RE: Storing and retrieving images from SQL Server 2000

2005-07-12 Thread Burns, John D
I just need to know technically how to do it and then if it blows up I can tell them I told you so. I know I've done some stuff with it but my brain is dead today. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From:

RE: Storing and retrieving images from SQL Server 2000

2005-07-12 Thread Burns, John D
://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=eentry=1645 --- Ben -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:10 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Storing and retrieving images from SQL Server 2000 I've looked in the archives and can't find a good answer

RE: Storing and retrieving images from SQL Server 2000

2005-07-12 Thread Burns, John D
Dave, Any hint on the latter part of your statement? Is that where I'd need to convert to base64 or to string and then store in the db and when pulled out do tobinary()? What exactly is it coming out of the db as when I insert it? Notice in my first post, I'm having trouble inserting as well.

RE: securing WSDL files

2005-07-06 Thread Burns, John D
Bryan, Along the lines of what Dave Watts said, perhaps you could have a page that uses CFHTTP to call the page and get the data you want it to display and then you can handle the security for your people at that level. That might be better for keeping the display updated so you don't have to

CF 7 Server Startup question

2005-07-05 Thread Burns, John D
I have a dev copy of CF 7 running on a small server that I am using to test some things out before upgrading to 7. I had a strange problem the other day and when I found the problem, I was thoroughly confused. I have a small web app (2 or 3 pages) that just queries some data from an access

RE: 5th Most Trafficked Site Switches to BlueDragon

2005-06-28 Thread Burns, John D
My only concern with this statement is that CFMX 6.1 or 7 would probably show similar increases over CF 5. Comparing Blue Dragon to CF 5 is kind of an unfair comparison. Congrats to New Atlanta, and I hope this will boost some of their efforts and allow them to grow even more, but I just wanted

RE: 5th Most Trafficked Site Switches to BlueDragon

2005-06-28 Thread Burns, John D
Blue Dragon to CF 5 is kind of an unfair comparison as well as better stability and performance than even CFMX -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 June 2005 15:16 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: 5th Most Trafficked Site Switches to BlueDragon My only

ALEXA and other traffic ratings [WAS: RE: 5th Most Trafficked Site Switches to BlueDragon]

2005-06-28 Thread Burns, John D
On this topic of ranking the major sites, does anyone have any idea how Alexa and some of the other listings come up with these rankings? I have a client of mine who went to alexa and did a search for his domain and came back telling me that their site is in the X% of the websites in the world or

RE: 5th Most Trafficked Site Switches to BlueDragon

2005-06-28 Thread Burns, John D
Actually, the teens and stuff are going crazy. I have clients (bands and such) that will set up a myspace account just because so many of their fans live on myspace. That's on top of any kind of website we build them. It's one of those crazy phenomenons like hotornot.com was back in the day.

RE: cffile vs. cfsavecontent

2005-06-21 Thread Burns, John D
If you use cfinclude on a CFM the contents of the file will be processed and rendered by the CF engine rather than being read straight in. For instance, if your included page had the following information: cfoutput cfloop from=1 to=5 index=I #i# /cfloop /cfoutput Your cfsavecontent variable

RE: Designing My Error Message Screen

2005-06-21 Thread Burns, John D
End users hate error messages, and rightly so. If an error occurs that your code doesn't handle automatically within cftry/cfcatch blocks, I usually just display some standard text and don't give them any real information. My goal is always to catch the error using cftry and cfcatch but I don't

Source control

2005-06-08 Thread Burns, John D
What does everyone use for source control? Preferrably something that can handle different types of programming languages (CF, ASP, ASP.net, etc) I've use SourceSafe before but I'm just curious what other stuff may be out there that you use. Integration or simplicity to use with Dreamweaver and

RE: Is this possible?

2005-05-31 Thread Burns, John D
You'd probably have to write your own tag to simulate the cfdump. The original cfdump does a bunch of tag closing and stuff to make sure it's not in any sort of unfinished table or whatever. The rest should be easy. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc.

