Re: Odd MySQL error...

2010-06-24 Thread Scott Brady
Are your database and CF server on different networks? We saw this problem before our launch when we were just hitting the database (on a host) while developing locally. When the code and the database are on the same network, that problem went away for us. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:34 PM,

Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion?

2010-06-24 Thread Scott Brady
Of course, one downside to that (from the company's standpoint) is once they announce the name, they're kind of locked into a timeline. So, they may release a buggier version of ColdFusion 2011 just to get it out before the end of 2011 rather than having to release CF2011 in 2012 or having to

RE: cfdot.net

2010-06-24 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
I don't know if I totally agree with that. Does the C# code follow best practices for C#? When doing a comparison between two languages you should use best practices for both languages. After all for good code we should all use best practices. I was taught that when using Java (not entirely

Array of struct into ORACLE using stored procedures

2010-06-24 Thread Craigsell
In Cold Fusion I have a large array of struct I'm trying to pass into ORACLE 10g using stored procedures. I am hitting a performance wall inside ORACLE (probably self inflicted). I don't know of a way to transfer a complex array directly to ORACLE -- if there is, I'd love to hear it. So

Re: cfdot.net

2010-06-24 Thread Jose Diaz
@Paul you have hit the nail on the head that is exactly the purpose of the site. @Matthew - The site is NOT dishonest every example provides a solution that is viable. I think you have some misguided deeper issues and appear to see this as some sort of 'Coldfusion is better that .Net' battle,

Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion?

2010-06-24 Thread Maureen
With the limitations on budget in today's economic, few companies can afford money for both. I'd much rather the money be spent on development. Frankly, if I get another overpriced glossy marketing packet from Abode when they are cutting staff in product development, I'm gonna barf. On Wed,

Re: How can you GetFileInfo for a datasource?

2010-06-24 Thread Azadi Saryev
correct me if i am wrong (i am not a .Net developer in any way), but doesn't your .Net code expect you to provide the path to the db as well? or is Session(DBpath) some variable automatically created by .Net? Azadi On 24/06/2010 05:43, John Pullam wrote: This info is not made readily

Re: Odd MySQL error...

2010-06-24 Thread Mallory Woods
Thanks for the suggestions. I will follow up on both tomorrow in the office. I will see if there are any other networking issues when this happens. Thanks again and if there are any other suggestions, please keep them coming. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Matthew Small

Re: cfdot.net

2010-06-24 Thread Jose Diaz
To help people even further I also started a video series for each example - only one of the examples currently shows this but if people like them I am more than happy to provide them for all of the examples. http://www.cfdot.net/cfdot/Pages/CodeDetail.aspx?id=70 Jose Diaz :) On Thu, Jun 24,

Re: How can you GetFileInfo for a datasource?

2010-06-24 Thread Dave Watts
I have a datasource that points to an Access database (no editorializing please, I didn't create it). I need to do a GetFileInfo on it to obtain the last modified date. This was pretty easy in .Net (I'm converting it from .Net to CF) but I can't figure out how to do it in CF. GetFileInfo

Re: How can you GetFileInfo for a datasource?

2010-06-24 Thread Jason Fisher
I dislike .Net but it certainly was simple there. It took 3 lines: db = Session(DBpath) myDB.mdb Dim myFile as FileInfo = New FileInfo(db) Dim ModDate as Date = myFile.LastWriteTime That makes it look like the path was really just in a Session var in .NET; is that the

Re: Odd MySQL error...

2010-06-24 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2010 21:27:06 you wrote: If looks like your server is getting random intermittent connection drops from your MySQL server (I'm assuming it's remote) You could turn off persistent connections too. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to evangelistically innovate eigth-generation

ScriptProtect error replacing insecure tag in scope CGI ??

2010-06-24 Thread Spencer K
Hi cftalk: We are running CF8. I am seeing a strange application error ScriptProtect error replacing insecure tag in scope CGI. The error occurred on line -1.. Strangely, there are very few google references to this error, and absolutely no explanations / solutions that I can find. We

Re: How can you GetFileInfo for a datasource?

