OT: short term contractor required

2005-03-03 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi all, Sorry if this is an inappropriate post, however I'm looking for someone to write up a Coldfusion XML-RPC implementation for me as its just beyond my skill levels. Basics of the project is to use XML-RPC to check our db for new events, then push them to the client. The environment is

Emulating http server-push to Internet Explorer browsers

2005-01-19 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi all, I was wondering if anybody on the list has ever managed to do this, using CF, or any other technologies for that matter. I know that apache has server-push available to it, but my research shows that it only works for Netscape/Mozilla browsers and that IE simply does not support it. The

RE: Emulating http server-push to Internet Explorer browsers

2005-01-19 Thread Dave Wilson
Flash and Flash Remoting? Flex? Ah yes, sorry I had forgotten to mention, FLash and Flex aren't an option at this stage, but will keep them in mind as a last resort, thanks ~| Logware: a new and convenient web-based time

RE: Emulating http server-push to Internet Explorer browsers

2005-01-19 Thread Dave Wilson
Thanks all for ideas and pointers. I'll look into XML-RPC a bit more to see if I can get it working. I did come across the Channel Definitions stuff during my google sessions and flagged it as a possible solution. My current hidden frame approach is refreshing (for every user logged in) every 15

RE: Verity not installed?

2004-11-02 Thread Dave Wilson
I have just installed a new system with CFMX6.1 on a Linux (done it lots of time before) and it all installed ok. I then started to do some configuration for my application in CF Admin and when I got to the bit to set up Verity collections I clicked the 'Verity Collections' click on the right

Change Default Untitled template in cfstudio 4.5?

2004-09-24 Thread Dave Wilson
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RE: Change Default Untitled template in cfstudio 4.5?

2004-09-24 Thread Dave Wilson
Within your CF Studio installation directory, you should have a file somewhere called Default Template.htm. You can edit that file directly. Excellent thanks Dave. Should have thought of that myself really :) Dave [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User

RE: Linux IDE

2004-09-24 Thread Dave Wilson
I am looking for a decent cf editor to use on my Linux workstation.Any ideas? If you're comfy enough with vim, you can set it to use coldfusion syntax as follows: :set syntax=coldfusion :syntax on HTH, Dave [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User

RE: CFMX on IA64 (Itanium)? with JBoss?

2004-08-12 Thread Dave Wilson
Our sysadmin had a go at getting CFMX running in 64-bit mode on one of our new AMD64 servers. Unfortunately he was unable to do so as there were no stable 64-bit Java runtimes available. However he believes it would be trivial to do once a stable Runtime became available. I'd ask him for more

mapping cfmx to parse .htm templates in virtual sites in apache?

2004-08-10 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi, I've added the servlet-mapping section to web.xml in my cfmxroot/wwwroot/WEB-INF folder as described on livedocs and restarted CFMX but it hasn't picked up the mapping for my apache virtual sites. Can anybody point me in the right direction here please? do I need to re-configure the

RE: MySQL on Linux (OT)

2004-08-09 Thread Dave Wilson
Robert, May I suggest you google for Getting started with MySQL - the first result is an excellent how-to for getting up and running in minutes. Dave [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]

RE: linux image manip tags

2004-08-06 Thread Dave Wilson
Imagemajick is what you want - powerful command line tools for serious image manipulation tasks from resizing to cropping to dynamic super-imposing and layering etc. http://www.imagemajick.org HTH, Dave -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 August 2004 05:24

RE: CF on Linux

2004-08-03 Thread Dave Wilson
Type './apache_connector.sh' to execute the script (note you must be in the connectors directory) - without quotes. HTH, Dave -Original Message- From: Robert Orlini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 August 2004 15:29 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF on Linux Found apache_connector.sh in the

RE: The search is killing the server. Please help!

2004-07-30 Thread Dave Wilson
I don't know where to go from here. Its getting all messy and confusing. All I want to do is, store the results returned by a query somewhere in memory so that if the search returns more than 100 records (100 records are displayed per page), when the 'next' button is clicked.. instead of running

RE: The search is killing the server. Please help!

