Re: CF9 Standard vs Enterprise Performance

2011-01-14 Thread Russ Michaels
enterprise allows more threads for certain tasks, and also has better cfmail performance and can handle higher loads, server monitoring is a bonus too. On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Matt Quackenbush quackfu...@gmail.comwrote: Assuming you are only going to run a single instance, I would

Re: Open source - No Mortgage

2011-01-14 Thread Dominic Watson
And even when not making money, others do it alongside their day jobs (that may not give them enough variation) to develop their skills and enhance their CV. On 14 January 2011 03:50, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: I suppose that it is possible to make some money around the edges of

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Russ Michaels
Indeed, it winds me up when people come out with such nonsense that CF is dying and Adobe are junking it, when clearly it is not true and there is no evidence to even hint at that. I also suspect we have Railo to thank for a lot of the effort being put into CF recently, being as it has upset

RE: drag and drop widgets

2011-01-14 Thread Russ Michaels
I know it has a library to do it, but I mean it doesn't have much in the way of ready made widgets. ExtJS has a lot of these. -Original Message- From: Josh Nathanson [mailto:joshnathan...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 January 2011 00:57 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: drag and drop widgets jQuery is

RE: drag and drop widgets

2011-01-14 Thread Russ Michaels
CF used to use Adobe's own Spry framework, and they still do for code generated in Dreamweaver. -Original Message- From: Andrew Scott [mailto:andr...@andyscott.id.au] Sent: 14 January 2011 00:41 To: cf-talk Subject: RE: drag and drop widgets Actually I disagree. 1) ExtJS is the best

Re: help w/ DateDiff() please

2011-01-14 Thread Jay Birdsell
Wait, I'm confused, are you trying to use the CF dateDiff() function, or a database's dateDiff() function? Actually Eric , I tried both. I'll try the quotes around TODAY see what that yields. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread John M Bliss
Where is this CF Roadmap anyway Page 6 of http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf_evangelist_kit.pdf On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: Indeed, it winds me up when people come out with such nonsense that CF is dying and Adobe are junking it,

Re: help w/ DateDiff() please

2011-01-14 Thread Jay Birdsell
I suspect dte_2dlcl is the name of a date/time column in his database. Though it shouldn't be surrounded in single quotes if that's the case. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: Thank you everyone for your input. I'm using an oracle 11g db, dte_2dlcl is

Re: help w/ DateDiff() please

2011-01-14 Thread Michael Grant
Wait. I don't think Oracle 11g even has a dateDiff function. Does it? On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Jay Birdsell john_birds...@hotmail.comwrote: I suspect dte_2dlcl is the name of a date/time column in his database. Though it shouldn't be surrounded in single quotes if that's the case.

Re: help w/ DateDiff() please

2011-01-14 Thread Michael Grant
Here's what Google tells me regarding days between now() and a database column value. select extract(day from (sysdate - dte_2dlcl)) I have no idea if that's correct and can't test. I think it's a step in the right direction. Here's the reference:

Re: help w/ DateDiff() please

2011-01-14 Thread Jay Birdsell
Here's what Google tells me regarding days between now() and a database column value. select extract(day from (sysdate - dte_2dlcl)) I have no idea if that's correct and can't test. I think it's a step in the right direction. Here's the reference: http://stackoverflow.

Re: help w/ DateDiff() please

2011-01-14 Thread Michael Grant
Wonderful. And just in time for the weekend. On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Jay Birdsell john_birds...@hotmail.comwrote: Here's what Google tells me regarding days between now() and a database column value. select extract(day from (sysdate - dte_2dlcl)) I have no idea if

(ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Che Vilnonis
I host approx. 5-6 dozen (small traffic) database driven CF sites on multiple servers and I am in the market for new server hardware. Since I last purchased hardware, the capabilities of server hardware has increased dramatically. That said, for those of you whose company hosts CF web sites, do

RE: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Duane Boudreau
It depends on your database server you are using. We use MS SQL Server and always go with option A, as our apps tend to be Stored Procedure driven. We push as much of our code as makes sense and is possible into the stored procedures and let the database handle the bulk of the work. Because

Re: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Kelly Matthews
Windows or Linux? What type of DB? MS SQL? mySQL? I host approx. 5-6 dozen (small traffic) database driven CF sites on multiple servers and I am in the market for new server hardware. Since I last purchased hardware, the capabilities of server hardware has increased dramatically. That said, for