RE: [OT] Free ftp/sftp server

2005-05-19 Thread Burns, John D
Serv-u FTP Server has a personal edition that doesn't have bells and whistles and may not meet all of the requirements you listed, but it is free. It's main limitations are with concurrent users and the number of user accounts that can exist. Not sure if this would be a problem or not. Anyway,

RE: SQL Server User Problems

2005-05-18 Thread Burns, John D
Yeah, that'd be my guess. If the table is owned by a user you can't just do select * from table you'd have to do select * from username.table That's probably what's making things blow up. Make sure you create all of the tables and SP under an account that is a DBO. John Burns Certified

RE: SQL Server User Problems

2005-05-18 Thread Burns, John D
Good point Dave. I think many people don't take advantage of SQL Server's users and roles to the point that they could and miss out on some security potential. Though, practically speaking, for most average sites, it's probably easier for people to give dbo ownership of everything. John

RE: cfcontent vs cflocation

2005-05-17 Thread Burns, John D
Yeah, I think that's what he's getting at. I don't think he's thinking as much about hiding the source of the image as much as he's talking about processing some info before displaying the image. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer

RE: why use coldfusion 7?

2005-05-17 Thread Burns, John D
If you're going to spend the money, to upgrade that argument doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If 6.1 and 7 have the same stability, why not get the newer one that has additional features to allow you more capabilities. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories,

RE: why use coldfusion 7?

2005-05-17 Thread Burns, John D
I'm not sure about buying, but I know when it comes to downloading, you can still get it from MM. I'd assume they'll sell you old licenses as long as it's supported to cover instances where someone is adding an additional server to run code for an app written in an older version that they just

RE: cfcontent vs cflocation

2005-05-16 Thread Burns, John D
I think what he's asking is if you can do your processing in the cfm that you want but instead of serving up the images using cfcontent, do a cflocation to an image. That wouldn't hide the url of the image and I'm not 100% sure how it would all work, but it seems like it may do the trick. Not sure

RE: What's wrong with this code?

2005-05-12 Thread Burns, John D
You're not wanting to replace quot; with acute; do you? In the code, are your quotes the literal symbol or are they the HTML code quot; ? If it's the former, do replace(origtext, chr(34),squote,ALL) John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer

RE: Any use for Crystal Reports under CF7?

2005-05-12 Thread Burns, John D
Where did you go through to get that? I do work for a few non-profits that could benefit from that. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Tim Claremont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 12,

RE: SOT HTML question select box option word warp

2005-05-10 Thread Burns, John D
Break it into 2 options and give it the same value. select name=somename option value=1Very long text here that/option option value=2 needs to be wrapped/option /select John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message-

RE: SOT HTML question select box option word warp

2005-05-10 Thread Burns, John D
Ha! You're correct. That's what I get for trying to respond to a question while crazy stuff is going on over here. Thanks for the catch Bryan, I'd hate to lead that person down a road of confusion...been there too many times myself. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle

RE: Locking a DB record while editing

2005-05-09 Thread Burns, John D
You could store a userID and timecode in the db for that row to show who has it checked out and when it will be available. The only thing is that you need some sort of way to resolve the situation where someone opens a record and closes their browser before checking it back in. This could be

RE: Scheduled Task Listing

2005-05-06 Thread Burns, John D
I've always been curious why people do mid(variable, 1,4)...Why not do Left(variable, 4) ? Is there some benefit found to doing it that way or is it lack of experience or is it just preference? John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer

RE: Scheduled Task Listing

2005-05-06 Thread Burns, John D
-Talk Subject: Re: Scheduled Task Listing I've found some languages that actually don't have a notion of Left() or Right() so I find myself in more of a Mi() mindset so I don't get disappointed. -Cliff On 5/6/05, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always been curious why people do mid

RE: HASH() reverse

2005-05-06 Thread Burns, John D
The answer is _NO_ way to do it. People have already told you that. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Asim Manzur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 4:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject:

RE: CF Performance

2005-05-05 Thread Burns, John D
I think he's talking about instantiating the CFC once or 2000 times, not actually writing 2000 copies of the CFC to the server. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Justin D. Scott [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Good Miva Merchant Store replacement

2005-05-05 Thread Burns, John D
That's not too big of a deal. Just make a redirect page for mailouts like that. www.mydomain.com/redirect.cfm?productID=104 John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Connie DeCinko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Basic web interface question

2005-05-05 Thread Burns, John D
You mean dynamic resizing of the iframe? I assume you could do some sort of javascript to check the width of the page contained within the iframe and then set the iframe width to that number. Not sure how cross-browser it will be but it should work. iFrames are cool for certain situations, but

Good Miva Merchant Store replacement

2005-05-04 Thread Burns, John D
I'm looking for some recommendations for an Ecommerce store replacement. Currently, we have a customer that uses MivaMerchant, but it pretty much sucks and they're having all kinds of problems. I, personally, would prefer a CF store with the ability for me to modify code and/or build

RE: OT: Live Chat Service

2005-05-04 Thread Burns, John D
I am not sure how much of this I've missed, but Flash Communication Server has an example of a live chat. If you can't swing FCS, I know there are some places out there that you can subscribe to that give you the code for the flash file to embed into your page and it uses their Flash

RE: CFMX: Dissed by Breeze and FlashLite?

