Re: Form Data - Post

2002-02-13 Thread Jon Hall
Why not set an arbitrary maxlength on the field? jon Eric Homa wrote: Hi, Anyone know if there is a limit on the number of characters that can be submitted from the client browser to the server using cfform metho= post? I am using a couple of memo fields along with other fields and it's

Re: Break apart CFHTTP request and store in database

2002-02-15 Thread Jon Hall
Search the archive Jim, I asked this question a long time ago and posted one way to do it, and someone replied with an even better way. Unfortuneately I cant find the source right now. I'll dig around later and see if I can find it though. Basically the solution posted, was a way the parse an

Re: delete last in the list

2002-02-17 Thread Jon Hall
cfset listName = listDeleteAt(listName,listLen(listName)) Claudia Hoag wrote: What would be the best way to delete the last item in a list? Thanks __ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM /

Re: OT - Freaking IE 6

2002-02-18 Thread Jon Hall
Bud, this is actually a case of Microsoft fixing a bug. Content in td's should inherit alignment from outer elements. At least that's what the W3C says... http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.3.2.1 Apparently you should be able to set the alignment on the first cell in the span

Re: OT - Freaking IE 6

2002-02-18 Thread Jon Hall
] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:09 AM Subject: Re: OT - Freaking IE 6 On 2/18/02, Jon Hall penned: Bud, this is actually a case of Microsoft fixing a bug. Content in td's should inherit alignment from outer elements. At least that's what the W3C says

Re: UPS OnLine Tools with ColdFusion

2002-02-19 Thread Jon Hall
Grab Ben Forta's tag from the dev exchange if all you need is shipping rates. It may not be the fanciest thing on earth, but it works pretty well, and can be integrated very fast. I've also integrated the UPS tracking using the XML gateway using MSXML via cfobject into a ColdFusion site. If you

Halm Helms newsletter

2002-02-19 Thread Jon Hall
I just thought some people might be interested in this. Hal Helms and Steve Nelson are doing an very excellent series of email newsletters called Conversations, about project management in general that is quite excellent. They are of course mentioning quite a bit about Fusebox, bet even though I

cftry cftransaction order

2002-09-19 Thread jon hall
I have a set of database updates that I need to nest in a cftransaction, but I also want to use a cftry/cfcatch block for error handling. If I put the cftransaction outside the try/catch block if there is an error, the catch block will execute and abort any further processing, if I put the

Re: OT: Can form fields look differently?

2002-09-20 Thread jon hall
Not even Microsoft takes that view with their own site... If you are interested in AOL users on the Mac, you should at least support Mozilla. Opera as of v6 is now a very good browser, and easily supportable, 7 is going to finally bring DOM2 to Opera as well. IE is no longer available for the

Re: OT: Can form fields look differently?

2002-09-20 Thread jon hall
Friday, September 20, 2002, 12:10:52 PM, you wrote: SG more options on how to do things. But These things can still be done on 4x SG browsers as well - you just need to take a slightly different approach (i.e. SG page reloads instead of using an IFrame to update a page) ILayers work quite well

SP's or Triggers

2002-09-20 Thread jon hall
Does anyone prefer Triggers over Stored Procedures to enforce business logic? I'm trying to tell some people that SP's are better but they wont listen. Maybe I am missing something... What are the advantages of a trigger over an sp? -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SP's or Triggers

2002-09-20 Thread jon hall
Friday, September 20, 2002, 12:45:23 PM, you wrote: Does anyone prefer Triggers over Stored Procedures to enforce business logic? I'm trying to tell some people that SP's are better but they wont listen. Maybe I am missing something... What are the advantages of a trigger over an sp? DW

Re: SP's or Triggers

2002-09-20 Thread jon hall
] Friday, September 20, 2002, 12:42:33 PM, you wrote: JvD jon hall wrote: Does anyone prefer Triggers over Stored Procedures to enforce business logic? I'm trying to tell some people that SP's are better but they wont listen. Maybe I am missing something... What are the advantages

query of queries LIKE case sensitivity

2002-09-20 Thread jon hall
It seems that query of query's LIKE keyword in CF5 is case sensitive. Is there a way around this? If not, does anyone know if this is fixed in MX? -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Structure your ColdFusion code with

