Re: OT: Best Practices - Source Control and Hotfixes

2006-06-13 Thread Rob Wilkerson
, Michael Traher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found the greatest aid to selling CVS/SVN was the price :-) On 6/13/06, Rob Wilkerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it does and it means that SVN offers a capability that VSS is fundamentally lacking. That will make selling this change much easier

Re: index.cfm Conundrum

2006-06-13 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Take a look at your settings in CF Admin. In the Caching settings, ensure that Cache web server paths is unchecked. This is important for servers running multiple sites. On 6/13/06, Sung Woo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very strange issue with a server running CFMX7. This server

Re: index.cfm Conundrum

2006-06-13 Thread Rob Wilkerson
The save class files simple saves the java byte code of a given file. As I understand it, it's the other option that caches only one location for the file. For example, on a multi-homed server (a web server serving more than one CF site), if the index.cfm file for site1 is rendered first, then

Re: OT: Best Practices - Source Control and Hotfixes

2006-06-13 Thread Rob Wilkerson
and the comment they entered when they committed. The other major feature is the ability to create a branch to do big software changes alongside bugfixes without the two code lines overlapping. I have some stuff regarding this on my blog but it is CVS centric. On 6/13/06, Rob Wilkerson [EMAIL

OT: Best Practices - Source Control and Hotfixes

2006-06-12 Thread Rob Wilkerson
, advice or reference material suggestions would be much appreciated. -- Rob Wilkerson ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243221 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription

Re: OT: Best Practices - Source Control and Hotfixes

2006-06-12 Thread Rob Wilkerson
, Rob Wilkerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually have two questions, here. The first is fairly specific, the second a general request for advice: 1. How do you all handle source code labels for hotfix files? Are there any so-called best practices? I have a large application which

Re: Server firewall software

2006-06-12 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Hey Jacob... Your list didn't come through. Maybe the mail server thought they were dangerous and removed them? :-) On 6/12/06, Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My list of recommendations are: Hope this helps. Jacob -Original Message- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Server firewall software

2006-06-12 Thread Rob Wilkerson
You forgot one other problem with software firewalls, Bob: Since the firewall is installed on top of the OS it suffers from any/all vulnerabilities that are present in the OS itself. On 6/12/06, Robert Everland III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize you're after an answer for a software based

Re: WYSIWYG Editor

2006-06-11 Thread Rob Wilkerson
You might check out TinyMCE. http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ On 6/11/06, Charles Heizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Can someone please recommend a good + free WYSIWYG editor for me to embed in my code. Thanks, - Charles

Re: Calling the same UDF twice..

2006-06-09 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Just out of curiousity, try assigning it to a variable in both cases... cfset dummy = foo() / cfset dummy2 = foo() / I've never seen the case you're talking about, but function names are set in the variables scope and that has caused me other hearburn on occasion. I wonder if something is going

Re: Bad Google RSS

2006-06-09 Thread Rob Wilkerson
What error message do you get? I can subscribe to this feed in my parser just fine (whose first step is an XMLParse()). I assume you're making a CFHTTP call to retrieve the content? Check that content to see whether whitespace - or any other character data - is being introduced before the

Re: Bad Google RSS

2006-06-09 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Aha. You're using a devnet version of CF. On 6/9/06, Howard Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The error is: An error occured while Parsing an XML document. The element type meta must be terminated by the matching end-tag . At this point: cfset xmlFile = xmlparse(cfhttp.filecontent)

Re: Bad Google RSS

2006-06-09 Thread Rob Wilkerson
. This wreaks all kinds of havoc on XML stuff. See if you can strip it before trying to use the content: cfset variables.content = REReplaceNoCase ( cfhttp.fileContent, '^.*??xml', '?xml' ) / cfdump var=#XMLParse ( variables.content )# / On 6/9/06, Rob Wilkerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aha. You're

Re: Bad Google RSS

2006-06-09 Thread Rob Wilkerson
not stripping out everything above the declaration tag. H. See if you can strip it before trying to use the content: cfset variables.content = REReplaceNoCase ( cfhttp.fileContent, '^.*??xml', '?xml' ) / cfdump var=#XMLParse ( variables.content )# / On 6/9/06, Rob Wilkerson

