RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-03-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
I agree, Dave... once I understood the issue and possibilities better, it became clear that it wasn't much of an issue, especially when I could just use local.xyz.com, which I'd never put on public server. It's been really convenient to have an actual domain to use for development as opposed to

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-03-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
Yep... exactly what I finally figured out. -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 12:31 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: I think I'm confused... I haven't read the rest of this thread, but I agree with Dave, editing the hosts

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
Ok... thanks Mark and Eric We need a better solution available to developers to be able to switch between local and server DNS. Perhaps, a switch of some kind that could be inserted into a URL to tell a browser to use a local hosts file if that switch is present. http://local/www.xyz.com or

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
$15/month On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: Ok... thanks Mark and Eric We need a better solution available to developers to be able to switch between local and server DNS. Perhaps, a switch of some kind that could be inserted into a URL

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
One solution is to have a table of sub-domains that refer to the main application config table: lookup domain.com or blog.domain.com or www.domain.com and find the parent config record for www.domain.com. In that case, you can then add dev.domain.com to the sub-domain table, but you'd

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
config record for www.domain.com. In that case, you can then add dev.domain.com to the sub-domain table, but you'd still have to have the dev.domain.com entry in your local hosts file for it to work. From: Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com Sent

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
If I understand the root of what you're proposing, it would be to use a local faux variable, CGI_SERVERNAME, and assign the true CGI.SERVER_NAME to that, and finally assigning the value of CGI_SERVERNAME to _host. The _host value would be the value in the local hosts file. One part that is

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
/. Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com On 2/24/2011 7:00 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: I could easily see that working for single sites, but if I'm developing a multiple sites, one codebase application that depends on reading specific domain names

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
You need to disable that automated subroutine that keeps pinging everyone 5 minutes for free.beer... -Original Message- From: Michael Grant [mailto:mgr...@modus.bz] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 9:32 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: I think I'm confused... 127.0.0.1free.beer My

RE: RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
I eagerly await your test results! (and further details!) :o) -Original Message- From: jqdur...@gmail.com [mailto:jqdur...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 9:39 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: RE: I think I'm confused... Jason Fisher's answer is exactly what I'd do. IIS

RE: Re: RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
rather than host header). I'll test it. On Feb 24, 2011 8:29am, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: One solution is to have a table of sub-domains that refer to the main application config table: lookup domain.com or blog.domain.com or www.domain.com and find the parent

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
://www.cfgears.com On 2/24/2011 7:00 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: I could easily see that working for single sites, but if I'm developing a multiple sites, one codebase application that depends on reading specific domain names for setting sites variables, that means I have to have those dev.mydomain domains

RE: RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
the .dev before using the server name variable while in production. This doesn't really seem like that big of a hurdle. On Feb 24, 2011 8:38am, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: Perhaps a good approach might be to use fictitious domains locally, since I'm planning to develop sites

RE: Re: RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
I guess I could use: local.domain01.com local.domain02.com dev.domain01.com dev.domain02.com www.domain01.com www.domain01.com But as I've been thinking here, if I keep the local variables and assets completely separate from the production side, any local domains can be used without

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
between one domain to the next by just changing the aliased CGI variable. This approach has nothing to do with your hosts file though, so I'm not sure if we're on two different paths here. -Dain On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.comwrote: However

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
, and the method I mentioned allows you to quickly switch between one domain to the next by just changing the aliased CGI variable. This approach has nothing to do with your hosts file though, so I'm not sure if we're on two different paths here. -Dain On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Rick Faircloth

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
is. Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com On 2/24/2011 9:10 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: Yes, that's what I was thinking. I mentioned in a response a moment ago, the idea of using an entirely separate local development environment, including all data

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
Special thanks goes out to Jason, who just helped me set up a separate IP on my PC for local dev. Now all I have to do is edit the hosts file using the new IP for local development. Cool... :o) -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: Thursday

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-23 Thread Rick Faircloth
That's true...definitely something to take into consideration. -Original Message- From: Jason Fisher [mailto:ja...@wanax.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:34 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC) The big caveat I will give

Check me on this MSOC approach...

