Tag: ColdFusion

November 25, 2003

Southern California CFUG

I'll be presenting to the SCCFUG (in Orange County, CA) on December 9th. This event is listed on my home page. Hope to see you there!

Earlier today I needed URL input validation (my form prompted for a URL, I needed to validate that what was provided was a syntactically valid URL). URL validation is actually rather complicated, but the following regular expression worked for me: https?://([-w.]+)+(:d+)?(/([w/_.]*(?S+)?)?)? This...

Blackstone Sneak Peaks

We hosted a "sneak peak" session yesterday afternoon here at MAX, engineers from all the product teams (in bee costumes, don't ask) used the opportunity to showcase cool stuff they were working on (stuff that may, or may not) make it into future products. Mike Nimer presented for the ColdFusion...

ColdFusion Powered Flex?

Lots of the impromptu chats I have been having here at MAX have been focused on Flex, and specifically how it relates to ColdFusion. So, no, Flex is not a ColdFusion killer, it is not even a ColdFusion competitor. The truth is that I don't think we've done an adequate job yet of articulating the...

The MAX Buzz

Finally, a few minutes of blogging time ... MAX 2003 has been a blast thus far - there is incredible excitement, attendees seem excited and enthusiastic, the facilities are great, and everyone seems to be having fun. That's a good thing. The Day 2 keynote was hilarious, our very own Tim Buntel and...

ColdFusion MAX

November 18, 2003

Codename: Blackstone

During this morning's MAX 2003 keynote I announced that the next major version of ColdFusion is in the works, the product is codenamed "Blackstone". I also listed the high level themes for this future product, and just so things are clear, this is the text from the slide I showed: Key themes for...

Royale is "Flex"

It's official, the product formerly known by the codename "Royale" will be named "Macromedia Flex". Flex is a standards based server product that allows developers to build rich user experiences all in code (in an XML based language). Flex is designed to leverage existing and standards based...

ColdFusion Defending the Bill of Rights

The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) describes itself as the "nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United...

Fodors Powered by ColdFusion

Award-winning Fodors.com (http://www.fodors.com/) is the online authority, a one-stop, multi-platform source of travel content for users of the Web. A three-time Forbes magazine favorite, Fodors.com provides real-time guidance and customized Miniguides containing hotel, restaurant and sightseeing...

ColdFusion

November 12, 2003

Marriott Hotels Using ColdFusion

My latest find (this one courtesy of Paul Madar, General Manager of the Macromedia Developer Solutions Group) Marriott Hotels is using ColdFusion on their Mid Atlantic Marriott site at http://www.midatlanticmarriott.com/.