RE: Usability

2003-07-10 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
--- On Thu 07/10, Chunshen (Don) Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Chunshen (Don) Li [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a user is comfortable with Foo must be a valid, non-negative number without fractions or decimals wouldn't he/she be comfortable with Enter an integer

RE: Usability

2003-07-10 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
QED abbr. Latin. quod erat demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated). --- On Thu 07/10, Chunshen (Don) Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kreig, What does Q.E.D stand for? ___ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way -

RE: Usability

2003-07-10 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Yeah sorry about that, I was a Lit major and all... ;) --- On Thu 07/10, Kevin Graeme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kevin Graeme [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quod Erat DemonstratumbrbrBasically, what is demonstrated. It's a high brow way of saying it'sbrplainly

RE: Usability

2003-07-10 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
No man... ...it's because the way I read that other poster, his hyper-correct error message was intended as tongue-in-cheek. Don't get yer knickers in a twist... --- On Thu 07/10, Chunshen (Don) Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Chunshen (Don) Li [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: Breadcrumb navigation CF Tutorial

2003-01-30 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
No, but... ...the way I've done it is to use a two-dimensional array; With arBreadCrumbTrail[x][1] holding the name, and arBreadCrumbTrail[x][2] holding the link; then a CFLOOP from 1 to ArrayLen() around it, and Bob's yer Uncle. If you'd like further detail, or this doesn't quite answer your

RE: XML settings files for CF apps

2003-01-28 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
-Original Message- From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Got to look at the bigger picture. If you are using cf only and forever then a cfm settings file is fine. In fact its probably faster. But what if you start to move to java ? Or you want to create a VB app as a config

RE: Moving a custom tag (CF5)

2003-01-27 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Use CFMODULE to point directly to the tag on the server (assuming the tag is placed at the root level of the Custom Tags diectory...), viz. cfmodule name=tagname This _should_ work... please note that I haven't time to test this directly myself! Also check docs online:

RE: Passing URL in query string

2003-01-21 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Pass it over using URLEncodedFormat(). This will preserve its integrity by escaping all of the non-URL-safe characters. Then interpret the received variable (url.url) using URLDecode(). -Original Message- From: Phillip B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Re: MM Rich Text Editor - WAS: RE: Macromedia Contribute

2002-12-10 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Bleeaghhh... steaming pile of code turds. It's a case of you get what you pay for. Personally, my money would be on http://www.editlive.com/product/editliveforjava/default.asp Although a bit pricey, it takes care of cross-platform nastiness much more efficiently than just about any other

Re: Studio MX

2002-11-08 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
OK. Enough of the sermonizing as to why people are using this that and the other; why coders are coders and designers are designers and the twain shall never meet; and all sort of idiotic posturing. There are THREE (3) core reasons that people whom have been in use of ColdFusion Studio have

Re: Studio MX

2002-11-08 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
It absolutely causes better performance. As of CFMX, that is. The underlying Java translation is much quicker if it is not doing an absolute string comparison. Lofback, Chris wrote: drop the pound signs for clarity and--I think--better performance. -- Kreig Zimmerman : Sr. Web

Re: Studio MX

2002-11-08 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
No. Len() is evaluated as a Boolean because in CF, True/False, Yes/No, and 1(+)/0 are all evaluated as Boolean pairs. Trust me. I use this everywhere in my own code. Stephen Moretti wrote: cfmode type=pedant And, really, I would use this: cfif Len(Form.Formname) should be cfif

Re: Check Boxes - another NUG question

2002-11-01 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
The way I've always done this is this: On the form page: input type=checkbox name=thisBox value=1 On the processing page: cfparam name=form.thisBox default=0 ..the benefit of this approach is that, should the checkbox be checked on the form page, form.ThisBox is passed to the processing page

Re: Check Boxes - another NUG question

2002-11-01 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Oh yeah, I may have slightly misunderstood the last question, so to add: The way to do this on the form page is this: input type=checkbox name=thisBox value=1#iif(Query.thisBox, DE(' checked'),DE(''))# ..since it is a boolean we are using as a value, in the IIF, 1 evaluates to true, and 0 to

Re: Cfqueryparam and IN

2002-11-01 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
not seeing that will allow me to use cfqueryparam and this? [snip] -- Kreig Zimmerman : Sr. Web Programmer : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Four Eyes Productions : Brooklyn, NY : [718]254-9557 x[104] ~| Archives: http