Re: UPS Freight service

2002-09-20 Thread jon hall
First let me say...you can _not_ use cfhttp with UPS. I have some CF code that uses MSXML to access their XML tracking API. The freight calculation is similar. You just need to send different XML, and use a different URL. I haven't tested this in a little while, but it used to work fine. If it

Re: SP's or Triggers

2002-09-20 Thread jon hall
Friday, September 20, 2002, 4:26:08 PM, you wrote: JvD jon hall wrote: Even more specifically I have no control over the database in question, and my only interface to the db is a set of tables with insanely complex triggers on them to check the data and then insert the data into another

Re: UPS Freight service

2002-09-20 Thread jon hall
Why did I know you were going to ask that? :) cfhttpparam in CF5+ automatically urlencodes whatever you send. This hoses up something that isn't expecting encoded text...like UPS's XML API among others. Of course...certain people with the initials ML think that no one uses unencoded http posts,

Re: query of queries LIKE case sensitivity

2002-09-20 Thread jon hall
Friday, September 20, 2002, 5:26:27 PM, you wrote: JvD jon hall wrote: It seems that query of query's LIKE keyword in CF5 is case sensitive. Is there a way around this? If not, does anyone know if this is fixed in MX? JvD It is not a bug to be fixed. SQL is case sensitive. I didn't say

Hal Helms on scope creep

2002-09-21 Thread jon hall
The newest alistapart.com issue features a Hal Helms article on scope creep! The content is stuff most of us CFers already know, but it's really nice to see CF mentioned over there. http://www.alistapart.com/index.html -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT? SQL visual editor?

2002-09-21 Thread Jon Hall
Embarcadero's DBArtisan etc. I love the program, hate the price tag...and they have some of the most annoying salespeople I've ever had the displeasure of accidentally giving my real phone number too. http://www.embarcadero.com/ -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Saturday, September 21, 2002,

MX Updater problem...

2002-09-21 Thread Jon Hall
Posting this in case someone runs into this in the future. I just ran the updater, and for some reason it kept failing. I finally figured it out though. For some reason there was a rogue jrun.exe still running and was causing the updater to fail even though the CF service was stopped. I pskilled

Re: Norton Personal Firewall ? problem with sessions?

2002-09-23 Thread jon hall
Are the cfid and cftoken cookies being set on these machines? -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, September 23, 2002, 3:35:23 AM, you wrote: MK We're trying to pin down the cause of a problem that's preventing some of our users getting access to a pay area of our site. MK We're setting

Re: cflocking de-mystified (was RE: WHYYYYY!!!!!!)

2002-09-23 Thread jon hall
Locking has almost no performance penalty in and of itself, so there is nothing to add to the amount of time the code being locked take to process. 1 cfset is going to take almost no time at all, so you could safely put the timeout at 1 second, because even if CF was totally maxed on threads with

Re: CF5: Pentium 4 or 3?

2002-09-23 Thread jon hall
There probably isn't much of a difference in performance between the chips using CF, the P3 might have an advantage doing database stuff though. Personally I'd get the P3, and a dual proc board if those were the only choices. The P4 Xeon's aren't worth it until they hit 1.8 with the new

Strange threading issue, cflock?

2002-09-23 Thread jon hall
Another locking question...might be a bug in CF5. Using CF5, I have a database insert that I need to pause a few seconds, then select a value back out that is updated from withing the db. My code looks something like this: cfquery .../ // Insert Query cfset name =

Re: Strange threading issue, cflock?

