface cfcs in with the back-end cfcs in the same directory, along with my web service Application.cfm. (ugh.makes my skin feel creepy...). It now

Webservice returning CFC in a different directory

2004-07-12 Thread Alistair Davidson
ideas that they'd like to share? Thanks, Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com -- HEADSHIFT www.headshift.com BLOCKED::http://www.headshift.com/ T: 020 7357 7358 -- smartersimplersocial

RE: Webservice returning CFC in a different directory

2004-07-12 Thread Alistair Davidson
Hi Mike, Yes, I have a mapping set up to mycomponents. I can create an instance of the CFC in the web service method, no problem. If I do: cfcomponent displayname=Person Web Service Component cffunction name=viewPerson returntype=string access=remote cfargument name=intItemID type=numeric

RE: Webservice returning CFC in a different directory

2004-07-12 Thread Alistair Davidson
*beleive* although I havnt tested this that the return type would be person and not myCompnents.Person HTH Mike - Original Message - From: Alistair Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:21:57 +0100 Subject: RE: Webservice returning CFC in a different directory To: CF-Talk [EMAIL

RE: Webservice returning CFC in a different directory

2004-07-12 Thread Alistair Davidson
Yeah, it looks like the bottom line is that the webservice CFCs HAVE to be in the same directory as any other CFCs they call. Which effectively means that all your back-end CFCs have to be under the webroot. Is it just me, or does that make anyone else feel a little bit uneasy? Seems like a

RE: Webservice returning CFC in a different directory

2004-07-12 Thread Alistair Davidson
thats only to do with CFCs that return CFC components... I dont have the code to hand at the moment but im sure one of my sites proxy's, but it just returns a structure to flash rather than an instance of a CFC HTH - Original Message - From: Alistair Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12

RE: Webservice returning CFC in a different directory

2004-07-12 Thread Alistair Davidson
found this archived thread on CFCDev that might help you get to where you want to be without having to move your CFCs around: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg04805.html Thanks Dave, but I've already tried that, and I just can't get it to resolve the component. Maybe it's

RE: Can originating mail server be spoofed?

2004-07-06 Thread Alistair Davidson
Very easy to spoof. I wouldn't even bother fiddling with this - a whole load of effort for a whole world of pain! [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]

RE: Apache and CF

2004-06-30 Thread Alistair Davidson
(or your honour, for you Americans ;P ) Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com -- HEADSHIFT www.headshift.com blocked::http://www.headshift.com/ T: 020 7357 7358 -- smartersimplersocial

RE: The infamous LIST again!

2004-06-30 Thread Alistair Davidson
cfset cfList = REReplaceNoCase( cfList, ,[[:space:]]*,,NO VALUE STRING,, ALL ) / That should do the trick _ From: Chunshen (Don) Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 June 2004 15:27 To: CF-Talk Subject: The infamous LIST again! SET LIST VALUE: cfset cfList = a,b,,d cfloop index=e

RE: ANNOUNCE: ColdFusion MX Master Class, July 19th

2004-06-25 Thread Alistair Davidson
True, England can't seem to hold onto anything for very long. certainly not a one-goal lead... _ From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 June 2004 17:24 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: ColdFusion MX Master Class, July 19th Nah. The British would have lost this colony

RE: cftransaction inside or outside cfloops?

2004-06-25 Thread Alistair Davidson
Also, it may help in these situations to think of cftransaction as a kind of DB-based CFLOCK Transactions, depending on the isolation level, may need to lock the db (either on a row or table basis) to stop any other process making a change while the transaction completes. It's worth bearing this

RE: Coldfusion Regex

2004-06-25 Thread Alistair Davidson
){ return false; } else { return true; } } /cfscript ... !--- in your processing code --- cfif isValid( form.whatever ) !--- do stuff --- cfelse !--- don't do stuff --- /cfif Hope that helps Alistair Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com

RE: Coldfusion Regex

2004-06-25 Thread Alistair Davidson
    !--- don't do stuff --- /cfif Hope that helps Alistair Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com -- HEADSHIFT   www.headshift.com T: 020 7357 7358  -- smarter    simpler    social  [Todays Threads

