Re: Any see what is wrong with this query?

2007-06-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
is name a char type vs a varchar, if so, you'll have to pad with spaces on the right. On 6/6/07, Ian Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Logs Record Set - query - Top 4 of 4 Rows ATTRIBUTES DATELASTMODIFIED DIRECTORY MODE NAME SIZE TYPE 1 [empty string] 06/06/2007 10:59:17 AM

Re: CFC Typeof()

2007-06-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
regardless of whether or not CF is duck typed or dynamic, the dynamic languages I've used have all had this ability. Say you have an cfc that expects a vehicle, you send it a bike and you send it a car, both are vehicles, but both behave differently in some aspects. They may both have a 'go',

Re: Subversion and Dreamweaver 8

2007-06-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
it looks like the web site is down right now, but there is an extension for Dreamweaver that integrates with TortoiseSVN. It's called SVN4DW. It's free and it works. http://www.nearlygeek.com/tools/subversion-for-dreamweaver/introduction/ On 6/9/07, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [EMAIL

Re: OT:Great CSS Selector test suite

2007-06-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
and then try running it with FF, IE, and now Safari. Safari is definitely a rump kicker in the javascript dept. On 6/12/07, Andy Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evaluates the speed of the various JS libraries at querying the dom.

Re: OT:Great CSS Selector test suite

2007-06-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
out with this. Its shameful when IE performs better than Safari. Rey Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: and then try running it with FF, IE, and now Safari. Safari is definitely a rump kicker in the javascript dept. On 6/12/07, Andy Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Evaluates the speed

Re: Dreamweaver and Vista

2007-06-30 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
yep, though I've had the same problem with compressed folders on WinXP. For some reason their zip utility is crappy. As for Vista, I didn't like it much either. I uninstalled it 24 short hours after installing it. My feeling is that it really shouldn't be touted as an upgrade since upgrades

Re: Dreamweaver and Vista

2007-07-01 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
It's the way they handled it that I don't like. There's no sudo to avoid being asked for your password umpteen times during regular maintenance. It's just a bit frustrating which I think will lead to users turning off that feature and having no security once again. On 7/1/07, Eric Roberts

Re: Dreamweaver and Vista

2007-07-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
let's not talk hypotheticals here On 7/3/07, Charlie Griefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If people take screen shots of Vista not freezing up on them... will that prove that it doesn't suck? :) ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion

Re: Quicktime Movie

2007-07-16 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I've used the Riva FLV encoder (free version) to convert a number of different files to FLV with good results. http://www.download.com/Riva-FLV-Encoder/3000-2140-10320097.html On 7/16/07, Greg Luce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping there was some free or low cost program for converting

Re: CF Site scraper

2007-07-16 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
well, they do have rss feeds based on search terms that would do the same thing On 7/16/07, Brad Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I had an idea this morning for a simple CF site, but I wanted feedback on the practicality, usefulness, or even the legality of it. My wife is now

Re: error occured while Parsing an XML document

2007-07-17 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
try using img src=cfoutput#xmlformat(homepage.cb_imaged_resized)#/cfoutput / On 7/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas? I'm getting the following error message ... The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes. Error Occurred

Re: Getting windows explorer to search ColdFusion files

2007-08-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
my solution was to download AstroGrep which let's me search *all* files on my system. http://astrogrep.sourceforge.net/ Also shows you a snippet of the files showing where your search term is. On 8/2/07, Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to force windows explorer

Re: any idea how to

2007-08-08 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
cfset new_date=rereplace (20060523, ([\d]{4})([\d]{2})([\d]{2}),\2/\3/\1,ALL)/ On 8/8/07, Scott Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Convert 20060523 Into 5/23/2006 I'm at a loss. Thanks in advance sas -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer SSTWebworks 4405 Oakshyre Way

Re: MySQL front end...

