RE: wddx -- SQL Server 7 ?

2001-04-13 Thread Dave Watts
an add-on available from Microsoft. I don't know if you'll be able to use WDDX with this, though. The presentation is on the Fig Leaf web site; select User Groups ... CFUG ... Meeting Notes. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: Does Studio have Built-in Scripting?

2001-04-13 Thread Dave Watts
be automated using Windows Script Host. Jason Powers did a good presentation on using scripts with Studio at our last CFUG. The presentation is on the Fig Leaf web site; select User Groups ... CFUG ... Meeting Notes. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax

RE: RDS through a Proxie

2001-04-13 Thread Dave Watts
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RE: Permissions

2001-04-15 Thread Dave Watts
r CF on NT: http://www.defusion.com/articles/index.cfm?ArticleID=89 Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official boo

RE: Procedure and Function (Rambling thought)

2001-04-15 Thread Dave Watts
A function must return a single value. What language uses functions that don't? This is a bit misleading. While most languages limit what functions can return to a single variable, that variable may well be a complex data object, like an array. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http

RE: Is WDDX alive well ?

2001-04-15 Thread Dave Watts
I haven't done any new development in it lately, but I regularly use programs I wrote some time ago. The pluses: it works well, as advertised. the minuses: It is pretty verbose. Keep in mind that XML languages, in general, are pretty verbose. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http

RE: Database Normalization?

2001-04-15 Thread Dave Watts
ide better performance - and doesn't even usually provide better performance for most OLTP applications. It generally provides better performance for reporting, but unless reporting is the primary purpose of your application, you're usually much better off with a fully normalized database. Dave

RE: Database Normalization?

2001-04-15 Thread Dave Watts
?) Fourth and fifth normal forms only apply to pretty unusual circumstances, but if those circumstances occur, I'd usually recommend normalization to the greatest degree possible. For most databases, third normal form is as normalized as they can get. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.

RE: two queries (nested cfoutput?)

2001-04-15 Thread Dave Watts
. This will output each notice, followed by the subdocuments associated with that notice. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official

RE: Does Studio have Built-in Scripting?

2001-04-17 Thread Dave Watts
; and in fact, the example files are all *.js , which is what I know I use for javascript. Windows Script Host isn't a language, it's a scripting engine. You can use lots of languages with it, including JavaScript and VBScript "out-of-the-box", and Perl and Python with extra add-ons. Dave

RE: WDDX error

2001-04-22 Thread Dave Watts
) to (21:64). any idea how can i solve this? The ampersand is a symbolic character in XML and HTML. You'll need to escape any symbolic characters using the XMLFormat function before using CFWDDX. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: WDDX error

2001-04-22 Thread Dave Watts
sure you don't have anything other than the WDDX packet in your data stream? No HTML tags or anything? That's the most common cause for this problem, I think. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: WDDX error

2001-04-22 Thread Dave Watts
here's my WDDX packet data, any problem with it? the error occured on " MEG. DIATRIAZOTE " Well, the only thing I see wrong is the ampersand, which when escaped should look like this: amp; Other than that, I don't see anything. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.f

RE: What is WDDX?

2001-04-22 Thread Dave Watts
between two servers. You can pass nearly anything you like. That's just one thing you can do with WDDX. For more information, visit http://www.openwddx.org/. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: WDDX error

2001-04-22 Thread Dave Watts
it, right? If not, that's your problem. If you want to show some code, that might help. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official

RE: WDDX error

2001-04-22 Thread Dave Watts
Isn't handling of these special characters taken care of by the cfml2wddx action of the cfwddx tag? Nope. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code

RE: WDDX error

2001-04-22 Thread Dave Watts
ialize a number, you have to use the Val function at the moment of serialization to get that WDDX packet to contain a number instead of a string. On the other hand, if you serialize a recordset, that stuff generally seems to be taken care of for you. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://ww

RE: Is CF still relevant?