2005-05-03 Thread Burns, John D
Yep, quite a few sites in the NAVAIR community are using them. Our shop does CF, ASP/.NET and Domino development for the Navy. John From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 5/3/2005 3:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFMX: Dissed by Breeze and

RE: CFMX: Dissed by Breeze and FlashLite?

2005-05-03 Thread Burns, John D
Yeah, my understanding is also that MM put in some work before the release of CF7 to get CF7 and Flash 7 on the approved list for NMCI (Navy-Marine Corps Initiative) so I think that sort of work by MM will go a long way to get more government and military sites using MM technologies. That's

Anchors and CFLOCATION

2005-05-02 Thread Burns, John D
I am having a very strange problem with anchors and cflocation in an application I'm working on. I'm almost 100% sure there are no errors in the code so I'm more hoping that someone will know of an existing problem or will have run into this problem in the past and know a solution. Ok, here's

RE: Anchors and CFLOCATION (Additional info)

2005-05-02 Thread Burns, John D
If it helps any, the box is a *nix box with CF 5 on it... In case that raises any red flags. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:50

RE: Anchors and CFLOCATION

2005-05-02 Thread Burns, John D
Yep, definitely using the ## inside of CFLOCATION and the data is right if I output it on the page or when I put it in a link and do cfabort right after it. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Damien

RE: Anchors and CFLOCATION

2005-05-02 Thread Burns, John D
Well, I know that's not true because it's working on some cflocation tags with a query string and an anchor. At least, it works on IE 6. That's the weirdest thing is that there are other items on the same page that work fine doing the EXACT same code, but not this one. I can't tell if it's a CF

RE: Anchors and CFLOCATION

2005-05-02 Thread Burns, John D
-Original Message- From: Damien McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Anchors and CFLOCATION -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yep, definitely using the ## inside of CFLOCATION and the data

RE: Anchors and CFLOCATION

2005-05-02 Thread Burns, John D
Yep, tried the extra as well :-( I've got about 4 of my fellow developers stumped on the problem here too. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Damien McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: Scheduled task creates a session

2005-05-02 Thread Burns, John D
Just an aside, when comparing strings, you should use IS NOT instead of NEQ. That's a performance tip that I picked up at the MAX Conference in New Orleans. Basically, when comparing numbers use EQ and NEQ and when comparing strings use IS and IS NOT. Apparently, the performance gain is pretty

RE: How do you get paid?

2005-05-02 Thread Burns, John D
We do half up front and half upon completion. We just send an invoice after completion and our invoices have a standard if this isn't paid in 30 days, you'll incur all kinds of crazy interest statement. If for some reason someone ignored that, we'd just put up a big page that says they suck.

RE: Anchors and CFLOCATION

2005-05-02 Thread Burns, John D
Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:12 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Anchors and CFLOCATION Burns, John D wrote: Well, I know that's not true because it's working on some cflocation tags

RE: longer than a varchar2

2005-04-29 Thread Burns, John D
Yeah, that sounds like what I had to do on an old DB2 system for storing large text. That definitely will work, but it's a pain in the butt to deal with. It's much easier if your db system can do it for you. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web

Get file size on UNIX?

2005-04-28 Thread Burns, John D
I'm not a unix guy so I appologize for the (hopefully) easy question. What's the easiest way to get the file size of a file that is already sitting on the server? I need to loop over a list of files and save the file size and name of each file to a db. Any help that can be offered would be

RE: Get file size on UNIX?

2005-04-28 Thread Burns, John D
Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Get file size on UNIX? cfdirectory? -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Get file size on UNIX?

2005-04-28 Thread Burns, John D
to be done individually for each file. Both of these will work cross-platform (i.e. don't depend on *nix), because hey rely solely on Java. cheers, barneyb On 4/28/05, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not a unix guy so I appologize for the (hopefully) easy question. What's the easiest

RE: wtf are those advertizing links in the text?

2005-04-21 Thread Burns, John D
I agree. I like the list and I benefit from it and try to contribute as much as possible. However, if there was a fee involved, I would not stick around. I don't mind advertising at all though. I can see the complaints about the links in the archives and I understand the reasoning for pulling

RE: macromedia and Adobe?!