Re: Cfqueryparam and IN

2002-11-01 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
I am not seeing that will allow me to use cfqueryparam and this? [snip] -- Kreig Zimmerman : Sr. Web Programmer : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Four Eyes Productions : Brooklyn, NY : [718]254-9557 x[104] ~| Archives: http

Re: Need assistance with listbox on a form

2002-10-31 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
the changes that they make are then emailed to the webmaster. So, the code that I have been having trouble with is all on the page that is called after the user submits their changes. The page looks like this (codewise): [snip] -- Kreig Zimmerman : Sr. Web Programmer : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Four

Re: OT RAGE

2002-10-31 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Yes, And to add to a ridiculously off-topic thread: there is a lot of validity to the study of ebonics. Insofar as linguistics goes, it's been proven that many of the syntactical structures of so-called Ebonics can be traced to African roots, and the earlier creoles spoken by the original

Re: OT:Yahoo moving to PHP

2002-10-30 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
That's pretty much what I've done at my company as well. CFSCRIPT is just so much cleaner, and easier to read. CFML tends to be only used when we are annotating HTML. Fregas wrote: I know a development firm that tends not to use CF at all, but instead puts everything in CFSCRIPT that they can.

Re: OT:Yahoo moving to PHP

2002-10-30 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
can also, but it is by no means a replacement for many of the cf tags. Robert Everland III Web Developer Extraordinaire Dixon Ticonderoga Company http://www.dixonusa.com -Original Message- From: Kreig Zimmerman [mailto:kkz;foureyes.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:34 PM To: CF

Re: OT:Yahoo moving to PHP

2002-10-30 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
- From: Kreig Zimmerman [mailto:kkz;foureyes.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT:Yahoo moving to PHP That's pretty much what I've done at my company as well. CFSCRIPT is just so much cleaner, and easier to read. CFML tends to be only used when we

XML and IE 6 = Strange Bug

2002-10-29 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
(#39;) but this seems idiotic considering how XML-y Microsoft purports IE 6 to be. Has anyone else noticed this? FYI: The browser in question is... Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) -- Kreig Zimmerman : Sr. Web Programmer : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Four

Re: XML and IE 6 = Strange Bug

2002-10-29 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) -- Kreig Zimmerman : Sr. Web Programmer : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Four Eyes Productions : Brooklyn, NY : [718]254-9557 x[104] ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com

Re: XML and IE 6 = Strange Bug

2002-10-29 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Oh, and for the record, it appears not to render correctly in either IE 5 Mac or Windows. I can't imagine no-one has seen this before. Anybody? Anybody? :) Kreig Zimmerman wrote: This actually has everything to do with XML. It is XML-ized data I am representing. And XML-Safe data needs

Re: XML and IE 6 = Strange Bug

2002-10-29 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
character entity type in HTML 4. If you have a declared DTD of HTML 4, then the fact that Netscape supports it suggests that Netscape is in error. -Kevin Graeme -Original Message- From: Kreig Zimmerman [mailto:kkz;foureyes.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re

Re: SOT: cgi variables on Apache

2002-10-25 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Deanna, I don't think what you're asking for is possible. With auth_user, you are using NT authentication. IIS has that built in. Apache, does not. Your easiest bet is to switch back to IIS. FWIW, if you were to have your authentication information available via LDAP, you could modify your

Re: How Good is the Job Market for ColdFusion?

2002-10-15 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Hate to burst your bubble but... ..the resale value of that chair ain't what you think it is. Seems the reseller market is flooded with them!!! :P Jeffry Houser wrote: I love this chair. It is comfortable. It is the one area where I decided to splurge (during a particularly good year).

Re: Flash Communication Server

2002-10-15 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Would be nice if it worked in Netscape 7.0. Drew Harris wrote: WOW!!! That rocks! -Drew Harris -- Original Message -- From: Ben Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:43:22 -0600 Huynh, We have as

Re: cfhtmlhead

2002-09-27 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
And if you don't want to use a custom tag, and have CF 5, you can use CFSAVECONTENT to define your header info. Try: CFSAVECONTENT VARIABLE=goesinHead SCRIPT TYPE=text/javascript // LANGUAGE attribute is redundant and has been deprecated