2011-02-23 Thread Rick Faircloth
Ok... so I'm starting to set down an approach based on all the feedback to this point. How about this, as far as domain/directory setup goes: Main Parent Site Directory Structure for main parent site: e:\inetpub\webroot\mobile Domain for parent site: mobile.xyz.com Client

I think I'm confused...

2011-02-23 Thread Rick Faircloth
I've started working on an MSOC application and was setting up some test code which uses the cgi.server_name as the determining value for setting all the specific site variables. Then, I realized that this wouldn't work for local development using http://localhost; because there would be not

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-23 Thread Rick Faircloth
external dns. Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts Run notepad as an administrator to modify it. - Reply message - From: Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 19:52 Subject: I think I'm confused... To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com I've started working

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-23 Thread Rick Faircloth
, 2011, at 8:52 PM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: I've started working on an MSOC application and was setting up some test code which uses the cgi.server_name as the determining value for setting all the specific site variables. Then, I realized that this wouldn't work

RE: I think I'm confused...

2011-02-23 Thread Rick Faircloth
a DNS server. I do something like this for all of my dev sites. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2011, at 8:52 PM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: I've started working on an MSOC application and was setting up some test code which uses the cgi.server_name as the determining value

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-22 Thread Rick Faircloth
I can see both sides on this one very clearly. To this point, all I've ever done is develop custom applications and websites. I haven't sold the exact same site in 10 or so years of development! However, I really want to get away from working just one-on-one with clients. They can be a real

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-21 Thread Rick Faircloth
2010 https://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js-3-2-for-building-dynamic-desktop-st yle-user-interfaces/book The best way to predict the future is to help create it On 2/17/2011 11:28 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: Hi, all... I've been tinkering around the edges with many sites, one codebase (MSOC

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-21 Thread Rick Faircloth
: AW Unplugged http://www.austin-williams.com/unplugged -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:28 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC) Hi, all... I've been

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-21 Thread Rick Faircloth
way to predict the future is to help create it On 2/17/2011 12:31 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote: Thanks, Brian... good info on the subdomains. Re: virtual directories... I was about to say yes, but after looking at the directories of the sites involving the global site manager, I realized I didn't

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-19 Thread Rick Faircloth
(MSOC) On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: When a user visits www.xyz.com, onApplicationStart() runs a query that retrieves, among other variables, the absolute path to those images.  Realize, the application that I'm referencing is a global site

RE: Big XML files processing Really s-l-o-w. Solution?

2011-02-19 Thread Rick Faircloth
Nice... -Original Message- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:websitema...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 9:06 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Big XML files processing Really s-l-o-w. Solution? Here's the update: Jochem's StAX-based solution worked so well -- and it allowed me to

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
if you're planning on having a large number of sites on your system. Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com On 2/17/2011 8:59 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote: Your approach at Broadchoice sounds exactly like what I'm anticipating implementing

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
I've never used the server scope in apps, so it's not a question I can answer...perhaps others will chime in on this one. And, as part of this situation, there are almost no variables that are shared between applications, so I don't see that there would be many variables to put into the server

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
Good points about the single application name. However, it brings into question my entire approach to application variables. Take, for instance, my path to userImages. When a user visits www.xyz.com, onApplicationStart() runs a query that retrieves, among other variables, the absolute path to

RE: Big XML files processing Really s-l-o-w. Solution?

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
, 2011 9:42 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Big XML files processing Really s-l-o-w. Solution? On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote: Perhaps this will be of some help. Thanks Rick, Interesting stuff. I don't work with xml so much so a lot of this is new, and I hate new :-). I

RE: Big XML files processing Really s-l-o-w. Solution?

