RE: Advice and direction, please.

2008-06-13 Thread Andy Matthews
Google can index PDF files can't it? Why not install a Google search on your site and let it go to town on your directory structure? -Original Message- From: Ry Mittlestadt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 11:18 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Advice and direction, please.

RE: Advice Survey or Polling Application

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Kruger
I have a feeling you will have trouble solving this problem off the shelf. Why not modify Ray's application to use client vars and a database? -Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 8:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Advice

Re: Advice Using CFMail

2007-05-11 Thread Jose Diaz
Hi Joel This would no doubt cause some delay on your mail spool, I do recall that CF used to have a limit of 40 on the cc/bcc fields but I think this was fixed in version 5 upwards. I guess you could test it and see what happens, say to a gmail account. If you did go down the route of looping

Re: Advice Using CFMail

2007-05-11 Thread Joel Watson
At the moment, I'm on Godaddy shared, so I'm not sure. However, I am going to be going the dedicated route soon and will be using mx7. You don't need to delay the emails anymore... What version of CF are you using? On 5/11/07, Joel Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Advice Using CFMail

2007-05-11 Thread Joel Watson
Jose-- Thanks for the response. Creating a deliberate delay on the cfmail (with the udf you suggested), I assume, would be to keep the server from getting overloaded, correct? As to the heaviness of the email, it would be extremely light, containing only the text which the user has posted in

Re: Advice Using CFMail

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Scott
I would be doing a loop, and I would also ask what version of CF if its CFMX6+ then cfmail its ok to use. But god forbid, I wouldn't use more than one email address for something like this in any one field To:, CC: or even BCC: The reason being and its very simple, you could be seen as a mass

Re: Advice Using CFMail

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Scott
You don't need to delay the emails anymore... What version of CF are you using? On 5/11/07, Joel Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jose-- Thanks for the response. Creating a deliberate delay on the cfmail (with the udf you suggested), I assume, would be to keep the server from getting

Re: Advice Using CFMail

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Scott
It depends on their spam rules, some isp's spam filters can see it as a mass mailout and consider you as a spammer. Its very rare but it can happen... Same as multiple email address in the fields can also be flagged as being spam as well. On 5/11/07, Joel Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Advice Using CFMail

2007-05-11 Thread Joel Watson
Andrew-- That is a very good point; I had not thought of that. Why would an ISP block an email sent from a loop, if each to: field is unique and the cc: and bcc: are blank? Just curious, as I have very little knowledge of those issues. Thanks! I would be doing a loop, and I would also ask

Re: Advice Using CFMail

2007-05-11 Thread Joel Watson
Do you see any fail-safe way around this to accomplish what I need to do? Or is it rare enough that the vast majority of my clients will be unaffected? Thanks It depends on their spam rules, some isp's spam filters can see it as a mass mailout and consider you as a spammer. Its very rare but

Re: Advice Using CFMail

2007-05-11 Thread Andrew Scott
No... Simply just do a cfloop around your cfmail and use the spool attribute and away you go. I doubt you will have a problem with your isp, but if you do then you can always ask them to filter your traffic through... But that is extreme case gone bad, which I doubt will happen. On 5/12/07,

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-04 Thread Dave Watts
Neil you regularly spout this tripe. Many of us in the FarCry community use FarCry for *very* large and complex installations every day. We often wonder how it is we ever managed with such a simplistic application framework. The proof is in the pudding -- when you build enterprise

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-04 Thread Dave Watts
If I understand correctly, a wildcard setup as you describe would require a dedicated IP for that particular domain, right? You could have two A records pointing to the same IP address, although that will break reverse lookups. One other thing... when you describe your method of setting up

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-04 Thread Rick Faircloth
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:46 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... If I understand correctly, a wildcard setup as you describe would require a dedicated IP for that particular domain, right? You could have two A records pointing to the same

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
. Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Geoff Bowers To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Dec 02 05:16:57 2006 Subject: Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Munson, Jacob wrote: Sounds like a good plan to me. The only suggestion I'd make is to look

