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Re: Moving to the Cloud Is Probably Good for Your Health

kr8tr — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:27:39 -0000

Ben - thanks so much for sharing your story. I went through a very similar experience. Suddenly found myself managing Novell, Linux and Windows servers. Email server, web servers, along with a couple dozen workstations. It took me years to finally move to Rackspace, and I was a customer for years before I eventually joined the company. Now I have been a Rackspace customer for almost ten years, and an employee for almost three.

Welcome to the Cloud - glad to have you!

Rob
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Re: Fear of Flying – Get Over It.

nate — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:45:16 -0000

great story- i flew when i was 10 from boston to orlando and then didn't have the chance again until i had relocated to southern california (by car) and needed to fly back to boston to see family for christmas. i was so scared to fly! no real reason other than it had been so long (and all of the negative images of flying the media reports)- well, after thinking about chickening out for about a month, the day came to board the plane. i sucked it up and got on, and you know what? it was fine! it was even fun!
since then, i've flown from san diego to tampa, i'm flying back to boston in a month and will be flying to paris, france in the summer.
no matter how scared you are of flying, DON'T LET IT KEEP YOU FROM SEEING WHAT THE WORLD HAS TO OFFER!
i can't agree with you more! take care!

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

tlissak — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:00:45 -0000

after realising that the flash post file by file we dont need to loop and the result have to be a valid JSON syntax
so here is a the currection ive dident tested (ived just modified on live)
===================================================
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<% Response.Expires = -1 : Server.ScriptTimeout = 600 %>

<%
Dim uploadsDirVar
uploadsDirVar = Server.MapPath(".")

Dim Upload, fileName, fileSize, ks, i, fileKey,SaveFiles

Set Upload = New FreeASPUpload

Upload.Save(uploadsDirVar)
SaveFiles = ""
ks = Upload.UploadedFiles.keys
if (UBound(ks) -1) then
Response.Write("{""status"":""1"",""name"":"""& Upload.UploadedFiles(0).FileName &"""}")
Response.End()
else
Response.Write("{""status"":""0"",""error"":""Invalid Upload (No file to upload)""}")
Response.End()
end if
%>

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

MeneerBo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:25:26 -0000

Fox, thankx for your input. I got it all working but couldnt figure out the response thing. Now it works like a charm and I can start defining the rest of my flow.

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

Ted — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:29:48 -0000

Superb, works like a treat.
Thanks everyone, especially Fox for that little code snippet.

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

fox — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:57:07 -0000

finely the asp for all of you :

create the an .asp file and put this stuff in it
====================
<%@ Language=VBScript %><% Response.Expires = -1 : Server.ScriptTimeout = 600 %><%
Dim uploadsDirVar
uploadsDirVar = Server.MapPath(".")
Dim Upload, fileName, fileSize, ks, i, fileKey,SaveFiles
Set Upload = New FreeASPUpload
Upload.Save(uploadsDirVar)
SaveFiles = ""
ks = Upload.UploadedFiles.keys
if (UBound(ks) -1) then
for each fileKey in Upload.UploadedFiles.keys
Response.Write("{""status"":""1"",""name"":"""& Upload.UploadedFiles(fileKey).FileName &"""}")
next
Response.End()
else
Response.Write("{""status"":""0"",""error"":""Invalid Upload01""}")
Response.End()
end if
%>{"status":"0","error":"Invalid Upload"}
==============================
on the form section set the form action to the asp file

Re: Google Wave Live Embed in WordPress

Ben Newton — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:35:27 -0000

Alright, I now have it working. Not perfect, but working.

Re: Google Wave Live Embed in WordPress

johndebruyn — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:55:59 -0000

Have you run on to a Google Wave embed in Word Press that is working. Perhaps you could point visitors there as you work on getting an embed going here. I left my email to subscribe to the comments that may follow. That email in your Google contact would let you add me to the wave you embed. Wishing you success in the venture, John, John DeBruyn

P.S. Great comment system. J.