2002-09-23 Thread jon hall
this is the best way to go MAKC about creating execution time in your process? MAKC -mk MAKC -Original Message- MAKC From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] MAKC Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 1:58 PM MAKC To: CF-Talk MAKC Subject: Strange threading issue, cflock? MAKC Another locking question

Re: please do my work for me

2002-09-25 Thread jon hall
#url.pCode#? ps. Leave the question mark off... :) -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 5:37:34 PM, you wrote: CA I want to extract a value from a URL variable which can show up anywhere in CA the URL. Here are some examples, I would want the pCode value which will

Re: Looking for a GRID

2002-09-25 Thread jon hall
Why not use cfgrid? -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 8:07:00 PM, you wrote: CM Hi, CM I was wondering if anyone knew of a tag to produce a grid. I have see one call PowerGrid on the developer exchange but I was looking for one that include the actually code

Re: Line Nibbler Alert!!!

2002-09-26 Thread jon hall
Using The Bat, and I am seeing it. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, September 26, 2002, 12:05:21 PM, you wrote: MD The archives have the post with the proper dots. As Howie said, it may be an MD issue of the mail reader. Anyone using Eudora or another non-outlook reader MD seeing

Re: Com ASP and CFMX hopefully MM are listing and fixing

2002-09-26 Thread jon hall
COM is not dead, though I'd hardly expect a different opinion from a Java/Linux guy. If you counted every COM object in use on every Windows machine in the world right now, COM is easily the dominant software component model in use today. I'm not replying to this thread anymore, I just couldn't

Re: HTML tool-tip style question

2002-09-28 Thread Jon Hall
Overlib is great. I use it all the time. http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/ Btw, the title attribute is technically the right way to do tooltips on links, the alt is really meant just for images to display in case an image doesn't load, or the browser doesn't support displaying images. Not all

Re: encode an image into a .cfm inline

2002-09-30 Thread jon hall
This what you are looking for? img src=image.cfm image.cfm: cfcontent type=image/gif file=c:\imagename.gif -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, September 30, 2002, 2:49:52 PM, you wrote: MWB Does anyone have any ideas on if it is possible to encode an image into a MWB cfm? My guess it

Re: encode an image into a .cfm inline

2002-09-30 Thread jon hall
You can use javascript url in the img src and generate an XBM image. http://david.blackledge.com/XBMDrawLibrary.html -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, September 30, 2002, 3:24:37 PM, you wrote: MWB That is close to what I already have. MWB Let me re-ask the question. Is there a way

Return-Path

2002-09-30 Thread jon hall
Has anyone used the Return-Path header successfully with cfmail? Something isn't working correctly for me. Messages are not bouncing the the return-path email address. Here is my code: cfmail to=#this.to# from=#this.from# subject=#this.subject# server=127.0.0.1 cfmailparam name=Return-Path

Re: Return-Path

2002-09-30 Thread jon hall
://www.coolfusion.com/imssecomparison.cfm HH - Original Message - HH From: jon hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] HH To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] HH Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 5:26 PM HH Subject: Return-Path Has anyone used the Return-Path header successfully with cfmail? Something isn't working

Using Java nulls in CF?

2002-09-30 Thread jon hall
Is it possible to to a Java null in CF? Searching the archives I saw it mentioned that it's a huge pain in the ass...I guess that means it's not impossible :) -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Structure your

Re: Using Java nulls in CF?

2002-09-30 Thread jon hall
if this is any faster than looping over line breaks in a string. I hope so after all I tried to get this to work :) -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, September 30, 2002, 11:04:32 PM, you wrote: SAC On Monday, Sep 30, 2002, at 19:20 US/Pacific, jon hall wrote: Is it possible to to a Java

Re: Using Java nulls in CF?

