cfqueryparam sqltype for text field?

[Mike Kear]

I am having an issue updating a record that has a text field
(MSSQLServer2005).   I'm using cfqueryparam and the docs are silent
about what is the correct type for a MSSQL Text field.   It's
rejecting the update, saying The data types text and varchar are
incompatible in the equal to operator

I've tried setting the sqltype to varchar,  and longvarchar but it
still gives the error. I've never had this problem updating
records with text fields before.

What's the correct sqltype to use for a MSSQLServer Text field type?

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Re: cfqueryparam sqltype for text field?

[Mike Kear]

OH wait.I've done it again slams forehead on the desk  the
problem was i was updating the record using the text field in the
WHERE clause.

Bad bad bad me.

Sorry about that, everyone.   We return you to normal programming.

Cheers
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On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Mike Kear afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am having an issue updating a record that has a text field
 (MSSQLServer2005).   I'm using cfqueryparam and the docs are silent
 about what is the correct type for a MSSQL Text field.   It's
 rejecting the update, saying The data types text and varchar are
 incompatible in the equal to operator

 I've tried setting the sqltype to varchar,  and longvarchar but it
 still gives the error.     I've never had this problem updating
 records with text fields before.

 What's the correct sqltype to use for a MSSQLServer Text field type?

 --
 Cheers
 Mike Kear
 Windsor, NSW, Australia
 Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
 AFP Webworks
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 ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month




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Webservice not recognized

[marc --]

Hi,

Abstract:
When I make a call to a webservice in a development environment I get a 
response as expected. Funny thing is, if I make the exact same call to the same 
template on a different machine (the testing environment) it does not work.

Elaboration:
when I make a call in my development environment to this remote method:

{hostname}/template/skins/auc/edit/RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc?method=loadHomepageAdvertisement

I note 2 things:

1 I get the requested data. In Firebug's Net tab under the request's line 
'Html' tab I see the Json response this method returns.

2 If I add cfdump var=#this#cfabort in the body of the method I see a 
dump of the component in firebug as expected.

If I follow the same scenario in a testing environment
(call 
{hostname}/template/skins/auc/edit/RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc?method=loadHomepageAdvertisement

1 I see in Firebug's Net tab under the request line 'Html' nothing (stays 
blank, no data returned). 

2 If I add cfdump var=#this#cfabort in the body of the method I _don't_ 
see a dump of the method in Firebug. The HTML and Response tab are empty and 
the Ext component that issued the call is eternally waiting for data.

BUT

If I put the cfdump var=#this#cfabort in the pseudo-constructor area of 
the cfc (still on the faulty testing environment) I _do_ get a dump of a cfc in 
Firebug but it is not a dump of RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc but of 
Application.cfc in the root of the application!

So the component I call is found on both environment but it behaves as if it is 
Application.cfc. only on te testing environment.

I tried removing the extends attribute of the component and minimizig to 
cfcomponent but that makes no difference. The cfdump still outputs a dump 
of the Application.cfc instead of itself (RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc)

Any hints?

CF 8,0,1
Windows server 2003

Thanks,

Marc 

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Remote component not recognized by CF

[marc --]

Hi,

Abstract:
When I make a call to a webservice in a development environment I get a 
response as expected. Funny thing is, if I make the exact same call to the same 
template on a different machine (the testing environment) it does not work.

Elaboration:
when I make a call in my development environment to this remote method:

{hostname}/template/skins/auc/edit/RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc?method=loadHomepageAdvertisement

I note 2 things:

1 I get the requested data. In Firebug's Net tab under the request's line 
'Html' tab I see the Json response this method returns.

2 If I add cfdump var=#this#cfabort in the body of the method I see a 
dump of the component in firebug as expected.

If I follow the same scenario in a testing environment
(call 
{hostname}/template/skins/auc/edit/RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc?method=loadHomepageAdvertisement

1 I see in Firebug's Net tab under the request line 'Html' nothing (stays 
blank, no data returned). 

2 If I add cfdump var=#this#cfabort in the body of the method I _don't_ 
see a dump of the method in Firebug. The HTML and Response tab are empty and 
the Ext component that issued the call is eternally waiting for data.

BUT

If I put the cfdump var=#this#cfabort in the pseudo-constructor area of 
the cfc (still on the faulty testing environment) I _do_ get a dump of a cfc in 
Firebug but it is not a dump of RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc but of 
Application.cfc in the root of the application!

So the component I call is found on both environment but it behaves as if it is 
Application.cfc. only on te testing environment.