RE: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

2004-06-25 Thread Alistair Davidson
There's also a sneaky workaround I found involving the inbuilt java.lang.System object. I wrote a blog article about it here (a bit waffly, but you can just skip straight to the code at the bottom!) : http://instantbadger.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_instantbadger_archive.html# 108798595159007922

RE: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

2004-06-25 Thread Alistair Davidson
There's also a sneaky workaround I found involving the inbuilt java.lang.System object. I wrote a blog article about it here (a bit waffly, but you can just skip straight to the code at the bottom!) : http://instantbadger.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_instantbadger_archive.html# 108798595159007922

RE: how to open an attached file in its own application (ms-word, excel etc).. please read

2004-06-25 Thread Alistair Davidson
There is no way to do this from a browser (unless you use ActiveX, possibly - I've never tried it) , for very valid security reasons Can you imagine the security risks if it was possible to craft a HTML document that would automatically force-launch a downloaded document in an external

RE: Why don't query variables persist?

2004-06-24 Thread Alistair Davidson
Try using cfprocresult name=... rather than cfprocparam I've never used CF with Oracle, but that's how I fixed a similar issue with SQL Server a while ago _ From: Richard Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 June 2004 19:13 To: CF-Talk Subject: Why don't query variables persist? I

RE: ANNOUNCE: ColdFusion MX Master Class, July 19th

2004-06-24 Thread Alistair Davidson
Would those be the same cheese-eating surrender-monkeys without whose help you would still be under British rule? ;P (sorry, couldn't resist!) _ From: Greg Luce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 June 2004 16:55 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: ColdFusion MX Master Class, July 19th

RE: CFLOCK

2004-05-28 Thread Alistair Davidson
scope=APPLICATION timeout=10 type=ReadOnly cfset request.settings = Duplicate( application.settings ) / /cflock You can then read the settings from request scope without having to worry about locking. Hope that helps Alistair Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com Smarter

RE: CFLOCK

2004-05-28 Thread Alistair Davidson
than creating the structure (unless this takes a lot of db interaction or processing. -Original Message- From: Alistair Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 28 mei 2004 10:26 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFLOCK Connie Personally I've tended to store my global settings

RE: CSV File Format Specification

2004-05-27 Thread Alistair Davidson
that is in a text format, you don't need the quotes around it. Hope that helps, Alistair Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com Smarter, Simpler, Social [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

RE: Web Services - getting confused!

2004-05-27 Thread Alistair Davidson
of a query? Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com Smarter, Simpler, Social [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

RE: Mach-II

2004-05-27 Thread Alistair Davidson
with Mach-II now, and I'm sure when the NEXT version of Mach-II arrives, we'll say the same about apps written in Mach-II version 1. You live and learn. Rant over ;) Alistair Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com Smarter, Simpler, Social [Todays Threads] [This Message

RE: Javascript validation

2004-05-27 Thread Alistair Davidson
if( isNaN( inputStr.parseFloat() ) ){ // it's Not a Number } else { // it's OK } Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Developer Headshift.com Smarter, Simpler, Social [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

RE: self varible..

2004-05-26 Thread Alistair Davidson
form action=""> method=post Seems to work, but is there a better or more correct way? Yes That will only work if your file is in the root directory of your website. Try this instead - form action="" method=post Cheers, Alistair Davidson Senior Technical Develope

RE: sql question

2003-08-28 Thread Alistair Davidson
, and unltimately more maintainable. Just my two-penn'orth ;) Alistair Davidson Application Developer Freeserve.com PLC -Original Message- From: Matthew Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 August 2003 06:19 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: sql question How about this?? Even if it does work

RE: Push and CFFILE Question

2002-10-09 Thread Alistair Davidson
Les Write the file and then deliver it using CFCONTENT HTH Alistair -Original Message- From: Les Mizzell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 October 2002 16:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: Push and CFFILE Question Haven't done this before, looking for some pointers... A. Page has a button

RE: Can anybody see a problem with this?

