Re: directory masking

2009-01-02 Thread David Low
William, For the second part of your question (URL rewriting) there are two ways you can do it. Firstly you can redirect _all_ requests (including 404s) to a default page - let's say index.cfm - and let that page decide what to do with the request, based on the URL passed in. For example if the

Re: directory masking

2009-01-02 Thread David Low
in the url bar only. No directory names. No page names. Nothing beyond the '.com' ind the web address. Any ideas? william William Seiter (mobile) -- Web Developer / ColdFusion Programmer -Original Message- From: David Low eskele...@gmail.com To: cf-talk

Re: ColdFusion Express?

2008-12-29 Thread David Low
I'm a very happy SQLYog user, even upgraded to the Enterprise version to use some of the additional functionality... 2008/12/29 Charlie Griefer charlie.grie...@gmail.com: Sorry, it's been about 10 years since I've touched MySQL. However, I'm pretty sure there are GUI front ends available.

Re: ColdFusion Express?

2008-12-29 Thread David Low
http://telemat.open.ac.uk/webapps/ 2008/12/29 Raymond Camden rcam...@gmail.com: Got a URL for Open University's courses? On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:25 PM, BobSharp bobsh...@ntlworld.com wrote: I'm doing a series of Open University short courses, and being introduced to CF with this version.

Re: Variable within a variable

2008-12-27 Thread David Low
Maya, When you're setting up your initial variable, can't you do something like cfset variables.emailMessage = Dear variables.customerName chr(10) chr(13) Message here / - then you're combining the variables before you use them... David 2008/12/27 Maya MacDonald devinpar...@hotmail.com:

Re: Official ColdFusion IDE announced

2008-11-18 Thread David Low
Most people don't use cfeclipse - from a recent tour of developer interviews (quite a wide field from all over the UK), not one person used it - few had even heard of it. Most of them either used Dreamweaver of some edition, Homesite or some generic text editors! 2008/11/18 Michael Dinowitz

Re: Railo 3 - Open Source with JBoss

2008-06-07 Thread David Low
2008/6/7 Adam Haskell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I also take issue with the quote of has to go open source which implies that is the only way for these alternative engines to survive and that is simply not true. Both companies came to a conclusion that Open source is a viable business solution and

Re: VMWare Open BlueDragon image made available

2008-05-12 Thread David Low
2008/5/12 Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wouldn't expect anyone to use the OpenBD provided VM image in production, so I think the answers might be a bit moot. People with smaller budgets - might well be tempted to use it for internal apps, intranets, etc - so the smaller the footprint,

Re: SOT: top file extensions on the nt

2008-02-06 Thread David Low
Tom Chiverton wrote: You do know you can have CFML templates with .html extensions, right ? Or any other extension, for that matter. To be fair, that could also be said of any other non-HTML extension in the list. However it also misses out the fact many sites don't use extensions at all,

Re: POI, Excel and row limitations

2008-01-14 Thread David Low
Rick Root wrote: But Excel seems to open delimited text files of greater than 65536 rows with no problem. Depends on the version. Prior verions would open a file bigger than 65536 but would cut everything off after the 65536th row (and wouldn't actually throw any error or dialog to say where

Re: Adobe ColdFusion IDE survey

2008-01-10 Thread David Low
Dawson, Michael wrote: I'm not a fan of the visual interface of Eclipse. It looks as if the authors either didn't take the time, didn't care or purposely avoided making Eclipse look like a native Windows application. There is little, or no, use of common Windows icons for Open, Save,

Re: Adobe ColdFusion IDE survey

2008-01-10 Thread David Low
Cutter (CFRelated) wrote: It's funny that you mention this. I've been using Eclipse/CFEclipse for a few years now, and have rarely, if ever, had a problem. Yet the guy next to me had horrific experiences out of the gate, until he did a complete reinstall. He's not a fan of Eclipse at all,

Re: Case Sensitivity

2007-10-04 Thread David Low
Tim Ashworth wrote: I was under the impression that coldfusion was entirely case insensitive regardless of if it is on a windows or linux OS. So I'm quite happily writing everything in lower case and camel case, but my colleague is convinced that this is wrong. Whilst I appreciate that it's

Re: Map .htm to ColdFusion

2007-09-06 Thread David Low
Jim McAtee wrote: So, I may have to edit this file by hand? What's the procedure - stop CF, edit file, restart CF? Yep, AFAIK. Can anyone confirm whether this is necessary to process .htm files with CF8? The application server won't be expecting to serve .htm files, so it will

Re: Text Field Auto-Fill

2007-09-04 Thread David Low
Peter, Just out of interest, do you have any javascript at the head of the page, or included in some way? Looks like there are functions being called but the code doesn't show where they are running from... Peter Tanswell wrote: Hi there I have a site which I put together in a few hours.