2004-07-30 Thread Dave Wilson
So? This simply means the broken cached query will just be run again (minor performance bottleneck) and re-enter the cache. Increase the number of cached queries in cf administrator accordingly. This is by far much more efficient (memory usage) than storing multiple instances of the same result

Need recommendations for charting engines

2004-07-28 Thread Dave Wilson
they do have a linux version for php. Any input would be much appreciated. Dave __ Dave Wilson, CTO Integrated Autos Solutions Ltd. (Karsystems) 155 Northumberland Street, Belfast, BT13 2JF t: +44 (0) 28 9024 3123 f: +44 (0) 28 9024 3124 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Need recommendations for charting engines

2004-07-28 Thread Dave Wilson
What makes any of the below system better than the charting functionality the ships with CFMX. cfchart essentially cannot handle dates properly, which in turn makes it virtually impossible to create charts of events over time e.g. tracking a stock, etc. I've managed to kludge a workaround for my

How to make CF session variables available to PHP

2004-07-26 Thread Dave Wilson
running CFMX 6 Pro on Debian Linux with Apache 2.0.49 __ Dave Wilson, CTO Integrated Autos Solutions Ltd. (Karsystems) 155 Northumberland Street, Belfast, BT13 2JF t: +44 (0) 28 9024 3123 f: +44 (0) 28 9024 3124 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message

RE: How to make CF session variables available to PHP

2004-07-26 Thread Dave Wilson
You'll be struggling to share session data because it's all stored in memory internally inside CF.A better option would be to use client variables stored in a database, which can then be queried from PHP like any other DB. Hmm, This is pretty much what my first thoughts were but would rather have

64bit JVM's for CFMX

2004-06-29 Thread Dave Wilson
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Anyone used Connx odbc/jdbc drivers with CFMX?

2004-02-11 Thread Dave Wilson
Would like to hear anyone's experiences with the above. Particularly for connecting to legacy data types such as CISAM. TIA, Dave Connx can be found at http://www.connx.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

Anybody talked to a CISAM database with Coldfusion?

2004-02-05 Thread Dave Wilson
Is this possible? I've never come across a CISAM database before, at least not that I'm aware of and at this stage I have no further details on the problem. Any insight would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Dave [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User

date timelines in cfchart - how?

2003-10-16 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi all, Just wondered if ayone has figured out a way to have a date timeline on the x-axis when using cfchart? I'm trying to chart values over time. So far I'm just using intervals (e.g. origin starts today and x-axis simply numbers each day thereafter in sequence), but would much rather have the

Is this normal session.sessionid behavior?

2003-09-18 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi all, I've just noticed some rather strange behavior concerning the session.sessionid variable. Basically I have declared an application variable in Application.cfm which stores an array of the form: application.sessionref[session.sessionid] = session.sellcustomer The array is used to help

RE: Is this normal session.sessionid behavior?

2003-09-18 Thread Dave Wilson
; if (StructKeyExists(Temp, URLTOKEN)) Session.URLTOKEN = Temp.URLTOKEN; /CFSCRIPT This is MX specific... You will need to lock the vars if you are using CF5 - HTH -Original Message- From: Dave Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 13:44

check through all open sessions?

2003-08-01 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi all, I'm wondering is it possible to check through all active sessions on a particular site. Basically I have a customer services (backend) site which allows for real-time interaction with customers, both online (online customers using a public facing site) and physical. Each customer

RE: check through all open sessions?

2003-08-01 Thread Dave Wilson
Kola, One solution is to create an application scope structure which contains each sessions session.sellcustomer id. You should then be able to refer to a particular session. You may also want to store the time of the last request so you can expire users after a period of inactivity. If

RE: check through all open sessions?

2003-08-01 Thread Dave Wilson
Thanks Tim, Exactly what I was looking for. Dave -Original Message- From: Tim Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 August 2003 13:29 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: check through all open sessions? Thanks, this is pretty much what I had in mind, but how do I actually retrieve

RE: listcontains

2003-08-01 Thread Dave Wilson
Try listfind instead -Original Message- From: Wurst, Keith D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 August 2003 16:11 To: CF-Talk Subject: listcontains i have a list like this... 15,0,2,5 when i run a listcontains on it for the number 1 - i get back a positive response. i

RE: check through all open sessions?

2003-08-01 Thread Dave Wilson
Peter, You could set a variable to represent the application's sessiontimeout value, then simply run a datediff between the recorded time and current time (now()). Check this datediff result against the timeout value, then act accordingly i.e. datediff is larger then the session has expired.