I tried removing the extends attribute of the component and minimizig to 
cfcomponent but that makes no difference. The cfdump still outputs a dump 
of the Application.cfc instead of itself (RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc)

Any hints?

CF 8,0,1
Windows server 2003

Thanks,

Marc 

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Re: Webservice not recognized

[Russ Michaels]

is your live and testing environments the same version of CF, same patch
level etc?
are the paths to the site and the CFC the same on both servers, can you
browse directly to the cfc in your test environment and view it with the
cfcbrowser.

Russ

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:21 AM, marc -- m...@marcbakker.com wrote:


 Hi,

 Abstract:
 When I make a call to a webservice in a development environment I get a
 response as expected. Funny thing is, if I make the exact same call to the
 same template on a different machine (the testing environment) it does not
 work.

 Elaboration:
 when I make a call in my development environment to this remote method:


 {hostname}/template/skins/auc/edit/RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc?method=loadHomepageAdvertisement

 I note 2 things:

 1 I get the requested data. In Firebug's Net tab under the request's line
 'Html' tab I see the Json response this method returns.

 2 If I add cfdump var=#this#cfabort in the body of the method I see a
 dump of the component in firebug as expected.

 If I follow the same scenario in a testing environment
 (call

 {hostname}/template/skins/auc/edit/RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc?method=loadHomepageAdvertisement

 1 I see in Firebug's Net tab under the request line 'Html' nothing (stays
 blank, no data returned).

 2 If I add cfdump var=#this#cfabort in the body of the method I
 _don't_ see a dump of the method in Firebug. The HTML and Response tab are
 empty and the Ext component that issued the call is eternally waiting for
 data.

 BUT

 If I put the cfdump var=#this#cfabort in the pseudo-constructor area
 of the cfc (still on the faulty testing environment) I _do_ get a dump of a
 cfc in Firebug but it is not a dump of RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc but of
 Application.cfc in the root of the application!

 So the component I call is found on both environment but it behaves as if
 it is Application.cfc. only on te testing environment.

 I tried removing the extends attribute of the component and minimizig to
 cfcomponent but that makes no difference. The cfdump still outputs a
 dump of the Application.cfc instead of itself
 (RemoteHomepageEditService.cfc)

 Any hints?

 CF 8,0,1
 Windows server 2003

 Thanks,

 Marc

 

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RE: Programming for an iPod - OT javascript/HTML question

[Stephens, Larry V]

Thanks to those who responded.

Normally I would have posted a link but this is behind ADS authentication here 
and I had to do some code modification to move it from there.

But, it was an annoyingly simple problem: in one line of j-code I used an ID 
referrer ToiletFacOnSite when it should have been ToiletFacOnsite. I found it 
after tracking down how to turn on the debugger in Safari.

What threw me off was it threw no errors in IE and I usually find IE way more 
sensitive than Mozilla. I even turned on the IE debugger and it threw no 
errors. The offending line of code was 

if ( document.getElementById('ToiletFacOnSite').checked ) {   (that's before I 
corrected it) which causes me to wonder if Mozilla and IE have some kind of 
optimization built in so they only look at enough of the id to find it is 
unique (e.g., maybe ToiletFacO) and ignore the rest. Otherwise, why wasn't IE 
complaining about the code?  (Rhetorical question)


 

-Original Message-
From: Stephens, Larry V [mailto:steph...@indiana.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:25 PM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Programming for an iPod - OT javascript/HTML question


I'm working on a form in CF that displays just fine on a desktop/laptop but the 
javascript breaks in Safari once I introduce a div.

If anyone has a clue about this, please contact me off-list at 
steph...@indiana.edu

Thanks.

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Re: Webservice not recognized

[marc --]

Solved!
Turned out that all I needed was an Application.cfc in the same folder as the 
remote component. That Application extends the /Application.cfc and clears the 
implicit behaviors (onRequest() etc).

Marc 

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SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Matt Williams]

My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple
months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked
too.

Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what
brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP
and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL
Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and
PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools.

Dell?
Lenovo?
Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
Acer?
Gateway?
Others?

Thanks,

-Matt

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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Alan Rother]

+1 for Lenovo

+0.5 for Dell, I've had pretty good luck with Dell

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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Rob Parkhill]

I have an Asus laptop, that although posted as a gaming system, has tons of
power and runs anything I want.  I have everything you described running
with no issues.