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
[mailto:websitema...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:42 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Big XML files processing Really s-l-o-w. Solution? On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote: Perhaps this will be of some help. Thanks Rick, Interesting stuff. I don't work with xml so much

Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, all... I've been tinkering around the edges with many sites, one codebase (MSOC) for awhile and was interested in getting some feedback on an approach I'm taking. The most basic part is that I use the domain name to determine variable values for a site. I'll start with that. I use

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:28 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC) Hi, all... I've been tinkering around the edges with many sites, one codebase (MSOC) for awhile and was interested

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
. Russ On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.comwrote: Hi, all... I've been tinkering around the edges with many sites, one codebase (MSOC) for awhile and was interested in getting some feedback on an approach I'm taking. The most basic part is that I use

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
for quite a few years, both with and without a 'framework' in place, and in any case that code sits quite well in the Application.cfc as you've outlined. From: Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:29 PM To: cf-talk

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks, Brian... good info on the subdomains. Re: virtual directories... I was about to say yes, but after looking at the directories of the sites involving the global site manager, I realized I didn't have any virtual IIS directories in users' sites. (I have them for other purposes unrelated

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.comwrote: Hi, all... I've been tinkering around the edges with many sites, one codebase (MSOC) for awhile and was interested in getting some feedback on an approach I'm taking. The most basic part is that I use the domain

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
I guess with the approach you describe below, that I'd use cgi.http_referer instead of cgi.server_name to set variables, right? -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:21 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Feedback on this

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
can't be either/or. It must be . Plug in to our blog: AW Unplugged http://www.austin-williams.com/unplugged -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:28 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
So, you think a better approach is to simply copy the codebase and customize as needed? For the site manager app I've been building this isn't an issue, but for front-end sites, I can see where customization would be a problem. I've started constructing my sites into modules, where all files,

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
Just for reference, I'm using a VPS, which is great. Complete control and no limitations on what I can do or install. Based on all this discussion, I can really see the need for a tutorial on this approach...from server setup to codebase to styles. -Original Message- From: Jason Fisher

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
Yes, that's what I've done. The application.cfc simply runs a query based on the domain name and returns all the variable values, that are then set once as application variables. The application.cfc doesn't contain any hard-coded values. There's no need to clutter up the application.cfc with

RE: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

2011-02-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
Your approach at Broadchoice sounds exactly like what I'm anticipating implementing... -Original Message- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:seancorfi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:58 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Feedback on this approach to many sites, one codebase (MSOC)

RE: Big XML files processing Really s-l-o-w. Solution?

2011-02-16 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, Matt... I know you might have looked at this link at dev.mysql.com for a solution to processing your data feed, but I thought I'd bring it up, just in case you haven't seen it. Looks like it might be right up your alley.

RE: Big XML files processing Really s-l-o-w. Solution?

2011-02-16 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, Matt... I've been tinkering with parsing the xml file and, though I haven't developed a full solution, I've made some progress that I thought I'd share. I created a MySQL 5 database called, xmlTest. I created a MySQL 5 database table called, xmlBlob. Fields: - rowID (int, not

RE: Getting information from a cfquery/cfloop to display in a table or div

2011-02-08 Thread Rick Faircloth
Try leaving out the cfoutput/cfoutput in the your cfloop. Rick -Original Message- From: Michelle Dupray [mailto:mdup...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 12:24 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Getting information from a cfquery/cfloop to display in a table or div Hello, I'm trying

RE: CFImage at 300dpi

2011-02-06 Thread Rick Faircloth
Terry, did you ever get a solution for your image resolution problem? Rick -Original Message- From: Terry Troxel [mailto:terry.tro...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 7:25 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CFImage at 300dpi Boy I hope my post didn't cause him any issues, and I am

RE: CFImage at 300dpi

2011-02-06 Thread Rick Faircloth
of them and learning. I will let everyone who helped Know as soon as I am complete, but it might take a bit. Terry -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 2:56 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CFImage at 300dpi Terry, did you

RE: CFImage at 300dpi

2011-02-05 Thread Rick Faircloth
But some compassion and empathy can usually go a lng way in helping another weather a storm. And while a job (money) is often a major component of many of life's crisis moments, it almost never the only factor. If this place is truly about community, it has to go beyond code at times...

