[houcfug] Mail support for Google servers (was Re: CF8)

2007-07-02 Thread Charlie Arehart
Folks, I'm curious what may have made connecting to a Google SMTP server different (not work before) compared to any other. What do you sense have changed? It's not something I've heard mentioned specifically anywhere (as either now possible or even still not). Just curious. /charlie _

[houcfug] Re: CFFTP Issue

2007-07-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
Mark, here are a couple thoughts: that FTP client is running on your workstation, I imagine. Is the CF Server as well? If not, there could be an issue in running it from the CF server that's different from running it from your local workstation. If they are different, you could either try running

[houcfug] Re: Scheduled Tasks In CF8

2007-08-30 Thread Charlie Arehart
And don't forget to check those logs. :-) /charlie -Original Message- From: houcfug@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:42 PM To: Houston ColdFusion Users' Group Subject: [houcfug] Re: Scheduled Tasks In CF8

[houcfug] Re: Find list of drive letters?

2008-01-08 Thread Charlie Arehart
You don't say if you're on 6, 7, or 8 (just CFMX). You may have a few choices. Since you're on Windows, you can use CF's integration with COM. In fact, there's a specific page in the CF docs showing how to do what seems just what you want: Using the FileSystem object

[houcfug] Re: ColdFusion Resources

2008-04-28 Thread charlie arehart
If I may, while Don's list is indeed useful, I'd like to point out a still larger list: http://carehart.org/resourcelists/tools_to_consider/ It now has over 700 tools/resources in over 100 categories, all designed to answer those common questions, where can I find CF resources about .? or

[houcfug] Re: Some great free online presos

2008-05-22 Thread charlie arehart
and check out some of the preso's Charlie Arehart has graciously arranged and organized from his ColdFusion meetup group http://tinyurl.com/2dbdnk : (Charlie, if you're reading this, you rock - your backpack has jets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsryQOMcDy4 .) 5/01/08 - CFInterface, with Robin

[houcfug] Re: Multiple fiel upload

2008-12-20 Thread charlie arehart
Mike and company, going back to this discussion of file upload tools from a few weeks ago, I wanted to point out that I list still more alternatives, including some of those mentioned here, at my CF411 site: File Upload Tools http://www.cf411.com/#upload It offers Flex, Ajax, and other tools,

[houcfug] Re: CFFORM Question

2009-01-27 Thread charlie arehart
Ramon (and others who might ever face such a challenge), while all the suggestions so far are good ones, still one more that may suit your needs would be to change CF's validation to happen when the user leaves the field, rather than waiting until they submit the form. That's now an option, as

[houcfug] Re: CFFORM Question

2009-01-28 Thread charlie arehart
for one page for any user who still maintains some level of sanity. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM, charlie arehart charlie_li...@carehart.org wrote: Ramon (and others who might ever face such a challenge), while all the suggestions so far are good ones, still one more that may suit your needs

[houcfug] Re: CFFORM Question

2009-01-28 Thread charlie arehart
I enjoy helping wherever I can. :-) Thanks for the other kind regard, too. /charlie From: houcfug@googlegroups.com [mailto:houc...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ajas Mohammed Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:47 PM To: houcfug@googlegroups.com Subject: [houcfug] Re: CFFORM Question

[houcfug] Re: Telecommute Contract Work

2009-02-22 Thread charlie arehart
Just to clarify, that code compatibility analyzer isn't new for 7. It's been there since CF4, if I recall correctly. There was also a problem for a couple of releases where you had to know to choose options in advanced settings to get it to really do anything, otherwise it defaults to doing

[houcfug] Re: Are you a good programmer?

2009-03-18 Thread charlie arehart
Yeah, the author is showing some age-ism. :-) He wrote, in my experience most average or poor programmers start programming at university, for their Computer Science course. Most good programmers started programming long before, and the degree was just a natural continuation of their hobby.

[houcfug] Re: Coldfusion Classes or Courses

2009-04-28 Thread charlie arehart
Ken's hit the nail on the head (in terms of cert prep), and to be clear, the official Adobe CF classes (Fast Track and Advanced) are NOT intended to be cert prep classes at all. As Aaron said though, they should likely get you close to passing. The Forta study guide book is highly recommended, but

[houcfug] Re: File comparison tool

2009-07-21 Thread charlie arehart
a recommendation for a file comparison tool? Preferably FOSS. I know Charlie Arehart has several listed on his cf411.com site. Any of them have better features than others? Thanks. -- James Husum The Quixote Project - one guy's quest to make the world a better place - http://www.thequixoteproject.org

[houcfug] Re: cfcatch question

2009-07-31 Thread charlie arehart
Mark asked: Every time I try this, the try/catch around my upload takes over due to violating the accept list. I can't even get to the IsImageFile() check. Even if I take a file, change the extension and how it is saved (Save as type...), it won't get past the try catch. What you can do