So +1 for Asus from me

Rob
On Sep 7, 2011 11:47 AM, Alan Rother alan.rot...@gmail.com wrote:

 +1 for Lenovo

 +0.5 for Dell, I've had pretty good luck with Dell

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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Russ Michaels]

What is your deciding factor?
sheer power
branded or unbranded
price
good support and customer care from the manufacturer

most of my life I have built my own and replace my own components as and
when required, then you have no-one else to blame when things go wrong. This
also used to be a lot cheaper.
Nowadays there is not any money to be saved by building your own if you are
going for a top of the range system, however you do have the luxury of
building it exactly how you want and put all your money into the important
components.
For a development machine your priority should be on: lots of fast memory
(8GB is ideal), fast hard disks (SSD or hybrid), top of the range mobo with
fastest ports and buses and built in hyper-v suppoer, 802.11n dualband wifi,
fast cpu (quad core).
Obviously graphics and sound and a super expensive case wont be that
important to you, so you can go budget on these things or just use the  ones
that come with the mobo.
I highly recommend Antec cases and PSU's.


but the problem you face buying a branded machine is that you cannot go
opening it up and replacing components if you want to keep your warranty. So
if something fails then you need to send it back to the manufacturer.
Sending your computer back sucks and u will often have to pay for that, so
better to go with someone who does onsite support and repairs.

Here are the vendors I have experience with.

novatech
Really good company, good service and support, will generally replace things
without quibble, they seem to have have a good rep for this if you read
reviews
I have bought several cheap workstations from them that lasted for years,
but I have personally never had to return anything. They do their own
branded stuff now too.


Dell
Very good quality machines, with lots of neat little extras.
All components are proprietary and you need to go through DELL
to replace everything, they are all however high quality components.
Their support and customer service seems to be hit and miss, when it is bad
is is really bad, but when it is good it is awesome.
I bought a new Dell XPS laptop, which is a fricking awesome laptop, it is
more powerful than my desktop with a pretty decent 5.9 windows 7 performance
rating.
The pre-sales support was abysmal, I couldn't order on the site as something
was broken, and spent weeks sending them emails and getting no response,
people promised to call and didn't, their call centre is also based in
India. So communication is a bit of a problem.
However the after sales support has been good, I had a problem with my mobo
beeping, an enginner came out to my office and replaced the mobo, free of
charge. It did not fix the problem, so Dell repalced the whole laptop, again
free of charge, and even sent me the new one first so I could copy across
all my data and then picked up the faulty one at my convenience.


Acer
I have had an acer laptop, and the screen went orange and Acer wouldn't do
anything about it. I know someone who works at acer who tells me they are
awful, they have known problems with their system and happily ship them out
with these issues and will do anything to avoid fixing or replacing and will
generally try and charge the customer.


HTH

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Matt Williams mgw...@gmail.com wrote:


 My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
 drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple
 months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked
 too.

 Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what
 brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP
 and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL
 Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and
 PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools.

 Dell?
 Lenovo?
 Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
 Acer?
 Gateway?
 Others?

 Thanks,

 -Matt

 

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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Gerald Guido]

So +1 for Asus from me

I have not used one but if they make comuters like they do motherboards I
would definitely get one.

I have been running HP's for the last five years or so. I can't complain.

a couple of resources that might save you a few bucks

http://www.pricewatch.com/
http://www.techbargains.com/catsearch.cfm/0_12_0?r1=1

And of course newegg is a great place to get reviews. All their stuff is
vetted by geeks.
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=10

And my favorite digital crack house of all time.

http://cedarpc.com/

If you play your cards right you can score a new or a referbed machine at a
deep discount.


G!


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 I have an Asus laptop, that although posted as a gaming system, has tons of
 power and runs anything I want.  I have everything you described running
 with no issues.

 So +1 for Asus from me

 Rob
 On Sep 7, 2011 11:47 AM, Alan Rother alan.rot...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  +1 for Lenovo
 
  +0.5 for Dell, I've had pretty good luck with Dell
 
  =]
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Re: Remote component not recognized by CF

[marc --]

this was accidently double-posted and is now solved 

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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Mike Chabot]

I normally build my own workstations, but if I were to buy a
workstation today I would likely get one from Puget Systems, such as
the Puget Serenity SPCR Edition. I've never ordered from that store,
but they get universally good reviews.

-Mike Chabot

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Matt Williams mgw...@gmail.com wrote:

 My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
 drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple
 months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked
 too.

 Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what
 brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP
 and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL
 Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and
 PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools.