2005-04-19 Thread Burns, John D
Again, we're talking graphic designers. Most don't even understand the concept of a web server. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005

RE: macromedia and Adobe?!

2005-04-19 Thread Burns, John D
University of Wisconsin-Extension -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:03 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: macromedia and Adobe?! Again, we're talking graphic designers. Most don't even understand the concept of a web server

RE: macromedia and Adobe?!

2005-04-19 Thread Burns, John D
designers as derogatory and offensive. --- Kevin Graeme Cooperative Extension Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Extension -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:03 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: macromedia

RE: macromedia and Adobe?!

2005-04-19 Thread Burns, John D
? aight mang... take it easy... by the way... new job? didnt you work somewhere else last year? tony On 4/19/05, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not meaning to be offensive, I'm only pointing out that graphic designers are not, by nature, programmers. That's why we distinguish

RE: macromedia and Adobe?!

2005-04-19 Thread Burns, John D
will stop. or is this like pen*s envy and you cant design? aight mang... take it easy... by the way... new job? didnt you work somewhere else last year? tony On 4/19/05, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not meaning to be offensive, I'm only pointing out that graphic

RE: macromedia and Adobe?!

2005-04-18 Thread Burns, John D
Why not? Adobe doesn't have a competitive server product? It seems good to me. Adobe has better design programs any way. I'd love to get Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator and flash bundled together instead of Fireworks, Freehand, etc. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer

RE: macromedia and Adobe?!

2005-04-18 Thread Burns, John D
Another plus for CF is that all of the graphic designers out there now have an easy-to-learn product that they can use to make their websites better. CF may catch on for the little guy even more who isn't a programmer but wants to use cfinclude so his menu only has to exist in one file. John

RE: Bloomberg article

2005-04-18 Thread Burns, John D
Any reason they couldn't get rid of FlashPaper but make a lite version of Acrobat Reader in the Flash 8 player that could decyfer PDFs? Then everything just gets saved to PDF and it just has certain limitations or something so you don't have to download another plugin (Acrobat Reader)? Maybe I'm

RE: Bloomberg article

2005-04-18 Thread Burns, John D
What wrong with high rankings for WMP? Windows machines are all over the place. Most times, people do have WMP, the problem with delivering it usually falls to firewalls and filters and packet inspectors. The numbers for WMP on the internet probably are staggeringly high. John Burns Certified

RE: Bloomberg article

2005-04-18 Thread Burns, John D
MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Keith Gaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 2:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Bloomberg article Burns, John D wrote: Any reason they couldn't get rid of FlashPaper but make a lite

RE: Bloomberg article

2005-04-18 Thread Burns, John D
: Keith Gaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 2:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Bloomberg article Burns, John D wrote: What wrong with high rankings for WMP? Windows machines are all over the place. Most times, people do have WMP, the problem with delivering it usually

RE: macromedia and Adobe?!

2005-04-18 Thread Burns, John D
I agree with both stances. MM does owe a certain part to the developers who committed time and effort to learning a technology that made them a bunch of money. However, MM/Adobe shouldn't keep a product around just because that's all you're willing to learn. It goes back to a fundamental

RE: Bloomberg article

2005-04-18 Thread Burns, John D
Actually, it's not on EVERY windows machine. For many companies that build a single image of Windows they choose for Windows Media to not be installed. Plus, I remove it from all of my servers that I build. Some people may not, but I do. I leave Flash Player on that machine though and Windows

RE: Interfacing Delphi with CF

2005-04-18 Thread Burns, John D
Yeah, Jim, I believe you're right. If the Delphi program was created correctly, it could be something where you would use it as a CFX tag. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL

MAX 2005 Information Email?

2005-04-12 Thread Burns, John D
Did anyone else get the email with the tentative information and call for speakers? I didn't see a buzz on the list so I didn't know what the deal was on that. I didn't see anything in the email that said we weren't supposed to discuss the information so I wasn't sure why no one had brought it

RE: MAX 2005 Information Email?

2005-04-12 Thread Burns, John D
. :-) -- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA C code. C code run. Run code run. Please! - Cynthia Dunning .-Original Message- .From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 8:49 AM .To: CF-Talk

RE: MAX 2005 Information Email?

2005-04-12 Thread Burns, John D
:03 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: MAX 2005 Information Email? John, attending CFUnited? -Adam On Apr 12, 2005 11:48 AM, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did anyone else get the email with the tentative information and call for speakers? I didn't see a buzz on the list so I didn't know

RE: low-end web hosting?

