Re: Handling invalid recipient in mailing list

2015-04-03 Thread Maureen
+1 for Mail Chimp. I was preparing to post about this but Robert did a better job of explaining than I could. I never use anything but Mail Chimp for bulk mail sends. On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Rob Voyle wrote: > > Hi Folks > > Robert details all the steps to keeping an email list "clean

Re: local install - ses non working(I think)

2014-12-23 Thread Maureen
ddogs.com > > I guess my actual question, rephrased better, is why does this work on > crystaltech but not on my new cf11 install? I'm not sure of the cf version > for ct. I'm sorry I was not clear. > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Maureen wrote: > >>

Re: local install - ses non working(I think)

2014-12-23 Thread Maureen
It is fairly clear that the path you are using for the include is invalid. It needs to be a physical path, not a url, and I doubt if your physical path includes /site_ theartoflovingcatsanddogs_com/index.cfm/cfid/2/cftoken/60648468/index.cfm Are you using a variable to build the include path?

Re: Moving to Railo

2014-12-23 Thread Maureen
Railo is excellent. The community around Railo is excellent. The Google group for Railo, which I think you have already found is one of the best resources for support of a product that I have experienced. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/railo The installers are out there, including one

Re: how to diagnose a potential bottleneck

2014-12-02 Thread Maureen
If I had to diagnose this, I would start with making sure that none of the function calls or cfinvokes are endlessly recursing. Then I would make sure none of the database queries are hanging. On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Don wrote: > > Got this custom e-commerce app that is basically going

Re: how to diagnose a potential bottleneck

2014-12-02 Thread Maureen
Sounds like they need a new host. Is that an option? On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Don wrote: > >> Sounds like it's time to move on. >> >> On 12/2/14, 1:11 PM, Don wrote: >> > I'm not recieving much in the way of information from the host >> anymore. Seems they might not like me poking around

Re: Avoiding a boat load of queries inserting multiple records - Better Way?

2014-10-09 Thread Maureen
I would probably use a trigger to do the second insert. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Les Mizzell wrote: > I'll give this a try. It's got to be way less processor intensive than > running multiple queries for each insert. > Still, looks the stored procedure will be the "less load on the serve

Re: First Data Global Gateway e4 sample code

2014-09-22 Thread Maureen
I have a client who uses First Data, but the gateway code is in PHP. I could take a crack at doing a CF version if you still need it. On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > > According to zendesk, the file with the ColdFusion sample code does not > exist. I'm using php code a

Re: Querying a comma separated list

2014-08-27 Thread Maureen
Your query should be: select * from pgallery where gtype = 1 if you only want items with a gtype of 1 or select * from pgallery where gtype IN (1,2,3,4) if you want multiple types. You can also set a variable of such as gtypelist ="1,2,3,4) then do select * from pgallery where gtype IN (#gtypelis

Re: Excel Problem...

2014-08-24 Thread Maureen
Have you tried naming the spreadsheet with an xlsx extension. On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Les Mizzell wrote: > > I've got an application running on CF8 that's been successfully > generating Excel reports for a good amount of time. > Recently, the user upgraded Office (using 2013 now) -

Re: ColdFusion / authorize.net question

2014-08-18 Thread Maureen
Glad to be of help, and don't worry about the boneheadedness. I spent hours last week trying to debug a similar issue with a form only to discover I had a minus sign where I needed an equal sign. Stuff happens. On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Eric Bourland wrote: > > Maureen, you

Re: ColdFusion / authorize.net question

2014-08-18 Thread Maureen
> field to x_last_name and not have to deal with the javascript at all. > > Dean, Maureen: I agree that simple is best. So, I dispensed with cfset, and > used this: > > > > > Enter Last Name: > > ...but ColdFusion objects to the syntax of this line: > >

Re: ColdFusion / authorize.net question

2014-08-18 Thread Maureen
but in order for this to work, you need to have a form field with name="lastname" and you don't appear to have that in the code you posted. And I agree with Roger that renaming the field names to the variable name you need to send is the simpler solution. On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Eri

Re: CFGrid filter stops working after move from CF10 to CF11

2014-07-22 Thread Maureen
I didn't see scopes on the variables in your return statement. Not sure if that matters, but I would scope them just in case. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Hait wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Maureen wrote: > >> >> I know some things have c