 Dell?
 Lenovo?
 Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
 Acer?
 Gateway?
 Others?

 Thanks,

 -Matt

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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Greg Luce]

+1 for HP. Support has been great

-1 for Dell support

+1 for Toshiba laptops



On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Mike Chabot mcha...@gmail.com wrote:

 I normally build my own workstations, but if I were to buy a
 workstation today I would likely get one from Puget Systems, such as
 the Puget Serenity SPCR Edition. I've never ordered from that store,
 but they get universally good reviews.

 -Mike Chabot

 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Matt Williams mgw...@gmail.com wrote:

 My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
 drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple
 months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked
 too.

 Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what
 brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP
 and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL
 Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and
 PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools.

 Dell?
 Lenovo?
 Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
 Acer?
 Gateway?
 Others?

 Thanks,

 -Matt

 

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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Wil Genovese]

Personally, I use an 27 iMac.  It works for all my dev with exception to MS 
Sql Mgmt Studio, but then I already owned VMware Fusion so I put Win7Pro on a 
VM and then the MS sql tools.  Win7 Pro runs real fast on a VM. 

I have the i3 3.2Ghz iMac with 16Gb of ram.  The newer iMac is even better.



Wil Genovese
Sr. Web Application Developer/
Systems Administrator
CF Webtools
www.cfwebtools.com

wilg...@trunkful.com
www.trunkful.com

On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Greg Luce wrote:

 
 +1 for HP. Support has been great
 
 -1 for Dell support
 
 +1 for Toshiba laptops
 
 
 
 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Mike Chabot mcha...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 I normally build my own workstations, but if I were to buy a
 workstation today I would likely get one from Puget Systems, such as
 the Puget Serenity SPCR Edition. I've never ordered from that store,
 but they get universally good reviews.
 
 -Mike Chabot
 
 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Matt Williams mgw...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
 drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple
 months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked
 too.
 
 Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what
 brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP
 and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL
 Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and
 PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools.
 
 Dell?
 Lenovo?
 Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
 Acer?
 Gateway?
 Others?
 
 Thanks,
 
 -Matt
 
 
 
 

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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[David McGuigan]

Dell and HP here, have had not a single issue with more than 5 systems of
each over the last decade except a single broken key on a Dell laptop which
they overnighted a replacement for for free with no extra service plan or
warrantee service.

Dell's refurbished outlet gives you some great deals with identical
warranties to their new products.

The main reason I prefer Dell and HP systems ( particular models only
disclaimer ) is that they're much more attractive than all of the other
Windows brands.

As far as performance, you can buy any cheap windows desktop with anything
i5 or better and 8GB of RAM and throw a PCIE revo drive into it for a few
hundred dollars and get better performance than any high end workstation for
ColdFusion development. Just make sure you do your research, they've
released 4-5 generations of the Revo drive ( a simple SSD Raid 0 on a PCI
express card ) in the last few years, you'll want the newest generation that
fits your price point.




On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Mike Chabot mcha...@gmail.com wrote:


 I normally build my own workstations, but if I were to buy a
 workstation today I would likely get one from Puget Systems, such as
 the Puget Serenity SPCR Edition. I've never ordered from that store,
 but they get universally good reviews.

 -Mike Chabot

 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Matt Williams mgw...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
  drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple
  months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked
  too.
 
  Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what
  brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP
  and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL
  Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and
  PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools.
 
  Dell?
  Lenovo?
  Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
  Acer?
  Gateway?
  Others?
 
  Thanks,
 
  -Matt

 

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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Russ Michaels]

I really can't get used to 1 mouse button, does my head in :-)

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote:


 Personally, I use an 27 iMac.  It works for all my dev with exception to
 MS Sql Mgmt Studio, but then I already owned VMware Fusion so I put Win7Pro
 on a VM and then the MS sql tools.  Win7 Pro runs real fast on a VM.

 I have the i3 3.2Ghz iMac with 16Gb of ram.  The newer iMac is even better.



 Wil Genovese
 Sr. Web Application Developer/
 Systems Administrator
 CF Webtools
 www.cfwebtools.com

 wilg...@trunkful.com
 www.trunkful.com

 On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Greg Luce wrote:

 
  +1 for HP. Support has been great
 
  -1 for Dell support
 
  +1 for Toshiba laptops
 
 
 
  On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Mike Chabot mcha...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  I normally build my own workstations, but if I were to buy a
  workstation today I would likely get one from Puget Systems, such as
  the Puget Serenity SPCR Edition. I've never ordered from that store,
  but they get universally good reviews.
 