[houcfug] Re: Messin' with Excel

2009-07-31 Thread charlie arehart
Speaking of CF-based POI solutions, I'll note that I have a category of such tools (for integration of CF with Excel and other spreadsheet tools), within the category of my CF411 site: http://www.cf411.com/#excel POI-based options (including the very thing at Ben's site you noted) are discussed

RE: [houcfug] question about client vars

2009-12-17 Thread charlie arehart
Hey Mark, client variables are indeed tied to applications. If one uses a database for the client variable storage, you can see in the cdata table that app is a key. So only if those two cfapplication tags had the same name (or no name) would they be shared this way. /charlie From:

RE: [houcfug] Coldfusion and Web Stats

2010-03-19 Thread charlie arehart
As has been said, there are different web stats analysis tools for different purposes. I'll add one not mentioned yet: Microsoft's Log Parser. It's a free command line tool that lets you use SQL against any kind of log file. Being a command-line tool, it's not as pretty (though it can produce

RE: [houcfug] Review of Railo book

2012-02-28 Thread charlie arehart
If anyone may be awaiting a review of the book in the meantime, I posted one (fairly comprehensive) today: http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2012/2/28/New_book_review_Rail o_3_Beginners_Guide Of course, if you are thinking of reviewing it, then you may want to hold off reading that

RE: [houcfug] Review of Railo book

2012-03-19 Thread charlie arehart
Hi James, thanks for the update. I think you'll see we came out about the same place with respect to the book, both clarifying for readers who it seems the book is best oriented to (which is to say, not so much for CF folks looking to get into Railo, but instead folks coming to CFML for whom

RE: [houcfug] sending email from CF

2012-04-03 Thread charlie arehart
On top of all the great suggestions so far, I'll share two more. First, it could well be that you're having problems of contention over resources. But it may not be as obvious (or as easy to spot) as it may seem. John mentions using FR (or you could use the CF Enterprise Server Monitor,

RE: [houcfug] sending email from CF

2012-04-04 Thread charlie arehart
Shirley. On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:33 PM, charlie arehart charlie_li...@carehart.org wrote: Shirley I could insert a bad Leslie Nielsen Airplane pun here, but I wonder how many people are old enough to get the joke. :-) /charlie -- You received this message because you are subscribed

RE: [houcfug] Next meeting and some changes!

2012-04-17 Thread charlie arehart
Hey folks, hope the move to meetup.com goes well for you. That has been a challenge for some groups, especially when as you say here you won't be auto-importing the members, so people have to join themselves. And it's all the more a challenge when mention of the move is in a note like this,

RE: [houcfug] Next meeting and some changes!

2012-04-17 Thread charlie arehart
Oh good to hear, at least in that I do feel that google groups are much better as mailing lists than the meetup.com list feature. That said, it can be confusing to people to know about both, and even to know which is to be used for communications. What we did in the Atlanta CFUG was post a pinned

RE: [houcfug] New Learn ColdFusion In a Week Online Course from Adobe

2012-11-20 Thread Charlie Arehart
:-) I feel like this is us just all talking around the water cooler, so hopefully no offense taken by anyone. I certainly wouldn't ever think you'd never intend that, and I suspect John feels the same way. We were just chiming in to give perspectives as authors to the original comment. Think of

RE: [houcfug] New Learn ColdFusion In a Week Online Course from Adobe

2012-11-20 Thread Charlie Arehart
But is that an affinity for eating it? Or perhaps cooking it? I can enjoy those too, especially the former, when done at a great barbeque place. :-) But as for really making sausage, especially from scratch-if you know what I mean-well, if you do that, you're a stronger man than I. :-) And with

RE: [houcfug] Roll call - please respond!

2013-01-16 Thread Charlie Arehart
Hey Billy, two things. First, sorry, but I clicked the link before seeing your request in the fine print :-) not to do it if not in the houston area. If you put the link first, I suspect many will click it before reading the rest (especially since you say it takes only 5 seconds). Just sayin'.

RE: [houcfug] Roll call - please respond!

2013-01-16 Thread Charlie Arehart
Thanks. And to be clear, my not hatin'quip was in my jokingly saying you'd know which engine I chose. Didn't mean to assert you had any such feeling toward anything at all. :-) /charlie From: houcfug@googlegroups.com [mailto:houcfug@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Billy Cravens Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [houcfug] Creative Cloud raffle: reply to enter!