RE: check through all open sessions?

2003-08-01 Thread Dave Wilson
The problem with that is that I would be calculated the expected timeout, and not the actual value that Coldfusion is using. In theory they should be exactly the same, but in practice I am trying to track down a problem where Coldfusion is expiring sessions much earlier than it should. This

RE: To DNS or not to DNS...that is the question.

2003-06-23 Thread Dave Wilson
I wouldn't. its nice to segregate services...so that if you have to restart either of the servers that wont adversely affect the other Not only is it advisable to segregate the services. In the case of DNS it is advisable to run DNS servers (yes multiple servers) dispersed across

RE: REPOST: CFMX, CFGRID and CFGRIDUPDATE errors

2003-06-18 Thread Dave Wilson
Justin, Sorry I don't have a solution to your problem, however I have been experiencing the same problem and have noticed it also affects cfslider. I submitted it as a bug report yesterday so let's see what comes of that. Like you, I'm making extensive use of cfgrid and cfslider. As an aside,

RE: Accessing fragment ID from URL?

2003-06-17 Thread Dave Wilson
On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 10:50 US/Eastern, Adrian Lynch wrote: ListLast(http://somehost.com/pagename.cfm?param1=foo#bar;, ##) Not sure if there's a CGI var for this. Sorry, I should have been more clear. I'd like to be able to detect the fragment ID within the requested page.

RE: Accessing fragment ID from URL?

2003-06-17 Thread Dave Wilson
and Mozilla are reading the fragment ID on the original link and applying it to the page they are redirected to via cflocation. Safari and Opera don't exhibit this behavior however. Any more ideas? On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 11:18 US/Eastern, Dave Wilson wrote: On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003

cfslider refusing to submit values

2003-06-16 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi all, CFMX U3 on RH7.2 Apache 2.0.43 I've been building a form which uses cfslider quite extensively and have discivered it's refusing to pass any values in the form scope, regardless of whether the cfslider tags are hardcoded or dynamically generated. Has anyone seen this before? Anybody

RE: Handling subdomains

2003-06-04 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi Thane, You could possibly append 'subdomaindirectory' to the beginning of the cgi.script_name variable and cflocate to there. Pseudo code: !--- check if user is in subdomain or not --- cfif listfindnocase(cgi.script_name, 'subdomaindirectory', '/') you're already there cfelse !--- build new

RE: CFMX Administrator Page won't open

2003-03-26 Thread Dave Wilson
Charles, I haven't been following this thread right through, but it sounds to me like your JRun connector (aka wsconfig.jar) has a broken connection with your default IIS web site, which would cause the web server to be unable to decide what to do with the .cfm templates (I presume all .cfm

PKI management tools using CFML

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi all, I'm about to embark on a mini project, building some tools for web based management of Public/Private key pairs (issue requests and revocations) on a (as yet to be installed and configured) linux OpenCA Certificate server. I'm wondering if anybody has already done anything in this area

RE: PKI management tools using CFML

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Wilson
://www.openca.org Jonah http://www.foobar.com/jonah/ Also there a XML Key Management Specification (XKMS), have a look around lot of java code for this.. WG -Original Message- From: Dave Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2003 12:38 To: CF-Talk Subject: PKI management

RE: CFMX/mySQL Query Problem

2003-02-11 Thread Dave Wilson
Paul, At first glance I think you've omitted single quotes around the largetext value i.e. the first NULL in your values list below should be 'NULL' Dave -Original Message- From: Paul Giesenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2003 15:12 To: CF-Talk Subject: CFMX/mySQL

RE: CFMX/mySQL Query Problem

2003-02-11 Thread Dave Wilson
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2003 15:21 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFMX/mySQL Query Problem But that would make NULL a string instead of a NULL value ... Paul Giesenhagen QuillDesign - Original Message - From: Dave Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: sql 2000 vs sql 2000 enterprise

2003-02-05 Thread Dave Wilson
AFAICR Enterprise supports more processors, has robust load balancing built in and higher capacity for enterprise data warehousing applications. also the list prices for licensing is currently approx $20k for enterprise whereas Standard Edition is about $4k Dave -Original Message- From:

RE: Why are my clients having so many login problems all of a sudden?