Re: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Kelly Matthews
Windows or Linux? What type of DB? MS SQL? mySQL? I host approx. 5-6 dozen (small traffic) database driven CF sites on multiple servers and I am in the market for new server hardware. Since I last purchased hardware, the capabilities of server hardware has increased dramatically. That said, for

re: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Jason Fisher
It used to be very bad to have DB and CF on the same server, but I'm not sure that's still the case ... probably depends largely on the RDBMS you're using. In any event, it is certainly best practice to have production boxes separate. Running dozens of databases (or even 100) on a single DB

Re: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Kelly Matthews
Windows or Linux? What type of DB? MS SQL? mySQL? I host approx. 5-6 dozen (small traffic) database driven CF sites on multiple servers and I am in the market for new server hardware. Since I last purchased hardware, the capabilities of server hardware has increased dramatically. That said, for

Re: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Kelly Matthews
Oops sorry for the dupe. Windows or Linux? What type of DB? MS SQL? mySQL? www.asitv.com ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive:

RE: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Che Vilnonis
No problem. Were a Windows shop. So it will be Microsoft 2008 R2 for the OS and the DB. -Original Message- From: Kelly Matthews [mailto:ke...@webdiva.org] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:59 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: (ot) Server Setup Opinions Oops sorry for the dupe. Windows or

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Cobb
Here's another viewpoint to throw into the pile. Just because MORE businesses aren't using ColdFusion, doesn't mean that businesses aren't using MORE ColdFusion. The product can continue to grow without adding new customers. At my last job, when I started working there we had 4 CF developers

Re: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Kelly Matthews
I'd go with option A. The one time I had SQL and CF on the same box it caused issues and was not efficient. No problem. Were a Windows shop. So it will be Microsoft 2008 R2 for the OS and the DB. Oops sorry for the dupe.

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Roberts
No kidding, if evangelize any more, they are going to start calling us Apostles ;-) I have to agree with Michael. Marketing has been an issue throughout CF's history. Allaire was probably the last to do any decent marketing. Macromedia didn't do squat and neither has Adobe. How may Death of

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Roberts
It's not even on the list of featured downloads...you actually have to dig a little to find a link to download it. I also don't think that Adobe really cares about CF all that much. -Original Message- From: Michael Grant [mailto:mgr...@modus.bz] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 19:41

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread James Holmes
Not many, in my employer's case. Now I'm a .NET developer. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 14 January 2011 22:06, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: How many times does a company have to look for CF devs and not find any before they

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Roberts
No he said that is how Adobe and Macromedia before them has treated it...not that it is how it should be. That is what everyone seems to be advocating. -Original Message- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:gerald.gu...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 19:58 To: cf-talk Subject:

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Roberts
Are you responsible for making that your car or your refrigerator or your TV is a commercial success? -Original Message- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 20:16 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset? On

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Eric Roberts
So just because that is the way things have been, they should continue? Come on Dave... Imagine if people saw a big market for CF and companies knew the full extent of its capabilities. Imagine of Adobe spent as much as it does for Flash or Photoshop in getting the word out as it does for CF.

RE: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Russ Michaels
You will never get the best performance having them on the same server, but disks is the real bottleneck. As long as you have your databases running of a different physical disk than everything else then you can get away with having it all on one machine, more so if you can isolate the CPU's or

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Robert Harrison
Just because MORE businesses aren't using ColdFusion, doesn't mean that businesses aren't using MORE ColdFusion I think I can attest to that. We add another 20 or so CF sites to the list every year. And our client aren't slouches. They include banks, credit unions, major law firms,

RE: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Mark A. Kruger
I'm a fan of A where possible. In your scenario you can probably get away with one server with CF + MSSQL for a while and move the separate DB to your scalability plan. But you should carefully tune the CF heap and memory limit of SQL server to make sure that each of them uses only X amount of

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Robert Harrison
Imagine of Adobe spent as much as it does for Flash or Photoshop in getting the word out as it does for CF There's one thing that kills me. I think CF may be around a lot longer than Flash. Talk around here is that Flash may die. I know we are using jQuery and CSS more and more and relying

(ot) job-placement agent

2011-01-14 Thread John M Bliss
Have you every used a job-placement agent? (Not sure if that's exactly what they're called.) Someone who helps with your CV, markets you, sets up interviews, and then gets paid by employer that eventually hires you. If so, can you recommend one and/or a company that does this sort of thing?

