Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Kevin Parker
May be of interest for some readers... ColdFusion is responsible for the demise of MySpace (well one of the reasons anyway ;-) http://blogs.forbes.com/stephenwunker/2011/07/25/4-morals-from-myspaces-fall / ++ Kevin Parker Advanced Imaging e: webmas...@advancedimaging.com.au w:

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Kevin Pepperman
Just to add to that-- ColdFusion is responsible for the success of Bank of America as well as many other successful websites (well one of the reasons anyway ;-) Didn't MySpace convert to .NET at some point? -- /Kevin Pepperman *Never memorize what you can look up in books*. --Albert_Einstein

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread James Holmes
I guess when Google+ finally destroys Facebook, the same open source tools he's glorifying will have caused that failure. Regardless, Myspace hasn't run on CF for a long time (as suggested, they migrated to .NET via BlueDragon ages ago). Myspace failed because it was full of ugly sites with

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Charlie Stell
Myspace failed because it was full of ugly sites with content no-one wanted to read. Absolutely. And to add to it - then came along an alternative, facebook, which was not full of ugly sites with content no-one wanted to read. So myspace failed. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:16 AM, James Holmes

Weird undefined error

2011-07-26 Thread Brian Polackoff
Has anyone ever run into identitycol is undefined while using the result attribute in a cfquery while using cf8 enterprise on a windows 2k8 and a SQL 2005 server? This problem started on Sunday in our production environment. We have rebooted the database server and the web servers with no

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread John M Bliss
I tweeted at author: @NewMktsAdvisors #ColdFusion is plenty flexible when used right. MySpace didn't know how: Morals from MySpace’s Fall http://onforb.es/o3s66O On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Charlie Stell charlie.st...@gmail.comwrote: Myspace failed because it was full of ugly sites

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Russ Michaels
mysapce converted to .net and used BlueDragon.net for any CFML pages last I heard. So no coldfusion involved. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:53 PM, John M Bliss bliss.j...@gmail.com wrote: I tweeted at author: @NewMktsAdvisors #ColdFusion is plenty flexible when used right. MySpace didn't know

Re: Weird undefined error

2011-07-26 Thread Russ Michaels
have you upgraded your database server recently. ISTR that you have to use scope_identity on SQL2008 and the old reference no longer works. Russ On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Brian Polackoff bpolack...@gmx.comwrote: Has anyone ever run into identitycol is undefined while using the result

RE: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Mark A. Kruger
Do we have to go through this again. All the old timers here know this thread will now last for 2 weeks and refuse to die. Do a quick search on HOF for ColdFusion dead and you'll get 10 pages of results going back 10 years. The life support for this discussion is truly a medical miracle. -Mark

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Gerald Guido
Do we have to go through this again. All the old timers here know this thread will now last for 2 weeks and refuse to die. +1 Kill it with fire. G! On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Mark A. Kruger mkru...@cfwebtools.comwrote: Do we have to go through this again. All the old timers

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Steve 'Cutter' Blades
For those of us who know better (most everyone here) this is an opportunity. Go to the article, read the author's ill-informed mistake of a conclusion, and provide an educated and appropriate response to debunk the supposition/accusation implied. Don't continue the discussion here. Take it to

Web Application Firewall suggestions

2011-07-26 Thread Patti, Michael
I'm looking for a web application firewall that will work with IIS6 and ColdFusion 8. I'd use Fuseguard, except that I need something that is more general purpose (i.e. will also work for php, aspx). CF411 lists WebKnight as one option, and I'm wondering if anyone out there is using that

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Russ Michaels
LOL, well he is a Wunker after all :-) On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Steve 'Cutter' Blades cold.fus...@cutterscrossing.com wrote: For those of us who know better (most everyone here) this is an opportunity. Go to the article, read the author's ill-informed mistake of a conclusion, and

Re: Web Application Firewall suggestions

2011-07-26 Thread Russ Michaels
I haven't use dit it but this one is meant to be popular. http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/web-site-firewall-overview.php Really any firewall product that has good content filtering should be able to do what you need, the only difference with a web application firewall is that they

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Wil Genovese
I guess it's ColdFusion's fault also that Facebook is suffering from being locked into MySQL? http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/ Apparently MySQL was meant to be a large scale database. Who Knew? ;-) From what I understand, PHP is only used as the

RE: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Jacob
#3 and the constant spam messages.. that did if for me. -Original Message- From: Kevin Parker [mailto:tras...@internode.on.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:41 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Its ColdFusion's Fault May be of interest for some readers... ColdFusion is responsible for the

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread David McGuigan
It's. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Kevin Parker tras...@internode.on.netwrote: May be of interest for some readers... ColdFusion is responsible for the demise of MySpace (well one of the reasons anyway ;-) http://blogs.forbes.com/stephenwunker/2011/07/25/4-morals-from-myspaces-fall /

CFSELECT, required not validating.

2011-07-26 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
I'm using cfselect for a required field. The problem I'm having is that it's not validating. This is in a cfform with an html type. Here's my code: cfselect name=recipient_id message=You must select an email recipient. queryposition=below query=getStaffEmails value=id display=fulldisplay

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Dave Watts
May be of interest for some readers... ColdFusion is responsible for the demise of MySpace (well one of the reasons anyway ;-) http://blogs.forbes.com/stephenwunker/2011/07/25/4-morals-from-myspaces-fall Taking technology advice from Forbes is probably as bad an idea as taking capital

Re: CFSELECT, required not validating.

2011-07-26 Thread Russ Michaels
I vaguely remember an issue with older version of CF where some attributes clashed whenused together causing the required not to work. . try removing visible=Yes enabled=Yes as these are the defaults anyway. Russ On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Pete Ruckelshaus pruckelsh...@gmail.comwrote:

cflayout not dynamic to content

2011-07-26 Thread David Moore
I just upgraded from CF8.1 to CF9.1 and am experiencing a major problem with cflayout. The layout area no longer dynamically fits the content area. The height is minimal and the width seems to be like 400% wide? From what I have read, this is a know bug that has not been fixed. Does anyone

error converting docs using cfdocument and openoffice

2011-07-26 Thread David Moore
I allow clients to convert MS office files to PDF documents within my content management system. I was using easyPDF, but since upgrading to CF9, I am attempting to use cfdocument and openoffice. In testing I am finding it works sometimes and sometimes not. When it does not, I get a PDF

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Gerald Guido
Go Steve! Retraction made: (Note–the comment thread below establishes that it was the inflexible implementation of ColdFusion, rather than the underlying platform itself, that created this problem) Well done sir. A professional though and though. G! On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Steve

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Gerald Guido
Dammit... A professional* through and through *Dyslexia is a biotch... Oh well, point made. * G! * On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Gerald Guido gerald.gu...@gmail.comwrote: Go Steve! Retraction made: (Note–the comment thread below establishes that it was the inflexible implementation of

RE: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Eric Roberts
I told him to come over here and talk to some people who have ACTUAL knowledge of ColdFusion... -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:56 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault May be of interest for some readers...

Re: Its ColdFusion's Fault

2011-07-26 Thread Sean Corfield
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote: http://gigaom.com/cloud/facebook-trapped-in-mysql-fate-worse-than-death/ It's worth pointing out that the person being interviewed, Michael Stonebraker, runs a database company that competes with MySQL (and others) and