Re: New Blog for Classic ASP Developers

Mary de Leon — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:59:29 -0000

Hello! I work for a rapidly growing Government Consulting firm headquartered in Fairfax, VA and I was hoping that your site might be able to help me identify a top-notch Classic ASP/SQL developer to work at our client's site in Ft. Detrick, MD. If there's some way you can help connect me to the right people or post an ad out to them, please contact me at hr@universal-inc.net.

Thank you!
Mary

Re: Twitter for business – Can it work?

sarah newton — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:29:13 -0000

hey daddy i found ur photo on the internet it was so cool i like ur photos from Washington D.C.they were so cool!
looks at this kiki taught it to me
(I)
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its a bunny!
: D
cya

Re: Ammo. Finally.

Brad Johnson — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:54:59 -0000

Happy Photo! Many of us are conserving and not enjoying our favorite sport. Say a prayer for us...

Re: Fear of Flying – Get Over It.

maggiedarwin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:09:44 -0000

What your pilot was checking for on the wings with a spotlight was "airframe icing": an accumulation of ice or frost that can form on an airplane in certain conditions of cold wet air. Presumably he felt the conditions warranted being vigilant. Airframe ice, if allowed to accumulate can seriously affect the performance of aircraft, as you might imagine from looking at something like this: http://www.overtheairwaves....

It's not dangerous if you can take action immediately to leave the area where it is occurring and climb, descend or move laterally to someplace that warmer (or a *lot* colder) or drier.

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

Biu — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:43:07 -0000

Hi
I have a div with fancy upload with display none, when a put disply block in java a browse button dont work
any trick?

thanks

Re: Tag Your Friend, The Answer to Defining Friends on Facebook

Mel Grubb — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:57:04 -0000

This is exactly what I've been talking about lately. I need a way to separate my "work friends" from my "freaky bar friends". I know some odd people. They're GOOD people, but I don't necessarily want them displayed to my boss, right?

Re: Contact

justinmoss — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:38:54 -0000

Hi Ben,

Thanks for this post. I take it that your ASP implementation was a simple 'file put' style system and didn't involve any database inserts, file collision detection, thumbail creation, resizing or reripping of additional thumbs.

Are these fair assumptions?

Regards,
Justin

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

Berat — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:14:58 -0000

thanks man

Re: You don't need to be an A list blogger to be an A list blogger

Nichelle — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:14:23 -0000

Well written article.

Re: Contact

carlin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:45:59 -0000

hi ben,

i'm tyring to get the fancy upload to work with classic asp. was just wondering if you have any code samples or if you could let me know how to make it work. i'm fairly new to asp. i tried to go to a site that was posted by a guy named fabio but all that stuff he did flew way over my head. any help is appreciated. thanks

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

carlin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:25:34 -0000

does anyone know how to make the freeaspupload work on a website. it works fine on my local computer but not when i upload it to my site. i change the dir in uploadTester.asp to a relative path for my site but keep getting an error that the dir doesn't exist.

im sorry to be a pain but i am new to asp =)

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

Carlin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:11:41 -0000

does any body anywhere have sample code of what was changed in the uploadtester.asp and the fancyupload javascript initialization string???

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

Carlin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:14:57 -0000

can some one please show me how to use the fancy upload and freeaspupload. i'm new to asp and fabio's post flies right over my head. i need a simple way to use the fancyupload with freeaspupload. please help!!!

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

sinan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:13:36 -0000

thanks ...

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

Viure — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:51:53 -0000

If you want to use Persist, I recommend that first use freeaspUpload like the example from Darkentity to upload and then use ASPJpeg to open the file (only images). Then you can use all the tools from PErsist Jpeg .

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

Stewart — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:03:07 -0000

The problem with the upload sending the first file up then not proceeding to the next can be solved by having your ASP upload script write the result:

Response.Write("{""result"":""success"", ""size"":""Uploaded successfully.""}")

That is for a successful upload, obviously.

Check out Fabio's post and search for something that looks like the above code for more on it. Hope this helps.

Re: Fancy Upload and Classic ASP

Pete — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:10:04 -0000

I too am using PersitsASP_Upload and am finding that it does not register that the file has been uploaded completely and does not update the correct Icon or move onto the next file. (Although it does upload the file correctly.)
Any ideas?
Pete