Re: accesskey conundrum

2006-06-08 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I'm not a big fan of access keys because of how they interfere with the shortcuts I've set up in my environment and much-discussed accessibility issues, but when I do use them on forms for whatever reason, I tend to follow the Windows UI standard of underlining the letter in the label that, in

Re: CFEclipse tabbing

2006-06-08 Thread Rob Wilkerson
This has been a problem for me as well. I posted an early thread about this and it seemed there was no concensus. I believe Mark chimed in that cursor positioning and tabbing was a mess in the source and pretty well needed to be rewritten. I format my tags like so: cfsetting

Re: CFEclipse tabbing

2006-06-08 Thread Rob Wilkerson
As mentioned, I've attached my original post. And it was Spike, not Mark, who kicked in the source code comments. I don't know whether it's possible to reference a thread URL for this mailing list (or if so, how to do it), so I've added the relevant posts inline... My original question: Has

Re: accesskey conundrum

2006-06-08 Thread Rob Wilkerson
statement for the page which gives a reference to the access keys used and what they do. Sandra Clark == http://www.shayna.com Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility -Original Message- From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday

Re: timeout request settings

2006-06-08 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I typically keep my timeout pretty low in the administrator and, as Crow suggested, use cfsetting to up it as needed for specific templates. On 6/8/06, Crow T. Robot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, why don't you use cfsetting and do it on a script-by-script basis? Jason Rogoz wrote: I was

Re: CFEclipse tabbing

2006-06-08 Thread Rob Wilkerson
have to start backspacing every tab that get's created, I might go insane. -ben ... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -Original Message- From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:06 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFEclipse tabbing

Re: Dynamically building nested unordered lists

2006-06-06 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Sure. In your example, though, my concern would be that other than the order in which you've listed the items, there's no way to tell which element lower than level 1 is a child of which other element. Do you have a parent ID field or some such that relates an item to its parent item or are you

Re: Supressing white space

2006-06-05 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I've used this with a reasonable degree of success. Is there a reason for not using the obvious? I glanced at the URL and it appears to be a CFM page, but I certainly may have missed something. cfprocessingdirective suppresswhitespace=Yes ... your code ... /cfprocessingdirective On

Re: replacing special chars

2006-05-31 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I've used the following regex to remove non-ascii characters: cfset variables.content = REReplaceNoCase ( variables.content, [^\x00-\x7f], , ALL ) / Obviously, it can be tweaked to remove any ranges that you want include/exclude. On 5/31/06, daniel kessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out

Re: Data modelling tool

2006-05-27 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I've used an open source tool called DBDesigner a few times and it's not bad. You won't get all of the great tools provided by the pricey applications, but if you're just looking for a good way to document a db design, it does the job pretty nicely. And free is always good if you can live with

Re: Dumping query info after running query

2006-05-24 Thread Rob Wilkerson
You should be able to iterate over the structure to display the key/value pairs. On 5/24/06, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I dump query debugging data to email? I want to see the running time, the SQL executed, parameters, etc- everything that would normally show up when you turn

Re: Dumping query info after running query

2006-05-24 Thread Rob Wilkerson
foo - including execution time, column list, the SQL, and any parameters. Thanks Ray! Rick Rob Wilkerson wrote: You should be able to iterate over the structure to display the key/value pairs. On 5/24/06, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I dump query debugging data

Re: MaxHeapSize + MaxPermSize

2006-05-21 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I believe Dave is correct that permgen is part of the heap. As is the oldgen and newgen, if memory serves. As for limits, I've had difficulty setting a max heap size over 1024 while still being able to restart the CF server on Windows. I can't even reach 1.5 gb. The way it was once explained

Re: Trying Again: CONTAINS issues

2006-05-21 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Take a look at cflib.org. There's a list function that compares 2 lists and returns the shared elements. It sounds like that might be what you're looking for. On 5/21/06, Brent Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Posted earlier, but I couldn't read it on the site.