2003-02-03 Thread Dave Wilson
Rick, A shot in the dark, but; Are you storing client variables in the system registry? Maybe you're running low on space. Try reconfiguring to store client variables in a database. HTH, Dave -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 February 2003

RE: Disturbing CFMX Error

2002-12-18 Thread Dave Wilson
I'd also suggest installing latest service pack (sp3) if not done so already. Presuming you're running a windows environment of course. -Original Message- From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 December 2002 15:58 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Disturbing CFMX Error I

RE: ActivePDF (web grabber) and CFMX does not work.

2002-11-06 Thread Dave Wilson
Sorry I've not been following this thread so the following may be totally inapplicable. I've never used ActivePDF myself but it utilizes htmldoc which I have been using for years. I can't see any reason why they're using COM at all. I simply use cfhttp and cfexecute (or cfx_shellExce) when

RE: Using Excel as datasource in CFMX

2002-11-06 Thread Dave Wilson
Dave, Create the Excel datasource in Windows ODBC, then in CFMX use the ODBC socket method for setting up the datasource for CF. HTH Dave -Original Message- From: Bosky, Dave [mailto:Dave.Bosky;htcinc.net] Sent: 06 November 2002 15:31 To: CF-Talk Subject: Using Excel as datasource in

RE: Reading database and inserting fields into another database

2002-10-29 Thread Dave Wilson
use cfset strVar = Valuelist(GetAlias.env_var) to create a comma delimited list. -Original Message- From: FlashGuy [mailto:flashmx;rogers.com] Sent: 29 October 2002 17:13 To: CF-Talk Subject: Reading database and inserting fields into another database HI, I need to read in the field

RE: Locking and clustered servers

2002-10-28 Thread Dave Wilson
you could use cftransaction and within the transaction you can check for the newly created id number. CF treats transactions in a fallback manner. i.e. every item in the transaction must complete before the transaction is submitted. HTH, Dave -Original Message- From: Ryan Farrell

RE: CF5 Server reinstall problem

2002-10-28 Thread Dave Wilson
Use your browser and go to http://servername/cfide/administrator/index.cfm The reason your index.cfm is opening with CFstudio is because you're calling it with the file protocol as opposed to the http protocol. HTH, Dave -Original Message- From: Tim Laureska

RE: CF5 Server reinstall problem

2002-10-28 Thread Dave Wilson
Administrator listing doesn't work... you get an error... Windows says path is not valid... I seem to recall that the start menu shortcut had %1 or something in the path -Original Message- From: Dave Wilson [mailto:dave;autosdirect2u.com] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:35 AM To: CF-Talk

RE: Verity Ordering Take 2.

2002-10-25 Thread Dave Wilson
Timothy, Not very efficient but you could perhaps convert the string to a proper date format at run-time and then sort it. Dave -Original Message- From: Timothy Heald [mailto:healdt;dsmail.state.gov] Sent: 25 October 2002 13:12 To: CF-Talk Subject: Verity Ordering Take 2. Hey,

RE: How to remove URL references from printed pages

2002-10-25 Thread Dave Wilson
Rick, You could also convert the page to a printable pdf on-the-fly using htmldoc, cfexecute and cfhttp. htmldoc is freely available from http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc HTH, Dave -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:Rick;GoLibertyOnline.com] Sent: 25 October 2002 13:52 To:

RE: How to remove URL references from printed pages

2002-10-25 Thread Dave Wilson
2002 14:20 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: How to remove URL references from printed pages Hi, Dave, and thanks for the reply. Would the use of it require having Acrobat installed on my server? Rick -Original Message- From: Dave Wilson [mailto:dave;autosdirect2u.com] Sent: Friday, October 25

RE: How to remove URL references from printed pages

2002-10-25 Thread Dave Wilson
. I need to use it on Windows 2000 Servers... Rick -Original Message- From: Dave Wilson [mailto:dave;autosdirect2u.com] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: How to remove URL references from printed pages No need for acrobat on server. htmldoc consists solely

RE: How to remove URL references from printed pages

2002-10-25 Thread Dave Wilson
from printed pages So I would be working with the source code instead of the .exe and GUI? Rick -Original Message- From: Dave Wilson [mailto:dave;autosdirect2u.com] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:17 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: How to remove URL references from printed pages Looks

RE: Using CFEXECUTE from a Web Browser???