Re: CFGrid filter stops working after move from CF10 to CF11

2014-07-22 Thread Maureen
I know some things have changed with scope over the last few versions but not sure what changed when. Local scope for functions was added at some point. Make sure you are scoping all variables and declaring any that need to be with var. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Stephen Hait wrote: > > A

Re: CFGrid filter stops working after move from CF10 to CF11

2014-07-22 Thread Maureen
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Stephen Hait wrote: > Does anyone know why the WHERE clauses in the query appear to be ignored > when running the app with CF11 but work correctly with CF10? > > Or does anyone have a suggestion of how to best debug this? I can't seem to > figure out how to view t

Re: help

2014-07-17 Thread Maureen
As I told you four days ago: Instead of a physical path like C:\magedirector\imagename.ext you need a url like http://domainname.com/imagedirectory/imagename.ext You use the physical path to determine if the file exists, but you need the url to display it. On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Matt

Re: AWeber Email List Management

2014-07-15 Thread Maureen
I don't see why not. If you are going to do that, there are several options other than PHP as well. Or you could just call the php page on your form action instead of a cfm page. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Byron Mann wrote: > > Is installing php and using the php lib via cfexecute an op

Re: AWeber Email List Management

2014-07-15 Thread Maureen
The PHP version of the AWeber stuff doesn't look like it would that hard to convert to Coldfusion. Pretty straight forward code. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Dean Lawrence wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion Russ, > > Unfortunately, my client already settled on using AWeber. > > > On Mon,

Re: help

2014-07-13 Thread Maureen
Yeah...my bad. I have never used CFCATCH without a type, so I forgot it was optional. On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Dave Watts wrote: > > This is all very accurate except for one portion. CFCATCH doesn't > require a type. It's generally recommended that you specify a type, > but in the abse

Re: help

2014-07-13 Thread Maureen
Yes, this code is broken. You have a logic error. The code inside the CFCATCH will only execute of the code in the CFTRY fails. The syntax on the CFCATCH tag is wrong as you have no type declared, and the code on the first line inside the CFCATCH is the same as what you just tried. So if it fai

Re: Locks on Access files in CF 9

2014-07-03 Thread Maureen
Access is actually not bad as a user interface. When I have clients who are using it, I migrate the data to production level database then use the Access link table function to allow them to continue to use the interface without needing to recreate it in another tool, or retrain them for a differ

Re: The state of Statlessness

2014-07-03 Thread Maureen
Try this: https://sites.google.com/site/sarittechworld/track-client-windows On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:36 PM, UXB wrote: > > > Has anyone come up with a way to make this determination? The solution does > not need to be bullet proof just best try. I am trying to prevent or warn a > user from vis

Re: CAN THIS PLEASE BE THE END? Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-28 Thread Maureen
The scenario you describe is vastly different than me telling my clients if they want the next version of my software to be secure they have to download and install a beta with known problems, test it, record flaws, suggest features and solicit votes for those flaws to be fixed and the features to

Re: CAN THIS PLEASE BE THE END? Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-28 Thread Maureen
Oh, does he work at Adobe now? On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > For the Love of God > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Maureen wrote: > >> >> There are people doing that, and their entries are being closed >> without com

Re: CAN THIS PLEASE BE THE END? Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-28 Thread Maureen
There are people doing that, and their entries are being closed without comment, even when they request comment. So what's the point? Also, QA and debugging are usually paid positions, except for open source software. If Adobe wants to make CF open source, I will be happy to volunteer some time

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-28 Thread Maureen
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Raymond Camden wrote: > > Right - but you said Adobe was ignoring this. Please back your statement > up. I said the CF team could possibly do more. But I do not agree that they > are ignoring the issue. I did not say Adobe was ignoring the issue, I said that som

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-27 Thread Maureen
Honestly, if you are selling a software product that requires additional lock down after installation, you might could get the attention of those hiding in their cubicle by putting a large notice of such at the beginning of the installation instructions. No one should have to find out about softw

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-27 Thread Maureen
tions the procedures that Abode uses. It is not helpful. A much better tactic might be to consider the suggestions for improvement as valuable instead of constantly dismissing them out of hand. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Raymond Camden wrote: > Users must take some responsibility too,

