Re: Charge for meetings

2011-02-07 Thread Marc Funaro
I've done botha, and I vote iterative as well. Velocity seems to stay higher, and you can still make the bean counters happy by regularly discussing overall budget, timeline, and number/complexity of changes. It may not work for all clients, but I'd definitely encourage defining and trying

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-15 Thread Marc Funaro
Or it could be seen as a negative sign that after ten years CF still hasn't been able to shake off the cf is dying stigma. True this. Scour the web - how many other languages have their devoted developers constantly asking this same question over and over? PHP? Ruby? Java? Etc.? Some HAVE

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-15 Thread Marc Funaro
LOL Stuart Smalley, 2000-present: I don't know what I'm doing. They're gonna cancel the show {kill my programming language}. I'm gonna die homeless and penniless and twenty pounds overweight. Let's balance it out... I was recently reminded by a relative of this useful quote: I have lived a

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Marc Funaro
I'm probably going to embarass the s#$t out of myself now, but.. I wrote a painfully long, meandering, stream-of-consciousness blog post on this a couple years ago. I was frustrated, angry, worried, and felt like after years of trying, I had wasted a LOT of time.

Re: Is Coldfusion losing it biggest asset?

2011-01-12 Thread Marc Funaro
Everyone deserves a second chance Marc :D A second chance to embarrass themselves? I'll take it! I learn a lot when the high and mighty correct me :) ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: (ot) jQuery and char sets

2010-12-10 Thread Marc Funaro
You sound very smart, why didn't you just google this first? Called out and thrown under the bus (no disrespect):) ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

WAY WAY OT: Book Readers, and your own words

2010-08-09 Thread Marc Funaro
This is way OT, won't blame anyone a bit if you want to tell me to go pound salt... but you're a creative bunch and we've struggled with this long enough. The situation: Rock band with over 4 hours of music... lots of lyrics. Frequent set changes, meaning that standard 3-ring-binder full of

SOT: HTML spec for mobile devices

2010-08-02 Thread Marc Funaro
I'm looking for a basic web resource coover what would be considered best practices for building a website that will be viewed on mobile devices... a general reference guide/best practices document, that might cover (x)html, css, etc... I can't seem to find the right keywords to Google with.

Re: (ot) Mail servers

2010-07-06 Thread Marc Funaro
SmarterMail has been GREAT. I switched from a customized qmail solution, and smartermail can handle joe-jobs really well, has great anti-spam configuration and customization per-domain, and uses ClamAV for killing viruses dead. Outbound spam mitigation too. Combined with the ActiveSync

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

2010-06-25 Thread Marc Funaro
Thanks everyone, You were all correct - god help me I was actually focusing on the error CF gave me, trusting that alone. Go figure. What a rotten thing to do! :) A different value was the culprit, and the suggestion below absolutely applies. Thank you all so much -- this is what happens

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

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

Re: How to loop over a dataset twice.

2010-06-09 Thread Marc Funaro
I am trying to loop over a dataset twice. I am trying using CFLOOP but the 2nd CFLOOP will not process. And I'm willing to bet that whatever you're doing, you can do it in one loop, too :) ~| Order the Adobe

Re: Mail Server Software

2010-05-10 Thread Marc Funaro
Does anybody know of a good mail server with some sort of SQL or CF integration? A few years back we were looking at IMS mail server. Not sure what type of integration you're looking to accomplish, but we have had a great experience with SmarterMail (http://www.smartertools.com) overall,

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-03 Thread Marc Funaro
This seems to only be a problem on Windows XP. Myself nor my clients have problems with IE8 on Vista or Windows 7. I believe our problem involves XP, Vista, and 7, though I'll need to go back through some of the debug output that some of the problem users have sent. Are your users on a

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
Are your users using the in private browsing feature? My understanding is it rejects cookies that look like tracking cookies. ~Brad Hi Brad, It's hard to tell for all of them, but the users I saw were not using InPrivate.

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
Try setting this Meta tag in you document head: meta http-equiv=X-UA-Compatible content=IE=EmulateIE7 That may solve your issue. Robert B. Harrison This tag's been in place for a couple weeks; no effect. ~| Want to reach

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
What security zone is your site in, in the affected browsers? Are the cookies the standard CF session tokens (CFID/CFTOKEN or JSESSIONID)? Or are you doing something else? Are you setting the cookies for the same host that the user is visiting? Dave Watts Security zone is usually the defaults

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
If you can convince a gracious user to let you, maybe try debugging the cookie settings process on their machine? Might have to go so far as doing FF plugins and whatnot, but maybe something simple like having it prompt to set cookies will shed light on what's happening? FWIW, I've seen cookie

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
There are very few transparent switches in any computing environment, unfortunately. AGREED!! The same goes for life, LOL :) I would recommend that you try to set CFID and CFTOKEN as non-persistent cookies, instead of just switching to JSESSIONID (although I'd recommend that also, in

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
I have heard that if you replicate this tag as a cfheader tag, it works. (although I don't know why) The tag is in the HTML head, inserted via CFHTMLHEAD. is this what you mean? (meta tags belong in the document head anyway, per HTML 4.01 standard...?)

Re: IE8 is killing my website

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Funaro
I have heard that if you replicate this tag as a cfheader tag, it works. (although I don't know why) This blog attempts to explain why: http://ilia.ws/archives/196-IE8-X-UA-Compatible-Rant.html Apparently it depends on your doc type. Some doc types ignore custom meta tags,

SSL Certificate Changed, CFHTTP broken

2006-09-25 Thread Marc Funaro
Our credit card gateway provider renewed their SSL certificate, and now our CFHTTP call to the https:// address simply spits back a connection failure message. I googled for this, but didn't get any useful information. We're using mx6.1... does anyone have any ideas?

Re: SSL Certificate Changed, CFHTTP broken

2006-09-25 Thread Marc Funaro
Have you tried imported their new SSL certificate into the Jrun keystore? Nope! Never knew that was needed, nor do I know how. Got a link for me? Thanks for the quick reply! marc ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority

Re: SSL Certificate Changed, CFHTTP broken

2006-09-25 Thread Marc Funaro
This may also help: Using Keytool to Import SSL Certificates into Sun JDK http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2004/7/1/keytool Thanks. I do plan on trying this. But a question that's bugging the hell out of me is... I didn't have to do this before - we just used CFHTTP with an https

Re: SSL Certificate Changed, CFHTTP broken

2006-09-25 Thread Marc Funaro
Here is the link: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19139#enableC F It's for LDAP but the section I linked to has the CF instructions. I did everything here. I saved the certificates from https://ntpnow.com, using Internet Explorer and saving as Base64Encoded. I then

Re: SSL Certificate Changed, CFHTTP broken

2006-09-25 Thread Marc Funaro
- Made sure that CF was looking at that keystore (there can be multiple AFAK) Any information on how I can make sure CF is looking at that keystore? When I do keytool -list... I can see the keys I've added to the keystore. They are there, and they do import properly. It