  -Mike Chabot
 
  On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Matt Williams mgw...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
  drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple
  months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked
  too.
 
  Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what
  brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP
  and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL
  Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and
  PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools.
 
  Dell?
  Lenovo?
  Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
  Acer?
  Gateway?
  Others?
 
  Thanks,
 
  -Matt
 
 
 
 

 

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RE: Workstation recommendations

[Jacob]

For workstations, I have always been happy with Dell.

If you go the laptop route, either Dell or Toshiba (high end model.. not the
satellite).


-Original Message-
From: Matt Williams [mailto:mgw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 8:45 AM
To: cf-talk
Subject: SOT: Workstation recommendations


My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive
out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It
worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too.

Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands
people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to
stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF
Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various
browsers and other tools.

Dell?
Lenovo?
Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
Acer?
Gateway?
Others?

Thanks,

-Matt



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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Wil Genovese]

I agree, Apple keyboard and mouse, trackpad or Magic Mickey Mouse are all crap 
in my humble opinion.

That's why I use the Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman and a Microsoft 4000 
keyboard. 

But, be warned, ColdFusion and OS X Lion are not playmates yet. I still run 
Snow Leopard. 



Wil Genovese
Sr. Web Application Developer/
Systems Administrator
CF Webtools
www.cfwebtools.com

wilg...@trunkful.com
www.trunkful.com

On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Russ Michaels wrote:

 
 I really can't get used to 1 mouse button, does my head in :-)
 
 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote:
 
 
 Personally, I use an 27 iMac.  It works for all my dev with exception to
 MS Sql Mgmt Studio, but then I already owned VMware Fusion so I put Win7Pro
 on a VM and then the MS sql tools.  Win7 Pro runs real fast on a VM.
 
 I have the i3 3.2Ghz iMac with 16Gb of ram.  The newer iMac is even better.
 
 
 
 Wil Genovese
 Sr. Web Application Developer/
 Systems Administrator
 CF Webtools
 www.cfwebtools.com
 
 wilg...@trunkful.com
 www.trunkful.com
 
 On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Greg Luce wrote:
 
 
 +1 for HP. Support has been great
 
 -1 for Dell support
 
 +1 for Toshiba laptops
 
 
 
 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Mike Chabot mcha...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 I normally build my own workstations, but if I were to buy a
 workstation today I would likely get one from Puget Systems, such as
 the Puget Serenity SPCR Edition. I've never ordered from that store,
 but they get universally good reviews.
 
 -Mike Chabot
 
 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Matt Williams mgw...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
 drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple
 months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked
 too.
 
 Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what
 brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP
 and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL
 Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and
 PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools.
 
 Dell?
 Lenovo?
 Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
 Acer?
 Gateway?
 Others?
 
 Thanks,
 
 -Matt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Re: Numbers to Words

[Robert Bell]

Craig Dudley wrote:
 I'm sure I've seen a CFC or UDF before that translates numbers into
 words, eg;

we used to have a c++ cfx tag for that but quite a while ago we switched 
to using icu4j's  RuleBasedNumberFormat (since we use it for so much 
else). besides spellout it also gives you duration (time)  ordinal 
(1st, 2nd, etc.) formatting per locale. see:
 
http://icu.sourceforge.net/apiref/icu4j/com/ibm/icu/text/RuleBasedNumberFormat.html

for details. it requires a small wrapper class for cf to talk to it, 
drop me a line if you want the java class/code.

I am interested in this small wrapper class for coldfusion to talk to it !!

Thanks, 
Bob 

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Re: Numbers to Words

[Paul Hastings]

all sounds vaguely familiar. no need of a wrapper class these days, all you 
need 
is icu4j on the classpath et voilà

cfscript
// otherwise default to server lcocale
locale=createObject(java,com.ibm.icu.util.ULocale).init(en_US);
// just for convenience
rbnfObj=createObject(java,com.ibm.icu.text.RuleBasedNumberFormat);
// what we'll format
n=javaCast(double,1234);

// spellout 
rbnf=createObject(java,com.ibm.icu.text.RuleBasedNumberFormat).init(locale,rbnfObj.SPELLOUT);
writeoutput(spellout: #rbnf.format(n)#br);

//ordinal
rbnf=createObject(java,com.ibm.icu.text.RuleBasedNumberFormat).init(locale,rbnfObj.ORDINAL);
writeoutput(ordinal: #rbnf.format(n)#br);

//duration
rbnf=createObject(java,com.ibm.icu.text.RuleBasedNumberFormat).init(locale,rbnfObj.DURATION);
writeoutput(duration: #rbnf.format(n)#br);

//numbering system
rbnf=createObject(java,com.ibm.icu.text.RuleBasedNumberFormat).init(locale,rbnfObj.NUMBERING_SYSTEM);
writeoutput(numbering system: #rbnf.format(n)#br);
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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Cameron Childress]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote:

 But, be warned, ColdFusion and OS X Lion are not playmates yet. I still run
 Snow Leopard.