2007-08-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I've used this in the past and it wasn't too bad. http://code.google.com/p/sqlyog/ Plus, you could contribute code back to it and feel really good about yourself :) On 8/9/07, Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides Aqua Data Studio, what else is out there that is free and runs on

Re: OT: SQL Manager?

2007-08-15 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
You can always set up an alias for the 2nd instance of the server and then register the alias in EM. On 8/15/07, Adkins, Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who can recommend a SQL Management utility other than Enterprise Manager to manage multiple Microsoft SQL Databases and not having multiple

Re: OT: SQL Manager?

2007-08-15 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
server -Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SQL Manager? You can always set up an alias for the 2nd instance of the server and then register the alias in EM. On 8/15/07, Adkins

Re: REST Webservices

2007-08-17 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
hthat's really a wide description from the client. It may mean that he only wants the results returned as straight xml. It may also mean that he wants cleaner urls like http://www.myservice.com/users vs http://www.myservices.com/index.cfm?method=getUsers or

Re: Frameset Reloading

2007-08-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
a href=blah target=_top/ On 8/19/07, Will Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get my login/logouts workin with a frameset and having trouble with it. In the frameset page, I check the SESSION.isLoggedin status and display the login form. The user logs in and it loads up

Re: cfimage resize running very slow

2007-08-21 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'm curious what cfimage uses behind the scenes. If it's the java image libraries, I wouldn't be surprised with the speed issues as I had trouble with them when used as a cfobject. On 8/20/07, Steve Sequenzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to figure out if it is normal for the cfimage

Re: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis

2007-08-21 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
unless you're using a server version of windows, IIS isn't going to serve more than 1 site at a time. BTW, entries in the hosts file would take on this form: 127.0.0.1localhost 127.0.0.1redhotkitties.com Then, in IIS you'd set up multiple sites and have them use the host header to

Re: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis

2007-08-21 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
cool! I had no idea that restriction was lifted for vista. is there a top limit? On 8/21/07, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unless you're using a server version of windows, IIS isn't going to serve more than 1 site at a time. unless you're using Vista. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig

Re: Planning For FLEX Integration

2007-09-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
my experience so far has been that Flex not only replaces the views, but also a lot of the controllers and it has it's own models. Accordingly, the architecture of my apps has been to create a both a backend and a frontend. The backend can either be RESTful services or full blown web services.

Re: CF8 Flash froms VS. AJAX (javascript)

2007-09-03 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
In a CMS, you probably want something a lot more powerful than the Rich Text Editor control. Among it's weaknesses is the fact it can't display tables (at least that's how I remember it) which is a real biggie to me. On 9/3/07, Joeri B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I want to build a

Re: Am I the only one who thinks Flex 2 isn't

2007-09-05 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On 9/5/07, Brian Kotek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/5/07, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Flex 2 AND database: We have created an XML for the data, that's makes the application sluggish as hell! XML data have much overhead ( I believe something like 2/3 ) Yes. And

Re: Am I the only one who thinks Flex 2 isn't

2007-09-05 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
XML, and web services. The bottom line is that however else you want to expose the data, there is no reason not to use AMF to feed a Flex app. On 9/5/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: portabilityyou could use any client technology to consume your service if it uses xml

Re: Visual confirmation code

2007-10-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'd read somewhere about a method for spam control where you throw an extra field into your form that should always be blank. You hide it with css so the users don't see it. When the spambots come through and fill in all the blanks, you discard it based on whether your hidden field is filled in

Re: CF Code readability (Where Clause)

2007-10-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
yep, I pretty much do the same thing, also my selects look like this: SELECT col1 ,col2 ,col3 FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2 ON table1.col1 = table2.col2 WHERE x = 1 AND Deleted = 0 In essence, I capitalize my sql keywords, I place the

Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code?

2007-10-07 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I've used the Dreamweaver add in and don't really think it adds that much to the experience. If I'm on my machine that has DW, I'll do all my coding in DW, when I done and ready to commit back to the repository, I'll drop out to TortoiseSVN and do all my interactions with Subversion that way.

Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code?

2007-10-07 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
plugin though and actually can not see a reason as to why I would need it. It just is not that hard to alt-tab over to something. On 10/7/07, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used the Dreamweaver add in and don't really think it adds that much to the experience

Re: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code?

2007-10-07 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
This is where something like Rails migrations would be a great thing for a CF framework to copy. All of your database changes are kept in ruby files that describe table creation, column additions, table deletions, and if so needed, raw sql statements to create functions or stored procs. Every

Re: ColdFusion stopped?!?!

2007-10-10 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
We had a windows update roll through today that screwed up a bunch of our servers until a complete powerdown and reboot. On 10/10/07, Tim Do [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE help! Ever since 8am this morning ColdFusion has gone down every few minutes. The only thing that I can see in the

Re: connectstring in CF8

2007-10-13 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
It's odd because I've been using jruby lately which uses jdbc connections and it allows you to dynamically set your datasources all day long. It's one feature of CF5 that I really miss. On 10/13/07, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was there a problem with it? I seem to recall that JDBC

Re: Frameworks: Post vs. Get

2007-10-15 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I thought that the google web accelerator did all the convincing anyone needed. If I recall correctly, a lot of intranets had a problem with it in that lots of GET operations would alter data. The user would be logged in, and gwa would automatically fetch all GET links. There'd be no security

Re: DEATH to HOMESITE

2007-10-20 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I've started using a subversion vmware appliance in the free vmware player. Best of both worlds there. On 10/20/07, Cutter (CF Related) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can be confusing. Fortunately other's have gone before you on this road.

Re: DEATH to HOMESITE

2007-10-20 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
This one. http://www.young-technologies.com/Software/Subversion-Virtual-Machine/ On 10/20/07, Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which subversion appliance are you using? Rick -Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 20

Re: Subversion appliance use attempt...

2007-10-21 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
: Sunday, October 21, 2007 11:33 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: DEATH to HOMESITE Thanks, Zaphod... I areadyhave vmWare player installed, so I'll give this appliance a look-over. Rick -Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday

Re: Subversion appliance use attempt...

2007-10-21 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
no no noo.don't make someone use vim ! :) the subversion appliance has nano (which has the common commands displayed at all times) installed on it. use this command sudo nano /var/svnroot/wsmrepo/conf/passwd Then, I think there's an example in the text file itself. but the format is

Re: Subversion appliance use attempt...

2007-10-21 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
would I get that info? Rick -Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 3:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Subversion appliance use attempt... nope, no graphical interface for the server at all. The instructions

Re: parsing problem

2007-10-21 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
You could use this regular expression: rereplace(file_contents,([^,]*), (.*)\n(.*)\n[ ](.*)\n,line:\1|\2|\3,ALL) This will convert the 3 lines into something like this: line:Abbot|John|[EMAIL PROTECTED] line:Abrahams|Fred|[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc You might have to tweak it a little, but that

Re: Subversion appliance use attempt...

2007-10-21 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
into Subversion running on the Linux distro for my access to the repo? Huh??? So, I'm downloading TortoiseSVN now... Rick -Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Subversion appliance use attempt

Re: database linking table naming conventions?

2006-04-18 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I tried naming tables in the singular form once. I hated it. For some reason it bothered me to write sql that read select top 50 * from book On 4/14/06, Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: link_user_group. Name your tables in all lower case (or all upper case - never mixed case),

Re: Virtual Directories

2006-04-18 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
edit your *cf_root*\wwwroot\WEB-INF\jrun-web.xml file and add mappings in this format: virtual-mapping resource-path/tools/resource-path system-pathC:/inetpub/wwwroot/tools/system-path /virtual-mapping On 4/18/06, Cutter (CFRelated) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a clue how to