2001-04-23 Thread Dave Watts
harder to do in CF than ASP - you can't do it directly. The thing that keeps me coming back to CF is that, for most general tasks, it lets me do my job a lot better than the above-listed alternatives. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202

RE: Harpoon The Current Status COST

2001-04-23 Thread Dave Watts
Will this be available generally (as an add-on to CF4.5) or will this only be included in CF5? While I don't speak for Macromedia, there's nothing that would stop anyone from using it with CF 4.x. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202

RE: Session VS Client

2001-04-23 Thread Dave Watts
on multiple servers, but on a single server, session variables will perform much better, assuming that there's enough memory to hold them. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: Session VS Client

2001-04-23 Thread Dave Watts
caching queries and output to make applications faster, rather than just returning to the database for every data view? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your

RE: Session VS Client

2001-04-23 Thread Dave Watts
writes, causing the registry to grow (sometimes making the machine crash). Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book

RE: Session VS Client

2001-04-23 Thread Dave Watts
it is to read a file or query a database. That's why you cache things in memory. Keep in mind that efficiency and robustness are often antagonistic goals. Increasing performance often involves losing stability. Storing Client variables in the registry, however, is neither efficient nor robust. Dave

RE: Session VS Client

2001-04-23 Thread Dave Watts
for the duration of the page request. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com

RE: UD+Harpoon

2001-04-23 Thread Dave Watts
components from within the visual editor. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com

RE: Session VS Client

2001-04-23 Thread Dave Watts
efficient your app is if it's always crashing? I'd be the first to say that each has an appropriate place for use. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion

RE: SQL2000 server not recognized by CF 4.5

2001-04-23 Thread Dave Watts
. You can download and install MDAC 2.6 separately from http://www.microsoft.com/data/. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get

RE: CFTRY / CFCATCH questions

2001-04-24 Thread Dave Watts
foreseen, generally, unless you have some specific way to deal with the problem. That's what the general error handlers and CFERROR TYPE=exception are for. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: Duplicate answers (was: Character code for a TAB)

2001-04-24 Thread Dave Watts
(now including myself) have posted about the duplicate answers than posted the answers themselves. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox

RE: CFTRY / CFCATCH questions

2001-04-24 Thread Dave Watts
of the places it's really helped is this drug testing application I've done. Well, I guess I'd have failed the test. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
experience to get started. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
, and they feel (rightly or wrongly) that their product's survival rests with the ability to compete at the high end, since the low-end products are free. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: access odbc error

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
space on temporary disk. Are you sure you have enough free space on the disk drive when this runs? Your ISP should be able to audit that for you, if necessary. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
Anyone interested in writing a new SAMS book: Teach your coldfusion developers PHP in 5 hours? No - because it'd be too hard. On the other hand, you could easily write a book teaching PHP developers CF in 5 hours. That's why CF is worth paying for, I suppose. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf

RE: COM/MTS NT/2000 AND CF 4 .vs CF 5

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
assimilation works!). You might try writing a WSC wrapper object which calls your object. The code for that would be script (VB or JScript). You can generate one of these very easily using the Windows Script Component Wizard, available as a download from the MS Scripting site. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf

RE: FAQ POSTED: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
it's expensive. it's in the same realm as weblogic. dynamo is a VERY high-end application server. like most of these kinds of products, you have to call someone to get pricing. and if you have to ask, you can't afford it. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
to release something which lowers the ISP's cost of business, why shouldn't MM feel entitled to a piece of that, especially given the amount of programming effort that it entailed? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
should: 1. discharge everybody providing development and tech support services for CF, 2. not pay any of those people, 3. fund further development and support from the sales of their ubiquitous desktop OS (oh, wait a second...) None of those sound too likely to me. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

RE: SQL2000 server not recognized by CF 4.5

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
Has anyone heard if SQL2000 is actually slower than SQL 7.0? There's been some studies that have potentially indicated this, when run on NT 4. I suspect that SQL 2000 will probably run better with larger datasets on Windows 2000, though. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
on the high end (BEA WebLogic, etc) will simply never have. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
weight? Finally, I'd be curious what percentage of web (internet/intranet) development money comes from ISP shared-server application development and hosting. My guess is that it's pretty small, but that's just my uneducated guess. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice

