RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-17 Thread Russ Michaels
- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 November 2010 01:48 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog software On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: This new function It's not a function :) I read your email and thought What new function? Why

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-16 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: This new function It's not a function :) I read your email and thought What new function? Why can't Russ be more specific? :) So now CFML has a 'new' keyword that works just like 'new' in other languages: a = new

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-14 Thread Russ Michaels
Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:james.hol...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 November 2010 01:43 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog software http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WS61C07B60-3D65-4d71-8 F2A-8411D8010E60.html -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-13 Thread Russ Michaels
This new function -Original Message- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 November 2010 07:44 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog software On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: could we have an example ? An example of what

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-13 Thread James Holmes
: Sean Corfield [mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 November 2010 07:44 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog software On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: could we have an example ? An example of what? -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-12 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: could we have an example ? An example of what? -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ If you're not annoying somebody, you're

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-11 Thread Russ Michaels
could we have an example ? On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Adrocknaphobia adrocknapho...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, if this is CF9, you can replace all the createObject() calls by using the 'new' keyword.

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-10 Thread Russ Michaels
Thus the previous discussion on sandbox security etc -Original Message- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 November 2010 00:37 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog software Mango Blog is great but it won't run on a ColdFusion host that restricts CFC creation

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-10 Thread Gerald Guido
I am currently evaluating Amazon's EC3 free tier (613 megs ram, 10 gig HD space and a single core 2.66GHz processor) and right now I have an instance running on a bare bone Centos 5.4 64 bit install with Railo, Apache 2.2, Tomcat, Mysql and WebMin and it is running like a top. I still have a

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-10 Thread Adrocknaphobia
Of course, if this is CF9, you can replace all the createObject() calls by using the 'new' keyword. Sorry to be a walking advertisement, but ColdFusion Builder refactoring will make that task very easy. -Adam On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Raymond Camden rcam...@gmail.com wrote: To Dave's

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-10 Thread Russ Michaels
. -Original Message- From: Adrocknaphobia [mailto:adrocknapho...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 November 2010 16:40 To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog software Of course, if this is CF9, you can replace all the createObject() calls by using the 'new' keyword. Sorry to be a walking advertisement, but ColdFusion

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-10 Thread Dave Watts
It would be a bit more complicated than that surely, as you are not just replacing a word, you are replacing a function call and all its arguments with a tag and all its parameters, and as each instance will not be the name it doesn't seem like something you could easily automate. Not

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Kukiel
, CreateObject()?? Go to CrystalTech for a few bucks a quarter or something. From: Ben Forta b...@forta.com Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 11:37 AM To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: Re: CF Blog software Change hosting companies. Really. --- Ben

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-10 Thread Andrew Scott
You could with regex support, and I can't recall if refactoring supports it or not.. Regards, Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/ -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Thursday, 11 November 2010 6:24 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CF Blog

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-10 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Adrocknaphobia adrocknapho...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, if this is CF9, you can replace all the createObject() calls by using the 'new' keyword. Interesting. So if cfobject and createObject() are completed blocked by sandbox security on CF9 Enterprise, new

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Ben Forta
Change hosting companies. Really. --- Ben (Sent from my Flash enabled Android device) On Nov 9, 2010 2:35 PM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) sd1...@att.com wrote: Hi all, So I haven't blogged in about a year because of different issues with my website provider... Any how I'm looking to

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Russ Michaels
Steve, One should at least explain why hosts disable those tags. They are all dangerous tags that provide IO access and the host is probably just be cautious. If these were just enabled by default then the server could be hacked in about 5 seconds. However some of those tags should be allowed

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Jason Fisher
@houseoffusion.com Subject: Re: CF Blog software Change hosting companies. Really. --- Ben (Sent from my Flash enabled Android device) On Nov 9, 2010 2:35 PM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) sd1...@att.com wrote: Hi all, So I haven't blogged in about a year because of different issues with my website provider

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Watts
Some of those are reasonable, but CFCONTENT, CFDUMP, CreateObject()??  Go to CrystalTech for a few bucks a quarter or something. CFCONTENT and CreateObject both have serious security implications. Russ knows better than me about sandboxing, but those tags and functions shouldn't be allowed

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Jason Fisher
...@figleaf.com Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 12:49 PM To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: Re: CF Blog software Some of those are reasonable, but CFCONTENT, CFDUMP, CreateObject()?? Go to CrystalTech for a few bucks a quarter or something. CFCONTENT and CreateObject both have serious

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Ian Skinner
On 11/9/2010 9:54 AM, Jason Fisher wrote: Granted they shouldn't have unrestricted access, but I would argue that you should be able to call them within your own application or else the ability to build complex applications begins to be pretty well hampered, no? Well, true. But hosting

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Jason Fisher
, but Crystaltech has been outstanding and I've been on them for years now without issue. From: Ian Skinner h...@ilsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 1:02 PM To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: Re: CF Blog software On 11/9/2010 9:54 AM, Jason Fisher