2002-08-01 Thread Alistair Davidson
file called contacts in the root. Make IIS pass files with no extension through CF and put your logic to get the name, check the query and re-locate, into that contacts file. I've used this myself many times on many different webservers, with no problems. Hope that helps! Alistair Alistair

RE: OT: SQL question

2002-08-01 Thread Alistair Davidson
JOIN Table2 ON Table2.PartNumber = LEFT( Table1.PartNumber, FIND( '.', Table1.PartNumber ) ) WHERE blah blah blah Hope that helps Alistair Alistair Davidson Application Developer www.smartgroups.com Freeserve.com PLC -Original Message- From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29

RE: cfProcParam is being ignored?

2002-07-24 Thread Alistair Davidson
Hi Andrew Try changing print @RetMsg / end transact sql code / to SELECT @RetMsg Alistair Alistair Davidson Application Developer www.smartgroups.com Freeserve.com PLC -Original Message- From: Andrew Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 July 2002 15:03 To: CF

RE: Querying a CSV file

2002-07-24 Thread Alistair Davidson
Alistair Davidson Applications Developer www.smartgroups.com Freeserve.com PLC -Original Message- From: Adams, Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 July 2002 15:31 To: CF-Talk Subject: Querying a CSV file

RE: CFHTTP documentation.

2002-07-09 Thread Alistair Davidson
Hi Wally It's a serial process, I'm afraid. The CFHTTP tag sends out its request and then sits there blocking further execution until it gets a response or times out. The only way round it would be to write a replacement CFX, probably in Java, that was multithreaded. HTH Al Alistair

RE: QuerySim custom tag and Fusebox 3

2002-05-27 Thread Alistair Davidson
qry_myquery a,column,list your|query|data /cfoutput /cf_querysim or even cfoutput cf_querysim qry_myquery a,column,list your|query|data /cf_querysim /cfoutput Hope that helps, Alistair Alistair Davidson Application Developer

RE: HTTP 500 Errors

2002-05-22 Thread Alistair Davidson
I remember I had a problem like this on IIS. In the end, it was the Application Protection Level setting in IIS that solved it - http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=19537Method=Full HTH Alistair -Original Message- From: John Beynon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Multiple Left Outer Joins

2002-05-20 Thread Alistair Davidson
Hi Bud In SQL Server, it's SELECT T1.*, T2.*, T3.* FROM Table1 T1 LEFT OUTER JOIN table2 T2 ON T1.ID = T2.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN table3 T3 ON T1.ID = T3.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN table4 T4 ON T1.ID = T4.ID WHERE (whatever) Other DB's may differ,

RE: CFINTERNALDEBUG

2002-05-17 Thread Alistair Davidson
the registry --- cfset temp = CFUSION_SETTINGS_REFRESH() /cfif As this tag is undocumented and unsupported, I've no idea of how safe it is to do this. I've never had any problems doing it, but it's probably worth putting a cflock scope=server around it. HTH Alistair Alistair Davidson

RE: MSSQL w/ OLEDB or ODBC

2002-02-04 Thread Alistair Davidson
circumstances. Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly what stopped working and what we had to change it to, but it was pretty minor and had something to do with (I think) dates. Anyone else found that? HTH Alistair Davidson Application Developer Freeserve.com / Smartgroups.com -Original Message

RE: Session variables

2001-11-09 Thread Alistair Davidson
OK, here's one example - We have a system where a huge amount of config data needs to be retrieved from a database for each page. Just retrieving all the DB records takes about 2.5 seconds. If you were doing that every page, then you'll very quickly kill just about any server. So what we do is

RE: getting xxx from xxx

2001-11-09 Thread Alistair Davidson
cfset result = REReplace( inputstring, ([^]+), \1 ) -Original Message- From: raphael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 November 2001 15:37 To: CF-Talk Subject: getting xxx from xxx How would this be accomplished? getting xxx from xxx I was going to do a find on both and and get

RE: Generating reports in the background (update)

2001-10-31 Thread Alistair Davidson
created - please wait BR img src=hourglass_anim.gif script language=javascript self.location.href = 'make_and_display_report.cfm'; /script /cfoutput It's always worked OK for me. Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net

RE: failed retrieval of cached queries

2001-10-29 Thread Alistair Davidson
. Hope that helps Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net There is no spoon -Original Message- From: Tim Stadinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 October 2001 22:12 To: CF-Talk Subject: failed retrieval of cached queries Has anyone seen the following error