RE: Storing structures in a DB

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
practically un-optimisable by the DBMS and un-tunable by the DBA. This can't be repeated enough. There's a reason we all pay huge sums of money to Oracle, Sybase and so forth - relational databases work very well, if used correctly. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
results using HTML email, you probably can't measure the less visible results of people saying screw so-and-so and their products. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your

RE: Storing structures in a DB

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
. That won't be very good at all. Again, this is one of the reasons why we pay good money for relational databases. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
-ticket item like an application server, is a place to go when things go wrong. In any case, if you're not convinced, I'm not going to convince you, and you certainly haven't convinced me. You may have convinced MM - I'll see if they start shipping me free servers. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
the choice not to buy. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
speculate on how easy it would be for MM to rule the world if they just did things our way. In my humble business experience, every business looks pretty easy until you start doing it yourself. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: Arrays and Structures storing query values

2001-04-30 Thread Dave Watts
I think you need to do it the other way around - Structures can hold arrays, I dont think arrays can store structures. No, arrays can contain structures, just as structures can contain arrays. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797

RE: OT (was Re: Filtering FAQ)

2001-04-30 Thread Dave Watts
mean that they should have, although, from the perspective of my own greedy self-interest, I'm glad they did. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code

RE: More locking confusion...

2001-05-01 Thread Dave Watts
Pro customers vulnerable? There's a separate patch for Pro. Unfortunately, I don't know where on the Allaire site it can be found. You might have to contact Allaire tech support. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: OT but VIQ: Denial of Service Attacks - UPDATE

2001-05-01 Thread Dave Watts
://www.trustedsystems.com/tss_nsa_guide.htm This doesn't have too much to do with web services specifically, but provides a clear description of basic use of ACLs, which is essential for securing your web server. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797

RE: IIS 5 and CF 4.5.1 sp2

2001-05-01 Thread Dave Watts
a regular ISAPI extension. To remove the filter, you'll need to go into the registry: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC Somewhere within this key, I believe under Parameters\Script Map or something like that, there'll be a value with your ISCFFILT.DLL in it. Simply remove this value. Dave

RE: yet another cfscript question

2001-05-01 Thread Dave Watts
, there's no trick to finding out what works in CFSCRIPT. Just try your favorite JavaScript syntax, but just remember that you can't use JavaScript operators. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: question using IIf AND CF5

2001-05-02 Thread Dave Watts
. IIf and Evaluate both take strings and, well, evaluate them as if those strings were code. This is generally a slow thing to do in most programming languages. A simple CFIF just executes the code you give it. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202

RE: locking sessions in 4.0 and 4.5 compatible way

2001-05-02 Thread Dave Watts
Automatic Read Locking. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http

RE: Changing Default Site error page

2001-05-02 Thread Dave Watts
of luck, unless you're handy with a binary editor. My guess is that it's embedded in the module used to connect the web server to CF; on IIS, for example, that would be ISCF.DLL. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: CF Studio: Removing System Data Sources from List

2001-05-02 Thread Dave Watts
the service. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail

RE: IE 6 (whistler)

2001-05-03 Thread Dave Watts
of these things have much to do with IE 6, specifically. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http

RE: Flash CGI.HTTP_Referer

2001-05-03 Thread Dave Watts
, as a side note, you can't rely on HTTP_REFERER for security, since it's sent by the browser, and therefore can easily be tampered with. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure

RE: CF Using 90-100% of processor time (911!)

2001-05-03 Thread Dave Watts
Would any of the log files give you a hint as to which pages were accessed when the server started using up resources? Not necessarily, although there is a log slow pages option which can be enabled in CF Administrator. Often, the slow pages will be the ones causing trouble! Dave Watts, CTO

RE: Delimiters

2001-05-03 Thread Dave Watts
in by somebody, given a large enough sample of people. If you're building the lists yourself, I'd recommend using a non-printable ASCII character as the delimiter. I usually use Chr(7) - the bell character. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202

RE: Delimiters

2001-05-03 Thread Dave Watts
=~|* cfoutput#i#/cfoutputbr /cfloop /body /html Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com

RE: ODBC is EXTREMELY SLOW!