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-27 Thread Maureen
company had no place in the solution. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Raymond Camden wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Maureen wrote: > >> >> And that "direction on how to secure it more" exists where exactly? >> Is it in the install instruction

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-27 Thread Maureen
And that "direction on how to secure it more" exists where exactly? Is it in the install instructions, or only in some obscure document that a person unfamiliar with the need for security might not know about? On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:16 AM, DURETTE, STEVEN J wrote: > > > We can't please everyo

Re: Adobe Installers

2014-03-22 Thread Maureen
e it works > better for you. > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Maureen wrote: > >> >> I rest my case. >> >> Creative Cloud Version 1.5.0.367 released on 3/19/2014 >> >> Fixed multiple Creative Cloud desktop app download failures. >> Up

Re: Adobe Installers

2014-03-22 Thread Maureen
I rest my case. Creative Cloud Version 1.5.0.367 released on 3/19/2014 Fixed multiple Creative Cloud desktop app download failures. Updated installation error messages for better comprehension. On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Maureen wrote: > I will concede that once I got the downl

Re: Adobe Installers

2014-03-18 Thread Maureen
to *start* those updates, right? > > I guess it just depends on your point of view - but for me - and many > others - the experience of using the CC app to handle installing/updating > is *incredibly* simpler compared to the past. > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Maureen

Adobe Installers

2014-03-18 Thread Maureen
So after the conversation last night, I tried to check for an update to Dreamweaver. Selecting the update menu item in Dreamweaver told me my version of Abode Application Manager was corrupt. I went to the website, searched for Adobe Application Manager and was given this link: https://creative.a

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-18 Thread Maureen
This is probably not the thread for this discussion but yes I have CC but I installed it when it was first released and have only done updates as notified since. It's been over a year, and what I was remember was a messy install that required me to install a tool to do the downloads, did not allo

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-18 Thread Maureen
I haven't found it to be simple or quick. But it's been a while since I did the last install. Perhaps they have improved it. On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Raymond Camden wrote: > > You don't find the CC installer to be a heck of a lot simpler? Click the > menu - click a product - download -

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-18 Thread Maureen
To be fair, I posted that before I saw his post about it not being his choice. My statement however, stands. ROI on a conversion from CF to PHP simply for security reasons trends to nil. The only good reason I've ever heard for the switch is the cost of CF server software, and now that Railo ex

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-18 Thread Maureen
Hating CF is like hating a hammer. Hating PHP is like hating a huge rock you are forced to use on the nails because the client won't let you use a hammer. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:09 PM, AJ Mercer wrote: > > CFers are just as bad - take a look back on the PHP comments in this thread > :-P ~~~

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-18 Thread Maureen
The worst part of any Adobe software is the install process. Always has been. Not sure who determines how the installers work but would love to stake them out on an anthill. I've postponed new hardware purchases simply because I don't have time to reinstall all the Abode software I use for audio

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-18 Thread Maureen
Ditto. I can code PHP fluently, but I charge twice as much as for CF coding and it takes twice as long. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:52 PM, <> wrote: > > And I will add the PHP is the uglyest language I've ever seen in about a 40 > years career. ~

Re: "The long tail of ColdFusion fail"

2014-03-18 Thread Maureen
Yeah, because no PHP site has ever been hacked. Your clients would be much smarter to spend their money on a secure host than refactoring into a language that doesn't buy them one ounce more security. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Robert Harrison wrote: > > We're not releasing any more CF s

Re: Which NoSQL?

2013-11-01 Thread Maureen
Relational databases have worked perfectly for managing data for decades,so unless you can make a clear business case for switching, you might want to consider cleaning up the existing database instead of invoking the learning curve and complexity of moving to a NOSql database. Simply because th

Re: Hosting

2013-10-22 Thread Maureen
Viviotech - best hosting company I have ever encountered. On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Robert Harrison wrote: > > I know this has been asked 100 times before, but it looks like I need a > new cf hosts that can host enterprise level sites. Any recommendations? > ~