RE: failed retrieval of cached queries

2001-10-29 Thread Alistair Davidson
reached the retrieval fails. Does the page where this error occurs take a long time to run? Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net There is no spoon -Original Message- From: Tim Stadinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 October 2001 15:38 To: CF-Talk Subject

RE: Regular Expression

2001-10-25 Thread Alistair Davidson
of the string matched part 3. Hope that helps Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net ~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http

RE: SQL question grouping, ordering, sorting

2001-10-25 Thread Alistair Davidson
( tableAlias.ID ) DESC ( replace (table) with your table name ) That should do it - for each row in (table) it will return all rows with the same searchstring, and the COUNT function used with the GROUP BY clause will 'roll-up' the results HTH Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net

RE: client information

2001-10-03 Thread Alistair Davidson
Emmet try: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie -Original Message- From: Emmet McGovern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 October 2001 19:32 To: CF-Talk Subject: client information Ive seen all this information before but cant seem to track it down. Can someone provide me with all the

RE: 2 Submit Buttons on one form

2001-10-02 Thread Alistair Davidson
- !--- server - side code --- Cfif FORM.submit EQ Submit to page2 cfinclude template=page2.cfm cfelse cfinclude template=page1.cfm /cfif HTH Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net There is no spoon -Original Message- From: Mark Leder [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: WDDX

2001-09-25 Thread Alistair Davidson
Depends where you store it! If its a CLIENT variable, then it depends on where you're storing client variables - but just as a guide, I've run into problems storing more than 64k in a client variable stored in a SQL Server 7.0 DB Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media

RE: WDDX and structures

2001-09-24 Thread Alistair Davidson
So if your structure was SESSION -category -id -name -number -personalized -price -qty -weight -session id you'll then get simple values (un-scoped) called category id name number personalized price qty weight session id hope that helps Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media

RE: Find in-coming form fields

2001-09-24 Thread Alistair Davidson
Steven Every form post contains a field called Fieldnames, which is a comma-separated list of fields in the form. So you could do - cfloop list=#FORM.fieldnames# index=i FORM.#i# = #FORM[i]# /cfloop Hope that helps Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net

RE: SQL question about JOIN

2001-09-19 Thread Alistair Davidson
AND products.description LIKE '%#search_string#%' AND NOT(products.restricted = 1) Hope that helps Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net There is no spoon -Original Message- From: Chad Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 September 2001 18:45 To: CF-Talk Subject

RE: Need your opinion - PLEASE!

2001-09-10 Thread Alistair Davidson
remember that they may be there and how to deal with them. In my view they can occasionally be very useful, for example, determining when a field has been set to empty, or when it has never been set at all. Just my 2p worth Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net

RE: HTTP 500 Errors

2001-09-10 Thread Alistair Davidson
to Low (IIS process) for CF sites. Hope that helps Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net There is no spoon -Original Message- From: Ben Koshy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 September 2001 20:50 To: CF-Talk Subject: HTTP 500 Errors Recently, after a new

RE: Checking for NULL

2001-09-06 Thread Alistair Davidson
I generally use cfif Len(Trim(qQuery.field)) EQ 0 Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net There is no spoon -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 September 2001 15:48 To: CF-Talk Subject: Checking for NULL How do I

RE: brain far

2001-09-05 Thread Alistair Davidson
#') /cfquery alistair Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net There is no spoon -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 September 2001 14:54 To: CF-Talk Subject: brain far Question, I am having a brain fart. I am entering information

Retrieval of cached query failed error

2001-08-21 Thread Alistair Davidson
this is occurring are not slow-running pages, they usually execute in less than a second, and our timeout is set to ten seconds. The server is not even under particularly heavy load - less than 10,000 page impressions a day. Any ideas? Cheers, Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media

RE: SQL 7.0

2001-07-27 Thread Alistair Davidson
text (or ntext if you need unicode support) -Original Message- From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 July 2001 16:28 To: CF-Talk Subject: SQL 7.0 What is the equivalent to memo in ms SQL 7.0, for the life of me my mind has gone to the fairies on this one!