2001-05-03 Thread Dave Watts
on an equivalent machine just fine. It's not just Access that is slow. Any ODBC database I create runs at a snails pace. Is there any reason why the ODBC stuff would crawl but OLEDB runs normally? Have you updated your version of MDAC to one of the later versions? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf

RE: CF Studio and UltraDev Merging!

2001-05-03 Thread Dave Watts
Subject: CF Studio and UltraDev Merging! Read This: http://www.allaire.com/products/ColdFusion/productinformation/ tools.cfm According to this, they're simply going to sell the separate Studio and Ultradev products as a bundle. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com

RE: Spell Checking??

2001-05-04 Thread Dave Watts
as you don't need to have everybody running it at once. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http

RE: Requesttimeout

2001-05-04 Thread Dave Watts
of my knowledge, the only place you can use RequestTimeout is within the URL. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book

RE: MDAC Question

2001-05-04 Thread Dave Watts
of MDAC 2.5 SP1, or, if you're using SQL 2000, MDAC 2.6. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http

RE: locking sessions in 4.0 and 4.5 compatible way

2001-05-04 Thread Dave Watts
insists that locks use the scope attribute and not the name attribute. What version of 4.5.1 are you using? I tested this with SP2, I think, but I could certainly be wrong. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: IIS Script Mapping Limit?

2001-05-05 Thread Dave Watts
for the server's lifespan after the first request that uses the extension. So, you wouldn't want any more individual ISAPI extensions loaded than necessary. However, if you have a bunch of file extensions mapped to the same ISAPI extension, then it shouldn't matter. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

RE: RDS??

2001-05-05 Thread Dave Watts
Can RDS be used with a shared server account? Yes, if the hosting provider chooses to do so. CF Advanced Security allows for the creation of server sandboxes to isolate one developer from another. Unfortunately, this can be a bit annoying to set up and use in practice, I think. Dave Watts, CTO

RE: CF Server Locking?

2001-05-07 Thread Dave Watts
for. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail

RE: Limit on SQL passed via CFQuery to SQL Server?

2001-05-08 Thread Dave Watts
I'm currently running a query that is 64KB of SQL text - and that wasn't a typing mistake! I wouldn't be surprised at all if the SQL string was treated as a variable in CF - with a limitation of 64Kb. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202

RE: using WDDX for next 'n' style browsing

2001-05-08 Thread Dave Watts
, however, didn't reflect this, as you mentioned. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http

RE: ASP NumberFormat

2001-05-08 Thread Dave Watts
specifically with ASP - ASP isn't a language, but a specific object model for CGI-type scripting. So, to answer further VBScript questions, you might want to download the VBScript documentation available from Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/vbscript/download/vbsdoc.exe Enjoy! Dave Watts

RE: Log files of a web attack.

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Watts
of ACLs, etc), it's relatively secure and stable. The only real security flaw with IIS is that it has to run as Local System, due to the way it integrates with NT authentication, so buffer overflow exploits run as root, essentially. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202

RE: cffile vars

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Watts
isn't going to examine the actual file content - it wouldn't know how! So, if someone renames an .mp3 file with a .jpg extension, for all intents and purposes, it's now a .jpg file, both to the uploading browser and to your server. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202

RE: Spider 404s

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Watts
may need to take this into account. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm

RE: Log files of a web attack.

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Watts
don't think that there's a CF module for the 2 beta yet, though. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http

RE: disabling RDS

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Watts
. The problem is that the Executive is trying to start the service, even though it's been disabled. You can instruct the Executive not to do this by setting the value: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Allaire\ColdFusion\CurrentVersion\IDE\ServiceRunning to 0. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com

RE: CFREGISTRY (the inner workings of CF Admin)

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Watts
, the CF Administrator directory isn't affected when you disable CFREGISTRY. You can actually specify the directory path which will still allow CFREGISTRY in the same Basic Security page with which you disable CFREGISTRY. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496

RE: CF 5.0 graphs

2001-05-11 Thread Dave Watts
a CFUG presentation on CFGRAPH. If you're interested, you might take a look at this: http://www.figleaf.com/figleafhome/cfug/cfugmay2001.zip It's not much, but there are code samples. There'll be new VTM files available shortly from Allaire. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com