Re: More Mail woes with Gmail with ColdFusion

2013-08-29 Thread Maureen
Documentation for Google Apps: http://support.google.com/a/?hl=en Calendar of Changes: http://whatsnew.googleapps.com/ On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Andrew Scott wrote: > > Thanks Russ, just trying to see if there has been any changes in the last 6 > weeks. Reason being is that this is when

Re: SOT: Client wants CMS that functions similar to Joomla, for example

2013-07-23 Thread Maureen
As content management systems go, Joomla is a good one, but it doesn't replace a programmer for anything other than changing the content on the site, which is something I usually want to give to the users anyhow. Joomla requires installation and security updates, and some degree of training, I d

Re: odd (I think) ajax related problem

2013-05-21 Thread Maureen
Are you getting an error? If so, what is it? If not, I suspect the large number of values for the form select may be killing your page render. Are you having the same results in all browsers? On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Stephens, Larry V wrote: > > 1. Load a page > 2. Use an ajax call an

Re: Slow-starting jrun service

2013-05-17 Thread Maureen
Typical causes of excessive files in the windows temp folder are software installs and updates, software crashes, and email attachments being left open. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Patti, Michael wrote: > I suspect that the windows temp files were the culprit, and I'm going to work > with

Re: (ot) Online Learning Platforms

2013-04-25 Thread Maureen
Moodle works fairly well once installed and configured, but the learning curve is steep, and the code is complex, so be aware that integrating it into a CF site will not be without problems. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Parker wrote: > > Not CF if you had that in mind but this has popp

Re: Date Ranges: Drop Down Menus vs Calendar Based

2013-04-16 Thread Maureen
I agree with you, but I have multiple clients who have insisted on the calendar method, so I pulled out much hair and got it working, even in bootstrap. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Matt Blatchley wrote: > > After looking into multiple types of jQuery based calendar selectors used > in sett

Re: Has anyone dealing with PCI-Compliance seem this?

2013-04-01 Thread Maureen
I have vague memories of that being an issue with HP buffer overflow, but it has been years. Google of "HP dced" says problems on port 135, but again this is really old. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/369697 On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: > > I've been trying t

Re: Curmudgeon painted in a corner

2013-03-18 Thread Maureen
Likely referring to the cost of purchase. Macs are pricy little buggers. On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > I don't understand the statement of a Mac owning me. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Re: CF running out of steam

2013-03-18 Thread Maureen
e the client was more ethical than she was and called me promptly to let me know what she was doing. On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Jenny Gavin-Wear wrote: > > Try IBM, or Olivetti . and most others? > > -Original Message- > From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] &

Re: CF running out of steam

2013-03-18 Thread Maureen
As someone who has had to make IT purchasing decisions for several large corporations and government agencies over the years, I only hope Abobe never mimics Oracle's marketing strategy. Those folks are sharks, relentless to the point where I banned them from the office at one company. On Mon, Ma

Re: CF running out of steam

2013-03-13 Thread Maureen
I moved 77 sites from Abode CF to Railo without changing one line of code, and they are all functional and performing better than they did on ACF. YMMV. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Gerald Guido wrote: > >. I have been in denial for far too long, Unless > Railo or OBD can spark interest lik

Re: CF running out of steam

2013-03-13 Thread Maureen
Probably true, but a menu link to the CF home page on the abode.com page under the Web Development and HTML section would be nice. There is even an empty space for it. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Raymond Camden wrote: > > Oh I think the home page is great. > > http://www.adobe.com/products

Re: Anyone see anything wrong with the syntax of the query?

2013-03-07 Thread Maureen
At some point, you want to verify that you are passing an actual threadid (to use your example) and not a sql statement that someone has appended to the url as threadid. If you simply use the url variable you aren't doing that. If your cfqueryparm is checking for an integer you would probably be

Re: Anyone see anything wrong with the syntax of the query?