Re: Developer Platform suggestions was Re: Nice

2002-09-11 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
know they were doing that! I have always had a Dell at work and have never had problems. i tried to talk my father-in-law into it, but nope, he liked his Gateway...he's wishing he had a Dell now ;-) -- Kreig Zimmerman : Chief Information Architect : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Four Eyes Productions

CFLOGINUSER bug

2002-09-10 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
roles=#ToString(1)#] [/cflogin] ..and that works just fine. How much of an afterthought was this security architecture, Macromedia? -- Kreig Zimmerman : Chief Information Architect : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Four Eyes Productions : Brooklyn, NY

Re: CFLOGINUSER bug

2002-09-10 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
. -- Kreig Zimmerman : Chief Information Architect : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Four Eyes Productions : Brooklyn, NY __ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting

Re: More info RE: cfstoredproc

2002-09-05 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
I wasn't saying it was just a kludge. I was saying that it STARTED as a kludge. Remember, it was sort-of half-finished and non-documented in CF4.5. I never said it wasn't useful. I think CFQUERYPARAM is fantastic. I user it in all inline queries; I wouldn't dream of dropping a CF variable

Re: Query to CSV problem

2002-09-05 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
If using CF5+, you can use this UDF: http://cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=404 Colin Murphy wrote: I am looking for a solution to outputing a query to a CSV file. [snip] -- Kreig Zimmerman : Chief Information Architect : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Four Eyes Productions : Brooklyn, NY

Re: cfstoredproc and CF MX

2002-09-04 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Well, it works for me. I'd just check your code out. That was production-level code I used as an example, so I'm 110% certain it works. As for your comments... yeah it's stupid. But without knowing exactly what CFSTOREDPROC does, what's to say? At any rate, I avoid that issue with

Re: cfstoredproc and CF MX

2002-09-03 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Sorry you weren't aware of the ordering issue. It often makes me wonder what CFSTOREDPROC is really doing, aside from invoking a platform-specific call to an SP... At any rate, the way I deal with null/not null situation is this: cfprocparam type=In cfsqltype=CF_SQL_CHAR dbvarname=ctcd

Re: Recurring events in database driven calendar

2002-08-14 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Having built a recurring events system myself, I found that the best way to do it was to have all recurring events written to the DB, with marker connecting them to the parent row. This is due to the overhead of calculating these events for a dynanmic calendar format--if the rows exist, it is

Re: cfargument and dot notaion

2002-08-01 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Macromedia Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM : morpheus My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. - Yoda -Original Message- From: Kreig Zimmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:34 AM To: CF-Talk

Re: cfargument and dot notaion

2002-08-01 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
it is. - Yoda -Original Message- From: Kreig Zimmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: cfargument and dot notaion That's what I thought. Oh well then. Good thing that CFCs don't behave this way

Bug in MX w/ CFQUERYPARAM?

2002-07-30 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Hello All, We upgraded our test server to CFMX this weekend (w/ Apache 1.3.20 WS). Most all of our queries that accept user input are sanitized before being inserted in the DB in an Update statment, to whit: cfquery datasource=#DB# UPDATE [dbo].[Sizes] SET [Jumbo] = cfqueryparam

Re: Bug in MX w/ CFQUERYPARAM?

2002-07-30 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
- From: Kreig Zimmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 4:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Bug in MX w/ CFQUERYPARAM? Hello All, We upgraded our test server to CFMX this weekend (w/ Apache 1.3.20 WS). Most all of our queries that accept user input are sanitized

Re: Dynamic form actions

2002-07-18 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
..which works if that is the only form on the page. The best method is to refer to it as document.forms['formname'] - Original Message - From: Douglas Brown To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 1:46 PM Subject: Re: Dynamic form actions or use document.forms[0]

Re: AOL Problems

2002-06-21 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
- Original Message - From: Eric Homa To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 12:02 PM Subject: AOL Problems Hi, Does anyone out there have experience with an AOL client? I have a customer whose site works fine for him at his office and also for the many other

Re: How do Client Var Behave

2002-06-11 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Use the SERVER scope. - Original Message - From: Brian Eckerman To: CF-Talk Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 12:04 PM Subject: RE: How do Client Var Behave How would I declare a var that would span applications? -Original Message- From: Randell B Adkins

Re: MAC file upload

2002-06-10 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
This seems to be an ongoing issue with IE5 on Macintosh. I don't think there's a resolution that I've found... although there appears to be an interesting UDF in CFLib's queue which may help. petpeeve And by the way, Mac is NOT an acronym--it's a contraction!!! /petpeeve - Original

Re: Quick question on custom tags

2002-05-30 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
- Original Message - From: Brian Eckerman To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:05 AM Subject: Quick question on custom tags Is it possible to call a custom tag that resides in a folder other than the current folder. I am using cf_cf_formurl2attributes but I

Re: Query Issue.