Re: Directory watcher for standard edition

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
if you're on win32, I can post instructions on how to make a service that will accomplish the something similar. I've used it to create a report que that runs every 10 seconds. On 4/19/06, Andy Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set up a cron job at 1 minute intervals? That's going to likely

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I thought that same way until I really got into creating some applications with it. To me it's unbelievable how much stuff is available in that framework. I think where most people get hung up is on comparing Rails to CF. Rails is a framework that provides a lot of functionality for you. Ruby,

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Hey Bryan, not to pick on your or anything :) On 4/19/06, Bryan Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically with Ruby it comes down to this (in my short investigation of itI stopped because it is NOT the Holy Grail) So just because it's not the Holy Grail it isn't useful? Does

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On 4/19/06, Andy Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, if anyone has input on this topic, I'd love to hear it. I tried getting RoR running on my local dev machine and was immediately turned off by the fact that you have to do so much work using the command prompt. Have the RoR developers

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
simple it would be to do whatever I was trying to do if I was doing it with CF. It's an unfair and very biased assessment no doubt, but I just didn't enjoy it at all. --Ferg Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: I thought that same way until I really got into creating some applications with it. To me

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On 4/19/06, Bryan Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't like plural table names? ActiveRecord::base.pluralize_table_names=false in environment.rb want to override a table name? class someTable ActiveRecord::Base set_table_name some_crazy_table_name end Now that I'm finished

Re: sql question.....

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
a cleaner way of writing this might be: cfquery name=insert_hourly datasource=storm INSERT INTO hourly (employee_id ,ticket_no ,ticket_date ,labor_start ,labor_stop ,labor_lunch ,truck_id ,equip_start ,equip_stop

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
yeah, it is custom coding, but isn't all your business logic going to be custom code? What if you are required to have a start date, but your end date could be open ended. There's really not an easy way to automate that kind of logic. Rails can make that kind of code easier I believe. Say you

Re: Ruby (on Rails) vs Coldfusion

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:35 AM I thought that same way until I really got into creating some applications with it. To me it's unbelievable how much stuff is available in that framework. I think where most people get hung up

Re: TemplateNotFoundException

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I've not found a way to do it with CFMX, but Bluedragon will allow you to capture it. On 4/19/06, Mike Garner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know if it's possible to catch this exception (when a CFM page is called that doesn't exist) in the application without using the Missing Template

Re: Directory watcher for standard edition

2006-04-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I use a batch file that calls wget for win32 to call the template all run from the service On 4/19/06, Chris Velevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, how would I call my cfc from a cron job or win service? Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group

Re: OT: Javascript help

2006-04-20 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
the most I can think of is to evaluate the value right at the function declaration: objA.onclick = eval ('function(){ alert( ' + intI + ' ); };'); On 4/20/06, Ben Nadel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really for CF, but though someone here could lend some insight There is one problem in

Re: OT: SQL Delema

2006-04-23 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
family :id :last_name :address :etc... children :id :family_id :last_name :first_name :age :etc Then to find all children, query the children table with a certain family_id. On 4/23/06, Richard Dillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: heres the deal, I need to

Re: ASP.Net book for CF programmer

2006-04-26 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Hey Matthew, check out these video tutorials: http://www.learn2asp.net/CF/Campaign.aspx I watched all of them and was pretty amazed at how easy asp.net 2.0 can make certain things. On 4/26/06, Russ Michaels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really don't think there could be such a think as

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

2006-04-27 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I love that error. I have a report generation application that every once in a while, it will generate a page containing ., then a couple of seconds later, CFMX will restart itself and all will be good until the next random moment :) On 4/27/06, Rob Wilkerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks

Re: faster alternative to cfcontent for large file downloads?