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions. Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Dec 02 08:01:09 2006 Subject: Re: Advice

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
-Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth To: CF-Talk Sent: Sat Dec 02 02:13:12 2006 Subject: RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Rick, the only thing I'm wondering is, why create a separate database for each client's site data. That seems to add a layer of complication that might

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Mark A Kruger
I'd be interested in hearing a short list of those features... Let's get them added - at least as plugins :) -mark -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 2:01 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Advice needed on how

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Root
Rick Faircloth wrote: and send them all to that for content management. I found that using subdomains like this confuses many clients who think that www has to be in there somewhere, and they end up trying to go to www.REA.WhiteStoneMedia.com, which, of course, doesn't work and leads to

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Mark A Kruger
- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:16 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Now, after our little Farcry sidebar (which I have no plans to use, cause I like to build my own, even while simpler, at least I

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Root
Mark A Kruger wrote: You can pretty easily make www.rea.white Work. I do this routinely. If I add a subdomain intended for run of the mill users I also add a www. Entry for it in DNS and the host header as well... Another approach is to use a wildcard entry with a dedicated IP. I do

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
. So, I could do that... do you think that is the best solution? Rick -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:53 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Rick Faircloth wrote: and send them all

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
-Talk Subject: RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... You can pretty easily make www.rea.white Work. I do this routinely. If I add a subdomain intended for run of the mill users I also add a www. Entry for it in DNS and the host header as well... Another approach is to use a wildcard

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Root
You could also just go with admin.theirdomain.com or www.theirdomain.com/admin (which is what I do). Or just put an admin link on the front page =) I have a community web site software that I built back in 2001 where the authentication setup is the same for all users, you log into the home

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 12:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... You could also just go with admin.theirdomain.com or www.theirdomain.com/admin (which is what I do). Or just put an admin link on the front page =) I have a community web

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Michael E. Carluen
name on the URL like http:// Stickfordhomes.realtoroffice.net . This way, you do not need to manage any subdomains. Michael -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 8:16 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Advice needed on how

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Casey Dougall
On 12/2/06, Michael E. Carluen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next question that comes to mind is how to structure the domains / subdomains for the CMS's. Rick, How about using DNS wildcard? Lots of app-as-a-service sites already use it. You can register a single generic sounding domain

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Root
Casey Dougall wrote: Be careful of wildcard settings on your sites. Yeah it's cool but Search Engins do not like it at all. The problem stems from Google, yahoo etc thinking there are more than one website with the exact same content. This of course means when someone goes to

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Michael E. Carluen
Now of course if you use some #CGI.SERVER_NAME# lookups first, then set the content of index.cfm to match the domain in question you could be ok. Right, and I think that's what he's talking about doing. Casey, Rick R.: Yes, that is what I meant. Rick F.: domain1.thedomain.com,

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
-Original Message- From: Michael E. Carluen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 2:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... The next question that comes to mind is how to structure the domains / subdomains for the CMS's. Rick, How

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Mark A Kruger
on the site. -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:45 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Another approach is to use a wildcard entry with a dedicated IP. Not sure I understand that... do

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Mark A Kruger
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 3:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Maybe I'm misunderstanding the term DNS wildcard... can you explain what that is in your scenario? In the scenario you describe, I don't see a DNS wildcard

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
, and to use session variables, instead. Sound good? Rick -Original Message- From: Casey Dougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 2:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Be careful of wildcard settings on your sites. Yeah it's

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 3:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Casey Dougall wrote: Be careful of wildcard settings on your sites. Yeah it's cool but Search Engins do not like it at all. The problem stems from Google, yahoo etc thinking

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
! Rick -Original Message- From: Michael E. Carluen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 3:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... ~| Introducing the Fusion

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
: Saturday, December 02, 2006 4:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... We do exaclty this for a customer with affiliates. They actually share a single codebase. When a web request comes in we check out the first part of the domain string which is like