Re: Pass a data to/from server without page refresh

2006-05-21 Thread Rob Wilkerson
AJaX is definitely the way to go for what you want to do. I use Prototype for my AJaX (and other JS framework) needs. Works great. http://prototype.conio.net/ http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html On 5/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Day, I want to

Re: Verity Search Powerpoints

2006-05-18 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I've never known that to be possible, but would love to know if someone's actually done it. As far as I know you can only link to a presentation, not to a slide within a presentation. It's not like you can link to presentationurl.ppt?slide=3...can you? For that matter, I'm not sure Verity can

Re: Verity Search Powerpoints

2006-05-18 Thread Rob Wilkerson
. -Original Message- From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Verity Search Powerpoints I've never known that to be possible, but would love to know if someone's actually done it. As far as I know you can

Re: Here's a weird one

2006-05-18 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I've done successful installs on Win2k, Win2k3 and several Linux distros. Are you using VMWare Workstation or Server (GSX, I think is the product designation, but I'm not certain)? On 5/18/06, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing ColdFusion MX 7.01 on a VMWare image. When I

Re: CFHTTP Charset Question

2006-05-18 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Just to follow up, here's what I decided to do: 1. Execute a head request for the feed 2. If the head request returns a charset in the response header, store it in a variable. Otherwise, default to UTF-8 as the stored charset. 3. Execute the get request using the charset as identified in #2

CFHTTP Charset Question

2006-05-17 Thread Rob Wilkerson
of characters - certainly the French language's accented e, etc. 2. Do I have any options for returning these characters properly and, if any, what are they? I'm familiar with character encoding, but hardly an expert. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Rob Wilkerson

Re: CFHTTP Charset Question

2006-05-17 Thread Rob Wilkerson
that direction. The question then becomes, what charset can I specify that will handle almost any feed out there? UTF-8, I had thought, would handle the French alphabet at the very least. Thanks again for your help. On 5/17/06, Paul Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Wilkerson wrote

Re: CFHTTP Charset Question

2006-05-17 Thread Rob Wilkerson
they use and there's just no way to do that for every single feed that might be requested. Did I get that right? Thanks again for everyone's help. On 5/17/06, Paul Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Wilkerson wrote: 1. The feed itself specifies its encoding as iso-8859-1 in the source XML

Re: CFHTTP Charset Question

2006-05-17 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Okay, Claude, what you're saying makes perfect sense, but begs the question... Is there any way I can detect the character set of the feed I want to retrieve and set my http call to use that charset? It sounds impossible to me, but I'm only just beginning to learn how little I /really/ know

Re: CFHTTP Charset Question

2006-05-17 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. I know that the original feed I referenced did not return a content-type response header so it will be no help. And even using getEncoding()...how would this work? I'd have to get the content, get the encoding and then get the content again (this time

Re: Feed Aggregators

2006-05-16 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I currently use FeedDemon and love it. I've also used Pluck!, but wasn't as big of a fan so I paid for software that worked better for me. That said, I could probably find some time to contribute. Syndication has facinated me for a while and I've developed a custom feed reader for use within a

Re: OOD/Design Patterns and ColdFusion.

2006-05-16 Thread Rob Wilkerson
One book I found really helpful was Just Java 2 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0130105341/qid=1147801102/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/103-1094486-3133417?s=booksv=glancen=283155) Readable, really discusses the concepts of OOP and I found it really easy to follow and understand. Java-centric, of

Re: AJAX, IIS UTF-8 Question

2006-05-12 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I'd first try it and see what happens. The only time I've ever had a problem was when I had to return XML from an AJaX call and it was pretty easy to get around by specifying the charset as you listed: cfprocessingdirective suppresswhitespace=true cfcontent type=text/xml; charset=UTF-8

Re: AJAX, IIS UTF-8 Question

2006-05-12 Thread Rob Wilkerson
for. It wasn't the other way around. On 5/12/06, Rey Bango [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL. Thanks Rob. I'm trying to do my homework before I fall into a pit. I appreciate the feedback. Anything that I should consider in terms of data storage in SQL Server or MySQL? Rey... Rob Wilkerson wrote

Re: Frameworks

2006-05-12 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Apologies, perhaps, but a nice reset nonetheless. You just don't see enough Neil Peart lyrics quoted on these mailing lists anymore. :-) On 5/12/06, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you choose not to use a framework, you still have made a choice, you can choose from OOP or