2005-04-08 Thread Burns, John D
I used Datarealm (www.serve.com) and they were pretty good. Reliable hosting, decent pricing. Included MX 6.1 (when I left there about a year ago) and free MySQL. They don't block the use of any CF tags on the server and they'll set up pretty much anything you want in the CF Admin. They're not CF

RE: OT: low-end web hosting?

2005-04-08 Thread Burns, John D
Disk space is cheap, especially if the servers are using IDE drives. I can but a 250 GB hard drive for about $100 at Best Buy. Bandwidth is where they usually limit you that will make any difference. I've seen some places offer Unlimited storage with 1GB of monthly bandwidth. Technically, you

RE: Generating BarCodes in CF

2005-04-05 Thread Burns, John D
Is that format available in a font? If so, you could install the font on the server and generate PDF docs with the bar code in that font. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Ali Awan [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Generating BarCodes in CF

2005-04-05 Thread Burns, John D
downloaded it and ran it and all it did was convert my text into WingDings. So I don't know how much we can trust the formula he posts. However it looks confusing enough to be trusted :S Thanks, Ali -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005

RE: Generating BarCodes in CF

2005-04-05 Thread Burns, John D
If you can install the font on your PC and open word and write some text in that font to get the result you want, then you can do it on the server. Perhaps the reason you were seeing wingdings when you viewed their formula output is because you don't have the required fonts installed? If there

RE: Generating BarCodes in CF

2005-04-05 Thread Burns, John D
to it to get the proper bar code. The reason I know this is because there are websites out there which do an on-the-fly conversion to the 2-D barcode and show you what the result is supposed to look like. Cheers, Ali -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

RE: Generating BarCodes in CF

2005-04-05 Thread Burns, John D
Ali, Do a search in google for pdf217 command-line and you'll get a bunch of results for software programs and stuff like that. Something should be out there for you. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message-

RE: Generating BarCodes in CF

2005-04-05 Thread Burns, John D
Well, Word automation is basically unsupported by Microsoft so you might have trouble finding a good solution. Someone posted on here earlier today about an XML solution for generating Word docs. You may want to look at that. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle

RE: ColdFusion MX 7 slow?

2005-04-04 Thread Burns, John D
Dave, Do you know of a good scripting API for creating sites and such in IIS? I'm trying to find a good reliable way of creating sites in IIS6 using CF. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Dave Watts

RE: ColdFusion MX 7 slow?

2005-04-04 Thread Burns, John D
Michael, Thanks for the useful info. I will definitely check this out. If anyone else has resources for this type of functionality, specifically creating new sites and retrieving site info (by name if possible) that would be great. Thanks! John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX

RE: Anything wrong with this statement?

2005-04-04 Thread Burns, John D
That's not a CFFILE filefield. That's an HTML form element of the type file. It's a standard HTML problem. I think most people dislike it but you get used to it. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From:

RE: Waiting for CFEXECUTE program to finish

2005-04-01 Thread Burns, John D
Look at the timeout attribute for cfexecute John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Richard Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 3:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Waiting for CFEXECUTE

RE: .html files in cfmx7

2005-03-31 Thread Burns, John D
No, same company...just got sold AGAIN. This is the 3rd time in the last year and a half that we've changed names. I'm starting to think I should make any copyright information on our sites stored into an application variable because we keep having to change it everytime we change names.

When to use CFLOCK (MX 6.1 and above)

2005-03-31 Thread Burns, John D
I know there were some discussions on here recently about when you do and don't need to use cflock and some discussion about changes on when you needed to from 5 to 6.1. Can anyone give a quick recap of that or point me to the archives on where I could find that discussion? I can't seem to find

RE: When to use CFLOCK (MX 6.1 and above)

2005-03-31 Thread Burns, John D
] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: When to use CFLOCK (MX 6.1 and above) Burns, John D wrote: I know there were some discussions on here recently about when you do and don't need to use cflock and some discussion about changes on when you needed to from 5 to 6.1

RE: When to use CFLOCK (MX 6.1 and above)

2005-03-31 Thread Burns, John D
: Nathan Strutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: When to use CFLOCK (MX 6.1 and above) Burns, John D wrote: I know there were some discussions on here recently about when you do and don't need to use cflock and some discussion about

RE: Get jpg pixel dimensions?

2005-03-31 Thread Burns, John D
Alagad image component would work http://www.alagad.com/index.cfm/name-aic If you're using 6.1, you could use java directly to read in the image and get the dimensions (I believe that's what the Image component from alagad does along with a bunch of other stuff, but it uses native java to do it)

RE: MAX 2005 [USA] City?