2013-03-07 Thread Maureen
Anyone who uses a url variable in a sql statement - even with cfqueryparm - is simply asking for trouble. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Russ Michaels wrote: > > Ok found an example for you. > > www.codersrevolution.com/index.cfm/2008/7/22/When-will-cfqueryparam-NOT-protect-me >

Re: SOT: Graphic Artist Software for HTML CSS

2013-02-22 Thread Maureen
Photoshop is very powerful for all aspects of image creation and manipulation, but there is absolutely nothing intuitive about the interface. It was the hardest software for me to learn in all my years in the industry. Fortunately, I have a son who is a PS expert, so I can call him when I get in

Re: Hosting A to Z

2013-02-18 Thread Maureen
What he said. If I have to spend two hours a month dealing with bad tech support at a hosting company, I have wasted more billable time than my hosting costs at VivioTech, where I get excellent support within minutes. On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18,

Re: Hosting A to Z

2013-02-15 Thread Maureen
VivioTech has the best customer service that I've encountered in nearly forty years in technology. I highly recommend them. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Eric Bourland wrote: > > I've mentioned before how competent and pro-active are the folks at > Viviotech. > ~~

Re: (ot) Fed Reserve Hack

2013-02-07 Thread Maureen
The Fed does use contractors but the background check is extensive, and the access to the banking systems are very closely guarded. They do have some Coldfusion sites, mostly forward facing and not connected to secure areas of the bank. This hack looks like it hit an email alert system for disas

Re: Weird problem with IFRAME

2012-12-14 Thread Maureen
If this is exact code, it looks like you need a space between mondossier.cfm and type=#type# On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM, <> wrote: > > Hi, > One of my customers is having a very weird problem with an IFRAME in my > site. > Here is the code in file mondossier.cfm: > FRAMEBORDER="0" >

Re: ColdFusion .Net add new site in IIS integration

2012-10-25 Thread Maureen
Have you verified that all appropriate ports are open and that this is not a firewall issue? On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Akos Fortagh wrote: > > thanks Russ, we believe we have tried all that on your list and still > getting the same error. > We must be overlooking something obvious, but if

Re: Inline logic vs CFC vs SP

2012-10-23 Thread Maureen
I put all interaction with the database in CFCs, with each action happening once so that the same result always comes back regardless of where the logic for the database activity is needed. If you write, test and debug these CFCs as an early step in your project, downstream development that uses

Re: (ot) How compatible is SQLServer 2012 with SQL Server 2005 databases?

2012-09-14 Thread Maureen
tter to install only the SQL2005 on my laptops. > > Cheers > Mike Kear > AFP Webworks > Windsor, NSW, Australia. > > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Maureen wrote: > > > > > 2005 databases will likely run without problem once upgraded to 2012 - > bu

Re: (ot) How compatible is SQLServer 2012 with SQL Server 2005 databases?

2012-09-14 Thread Maureen
2005 databases will likely run without problem once upgraded to 2012 - but you won't be able to take those databases back to a 2005 server and run them once you've upgraded them. The issues are here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144256.aspx - especially the link at the bottom for ba

Re: Anyone having issues with godaddy DNS? I can't even pull up their website.

2012-09-11 Thread Maureen
Considering the way the hacker described this on twitter and the length of time between his initial taunt and when the sites went down, I suspect more to it than a DDOS. It sounds almost like he had his hand on the rhetorical "switch" and he turned it off. On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Russ M

Re: Handling Flat Files

2012-09-07 Thread Maureen
Changing the method you use to extract the data has no impact on traffic, unless he means traffic between the ColdFusion server and the Database server. Depending on the size of the file, you will get much better performance from a relational database than you will iterating over a sequential fil

Re: SOT: Thoughts on Hostek?

2012-08-31 Thread Maureen
I agree completely about Vivio. Great folks. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Gerald Guido wrote: > > >> You **will not** find a better host in the CFML world. Period. > > 1++ for what Matt said. Hands down the best hosting company I have ever > dealt with and I have had (and worked for a coupl

Re: web.config in web root

2012-08-28 Thread Maureen
or your convenience, since you > shouldn't > > have any CF admin access. > > > > Byron Mann > > Lead Engineer and Architect > > Hostmysite.com > > On Aug 28, 2012 3:06 AM, "Maureen" wrote: > > > > -- > > Russ Michaels > > www.

Re: web.config in web root

2012-08-28 Thread Maureen
Yes, but would the web.config file be in the web root directory? On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Andrew Scott wrote: > > ColdFusion 9, and all IIS 7 sites when making changes to the website on IIS > will make changes and create a web.config file. This is normal. > ~~~

web.config in web root

2012-08-28 Thread Maureen
I have a client with a site on a shared host. Yesterday, the site was throwing 500 server errors and reporting that files in CFIDE directory could not be found. The tech at the hosting company did some changes which resolved the problem. However, one of the changes involved putting the web.con

Re: Getting data from MS Access and importing into SQL.