RE: ] RE: oracle LOB query problem

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Watts
data sources in the CF Administrator. For example, if it's an ODBC data source, you select ODBC from the left menu bar, then you click on the appropriate data source. You'll then see the DSN setting screen for that data source. At the bottom, you'll see a button labeled CF Settings. Dave Watts, CTO

RE: CF_DOWNLOAD -- need fix ASAP

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Watts
handler. The URL is: http://www.figleaf.com/demo/mimetest/ Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http

RE: Access database question: how to structure a link between tw o tables

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Watts
table can have many matches within the linking table. As a primary key, the linking table should use the two foreign keys together - a composite primary key. In Access, you can create these relationships using the Relationship window, once you've created the linking table. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf

RE: best search

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Watts
engine on a oracle database that can offer some help on this topic? As long as you can retrieve the field in a SELECT statement, and it's a string, you should have no problems using it with Verity. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797

RE: SQL 2000 Database List.

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Watts
interface. If you find yourself performing the same sorts of tasks in Enterprise Manager over and over again, you might take a look at these. You can't do quite everything through them, but they might suit your needs. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax

RE: Harpoon Release is Final Available

2001-05-14 Thread Dave Watts
Using WDDX at this time, regrettably, is NOT a best practice. Is this because of some problem with Flash? Yes. The current version of Flash doesn't handle XML as efficiently as raw string data. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797

RE: hiding the path of an included file

2001-05-15 Thread Dave Watts
info on that at http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http

RE: 2 simpl q's about locking

2001-05-15 Thread Dave Watts
received quite a while back from Sim Simeonov at Allaire - the guy who was, at the time, the lead developer of the CF engine, I believe - IsDefined reads of memory variables should be locked. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: Configuring CF45 for Java

2001-05-18 Thread Dave Watts
move all of the classes needed to the appropriate web directory. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http

RE: Setting Dynamic Variables

2001-05-21 Thread Dave Watts
. To the best of my knowledge, it isn't - it's a trick of the language which just happens to work. On the other hand, there's a function called SetVariable, the behavior of which is documented and clear. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: Cfhttp

2001-05-21 Thread Dave Watts
Can a text file be deleted from a server via cfhttp? Not directly. CFHTTP only supports GET and POST requests. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code

RE: CFLOCK with CF 5.0

2001-05-21 Thread Dave Watts
is it important to use CFLOCK in CF 5.0 ? As far as I can tell, there haven't been any changes to how memory variables are handled in CF 5. So, the answer would be yes. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: VTML edit tag dialogs: attributes with no value?

2001-05-22 Thread Dave Watts
a misunderstanding. You wouldn't want to put WIZIF in your EDITORLAYOUT section in order to do what you're trying to do. You'd put it your TAGLAYOUT section, using conditional logic based on the values of the fields displayed in the EDITORLAYOUT section. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com

RE: cferror need some ideas

2001-05-22 Thread Dave Watts
) should be reserved for use with specific problems within code that have specific solutions. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get

RE: CFX tags

2001-05-22 Thread Dave Watts
, you might use a regular CFML custom tag instead. I would guess that there's a CFML equivalent to CFX_MAKETREE on the Developers' Gallery. Of course, it won't run as fast in most cases, I guess. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: Harpoon Release is Final Available

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Watts
that this isn't intended to start a slanging match, whatever that is. I'm genuinely curious. The two languages are so directly opposed in their differences (or at least that's how it seems to me) that I literally can't imagine why you'd want to merge them, or what that merger would look like. Dave Watts

RE: List of Datasources in CFServer

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Watts
\ColdFusion\CurrentVersion\Data If you wanted further information about the data sources, you could use CFREGISTRY to drill down into the other ODBC.INI subkeys, which individually describe each data source in more detail. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496

RE: Harpoon Release is Final Available

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Watts
running, at different points. In that case, you'd want to be able to have the Flash client be able to push and pull data to and from the server. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

RE: All cfm pages give error on new Windows 2000 server

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Watts
, the ISAPI extension (typically C:\CFUSION\BIN\ISCF.DLL) has permissions granted to all appropriate users allowing read/execute. Typically, you'd set this to Authenticated Users - Read/Execute. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444

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