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
space, but I get 2 mysql dbs and 1 mssql plus CF7. It works out to 9.95 a month and I can't afford more than that. Steve -Original Message- From: Ben Forta [mailto:b...@forta.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 11:37 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog software Change hosting companies

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Watts
Granted they shouldn't have unrestricted access, but I would argue that you should be able to call them within your own application or else the ability to build complex applications begins to be pretty well hampered, no? Yes, the ability to build complex applications may well be hampered in a

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Sean Corfield
than that. Steve -Original Message- From: Ben Forta [mailto:b...@forta.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 11:37 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog software Change hosting companies. Really. --- Ben (Sent from my Flash enabled Android device

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Jake Churchill
Sounds like it's ttime to change who you host with. How are they blocking CFC instantiation like that? Sent from my Droid On Nov 9, 2010 10:36 AM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) sd1...@att.com wrote: Hi all, So I haven't blogged in about a year because of different issues with my website

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
of the changes that the tutorial suggested weren't even there anymore. Steve -Original Message- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 1:19 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog software Take a look at Alurium. They offer shared hosting for about

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Watts
Sounds like it's ttime to change who you host with.  How are they blocking CFC instantiation like that? I didn't see CFINVOKE on the list, so you could use that to create CFC instances (assuming the CFCs have an init method that returns an instance of the CFC). Of course, that doesn't really

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Watts
Any ideas on cf blogging software I can use?  Any tutorials on dumbing down the current options to make them work?  I found a tutorial for blogcfc but it was so many versions back, some of the changes that the tutorial suggested weren't even there anymore. I haven't worked with BlogCFC so

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Ben Forta
There are indeed inherent risks and limitations with shared hosting. But there are solutions, including ones less expensive than dedicated hosting. Sandboxing is one option, although not an absolutely perfect one. The preferred option (these days) is the one Dave mentioned, visualization, where

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Alan Rother
Hey Dave, CFCONTENT and CreateObject both have serious security implications. I know all about CreateObject's security risks from a hosting perspective, but I've never heard of an issue with CFCONTENT (I'm not doubting you, I'm just curious what the issues are.) =] On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:33

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Watts
I know all about CreateObject's security risks from a hosting perspective, but I've never heard of an issue with CFCONTENT (I'm not doubting you, I'm just curious what the issues are.) It can be used to download any file that the CF service has permission to access, including sensitive

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Alan Rother
Ah, that does make sense. Thanks Dave! =] On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: I know all about CreateObject's security risks from a hosting perspective, but I've never heard of an issue with CFCONTENT (I'm not doubting you, I'm just curious what the

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Raymond Camden
To Dave's suggestion of replacing createObject w/ cfinvoke - I believe (stress - believe) other BlogCFC users have done it in the past. It isn't officially supported by BlogCFC, Inc (aka me) but I believe it can be done. On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Alan Rother alan.rot...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Gerald Guido
I believe the issue is with createobject using Java, COM and CORBA and not create object(component) From the OP: CreateObject(COM) CreateObject(CORBA) CreateObject(JAVA) Another option would be http://hostek.com/. They have cheap plans and support everything except CFREGISTRY and CFEXECUTE. But

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Watts
I believe the issue is with createobject using Java, COM and CORBA and not create object(component) From the OP: CreateObject(COM) CreateObject(CORBA) CreateObject(JAVA) The problem as I recall is that there wasn't a way to exclude one specific type of CreateObject call. Again, though,

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Gerald Guido
. The problem as I recall is that there wasn't a way to exclude one specific type of CreateObject call. Actually, you can lock it down by the type: COM, Java, CORBA, .Net (c8 +) and Webservice or you can disable the entire function. This is on CF 8 standard so it is server wide. No sandbox

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Watts
Actually, you can lock it down by the type: COM, Java, CORBA, .Net (c8 +) and Webservice or you can disable the entire function. This is on CF 8 standard so it is server wide. No sandbox support on standard but I assume (a dangerous thing to do with Mr. Watts here ;) ) that it would behave

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Russ Michaels
without sandboxing (cf enterprise required) if all tags are enabled, any user can read/write files anywhere on the server. Even if lockdown procedures arr used, coldfusion will at bare allow all users access to each others sites even if not the whole server. Any other customers on the server can

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Scott
: Wednesday, 10 November 2010 6:27 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog software I believe the issue is with createobject using Java, COM and CORBA and not create object(component) From the OP: CreateObject(COM) CreateObject(CORBA) CreateObject(JAVA) Another option would be http

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Andrew Scott wrote: And what surprised me was cfdump is one, because of the way it is implemented. cfdump internally uses createObject(java, ...) so it isn't as much that cfdump iself is disallowed as that you can't use it when Java objects have been disabled.