Re: Regex Dash

2006-05-11 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Just placing the dash at the beginning or end of the character class should be sufficient. Otherwise the dash is considered a range delimiter. [-_A-Z] will handle dashes [_a-z-] will also handle them I believe the backslash in a character class is, literally, a backslash in Ben's example and

Re: Regex Dash

2006-05-11 Thread Rob Wilkerson
, and it makes me feel more comfortable to know that it is being escaped... But yes, both will work. ... Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -Original Message- From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:44 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Regex Dash

Re: XML Parsing in CF Help

2006-05-10 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Hey Jonathan - This worked perfectly for me. And, if you're really just looking for that one element it will be much faster than iterating across the entire document. The code below, as pointed out by Brad, returns a single element array. Code snippet below: cfoutput cfxml variable=xmldoc

Re: Sql Server Temp Table

2006-05-09 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I'm having to work to establish recall, here, but I thought I remembered that temp tables were maintained until the connection is broken. Do you have Maintain Connections checked in your DS properties, by any chance? Has anything else changed in the environment? On 5/9/06, Brian Peddle [EMAIL

Re: XML Parsing in CF Help

2006-05-09 Thread Rob Wilkerson
If you're looking specifically for that element, I'd use XPath/XMLSearch(). Try this: XMLSearch ( mydoc, '/nitf/head/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'ap-online-code']' ) On 5/9/06, Ian Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cfset mydoc = XmlParse(xmldoc) #mydoc.nitf.head.meta[8].XmlAttributes.content# (the

Re: reg expression help..

2006-04-27 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Hey Brian - You have a couple of...not necessarily errors, but constructs that I would consider unexpected. For example, [\w+]* when I think you mean \w+. In a character class, \w+ means, literally, a w character or a + character. Try this: %20java%20\w+%20developer%20 If you're allowing an

Re: reg expression help..

2006-04-27 Thread Rob Wilkerson
The problem, at least in this case is the - in Part-Time. It's a non-word character. This works: %20Java%20(\w+-?\w+)*%20Developer%20 It will allow for 0 or 1 dash in the optional text. It will also allow for text or no text. On 4/27/06, Brian McGarvie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, thanks

OT: Wikis

2006-04-27 Thread Rob Wilkerson
and there are almost certainly questions I don't know to ask and features I don't know to look for. Thanks for any help. -- Rob Wilkerson ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238881 Archives: http

Re: http://www.fullasagoog.com/

2006-04-27 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Looks like they fixed it. It used to display . I think it was just one of those things... On 4/27/06, Chris Tilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong with this site? http://www.fullasagoog.com/ -- Chris Tilley ~|

Re: macromedia certification

2006-04-27 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Seriously? You can work up that much venom from some marketing spew that someone wrote in a book? Get a hobby or a misstress, but lighten up. At the very least, don't share. If anyone on this list or any other had given some indication that they considered themselves better than anyone else

Re: XAMPP Coldfusion together?

2006-04-26 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I assume you're saying that Apache won't even restart after CF has been installed. Have you checked /var/log to see if the logs tell you anything? CF modifies your httpd.conf file to apply several LoadModule directives. You might want to take a look at those to see if anything looks out of

Re: Stored procedures

2006-04-25 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I don't believe you can access functions directly from ColdFusion. You'd have to write a stored proc that calls the function, I think. On 4/25/06, Shawn McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used lots of Oracle stored procedures using cfstoredproc but my DBA has now written several functions

Re: Okay, here's an easy one...Getting the directory I'm sitting in...

2006-04-25 Thread Rob Wilkerson
getDirectoryFromPath()? Is that what you're asking? Maybe getDirectoryFromPath ( getCurrentTemplatePath() )? You'd have to parse for the last node in the directory path, but this would get you there. Hopefully I understood the question correctly... On 4/25/06, Jeff Small [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MX7 Verity Limitation

2006-04-25 Thread Rob Wilkerson
collections are large and there may be a number of them. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Rob Wilkerson ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238682 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com

Re: Uploading multiple files - not necessarily CF

2006-04-25 Thread Rob Wilkerson
What about using DHTML? Take a look at something like this: http://the-stickman.com/web-development/javascript/upload-multiple-files-with-a-single-file-element/ I've played with it a little bit and it looks pretty nice. I have not used it in production, though, so it will require some testing.

