Re: Where to put your code
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Dave Watts wrote: Adobe is a big company, with a bunch of products. Adobe's web site predates the Macromedia merger. Should they rewrite their site with CF to make it more prominent, or should they focus on building and selling their tools? Are the two mutually exclusive? =)p Yes, in the very real sense that there is a finite amount of resources. I'd much rather have Adobe hire more CF product developers and testers, etc, than pay developers to rewrite their site. I was mostly just poking fun, as I'm a two birds... kind of guy (to a fault). =) I do feel that there is a lot more to a successful product than coders and testers though. And I really think CFML is a bang'n web language. Maybe if the site is done, never to be modified or maintained, there's little direct benefit to a rewrite, partial or otherwise... *shrug* Resources being finite doesn't really change the ratio of bang:buck. =) ColdFusion isn't just a product. It's useful, too! I wonder (pure speculation), if seeing more CFML powered apps would somehow help sell more CFML engines, which would in turn pay for more CFML engine development? =)p There's a lot of ways to skin a cat, they say, and far be it for me to be telling anyone what to do. I just don't see it as an either/or type of deal, limited resources or no. I'm pretty good at rationalizing though. =) :Denny -- Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plat ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339347 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Where to put your code
I'm pretty good at rationalizing though. =) +1 One of the best. =) G !-- Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plat ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339348 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
(ot) AWS / EC2 and SpamLists
This a bit OT. I just wanted to share what I'd found, in case anyone else is considering moving to the cloud. Its certainly attractive, and being able to spin up a new server from an image configured with webserver, CF, OS and your website files in under 5 minutes is pretty cool. Just keep one thing in mind. Sending email from the cloud (at least from Amazons) is problematic at best. The IP's (Elastic IP's), that we were assigned we're already in the SpamHaus database and other RBLs. And we NSI wouldn't let us set up a cname record with those IPs. There *are* procedures to get your IP's removed/whitelisted but I don't think you can count on this since there are so many blacklists and your sharing an IP range, so your neighbour could get you in trouble again in the future. For me, I can't risk emails not getting delivered (new user account registrations, password reminders, notifications, campaigns - all of em), so the solution is to maintain an SMTP server at a co-lo or dedicated server location that you can trust to do your mail sending. Or use an outsourced email (smtpauth.com,jangosmtp.com) service. You can also set up a VPC with your existing hardware from the cloud and 'talk' to it like it was on your local network. Anyhow, I just wanted to put this out there. I was stoked to move to the cloud, and this threw a bit of a wrench in the idea, since having to maintain a server somewhere for sending email is kinda of a pain in the butt. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339349 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
What was that security again?
I admit this question is a touch off topic, but the SQL list is not nearly as active. Can anyone tell me what the minimum MS SQL server 2005 security settings to run SELECT and Execute Existing Stored Procedures? My googling has failed me. (it was bound to happen eventually) Thanks! Brian ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339350 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: What was that security again?
GRANT SELECT GRANT EXECUTE Is that what you are looking for? -Mike Chabot On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Brian Polackoff bpolack...@gmx.com wrote: I admit this question is a touch off topic, but the SQL list is not nearly as active. Can anyone tell me what the minimum MS SQL server 2005 security settings to run SELECT and Execute Existing Stored Procedures? My googling has failed me. (it was bound to happen eventually) Thanks! Brian ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339351 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: What was that security again?
Kinda.. Are there any particular SERVER ROLES or Database Role Membership? Thanks! -Original Message- From: Mike Chabot [mailto:mcha...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 11:42 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: What was that security again? GRANT SELECT GRANT EXECUTE Is that what you are looking for? -Mike Chabot On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Brian Polackoff bpolack...@gmx.com wrote: I admit this question is a touch off topic, but the SQL list is not nearly as active. Can anyone tell me what the minimum MS SQL server 2005 security settings to run SELECT and Execute Existing Stored Procedures? My googling has failed me. (it was bound to happen eventually) Thanks! Brian ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339352 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: What was that security again?
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Re: What was that security again?