2010-06-24 Thread John Pullam
You are correct. I made an assumption that was incorrect and now realize that it was the same issue in .Net. For what its worth, I have decided to base the file location on the relative location from my website root. That is not likely to change while the ISP could always reqyuire me to move

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-24 Thread Dave l
cw is the biggest clusterfuck-o-code ever.. be sure to bring lots of spaghetti sauce for that spaghetti coded buffet ;) Have you checked out Cartweaver yet? https://www.cartweaver.com/store/detail/?id=cw3cfm It's a cheap $300 and is licensed per developer, not per site. Warm regards, Jordan

Re: cfdot.net

2010-06-24 Thread Matthew Small
Wait - so now I have psychological issues? I didn't attack you, I attacked the site based on the fact that *you* said it shows how 1 line of CF code equates to 10 lines of ASP.NET and how it was a jab at .NET: Unfortunatly the company I work for decided to move away from CF :( and proceeded

RE: cfdot.net

2010-06-24 Thread Bryan Stevenson
...and I dare anyone to define said best practicesthere in lies the problem with this debate ;-) best is far too subjectivethere are shades of grey (and there is no spoon) Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone:

Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion?

2010-06-24 Thread Will Tomlinson
Ok, I'm now straying into OT area, but I must be the only who liked the idea of PRODUCT YEAR as a brand. Ie, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000. To me it was a very clear way to know the release of the version you are using. This sounds perfect for Rick. Where's dave when we need'em?? :)

Re: How can you GetFileInfo for a datasource?

2010-06-24 Thread John Pullam
You are correct. I made an assumption that was incorrect and now realize that it was the same issue in .Net. For what it's worth, I have decided to base the file location on the relative location from my website root. That is not likely to change, but the ISP could always require me to move

Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion?

2010-06-24 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
With the limitations on budget in today's economic, few companies can afford money for both. I'd much rather the money be spent on development. Frankly, if I get another overpriced glossy marketing packet from Abode when they are cutting staff in product development, I'm gonna barf. As someone

Re: ScriptProtect error replacing insecure tag in scope CGI ??

2010-06-24 Thread Dave Watts
However, we get this ScriptProtect error if we pass in the URL: http://www.SERVER.com/search.cfm?querystring=javascript:alert%28412898284482%29 Clearly this has nothing to do with the CGI scope, so I'm a little confused at why an error is being thrown. It does, in fact, have something to

Seriously PO'd - cfqueryparam and/or struct dereference flakes out

2010-06-24 Thread Marc Funaro
The function below was written literally MONTHS ago. Worked fine the whole time, even today... then suddenly it's throwing the error: Invalid data '' for CFSQLTYPE CF_SQL_INTEGER. The error points to the line in the WHERE clause, referencing a.articleId. Next, I purposely set the output=true

Re: cfdot.net

2010-06-24 Thread Dave Watts
Nobody yet has shown how my analysis was wrong, they just kept saying that I called you a dishonest person and set about defending you because you might not be very good at programming .NET when you wrote the site and then told me that I need to fix your site.  I have no desire to be

RE: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion?

2010-06-24 Thread Eric Roberts
Not really...they do what they have been doing...until the final release is ready call it names like Scorpio. -Original Message- From: Scott Brady [mailto:dsbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:03 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion? Of

Re: Seriously PO'd - cfqueryparam and/or struct dereference flakes out

2010-06-24 Thread William Seiter
When CF throws an error on a stored proc, it will usually reference the last line of the stored proc, not necessarily which line has bad data. If I were you, I would dump the values that are being sent into the stored proc and review to see if any of it is null or blank (or string) going into

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-24 Thread Kevin Pepperman
I feel that this is one area that is completely overlooked in the CF world-- Especially since OO was introduced to CF in MX. CF would be such a great platform to develop a awesome open source shopping cart/administration system. It would be easy to modularize with add-ons components etc... Ii'll