RE: CFImage at 300dpi

2011-02-03 Thread Rick Faircloth
I understand the concerns you have, Claude, but I would imagine that the concern is over how to have a print-ready image available online. Yes, the end user can change the dpi before printing, as well as the dimensions of the image, but, when dealing with print shops for advertising, I've always

RE: CFImage at 300dpi

2011-02-03 Thread Rick Faircloth
Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:54 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CFImage at 300dpi I understand the concerns you have, Claude, but I would imagine that the concern is over how to have a print-ready image available online. Yes

RE: CFImage at 300dpi

2011-02-03 Thread Rick Faircloth
is send to their printer's RIP. That’s why my question on creating, saving images at 300dpi as well as print sizes as I do not want The user to have to do anything except PRINT. Terry -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03

RE: CFImage at 300dpi

2011-02-03 Thread Rick Faircloth
. Terry -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:54 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CFImage at 300dpi I understand the concerns you have, Claude, but I would imagine that the concern is over how to have a print-ready image

RE: CFImage at 300dpi

2011-02-03 Thread Rick Faircloth
But all that still leaves us with the question of how to create a downloadable image file with CF that will carry 300dpi metadata with it to a printer. Of course, any end user can change the dpi, ppi, inches, etc., but in Terry's case, I suspect he wants to avoid that complication and simply

RE: favorite coldfusion host

2011-01-31 Thread Rick Faircloth
KickAssVPS Great support, very little down-time (occasional maintenance), RDP (which is all I use) Win 2008, CF 8/9, etc. -Original Message- From: Michael Muller [mailto:ad...@montaguema.net] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:47 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: favorite coldfusion host

RE: ajax tutorials for form objects

2011-01-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
+1 -Original Message- From: Michael Grant [mailto:mgr...@modus.bz] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 7:39 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: ajax tutorials for form objects I generally prefer to use JQuery over CF's built in stuff. I find it to be more steamlined. Plus I think you can probably

Anyone working with websites and RETS 2 data system for Real Estate?

2011-01-26 Thread Rick Faircloth
One of the vendors from whom I've been getting a regular FTP feed for the last 3 years has just notified me that they are switching to RETS at the end of February. I've done some reading on RETS (especially 2.0) and have some basic understanding, but I'm trying to figure out *exactly* where I,

(ot) Creating Smartphone Graphics

2011-01-23 Thread Rick Faircloth
Sorry for the OT, but I have searched everywhere trying to find a definitive answer that actually works in practice. I'm getting into mobile development and one of my first goals has been to figure out how to create site graphics. I use Photoshop, and I'm asking, What's the best way to set up

RE: (ot) Creating Smartphone Graphics

2011-01-23 Thread Rick Faircloth
...@commadelimited.com] Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 3:28 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: (ot) Creating Smartphone Graphics I mean are you in Nasville. Your website is wsm-dev.com I'm in East Nashville, by the stadium. andy -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r

RE: multiple Application.cfcs

2011-01-20 Thread Rick Faircloth
What is the purpose of having child application.cfc's? (at least in this instance...) Is that part of a method for building a single code base to service multiple sites/applications? -Original Message- From: Scott Stewart [mailto:webmas...@sstwebworks.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20,

RE: multiple Application.cfcs

2011-01-20 Thread Rick Faircloth
Is that link the most current approach to this? The article is almost 6 years old. No improvements to utilizing child application.cfc's since then? -Original Message- From: Greg Morphis [mailto:gmorp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:29 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re:

RE: multiple Application.cfcs

2011-01-20 Thread Rick Faircloth
() and their session.user.getSecurityLevel() to see if they have access to any files in the folders or subfolders or sub sub sub sub folders, etc... On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: What is the purpose of having child application.cfc's? (at least in this instance

RE: wireframe for developers

2011-01-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
I've always done my mock-ups in full-color and detail in Photoshop. (my clients understand it better...) And once they accept a design, I have the main site graphics for the site ready to go, instead of having to turn from a wire frame, which seems to be just for the purpose of layout approval,

RE: wireframe for developers

2011-01-18 Thread Rick Faircloth
at 10:43 AM, Rick Faircloth ric...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: I've always done my mock-ups in full-color and detail in Photoshop. (my clients understand it better...) And once they accept a design, I have the main site graphics for the site ready to go, instead of having to turn from