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) wrote: my provider restricts a bunch of tags (below) Most of the restrictions are reasonable for a shared host that wants to provide a modicum of security. In a properly configured Sandbox cfcontent, cflog and setProfileStrng could

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Russ Michaels
CreateObject(com) is very dangerous and should never be enabled on a shared server. DANGER will Robinson. All the sandbox does is either enable or disable this function, as your calling a COM object which has nothing to do with JAVA it is run totally outside of the sandbox permissions. Again it

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
donation type of stuff. So it's all out of pocket for me which is why I go for the bare minimum. Steve -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:joch...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 3:53 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog software On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Russ Michaels
: CF Blog software On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) wrote: my provider restricts a bunch of tags (below) Most of the restrictions are reasonable for a shared host that wants to provide a modicum of security. In a properly configured Sandbox cfcontent, cflog

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
: DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 4:07 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CF Blog software Yes, but you are assuming commercial hosting. I host my own website (non-commercial) and the website for a club at the local community college. Neither generates money so cost

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Russ Michaels
few months. I wanted something I could use now and look at new hosting in the future. Steve -Original Message- From: DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 4:07 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CF Blog software Yes, but you are assuming commercial hosting. I

RE: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Scott
Yes I am fully aware of that, which is why I stated the way it was implemented. Regards, Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/ -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:joch...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 2010 7:52 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF Blog

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread AJ Mercer
I am running mangoBlog on Railo http://www.mangoblog.org/ http://www.mangoblog.org/ On 10 November 2010 02:25, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) sd1...@att.comwrote: Thanks, I will look at them (I have no experience with Railo), but I am pre-paid for a few months, so... Any ideas on cf

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread David McGraw
So am I and I have no complaints. Dave McGraw Oyova Software, LLC http://www.oyova.com On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:27 PM, AJ Mercer ajmer...@gmail.com wrote: I am running mangoBlog on Railo http://www.mangoblog.org/ http://www.mangoblog.org/ On 10 November 2010 02:25, DURETTE, STEVEN J

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Sean Corfield
Mango Blog is great but it won't run on a ColdFusion host that restricts CFC creation... On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:27 PM, AJ Mercer ajmer...@gmail.com wrote: I am running mangoBlog on Railo http://www.mangoblog.org/ http://www.mangoblog.org/

Re: CF Blog software

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Merrill
Ii don't think many hosts prohibit CreateObject('component'), they're after the java/com/corba flavors. CreateObject('java') is mighty useful though; not sure if Mango uses it or not. Dave On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Sean Corfield seancorfi...@gmail.com wrote: Mango Blog is great but it

Re: CF Blog Software

2008-02-02 Thread mac jordan
On Feb 2, 2008 12:15 AM, Charlie Griefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not so much plug-innable skins... but peruse the various cf blogs out there (just go to http://coldfusionbloggers.org/). most of them are using blogCFC (if not most... a lot). you'll see the various layouts/designs. It's

Re: CF Blog Software

2008-02-01 Thread Dan Vega
BlogCFC is flat out awesome! I have been running it since day 1 and have not looked back. http://blogcfc.riaforge.org/ Dan Vega http://www.danvega.org/blog/ On Feb 1, 2008 12:58 PM, Robert Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any good CF blog site software products. I need to

RE: CF Blog Software

2008-02-01 Thread Andy Matthews
You might also look into Mango blog. The user interface in the admin area is far more friendly and appealing than BlogCFC. I'm sure they both do the same things, but Mango blog just looks a little easier to use. -Original Message- From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: CF Blog Software

2008-02-01 Thread Robert Harrison
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 1:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Blog Software BlogCFC is flat out awesome! I have been running it since day 1 and have not looked back. http://blogcfc.riaforge.org/ Dan Vega http://www.danvega.org/blog/ On Feb 1, 2008 12:58 PM

Re: CF Blog Software

2008-02-01 Thread Dan Vega
@Andy - Its not whats on the outside that counts! haha.. j/k Dan On Feb 1, 2008 1:56 PM, Andy Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might also look into Mango blog. The user interface in the admin area is far more friendly and appealing than BlogCFC. I'm sure they both do the same things,

Re: CF Blog Software

2008-02-01 Thread Raymond Camden
As a general hint, you may also want to try the ColdFusion category at RIAForge (www.riaforge.org). It is a good place to find answers to questions like this. On Feb 1, 2008 12:56 PM, Andy Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might also look into Mango blog. The user interface in the admin area

RE: CF Blog Software

2008-02-01 Thread Rick Faircloth
Are there various skins available for BlogCFC? Rick -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Blog Software As a general hint, you may also want to try the ColdFusion category at RIAForge

Re: CF Blog Software

2008-02-01 Thread Charlie Griefer
in a skin. On Feb 1, 2008 3:55 PM, Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there various skins available for BlogCFC? Rick -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Blog Software

Re: CF Blog Software

2008-02-01 Thread Gerald Guido
I am not sure if there are are made specifically for BlogCFC as it has been a year or so since I set mine up. I had no problem porting a free template from to work with BlogCFC. Even if you have nominal CSS chops it shouldn't take more than an hour or 2 to get your head around skinning BlogCFC. I