At the request of a fellow EasyCFM Forum user, we’re going to discuss how to use ColdFusion to manage remote files on the server. While the original request was only for .txt files specifically, we’re going to look at handling .txt, .cfm, .cfml, .htm, and .html. This can actually come in handy if you need to do a quick edit on a page on your Web site, but have no access to FTP clients…only a Web browser.In order for the code shown in this tutorial to work, all files to be edited must reside on the Web server, in the web root directory, in a directory called myfiles’. The tutorial will assume the following path:
Outsourcing : Managing Your Brand Across Continents
Outsourcing seems to be the new-new thing and approximately 50% of our major corporations are doing it. What are the costs? The benefits? And what skills need to be managed in order to make it work optimally?
The Futility of Managing From Your Bank Balance
If you needed to know what your cash balance was right now, would you look to your accounting system for the answer or would you call (or go online) with your bank?
How About MANAGING Your Own PR?
It’s one thing for a senior manager to approve story angles for the publicity folks to use in shopping around for print and broadcast placements. Not an especially large amount of managing needed there.
Managing Up: Part 2. Follow the Rules
In the first part of this series, “Managing Up: Part 1 – How to Manage Your Image,” we described some simple steps you can follow to keep yourself seen in a positive light by your manager and other higher-ups in your company. These will improve your image and keep you in line for the next series of promotions.
Strategies for Eliminating and Managing Stress
To combat modern day stressors, you need to realize that things are going to go the way they are going to go, so you may as well just relax. The most important thing you can do for yourself is to practice extreme self-care which means putting your own needs first.
Sniffing with Net::Cap to stealthily managing iptables rules remotely, Part 1
In our saga that began several weeks ago, we’re trying to create a firewall setup that allows no inbound access by default that can be modified remotely to allow a small window of inbound SSH connectivity. Remember that this machine must have no inbound TCP ports accessible to pass muster with the Windows-biased IT administrators, yet we want to allow inbound SSH dynamically when needed.[1]
Design Patterns — An Evolutionary Step to Managing Complex Sites
When your organization’s web site or intranet has hundreds of contributors, how do you ensure that every page is high quality and extremely usable? Especially, if these contributors have never designed a web page before?
MYTHS ABOUT MANAGING IN TOUGH TIMES
Managing in an economic downturn is different from managing in a robust economy, but not for the reasons you may think. Don’t fall for these three myths:
Managing Time to Accomplish More
Time is inelastic. Despite what some of us persist in believing, it will NOT magically expand to accommodate all we have to do. So, in order to maximize the time we have available, we have to spend it wisely.