2006-05-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
you could always write a copy of the file to a temp directory and then have the anchor point to it. If need be, for security, you could always name the file with UUID then clean up the directory at night or after some set time period On 5/2/06, Jeff Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using

Re: ASP.Net book for CF programmer

2006-05-05 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Yep, learn ASP.net 2.0, php, python, or ruby. Learning any of these will help expand your ideas on how to approach different problems. CF is great, but it's not always the best solution. On 5/5/06, Aaron Rouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd learn something other than CF, knowing 4.5.2 well

Re: Search Realestate multiple listings

2006-05-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
yeah, they seem to be worse than the priory de sion regarding sharing information. On 5/9/06, Alan Rother [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I ran into this erlier this year. it turns out there isn't such a thing as The MLS. Every region in America has it's own MLS group and it appears there

Re: Frameworks

2006-05-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
If you choose not to use a framework, you still have made a choice, you can choose from OOP or procedural code still, I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill Apologies to Rush Zaph On 5/12/06, Dawson, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree completely and I currently use no

Re: What do you use to capture a video frame?

2006-05-17 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I know this is a little late, but I use VRTainments CapturePad. It will capture streaming video off the internet, snapshots of streaming video, etc All for a low price of $20. Probably one of the most awesome capture programs I've used. On 5/17/06, Mike Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As

Re: complete 360 product photos

2006-05-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
find yourself a cheap anti-gravity ray gun on ebay first, then everything after that should be self apparent. On 5/18/06, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a site now where we display the products in a 360 view (straight side to side), the client has asked me if when can do a global

Re: complete 360 product photos

2006-05-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
yeah, but it's a lot easier to take a 360 degree view from inside of a room that to suspend something in midair and take a picture of the bottom of it. :) On 5/19/06, Bryan Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any realtor could answer that questionsame technology as the 360 room views used

Re: Fusebox 4 Slow?

2006-06-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
dave, you keep saying this, but then won't explain why you're coding in CF. Afterall, it's not faster than asp.net according to several benchmarks. If milliseconds are so important to the customer, you're doing a disservice to them currently. On 6/6/06, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and the

Re: How would I code this line?

2006-08-25 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
cfset session.client_name = #GNC.Client_First_name#nbsp; #GNC.Client_Middle_Name#nbsp; #GNC.Client_Last_Name# ,nbsp;#GNC.Client_Name_Suffix / !--- Remove the last comma and nbsp if it's the last thing on the line --- cfset session.client_name =

Re: Stored procs (was Top 100 ColdFusion Programmers)

2006-08-27 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I did a project where sp's were used almost exclusively. That was a major pia whenever it came to moving the app from dev to production. Usually, you can role an update to production by just copying over the cfml. Changes in sp's required you to either increment the sp name, or take the app down

Re: Stored procs (was Top 100 ColdFusion Programmers)

2006-08-27 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I run almost all my queries with queryparam so they're all precompiled anyway. When I do a trace, I see that sqlserver is calling that query as an sp after the first call. Therefore, I get the benefits of speed of the sp with the ease of deployment with cf. On 8/27/06, Teddy Payne [EMAIL

Re: Stored procs (was Top 100 ColdFusion Programmers)

2006-08-28 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Then my sql server trace logs must be lying. On 8/28/06, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you do not, not really. This is not how SQL Server works. You are still using inline compiled on demand SQL. -- I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind I left

Re: restarting CF via the factory

2006-09-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I hope you're the only cf site on this server :) On 9/6/06, D F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the problem is not file creation, the problem is not having admin access to the services to restart them. Hence why I was looking for a backdoor to restarting the CF server.

Re: Image resizing

2006-09-13 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I had trouble resizing large images to smaller ones. They would come out about 20 shades darker with the tmt_img tag. Of course, I didn't have a better java solution, so I opted for installing ImageMagick on the server. On 9/13/06, Larry Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: imageCFC (I forget who

Re: Image resizing

2006-09-13 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Image resizing I had trouble resizing large images to smaller ones. They would come out about 20 shades darker with the tmt_img tag. Of course, I didn't have a better java

Re: Arghhhh!!