2012-08-21 Thread Maureen
There are a lot of ways to get data from MSAccess to a SQL database. However, even though this seems cumbersome, it is an effective method, the users know how to do it, and the excel import and export tools are solid. I would leave it alone. It it ain't broke On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:38 AM,

Re: mapping question

2012-08-17 Thread Maureen
First, I would move the log files out of the webroot. Having logs under your webroot is not good security. Then do a mapping to that directory. As for writing the files, the directory will need to have write permissions (another reason for it not to be webroot). Often problems with permissions

Re: Updating SQL Lite Offline

2012-08-08 Thread Maureen
Export the data to a spreadsheet or a tab delimited file and write a macro in Access to import it and put it in the correct tables. On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Kevin Parker wrote: > > I can't see an elegant solution to this but thought I'd pose the question > here in case someone has a bette

Re: The age old Question. Which framework

2012-07-24 Thread Maureen
+1 for FW/1 That is all I am using these days, and I am moving all my sites to it. On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Will Swain wrote: > We used FW/1, Coldspring and Taffy to handle this, ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology

Re: Best practices

2012-06-21 Thread Maureen
Even worse is when they copy code directly from tutorials and have names like myTable, myQuery, myForm, foo and bar. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Justin Scott wrote: > > That reminds me of my days writing vScript for the Virtual Advanced > BBS (way back in 1995) where all of the variables w

Re: Best practices

2012-06-20 Thread Maureen
If I wrap a large amount of code in cfoutput tags, I always comment the starting and ending tags to describe what they wrap. It makes it easier to match them when debugging. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Rob Voyle wrote: > > Hi folks > > Thanks for the input and help. > I had not been thinki

Re: Indexing dynamic .cfm pages

2012-06-02 Thread Maureen
Is there a link where that technique is described? On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Brian Thornton wrote: > > I would do a url rewrite which will index them as directories.. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://w

Coldfusion and JQuery Toxeninput

2012-05-30 Thread Maureen
Are any of you using the jQuery Toxeninput plugin with Coldfusion, and if so do you have any code you could share on passing the JSON back and forth? I've read the instructions till my eyes are blurred with no success. ~| Order

Re: [ANN SYD AU] Tomorrow (Monday) Coldfusion 10 Launch

2012-05-27 Thread Maureen
Shouldn't that be May 28 as April 28 is long past. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Chris Velevitch wrote: > > Tomorrow, Monday 28th April, 6pm for 6:30 start > > Richard Turner-Jones of Adobe will be showing us Coldfusion 10 along > with Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud, from a developers >

Re: after a long hiatus back to talk about frameworks

2012-05-09 Thread Maureen
Agreed. I'm porting a number of sites to FW/1 on Railo and I've found the communities and developers for both to be extremely helpful. Also, in my experience FW/1 is much easier to implement than Fusebox. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Gerald Guido wrote: > >>> Many people believe Framework/1

Re: (ot) Large web space hosts

2012-04-26 Thread Maureen
+1 for Amazon S3. We use it for all our media storage. Affordable, easy to work with and secure. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Kevin Parker wrote: > > Thanks for the tip Raymond - that never occurred to me! > > > ++ > Kevin Parker > > ++ > > > -Original Message- > Fr

Re: Display a list of Parent and Child pages by Sort Order, with children arranged under their respective parents

2012-03-24 Thread Maureen
I would select the entire table in a query sorted by sort order, then loop over that query and do a query of queries to get the children and grandchildren for each record. On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Eric Bourland wrote: > > ColdFusion 9 > SQL Server 2005 > > Hi friends. Do you have time to

Re: Opinion: Abuse of session variables

2012-01-31 Thread Maureen
I think I ran across that guy once (lol). IMO, loading anything other the absolute minimum required info to identify a unique session into session variables is bad coding practice. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Robert Harrison wrote: > > I'm an old school programmer who watches every bit and