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Mark A. Kruger
I'm with Robert on this one... more work than we can shake a stick at... high profile clients. -Original Message- From: Robert Harrison [mailto:rob...@austin-williams.com] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:18 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset? Just

re: (ot) job-placement agent

2011-01-14 Thread Jason Fisher
Got great help a number of years ago from TEKSystems and I've had good experiences with Kforce as well. From: John M Bliss bliss.j...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 10:25 AM To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: (ot) job-placement

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Roger Austin
I am enjoying the conversation on this as I think it is healthy. Adobe is very gracious to the developer community. They provide funds for user groups and local conferences all the time. They groom the CF ACP people to be evangelists for the product. Preaching to the choir is important, but

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Gerald Guido
Preaching to the choir is important, but does it grow the developer base if our corporate datacenters won't support CF? The ranting crazy guy is right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE G! On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Roger Austin raust...@nc.rr.com wrote: I am enjoying the

cfUniform Help

2011-01-14 Thread cold.fusion
Diving in head first on my first foray into using cfUniForm, and hitting some snags someone may have already dealt with. 1) When using a field of type=custom for side-by-side fieldlayout, I am trying to add an add trigger button to bind a modalwindow. I can't figure out

RE: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Al Musella, DPM
Actually - that is a point in FAVOR of combining the 2. If you have 2 servers - one for database and one for Webserver/CF, a failure on either one will bring down all of your websites. You double the chance that there will be a problem. I run a server that combines everything.. It only

Re: cfUniform Help

2011-01-14 Thread Matt Quackenbush
Steve, I already replied to your email, but since you opened this thread, I will copy that reply here. :-) 1) If by add trigger you mean dynamically adding/removing fields, then perhaps this link will help: http://www.quackfuzed.com/demos/jQuery/dynamicField/cfUniFormIntegration.cfm. If you

Re: (ot) job-placement agent

2011-01-14 Thread Brandon
+1 For TEKSystems On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Jason Fisher ja...@wanax.com wrote: Got great help a number of years ago from TEKSystems and I've had good experiences with Kforce as well. From: John M Bliss bliss.j...@gmail.com Sent: Friday,

RE: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Russ Michaels
Hey Al, This is actually not true. A hardware failure will affect everything yes yes, but if CF fails this will not affect ASP or .net or PHP or HTML pages and vice versa. If the DB server fails this will not affects pages that do not use the DB or where the queries are cached. Russ

Odd Code Showing up in URL

2011-01-14 Thread David Moore
I recently added an cferror to my websites and it has helped me discover a lot of issues I needed to fix. At the same time, I have some very odd code showing up and didn't know if it is something I should address or is it someone trying to hack into my websites. Here is an example:

RE: Odd Code Showing up in URL

2011-01-14 Thread Paul Alkema
I've found that a lot of these issues are caused by either bots, or someone linking to a webpage and made a typo. Most likely bots. In your error reporting do you have anything that grabs the user agent of the error? I've found that looking at user agents can sometime help me to determine if

Re: Odd Code Showing up in URL

2011-01-14 Thread Justin Scott
You will notice the ServiceID of -1%27 which should be an integer. It also did not come from a Search Engine, which is a whole other issue I have noticed that I did not before. It's likely an automated bot probing the site for weaknesses. If you're properly sanitizing user input through data

RE: (ot) Server Setup Opinions

2011-01-14 Thread Che Vilnonis
Thanks for all of the responses. Looks like I'll be doing what I always have done... keeping the db and the app server separate. -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 12:40 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: (ot) Server Setup

Re: cfUniform Help

2011-01-14 Thread cold.fusion
I'll reply here, in case someone else has the same questions. Basically I have either a select or an input that I'm trying toplace an 'add' icon directly next to it, to which I can then bind aclick action to open a modal window. Resizing the actual field isfairly easy

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Dave Watts
Are you responsible for making that your car or your refrigerator or your TV is a commercial success? No. But this is not even wrong as a response: once again, illustrating the limits of analogies. Cars and refrigerators aren't anything like programming languages. I don't get any benefit from

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Dave Watts
So just because that is the way things have been, they should continue? Come on Dave...  Imagine if people saw a big market for CF and companies knew the full extent of its capabilities.  Imagine of Adobe spent as much as it does for Flash or Photoshop in getting the word out as it does for

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Michael Grant
We could have been having this same conversation ten years ago. Too right. However how you interpret that is up to you. I guess it could be seen as a positive sign that despite all the doom and gloom CF is still around. Or it could be seen as a negative sign that after ten years CF still

html to pdf... again.