I was all ready to lonk you to the article I used to get cF9 running on
Lion.  Then I realised it was your article

http://www.trunkful.com/index.cfm/2011/7/20/ColdFusion-9-on-OS-X-Lion

Thanks to your post I've had CF9 running on Lion without problem for a few
weeks now.

-Cameron

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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Brian Kotek]

I buy my systems from CyberpowerPC. Limited tech support, but I don't care
about that (we all probably know what we're doing), other than replacement
of something bad. Good prices and, most important to me, the ability to
customize literally every single thing in the system. So I get exactly what
I want, for work.and for gaming heh. What a happy coincidence that an
overclocked 2600k with 16 Gb of RAM, SSD, and dual graphics cards will start
Eclipse in 3 seconds AND run Battlefield 3 at 1920x1080.

;-)





On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Matt Williams mgw...@gmail.com wrote:


 My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
 drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple
 months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked
 too.

 Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what
 brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP
 and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL
 Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and
 PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools.

 Dell?
 Lenovo?
 Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
 Acer?
 Gateway?
 Others?

 Thanks,

 -Matt

 

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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Michael Grant]

 +1 for Toshiba laptops


+1 for your +1.
I've had a Toshi Satellite for about three years now and it's hands-down the
most reliable windows computer I've ever owned.

(I've probably just jinxed myself now.)


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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Larry Lyons]

If you're not adverse to using a small company, iBuyPower makes some very nice 
desktop and laptop gaming systems, http://www.ibuypower.com/. I picked up one 
of their laptops 2 years ago and I've been very satisfied with it.

My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple
months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked
too.

Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what
brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP
and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL
Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and
PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools.

Dell?
Lenovo?
Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
Acer?
Gateway?
Others?

Thanks,

-Matt 

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Re: SOT: IIS load monitoring

[John M Bliss]

Thanks, Dave. That was very, very helpful.

A followup: when I go to perfmon - add new counter - performance object:
coldfusion 8 server, the add button is grayed out. Am I missing something?


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote:


  Hi. Do you know of any native / built-in / free IIS load monitoring
  software? Something that'd allow me to:
 
  - get email-notified re: high load
  - see load reports, ideally allowing me to drill down from day - hour -
  minute - second and see load/hit counts for each

 Performance Monitor is built into Windows, and captures things like
 number of concurrent requests, processor time, etc:

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972959.aspx
 (most of the stuff in the link focuses on ASP.NET apps, but some is
 still relevant)

 You can also set alerts within PerfMon, and use a command-line mailer
 to send an email from there.

 http://www.blat.net/

 Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
 http://www.figleaf.com/
 http://training.figleaf.com/

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Re: SOT: IIS load monitoring

[Dave Watts]

 A followup: when I go to perfmon - add new counter - performance object:
 coldfusion 8 server, the add button is grayed out. Am I missing something?

There have been problems with the CF PerfMon libraries for a long
time, and honestly I don't know if they've ever been resolved. This
might help:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404026.html

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
http://training.figleaf.com/

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RE: Workstation recommendations

[Eric Roberts]

I am more of a fan of building it myself.  Most boards are plug and play. So
no jumper or bios settings changes are generally needed.  You can put
together a pretty powerful system for less by going that route.  Places like
TigerDirect and NewEgg offer barebones kits that are a good starting point.

Eric

-Original Message-
From: Matt Williams [mailto:mgw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:45 AM
To: cf-talk
Subject: SOT: Workstation recommendations


My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive
out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It
worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too.

Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands
people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to
stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF
Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various
browsers and other tools.

Dell?
Lenovo?
Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
Acer?
Gateway?
Others?

