Re: Apache + Virtual hosts with CF

2008-08-15 Thread Paul Stewart
i have managed to get apache working with CF8 no problem . Thank you Aron West. He wrote a great article on this in the latest Fusion Authority Quarterly Update . However the new cf ajax features don't respond at all on my apache sites. I know in IIS, in spite of ruinning the web server

Re: Free BlueDragon?

2008-08-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 14 Aug 2008, Dave Watts wrote: Adobe/Macromedia gave this impression by stating this in several places. Really ? I know they don't sell JRun anymore, but when they did they said it was ace. Also, the JRun web server has practically no functionality beyond serving pages. Other

Re: Apache + Virtual hosts with CF

2008-08-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 15 Aug 2008, Paul Stewart wrote: I think this is what i need to do with apache but i don't have the first idea how to do it. Any apache gurus know how to go about this? Simplist thing is to copy the CFIDE folder into your web root. Make sure to remove the administrator files and keep

Re: Need a Google Analytic like reporting tools for CF Application

2008-08-15 Thread David Stockton
We're releasing a new tool called FusionAnalytics soon. This will allow you= to analyse all sorts of data. However, with our experience from ColdFusion= FusionReactor we're going to be focusing on CF at first. The tool will let you cross analyse data from your CF logs, FR logs, Web lo= gs,

Re: Free BlueDragon?

2008-08-15 Thread James Holmes
http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/adv_development/config_builtin_webserver/index.html Although you can use the ColdFusion MX built-in web server for developing, testing, and debugging ColdFusion applications, Macromedia does not recommend that you use it for deployment. That's from 2002.

Re: Free BlueDragon?

2008-08-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 15 Aug 2008, James Holmes wrote: That's from 2002. Yeah, I think 5 years of further development could, maybe, have improved things I tad. -- Tom Chiverton This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP

Re: Free BlueDragon?

2008-08-15 Thread Andy Allan
They do still sell JRun ... they just aren't doing any more work to it other than security fixes, platform support, etc. £759+VAT :) Andy 2008/8/15 Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 14 Aug 2008, Dave Watts wrote: Adobe/Macromedia gave this impression by stating this in several

RE: Outputting columned UL tags

2008-08-15 Thread Jenny Gavin-Wear
Hi Dave, I totally agree. For many on this list who work as independent freelancers, CF-TALK is their link to the outside world. I've had (and when I can can, try to give) great help from many people on the list, but there are occasions when I feel all I've had in answer to

Re: Outputting columned UL tags

2008-08-15 Thread Scott Stewart
Jenny, You're absolutely right, I think that folks (myself included) need to remember that the experience level on this list runs from noob to god-like. What may seem like an obvious answer to some, may not be to others, and sometimes people post just to get another set of eyes looking at

information security training/certification

2008-08-15 Thread Dan Crouch
I have been in a CF developer role for about 9 years now and have recently moved in to a director of development role. I am laying out an action plan to move into a CSO/CSIO type role and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what good training or certifications might be to put

cfcache - doesn't work

2008-08-15 Thread Jeff Becker
Why doesn't this work? cfcache action=flush expireURL=*/view.cfm?id=* I know the code is running and I know the URL matches. Hmmm ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date

MIVA

2008-08-15 Thread Steve Bryant
I am planning some e-commerce work with a client of mine and they have read about MIVA and they are very impressed by it. I have read a bit about it, but I have to confess that I don't feel like I really understand what it is or the advantage it offers. The site is currently using a

Re: cfcache - doesn't work

2008-08-15 Thread Jeff Becker
I'm just dumb. We were caching in a different directory then the default (default=cf_root/cache). cfcache action=flush expireURL=*/view.cfm?id=* directory=/our_cache_dir/ now works. :) ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is

Re: MIVA

2008-08-15 Thread Wil Genovese
I do not know much (anything) about Miva, but I knew a guy ages ago that did. Matt Zur. Here is his website. http://zurnet.com/dl/hsmvtb/index.shtml Wil Genovese On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Steve Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning some e-commerce work with a client of mine

Re: MIVA

2008-08-15 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
I am planning some e-commerce work with a client of mine and they have read about MIVA and they are very impressed by it. I have read a bit about it, but I have to confess that I don't feel like I really understand what it is or the advantage it offers. While I've not used it myself I do

Re: MIVA

2008-08-15 Thread Josh Nathanson
Oh gosh, run fast in the other direction. The company I'm with now was using Miva when I got here (this was a couple of years ago). It is written in a proprietary language which is specific to Miva. So unless you want to learn that language, you'll be dependent on using modules written by

CF app server compilation on demand

2008-08-15 Thread Don L
I recall some of us pushed for Adobe to reduce CF8 price and I think I understand their rationale. The efforts did not come throgh as one would desire... Here's a thought, if Adobe put in a bit of effort to allow the option of compilation of CF8 app server on demand, then, aside from gov

Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-15 Thread Don L
Sorry for the top posting, where are we now in terms of best practice for cf8 protection again sql injection attack? Going through 136+ posts seems a bit too much, many thanks. Some one who has closely monitored this thread probably could help. Sorry for the problems with the House of Fusion

Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-15 Thread Justin Scott
Sorry for the top posting, where are we now in terms of best practice for cf8 protection again sql injection attack? Going through 136+ posts seems a bit too much, many thanks. Some one who has closely monitored this thread probably could help. The same place we've always been: *

Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-15 Thread Don L
But I know all this, I thought the sql injection attack went beyond it, thanks anyway, Justin. The same place we've always been: * Validate user input * Use CFQUERYPARAM For applications that have old code, run a tool that will tell you what queries need to be updated or run a

Re: could not find the included template

2008-08-15 Thread Jeff Davis
Guys, Either I'm walking in the footsteps of giants... OR the more things change, the more they stay the same! I'm getting coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag$NoSuchIncludeTemplateException: Could not find the included template ..\jobs/exception.circuit.cfm. when viewing a page to view my jobs.

Re: MIVA

2008-08-15 Thread Melissa Cope
The site is currently using a third-party ColdFusion shopping cart. What would the advantages/disadvantages be of switching to MIVA. Does anyone have any experience with MIVA? I agree 100% with Josh for exactly the reason he said. MIVA is certainly robust, but all the CF programmers in our

Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-15 Thread Charlie Griefer
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Don L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I know all this, I thought the sql injection attack went beyond it, thanks anyway, Justin. it did not. -- A byte walks into a bar and orders a pint. Bartender asks him What's wrong? Byte says Parity error. Bartender nods

Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-15 Thread Justin Scott
But I know all this, I thought the sql injection attack went beyond it, thanks anyway, Justin. Not as far as technique, but it was much larger in scale than most of us have experience before. Some were getting hit so hard they had to filter it farther up the chain (IIS, firewall, etc.) but

Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-15 Thread Wil Genovese
As an FYI: for those that did use Apache configs to stop this attack, if you did not make sure your check was not case sensitive your being hit again. I just saw this start coming into our logs this afternoon: Note that DECLARE changed to DeCLARE. Some of the posts I saw for people to modify

Testing for existence of Java library?

2008-08-15 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
Hopefully simple question. How would I test for the existence of a specific Java library (specifically, iCal4j)? Thanks Pete ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free

Re: Testing for existence of Java library?

2008-08-15 Thread Barney Boisvert
You could attempt to load one of it's classes and catch the resulting exception if it's missing. Based on whether that exception is raised you'll know whether it's available. cheers, barneyb On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Pete Ruckelshaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully simple question.

RE: Testing for existence of Java library?

2008-08-15 Thread Dave Watts
Hopefully simple question. How would I test for the existence of a specific Java library (specifically, iCal4j)? Use an exception handler around your CreateObject call. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber

Re: Testing for existence of Java library?

2008-08-15 Thread Brad Wood
You mean, like check to see if the jar exists? I've never found a way to do it without simply trying to create an instance of it in a try catch block. ~Brad - Original Message - From: Pete Ruckelshaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Friday, August 15,

Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-15 Thread Claude Schneegans
Going through 136+ posts seems a bit too much, many thanks. Arn't you affraid to get even more if you start another thread again? ;-) -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to

Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-15 Thread Claude Schneegans
Not as far as technique, but it was much larger in scale than most of us have experience before. By the way, are you still getting hits from this attack? I don't see any anymore. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See

Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-15 Thread Brad Wood
They completely stopped on the 11th, but they are back to day spelling it like DeCLARE. ~Brad - Original Message - From: Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 5:32 PM Subject: Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

Setting base url in application.cfc

2008-08-15 Thread John P
Hi, I'm interested in setting a base url in my application.cfc which I will be able to reference from all .cfm pages. I've tried it in onReqestStart and onApplicationStart and it doesn't seem to be working, I get a variable base is undefined error. cffunction name=onRequestStart

Re: Setting base url in application.cfc

2008-08-15 Thread Barney Boisvert
You can only set to the variables scope from onRequest, which has some limitations on use. From onRequestStart, you can set into the request, session, application, and server scopes. cheers, barneyb On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:51 PM, John P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm interested in

Re: Lean, 'mean' cf8

2008-08-15 Thread Daniel Jimenez
So don't use JRun then, CF8 is a proper J2EE app. In other J2EE servers you have to have a whole coldfusion instance running for each WAR. Talk about a memory hog! ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and

Re: Lean, 'mean' cf8

2008-08-15 Thread Daniel Jimenez
So don't use JRun then, CF8 is a proper J2EE app. In other J2EE servers you have to have a whole coldfusion instance running for each WAR. Talk about a memory hog! ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and

Re: Setting base url in application.cfc

2008-08-15 Thread Mike Chabot
Try setting application.urlBase in the OnApplicationStart section, unless you really want this to be in the variables scope. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can only set to the variables scope from onRequest, which has some limitations

Re: Lean, 'mean' cf8

2008-08-15 Thread James Holmes
That's how it works in JRun too. On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Daniel Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So don't use JRun then, CF8 is a proper J2EE app. In other J2EE servers you have to have a whole coldfusion instance running for each WAR. Talk about a memory hog! -- mxAjax / CFAjax

Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-15 Thread Al Musella, DPM
And changed EXEC to ExEC I am getting hit pretty hard again. It stopped for a few days but they are back. At 06:56 PM 8/15/2008, you wrote: They completely stopped on the 11th, but they are back to day spelling it like DeCLARE. ~Brad

RE: Lean, 'mean' cf8

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
Hmm let me guess... Coldfusion 6/7/8 have all been proper J2EE applications that come bundled with Jrun, and if you wish to deploy onto any other Application Server you have been able to through the entire 3 versions. So what was your point exactly? -- Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty.