2002-10-24 Thread Dave Wilson
Couple of points and questions on this. Firstly, have you tried using CFX_ShellExec tag? I've been using this since cf4.01 due to various shortcomings of cfexecute's implementation over the years. Secondly. Do you need any particular type of printer to support this direct printing method? I just

RE: Urgent : GURU Required: Excel vs COM in CFMX

2002-10-24 Thread Dave Wilson
I think we're forgetting that the originator of the thread needs an urgent solution or workaround for features not yet supported by any of the alternative methods mentioned so far in the thread. His only real solution at the moment is to have COM support back, as I suspect this is an established

RE: Next/Last record

2002-10-22 Thread Dave Wilson
Use the record viewer wizard in cf studio and then customize from there. -Original Message- From: Thane Sherrington [mailto:tsherr;auracom.com] Sent: 22 October 2002 16:23 To: CF-Talk Subject: Next/Last record I know I saw this somewhere, but I can't find it. I want to create a form

RE: HTML2PDF3 on CFMX

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Wilson
Joshua, You could try htmldoc, a very powerful html to pdf convertor utility, which works via the Command line and is free. http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc There's excellent flexibility and documentation with this product. I don't work for them, but I've used htmldoc for over 2 years now for all

RE: HTML2PDF3 on CFMX - whoops

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Wilson
with cffile to write a flat html file for htmldoc to convert.) By going this more hardcore route in utilising htmldoc, you'll have much much more scope in the kind of things you can apply to your pdf formatting as most items are driven by CLI switches. Dave -Original Message- From: Dave Wilson

RE: HTML2PDF3 on CFMX

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Wilson
Message- From: Dave Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: HTML2PDF3 on CFMX Joshua, You could try htmldoc, a very powerful html to pdf convertor utility, which works via the Command line and is free. http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc

RE: Assigning dynamic file name in activePDF

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi, I've not used activepdf but couldn't you simply run a cffile rename to set your filename. Presuming the unique filename generated by activepdf is available as an output variable. Dave -Original Message- From: Huynh Weiming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 October 2002 17:09 To:

RE: CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable in my life

2002-10-14 Thread Dave Wilson
Just in case this was missed. I have found that upgrading the jre to Sun's 1.40 jre, goes some way to relieving the SQL 7 jdbc related problems. I've not had any problems since upgrading. However, I've not been able to run any load testing. I've also found that the ODBC socket shows instability

RE: CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable in my life

2002-10-14 Thread Dave Wilson
never seen anything so unstable in my life Dave, Thanks for the tip. Can you post a simple 1-2-3 on how to upgrade the JRE to Sun's JRE? That would be helpful. Are there any pitfalls? -mk -Original Message- From: Dave Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:36

RE: CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable in my life

2002-10-14 Thread Dave Wilson
Can you post a simple 1-2-3 on how to upgrade the JRE to Sun's JRE? That would be helpful. It's very easy. 1. Download and install the JRE of choice. 2. Within the CF Administrator, enter the path to the jre directory (which should contain two subdirectories, bin and lib). 3. Restart CF MX.

RE: CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable in my life

2002-10-14 Thread Dave Wilson
is not a valid JVM path. The JVM path must have a bin directory with a JVM executable located in it. Any ideas why I would be getting this message? Robert Everland III Web Developer Extraordinaire Dixon Ticonderoga Company http://www.dixonusa.com -Original Message- From: Dave Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: cfgridcolumn - Can I format the contents of a column?

2002-10-14 Thread Dave Wilson
Paul, Have you tried declaring the value as a variable before oytputting it in the grid? i.e. you could do a cfset variables.thetime = timeformat(yourtime, 'hh:mm:ss') Then use #variables.thetime# as the value for your grid column. This won't work if you're outputting the grid direct from a

RE: installing a new JVM (was: CFMX ...)

2002-10-14 Thread Dave Wilson
That's odd. I wouldn't think it would make any difference at all, until you've told CF MX to use the new JVM. Is the new JVM's location in your global PATH environment variable? Stranger still, I've just checked the server settings summary and it still reports the JVM to be version 1.3.1_03 and

RE: free mail servers please - like Pegasus and Mercury

2002-10-14 Thread Dave Wilson
I think the querant is concerned about directing the emails to their respective targets upon collection from the isp. Whilst this used to be a lot more commonplace in the past by using Exchange to collect all mails for an organisation at specified times during the day and redistributing the mails

RE: free mail servers please - like Pegasus and Mercury

2002-10-14 Thread Dave Wilson
But my users want their profile to appear on each machine they log on to. Thus all their emails, sent items, etc... Do you see what I mean? This requires behaviour similar to that of Exchange then. Storing all messages in a central repository. There is a dirty hack I can think of which may or

RE: CFMX.. Wont!