Re: Uploading multiple files - not necessarily CF

2006-04-25 Thread Rob Wilkerson
You mean by control- or shift-clicking? So click Browse and then select multiple files from the dialog? If so, then that can't be done as far as I know. Using the standard file input, control- and shift-clicking is disabled. One file at a time. Period. I missed that possible meaning.

Re: MX7 Verity Limitation

2006-04-25 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Thanks for the info, Dan. We have projects in the queue to move to categories, but like all queues, we won't get to it until we get to it (or until someone makes is a /much/ bigger priority than it is right now). I was hoping to find a quick fix. I'll take a look at what I have in the way of

Re: Rss feed issue

2006-04-24 Thread Rob Wilkerson
You didn't give us much to work with. Looks like the problem is inside your component. The feed URL seems to work okay. On 4/24/06, Eric J. Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All our news feeds were working earlier today, and suddenly they went kaput. The feeds are up if I go directly to them.

Re: Rss feed issue

2006-04-24 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Not sure what to tell you. I usually get null pointer exceptions when the constructor for a custom java class fails. My first thought would be that something changed in the feed definition XML and maybe it's throwing off the selected items. Clearly something changed between the time it worked

Re: Rss feed issue

2006-04-24 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Another thought might be that the descriptions (titles, too) within the feed do not appear to be in a CDATA block. If there are invalid characters in there then that might affect how the XML is processed. Just a thought. ~|

OT: IE ActiveX Patch

2006-04-21 Thread Rob Wilkerson
for Internet Explorer for Windows XP), but it keeps failing. No intelligible reason for the failure is given that I can find. I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem? Is this the same update that affects ActiveX content? Thanks. -- Rob Wilkerson

Re: IE ActiveX Patch

2006-04-21 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Okay, so that's a way to fix it. A little additional research tells that that, in fact, the update the keeps failing for me is the one that has this little gem. Now, any idea how I can get the patch to install? Has anyone found an update that they are unable to install? On 4/21/06, Robert

Re: IE ActiveX Patch

2006-04-21 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I've actually tried both ways. Windows/Microsoft Update tells me nothing about why it failed and when I run the executable that I downloaded it starts to installed and then just displays a message box indicating that the installation was cancelled. Needless to say, I didn't cancel it. :-)

Re: IE ActiveX Patch

2006-04-21 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Follow Up: Looks like the reason for my pain was that I changed the default program files directory. Even though all references were updated to the directory I prefer, MS expects something in c:\program files. Ugh. Anyway, a quick change of the ProgramFilesDir value in

Re: cfdocument and file saving

2006-04-21 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Hmmm. You could try using the Content-Disposition header in conjunction with your cfdocument content... On 4/21/06, Jason Herbolsheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure I'm just having one of the moments, and that there is a simple way to do this. I'm creating a pdf document using

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-20 Thread Rob Wilkerson
That could be. I vaguely remember that the spec wasn't final, but was very, very close. This was probably 6 months ago or so. Maybe that timeline will tell you something. And I did use the wiki several times so who knows what insanity I mixed in. :-) I'll go back and take a look at my code

Re: Get String Byte Size

2006-04-20 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Thanks, all. These suggestions will get me close enough for what I need. Fortunately, this data isn't required for anything essential. I appreciate all the help. On 4/20/06, Ashwin Mathew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this: http://martin.nobilitas.com/java/sizeof.html The empirical formula

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-20 Thread Rob Wilkerson
So, based on Roger's comments, I checked my code and, in fact, there is no Atom 1.0 element analogous to TTL. And I didn't make one up for inclusion in my code. :-) Thanks for the clarification. On 4/20/06, Roger Benningfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I surely thought I remembered one from

Re: Javascript help

2006-04-20 Thread Rob Wilkerson
The loop is fine. It's difficult to see the braces in the text, but they're correct. Maybe you can't pass objects by value? You would think that, if it were possible, using the var keyword would ensure a new variable. On 4/20/06, Ben Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bobby, I don't think they