2002-09-30 Thread jon hall
For anyone wondering...with smaller files it really doesn't matter, but with a 2.3MB IIS logfile, the Java ReadLine method is about 30-40 percent faster than the old standby looping over the file as a string using chr(10) as a delimiter. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, September 30,

Re: That free JS tree

2002-10-01 Thread Jon Hall
Another one... http://www.domapi.com/examples/index.cfm?s1=Tree.htm -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 3:12:46 PM, you wrote: ksc A couple of days ago, someone posted a link to a js tree. I can't seem to find it in the archives. Anyone got it? ksc

Re: New updated content on the Designer Developer Center

2002-10-01 Thread jon hall
Also noticed you guys tweaked your browser sniffer so that Gecko browsers don't get detected as NS4. Thanks! Mind doing the same for the Dev Exchange? :) -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 8:16:45 PM, you wrote: VV Hey all, VV We've got new and udpated content on the

Re: Save form data before submit

2002-10-01 Thread jon hall
This is one of those things I've always wanted to do, but never get a chance to... Basically this is how I would do it. script function getObject(nameStr) { var ns4 = document.layers ? true : false; var ie = document.all? true : false; var dom = document.getElementById

Re: Math In MX?

2002-10-01 Thread jon hall
I can't make 379/1093 = anything but 0.346752058554 on my MX box... -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 10:18:40 PM, you wrote: LF Ok.. I'm confused... LF If... LF #countmale.record# = 379 (which a cfoutput confirms) LF And... LF #responses# = 1093 (which a

Re: Macromedia - oops!

2002-10-02 Thread jon hall
That happens when the web server can't contact the database server for a number of possible reasons. Could be the database server is down, could be a networking problem, etc... -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, October 2, 2002, 8:13:47 PM, you wrote: TN I sometimes got this error on

Re: CFC debug bug...

2002-10-03 Thread Jon Hall
Curious...I am able to replicate it with ease. Have you applied the patch yet? -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, October 3, 2002, 9:39:57 AM, you wrote: MC sorry, MC try again MC 0 ms 0 ms 1 CFC[ C:\CFusionMX\wwwroot\research\cfBugs\cftalk-03.cfc | feedTheBeaver( grapes, 1) ] from

Fastest way to convert a csv file to cf array/query?

2002-10-04 Thread jon hall
Using MX anyone have any ideas on a really fast way to convert a large (200-500k) cvs file into a CF complex data type like a query or array? Barry Manilow,Dr. Sholz,[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~|

MX and Javamail

2002-10-04 Thread jon hall
Does anyone know what version of Javamail MX ships with? It doesn't seem to be 1.3, because 1.3's javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress class includes a validate() method, but doing a cfdump of the aforementioned class shows no validate method. If MX doesn't have 1.3, I must be doing

Re: MX and Javamail

2002-10-04 Thread jon hall
looking through java's 1.3 docs for j2ee and it's not there. ksc - Original Message - ksc From: jon hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] ksc Date: Friday, October 4, 2002 4:14 pm ksc Subject: MX and Javamail Does anyone know what version of Javamail MX ships with? It doesn't seem to be 1.3, because

Re: Fastest way to convert a csv file to cf array/query?

2002-10-04 Thread Jon Hall
Hmmm, I've done some hunting around and the Merant driver seems to be named ODBC Text which is part of JDBC from what I can make out. I'm guessing I need to select Other from the dropdown selection of drivers, but some of the fields I am not sure of. The JDBC URL should be:

Re: Fastest way to convert a csv file to cf array/query? Solved

2002-10-05 Thread Jon Hall
Just wanted to thank everyone for the help, unfortunately I couldn't get the Merant drivers to work. I was able to find only one document out there on setting up Merant drivers, but it wasn't pertinent to CF for the most part. Luckily I was able to use the Microsoft Text Driver and set up a ODBC

Re: MX and Javamail

2002-10-05 Thread Jon Hall
regex and use Javamail to validate email addresses. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, October 4, 2002, 7:14:45 PM, you wrote: ksc Ahh, I see. Not sure if MX uses JavaMail, or just uses JRun's implementation of the j2ee spec. ksc - Original Message - ksc From: jon hall [EMAIL

Re: MX and Javamail - Upgrading MX to Javamail 1.3

2002-10-06 Thread Jon Hall
portion to 1.3... Try it KS and tell us what happened :) -Original Message- From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 7:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: MX and Javamail To answer my own question... A quick scan of the J2EE 1.3 specs shows that Javamail