2006-09-27 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
kind of ironic huh? The Vanquish is ...errm...vanquished. On 9/27/06, Doug Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Talk about frustrating. Ok, I am populating a menu from a database and something weird is going on. Hopefully someone can shed some light. This is a mySql database if that makes any

Re: Arghhhh!!

2006-09-28 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
cffunction name=generate_list output=true cfargument name=parentID required=true/ cfset var list_items = / cfquery name=list_items dbtype=query SELECT catID,category,parent_id FROMcategories WHERE parent_id = cfqueryparam

Re: Arghhhh!!

2006-09-28 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
oops, that last line should be cfset list_generate(parentID=)/ On 9/28/06, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cffunction name=generate_list output=true cfargument name=parentID required=true/ cfset var list_items = / cfquery name=list_items dbtype=query

Re: Arghhhh!!

2006-09-28 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
:) On 9/28/06, Doug Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get an error Query Of Queries syntax error. Encountered parent_id = NULL. Incorrect conditional expression, Expected one of [like|null|between|in|comparison] condition, - Original Message - From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Arghhhh!!

2006-09-28 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Yeah, that query needs to be done something like this: cfquery name=list_items dbtype=query SELECT catID,category,parent_id FROMcategories WHERE cfif parentID eq parent_id is null cfelse parent_id=#parentid#/cfif /cfquery again, this

Re: How do I disable view source?

2006-10-04 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I use the URL_to_bmp tag and deliver every page as bmp screencap. It's very nice that way because I don't need to worry about how it looks on each browser. I'm thinking of switching to gif or even png to cut down on my bandwidth cost. On 10/4/06, Will Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey,

Re: Cf vs ?

2006-10-13 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
another thing in response to the shared hosting: To me, cf has always been a server language meant for your own managed server. Between having to set up dsn's in the administrator and having mappings be server wide, to application variables being visible by any other site, to having to disable

Re: Form Validation Custom Tag

2006-10-15 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Just to validate that you're suggeting to use client-side validation IN ADDITION to server-side validation, correct? On 10/15/06, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd rather have just server side than just client side. There are things indeed that can only be done on server side,

Re: Verity vs. sql indexing

2006-01-07 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
really? I'm using sql server indexing on text fields at the moment and it works great. It's a document management system where I strip the text contents from a pdf store the pdf in an image field and store the text in a text field. Sql server has been able to search any/all parts of the text

Re: Verity vs. sql indexing

2006-01-08 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
right, it is full text indexing, but I thought that's what this thread was about since I'd never consider verity and sql indexing to be even slightly on par with eachother. I guess I read it wrong. On 1/7/06, Paul Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: really? I'm using

Re: Javascript timeout

2006-01-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
one gotcha to be careful with on this tutorial is that once an alert box pops up, javascript will wait for the user to click ok before proceeding. One option you might consider to have a countdown time on the screen at all times, then when it gets to 0, move 'em on. On 1/9/06, Bobby Hartsfield

Re: Javascript timeout

2006-01-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
true...I just wanted to warn him about that common gotcha. On 1/9/06, Bobby Hartsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Granted it doesn't do every exact little detail that he wanted... the redirect that he mentioned would replace the alert. The time is displayed in the status bar (you could display

Re: IIf() - Mix literal with variable evaluation

2006-01-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
cfset a = loc.address IIf(Len(loc.city), DE(, #loc.city#) , DE()) On 1/9/06, Jim McAtee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always run into this, and I've probably come across a solution, but forgotten it. In an IIf() I can easily return the value of a varible by surrounding it in quotes, or return a

Re: eGovernment and Wiki's --- anyone making Wiki's with CF?

2006-01-11 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
How many people actually have access to the DRK's anymore? I'm not even sure why they're releasing DRK's. On 1/11/06, Cameron Childress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Wiki is simply a specialized form of CMS. There is one in CF if you have access to the DRKs.