I don't think any Server roles are needed, but db_datareader Database role should provide the SELECT permissions. I'm not sure about the permissions for stored procedures. Carl Kinda.. Are there any particular SERVER ROLES or Database Role Membership? Thanks! GRANT SELECT GRANT EXECUTE Is that what you are looking for? -Mike Chabot On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Brian Polackoff bpolack...@gmx.com wrote: I admit this question is a touch off topic, but the SQL list is not nearly as active. Can anyone tell me what the minimum MS SQL server 2005 security settings to run SELECT and Execute Existing Stored Procedures? My googling has failed me. (it was bound to happen eventually) Thanks! Brian ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339354 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Where to put your code
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: Yes, in the very real sense that there is a finite amount of resources. I'd much rather have Adobe hire more CF product developers and testers, etc, than pay developers to rewrite their site. Adobe, presumably, has developers who work on their site. The question isn't about taking away CF product developers, it is about what language to use to do that which is already being done...ie, building the Adobe website. There is no good reason, that I'm aware of, to not implement a gradual change plan, redoing one section of an app at a time as you update and refresh things and using a new language (CF in this case) to do so. It isn't something I would expect to happen overnight, nor should it. Rather a healthy policy of eating your own dog food should be put in place to utilize their own products (CF, Flex, etc) for new projects and ongoing development . Judah ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339355 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Hosted VPS recommendations
I am looking for a VPS to replace an in house development server. We already have licenses for SQL and CF. Most places seem to want to charge extra for a package that has enough ram and processing power to handle both of those and they then provide them as well. So I dont want to have to pay for a built in cost for licensing something we already have. Bandwidth needs are very low since it is just for internal work, nothing will be externally hosted on it. Can anyone recommend a decent VPS host with a basic windows server setup that would allow several developers to login and develop remotely? Dan ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339356 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
cfhttp connection timeout - best way to loop or re-try?
Hi, I have a cfhttp call in a cfc that from time to time receives a connection timeout. I'd like to just retry the call again, but not sure of best way to start the call over. I actually don't want to start the whole thing over, just re-try the cfhttp call if it receives a connection timeout. Maybe a cfloop 2 or 3 times? But I don't want it to loop right away, only if it received a timeout. Thoughts? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339357 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: cfhttp connection timeout - best way to loop or re-try?
Maybe you could do something like this: cfhttp url=somURL method=GET result=results cfif findNoCase(200, results.StatusCode) continue to process cfelse re-process /cfif If you get a timeout, I believe the status code will not be 200 and therefore you could try again. HTH... Che -Original Message- From: Casey Dougall [mailto:ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:39 PM To: cf-talk Subject: cfhttp connection timeout - best way to loop or re-try? Hi, I have a cfhttp call in a cfc that from time to time receives a connection timeout. I'd like to just retry the call again, but not sure of best way to start the call over. I actually don't want to start the whole thing over, just re-try the cfhttp call if it receives a connection timeout. Maybe a cfloop 2 or 3 times? But I don't want it to loop right away, only if it received a timeout. Thoughts? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339358 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: cfhttp connection timeout - best way to loop or re-try?
Something like... cfset success = cfset attempts = 0 cfloop condition=success is not 1 and attempts lt 4 cfset attempts = attempts + 1 cftry cfhttp ... timeout=60 ... cfset success = 1 cfcatch cfset success = 0 /cfcatch /cftry /cfloop On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Casey Dougall ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com wrote: Hi, I have a cfhttp call in a cfc that from time to time receives a connection timeout. I'd like to just retry the call again, but not sure of best way to start the call over. I actually don't want to start the whole thing over, just re-try the cfhttp call if it receives a connection timeout. Maybe a cfloop 2 or 3 times? But I don't want it to loop right away, only if it received a timeout. Thoughts? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339359 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: cfhttp connection timeout - best way to loop or re-try?