2013-06-24 Thread Charlie Arehart
Here, but no need to enter me into the draw, thanks. /charlie From: houcfug@googlegroups.com [mailto:houcfug@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Billy Cravens Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 1:33 PM To: Houston ColdFusion Users' Group Subject: [houcfug] Creative Cloud raffle: reply to enter! Since

RE: [houcfug] Using Websockets in a Clustered Environment

2013-08-27 Thread Charlie Arehart
Kier, I haven't seen or heard of anyone trying this, so I don't know if it's even possible, but if you want to know what might be causing your problem, have you tried dumping the value of the session struct, to see what the sessionids are in these requests you're saying aren't working. If the

RE: [Possible SPAM] RE: [houcfug] Using Websockets in a Clustered Environment

2013-08-27 Thread Charlie Arehart
But let's be clear: I didn't ask for confirmation of session replication. I was just talking about what seemed was a more potentially fundamental problem of whether sessions were being kept at all. So I was being more specific in my question : what do you see when you dump the session struct? A)

RE: [Possible SPAM] RE: [houcfug] Using Websockets in a Clustered Environment

2013-08-28 Thread Charlie Arehart
Ok, but I would not conclude from your experience that it doesn't work. You may feel you have adequately tested it, but you've not offered enough proof of things in reply here. But I hear that you feel that it's a moot point and you've moved on. Fair enough. I just would want to counter the

RE: [Possible SPAM] RE: [houcfug] Using Websockets in a Clustered Environment

2013-09-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
Hey guys, sorry for the delay in responding, myself. So bottom line, you have confirmed that replication was not working as expected. That was what I was trying to drive at in my original notes, as it seemed Kier was not leaning toward what seemed was a websockets session persistence problem).

RE: [houcfug] Object Instantiation Exception. - Red Hat 6

2013-10-31 Thread Charlie Arehart
@mparks, you say you put the file in the opt\ColdFusion10\cfusion\lib. There are indeed jars there, but those are ones that come with CF. For you to add your own, you ought instead to put it in opt\ColdFusion10\cfusion\wwwroot\WEB-INF\lib. That's indeed the documented, at:

RE: [houcfug] Object Instantiation Exception. - Red Hat 6

2013-11-04 Thread Charlie Arehart
OK, I think the key may be in your response to the code I offered, to find out from what jar your class was being loaded. You say it was in the itext.jar that comes with CF10. So now, what about if you run that code on the other server where things were working? a) It could be that on that

RE: [houcfug] Object Instantiation Exception. - Red Hat 6

2013-11-05 Thread Charlie Arehart
I think you would find that if you moved the itext.jar from cf8 to the web-inf/lib in cf10, it would cause it to override that in CF10's own internal lib directory. Again, I think that's the point of that alternative lib where you are to put your own. Now, while that may allow your own code

RE: [houcfug] Object Instantiation Exception. - Red Hat 6

2013-11-07 Thread Charlie Arehart
Glad you may have finally resolved things. You conclude wondering how you should be able to include LIBRARY files that exist today without worrying about someone else using your method name in the future. Well, the problem here is that your code is calling a library that someone else wrote

RE: [houcfug] Meeting: 20th Anniversary

2015-07-23 Thread Charlie Arehart
it with Microsoft giving away server software for free. I think the Coldfusion era still has a lot of life left as well J -James From: houcfug@googlegroups.com [mailto:houcfug@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 11:40 PM To: houcfug@googlegroups.com

RE: [houcfug] Meeting: 20th Anniversary

2015-07-22 Thread Charlie Arehart
It’s interesting you say that, James. I, too, had been a mainframer (system administrator) for about 15 years before getting into CF in about late ’96 (CF 3.0). I transitioned to it because everyone said the mainframe was dying, and of course it still thrives. Complex enterprise apps just

RE: [houcfug] Multiple versions of CF on same machine

2015-09-16 Thread Charlie Arehart
ferent environments we are using. -Jermaine On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Charlie Arehart <charlie_li...@carehart.org> wrote: Mark, while on the surface you have always been able to run more than one version of CF on a single machine, there is a problem with putting both CF9 or earl

RE: [houcfug] Multiple versions of CF on same machine

2015-09-16 Thread Charlie Arehart
Well, that would indeed solve your need of having multiple instances (on CF10). And yep, it’s a bit more elegant in CF10 (in not having a different install mode. That said, the Enterprise Manager you see is indeed the same as you would have seen if you’d run CF9 in its multiserver mode.

RE: [houcfug] Multiple versions of CF on same machine

2015-09-16 Thread Charlie Arehart
OK. (And to be clear, the offer of consulting help was secondary. My focus was to give you the info you needed to try on your own if you still wanted to.) So about installing multiple instances, if you mean you have CF9 installed now, the “normal way” (called “Server” mode, but some call it

RE: [houcfug] Calling DLL as .NET object in ColdFusion

2016-05-05 Thread Charlie Arehart
the issue here is I don't understand classes and methods in .net, so I'm not sure if what I'm doing is correct or not. I can post code examples and links to dtSearch's API, which is impressive if I understood it On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:16 PM Charlie Arehart <charlie_li...@carehart.

RE: [houcfug] Check, check...is this thing still on?