Thanks,

-Matt



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Re: Workstation recommendations

[Dan Crouch]

I got an Asus laptop last year. It was RMAed back to them 4 times before they 
finally sent me an exchange. The exchange arrived with a broken screen. So it 
had to be RMAed back. It was the worst customer service I have ever dealt with. 
You will probably get a lot of different opinions on brands, but I will never 
buy another Asus product.

Dan

For workstations, I have always been happy with Dell.

If you go the laptop route, either Dell or Toshiba (high end model.. not the
satellite).


My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive
out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It
worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too.

Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands
people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to
stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF
Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various
browsers and other tools.

Dell?
Lenovo?
Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
Acer?
Gateway?
Others?

Thanks,

-Matt 

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Re: Workstation recommendations

[Bryan Stevenson]

sent from my ASUS Transformer ;-)

On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 19:41 -0400, Dan Crouch wrote:

 I got an Asus laptop last year. It was RMAed back to them 4 times before they 
 finally sent me an exchange. The exchange arrived with a broken screen. So it 
 had to be RMAed back. It was the worst customer service I have ever dealt 
 with. You will probably get a lot of different opinions on brands, but I will 
 never buy another Asus product.
 
 Dan
 
 For workstations, I have always been happy with Dell.
 
 If you go the laptop route, either Dell or Toshiba (high end model.. not the
 satellite).
 
 
 My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive
 out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. It
 worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too.
 
 Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands
 people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to
 stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF
 Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various
 browsers and other tools.
 
 Dell?
 Lenovo?
 Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
 Acer?
 Gateway?
 Others?
 
 Thanks,
 
 -Matt 
 
 

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Re: Workstation recommendations

[Peter Donahue]

Good evening everyone,

This past week must have been computer-workstation die-off or something. My 
wife's computer became infected with the PC Performance Virus. This thing is 
a nasty as it locked her out of many of her programs, caused a black screen 
to appear when the monitor was turned on and the computer booted in to 
Windows, messages from Twitter and God only knows where else to be displayed 
and wouldn't allow her to see any of her data files.

The tech we took it to said that this is a very malicious virus and is 
difficult to clean. You might as well say that the computer was Dead on 
arrival at the shop with no chance of being revived. We have one HP and two 
Dell machines here. The machine that was infected was a Dell desktop. This 
HP I use is rock solid. Mary has had a Gateway and a Dell both of which died 
an early death. The Gateway was fried several years ago due to an 
over-loaded surge protector. The virus killed the Dell. Here's hoping the 
next machine we get will withstand anything thrown at it and will last her 
for many years. Surge protectors and viruses aside both of these brands are 
great and we'll get a new desktop that's one of them. Here's hoping everyone 
is able to resolve their computer and workstation woes in the coming weeks.

Peter Donahue

- Original Message - 
From: Dan Crouch stario...@yahoo.com
To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: Workstation recommendations



I got an Asus laptop last year. It was RMAed back to them 4 times before 
they finally sent me an exchange. The exchange arrived with a broken screen. 
So it had to be RMAed back. It was the worst customer service I have ever 
dealt with. You will probably get a lot of different opinions on brands, but 
I will never buy another Asus product.

Dan

For workstations, I have always been happy with Dell.

If you go the laptop route, either Dell or Toshiba (high end model.. not 
the
satellite).


My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive
out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago. 
It
worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too.

Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands
people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to
stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF
Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various
browsers and other tools.

Dell?
Lenovo?
Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
Acer?
Gateway?
Others?

Thanks,

-Matt



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RE: IIS load monitoring

[Jenny Gavin-Wear]

John, check out WhosOn, it does all you are asking for, and the chat side
too.

I needed exactly the same as you and couldn't find anything better than
this.

http://www.whoson.com/

Jenny Gavin-Wear
Fast Track Online
Tel: 01773 688584
http://www.fasttrackonline.co.uk/

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From: John M Bliss [mailto:bliss.j...@gmail.com]
Sent: 06 September 2011 18:58
To: cf-talk
Subject: SOT: IIS load monitoring



Hi. Do you know of any native / built-in / free IIS load monitoring
software? Something that'd allow me to:

- get email-notified re: high load
- see load reports, ideally allowing me to drill down from day - hour -
minute - second and see load/hit counts for each

--
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Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

[Al Musella, DPM]

Perhaps there is something on the drive that is causing a problem? I 
wouldn't put it into the next computer.  Perhaps a rootkit?