RE: CFIMAGE - case sensitivity on filename - CF9 vs CF9.01

2011-01-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
As far as I remember, I've never had any problems with cfimage and rewriting the filename when there's a conflict and I only using Windows, both locally and on my server. Rick -Original Message- From: Kris Jones [mailto:kris.jon...@verizon.net] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 2:39 PM

RE: drag and drop widgets

2011-01-13 Thread Rick Faircloth
Yep, jQuery all the way! I tried ExtJS, but didn't like it. :oP -Original Message- From: Michael Grant [mailto:mgr...@modus.bz] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 5:51 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: drag and drop widgets My personal fav is JQuery. Here's an example:

RE: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, Teed... Did you ever get your CF/jQuery/AJAX issues worked out? Rick -Original Message- From: Teed Younger [mailto:teedyoun...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:39 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form After that I

RE: Is Coldfusion losing its biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
I've spent the past year or two incorporating jQuery into my programming, mainly the AJAX functionality. Everything I do (perhaps too much!) uses AJAX. It's just become my paradigm for getting info from and onto pages, working in conjunction with cfc functionality. I mention this as I wondered

RE: Is Coldfusion losing its biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
. But for 95% of things I'm with you - the Ajax/jQuery stack has revolutionized things like CRUD forms and data entry on web pages. -Mark Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 Skype: markakruger www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Rick

RE: Is Coldfusion losing its biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
at 12:45 -0500, Rick Faircloth wrote: [sinp] I mention this as I wondered about Flex, based on the comment a few moments ago. I checked out a few examples of Flex demos and didn't see anything, on a cursory look, that I couldn't easily do (or currently do) in jQuery. DittoI can do

RE: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
I agree with you 100% on the importance of community, Scott. I'm what I consider a hacker programmer... no formal training. (Only programming experience prior to CF was on my 1982 Radio Shack Color Computer with 4K of RAM and an audio cassette player for holding programs... it was fun,

RE: Is Coldfusion losing its biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
losing its biggest asset? Rick, Yes we did... and yes it is the flash animation portion... -Mark Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 Skype: markakruger www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r

RE: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
I did, but I'm still not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish with all this...not from a programmer's point of view, but from the end-user's perspective. What does this application do for the end user? Anyway, when I tried to use the app, based on your instructions, I get an error

RE: Is Coldfusion losing its biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
AMF? Thanks for the feedback, Dave! Rick -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:48 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is Coldfusion losing its biggest asset? So basically, Flash's implementation of Ajax (generic usage of the

RE: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
Ok, first... In the source of builderAction.cfm, let's change one bit of Javascript (js) so we can get rid of an error being thrown by the js. A couple of lines beneath the html: pstrongAlternate Part Numbers:/strong/p You've got: script language=javascript

RE: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
Yes, I believe I see what you're trying to do. I'm getting this error now: document.getElementById('results') is null which means that you don't have an element on the page, such as a div with the id of results: div id=results/div Should that be on there somewhere? Rick -Original

RE: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
What's the code on action.cfm? -Original Message- From: Teed Younger [mailto:teedyoun...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 5:35 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form Well there was a div on the original action.cfm. When I

RE: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
My understanding is that you're stuck at trying to get the results that display from submitting the Vendor and Product data to be sent along with the other form input data from the form above when the submit button under the Alternate Part Numbers field, right? If that's the case, what about

RE: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
Replies inline... -Original Message- From: Teed Younger [mailto:teedyoun...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:55 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form My understanding is that you're stuck at trying to get the results that

RE: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
, but more to figure out. Would that work for you? Rick -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:39 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form Replies inline... -Original

RE: trying to pass ajax complex strings within another form

2011-01-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
No problem... since I had proposed a different approach, I thought I'd work up a functioning example. I've been helped so much, it's nice to be able to give back! I'm in GA, near Savannah. I was stationed at Fort Bragg back from '86-'88. Rick -Original Message- From: Teed Younger

Accessing a cached query in one function from another...

2011-01-06 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, all... I'm trying to gain some extra speed on some complex queries and am venturing into my first cached-query experience. What I'm trying to do is run an initial cfc function that caches all needed data for subsequent queries. After the cached query is created, I want to access that data

RE: Accessing a cached query in one function from another...