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
said you do that without fooling with IIS... ??? Thanks for the advice... Rick -Original Message- From: Mark A Kruger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 4:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Rick, An entry on the dns

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Munson, Jacob
Sounds like a good plan to me. The only suggestion I'd make is to look at something like Farcry for your CMS parts. Building a feature rich CMS from the ground up will take a lot of work. I'm lazy at times, which is why I like to leverage the experience of other projects, especially open

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Rick Faircloth
to the upgrade for the moment. Especially with CF 8 due out next year, I can't see spending $1300 now and another $600 next year to get into CF 8... Rick -Original Message- From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 5:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Advice

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Munson, Jacob
I had thought about upgrading awhile back, but then the upgrade price from 4.5 to 7 jumped from about $600 to $1300 and that put a halt to the upgrade for the moment. Especially with CF 8 due out next year, I can't see spending $1300 now and another $600 next year to get into CF 8... Oh,

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Josh Nathanson
Rick, the only thing I'm wondering is, why create a separate database for each client's site data. That seems to add a layer of complication that might not be needed. Maybe I'm not quite seeing your vision clearly. You could have a Clients table to hold that information, including their

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Rick Root
Munson, Jacob wrote: Sounds like a good plan to me. The only suggestion I'd make is to look at something like Farcry for your CMS parts. Farcry is an enterprise CMS. Your average real estate agent will *NOT* be able to use it. Rick

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Message- From: Rick Root To: CF-Talk Sent: Fri Dec 01 23:00:08 2006 Subject: Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Munson, Jacob wrote: Sounds like a good plan to me. The only suggestion I'd make is to look at something like Farcry for your CMS parts. Farcry is an enterprise CMS

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Rick Root
Josh Nathanson wrote: Rick, the only thing I'm wondering is, why create a separate database for each client's site data. That seems to add a layer of complication that might not be needed. Security, Backup/restore, code complexity, site portability. Multiple commercial clients on

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Rick Root
Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: It is a good CMS that is for sure, but I certainly wouldn't class it as Enterprise. Why not? It's a lot more powerful than your run of the mill php CMS systems that are open source, full commercial support is available for it, and it's got pretty much all the

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
expressed by Reed Exhibitions. Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Rick Root To: CF-Talk Sent: Fri Dec 01 23:12:37 2006 Subject: Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: It is a good CMS that is for sure, but I

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Munson, Jacob
It's a lot more powerful than your run of the mill php CMS systems that are open source, full commercial support is available for it, and it's got pretty much all the features you'd want an enterprise class CMS to have, especially from the level of workflows, approvals, and such.

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Rick Root
Munson, Jacob wrote: Does Enterprise mean it won't work for average users? I mean one of the main purposes of CMS is to make things easy for non technical users. I've heard that the latest versions of Farcry are a lot more user friendly than it use to be. It would have to be =) No,

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Rick Faircloth
, December 01, 2006 6:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Munson, Jacob wrote: Sounds like a good plan to me. The only suggestion I'd make is to look at something like Farcry for your CMS parts. Farcry is an enterprise CMS. Your average real estate agent

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Rick Faircloth
Some good points, Rick... Rick -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 6:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Josh Nathanson wrote: Rick, the only thing I'm wondering is, why create a separate

RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Rick Faircloth
to create the db just once... probably go that route... Thanks for the feedback, Josh. Rick -Original Message- From: Josh Nathanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 5:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Rick, the only thing

Re: Advice needed on how to proceed with app...