RE: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-24 Thread Eric Roberts
I think that would be great. My expdereince with Able Commerce was horrible. That made spaghetti code look like textbook OO code. Mary Jo's CFWebstore was much better...just a bit too pricey for most of my client's budgets. I did use it once with a client and it was pretty good. I haven't

Re: Seriously PO'd - cfqueryparam and/or struct dereference flakes out

2010-06-24 Thread Wil Genovese
The line number given is always the last line of the query. Make sure all the other values are what they are supposed to be. Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator Wil Genovese Consulting wilg...@trunkful.com www.trunkful.com On Jun 24, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Marc

Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion?

2010-06-24 Thread Wil Genovese
A Rose by any other name is still a Rose. And so is a turd a turd. Microsoft is one of the industry kings of rebranding. ASP -- .NET = still a turd IMHO Windows nn - Windows nn = still sucks. Although I hear Windows 7 sucks less :) Only the uninformed fall for the rebranding. The rest can

RE: Seriously PO'd - cfqueryparam and/or struct dereference flakes out

2010-06-24 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Dump #a# and look at the other values that your query expects to be integers (a.categoryid and a.imageid). CF only knows your query had an error. The reported line number when errors fall between cfquery tags is rarely the line with the actual issue. .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-24 Thread Kevin Pepperman
@Eric Roberts * * Yea, that has been my experience with all the carts I have used as well. I have used OsCommerce, as well as the various flavors-- ZEN cart, CRE Loaded etc.. and they all have big requirements-- some hosts just will not run them. Although I have been successful using them, they

Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion?

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Michaels
Windows nn - Windows nn = still sucks. Although I hear Windows 7 sucks less :) Nah. That's crazy talk. My belief is Adobe really needs to get into the schools and teach the new programmers about CF. Agree 100%. I have a bit of a history with educational systems, and talking with some of

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-24 Thread jonah blossom
Eric, Take a look at this site: https://store.apolisactivism.com/ It's running a ecommerce engine I wrote - it's live on some other sites now and am just getting ready to roll it out publicly. Let me know if it might fit your needs. That list of restrictions your host puts on ColdFusion

Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion?

2010-06-24 Thread James Holmes
Of course Adobe does in fact give away ColdFusion free to education for exactly this reason: https://freeriatools.adobe.com/ https://freeriatools.adobe.com/ -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 25 June 2010 08:54, Jordan Michaels jor...@viviotech.net wrote:

Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion?

2010-06-24 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Jordan Michaels jor...@viviotech.net wrote: I don't think Adobe should give software away, even to schools (we all gotta pay the bills, right?) but easing up a little would yield excellent long-term results (and customers!) IMHO. ColdFusion, ColdFusion Builder

Re: CF Shopping carts

2010-06-24 Thread jonah blossom
@Kevin, I feel that this is one area that is completely overlooked in the CF world-- Especially since OO was introduced to CF in MX. So true. When I was looking for a ecommerce solution several years ago, I evaluated all the current offerings and joined the CFCommerce google group, etc. I

Re: cfdot.net

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Grant
I think the video demos are a nice touch. On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Jose Diaz bleached...@gmail.com wrote: To help people even further I also started a video series for each example - only one of the examples currently shows this but if people like them I am more than happy to

Re: Seriously PO'd - cfqueryparam and/or struct dereference flakes out

2010-06-24 Thread Brad Wood
It's a bit more code, but if you switch to having a cfargument tag for each parameter and enforce the type there, you can pass in your struct as an argument collection. You'll get a more meaningful error that way. Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint! - Reply message -

Re: Is it time for Adobe to Rebrand Cold Fusion?

2010-06-24 Thread Wil Genovese
I knew Adobe had free educational licenses now, my point was more that I think Adobe really needs to market to the college computer science programs and even send people in to teach them how to setup and configure ColdFusion for high performance. Nothing will turn them off of ColdFusion faster