Re: Java Script Value to CF Value

2007-09-04 Thread David Low
That script won't work, as the CF code will already be executed before the client-side Javascript does anything. CF might be able to write to Javascript but can't read it. Robert Harrison wrote: I have a value I'm retrieving from Java Script. I need to set it to a CF value. What is the

Re: Java Script Value to CF Value

2007-09-04 Thread David Low
But that is for passing CF values into Javascript, isn't it? Robert is trying to get a client-side JS value (which is defined once an image has loaded) into the server-side CF code. Can't be done in that way. Robert, what is it you're trying to do in general, aside from the snippet of code

Re: Java Script Value to CF Value

2007-09-04 Thread David Low
But that is for passing CF values into Javascript, isn't it? Robert is trying to get a client-side JS value (which is defined once an image has loaded) into the server-side CF code. Can't be done in that way. Robert, what is it you're trying to do in general, aside from the snippet of code

Re: Java Script Value to CF Value

2007-09-04 Thread David Low
Yep, that's possible - if you're using CF8 there are tags/functions to do this, if not you could use Rick Root's excellent ImageCFC or Alagad Image Component. For info, Railo has a very handy attribute which lets you get image dimensions directly from a cffile action=info file=... tag.

Re: Railo 2 Released

2007-08-28 Thread David Low
Sean Corfield wrote: Hmm, I've never needed to use a C++ tag with CFML. I think I've only used one Java CFX tag ever. What sort of killer C++ CFX tags are you folks using? I'd go along with that - I've often found myself removing CFX tags which were purely in use as a 'quick fix'. Such as

Re: Railo 2 Released

2007-08-26 Thread David Low
anyone would go this route. Again, if the price were considerably less that CF 8 from Adobe, then maybe I could see going this way... Rick -Original Message- From: David Low [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 5:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Railo 2 Released

Railo 2 Released

2007-08-25 Thread David Low
Railo released their 2.0 edition today. I've been testing stuff against the release candidates for a few months now and love it... http://www.railo.ch/en/index.cfm ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest

Re: Railo and CF8 speed contest

2007-07-27 Thread David Low
Actually it has (I had comment pre-moderation turned on, without realising) - Damon, I've left you an email too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted this but it hasn't been published: = It’s hardly fair to post a set of performance benchmarks without full open

Re: SOT: Eclipse Plugins

2007-07-12 Thread David Low
Seconded. Doug Arthur wrote: It does. I'm on Eclipse 3.3 and using Aptana. -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: Eclipse Plugins On Thursday 12 Jul 2007, Larry Lyons wrote: Check

Re: OT - Gap when making element invisible

2007-07-02 Thread David Low
Put the br / tags inside the spans? On 7/2/07, Adrian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three spans: span id=span_11/spanbr / span id=span_22/spanbr / span id=span_33/span Which gives me output: 1 2 3 If I make the middle one invisible with script:

Re: configuring Apache to use multiple JRun Application Servers

2007-06-19 Thread David Low
I'm assuming you set up CF8 with the JRun multiple server installation? Memory's a bit hazy here but IIRC, Apache is set up to handle all requests for .cfm (and other ColdFusion) files, regardless of where they live. That might well be why CF8 worked without editing web.xml or similar, it's

Re: I love CF but it's not fair

2007-06-12 Thread David Low
Russ wrote: Maybe someone should make a free/open source CF server. That would probably get more people using it. Of course once you've invested this much time into developing a product like that, it's hard not to start charging for it. (Didn't CF5 and BlueDragon start out as free products?)

Re: sun downloads?

2007-05-26 Thread David Low
Same for me too - been like that all day. Bobby Hartsfield wrote: Wrong link... http://developers.sun.com/downloads/top.jsp I was after JRE6 but NONE of the downloads work for me. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com

OT: RE: Is this bad form?

2007-05-18 Thread David Low
Probably, but it certainly goes on. IMHO, it's bad form for sites such as newspapers and blogs to have Digg This! links at the bottom of every story too. If one of their readers uses Digg regularly and likes the article, they will know what to do, without prompting. -Original Message-

RE: upgrade JRE version and latest vista..