2011-01-06 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks, Justin... The fact that the caching is local to the method is the part that I was failing to understand...just my ignorance about how caching works. Rick -Original Message- From: Justin Scott [mailto:jscott-li...@gravityfree.com] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:02 PM To:

RE: Accessing a cached query in one function from another...

2011-01-06 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the reply, Dave... I haven't made use of a persistent scope to this point. I thought, perhaps, that just using: cfquery name =queryName datasource=dsn cachedWithin = #createTimeSpan(0,1,0,0)# in the opening tag made the query data persistent without utilizing a persistent scope. As

RE: Accessing a cached query in one function from another...

2011-01-06 Thread Rick Faircloth
Ok, that makes sense... So, to be able to run a master query that would essentially be an in-memory stand-in for the data on the database, and be able to run *various* types of queries on that data, rather than the exact same query, I would need to put the master query into a persistent scope.

RE: Accessing a cached query in one function from another...

2011-01-06 Thread Rick Faircloth
Not using some form of caching or q-o-q puts me right back to the performance problem I'm trying to solve. I've got a query that uses a variable, mysqlOffset, to determine results delivered based on pagination. That creates an almost endless amount of queries involved based on pages and search

RE: Accessing a cached query in one function from another...

2011-01-06 Thread Rick Faircloth
Bummer...I think. If QoQ doesn't provide a performance improvement over database access, then I'm back to where I started. Thanks for the explanation! -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:dwa...@figleaf.com] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 1:25 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re:

RE: Accessing a cached query in one function from another...

2011-01-06 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the explanation. It seems that I've put us through this discussion for nothing. (Well, except for my education!) Something was causing my queries to take about 36 seconds for the longest ones. I attributed that to the complexity of the queries. However, now those same queries are

Why does this sql cause MySQL 5 to hang?

2010-12-30 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, all and Happy New Year! (early...) I'm trying to run this query: select p.property_id, pl.propertyPhotoLink, o.office_name from properties p left join hmls_property_photo_links pl on

RE: Why does this sql cause MySQL 5 to hang?

2010-12-30 Thread Rick Faircloth
does this sql cause MySQL 5 to hang? Rick, give this handy tool a try, it is rather good. http://www.jetprofiler.com/ http://www.jetprofiler.com/Russ On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.comwrote: Hi, all and Happy New Year! (early...) I'm trying to run

RE: Why does this sql cause MySQL 5 to hang?

2010-12-30 Thread Rick Faircloth
from the server data and the query works fine. The weird thing is that all the data on the server is copied *from* the local database to the server database. I'll have to take a close look at the data. Thanks for the feedback! Rick -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r

RE: question for jquery experts here

2010-12-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
Send some of your table over, so I can set up a test... Rick -Original Message- From: fun and learning [mailto:funandlrnn...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 3:00 PM To: cf-talk Subject: question for jquery experts here hi All - I am using the following jquery script to

RE: (ot) jQuery question

2010-12-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
at 8:36 PM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: Hope some of you jQuery and CF users can answer what seems to me should be an easy question, but I can't figure out how to write this jQuery to product a list of values.  (I'll use AJAX and JSON to send the value list to a cffunction

RE: (ot) jQuery question

2010-12-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the link, Raj. After I work through those examples, it looks like the use of those variable should be clear. (Or at least clearer!) :o) Rick -Original Message- From: Raj Vijay [mailto:vraajku...@rediffmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 12:36 PM To: cf-talk Subject:

RE: (ot) jQuery question

2010-12-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
of $( this ) for each iteration... I'd imagine passing the element in would be more performant, but probably not enough of a difference to be noticeable. On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Rick Faircloth ric...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: Thanks, Charlie!  That gives me the correct output. Now I

RE: (ot) jQuery question

2010-12-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks, Matt! :o) Rick -Original Message- From: Matt Quackenbush [mailto:quackfu...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 12:45 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: (ot) jQuery question In Charlie's example, 'i' is the current index position of the each loop, while 'o' is the current

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