2006-12-01 Thread Geoff Bowers
Munson, Jacob wrote: Sounds like a good plan to me. The only suggestion I'd make is to look at something like Farcry for your CMS parts. Farcry is an enterprise CMS. Your average real estate agent will *NOT* be able to use it. It's fortunate that you can rewrite the UI for every element

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-13 Thread Paul Boyd
Thanks everyone for your input. - Paul Hello everyone, First post here, so don't get too hard on me. I'm developping a small e-commerce application with less than 1000 products ( around 700). As far as I know, only product prices would be updated on a weekly basis. I'm not too

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Doug Brown
Paul, You should never store database information into a memory variable unless it is within your shopping cart and then I would store it as a array. If you know for certain that only the prices would be updated weekly, and you know for certain on which day, I would use cachedwithin with a

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Paul Boyd
Thanks Doug, Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Could you tell me why storing a recordset in an application variable is not recommended. I saw this technique used several times, and prefered over the cachedWithin method. Apparently it's easier to control, to flush the cache, and I guess you

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Doug Brown
. - Original Message - From: Paul Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 4:55 AM Subject: Re: Advice about query caching Thanks Doug, Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Could you tell me why storing a recordset in an application variable

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions. Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Doug Brown To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Nov 12 13:14:10 2006 Subject: Re: Advice about query caching Cachedwithin does load the dataset into server memory

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Doug Brown
cachedwithin? - Original Message - From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:14 AM Subject: Re: Advice about query caching It shouldn't have to be calling into the app scope for every request - only

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Paul Boyd
? - Original Message - From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:14 AM Subject: Re: Advice about query caching It shouldn't have to be calling into the app scope for every request - only the intended recipient

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread James Holmes
Huh? Once it's in the Application scope it can stay there for as long as you want. On 11/12/06, Doug Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cachedwithin does load the dataset into server memory but stays there until it times out, and then refreshes. Setting it in the application scope requires you to

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions. Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: James Holmes To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Nov 12 13:50:29 2006 Subject: Re: Advice

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread James Holmes
://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: James Holmes To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Nov 12 13:50:29 2006 Subject: Re: Advice about query caching Huh? Once it's in the Application scope it can stay there for as long as you want. On 11/12/06, Doug Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Nov 12 14:13:51 2006 Subject: Re: Advice about query caching Oh agreed - it's often better use of resources to query the DB rather than to perform elaborate caching when each user needs different results etc. It depends on how big the query is, how much memory is in the server

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread James Holmes
I'm going to to quote Ben Forta (et al) here: ColdFusion is not a database server If you intend to do frequent, perhaps complex QoQ on the query in memory, you may be better off simply going to the DB. Multiple calls to the DB in a page will reuse the same DB connection and for most purposes CF

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Paul Boyd
://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: James Holmes To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Nov 12 14:13:51 2006 Subject: Re: Advice about query caching Oh agreed - it's often better use of resources to query the DB rather than to perform elaborate caching when each user needs different results etc

RE: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Dave Watts
Could you tell me why storing a recordset in an application variable is not recommended. I saw this technique used several times, and prefered over the cachedWithin method. Apparently it's easier to control, to flush the cache, and I guess you could use Cfqueryparam as well. There is

RE: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Dave Watts
You should never store database information into a memory variable unless it is within your shopping cart and then I would store it as a array. I'm sorry, but this is simply wrong. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber

RE: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Dave Watts
I'm not too sure how to handle caching. So here is my question. Is it appropriate to store the products recordset in an application variable within onApplicationStart, and use QoQ for for data manipulation in my different templates ? Any query that has significant reuse potential as-is,

Re: Advice about query caching

2006-11-12 Thread Jon Clausen
Paul, I think your method would certainly work, however my experience with e-commerce has been that the full recordset of products is almost never used. By using QoQ against your full recordset, you do limit yourself in some of the functions like true full-text searching that the

Re: Advice on debugging

2006-10-03 Thread Peter Boughton
You can get browser plugins (esp. for Firefox) that help with JavaScript debugging. I think the favourite one is FireBug. For CF debugging, there are a couple of tools that you can pay for (FusionDebug and FusionReactor), but I've no idea how good they might be. Personally, for CF I mainly

RE: Advice on debugging

2006-10-03 Thread Andy Matthews
I'd also suggest using Firefox for javascript debugging. It's far more robust than IE's error messages (which are basically useless). As for debugging in Coldfusion, the cfdump tag is your friend! cfdump var=#FORM cfdump var=#queryName cfdump var=#myVariable cfdump var=#someStructure Each of

