Re: Handling invalid recipient in mailing list

2015-04-02 Thread Mike K
You probably know already, but I'll say it just in case ... you can rarely have a 100% clean list. I have found that even after you just clean up a list, your next mailing will have rejects in it. Even if it's only a few minutes since you last cleaned it up. Your error handling needs to be

Re: How to get emails unblacklisted by Cisco Senderbase

2015-02-17 Thread Mike K
as to which monitors are actually blacklisting you? On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone had any experience with dealing with Cisco's Senderbase? Our small radio station has been blacklisted by Cisco's Senderbase as being a spammer (we

Re: Sending SMS

2014-11-18 Thread Mike K
That's great but what about sending to different carriers? I'm guessing you have to know what carrier the customer you're sending a sms is on right? No. Its your carrier not theirs. Just like you dont need to know what carrier someone is using to call them. Best is to use an aggregator

Re: Non-profit donation providers

2014-11-05 Thread Mike K
I have dealt with Paypal in the past in a position similar to Al's.They are totally impenetrable when it comes to discussing anything.There is no way to get in contact with any human about anything. All you ever get is a form letter related to the first word the automated support system

Re: Adobe is just a spammer now

2014-10-23 Thread Mike K
made, no change accepted. But when have Adobe ever listened to user feedback? -Original Message- From: Mike K [mailto:afpwebwo...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 October 2014 21:08 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Adobe is just a spammer now You can say whatever you like, Eric but i was given

Re: Adobe is just a spammer now

2014-10-18 Thread Mike K
Nope Dave it has offered the option to deselect it in the past, but this time just went on ahead and installed it without asking.So installation of the flash runtime took twice as long this time i had to uninstall the damned McAfee after the adobe installer finished. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at

Re: Adobe is just a spammer now

2014-10-18 Thread Mike K
You can say whatever you like, Eric but i was given NO OPPORTUNITY TO DESELECT the installation of the McAfee product which I definitely DO NOT WANT. I downloaded the flash installer, then ran the installer, and it went right ahead and installed two items - the flash player and then without

Adobe is just a spammer now

2014-10-17 Thread Mike K
So I succumbed to temptation and installed the latest flash player. In the process of installing it, I have to also install McAfee, even though I have paid for Norton's product. Now i have the conflict between the two. I DONT BLOODY WANT McAFEE!!! Then it opens a screen offering me other

Re: Avoiding a boat load of queries inserting multiple records - Better Way?

2014-10-09 Thread Mike K
You do know that Microsoft changed the insert syntax as from SQLServer 2008 dont you?now you can insert multiple records in one go like this: INSERT into Tablename (field1, field2, field3, field4 ) Values ( value1, value2, value3, value4 ... ; value1, value2, value3, value4 ;

Adding n characters to a string

2014-09-24 Thread Mike K
I'm having a brain fade - I know I've done this before but for the life of me I can't find where it was.I hope someone can help me out here before i go crazy ... I need to add (n) hard spaces (nbsp;) before a string, so it indents the string a variable amount depending on its level in a

Re: Adding n characters to a string

2014-09-24 Thread Mike K
(string, count). On 25 September 2014 13:54, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having a brain fade - I know I've done this before but for the life of me I can't find where it was.I hope someone can help me out here before i go crazy ... I need to add (n) hard spaces (nbsp

CF9/Windows how to push data to HTML page

2014-08-06 Thread Mike K
I have a radio station site, and I want to be able to update the pages automatically as events happen. For example on the section where it says what's on air now i want it to automatically change as the hour ticks over and the new show startsOr as the live call of the sports ends and we

Re: CF9/Windows how to push data to HTML page

2014-08-06 Thread Mike K
, 2014 at 10:17 PM, John M Bliss bliss.j...@gmail.com wrote: Are you talking about updating the page while end-user is looking at it? Or do you just need to have it updated on load / refresh? On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: I have a radio station site

Re: need help with two sites - willing to pay $45/hour

2014-07-21 Thread Mike K
I can help you. I've been building coldfusion sites for about 15 years now. I have 39 sites I look after, some of my own, and all coldfusion based. I have some time available now to take on new projects. Let me know if you are interested. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe

Re: Testing

2014-05-18 Thread Mike K
Nope. I never received it Rick. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.comwrote: Testing... ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
So to summarise then, ColdFusion Builder 3 is a great IDE, except that the following important features dont work for me, and no one has been able to show me that they can work for me ... [A] FTP doesnt work, and no one has yet offered me any way to make it work. [B] Code insight apparently

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
Ah so since i use http://dev.sitename as my local url, I should name the server connections dev.afpcms and dev.afpwebworks and dev.sitenameis that how you mean? Cheers Mike Kear On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Andrew Scott andr...@andyscott.id.auwrote: Actually that was probably a

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
Ok that's good news, Dean. I see code insight as a big benefit of ColdFusion Builder, but so many things are going wrong these days I was getting to assume that this was just not going to work for me. (Sometimes I think there's a malicious supreme being looking over me saying nah ah. you

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
Thank you for persevering with me, Andrew. I'm glad it's not just me being dense. This is still very confusing. I suppose once I've set up a couple of projects it might be understandable. I'd hope so - i have 39 to set up!! Dean, thanks for the reassurance that code insight actually does

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
Andrew, thanks . I'm not trying to be stupid here, but I am not 'getting it' yet. the context if if your using an instance under a context. What does that mean? How to i know if i'm using a context?I just installed ColdFusion using the defaults that come with the jrun install.

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
that instance. If you only have a standalone / Multi (pre CF 10) then you will not need to worry about it, which I said earlier. Regards, Andrew Scott WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ Google+: http://plus.google.com/113032480415921517411 On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Mike K afpwebwo

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
Oops. How rude. Thanks ANDREW!!! Sorry :) On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Scott but i DO have a J2EE server. That was how we all set up coldfusion from MX because that's how shared hosting was set up. So anyone using shared hosting set

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
Thanks Dave. That clears that up.Now I understand what 'context' means, I realise I set it up as you suggested.I didn't understand what context means because it's something i've never used, apart from setting up / as the context root as one of the many settings when I installed

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
The administrator is found at http://localhost/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm and its physically at D:\Sites\webroot\htdocs\CFIDE\administrator\index.cfm On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Andrew Scott andr...@andyscott.id.auwrote: lol... np... Well what is the URL you access the

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
So far this has cost me about 8 hours of billable time to setup, and its only required because Adobe decided to take ColdFusion out of Dreamweaver, the tool I've been using for years and years. It's proving a BLOODY EXPENSIVE tool. A little bit of progress at last. I have to say this

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
I've had enough of this damned ColdFusion Builder 3 for now. It's just too bloody frustrating. Maybe I might come back to it, maybe not. The FTP/Synchronise thing is just barely something you would expect a beginner programmer to produce.Trying to make it work is groping in the dark

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
Thanks Brian, I think you might be right. After all the 'mine's bigger than yours' and 'you should be using a REAL IDE' pi$$ing contests over the years between Eclipse users and Dreamweaver users, I figured since Adobe are ashamed of ColdFusion and dont want Dreamweaver users to be able to

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-05-01 Thread Mike K
Thanks Andrew. I bow to your experience and wisdom. I was just going on the words of Adobe where they have videos telling about the synchronisation and the ftp settings etc in the app.There's my stupidity. I should know better than to believe anything those buggers say. They have fallen

CF Builder 3 frustrates!!!

2014-04-30 Thread Mike K
I have taken the advice of several members of this list and installed ColdFusion Builder 3. For the last hour I have been frustrated, trying to upload a single file to my production server. It's quite likely I'm coming at this from the wrong angle (i'm a CFBuilder novice after all) but from

More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-04-30 Thread Mike K
Does anyone actually use CF Builder for multiple projects? Everything I've seen so far seems to assume I'm working for a company with one web site. There's nothing I've found so far showing how to set it up for multiple web sites. I thought I'd done it right, but apparently not, because I

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-04-30 Thread Mike K
Please - I dont want this to degenerate into a 'my ide is better than your ide'. I'm not going back to CF Studio. I dont REALLY even want to leave Dreamweaver - i dont have the time to learn a new IDE now but I'm forced to because Adobe wont allow sensible use of Dreamweaver for ColdFusion

Re: More CFBuilder 3 frustration

2014-04-30 Thread Mike K
/113032480415921517411 On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Please - I dont want this to degenerate into a 'my ide is better than your ide'. I'm not going back to CF Studio. I dont REALLY even want to leave Dreamweaver - i dont have the time to learn a new IDE now

Dreamweaver CC - anyone been able to create CF files with it yet?