2005-03-29 Thread Burns, John D
I agree with Adam. Maybe we could do Iceland...I head it's really nice there :-) Or perhaps a cruise. Hopefully, where ever they set things up will have better wireless access than the hotels in New Orleans. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web

RE: MAX 2005 [USA] City?

2005-03-29 Thread Burns, John D
My employer paid for New Orleans. However, because of the date/time of the location announcement, I almost missed the deadline for getting the training request in for the budget year. I'd really like to know the location a little earlier this year if possible MM. John Burns Certified Advanced

RE: MAX 2005 [USA] City?

2005-03-29 Thread Burns, John D
1/2 mile walk to get to the building and then a 1/2 mile walk to get to the end that MAX was meeting at. That was a HUGE conference center in NO. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Tony Weeg

IIS/CF Directory Security for images

2005-03-29 Thread Burns, John D
Other than serving all images on a site up through a CF page using CF Content, what ways have people protected their images from being linked from other sites using the web server (IIS in my case) or possibly some sort of other CF solution. I have seen stuff before from free hosting pages where

RE: .html files in cfmx7

2005-03-29 Thread Burns, John D
Yes, but if you're in complete control over the server and you're handling the extensions that are on there, it's your call. It's just like any other decision you make. It could be nice and cute and the customer could love it and it could come back to bite you in the butt later, but that's your

RE: .html files in cfmx7

2005-03-29 Thread Burns, John D
Lol, just wanted to say that you made me laugh tony. I needed that. Today's been one of those days. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29,

RE: Merchant account of choice

2005-03-28 Thread Burns, John D
In a related question, how many of you have multiple sites using credit card processors? Do you make each site sign up for a separate merchant account or has anyone been successful in setting something up where all transactions go through one account? Also, I heard that PayPal was supposed to be

RE: Merchant account of choice

2005-03-28 Thread Burns, John D
-Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 3:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Merchant account of choice In a related question, how many of you have multiple sites using credit card processors? Do you make each site sign up for a separate merchant

Using CF to get details of MP3 and/or convert bitrates of MP3s

2005-03-25 Thread Burns, John D
Does anyone have any information or experience with using CF to do any of the following (in order of importance): 1. Read an MP3 and detect the bitrate and length of the file? 2. Convert the MP3 to a smaller bitrate 3. Concert other file types (mainly .wav) to an MP3 with the given bitrate? I

regex help for grabbing values of html tag attributes

2005-03-22 Thread Burns, John D
Does anyone have a regex already written (or would any of you regex gurus like you put something up) that could take the source code of an HTML file and grab the value of an attribute given the tag and the attribute that would be grabbed. For instance, if I wanted to get the value of any classes

RE: regex help for grabbing values of html tag attributes

2005-03-22 Thread Burns, John D
Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: regex help for grabbing values of html tag attributes What version of CF? --Ben Burns, John D wrote: Does anyone have

RE: regex help for grabbing values of html tag attributes

2005-03-22 Thread Burns, John D
Burns, John D wrote: 6.1. I was looking at the archives and have come up with this but it's erroring I'm using the img instance because it's easier to test on pages that have multiple images... #refindnocase(img[^]*src=([^]*)*,cfhttp.fileContent,0,true

RE: cold fusion, pdf files and security

2005-03-21 Thread Burns, John D
That won't work Lee because application.cfm only gets fired when a CFM is called unless I'm reading your post wrong.=20 John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer =20 -Original Message- From: Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: FCKeditor - Dynamic Browse and Upload Directory

2005-03-14 Thread Burns, John D
I customized the CF connector to allow this. Basically there are a few variables that are set that get used in the actual read/write calls that are necessary for the function to work. The majority of that connector is just figure out what the path should be based on the current tag location,

RE: URL masking and application.cfc

2005-03-14 Thread Burns, John D
I did this at a company I worked for in order to catch error pages. What we did was grab the path after the domain and run that through our search tool automatically. Our search tool kept track of common searches and especially ones that returned zero results, so we had a table where we could set

RE: SQL Join Challenge

2005-03-14 Thread Burns, John D
Would this work or am I missing a piece of the puzzle? Select * From lessons Left join lessons on lessons.lessonID = students.lessonID Where students.studentID = #studentID# John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original

RE: SQL Join Challenge

2005-03-14 Thread Burns, John D
Yeah, I'm confused too. A better explanation would help if Jochem's (and others') posts didn't solve it already. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

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