RE: URL Hacks - Solution

2001-07-10 Thread Alistair Davidson
I might be wrong, but I think that Access will only allow one SQL statement per query, that's why the ; DROP TABLE attack won't work. As for other SQL commands that could cause damage - how about exec xp_cmdshell which allows you to execute DOS commands on the server? You don't need to

RE: Temporarily disabling DB constraints

2001-07-10 Thread Alistair Davidson
In enterprise manager, you can go into the table properties, find the constraint in the dropdown box and uncheck 'ENABLE CONSTRAINT FOR REPLICATION'. That works in SQL 7, I don't know about 2000 -Original Message- From: stas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 July 2001 16:00 To: CF-Talk

RE: Data Validation

2001-07-05 Thread Alistair Davidson
(this); or you can check it in the form.onsubmit() - form .. onsubmit=return(check_numeric( numberbox )); A good reference for JS (and VBS) functions can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/default.htm Hope that helps Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media http

RE: OT BUT URGENT: IIS stability

2001-06-11 Thread Alistair Davidson
holidays if something goes wrong, I have good reasons for having them.. - Original Message - From: Alistair Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 1:02 AM Subject: OT BUT URGENT: IIS stability Hi guys ( gals) Sorry for the OT post, but I

OT BUT URGENT: IIS stability

2001-06-08 Thread Alistair Davidson
Cheers, Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk

OT but URGENT - IIS

2001-06-08 Thread Alistair Davidson
to rebuild / re-install IIS ? I need some figures to give to the management ASAP, as they're starting to growl for blood. Mail me directly if you like Cheers, Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net ~~ Structure your

RE: CFLOCK viability?

2001-06-05 Thread alistair . davidson
--- cflock type=readonly ... cfset theAPPLICATION = Duplicate( Application ) /cflock That way you lock the minimum amount of code for the minimum amount of time, and you're free to read from that local struct without having to worry about locking. HTH Cheers, Alistair Davidson Senior Web

RE: Select Boxes limiting drop down :: Please Look

2001-05-31 Thread alistair . davidson
Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net -Original Message- From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 May 2001 15:52 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Select Boxes limiting drop down :: Please Look ok. still no luck. i have tried DISTINCT have tried

RE: dhtml menu

2001-05-30 Thread alistair . davidson
YOu could try the DYNAPI project - it's an attempt to make a Javascript/DHTML API that will work cross-browser. Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dynapi/ -Original Message- From: Mak Wing Lok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 May 2001 09:41 To: CF-Talk Subject: dhtml menu

RE: Request vs application scope

2001-05-29 Thread alistair . davidson
or other complex objects, or even long strings, you're going to end up with a fairly hefty performance hit. Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net -Original Message- From: Steve Vosloo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 May 2001 14:43 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE

RE: Request vs application scope

2001-05-29 Thread alistair . davidson
going to end up with a fairly hefty performance hit. Alistair Davidson Senior Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net -Original Message- From: Steve Vosloo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 May 2001 14:43 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Request vs application scope Brilliant! So what's

RE: Downloading Files NOT in Webroot

2001-05-25 Thread alistair . davidson
CFCONTENT ! -Original Message- From: CF-Talk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 May 2001 13:41 To: CF-Talk Subject: Downloading Files NOT in Webroot What is the best way to allow users to download from a collection of files that are not in the webroot but rather elsewhere on the

RE: Storing Complex Variables in memory

2001-05-24 Thread alistair . davidson
query object, which can be used like any normal query. Hope this helps Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net -Original Message- From: Nathan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 May 2001 23:09 To: CF-Talk Subject: Storing Complex Variables in memory

RE: Lock me up!

2001-05-24 Thread alistair . davidson
. If you cache your APPLICATION variables into a local struct, you only need to lock the bit that copies the values, and you're free to read and write to the local struct as much as you like. Hope that helps Cheers, Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomX.net -Original

RE: Lock me up!

2001-05-24 Thread alistair . davidson
. Hope that helps Cheers, Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomX.net -Original Message- From: Michael Lugassy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 May 2001 11:49 To: CF-Talk Subject: Lock me up! 3 quick Qs about Locking: 1. how do you set

RE: OT Javascript question

2001-05-24 Thread alistair . davidson
= (theObject.value.parseInt() + 1).toString(); Haven't tested the above code, it's just off the top of my head, but it's something like that, anyway. Hope that helps Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net -Original Message- From: Andy Ewings [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Lock me up!