Re: help with IIS 5

2002-10-06 Thread Jon Hall
Error 1060 is listed as : The specified service does not exist as an installed service. The fact that CF won't even start seems to indicate that the problem isn't an IIS problem though. You might have a busted install...try checking the event log though. It may have some more detail as to why the

Re: MX and Javamail - Upgrading MX to Javamail 1.3

2002-10-07 Thread jon hall
I went to the Java and JVM settings in the CF admin and added the complete path to the javamail mail.jar file as the first entry in the Class Path field and restarted CF. It didn't work. Is there another classpath for coldfusion somewhere? -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, October 7,

Re: MX Debug option screws up javascript ??

2002-10-08 Thread Jon Hall
Which browser? Does it do it in all of them? If you are only seeing it in IE, chances are if you rename the checkbox that IE is complaining about it will work fine. MS in their infinite wisdom decided to make IE toss every DOM element into the global namespace and conflicts will cause the error

Re: Flash Remoting (was: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF!

2002-10-08 Thread jon hall
Isn't there a Flash Remoting Java server shipped with EJB's now? Are there any code samples floating around that I could peek at to see if I want to try it out? For some reason, doing the remoting stuff in Java peaks my interest more than with CF. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday,

Re: convert first letter of words in a string to upper

2002-10-08 Thread Jon Hall
http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=9 -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 5:31:50 PM, you wrote: CE I need a function to CE convert first letter of words in a string to upper case. ~| Archives:

Re: Get SQL Info

2002-10-08 Thread Jon Hall
Ben Forta posted this a while back. Execution time is easy, just use CFQUERY.ExecutionTime. Getting the SQL statement is harder, but, if you are using CFMX and have debugging turned on, here is a function that will do it: !--- Get a query's SQL statement --- CFFUNCTION NAME=QueryGetSQL

Re: cfcookie and cfset SESSION.variable =

2002-10-09 Thread Jon Hall
Is your session variable getting updated? If not, there is your problem, if so, then the problem lies in some part of the program that is not using the session variables value, or not using it correctly. If the app works using just cookies, then switching to session variables shouldn't be a

Re: The Myth of Bugs (Was Huge Ungainly thread of Doom)

2002-10-09 Thread Jon Hall
Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 8:48:24 AM, you wrote: JN All- JN Funny, I should stop sleeping. I wanted to take a moment to address something that is bothering me a great deal. Hey, don't forget, people are passionate about CF, and that's a good thing. Every CF developer has had to basically

Re: Macromedia employee participation (was RE: not another mx boo boo)

2002-10-09 Thread jon hall
Amen. Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 4:42:07 PM, you wrote: LF soapbox value=on snip LF If we're not smart enough to realize the difference between an LF official comment and an unofficial one, then I believe we should LF sell our 'puters and quit our current job(s). I'm certain we would have

Re: Get List of tables in a DB

2002-10-10 Thread Jon Hall
Here is my snippet. !--- First go to Tools - Options - click on Hidden Objects and System Objects, then go back to Tools - Security - User and Group permissions - highlight the MSSysObjects table and then check the Read Data check box, then click OK.. --- cfquery datasource=email

Re: CFX not allowed

2002-10-10 Thread Jon Hall
Which version of CF? -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, October 10, 2002, 7:54:29 PM, you wrote: PK Can anyone point me in any direction on this please. PK The store on our web site, fortunately a CF based product, is run by another PK business area of the Corporation. PK Recently

cfczone.org?