Re: Advice on debugging

2006-10-03 Thread Brian Simmons
Hi Richard, For ColdFusion MX debugging, I would highly recommend FusionDebug from Intergral. A link with a coupon code can be found on my site: http://www.centrasoft.com/fusiondebug.cfm For Javascript debugging, I would recommend FireBug for FireFox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/

Re: Advice on debugging

2006-10-03 Thread Richard White
hi brian, thanks for the reply. I will def check out the 2 products seeing as you recommend them very highly ;) Is it flash you have used to do alot of your site? If yes, then i have noticed you must have highly optimised the flash so that it isnt slow. I would love to learn how to optimise

Re: Advice on debugging

2006-10-03 Thread Richard White
thanks for the advice, it has been very helpful as i turned on the enable debugging in the coldfusion thinking that would help me, but noticed very quickly that it provided data that confused me and can only be used for certain things. I will check out the links and use cfdump and cfabort for

RE: advice wanted regarding short notice

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Wolfe
Isaac, I left Las Vegas about two years ago because there isn't much of a market for CF developers. Be warned that when your contract runs out, you may not be able to find another job. My advice to you would be to take things slow. If you are considering relocation, there are plenty of jobs for

Re: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-12 Thread Paul Kenney
I would suggest that you look at the code that drives the MachII framework.It might give you some ideas on how CFCs can be used and what they are capable of doing.On that note (beware: shameless plug), you could also check out cfcUnit at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.com/projects/openxcf).It

Re: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-11 Thread stylo stylo
I wouldn't get too hung up on 'performance'... Sadly, I'd actually get more hung up on the coding, until I have more practice at it, but was thinking next app anyway. I was just going by the times shown in the comparison of fb3/fb4/machii/ontap floating around. And that some fb3 apps I've tried

RE: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-11 Thread Alistair Davidson
I figured if I could code something nice and clean somewhat along the lines of the petmarket it would be faster loading. Is that not the case? Yes, you can nearly always write something that's architected completely towards your specific app that runs a smidgeon faster than something like FB or

RE: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-11 Thread Micha Schopman
Not to mention most custom made solutions for small shortterm projects are not fast, because they aren't finetuned, evolved in any way, or the developers did not have the time to write a decent TO for the project. On such occasions you'd better take a machii framework, and use code which has all

Re: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-11 Thread stylo stylo
Thanks for the advice. I was looking at this chart: Avg. TTFB (ms) Framework20 threads150 threads MachII139312473 OnTap293912243 Fusebox 312709423 Fusebox 411448863 Does that chart not mean that under medium load MachII is 1/4 sec slower than FB4, and, under heavy load, MachII is about 4 seconds

Re: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-10 Thread Andy Jarrett
My CFC knowledge is limited at the moment, but if you want some good starting points to building an app with CFC's then downloand and check out Ray Camdens BlogCFC (http://www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog/). If you're looking for a good way to structure your code then have you looked at

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: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-10 Thread stylo stylo
I'm not interested in Fusebox, and MachII is a bit much to begin with, maybe later. I am worried, however, about the speed of MachII. I thought FB3 apps ran slowly, and MachII is apparently slower, no? I do have Ray's BlogCFC and need to look at it more, but, to be honest, at first glance I find

Re: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-10 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:37:04 -0400, stylo stylo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not interested in Fusebox, and MachII is a bit much to begin with, maybe later. I am worried, however, about the speed of MachII. I thought FB3 apps ran slowly, and MachII is apparently slower, no? Macromedia has about

RE: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-10 Thread Spike
, 2004 11:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related) On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:37:04 -0400, stylo stylo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not interested in Fusebox, and MachII is a bit much to begin with, maybe later. I am worried, however, about the speed of MachII

Re: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-10 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:01:03 -0700, Spike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's worth noting that for development purposes MachII can be brutally slow if you've got debugging turned on. Only if you have CF reporting execution times. If you turn execution times off, debugging isn't too bad. --