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:47 PM, John M Bliss bliss.j...@gmail.com wrote: fset success = cfset attempts = 0 cfloop condition=success is not 1 and attempts lt 4 cfset attempts = attempts + 1 cftry cfhttp ... timeout=60 ... cfset success = 1 cfcatch cfset success = 0 /cfcatch /cftry Thanks guys, just wanted to be sure I was thinking along the same lines here. John, like your example, I'll play around with that. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339360 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Hosted VPS recommendations
I can, and without hesitation, recommend both Viviotech.net and kickassvps.com. Both have excellent support, quality products and good prices. The folks at viviotech have repeatedly gone above and beyond (and then some) what I would expect from a hosting company when it comes to support. I cannot say enough good things about them. Kick ass VPS's support is excellent as well. I am setting up a 2k3 vps right now and simple support requests were fielded and resolved in a matter of 5-10 minutes. Others issues took longer but were perfectly acceptable given the nature of the problem(s). BTW I got kickassvps's entry level Win 2k3 machine for $35 W/ 1 gig ram, 10 gig hd space and I have CF9 and MSSQL, Mysql, IIS 6, mail servers, dns, (the works) and it has a solid 600+ megs of ram free with a couple domains running. The third option I would recommend exploring is Amazon EC2. you can get a Small Instance -- 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of local instance storage, 32-bit platform -- For about $55 a month with a year lease or you *might* be able to squeeze it CF and MSSQL on a micro instance which is about $10/month. HTH G! On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Dan Crouch stario...@yahoo.com wrote: I am looking for a VPS to replace an in house development server. We already have licenses for SQL and CF. Most places seem to want to charge extra for a package that has enough ram and processing power to handle both of those and they then provide them as well. So I dont want to have to pay for a built in cost for licensing something we already have. Bandwidth needs are very low since it is just for internal work, nothing will be externally hosted on it. Can anyone recommend a decent VPS host with a basic windows server setup that would allow several developers to login and develop remotely? Dan ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339361 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: What was that security again?
Kinda.. Are there any particular SERVER ROLES or Database Role Membership? Nope. Although db_datareader is basically a shortcut to granting SELECT and EXECUTE. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339362 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: What was that security again?
DDLADMIN should suffice, this is what role we give to all our customers. That's way more than needed for reading data. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339363 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Where to put your code
Adobe, presumably, has developers who work on their site. The question isn't about taking away CF product developers, it is about what language to use to do that which is already being done...ie, building the Adobe website. There is no good reason, that I'm aware of, to not implement a gradual change plan, redoing one section of an app at a time as you update and refresh things and using a new language (CF in this case) to do so. It isn't something I would expect to happen overnight, nor should it. Rather a healthy policy of eating your own dog food should be put in place to utilize their own products (CF, Flex, etc) for new projects and ongoing development . Adobe has plenty of dog food, though - they have two CMS products that I'm aware of, both in J2EE. They have other products, like Contribute, which are arguably better suited to product information pages. They use CF and Flex in places (like the Adobe Exchange), and use other things in other places. And Adobe isn't adding new functionality to their site constantly - it's primarily an informational site, rather than an application. So, to me, saying Adobe should use CF for their entire site doesn't make a lot of sense. If I were an Adobe stockholder, I wouldn't want them to spend their money that way. I'm not, so I don't care much one way or the other. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339364 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: What was that security again?