2002-10-10 Thread Jon Hall
Anyone know what's up with this site? I see news being posted on occasion, but it seems like it's stuck it waiting to get some free time mode :) -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~| Archives:

Re: CFX not allowed

2002-10-10 Thread Jon Hall
82332000 PK m: 0418 806 166 PK ** PK -Original Message- PK From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] PK Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 10:08 AM PK To: CF-Talk PK Subject: Re: CFX not allowed PK Which version of CF

Re: Recommendations - Java tutorials

2002-10-11 Thread Jon Hall
IBM's are the best. I must have read a thousand books, tutorials trying to cram the concept of objects into my head, then I read their java basics tutorial and it all clicked. http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/dw/java-onlinecourse-bytitle -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple filters on cfdirectory

2002-10-11 Thread jon hall
cffile returns a query recordset. Use query of queries to do your filtering. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, October 11, 2002, 2:38:46 PM, you wrote: SM Is there a way to achieve the following (multiple filters), it does not SM seem to work this way: SM cfdirectory action=LIST

Re: free mail servers please - like Pegasus and Mercury

2002-10-14 Thread jon hall
I'm partial to telnet... -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Monday, October 14, 2002, 10:28:35 AM, you wrote: KA Hi, KA Is it possible to tell me where I can find free email clients - and if KA possible - with better security than Pegasus and Mercury. KA At the moment Pegasus and Mercury are

http component

2002-10-15 Thread jon hall
I'm in need of an HTTP component that supports SSL, but also allows me to specify HTTP 1.0 and have complete control over every header sent. I've been banging my head against every free one I could find and I'm about to give up on them. MSXML4 reports itself as http 1.1, MSXML3 reports

Re: problems with http and wddx?

2002-10-15 Thread jon hall
Don't know if this helps, but a 500 - Internal Server Error is a web server error. It basically means that the url or a header made the server choke. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 3:55:07 PM, you wrote: KO Hi KO I have a page which i have been testing locally

Re: Dynamic Shipping Calculations

2002-10-15 Thread jon hall
All three have an XML API, Fedex having just implemented theirs so I don't have any info on it though, I am glad they finally have an alternative their previous lame API. I've heard rumors that UPS has a web service gateway as well, but I've never seen anything about that documented on their

Re: soXML - Flawed

2002-10-16 Thread jon hall
Loading and saving is something cffile does pretty well. XML is a string, cfset does a pretty good job of changing it. Why do you need a parser even? FYI: MsXML can load and save files fine as well. cfscript objXMLDOM = CreateObject(COM, msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0); objXMLDOM.async = false;

Re: soXML - Flawed

2002-10-16 Thread jon hall
...? have you got an RRNR example? RRNR N RRNR -Original Message- RRNR From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] RRNR Sent: 16 October 2002 15:11 RRNR To: CF-Talk RRNR Subject: Re: soXML - Flawed RRNR Loading and saving is something cffile does pretty well. XML is a RRNR string, cfset

Re: UPS web services and CFMX

2002-10-18 Thread jon hall
Where did you see a reference to web services on UPS's site? I keep hearing about it but can never seem to locate it on their site. -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Friday, October 18, 2002, 3:24:43 PM, you wrote: ccc hello, ccc I was wondering if anyone had experience invoking UPS' web

Re: MX Installation: Wrong site being loaded occasionally

2002-10-18 Thread jon hall
Just so you know it's not just you...the first time I clicked on the crackpipe link in your post, gundam.com came up. I refreshed and the crackedpipe site came up. -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Friday, October 18, 2002, 12:50:20 PM, you wrote: BK I have a site at: BK

Re: OT: XML

2002-10-18 Thread jon hall
Coldfusion and Perl have if/else functionality...use it, that's what the application server's role in life is. XML is only a data format, XSL which you eluded to doesn't have an else statement, true, but XSL isn't really a procedural language anyway. Some questions that come to my mind... What

Re: XML within CFMX

2002-10-18 Thread Jon Hall
Friday, October 18, 2002, 7:07:58 PM, you wrote: B Does it make sense to take an XML doc from the DB and store it as a client B variable for persistence? And if this XML document was used internally via B the app and was modified and parse very frequently, would there be a B decrease in the

Re: UPS web services and CFMX

2002-10-19 Thread Jon Hall
Ok now this is twice someone has said UPS has a web service api. I just double checked and on this page http://www.ec.ups.com/ecommerce/techdocs/online_tools.html they list all of their XML API's. I looked around, and downloaded the tracking and rate selection docs again, even though they haven't