RE: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-10 Thread Spike
-Talk Subject: Re: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related) On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:01:03 -0700, Spike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's worth noting that for development purposes MachII can be brutally slow if you've got debugging turned on. Only if you have CF reporting execution

Re: advice on structure and cfcs (petmarket related)

2004-08-10 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:45:11 -0700, Spike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not been my experience. ... With execution times turned on, the page execution time took about 30% longer, but the debugging information took up to a minute to render. IMO 10-12 seconds is too slow. I agree. I was

Re: Advice for CF Query and Schema

2004-07-14 Thread Deanna Schneider
Ian, You need to have a field (a foreign key) in your second table that corresponds to the info in your first table. So, your courseoutline table looks like so: ID (primary key) Title Summary Owner Coursepath Then, your iteccource looks like so: ID (primary key) courseoutlineID (foreign key to

RE: Advice for CF Query and Schema

2004-07-14 Thread Ian Vaughan
a form select list otherwise the admin user would not know what course they are adding ??? From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 July 2004 12:45 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Advice for CF Query and Schema Ian, You need to have a field (a foreign

Re: Advice for CF Query and Schema

2004-07-14 Thread Deanna Schneider
Subject: RE: Advice for CF Query and Schema Deanna Ok thanks, when adding a new course to the iteccourse database, how would I get the correct value to place into the courseoutlineID (foreign key to courseoutline) field Because when adding a new course to the iteccourse database, the user

RE: Advice on Max number of files in a dir.

2004-06-29 Thread Dave Watts
I am using CFCONTENT to retrieve photos stored off of the root directory. I didn't think the site would grow so fast, and I have been allowing users to upload all of the images to one folder. I am now at about 6000 images and am woried about performance issues both with CFCONTENT and

Re: Advice on Max number of files in a dir.

2004-06-29 Thread George Abraham
I would recommend that you reorganize your files using some easily understood directory scheme. For example, you might create year and month directories. Yep, subsequent projects used a directory scheme based on filenames (which themselves have a naming system). We decided on 100 files per

Re: advice need on multi-version data model design

2004-04-21 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Nick Han said: I am more interested in database design help.What I am thinking right now is right after the deadline, before the reviewer making changes, I dup the db schema and back that up, and the current schema will have the current data, including changes made by the reviewer. If there

Re: advice needed on multi-version data model design

2004-04-21 Thread Nick Han
Jochem, I am not sure this will work, since there are about 30 tables in the schema and each table has various relationships with one another.During the review process, the reviewer can quit anytime and maybe come back later to resume on it.Having said that, there are several starting points in

RE: advice needed on multi-version data model design

2004-04-21 Thread Barney Boisvert
, barneyb -Original Message- From: Nick Han [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: advice needed on multi-version data model design Jochem, I am not sure this will work, since there are about 30 tables in the schema and each table has

RE: advice needed on multi-version data model design

2004-04-21 Thread Nick Han
page in the app. Cheers, barneyb -Original Message- From: Nick Han [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: advice needed on multi-version data model design Jochem, I am not sure this will work, since there are about 30 tables

RE: advice needed on multi-version data model design

2004-04-21 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Nick Han said: Barney, thanks for your advice.I understand your suggested solution for the simple example I wrote here.But my main concern in practice is that any field in any table could change.So for an application where all information submitted by the original submiter is complete, the

RE: advice needed on multi-version data model design

2004-04-21 Thread Barney Boisvert
, then you'd handle it just like the financials.It would just be another table that is bound through the central application table. Cheers, barneyb -Original Message- From: Nick Han [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: advice needed

Re: advice needed on multi-version data model design

2004-04-21 Thread Don
What exactly do you want to accomplish with this project?Use environment, intranet? internet? who are the users? user roles? and how do multi-version come into play in this scenario?And it would also be good to know what dbms you intend or are using now. Jochem, I am not sure this will work,

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