Yes but it is a safe role, you can;t do anything dodgy -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: 18 November 2010 19:20 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: What was that security again? DDLADMIN should suffice, this is what role we give to all our customers. That's way more than needed for reading data. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339365 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ
I'm considering moving on from Dreamweaver and finally using a better IDE for CF work. I know of CFBuilder and have downloaded the trial to eval. I used IntelliJ for some Java projects 2 years ago and it was outstanding. My current take is that price is equal and functionality is *roughly* equal with each having its own strengths. The one big issue for me is that CFBuilder already has a (small but growing) community of extensions. I like the idea of Apptacular, varscoper, etc. all built-in. My concern over IntelliJ (or more accurately, the CFML plug-in for it) is the lack of a large enough user base to support the demand for these CF-specific extensions. I'm curious to hear thoughts and get feedback re the choice. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339366 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ
There is also CFEclipse... -Original Message- From: Dave Burns [mailto:cft...@burnsorama.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:20 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ I'm considering moving on from Dreamweaver and finally using a better IDE for CF work. I know of CFBuilder and have downloaded the trial to eval. I used IntelliJ for some Java projects 2 years ago and it was outstanding. My current take is that price is equal and functionality is *roughly* equal with each having its own strengths. The one big issue for me is that CFBuilder already has a (small but growing) community of extensions. I like the idea of Apptacular, varscoper, etc. all built-in. My concern over IntelliJ (or more accurately, the CFML plug-in for it) is the lack of a large enough user base to support the demand for these CF-specific extensions. I'm curious to hear thoughts and get feedback re the choice. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339367 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ
Cfbuilder is built on eclipse, so you can also use most eclipse plugins as well. I do still like Dreamweaver though, it has its good points. -Original Message- From: Dave Burns [mailto:cft...@burnsorama.com] Sent: 18 November 2010 19:20 To: cf-talk Subject: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ I'm considering moving on from Dreamweaver and finally using a better IDE for CF work. I know of CFBuilder and have downloaded the trial to eval. I used IntelliJ for some Java projects 2 years ago and it was outstanding. My current take is that price is equal and functionality is *roughly* equal with each having its own strengths. The one big issue for me is that CFBuilder already has a (small but growing) community of extensions. I like the idea of Apptacular, varscoper, etc. all built-in. My concern over IntelliJ (or more accurately, the CFML plug-in for it) is the lack of a large enough user base to support the demand for these CF-specific extensions. I'm curious to hear thoughts and get feedback re the choice. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339368 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ
I'm considering moving on from Dreamweaver and finally using a better IDE for CF work. I know of CFBuilder and have downloaded the trial to eval. I used IntelliJ for some Java projects 2 years ago and it was outstanding. My current take is that price is equal and functionality is *roughly* equal with each having its own strengths. The one big issue for me is that CFBuilder already has a (small but growing) community of extensions. I like the idea of Apptacular, varscoper, etc. all built-in. My concern over IntelliJ (or more accurately, the CFML plug-in for it) is the lack of a large enough user base to support the demand for these CF-specific extensions. I'm curious to hear thoughts and get feedback re the choice. I think IntelliJ is probably a better choice for pure Java development, although I still use Eclipse for that. Otherwise, though, I think Eclipse/CFBuilder is a much better fit for CF development, if only because of Aptana. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339369 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ
Aptana? Really? I tried adding the Aptana plugin with cfeclipse once. It slowed Eclipse down massively and in general just got in my way. Maybe I'm using it wrong though. Anyone have quick tips for using Aptana for CF development? I may try it again if I can get some value out of it. Steve -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 2:49 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ I think IntelliJ is probably a better choice for pure Java development, although I still use Eclipse for that. Otherwise, though, I think Eclipse/CFBuilder is a much better fit for CF development, if only because of Aptana. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339370 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Dave Burns cft...@burnsorama.com wrote: I'm considering moving on from Dreamweaver and finally using a better IDE for CF work. I know of CFBuilder and have downloaded the trial to eval. I used IntelliJ for some Java projects 2 years ago and it was outstanding. For Java (and other J-languages) work, IntelliJ is hard to beat but I don't think the CFML plugin gets much love. Eclipse is solid for Java / J-language work and CFBuilder as a plugin to Eclipse is unbeatable for CFML development. I have CFBuilder (standalone) open pretty much 24x7x365 for CFML work and I fire up a separate instance of Eclipse (with all my J-language stuff) when I'm working on a J-language project. I like to keep the two environments separate right now (to keep my main IDE - CFB - lean and clean). Whilst IntelliJ is really impressive for Java work, I can't get used to the 'feel' of it so I keep trying it but I keep coming back to Eclipse. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive. -- Margaret Atwood ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339371 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Variable before query, rereplace or javascript to change title
I created a custom tag I can reuse, which runs a news manager. I would like to optimize it for search engines, but here is my issue: 1. The query and output are in the custom tag, which goes in the main content of the page 2. I want the news title to be in the page title, but I cant put an output before a query that I know of 3. Not sure if an ReReplace will work in this situation either 4. I know I can do it with javascript, but javascript is client side and will not change the title in time for a search engine to catch it will it? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Example: http://desconsultants.com/news.cfm?newsId=84 ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339372 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
coldfusion standard edition version switched to developer edition?!