2001-05-24 Thread alistair . davidson
/code, which is always good practice. If you cache your APPLICATION variables into a local struct, you only need to lock the bit that copies the values, and you're free to read and write to the local struct as much as you like. Hope that helps Cheers, Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom

RE: OT Javascript question

2001-05-24 Thread alistair . davidson
parseInt() is a method of the String object, so try elt.value = elt.value.parseInt() + 1; -Original Message- From: Andy Ewings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 May 2001 13:58 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT Javascript question MopeI tried this Nick but it kept complaining at the

RE: Lock me up!

2001-05-24 Thread alistair . davidson
True. My apologies, I'm having a BAAD day -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 May 2001 14:14 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Lock me up! The CFLOCK tag beelow should use TYPE=ReadOnly since you are only copying, not writing to the App scope. By

RE: Good resource on CF/XML integration?

2001-05-23 Thread alistair . davidson
Yeah, CF_SOXML is an absolutely fantastic tag, I use it all the time for all sorts of things. Well worth downloading and getting into. You should also read up on WDDX - start by looking in the CF Studio help for CFWDDX. Good luck! Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media

RE: Tertiary Domain Creation

2001-05-22 Thread alistair . davidson
Depends on what server the machine is running. If it's IIS, then look at the admin sample VB scripts -Original Message- From: Karl Simanonok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 May 2001 11:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: Tertiary Domain Creation Some of you who subscribe to Shanje.com's

RE: Session Solution.

2001-05-22 Thread alistair . davidson
; } } /script It would need a bit of modification to work in Nutscrape, but I hope that helps! Cheers, Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net -Original Message- From: Neil H. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 May 2001 15:59 To: CF-Talk Subject

Slightly OT: UK Extended Fusebox Training

2001-05-21 Thread alistair . davidson
Hi, Sorry for the OT post, but I just wondered if any of you guys (and gals) were going to Hal Helms' Extended Fusebox Training Course in the UK on 16th July? Please mail me off-list if you are! Cheers Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net

RE: CF and custom stylesheets

2001-05-15 Thread alistair . davidson
to a .css file (with CFFILE) once the selections had been made, and just putting link rel=StyleSheet TYPE=text/css HREF=#CSSFilename#.css into subsequent pages. This lowered CPU DB load by almost a third - i'd HIGHLY recommend you try it like this. Cheers Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer

RE: SQL Server 7 book(s) recommendation

2001-05-15 Thread alistair . davidson
. Cheers Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net -Original Message- From: Aidan Whitehall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 May 2001 13:28 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: SQL Server 7 book(s) recommendation My SQL is a bit ropey and I want a decent book or two

RE: Duplicate CFTOKEN and CFID . . .

2001-05-08 Thread alistair . davidson
The other problem we've had with this is that users often email links to each other. If CFID CFTOKEN are in the URL, you then get multiple users with the same CFID CFTOKEN. -Original Message- From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 May 2001 07:08 To: CF-Talk Subject:

RE: Pause

2001-05-08 Thread alistair . davidson
of the above are strategies I've used before. Hope this helps Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New Media www.rocomx.net -Original Message- From: Joshua Tipton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 May 2001 07:04 To: CF-Talk Subject: Pause I have one page that goes to a server

RE: CFX_HTTP thread safe?

2001-05-03 Thread alistair . davidson
If you wanted to make doubly sure, you can always put a named CFLOCK around any use of it - that'll force it to only run one instance at once. -Original Message- From: Dylan Bromby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 May 2001 18:06 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFX_HTTP thread safe? i've

RE: Cf_objectdump

2001-04-30 Thread alistair . davidson
I use it all the time - say if your array is called MyArray, you have to make sure you use cf_objectdump object=#MyArray# NOT cf_objectdump object=MyArray otherwise cf_objectdump will just dump MyArray, which is a string. hope that helps Alistair Davidson Senior Web Developer Rocom New

RE: It's not big and it's not clever...

2001-04-24 Thread alistair . davidson
Although (maybe I'm missing something here, but...) what on earth is rude about aunty -Original Message- From: Aidan Whitehall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 April 2001 09:08 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: It's not big and it's not clever... If you use the library below however,

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