2011-01-14 Thread Les Irvin
This should be easy. I'm working on a site to allow real estate agents to tweak a brochure on-line, then save it as a PDF. All I want to do is take the resulting page of html, convert it exactly as it looks in the browser to a PDF file (including colors, backgrounds, images, formating, etc.),

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Robert Harrison
No one is saying you're responsible for making CF successful. In many ways, we are. If all CF Coders were hacks and the code doesn't work, the market place is just as likely to think CF is garbage as it is to realize their site didn't work because they hired a hack. No matter how good CF

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Josh Nathanson
Michael is echoing what I meant to say; I should have been more clear that when I said grow the product I actually meant grow the user base of the product. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: You really believe they're not grow[ing] the product with all

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-14 Thread Robert Harrison
I've seen a lot of real crap code on some of the older sites I've taken over. On those sites CF wasn't the problem, the coder was the problem In fairness, I should add... I've looked at a lot of my own code from my first few sites and said that's crap. CF turned me into a newt... well,

Re: html to pdf... again.

2011-01-14 Thread Michael Grant
It's extremely easy. Though sometimes getting everything pixel perfect is tough. cfpdf if you are on cf9, or cfdocument if you are cf7/8 On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Les Irvin les.cft...@gmail.com wrote: This should be easy. I'm working on a site to allow real estate agents to tweak a

RE: html to pdf... again.

2011-01-14 Thread Robert Harrison
We've done this a few times. If you're using advanced CSS and divs in the HTML layout, the results when you go to CFPDF can be tricky. We've found if you generate more rigid old style HTML tables the results on going to PDF are more predictable. Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive

Re: html to pdf... again.

2011-01-14 Thread Les Irvin
Are there innumerable options and settings needed within the CFdocument tag, or it just simply wrapping that sucker within the simple tag and going for it? Background colors and css is all preserved? On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Robert Harrison rob...@austin-williams.com wrote: We've done

Re: html to pdf... again.

2011-01-14 Thread Mike Chabot
It depends on the makeup of the HTML you are trying to convert and which version of CF you are using. The cfdocument tag is one that has seen good improvements in each release of CF, so you are going to have an easier time using it if you are using CF9. cfdocument doesn't support the same level

RE: Odd Code Showing up in URL

2011-01-14 Thread Robert Harrison
Error on line -1 I've seen this a couple of time also and have asked this on list without getting a solid answer. If it helps I can tell you that the few times I've seen this myself the error has been related to a query. Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive Services Austin Williams

Re: html to pdf... again.

2011-01-14 Thread Mike Chabot
There are a lot of settings, many of which are important, such as those controlling image handling and page margins. The reference guide lists all of them. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Les Irvin les.cft...@gmail.com wrote: Are there innumerable options and settings needed

check multi checkbox

2011-01-14 Thread Frank Liu
Hello everyone. I am new to coldfusion. Please help. In table1, I have something like: WKIDName 1002High School In table2, I have something like: WKTitleApproval 1002 Math Teacher Yes/No 1002 Scienct Teacher Yes/No

check multi checkbox

2011-01-14 Thread Frank Liu
Hello everyone. I am new to coldfusion. Please help. In table1, I have something like: WKIDName 1002High School In table2, I have something like: WKTitleApproval 1002 Math Teacher Yes/No 1002 Scienct Teacher Yes/No 1002

multiple checkbox

2011-01-14 Thread Frank Liu
Hello everyone. I am new to coldfusion. Please help. In table1, I have something like: WKIDName 1002High School In table2, I have something like: WKTitleApproval 1002 Math Teacher Yes/No 1002 Scienct Teacher Yes/No 1002

RE: multiple checkbox

2011-01-14 Thread Brian Polackoff
Not sure if this applies or if it will work for you, but this is what I have done in the past (for small inserts only). On the UPDATE do a DELETE from table 2 all data for that WKID, then simply do an insert. This way you don't have to determine which is checked or not checked. Quick and easy.

Re: Odd Code Showing up in URL

2011-01-14 Thread David Moore
I've found that a lot of these issues are caused by either bots, or someone linking to a webpage and made a typo. Most likely bots. I am checking to see if it is a bot or not. In this case, it was not. I guess that's why I was more curious. If it is a bot, like Google or Slurp, I mark it up to

Re: Odd Code Showing up in URL

2011-01-14 Thread Russ Michaels
here are a couple of security solutions that will help you protect your code. http://foundeo.com/security/ http://portcullis.riaforge.org/ Russ On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:55 PM, David Moore dgmoor...@hotmail.com wrote: I've found that a lot of these issues are caused by either bots, or