We just restarted the coldfusion server and now it's suddenly a developer edition on our live web server! I tried entering the coldfusion9 standard license in (in cfadmin) to update but it's asking for the old version's serial which I entered but it says the numbers don't match. Also, whats the update file box for? I left it blank and hit submit. PLEASE help! Thanks, Tim ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339373 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: What was that security again?
None of the server or database roles would classify as minimum settings. You achieve minimum settings with GRANT and DENY statements. Is your goal to restrict a user to only reading data? If one of your stored procs allows for the deletion of data, and you grant execute permissions to the user, the user will be able to execute that stored proc and delete the data, even if they are not granted specific delete permission on the table. You might explore the deny roles and deny granular permissions if you really don't want someone to do anything other than read data. It is reasonable to combine the db_datareader role along with granular stored procedure permissions to meet your goal. Also restrict the permissions for the data source in ColdFusion Admin as another layer of protection. ddladmin allows a user to truncate a database table, so avoid that role if you want read-only. It helps if users need to truncate though. -Mike Chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: Yes but it is a safe role, you can;t do anything dodgy -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: 18 November 2010 19:20 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: What was that security again? DDLADMIN should suffice, this is what role we give to all our customers. That's way more than needed for reading data. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339374 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Variable before query, rereplace or javascript to change title
2. I want the news title to be in the page title, but I cant put an output before a query that I know of No, but you can run the query before any HTML, ie : CFQUERY NAME=myQuery --- get the tithe in son=me column --- SELECT title, ... /CFQUERY html head titleCFOUTPUT#myQuery.title#/CFOUTPUT/title /head ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339375 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Variable before query, rereplace or javascript to change title
Wrap the custom tag in a cfsavecontent tag at the top of the page: cfsavecontent variable=myoutput cf_customtag / /cfsavecontent Then output your page: cfoutput html head title#myquery.somevalue#/title /head body #myoutput# /body /html /cfoutput Brook -Original Message- From: Joel Black [mailto:j...@blackbeardesign.com] Sent: November-18-10 12:27 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Variable before query, rereplace or javascript to change title I created a custom tag I can reuse, which runs a news manager. I would like to optimize it for search engines, but here is my issue: 1. The query and output are in the custom tag, which goes in the main content of the page 2. I want the news title to be in the page title, but I cant put an output before a query that I know of 3. Not sure if an ReReplace will work in this situation either 4. I know I can do it with javascript, but javascript is client side and will not change the title in time for a search engine to catch it will it? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Example: http://desconsultants.com/news.cfm?newsId=84 ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339376 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: coldfusion standard edition version switched to developer edition?!
The easiest thing to do would be to enter the CF8 standard serial number. That is what I would do in your situation. I wonder what caused it to happen. Maybe the config file got messed up. If you keep server backups you could restore your CF config files from backup. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Tim Do t...@wng.com wrote: We just restarted the coldfusion server and now it's suddenly a developer edition on our live web server! I tried entering the coldfusion9 standard license in (in cfadmin) to update but it's asking for the old version's serial which I entered but it says the numbers don't match. Also, whats the update file box for? I left it blank and hit submit. PLEASE help! Thanks, Tim ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339377 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: coldfusion standard edition version switched to developer edition?!
I was able to find a key that matched. Server is back up now. Question is, how/why did the config file get set to developer edition... it was never installed as a developer edition to begin with. -Original Message- From: Mike Chabot [mailto:mcha...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 12:52 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: coldfusion standard edition version switched to developer edition?! The easiest thing to do would be to enter the CF8 standard serial number. That is what I would do in your situation. I wonder what caused it to happen. Maybe the config file got messed up. If you keep server backups you could restore your CF config files from backup. -Mike Chabot On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Tim Do t...@wng.com wrote: We just restarted the coldfusion server and now it's suddenly a developer edition on our live web server! I tried entering the coldfusion9 standard license in (in cfadmin) to update but it's asking for the old version's serial which I entered but it says the numbers don't match. Also, whats the update file box for? I left it blank and hit submit. PLEASE help! Thanks, Tim ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339378 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: coldfusion standard edition version switched to developer edition?!