2016-10-25 Thread Charlie Arehart
Mark, besides the CF job-hunting resources offered so far, I have several more listed at cf411.com/cfjobs. And note with those you can both find jobs offered or offer yourself, generally for free, and they are only CF-focused job resources. /charlie From: houcfug@googlegroups.com

RE: [houcfug] Timecard app

2017-01-11 Thread charlie arehart
Hey Mike, if you’re open to online ones (your first note seemed to suggest otherwise), I would highly recommend the one I’ve used for a few years, Harvest (getharvest.com). There are others, of course, and I keep a list of them—some online, some downloadable, including two CFML-based ones—in

RE: [houcfug] PDFgServlet error when starting service

2017-01-03 Thread charlie arehart
Mark, I know you have “solved” the problem, but in case it may help anyone following along, here are things that may have helped you or may help others in the future: - yep, this is referring to the new PDF Generating feature added in CF11, which can be used by using the CFHTMLTOPODF tag (as

RE: [houcfug] Coldfusion DEAD Question

2017-08-02 Thread charlie arehart
Yep, local groups can be great. (And thanks for the shout outs, Billy and James.) And funny that Billy complained that your group soon became him talking all the time. I’ve avoided that with the online CF Meetup, but its been like pulling teeth to get speakers—which makes no sense to me. There

RE: [houcfug] Coldfusion DEAD Question

2017-08-03 Thread charlie arehart
se too. Some more communication sure could go a long way here, the current level makes it feel like they have zero interest in the product and just treat it as a cash cow until the cow finally kills over and dies. -- Admiral Aaron Rouse On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 12:37 PM, charlie arehart <c

RE: [houcfug] Coldfusion DEAD Question

2017-08-03 Thread charlie arehart
As for the lack of comms from Adobe, again I don’t deny that, but I would add that they are VERY careful about sending out email. And that means that even the CF team can have a hard time getting email out. Another challenge is for Adobe to distinguish who really is an active user vs who just

RE: [houcfug] Coldfusion DEAD Question

2017-08-03 Thread charlie arehart
I don’t know if you’re saying that in jest, Aaron, but I would have been that “certain Charlie”. :-) Yep, I worked for New Atlanta from 2003-2006 (hard to believe it’s been over 10 years since I left). And yep, as we were needing to persuade people about the value it brought (especially for

RE: [houcfug] Coldfusion DEAD Question

2017-08-02 Thread charlie arehart
And Gary, as for google results often being old ones, well, consider first that some answers from back then may be as good now as then. Indeed, google ranks a result based on (among many other things of course) how often people open it and then don’t proceed to open another in the given search

RE: [houcfug] Coldfusion DEAD Question

2017-08-07 Thread charlie arehart
“The very leaders” of CF user groups (all of them, as you seem to imply) have not “moved away”, Aaron. You have cited one, and I’m sure you could name more. Individuals can of course go where they will, and user group leaders especially may be more inclined than most to move on because they

RE: [houcfug] Coldfusion DEAD Question

2017-08-07 Thread charlie arehart
to know we are just "average" now in their eyes, but then again I think we long since figured that out anyway. -- Admiral Aaron Rouse On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 7:38 PM, charlie arehart <charlie_li...@carehart.org <mailto:charlie_li...@carehart.org> > wrote: I don’t kn

RE: [houcfug] Online meetup with CF product manager

2017-11-01 Thread charlie arehart
Thanks, Billy. Yep, I recommend all CFers watch this session, whether fans, or “just doing it for a living”, or even those “headed out the door” to another tech. At least hear what Adobe has to say about the past, present, and future of CF, in terms of myths that need busting. I’ve seen him

RE: [houcfug] SeeFusion or FusionReactor?

2018-05-03 Thread charlie arehart
information overload, it can be overwhelming, but Charlie Arehart has some excellent free videos on the YouTube showing how to get started with the tool. Take Care, Seth -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussio

RE: [houcfug] Windows Firewall

2018-09-27 Thread charlie arehart
Glad to help. I do understand that different people have different resources to turn to, so I try to offer a range of options for folks to consider. :-) Hope you can solve it via Sophos. /charlie From: houcfug@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mike G Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 01:23 PM

RE: [houcfug] Windows Firewall

2018-09-21 Thread charlie arehart
Perhaps someone will offer that, but there are other thoughts to consider (including whether you should be doing that job yourself at all). So first, how about if instead of blocking them in the Windows firewall, you blocked them in IIS? You can do that if you have added the “ip and domain

Re: [houcfug] Posting to PayPal

2021-03-26 Thread Charlie Arehart
Try putting that content not between the cfhttp tags but in a cfhttpparam with type="body". /CharlieSent from my mobile device. Please pardon typos.  Original message From: Shane Heasley Date: 3/26/21 8:17 PM (GMT-06:00) To: houcfug@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [houcfug]