Re: e-mailing-management tool

2002-10-19 Thread Jon Hall
I've used it, and it works. It's not a heavy duty program though. I'll just say that the code is in all caps, their are unlocked session and app variables everywhere, and pound signs galore. Looks like a 4.0 or earlier era program to me... -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Saturday, October 19,

Re: Really big file manipulation

2002-10-21 Thread jon hall
If you are familiar enough with the DTS designer to use the Workflow events to chain tasks together that's probably all the dts knowledge you really need. I'd start by running the import wizard on the text file and saving the dts package for the import. Then go to the designer and open the package

Re: MX and Javamail - Upgrading MX to Javamail 1.3

2002-10-22 Thread jon hall
Thanks...figured that out 2 weeks ago though :) -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 5:45:17 PM, you wrote: JH jon hall wrote: I went to the Java and JVM settings in the CF admin and added the complete path to the javamail mail.jar file as the first entry

Re: Known CFMX issues under consideration for upcoming Updater releas e

2002-10-22 Thread Jon Hall
Thank you! Nice to know what is going on. However...did anyone see this? Bug 48462: ColdFusion MX URLEncodes special characters in the name attribute of name=value pairs. Could someone clarify what this pertains to? -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 2:09:34 PM, you

Re: Can CF search a string from the right to the left.

2002-10-24 Thread jon hall
Use reverse(), then search from the beginning. -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Thursday, October 24, 2002, 10:34:15 AM, you wrote: CM Hi, CM I was wondering if anyone knows of a cf function or a tag that will search a string from the right to the left, instead of the left to the right. CM

Re: Urgent : GURU Required: Excel vs COM in CFMX

2002-10-24 Thread jon hall
Thursday, October 24, 2002, 1:55:23 PM, you wrote: RR rant importance=2 RR gt; Especially when with all the industries investment in RR gt; Java that is supposed to be a big reason we love Java RR gt; now, nobody in Javaland has come up with as efficient RR gt; an interface as MSXML. RR Two

Re: Urgent : GURU Required: Excel vs COM in CFMX

2002-10-24 Thread jon hall
Thursday, October 24, 2002, 1:35:03 PM, you wrote: It's a physical impossibility to pass xml data as efficiently as passing data over a COM interface. I accept that SOAP is a viable replacement for DCOM, but not COM itself. DW If you're defining efficiency as speed, you're absolutely

Re: Urgent : GURU Required: Excel vs COM in CFMX

2002-10-24 Thread jon hall
Thursday, October 24, 2002, 12:23:04 PM, you wrote: Web Services != replacement for COM. Not by a long shot. DW It certainly works well as a replacement for DCOM; while it might not DW replace everything that COM does now, it can certainly replace some of it. DW SOAP, or something SOAP-like,

Re: Urgent : GURU Required: Excel vs COM in CFMX

2002-10-24 Thread jon hall
Who needs ZModem when you have YmodemG? As long as you had a MNP modem you could get an extra 70 or so cps at least ;-) -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Thursday, October 24, 2002, 4:43:25 PM, you wrote: LC Me too. Who remembers using Kermit, Z-Modem, QWK mail, FidoNET and SLMR LC (Silly

Re: Recommended JRE for CFMX

2002-10-24 Thread jon hall
I believe the issue is that the IBM 1.3 JRE is probably the best fast JRE right now that is available cross platform. They haven't released a 1.4 JRE for Windows yet, only Linux... -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Thursday, October 24, 2002, 5:26:32 PM, you wrote: SY I haven't seen any issues

Re: OT cheap SSL

2002-10-24 Thread Jon Hall
There was a nice Slashdot thread about this a few weeks ago. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/02/000241mode=threadtid=172 -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Thursday, October 24, 2002, 9:50:16 PM, you wrote: JT Can anyone point me to some cheap ssl certs? JT Thanks, JT Josh JT

