ColdFusion has supported Regular Expressions for a while, but I've always missed a REMatch() function, one that would locate all matches and return them. Over the years several of us have written our own functions to do this, but that's no longer needed - REMatch() and REMatchNoCase() are both in...
Lots of you have been asking about Scorpio's planned tag, wanting to know what image formats will be supported (many of you asking about GIF and PNG specifically). So, as long as you keep in mind that Scorpio is a work-in-progress and that features and specs can change ... Scorpio has two new...
Another venue added to the Scorpio Usergroup tour . If Atlanta is too far north for you, the day after the Atlanta event I'll be down in Warner Robins, GA, to speak to the Central Georgia CFUG .
Subject says it all. See Ted's post for details .
I am back in Detroit, and will wrap week two of the Scorpio Usergroup tour this evening with a presentation to the local usergroup. If you are in the area, please drop by.
Tim Buntel just posted a note about a promotion being run by two Adobe partners. If you are running an older version of ColdFusion (pre-CFMX7) then you can buy CFMX7 with subscription right now for 25% off the list price, and as it includes subscription you'll get Scorpio for free when it ships. If...
Yesterday's Scorpio presentations in Austin and Houston went very well, despite unforeseeable gotchas. In Austin the group needed to find a new venue at the last minute because weather forced another event to be brought indoors forcing the usergroup out of their reserved room. This resulted in us...
There have been some comments on other entries here regarding JSON. JSON is a data interchange format, and is primarily used as a way to package data for use with Ajax development. ColdFusion 8 (aka Scorpio ) adds support for JSON in several ways: For starters, two new functions named...
This one was also met with loud applause last night's Dallas usergroup presentation. Scorpio supports implicit array and structure creation. Here are some simple examples, first array: Here's how it works for structures:
Last night's Scorpio presentation in Dallas was incredible. The venue was superb (although I was initially worried when I walked in, stuffing people with hot food and them putting them in big comfy chairs can be a recipe for disaster), the crowd was loud and animated and enthusiastic (it took over...