We just restarted the coldfusion server and now it's suddenly a developer edition on our live web server! I tried entering the coldfusion9 standard license in (in cfadmin) to update but it's asking for the old version's serial which I entered but it says the numbers don't match. Also, whats the update file box for? I left it blank and hit submit. PLEASE help! Can you restore the license.properties file from backup? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or ons ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339379 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
decrypt coldfusion admin password
The company I work for has a coldfusion application that is being migrated to our servers. We need to log in to the admin but no one who wrote it is here any longer. I used to have code to decrypt and display the admin password. Can anyone get me that? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339380 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: decrypt coldfusion admin password
You just need to disable the admin login in the neo-security.xml Russ -Original Message- From: Rusty Owens [mailto:rusty_ow...@hotmail.com] Sent: 18 November 2010 21:01 To: cf-talk Subject: decrypt coldfusion admin password The company I work for has a coldfusion application that is being migrated to our servers. We need to log in to the admin but no one who wrote it is here any longer. I used to have code to decrypt and display the admin password. Can anyone get me that? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339382 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Variable before query, rereplace or javascript to change title
Wrap the custom tag in a cfsavecontent tag at the top of the page: I gave this a try, but when I wrap it in the savecontent, its not reading the query when I put it in the title ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339381 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: decrypt coldfusion admin password
Rusty, You don't need to decryt it, you can reset it. Depending on which version of course! Here is the link that I have used for other customers that works. http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=3731 http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=3731Cheers, Rob On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Rusty Owens rusty_ow...@hotmail.comwrote: The company I work for has a coldfusion application that is being migrated to our servers. We need to log in to the admin but no one who wrote it is here any longer. I used to have code to decrypt and display the admin password. Can anyone get me that? ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339383 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: coldfusion standard edition version switched to developer edition?!
On 11/18/2010 12:58 PM, Tim Do wrote: I was able to find a key that matched. Server is back up now. Question is, how/why did the config file get set to developer edition... it was never installed as a developer edition to begin with. How long was the server running? If it was something around 1 month, could it have unintentionally been configured as a 'trial'. Those run for 30 days as a full server with only a few differences and then revert to a developer edition at the end of the trial. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339384 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Variable before query, rereplace or javascript to change title
Wrap the custom tag in a cfsavecontent tag at the top of the page: I tried to do this, but the query.title doesnt read the query within the save content. I also tried to set a variable within the custom tag and pull that out...but no success there either. What if i set an application variable? Im gonna try it. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339385 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Variable before query, rereplace or javascript to change title
cfsavecontent variable=pageTitletitleYour title cfoutput - #Yourvaraible#/cfoutput/title/cfsavecontent cfhtmlhead text=#pageTitle# This will put #pageTitle# in the head of the document. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Joel Black j...@blackbeardesign.comwrote: Wrap the custom tag in a cfsavecontent tag at the top of the page: I tried to do this, but the query.title doesnt read the query within the save content. I also tried to set a variable within the custom tag and pull that out...but no success there either. What if i set an application variable? Im gonna try it. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339386 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: What was that security again?