Re: New computer set up

2012-01-18 Thread Maureen
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Steven Durette wrote: > Just wondering what all of the guru's here install when they get a new laptop. Win 7 Ultimate 64bit Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari (and all the development plugins) AVG Anti-Virus Open Office XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) CF9 Railo Creative Suit

Re: opencfsummit.org may have saved my job

2012-01-07 Thread Maureen
True. I moved 72 sites to Railo without needing to change a single line of CF code. On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 4:54 AM, James Holmes wrote: > > As an aside, if a client wants to cut costs they can always go with Railo, > into which they can port CF code almost as-is. ~~

Re: Too much space in a name

2011-12-14 Thread Maureen
This is almost always the best choice, especially if you are storing the file name in a database and associating it to other data. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Kevin Parker wrote: > > That had occurred to me but this crowd find new ways to name files that > haven't been invented yet :-) > >

Re: Adobe Abandons Flex

2011-11-17 Thread Maureen
Nevertheless, I stand by it, and my government clients aren't the ones stuck on IE6. On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Dave Watts wrote: > > > Marrying themselves to proprietary technology was wrong 15 years ago, and > > it's still wrong now. Unfortunately for the taxpayers and consumers, > we'

Re: Adobe Abandons Flex

2011-11-17 Thread Maureen
Marrying themselves to proprietary technology was wrong 15 years ago, and it's still wrong now. Unfortunately for the taxpayers and consumers, we're the ones who have to pick up the tab when the obsolete tech bites them. On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Roger Austin wrote: > > Many companies w

Re: Adobe Abandons Flex

2011-11-16 Thread Maureen
I've been "around" since 1952, so yeah, I was there for the browser wars. It wasn't a luxury to make the sites work for all browsers, it was a necessity, and should have been part of the budget for every project, although I know it wasn't. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:49 PM, andy matthews wrote: >

Re: Adobe Abandons Flex

2011-11-16 Thread Maureen
I'm not writing apps that target any browser. I'm writing apps that work in all of them. And I consider it bad practice not to do so. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:42 PM, andy matthews wrote: > > Not fair to say "stupid enough". > > Many of those apps were written back when IE6 was 80-90% of the b

Re: Adobe Abandons Flex

2011-11-16 Thread Maureen
> On 11/16/11 5:22 PM, Maureen wrote: > > This makes no sense to me. I can understand a business or government > > office being slow to upgrade to new software if cost were involved, but > IE > > upgrades are free, and

Re: Adobe Abandons Flex

2011-11-16 Thread Maureen
This makes no sense to me. I can understand a business or government office being slow to upgrade to new software if cost were involved, but IE upgrades are free, and would certainly be more secure and productive. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Dan Crouch wrote: > > Just for a frame of refer

Re: Adobe drops Flsh for mobile devices

2011-11-10 Thread Maureen
I love you both and am forever grateful for all you do. I'll send chocolates. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Dave Watts wrote: > > > Btw, Dave, if I haven't mentioned it recently, thank you for all you > > do for the community and I definitely owe you a beverage of your > > choice if we happ

Re: ColdFusion Hosting Recommendations

2011-11-04 Thread Maureen
Sites like Trip Adviser have the best model. Every review is held in abeyance until a member of the staff approves it On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Steve Bryant wrote: > > Russ, > > That is certainly a concern and I do have some steps in place to combat > that. At the same time, I am really t

Re: JVM Heap Size

2011-10-05 Thread Maureen Barger
There's also tons of profilers out there for the Sun JVM. Rather than throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks, install one and watch your app(s) for a while. Perhaps your RMI interval could be longer, GC method be different, heap size smaller or larger etc. And on the other side of the coi

Re: SOT: Workstation recommendations

2011-09-08 Thread Maureen
I've had three HP computers die in the last month. I'm currently using a 13 year old Sony Vaio that still works perfectly. Sony gets my money for the next purchase. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Matt Williams wrote: > > Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what > bra

Re: (ot) Recover Data from External Hard Drive

2011-08-29 Thread Maureen
If you absolutely must have the data, there are several excellent data recovery companies, but as someone else mentioned, they are costly. I've use Drive Savers in Novato, CA http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/ and Disk Doctors in Norcross, GA http://www.diskdoctors.com/ with great success. W

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