Re: Lean, 'mean' cf8

2008-08-15 Thread Brad Wood
I believe Tom singled out CF8, because Don L (who originated the thread) asked his question in the specific context of CF8. Therefore, Tom responded in the same context. ~Brad - Original Message - From: Andrew Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] So what was your point exactly?

RE: Free BlueDragon?

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
Coldfusion 8 utilises extJS1.1 and since then extJS has now gone to version 2.2 My suggestion would be to look at your requirements first, if you need to extJS and it fits within your constraints on license then I would use extJS2.2 over extJS1.1 The major advantages are more widgets/gadgets

RE: Free BlueDragon?

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
openBD does support extJS, however I have not released the code I have written for release as yet. Natively no it doesn't, but that's the beauty about creating plugins for openBD. I have already got 2 extra functions that has been added to openBD, as you submit and they will realease it as a

RE: Free BlueDragon?

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
So does extJS, I started using dojo 2+ years ago. And when I was introduced to extJS, I was amazed at how much easier it actually is, my money is on extJS all the way. And coldext has tag based coldfusion tags, to do the same thing you described. Truthfully, you don't need it. But it helps to

RE: SVN in Production

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
Trust me it does I have had to close eclipse down many times, because subclipse is flakey at best. Like kill it because it would stop responding. Even those I work with in the Java world will not touch it due to its problems. And since switching I have more options, and it is faster to boot.

RE: SVN in Production

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
Yes, but can it automatically eyeball the changes you need to move to production? No it can't, if you are in a position where you make a change and it has to go live then that would be fine. But that becomes a very small percentage of people who would use that method. But when you work with

RE: SVN in Production

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
No I was not concerned about HD space, my view is simple. If it is not needed to have the Application run then it should not be there, whether there is plenty of space or not. Let me ask you something, if you didn't know about SVN and you picked up a maintenance job and came across all these

RE: Free BlueDragon?

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
Which is good if you don't have most of them installed to begin with. Have you got a blog to your xampp integration? -- Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 9015 8628 Mobile: 0404 998 273 -Original Message- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Free BlueDragon?

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
What do you mean by Jrun has no functionality but serving pages? It is an Application server that takes a request and runs that request if it can, it can run struts/sitemesh/hibernate/spring and many other frameworks and these have nothing to do with serving pages. So what is it exactly that you

RE: Free BlueDragon?

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
Adobe stopped selling JRun months maybe a year ago. If you like I can dig the email that came from Adobe that announced that it will no longer be supported or updated. If they are selling it on their website then that is an oversight on their part. Why release a public statement stating that we

RE: Testing for existence of Java library?

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
I don't know but maybe something like this Try { Var test = new Ext.GridPane(); } catch (e) { // Library not found } I suppose you don't think like that? -- Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 9015 8628 Mobile: 0404 998 273

RE: Lean, 'mean' cf8

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
Well J2EE is not designed any other way. I am yet to met one person who can justify why they build a war that would need to run with another war? As you described, think about what J2EE actually is then look at why Coldfusion Standard, php and others can. Once you move to J2EE, the world changes

RE: Lean, 'mean' cf8

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Scott
And his point is wrong, which is why I asked him to clarify it some more. Is that ok with you? -- Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 9015 8628 Mobile: 0404 998 273 -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday,

Re: SQL injection attack on House of Fusion

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Mandel
What I'm curious about, is that there seems to be noone you can report this to? I got hammered again the other day.. this time as well through whatever form fields they could find. Mark On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Al Musella, DPM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And changed EXEC to ExEC I am

Re: The next level...

2008-08-15 Thread Aaron Rouse
I am not sold that getting a BS in Computer Science/Software Engineering would be a huge stepping stone to management when you already have a 4 year degree and regardless of what it is in. Reason I am not sold is in all my years of doing IT work not one of my managers or their managers had an IT

Re: The next level...

2008-08-15 Thread Aaron Rouse
The school I am going to for this CIS degree had some tracts similar to those and one for databases. Unfortunately by the time I got to the point where I could take those classes they did away with the tracts and actually are talking about changing it from a CIS to an MIS degree. Actually would

Re: The next level...

2008-08-15 Thread Aaron Rouse
I have seen some people talking about getting MBAs and then getting I think it is called PMI certified. Might be something worth looking into. I know at the place I do the bulk of my work that they are big into Six Sigma and recall a recent job posting I was looking at asking about the PMI deal.