Re: Weird performance issue with cluster

2008-10-13 Thread Brad Wood
Why don't you do what you're about to pay WebApper to do (Not that their expert advice isn't worth paying for :)? 1) Install SeeFusion with JDBC URL wrappers 2) Take some stack traces of instance 1 during load every few minutes over the course of an hour. Then examine them looking for any re-o

Re: Weird performance issue with cluster

2008-10-13 Thread Rick Root
anyone want to comment on this? On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have two instances of CF8 set up on the same server to serve an > application so we can throw 2 gig of RAM at it.. 1 gig per instance. > Both instances have the same settings near as I can te

Re: How does Security affect search engine spiders?

2008-10-13 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>Looks to me as though it is blocking SQL injection attacks It doesn't block anything, it SENDS SQL injection attacks! MY application blocked it. ;-) ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic rel

RE: How does Security affect search engine spiders?

2008-10-13 Thread Larry Juncker
Looks to me as though it is blocking SQL injection attacks -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 3:55 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: How does Security affect search engine spiders? >>Not as I know, anyway, one cannot rely

Re: How does Security affect search engine spiders?

2008-10-13 Thread Matt Robertson
Oh yes... I found out early on that I would get all bent out of shape and cranky doing log analysis without filtering out that declare stuff before it hit the logs in the first place. I figured there was no point to relying on user agent info but wanted to see if anyone had anything that I might p

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Mark Mandel
I've used hostingatoz, and quite frankly they were * aweful *. I wouldn't go near them. The sites were down at least one a fortnight, and it took DAYS to get them back up. They also had wonderfully annoying habits of adding mappings to the server like /machII, so you were stuck with whatever ver

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Peter Donahue
Good afternoon everyone, They also use the Helm Control Panel which can be read with screen reading software. CPanel is also screen reader-friendly too. Peter Donahue - Original Message - From: "Phillip M. Vector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "cf-talk" Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 1

Re: How does Security affect search engine spiders?

2008-10-13 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>Not as I know, anyway, one cannot rely on user agents which can be faked so easily. Just to illustrate this, as I was writing my last message, I just received a notice from my server reporting a new bad bot detected. its user agent is "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWeb

Re: How does Security affect search engine spiders?

2008-10-13 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>is there a good bot/bad bot list? Not as I know, anyway, one cannot rely on user agents which can be faked so easily. Personally, I let just a few known bots in, based on the IP address, the only parameter that cannot be faked. For every other request, I have some tools that analyze automati

Re: How does Security affect search engine spiders?

2008-10-13 Thread Matt Robertson
is there a good bot/bad bot list? Not that I would trust it but it can't hurt to at least look at whether its feasible to use it as another weapon in the arsenal. I have an IP- and bot-identifying based system that works pretty well but I'm always up for newer and better info. -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-13 Thread Loathe
Thanks, looks like a great place to start. Shannon Peevey wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have to create very large (sometimes hundreds of pages) word documents >> from CF with some pretty specific formatting and layout rules. >> >> I've been us

Weird performance issue with cluster

2008-10-13 Thread Rick Root
We have two instances of CF8 set up on the same server to serve an application so we can throw 2 gig of RAM at it.. 1 gig per instance. Both instances have the same settings near as I can tell. We noticed that instance 1 was getting loaded up so we changed the cluster mechanism from round robin to

testers needed for tag stripper

2008-10-13 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I've found a few problems with the automatic cfqueryparam application I wrote. If the option to skip commented code is set to on and there are nested comments, there can be problems. I've written a fast stripcontainer function that will remove a open/close tag pair while not screwing up due to nest

SOT: Apache and Windows resources

2008-10-13 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
Trying to setup some Alias paths, within Apache, exposing resources available on a Storage Area Network. These are primarily media type resources (site.com/images, site.com/media, etc.) When working with IIS, you set these up as Virtual Directories, and apply any user permissions within that di

Re: How does Security affect search engine spiders?

2008-10-13 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>My only thought on that is to detect the fact that they are a spider (not sure how to do that though) and not implement security in that case. Oups, not a good idea. There are mainly two sorts of spiders: good bots (ie:google) and bad bots (ie: those looking for mail addresses to spam) In nei

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-13 Thread Shannon Peevey
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to create very large (sometimes hundreds of pages) word documents > from CF with some pretty specific formatting and layout rules. > > I've been using iText to create some basic word docs, but as soon as > they get too la

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Dana Kowalski
I've used hostingatoz for CF in the past and like CJ said it's fine for goofing around or non-commercial use, and pretty cheap. They were fairly reliable and responsive in all my experiences with them. In fairness that was 2 yrs ago though.