2002-05-06 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Server will get upset with you. -Original Message- From: Kreig Zimmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 4:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Query Issue. what i usually do is columnname = columnname which updates the content of the column, with the contents

Re: Query Issue.

2002-05-03 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
what i usually do is columnname = columnname which updates the content of the column, with the contents of the column--no problems there, eh? - Original Message - From: Jared Stark To: CF-Talk Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 5:52 PM Subject: RE: Query Issue. I tried the 0 = 0

Re: Browser Detection

2002-05-02 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
to snuff in providing detailed browser/platform information... -- Kreig Zimmerman : Sr. Technical Mgr. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Four Eyes Productions : Brooklyn, NY - Original Message - From: Sean Daniels To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:32 AM Subject: Browser Detection

Re: quick ? deleteclientvariable

2002-05-02 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
That should be deleteclientvariable(msg). - Original Message - From: Janine Jakim To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:51 PM Subject: quick ? deleteclientvariable I have some client messages set up, but when I hit refresh I want them to go away. I had it set

Re: Fusebox (was: I like CFMX)

2002-04-30 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
in the same manner. Hell, I've yet to see an actual FuseBox app! -- Kreig Zimmerman : Sr. Technical Mgr. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Four Eyes Productions : Brooklyn, NY NB: My apps all run through index.cfm however... :) - Original Message - From: Dave Watts To: CF-Talk Sent: Tuesday

Re: CFMX OS X [rant]

2002-04-29 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
How is MacOS X not a true Unix? It is BSD Unix under the hood. You can run anything on it that could run in said environment. There is nothing about OS X that makes it less Unix than the older commercial Unices. If you want to see for yourself, go check out a Mac with OSX on it. Go check

Re: Cracking an Access file

2002-04-25 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Yeah... hold down the SHIFT key while launching Access (assuming you double-clicked the file itself). That's file security for you... MS-style. :) - Original Message - From: Bill Wheatley To: CF-Talk Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: OT: Cracking an Access

Re: CF-Talk-list V1 #141

2002-02-19 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
-- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:47:47 -0500 From: Rick Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Oracle has a nifty little table called DUAL. It's a system table that will always have only one row. So, if you Select nextval from Dual you will have a unique id you can

Re: Client Variable Mix Up

2002-02-04 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
cfscript // Remove all client variables variables.ThoseDangClients=GetClientVariablesList(); for(i=1;i LTE ListLen(variables.ThoseDangClients);i=i+1) { DeleteClientVariable(ListGetAt(variables.ThoseDangClients,i)); } /cfscript - Original Message - From: Neil H. [EMAIL

Re: CGI variables

2002-02-04 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
True. - Original Message - From: Jamie Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:40 PM Subject: CGI variables True or False? ALL CGI variables are ALWAYS defined within CF, so you test for them using len() instead of isdefined().

Re: The darndest time w/ Cookies. Actually form checking.

2002-01-31 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
As an aside... ..if the application design causes you to be unable to stop doing a CFLOCATION after the CFCOOKIE, you can always send a CFHEADER to do the page refresh to the CFLOCATION URL (same thing as including a meta refresh tag, only more likely to work); or embed a Javascript, such as

Re: Macromedia.com (is: unfalsifiable rumors)

2002-01-30 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
I'm sure the FUD you see creeping out and about has more to do with the economy then anything else. People are just getting worried their CF knowledge will go to pot, is all... :) - Original Message - From: John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] (Aside #2: I do realize that, in these

Re: Slightly OT - CF and Developers Fees

2002-01-29 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
There's no point in getting paid less than you're worth. References are anyone you know who knows your work/you've worked with in a professional setting. Don't get hung up on them, especially for $6/hr. For that money, you could work in a record store and have a helluva lot more fun! -

Re: html standards

2002-01-18 Thread Kreig Zimmerman
Andre, The main difference in the placement of the script tags is this... ..you place JS functions in the head which are called from within the document/by other functions. When you place script tags within the body you are usually just creating in-line JS; e.g. if you want a certain function