Thanks everyone! My goal was actually very simple. Some facts I knew about SQL Server permissions were overturned today. Didn't know you can simply grant individual permissions. I was under the impression server and database roles were all I had to play with. I have clients that need our web server to Read and execute existing stored procedures. (Some of those stored procedures may delete/update like Mike said) however this is fine, as long as we can run them. Again thanks! Brian -Original Message- From: Mike Chabot [mailto:mcha...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:42 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: What was that security again? None of the server or database roles would classify as minimum settings. You achieve minimum settings with GRANT and DENY statements. Is your goal to restrict a user to only reading data? If one of your stored procs allows for the deletion of data, and you grant execute permissions to the user, the user will be able to execute that stored proc and delete the data, even if they are not granted specific delete permission on the table. You might explore the deny roles and deny granular permissions if you really don't want someone to do anything other than read data. It is reasonable to combine the db_datareader role along with granular stored procedure permissions to meet your goal. Also restrict the permissions for the data source in ColdFusion Admin as another layer of protection. ddladmin allows a user to truncate a database table, so avoid that role if you want read-only. It helps if users need to truncate though. -Mike Chabot http://www.linkedin.com/in/chabot On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: Yes but it is a safe role, you can;t do anything dodgy -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: 18 November 2010 19:20 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: What was that security again? DDLADMIN should suffice, this is what role we give to all our customers. That's way more than needed for reading data. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339387 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Variable before query, rereplace or javascript to change title
I believe in your custom tag, you need to set the variables in the 'caller' scope (e.g. caller.mytitle) to be accessed in the calling template scope. If I recall correctly... Brook -Original Message- From: Joel Black [mailto:j...@blackbeardesign.com] Sent: November-18-10 1:05 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Variable before query, rereplace or javascript to change title Wrap the custom tag in a cfsavecontent tag at the top of the page: I tried to do this, but the query.title doesnt read the query within the save content. I also tried to set a variable within the custom tag and pull that out...but no success there either. What if i set an application variable? Im gonna try it. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339388 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: coldfusion standard edition version switched to developer edition?!
It's been up for a while (around 6-8months?), and has been rebooted quite often I'd have to say... -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:h...@ilsweb.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:11 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: coldfusion standard edition version switched to developer edition?! On 11/18/2010 12:58 PM, Tim Do wrote: I was able to find a key that matched. Server is back up now. Question is, how/why did the config file get set to developer edition... it was never installed as a developer edition to begin with. How long was the server running? If it was something around 1 month, could it have unintentionally been configured as a 'trial'. Those run for 30 days as a full server with only a few differences and then revert to a developer edition at the end of the trial. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339389 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: index.cfm being hacked
hi al, i would be interested to know how you went about having your computer check the index pages for changes? sounds kinda useful. mike ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339390 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: index.cfm being hacked
nick, i have forwarded your post to the host (hostek) who will hopefully be able to identify the offending file! very frustrating so far. mike ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339391 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Choosing between ColdFusion Builder and IntelliJ
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Dave Burns cft...@burnsorama.com wrote: I'm considering moving on from Dreamweaver and finally using a better IDE for CF work. I know of CFBuilder and have downloaded the trial to eval. I used IntelliJ for some Java projects 2 years ago and it was outstanding. FWIW, I'm a relatively recent IDEA (IntelliJ) convert, and I love it. They have a 30 day trial too; you might as well give it a shot. It's just really smart, in a million productivity enhancing and code quality inducing ways. Really extensive customizable keyboard shortcuts, variable and function completion, tons of languages, great snippet support, works with projects and also freeform File Open or dbl-click in explorer, file structure view that bogs down quite a bit less than CFB (at least the version I tried when it was released), shortcut to go to the definition of the function under the cursor, even in an unrelated file up the dir tree over and down, indexes everything for fast searching, nice favorites functionality, syntax error highlighting, camelcase-aware spellchecker (a bit buggy but great anyway), just a lot of things that make using it a pleasure. It's not all lollipops and rainbows though. While the program itself is really outstanding, the CFML plugin is somewhat immature. To begin with, you may find it a bit awkward starting your first project, because