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Phillip M. Vector
Actually, they have that guarantee now. :) and I've yet to bring it up. Charlie Griefer wrote: > http://hostingatoz.com/shared_hosting.cfx > Most expensive CF plan (with SQL Server) is $75 a year. If you go the MySQL > route, their Plan S-III is $30 a year. I've reviewed them (and used them > my

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Charlie Griefer
http://hostingatoz.com/shared_hosting.cfx Most expensive CF plan (with SQL Server) is $75 a year. If you go the MySQL route, their Plan S-III is $30 a year. I've reviewed them (and used them myself) in the past... and while I probably wouldn't put up a commercial site for a client that needs 99.9

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Phillip M. Vector
www.hostingatoz.com $12 per year. No... It's not a misprint. Year. and they give a full security sandbox and are very good with customer service. No, I don't work for them. Just use them on all my websites. :) Adam Haskell wrote: > Daily Razor cheap and pretty good. > > http://www.dailyrazor

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Adam Haskell
Daily Razor cheap and pretty good. http://www.dailyrazor.com/cfmx/promo.php#details Adam On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Gerald Guido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I had a good experience with hostek.com. They have cf 8 for $5/mo No > MSSQL > though. > If the kids want to chip in they can ge

Re: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-13 Thread Loathe
I have to create very large (sometimes hundreds of pages) word documents from CF with some pretty specific formatting and layout rules. I've been using iText to create some basic word docs, but as soon as they get too large CF throws weird errors. The biggies are I need to be able to set header

RE: docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-13 Thread Tom Chiverton
Nope, not seen anything do it. You can look into calling Java's POI directly of course, but AFAIK that doesn't write the not-a-standard .docx XML files, only the older also-not-a-standard .doc binary files. What's your use case ? -Original Message- From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

docx (office 2007) from CF? (Cross)

2008-10-13 Thread Loathe
Has anyone done this? I've looked into it some, seems to be a zip file of XML documents. Can anyone point me in the write direction? ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the

Re: CMS comparison: Farcry vs Razuna vs Sava

2008-10-13 Thread Tony Garcia
Hi Geoff, I definitely agree that a key distinction between Farcry and Sava is that Farcry is a framework for building CMS solutions, while Sava is a CMS. As such, of course, I don't doubt that Facry is the way to go if a high level of customization is required. That being said, as a CMS, Sava i

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Gerald Guido
I had a good experience with hostek.com. They have cf 8 for $5/mo No MSSQL though. If the kids want to chip in they can get the $9.99 deal and use the 25 sub domains and 10 MySQL databases. HTH G On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Pete Ruckelshaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I'm the computer sc

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Greg Morphis
godaddy is pretty cheap for basic stuff.. not sure if they allow createobject() and what other tags are blacklisted there On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Pete Ruckelshaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, ,and that's what we're using at school. However, the server is inside > the firewall only,

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
Yes, ,and that's what we're using at school. However, the server is inside the firewall only, and I've had a couple of students asking me for advice on cheap CF hosting that they can use on their own sites. Pete On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:55 AM, AJ Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know

RE: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Steve LaBadie
I pay $14.95/month from a company called A-Tech out of Philadelphia. If you pay annually you save 20%, which would bring the cost down to $11.96/month. There are also no set-up fees. Steve LaBadie, Web Manager East Stroudsburg University 200 Prospect St. East Stroudsburg, Pa 18301 570-422-3999 htt

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread AJ Mercer
Do you know you can get ColdFusion 8 for free for educational purposes? https://freeriatools.adobe.com/coldfusion/ http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/faq/#section-5 On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Pete Ruckelshaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I'm the computer science teacher at a p

Re: Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Paul Stewart
http://jassoft.co.uk/ £2.50 a month. Much Cheapness! and very good too. My site runs faster than it has ever done. If its a low traffic site (like mine is :-P ) i can highly recommend them. Pete Ruckelshaus wrote: > I'm the computer science teacher at a public high school and am teaching > Cold

Inexpensive student/developer oriented CF hosting?

2008-10-13 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
I'm the computer science teacher at a public high school and am teaching ColdFusion as part of my web programming course. Does anyone know of any inexpensive ($5 or so per month) ColdFusion hosting services? Something like what Zymic (http://www.zymic.com/) does for PHP, but with CF or BlueDragon

Re: reading xml into a database

2008-10-13 Thread Mike Little
thanks dominic. for some reason i have used Request.idx a lot!! i think i got it from a textbook years ago and kept with it. mike >That looks just about fine though I'd say the XmlSearch wasn't really >neccessary with such simple xml, perhaps: > > >... > >Dominic > >> would be interested to se

Re: reading xml into a database

2008-10-13 Thread Dominic Watson
That looks just about fine though I'd say the XmlSearch wasn't really neccessary with such simple xml, perhaps: Dominic > would be interested to see if i am not doing this efficiently however. > > mike ~| Adobe® ColdFusi