Get String Byte Size

2006-04-19 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Anyone have any quick code to retrieve the number of bytes in a string /without/ writing the string to a file first? I'm trying to do a little debugging and I'd like to know the size of a string that is being returned to the browser. Thanks. -- Rob Wilkerson

Re: Get String Byte Size

2006-04-19 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Nylon Technology 350 7th Ave. Suite 1005 New York, NY 10001 212.691.1134 x 14 212.691.3477 fax www.nylontechnology.com Sanders: Lightspeed too slow? Helmet: Yes we'll have to go right to ludacris speed. -Original Message- From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Neil - To prevent over-polling and, as Roger pointed out, potentially getting your IP blocked, consider Etag/If-None-Match headers as well as the Last-Modified/If-Modified-Since headers: 1. When you retrieve a feed, store the ETag and Last-Modified response headers 2. When you next poll the

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I still can't help with the unreliable gateways, but a couple of things to note. First, the last modified header will not help you retrieve a partial feed. It will still retrieve the entire feed, but only if the feed has changed (better than nothing). You're right on your second point. The

Re: Escaping #'s in outputting a CSS

2006-04-19 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Are you trying to replace # with ##? If so, you might need to replace ## with . Maybe a code sample of what you're attempting will help. Is the CSS embedded or inline? If it's linked, then of course there's no need to escape the #'s On 4/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-19 Thread Rob Wilkerson
That was my concensus early on. Seems like it would be a hard sell to argue against either of those statements. -- Rob Wilkerson ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238174 Archives: http

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I'm going to chime in somewhere between Jacob and Roger. With the bandwidth saving features I mentioned earlier, I'd say 30 mins to an hour should be sufficient in almost every case. Of course, now we're just stating opinions, but that's mine. For what it's worth... On 4/19/06, Munson, Jacob

Re: RSS Aggregation?

2006-04-19 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Thanks for the clarification. I surely thought I remembered one from when I built my reader. Hardly the first time my memory has failed me. On 4/19/06, Roger Benningfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know there is a TTL equivalent in Atom 1.0/RSS 1.0... Rob: Nope, there's no ttl equivalent in

Re: Evaluate vs ?

2006-04-18 Thread Rob Wilkerson
variables['cMonth' i] (assuming the variables scope, of course) On 4/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you fix this one? Cfset Month1 = 0101 Cfset Month2 = 0102 Cfset Month3 = 0103 Cfloop from=1 to=3 index=i cfset CMonth = Month i cfset CCMonth =

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-18 Thread Rob Wilkerson
As I recall, the value gets returned, but always says 0. It's not useful for anything other than select queries. On 4/18/06, Pete Ruckelshaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should queries that do an update return a queryname.recordcount variable? I'm trying to determine how many records get changed

Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non-SELECT queries?

2006-04-18 Thread Rob Wilkerson
having to do a select query beforehand. Is there a Java service factory way of getting at this information? Mike -Original Message- From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Why is there query.recordcount with non

Re: ColdFusion Cumulative HotFix List

2006-04-17 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I stay informed via the technote RSS feed. Great way to tune into all sorts of updates. http://www.macromedia.com/go/rss_coldfusion On 4/17/06, Ryan Duckworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to be on a list with Adobe to be alerted when Cumulative Hot Fixes are released? We were

Re: Evaluate vs ?

2006-04-17 Thread Rob Wilkerson
You could use #form['quantity_' i]# On 4/17/06, Stan Winchester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read you should not use Evaluate(). In the following example, what would be best practice? cfloop index=i from=1 to=#FORM.itemsOnPage# set Quantity = val(Evaluate(FORM.Quantity_ i)) /

Re: sql insert statement

2006-04-16 Thread Rob Wilkerson
you have a trailing ] behind the VALUES clause. That would be my guess. On 4/14/06, David Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not functioning here: Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Line 2: Incorrect syntax near ']'. The error occurred in

Re: Pause?