Re: eGovernment and Wiki's --- anyone making Wiki's with CF?

2006-01-11 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
with my Wiki on it) was the last one that will be released. (Unless Adobe changes their minds. I wish they would. I loved sharing the apps on the DRK. :) On 1/11/06, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many people actually have access to the DRK's anymore? I'm not even sure why they're

Re: Scripting DB records in enterprise manager

2006-01-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I use this program quite often. It does everything I need it to and it's free. It's getting harder to find as it seems like it's abandonware. I'll always keep a copy of it though. http://www.yessoft.com/software/sqlservercompare/sqlservercompare.htm On 1/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: OT: CSS mystery

2006-01-12 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
It has to do with the way IE and Firefox treat the box model in quirks mode. There's some info about it here: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html Also, if you remove the width:100% in the menu def, it will fill out correctly. On 1/12/06, Robert Everland III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: The best CFC book is...

2006-01-16 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
This is one of those situations where I think people are making CF too Java-esque. Obviously the thought from Macromedia was that they would output stuff otherwise, I wouldn't have to put Output=false on every frickin function I write. MVC doesn't rely on the underlying language, so I don't

Re: CFEclipse Vs Dreamweaver

2006-01-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I was happily using DW8 along with TortoiseSVN and then corrupted my archive. I guess when you delete a file from DW8, it doesn't play nice with SVN and will corrupt the local working copy sometimes. This is what makes me keep going back to cfeclipse. That and the local history DW8 is

Re: Unable to see error message in CSS site

2006-01-29 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
try to put a br style=clear:both/ at the bottom of your layout. I think that will force the debuging information down below your layout. On 1/29/06, Stephen Cassady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've built a site using CSS layout. The problem is that most of the error messages are hidden (below)

Re: Enterprise Manager in a shared hosting situation

2006-02-06 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Holy Cow!, I've experienced the complete opposite with SQL 2005. The EM takes forever to do anything. Also, I was trying to debug why some of my queries went from 20ms to ~20s to run. Come to find out, if the table was open in data or design view in EM, it was slowing down access to that table.

Re: Storing Documents

2006-02-10 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
We just recently set up a document management system using MS SqlServer. We ended up storing the documents inside the db. The way we structured it was to set up a table that had all of the meta data about the document along with a file id (int) that linked up with a file storage table that

Re: Storing Documents

2006-02-10 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I'm currently working on a real estate done in RubyOnRails that stores property photos in tables. So far it doesn't seem too terribly different than mssql. On 2/10/06, Ryan Guill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone done this in MySql? On 2/10/06, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Storing Documents

2006-02-10 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
-Original Message- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 2:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Storing Documents We just recently set up a document management system using MS SqlServer. We ended up storing the documents inside the db

Running IE7 concurrently

2006-02-10 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I just got this email from sitepoint, but it seems that you can run IE7 without having to trash your IE6 install From the email: So, let's say you're curious and you'd like to take IE7 for a spin, but you're not ready to let it oust IE6 as your IE of choice -- can this be done? I'm no expert

Re: Storing Documents

2006-02-10 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Those are keywords entered by users when the store a document in the system. Stuff like destroy date, attendees, meeting type, etc.. On 2/10/06, Aaron Rouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the metadata something that is keyed in or do you grab it from the file somehow? On 2/10/06, Zaphod

Calling methods in application.cfc

2006-02-28 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
I've seen plenty of snippets that say you can manually call methods in application.cfc, but never any examples. Does the application.cfc live in memory, or do you need to use cfinvoke/createobject with a path to the application.cfc file? -- aeteti yeah, do you seeyea, ooohohohn neh I don wanta

Re: storing files in database as blobs/clobs

2006-03-01 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
make sure in your datasource, in the advanced settings, that you've checked enable binary large object retrieval On 3/1/06, Michael Traher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to allow files to be uploaded and stored in our database. so far this seems to work best by converting the file with

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