2014-04-29 Thread Mike K
Has anyone been able to force Dreamweaver CC to create .cfm and .cfc files yet? I havent even been able to find out how to add my standard comments/owner/creator block to the top of all new files. Has anyone found out how to do that yet? -- Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe

CF9 java applet error. any solutions?

2014-04-01 Thread Mike K
I am getting an error whenver I use the java applets in Coldfusion, such as the CFGRID and the tree displays in the CF Administrator.i have searched for a solution in all the normal places and don't see one. Does anyone know what to do about this? My CF server is v9,0,2,282541 My JRE

Re: CF9 java applet error. any solutions?

2014-04-01 Thread Mike K
If i go to that url, Dave, I get a messages asking if i want to open or save cfapplets.jar, so I guess that url is exposed. I'm running the browser on my dev machine over the internet, rather than the server console. When I run the CFAdministrator on the server itself, i get the message:

Re: CF9 java applet error. any solutions?

2014-04-01 Thread Mike K
Russ is this a new thing? I have an application that used to work ok using CFGRID all over the placeSuddely they dont work.I had to run through the whole app and change the CFGRID's to tables and recode them. Are you saying that something's changed in ColdFusion that those applets

Very disappointed in Viviotech

2014-03-31 Thread Mike K
So I signed up with Viviotech - got a VPS. Started setting up my first hosting space after reading the documentation - had a question about why I was getting an error message that didnt seem to be covered by the documentation anywhere. Rang Viviotech. Got a jerk that told me that since I

Re: Very disappointed in Viviotech

2014-03-31 Thread Mike K
the wrong buttons, and Viviotech handled it all well. I'm a happy customer. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: So I signed up with Viviotech - got a VPS. Started setting up my first hosting space after reading the documentation - had a question about why

Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-03-28 Thread Mike K
Yes yes yes, I know its been done and done again here.I'd like to know the opinion of some of you who've been down this road a few times - its quite a while since I've moved hosts.. here's my issue: I need to move to a new hosting company from the one I have my small business sites on.

Re: Moving part of my hosting business - thoughts about my plan please ...

2014-03-28 Thread Mike K
Thank you everybody, I'm glad I asked.I have changed my plan now. Cameron and others made a good point. I was trying to do too many thing at once. My plan now is to get a new hosting environment as similar as possible to my current one, so its gives me the most chance that I'll be

Re: Honest question about cfform

2014-03-04 Thread Mike K
Gerald, I used to use CFFORM, and it quickly got outdated as HTML and CSS and Javascript and jquery moved on. These days HTML5 is the go with CSS3. CFFORM doesnt produce those. Therefore things like client side validation, placeholder text, cross-browser issues, mobile devices are all

Re: Possible time out

2014-02-12 Thread Mike K
To check your theory, try setting the timeout to a large number and see if the problem goes away.Then you know for sure what is causing the problem. There are a number of things you can do to reduce the impact of a long processing time: [A] look for ways to reduce the processing time.

Getting the date next (Saturday)

2014-02-02 Thread Mike K
I have a schedule function, where i need to display the date and time of hte next occurance of an event, that is scheduled every dayofweek at time for example, one event is every Saturday (day='7') at midnight. Another event is every Sunday (day=1') at 9pm. How can i calculate the date of the

Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

2014-01-31 Thread Mike K
Thanks Andrew. I thought that's what that was for too. But it's an incognito window I'm talking about. Cheers Mike Kear ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

2014-01-31 Thread Mike K
Here's how scary, Jonah. In an incognito window, I go to the help file, Disabling automatic sign-in and see up in the top right corner a button saying sign in.Good, that would mean that I'm signed out now, so I've achieved what I wanted.Right?WRONG! I click that Sign in button,

Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

2014-01-31 Thread Mike K
, 2014 3:57 AM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Here's how scary, Jonah. In an incognito window, I go to the help file, Disabling automatic sign-in and see up in the top right corner a button saying sign in.Good, that would mean that I'm signed out now, so I've achieved what

Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

2014-01-31 Thread Mike K
What I'm wondering is, 'why doesnt this happen in public libraries and internet cafes and other multiple-use situations? Cheers Mike Kear On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Yes its chrome browser and the login hint is in the title, which says

Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

2014-01-31 Thread Mike K
I dont have any more time to spend on this tonight - i have a radio show to do but i'll have to come back to it over the weekend. Russ for the record, I was using an incognito window for the very reason you said. I thought that's what would do the trick. But it doesnt in my case

(ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

2014-01-30 Thread Mike K
Sorry for the OT post, but I dont know how to get any help from Google. Only boilerplate answers to questions I havent asked. Does anyone know how to clear your login details from a browser if you've logged into gmail on someone else's computer? As far as I can see it 'helpfully' remembers

Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

2014-01-30 Thread Mike K
password list on the preferences/options security tab. It's different by browser. Google had nothing to do with it. On Jan 31, 2014 2:08 AM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the OT post, but I dont know how to get any help from Google. Only boilerplate answers to questions I

Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

2014-01-30 Thread Mike K
without the password? That's auto form fill. Again in browser's options. On Jan 31, 2014 2:33 AM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Timothy. It's a new behaviour i havent seen before. I'm at a client's office. I look into my gmail, i sign out, then just to be sure i'm signed

Re: (ot) Anyone know how to clear your google details from a browser?

2014-01-30 Thread Mike K
go into their prefs. and clear cookies for the google.com domain... On 1/30/14 11:44 PM, Mike K wrote: I recognise the auto form fill in - in chrome it colours fields yellow if it thinks it knows the answer.No i'm talking about something more elabourite here - its the whole login form

Re: Adobe take over a MONTH to advise me my credit card details are stolen

2013-12-03 Thread Mike K
Apparently, Adobe are unable to process ANY credit card details, And it would seem they are unable to have anyone in Australia take a phone call. I have been trying for nearly a MONTH to get to talk to someone about this and never get to anyone. I leave messages and no one ever calls me back.

Re: Adobe take over a MONTH to advise me my credit card details are stolen

2013-12-03 Thread Mike K
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. @Jochem, I had no idea about that escalation address. Thanks for that.@Dave Watts, as always a thoughtful and considered response. I have actually done all those things, with some success, as you'll see if you read on. @Russ, I took your approach

Adobe take over a MONTH to advise me my credit card details are stolen

2013-11-26 Thread Mike K
We all heard about the Adobe security disaster here, but finally now, OVER A MONTH later, Adobe have finally got around to informing me that my credit card info and other details were stolen, possibly creating an identity theft issue for me. And they thought so much about it, and were SO

How to refresh part of a page automatically

2013-10-17 Thread Mike K
I have a page with a webcam image in it. The webcam uploads a new image every 60 seconds, and I use a HTML refresh to refresh the whole page every 60 seconds. It seems a bit clunky to me. It's worked just fine for several years, but I'd like to see if i can find a way to refresh only the div

Re: How to refresh part of a page automatically

2013-10-17 Thread Mike K
Ray, thanks for this. I can see you get your kicks writing bits of code like this dont you. You've gone wy past answering my question as you usually do, and I'm most grateful. I have a suspicion your idea of a relaxing evening on your vacation is a coding problem and a laptop, where

Re: Best way to use LESS CSS with CF?

2013-09-10 Thread Mike K
t why rewrite the wheel when documented frameworks already exist Learning another language to do what can be done as easily by the language I've been using for years looks like reinventing the wheel to me. That's the advantage of Less (and SASS too for that matter) - you dont learn any new

Re: Confused: java.lang.NullPointerException CF9

2013-07-22 Thread Mike K
Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET http://asp.net/ hosting from AUD$15/month On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: One possibility in my Application.cfc onRequestStart method

Confused: java.lang.NullPointerException CF9

2013-07-20 Thread Mike K
Can anyone give me some pointers as to where to look for the source or maybe the solution to this problem please? I'm confused - I am getting java.lang.NullPointerException error on a site on a shared server, but not getting the error on other sites on that same server.So presumably the