it doesn't make it clear how you do that for CFML, or have CFML-oriented tools for it (just choose java for now). It also doesn't fully understand CFML variable and function visibility, so for instance things declared in a cfinclude are flagged as unresolved references and completion doesn't work on them. During my 30 day trial, they fixed 15 bugs I reported (!!!), plus others, but the pace of development seems uneven, and slow these days. A number of pretty obvious flaws and enhancements have been filed by various folks, with not a lot of movement on them lately. Also, I'm on windows, but I've heard several times that on a mac, out of the box it's u-g-l-y; if that's you, go for the GTK+ theme immediately, before you hate it. The really big downside is no debugger. Both the FusionDebug and FusionReactor teams have said their products were designed for multiple host environments, and expressed eagerness to collaborate with IntelliJ, but so far nothing's come of that, beyond a statement that it's under discussion. I personally think that the investment required to make that happen would make IDEA so much more visible and attractive in the marketplace that it would pay for itself many times over, and have said so, but so far all I can say is I hope it happens, but we'll see. I think to some extent Sean is right that the plugin doesn't get the resources it could use, and their reluctance to pony up for a debugger is a symptom. Far as I know, there's one dev working on it, and she's great, but also have other commitments. So it appears that I wrote more about downsides than its awesomeness, but that's totally not how I actually feel. I'm happier with IDEA than I've ever been with a development environment. If it never got any better than it is now, I'd still be using it. Try it, I think you'll like it. You probably know this, but the CFML plugin works only with the paid version not the free Community edition. There's a google group here if you have questions: http://groups.google.com/group/cfml-plugin-for-intellij-idea Dave ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339392 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: index.cfm being hacked
You store the hash (i.e. hash(index.cfm)) of the cfm file somewhere: in another file, or in a table, etc. and check intermittently, like once a day or hour. So, a job that checks for the MD5SUM of the files, and maybe a database table that stores the files and the hashes. Awesome thing would be an ant script that during deployment populates/updates a database table with all your files (or changed files) and their MD5 hash, and then deploys the files. Or maybe just a couple of important files to watch, like Application.cfc, index.cfm, com directory, etc. Or do you guys think that's overboard? Mike Little wrote: hi al, i would be interested to know how you went about having your computer check the index pages for changes? sounds kinda useful. mike ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339393 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: (ot) AWS / EC2 and SpamLists
Check out http://postmarkapp.com. Depending on the volume of mail you need to send, it's either pretty cheap, or worth it for their tracking tools. Dave On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Brook Davies cft...@logiforms.com wrote: This a bit OT. I just wanted to share what I'd found, in case anyone else is considering moving to the cloud. Its certainly attractive, and being able to spin up a new server from an image configured with webserver, CF, OS and your website files in under 5 minutes is pretty cool. Just keep one thing in mind. Sending email from the cloud (at least from Amazons) is problematic at best. The IP's (Elastic IP's), that we were assigned we're already in the SpamHaus database and other RBLs. And we NSI wouldn't let us set up a cname record with those IPs. There *are* procedures to get your IP's removed/whitelisted but I don't think you can count on this since there are so many blacklists and your sharing an IP range, so your neighbour could get you in trouble again in the future. For me, I can't risk emails not getting delivered (new user account registrations, password reminders, notifications, campaigns - all of em), so the solution is to maintain an SMTP server at a co-lo or dedicated server location that you can trust to do your mail sending. Or use an outsourced email (smtpauth.com,jangosmtp.com) service. You can also set up a VPC with your existing hardware from the cloud and 'talk' to it like it was on your local network. Anyhow, I just wanted to put this out there. I was stoked to move to the cloud, and this threw a bit of a wrench in the idea, since having to maintain a server somewhere for sending email is kinda of a pain in the butt. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339394 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: index.cfm being hacked
Not overboard. Some folks have built a solid business model out of doing just that in a very organized way (Tripwire, among others). Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Railo Community Distributions On 11/18/2010 06:04 PM, rex wrote: You store the hash (i.e. hash(index.cfm)) of the cfm file somewhere: in another file, or in a table, etc. and check intermittently, like once a day or hour. So, a job that checks for the MD5SUM of the files, and maybe a database table that stores the files and the hashes. Awesome thing would be an ant script that during deployment populates/updates a database table with all your files (or changed files) and their MD5 hash, and then deploys the files. Or maybe just a couple of important files to watch, like Application.cfc, index.cfm, com directory, etc. Or do you guys think that's overboard? Mike Little wrote: hi al, i would be interested to know how you went about having your computer check the index pages for changes? sounds kinda useful. mike ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339395 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