Last time my computer died I replaced it with a Dell Precision 
workstation. I treated myself nicely.  I got a relatively small SSD 
drive and a huge Buffalo external NAS device. The only thing on my 
hard drive are the programs I use and the source code for my 
websites.  Everything else - documents, music, video, downloads, 
photos  etc goes on the NAS.  I have a program that synchronizes my 
SSD drive to the nas, and another that keeps backs up the websites to 
the NAS and keeps many versions so I can go back to a snapshot at any 
day in the past 7 days. (I also back up to MOZY and to my live web server)

This way - the next time my computer dies, I can just replace it or 
reinstall windows, copy the files from the NAS and be back up quickly.

The speed difference is amazing with the SSD drive. Especially 
Dreamweaver. I can actually use the find  in entire local site function.




At 11:44 AM 9/7/2011, you wrote:

My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard
drive out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple
months ago. It worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked
too.

Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what
brands people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP
and plan to stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL
Server Mgt Studio, CF Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and
PS), MS Office, and various browsers and other tools.

Dell?
Lenovo?
Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
Acer?
Gateway?
Others?

Thanks,


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Re: Workstation recommendations

[James Holmes]

You know the hardware has absolutely nothing to do with getting a virus,
right?
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On 8 September 2011 09:28, Peter Donahue pdonah...@satx.rr.com wrote:


 Good evening everyone,

 This past week must have been computer-workstation die-off or something. My
 wife's computer became infected with the PC Performance Virus. This thing
 is
 a nasty as it locked her out of many of her programs, caused a black screen
 to appear when the monitor was turned on and the computer booted in to
 Windows, messages from Twitter and God only knows where else to be
 displayed
 and wouldn't allow her to see any of her data files.


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Re: Workstation recommendations

[Brian Kotek]

Well, malware like the program you describe can usually only harm you if a)
you aren't running an antivirus program, and b) you actually install the
malicious program. So first, you need to install some sort of antivirus
software (I use AVG). But even beyond that, unless you tell whoever is using
the computer not to just run random executable files, nothing is going to
stop this from happening again.

People bust on Windows because of it's sad record of past security (though
it is far better now) and the range of virus threats due to its dominant
market share. But the reality is that simply not installing unknown software
will prevent virtually all these problems, even without antivirus. I've had
Windows systems for 20 years and I have never had a virus. I've never even
had my antivirus program intercept a virus. Ever. It's really not
difficult.

So I don't say this to make you feel bad, but just to point out that with a
small amount of precaution the next time, you can make this an extremely
unlikely scenario.

Brian



On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Peter Donahue pdonah...@satx.rr.com wrote:


 Good evening everyone,

 This past week must have been computer-workstation die-off or something. My
 wife's computer became infected with the PC Performance Virus. This thing
 is
 a nasty as it locked her out of many of her programs, caused a black screen
 to appear when the monitor was turned on and the computer booted in to
 Windows, messages from Twitter and God only knows where else to be
 displayed
 and wouldn't allow her to see any of her data files.

The tech we took it to said that this is a very malicious virus and is
 difficult to clean. You might as well say that the computer was Dead on
 arrival at the shop with no chance of being revived. We have one HP and
 two
 Dell machines here. The machine that was infected was a Dell desktop. This
 HP I use is rock solid. Mary has had a Gateway and a Dell both of which
 died
 an early death. The Gateway was fried several years ago due to an
 over-loaded surge protector. The virus killed the Dell. Here's hoping the
 next machine we get will withstand anything thrown at it and will last her
 for many years. Surge protectors and viruses aside both of these brands are
 great and we'll get a new desktop that's one of them. Here's hoping
 everyone
 is able to resolve their computer and workstation woes in the coming weeks.

 Peter Donahue

 - Original Message -
 From: Dan Crouch stario...@yahoo.com
 To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com
 Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 6:41 PM
 Subject: Re: Workstation recommendations



 I got an Asus laptop last year. It was RMAed back to them 4 times before
 they finally sent me an exchange. The exchange arrived with a broken
 screen.
 So it had to be RMAed back. It was the worst customer service I have ever
 dealt with. You will probably get a lot of different opinions on brands,
 but
 I will never buy another Asus product.

 Dan

 For workstations, I have always been happy with Dell.
 
 If you go the laptop route, either Dell or Toshiba (high end model.. not
 the
 satellite).
 
 
 My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive
 out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago.
 It
 worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too.
 
 Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands
 people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to
 stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF
 Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and
 various
 browsers and other tools.
 
 Dell?
 Lenovo?
 Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
 Acer?
 Gateway?
 Others?
 
 Thanks,
 
 -Matt



 

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