Re: Confused: java.lang.NullPointerException CF9

2013-07-20 Thread Mike K
a mapping that's not set correctly, and a call to a CFC (or perhaps an include) is not finding its target. Sent from a mobile something On Jul 20, 2013 11:01 AM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone give me some pointers as to where to look for the source or maybe the solution

Re: Confused: java.lang.NullPointerException CF9

2013-07-20 Thread Mike K
help a bit further. Can your host take a look at the exception.log to see if any additional errors are being logged. Byron Mann Lead Engineer Architect HostMySite.com On Jul 20, 2013 11:01 AM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Confused: java.lang.NullPointerException CF9

2013-07-20 Thread Mike K
Hey Kym!! I thought you were going to the beach to put your feet up and watch the sunrise nowadays. What are you doing here?? But thanks for the suggestion. As always, giving me a sensible, workable solution that I ought to have done myself.But too stupid to do it. On Sun, Jul 21,

Adobe no longer supports ColdFusion??? Really?

2013-06-18 Thread Mike K
Have I missed something here? I upgraded my Dreamweaver CS6 to Dreamweaver CC and ColdFusion is no longer supported apparently. There are no CFM file types, no tag hinting or code completion etc for ColdFusion, apparently. Unless I've missed something somewhere and I have to change a

Re: Adobe no longer supports ColdFusion??? Really?

2013-06-18 Thread Mike K
Again, I might be wrong here, but if you make ColdFusion sites, Dreamweaver CC is impossible to use, because you can't render any of the pages, use any of the responsive features, or the site management features, or use any live view. It wont even open the files.You can't use it to do the

Re: Adobe no longer supports ColdFusion??? Really?

2013-06-18 Thread Mike K
, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Raymond Camden raymondcam...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Adobe really have no clue how to support and market any server products. I said that when i saw what a fiasco the forms product was for them, now

Re: Adobe no longer supports ColdFusion??? Really?

2013-06-18 Thread Mike K
are telling me I have to chuck Dreamweaver out and change to something else that doesnt integrate with the workflow. Do you get the impression that i'm REALLY GRUMPY about this?? On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Mike K afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Ray, removing CF File support from

Re: Adobe no longer supports ColdFusion??? Really?

2013-06-18 Thread Mike K
done. Thanks On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Les Mizzell lesm...@bellsouth.net wrote: On 6/18/2013 9:31 PM, Mike K wrote: Again, I might be wrong here, but if you make ColdFusion sites, Dreamweaver CC is impossible to use Not impossible. But Adobe, for one reason or another, has made

Re: Checking if a file exist - then choice to overwrite or not ...

2013-05-16 Thread Mike K
Why not use the functionality that is already built into the html/cfm scripts?At the point of asking which file to upload, why not ask there if the file you are about to upload already exists, what do you want to do?Overwrite? Skip? . then use that to set you overwrite=true or

Re: Easy CFC question (I hope)

2013-05-09 Thread Mike K
Bruce I wouldn't sweat about making a rookie mistake.We all do. Mine is usually confusing 'eq' and '='. as in ... cfif variable1 eq variable2 /cfif and cfset variable1 = something I usually find out I've got them the wrong way round when I get an error message. You'd think

How to learn to build mobile apps..

2013-04-18 Thread Mike K
I need to learn how to build mobile apps for iPad/iPhone and Android. I have been building responsive web sites for mobile devices and think I have a reasonable understanding of the issues involved with that, but I have a project coming up that will require a full-on app not just a web site. So

Re: Now() offset by 1 hour

2013-04-04 Thread Mike K
I might be wrong ( i sometimes have been known to be wrong, but not very often) but I thought GMT didnt have daylight savings. I thought GMT was the same all year round, and it was the timezone at London that changed daylight savings. Or is it just that UTC was constant and sometimes was the

Re: Hosting A to Z

2013-02-15 Thread Mike K
Matt, if you're using Windows7 or later, the +infiinity button is the combination ALT+F4 Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Sat, Feb

Re: Possible Hack?

2013-02-03 Thread Mike K
I have had this same code added to one of my sites too. (I'm checking now to see if it's just one) Did you find out yet where the access point was to modify your code? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com