Re: custom tags .NET

2002-10-25 Thread jon hall
Good question, I've never touched the C++ cfx api, I'm not sure if there is anything that would cause C++ .NET to not work, but other than a web service, there is always cfexecute... -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Friday, October 25, 2002, 1:28:33 PM, you wrote: TW well, I guess its just

Re: [OT] Community Suite Cam

2002-10-25 Thread jon hall
How in the world did you get the phone company to get a line in their that quick? -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Friday, October 25, 2002, 4:01:31 PM, you wrote: MD Thanks to Adam Churvis, we have a DSL line in the community suite. Jochem is MD looking into setting up a flash communications

Re: CFMX updater and java.lang.NullPointerException Errors

2002-10-25 Thread jon hall
I can't offer much help, but just so you know, I was talking to someone who was using ADO with MX and we got it working before the patch, but it was very slow. So we decided to patch it, and the code just stopped working. Reverting to a previous way of accessing the object fixed the problem...very

Re: What advantages does Java 1.4.1 bring to CFMX?

2002-10-25 Thread Jon Hall
Integrated SSL (JSSE) is one of the most important ones for web developers. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/relnotes/features.html -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Friday, October 25, 2002, 10:46:48 PM, you wrote: DA Several recent threads have discussed installing and using Java 1.4. DA

Re: SOT Installing Java 1.4.1 questions

2002-10-28 Thread Jon Hall
All that is necessary is changing the path in the admin, or edit the jvm.config directly. -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Monday, October 28, 2002, 2:37:05 AM, you wrote: DA When you install Java 1.4.1 on an existing CFMX installation, do you DA need to do anything special? DA Things such

Re: What in the world is this?

2002-10-28 Thread jon hall
I think the line counter is off, the problem is with the cfapplication tag. This is just a hunch, but I've seen the null error before, coincidentally it was on houseoffusion.com right after it was upgraded to MX. I would get the error going to www.houseoffusion.com or houseoffusion.com, but

Re: [OT] Community Suite Live

2002-10-28 Thread jon hall
Hrm, I can't even ping the server... non wrapped url for the lazy ;-) http://cfmx.oli.tudelft.nl/flashcom/applications/sample_panel_presentation/sample_panel_presentation.html -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Monday, October 28, 2002, 11:53:33 AM, you wrote: MD

Re: Cached Queries

2002-10-28 Thread jon hall
Nothing wrong with a cfc having access to persistent data...I'd say an app variable is the best way to do this. Just make the cfc test to see if 24 hours have passed between refreshes. Application variables aren't the only way to make data persist...you could use a db, or the filesystem. Some

Re: MX not seeing my MS ODBC Text Driver

2002-10-29 Thread jon hall
It's not a bug...it's a feature ;-) Create an ODBC Socket DSN to it in MX. -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Tuesday, October 29, 2002, 12:56:29 PM, you wrote: DA Would this be a bug? DA I am using a text file as my datasource and I go through the regular DA process of creating an ODBC

Re: Yahoo moving to PHP

2002-10-29 Thread jon hall
Yeah, I'd disagree with him, but really it's a personal preference. I feel the same way about VB. Somewhere in they said that the guy who was pushing for php was one of the developers of Apache, so he is probably a C guy. PHP and C are very similar... -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Tuesday,

Re: Coldfusion timing

2002-10-30 Thread jon hall
Set up scheduled process on a separate internet connected system that calls the template you need to execute every 7 minutes. -- jon mailto:jonhall;ozline.net Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 3:14:27 PM, you wrote: KP I need to use some timing within coldfusion KP every 7 minutes, I need to

Re: OT:Yahoo moving to PHP

2002-10-30 Thread jon hall
Actually my own beef with VB is it's syntax, not it's power. Even CF is more structured than VB. I say if you want odd syntax and lots of power, use Delphi ;-) I think Delphi is a better comparison to CF than VB though. I have the same problem with Perl as well. I much prefer the Java/C#/Python

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