2002-10-11 Thread Dave Wilson
to IIS. Nothing different. Now pulling on teeth. Hair ran out long ago. | -Original Message- | From: Dave Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 5:10 AM | To: CF-Talk | Subject: RE: CFMX.. Wont! | | | Just checked back to the list after a couple days rest. I

Wondering about good languages for financial math processing

2002-10-10 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi all, In the past I've been piggy backing on Excel via COM in order to do some calculations as ColdFusion isn't the best of tools for performing mathematical routines. Now, this is not ideal either as it requires Excel to be installed on the server and takes up valuable processing time. Does

RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF!

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Wilson
Dave Watts wrote: However, I'd recommend that you avoid using trusted connections for database authentication against SQL Server anyway, for various reasons. Just Catching up on the thread here. I was told by a somewhat accomplished [1] CF developer a few years ago that it was better to use

RE: Problems with CFMX?

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Wilson
Mark, Not sure if anyone has responded to you yet as I'm just catching up on the list at the moment. However, I would urge you to go ahead and download a trial and run your own tests with CFMX. The problems mentioned in the CF support and unstable threads are not being experienced by everyone,

RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF!

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Wilson
- | | | From: Dave Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | | | Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:21 AM | | | To: CF-Talk | | | Subject: RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF! | | | | | | See Jesse, | | | | | | Many of us such as Lee and myself have been working with CF

RE: convert first letter of words in a string to upper

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Wilson
Check the Tag gallery there's a tag called CF_Capitalize...works well...I have a copy of it if you need it...mail me offlist, its freeware. Dave -Original Message- From: Jared Clinton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 October 2002 00:33 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: convert first letter of

RE: The Myth of Bugs (Was Huge Ungainly thread of Doom)

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Wilson
Jesse, Whilst I agree with your general point that there's possibly a misintepretation of doom and gloom for CFMX within the recent threads, I'd like to also point out that from what I can see, the developers highlighting the problems are actually seeking help from Macromedia in order to

RE: Ways of Submission

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Wilson
onclick=form.submit() -Original Message- From: Mark Stephenson - Evolution Internet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 October 2002 13:40 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Ways of Submission Sorry for the OT post but need a quick answer... Does anyone know any javascript I can use for the

JDBC and installation issues - my findings

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Wilson
Thought I'd share the following items which have been submitted to MM via a direct contact a few minutes ago. I have tried several different scenarios with the following results: JDBC driver --- I've only managed to get this to work with MS SQL 7 when and ONLY when its a fresh OS,

RE: cfchart and stacked bars?

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Wilson
Yes this is easily achieved. You simply specify stacked in the seriesplacement attribute of cfchart -Original Message- From: Reed Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 October 2002 17:02 To: CF-Talk Subject: cfchart and stacked bars? Hi all - I was sure that I'd seen a demo (maybe

RE: CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable in my life

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
On Monday, Oct 7, 2002, at 12:21 US/Pacific, Ben Densmore wrote: Here are the answers to your questions. - OS / patch level - Win2k SP3 - Database / patch level - SQL Server 7 SP4 - Is the DB on a separate machine? - Yes - Which driver are you using specifically?

RE: CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable in my life

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
Thanks Jochem, However I'm getting a Runtime Exception from that link. Running win2k Pro IE 6 with css enabled as default (got a note about not supporting your css) Still not having much joy with CFMX here either. May post the series of events leading up to my current problems in another mail

RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF!

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
Lee, I know the feeling. I'm going through the same problems right now - Currently investigating everything and due to post my findings later today (they aint amounting to much at the moment unfortunately). Dave See thread: CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable in my life

RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF!

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
I should also add. Someone once told me some good advice, always wait for the first dot release. Come to think of it , I'm sure CF has had problems like this in the past was it 4.0 to 4.5 I cant remember but I remember one of the releases was a nightmare. Yes this is good advice and I personally

RE: CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable in my life - Also - LONG time CF Supporter.........