2007-05-03 Thread David Low
mailing list :-) David Low Senior Developer and Data Manager MyHousePrice.com 3 Wellgreen Lane STIRLING, FK8 2BS tel: +44 (0) 1786 472 186 fax: +44 (0) 1786 472 109 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.MyHousePrice.co.uk MyHousePrice.com Every House

RE: Opensource Web Analytics

2007-04-12 Thread David Low
live, Google Analytics is probably best. If you want to process logs offline, try Analog from www.analog.cx - fast and accurate, IMHO. David Low Senior Developer and Data Manager MyHousePrice.com 3 Wellgreen Lane STIRLING, FK8 2BS tel: +44 (0) 1786

BD7

2007-03-30 Thread David Low
BlueDragon 7 has been released today... http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm David Low Senior Developer and Data Manager MyHousePrice.com 3 Wellgreen Lane STIRLING, FK8 2BS tel: +44 (0) 1786 472 186 fax: +44 (0) 1786 472 109

RE: Mysql YEAR(DateField) problems with cfqueryparam

2007-02-21 Thread David Low
http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/wank -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 February 2007 13:50 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Mysql YEAR(DateField) problems with cfqueryparam They use it as a surname... On 2/21/07, Will Swain

OT: BD + Apache Troubles

2007-02-05 Thread David Low
permissions to 777, everything - I even set up the sites as the only virtual site in Apache and nothing worked. Any pointers or help would be greatly appreciated! David David Low Senior Developer and Data Manager MyHousePrice.com 3 Wellgreen Lane

RE: BD + Apache Troubles

2007-02-05 Thread David Low
Thanks Mark - I did just that, and after such a long post, a restart of BD did the trick straight away. Just some strange caching! Cheers David -Original Message- From: Mark Flewellen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2007 19:10 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: BD + Apache

RE: Batch optimize images

2007-01-18 Thread David Low
IrfanView usually did the trick for me (on the PC) but I'm sure Google's Picasa will do it too. -Original Message- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 January 2007 13:29 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Batch optimize images Does anyone know of a program that will allow

RE: Sorta OT: iframe in a form doesn't pass values?

2006-12-20 Thread David Low
Well you could with some JS at the point of completion or submission, just like you could if the form was spread over a frameset. It's not very elegant and a bit messy, but not impossible. David -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 December 2006

RE: Employee Satisfaction

2006-11-22 Thread David Low
From: Snake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 November 2006 16:26 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Employee Satisfaction I actually have found that being too friendly with your staff doesn't work very well. People generally don't want to be mates with their boss and wont relax with you, and

RE: ColdFusion blogging software?

2006-11-17 Thread David Low
To be honest my preference has always been Wordpress back-end and a customised CF front-end. However I'm in the middle of converting a Wordpress blog to BlogCFC (which I've not used since it grew to v5) and it's looking good to be honest. The difference between BlogCFC and Wordpress in terms of

Installing BD 7 beta on MacTel

2006-11-17 Thread David Low
Hi folks, I've tried in vain to install the BlueDragon 7 beta on my Macboook Pro. Followed the installation instructions to the letter, but it only ever seems to drop the uninstaller into the Bluedragon application folder, and gives up after that. I'll post the installation log on here (also

RE: Installing BD 7 beta on MacTel

2006-11-17 Thread David Low
. The instructions for this can be found at New Atlanta Support in the FAQ under Installation. -jason On Nov 17, 2006, at 6:57 AM, David Low wrote: Hi folks, I've tried in vain to install the BlueDragon 7 beta on my Macboook Pro. Followed the installation instructions

RE: Search Engine Friendly URLS

2006-11-16 Thread David Low
I'd go along with the 404 error suggestion - I've implemented this too, it works really well. You need to create a custom 404 error on the web server (this is pretty straightforward but needs access to the server config, whichever version you use). The 404 page then queries against a table of

RE: date format problem

2006-10-31 Thread David Low
In what format are the original dates you're passing to the dateformat function - entered via a form, coming from a database, or some other way? -Original Message- From: Richard White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 October 2006 14:52 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: date format problem

RE: Good Linux books

2006-10-31 Thread David Low
From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 October 2006 16:17 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Good Linux books I'd agree, mainly because windows is a resource hog. Why does Linux shared web hosting almos always cost less than Windows? Because you can stuff a lot more sites on a

RE: Insert Data CFC

2006-10-30 Thread David Low
From: Matthew Irwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 October 2006 10:36 To: CF-Talk Subject: Insert Data CFC I have a cfc that I invoke to show the price of an item. Can I use the same cfc to place the price in a table. Yep, just place the query in a separate function.

Developer Edition - Remote IP

2006-10-25 Thread David Low
We've got a genuine need to try and change the remote IP which has been set up for a developer edition of CFMX (6.1). Having trawled the settings and registry, I can't find any trace of the IP which was accidentally used. Any ideas if it's possible to change this, once a remote IP has connected

RE: Developer Edition - Remote IP

2006-10-25 Thread David Low
, David Low [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got a genuine need to try and change the remote IP which has been set up for a developer edition of CFMX (6.1). Having trawled the settings and registry, I can't find any trace of the IP which was accidentally used. Any ideas if it's possible

RE: Documents within CFDocument

2006-10-23 Thread David Low
iText libraries could probably do it, with a wee home-made Java class. -Original Message- From: Henry Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 October 2006 11:21 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Documents within CFDocument How can you get Acrobat or ActivePDF to do it on a webpage?