2006-04-16 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I believe you're looking for the sleep() method of java.lang.Thread On 4/14/06, Loathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I wanted to say have a template pause for 10 seconds, how would you do that, I mean, I can think of a couple of looping ways that would accomplish about the same thing, but I

Re: TextArea for multi inputs

2006-04-14 Thread Rob Wilkerson
When processing, just treat the form value as a list with chr(13) and chr(10) as its delimiters. cfset emailAddys = listToArray ( form.fieldName, '#chr(13)##chr(10)#' ) / On 4/14/06, j s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to use a textarea as a multi input field? F.e. I'v seen a

Re: database linking table naming conventions?

2006-04-14 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I tend to follow Ryan's naming conventions for columns (e.g. user_id in the user table) and I also understand what Josh is asking. I'm also a little obsessive about being able to quickly find tables or files or any other object that might be present in a list. To his question, I often use 'lnk_'

Re: Regular Expressions - Strip HTML tags. Please help!!!

2006-04-13 Thread Rob Wilkerson
You may have to use a negative lookahead. Try something like this: (?!\/?(br|b|span|i|strong|div|p))[^]* This hasn't been tested and is purely from memory, but I think that (or something close to it) should remove any tag that is *NOT* the open or closing tag of one you listed. For more

Re: How to determine JDBC driver version in use

2006-04-13 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I think this may be what you need. http://www.bpurcell.org/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=988 On 4/13/06, Jamie Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how to CONCLUSIVELY determine which version of the JDBC driver that a given instance of CFMX is using. I made up my own function (see

Re: adobe certification site

2006-04-12 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Well, I thought you all were crazy. But then I checked...and you're not :-) Macrodobe has me listed correctly (http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=23544#W), but the certification site does not. Maybe it's just a recording flaw. On 4/12/06, Mike Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: input box focus

2006-04-12 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Use the following JS code once the page is loaded: document.getElementById ( 'input_id' ).focus(); Obviously, 'input_id' is the value of the id attribute for the textbox. On 4/12/06, David Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, just an easy question probably, I wrote my first two pages

Re: adobe certification site

2006-04-12 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I'll chime in as another ID10T that can't remember. cfQuickDocs gets a workout whenever I'm doing a lot of replacement work. I can remember find okay, but always want to use the same format for replace. On 4/12/06, S. Isaac Dealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it's at least consistent across

Re: input box focus

2006-04-12 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Dave - Try this: script language=JavaScript window.onload = function() { document.myform.yardage_ticket_no.focus() }; /script I can't swear to this for built-in functions like focus(), but if I were calling a custom function, I would need to leave the parentheses off of your original

Re: chr(10) in excel

2006-04-11 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Try #chr(13)##chr(10)#? On 4/11/06, Turetsky, Seth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a page that pops up in excel, but I want line wraps within cells. I tried chr(10) but it doesn't seem to respect it. Has anyone done this or can they try this(i'm using BD now), I vaguely remember this

Re: DailyRazor Hosting

2006-04-11 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I used to have a dedicated server at...ValueWeb, I believe. Dedicated Linux server. Installed a name server on it and hosted all the domains I wanted. Might want to take a look at what they offer. Cost me $60 a month, if memory serves. Had it for a couple of years ago and only let it go a few

Re: Problems Stopping and Starting Coldfusion Service (CFMX7)

2006-04-10 Thread Rob Wilkerson
For what it's worth, I've seen this when: 1. I've set the max heap size greater than 1024 (on Windows) 2. I've edited the JVM arguments using the CF Administrator 3. I've created a new instance with a new service and specified an invalid jvm.config file I don't know if any of these conditions

Re: File Include - Scrub Contents

2006-04-10 Thread Rob Wilkerson
You could try wrapping the include in cfsavecontent On 4/10/06, Eric J. Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this really easy or am I missing a thought? Have a file I need to include in a process that is generated elsewhere. So I call it by its dynamic name into my process; the catch is before

Re: Bad character crashing cfxml

2006-04-09 Thread Rob Wilkerson
I opt to store user-defined data in CDATA blocks: root mytag![CDATA[#userDefinedStuff#]]/mytag /root Another route is to use the XMLFormat() function. On 4/9/06, Josh Nathanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, When creating an xml document using cfxml, I get the following error:

<    1   2   3   4   >