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
on same network etc. Any ideas anyone? TIA, Dave -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 October 2002 13:40 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable in my life Quoting Dave Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However I'm getting

cfm templates return 500 error from virtual sites

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi all, Still having problems getting CFMX eval to run smoothly, however I've resolved all other issues (I think) and it simply remains for this problem to be resolved. Basically all cfm templates are returning an http 500 error when called from a virtual host. I've already edited jrun.xml to

RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF!

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
In case this was missed from the other thread CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable, here are my findings, or rather, here is what led me to my problem(s). Note: This is a development machine Amalgamating two similar threads. OK here is the sequence of events which have led me to where I

RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF!

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
See Jesse, Many of us such as Lee and myself have been working with CF for a long long time and we love the product, etc etc. When we run into problems, we take every step we can think of to try and resolve the issue, not just for our own benefit, but for the benefit of the product itself. When

RE: Anyone seen this error??

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
Hey Bud, I'm almost certain that's an MDAC-related issue. Do you know the order of installation of CF4.01 and MDAC on the server? I remember CF4.01 was susceptible to this. The MDAC *must* be installed after installing CF. Also need to check the service packs - I'm presuming it's an NT4

RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF!

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
Just a wee note on the JDBC problem. In case some of you may have missed it in amongst the other info in my earlier posts. I've opted to use the odbc sockets instead for MS SQL datasources. I haven't been able to test properly yet, but I'm guessing it will be more stable than the JDBC driver.

RE: CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable in my life - Also - LONG time CF Supporter.........

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
: http://vvmx.blogspot.com/ Macromedia DevCon 2002, October 27-30, Orlando, Florida Architecting a New Internet Experience Register today at www.macromedia.com/go/devcon2002 -Original Message- From: Dave Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08

RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF!

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Wilson
-Talk Subject: RE: LONG time CF Supporter - About ready to dump CF! Then you are simply using the JDBC to ODBC bridge. CFMX requires the use of JDBC. Matt Liotta President CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 -Original Message- From: Dave Wilson

CFMX - I've never seen anything so unstable in my life

2002-10-07 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi all, Is it just me, or is CFMX proving totally unstable for everyone else too? I've been trialling CFMX now for 18 days using our existing development applications, which ran on CF4.5. I have yet to experience a single day without (several instances of) either the CFMX services hanging or

RE: changing the file extension of cfm to html?

2002-10-04 Thread Dave Wilson
Add a new mapping by going to the IIS5 console then select the site in question, right click...propertieshome directory...configurationAdd Add the following: Executable: C:\cfusion\runtime\lib\wsconfig\2\jrun.dll Extension: .htm check file exists: checked Apply. You can do same again

RE: Running Everypage

2002-10-04 Thread Dave Wilson
Shahzad, I'm still in early stages of evaluating CFMX upgrade, however I'm of the impression that the archive and deployment tool in the cf administrator will go some way to solving your problem. Another tool which may be useful is httrack, an offline browser utility which can be and is often

Running the CFMX Updater - virtual sites

2002-10-03 Thread Dave Wilson
applications which rely heavily on connecting to Exchange using COM. Are there any other alternatives for connecting to Exchange? Many TIA _ Dave Wilson Chief Technology Officer Integrated Auto Solutions Ltd The Howard Building 155 Northumberland Street

Installed CFMX Updater - Administrator has disappeared!!

2002-10-03 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi, Further to my last email about discovering COM problems and installing the updater, I've just discovered the CF Administration tool has become inaccessible. I'm getting a 404 not found returned when I browse to http://servername/cfide/administrator/index.cfm which is the url I've always

Has anyone seen this before? - documented bug?

2002-10-02 Thread Dave Wilson
Hi all, I've just been checking through our applications after upgrading from CF4.5 to CFMX and came across the following strange error. Basically I have a template which carries out various calculations to determine insurance premiums for a vehicle. So my final output variable is simply called

RE: embedding cfmail in a cfoutput

2002-10-01 Thread Dave Wilson
Do a group on the user id. This way your grouping is done on individual unique values, hence cancelling out the grouping. Hope this makes sense, Dave -Original Message- From: Gilbert Midonnet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 October 2002 14:54 To: CF-Talk Subject: embedding cfmail in

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