RE: Rate your favorite coldfusion framework

2006-10-20 Thread David Low
It comes free with every copy of CF. -Original Message- From: Nick Tong - TalkWebSolutions.co.uk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 October 2006 14:23 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Rate your favorite coldfusion framework Where can i download that one ?? ;) On 20/10/06, Bobby

RE: Coldfusion Portal application

2006-10-18 Thread David Low
The beauty of CF has always been that you could do this very quickly yourself, without having to rely on buggy open-source projects which do more than most people would ever need, need some horrible PHP hacking to work properly, and look the same as 1001 other sites. There have been some CF

RE: CF blog application

2006-10-17 Thread David Low
Personally I prefer a combination of some customized CF code and Wordpress. I use WP for the back-end, since it's absolutely excellent - but think that my own CF skin is far easier to maintain at the front-end. You'd need to have PHP available on the server as well as CF though. -Original

RE: video hosting?

2006-10-16 Thread David Low
Can I join in with this request? Just set up a video streaming site, and had a lot of problems streaming higher-res vids (low-res worked fine though). Currently using Streamhoster - their service is fine but the performance could be better. -Original Message- From: Ray Champagne

RE: video hosting?

2006-10-16 Thread David Low
From: Jim Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 October 2006 15:02 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: video hosting? I asked some questions about video a while back, so you might want to look at the answers I got: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/thread.cfm/threadid:44847

RE: download as pdf

2006-10-12 Thread David Low
I've done this in 6.1 with the use of iText classes - took a couple of days but was well worth it. Good blog post on the subject at: http://cephas.net/blog/2004/03/14/using-itext-pdf-coldfusion/ -Original Message- From: Ali Majdzadeh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 October 2006

RE: IDE's

2006-10-11 Thread David Low
HS 5.5 is an upgrade from + (was HS+ not a freebie with Dreamweaver MX?) -Original Message- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 October 2006 15:35 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: IDE's I am not sure... I think 5.5 might be an upgrade from +... But I use the name

RE: CFHTTP over HTTPS

2006-10-03 Thread David Low
Happened to me once on a project where the site being grabbed by CFHTTP had a very slight change in its certificate - so that it no longer matched the domain (browsing directly produced a challenge alert). Had to manually set up the certificate as you did here, and it worked fine after that.

RE: cfajax

2006-10-02 Thread David Low
You need to look for Mappings, that should work for you. -Original Message- From: Richard White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2006 16:04 To: CF-Talk Subject: cfajax i am wondering if anyone uses cfajax. I am having problems installing it. i use the colfdfusion mx7

RE: CF vs. .NET presentations?

2006-09-29 Thread David Low
You'd have to update that a bit - Windows Server 2003 was 'upcoming' about four years ago :-) -Original Message- From: Doug Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 September 2006 13:18 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF vs. .NET presentations? Coldfusion Web Server Support Supports

RE: cfset hyperlink

2006-09-26 Thread David Low
You need to escape your quote marks - the cfset statement is terminating too early. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 September 2006 16:17 To: CF-Talk Subject: cfset hyperlink All, I thought this would be simple, but it's not working.

RE: NFL Player Stats Service

2006-09-22 Thread David Low
From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 September 2006 12:02 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: NFL Player Stats Service It's on their web site, freely accessable, no ? Tough - you are free to do what you want with it. You'd have a hard job proving that one in court, I suspect.

RE: NFL Player Stats Service

2006-09-22 Thread David Low
From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 September 2006 14:59 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: NFL Player Stats Service You could have gone and seen it yourself. Or your friend could have. shrug I wouldn't dispute that. The biggest nonsense of all is fixture lists in the UK -

RE: How to get these query results - Take 2

2006-09-20 Thread David Low
The test page works OK with a www. added: http://www.fclounge.cfdeveloper.co.uk/test.cfm -Original Message- From: Matt Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 September 2006 14:59 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: How to get these query results - Take 2 Rich, you are right in that I

RE: Reliability

2006-09-15 Thread David Low
My last workplace had 2 CF servers (Windows, hardware load-balanced), with traffic of around 1m query-generated page views per day. A lot of the leg-work was performed by MS SQL in the background, but the CF servers held up very well. They only really needed a restart if the traffic went

RE: IIS 500 - Internal Server Error

2006-09-08 Thread David Low
I'd go along with that - the maximum I've been able to start the service with, was 1.3. It depends on other settings as well. -Original Message- From: Snake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 September 2006 09:35 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: IIS 500 - Internal Server Error I have

RE: Free Coldfusion Hosting that lets me connect to MS Access Database

2006-09-08 Thread David Low
From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 September 2006 15:52 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Free Coldfusion Hosting that lets me connect to MS Access Database well, the fact of the matter is that there is no free CF hosting (AFAIK). Erm... http://www.cfdeveloper.co.uk might do