Blog

December 4, 2003

Christophe On the Flex Beta Process

Lots of you have been asking about the inner workings of the Flex beta program, and Christophe Coenraets explains things at http://www.markme.com/cc/archives/003936.cfm.

Flex

December 4, 2003

Manage Debugging IP Address Without CF Admin Access

Pre CFMX days, I wrote a CFX tag for adding and deleting debugging IP addresses without needing ColdFusion Administrator access. That tag simply manipulated the registry, and obviously it will not work with CFMX (which thankfully no longer uses the registry to store those settings). So, after some...

PakTribune: Allaire Macromedia Merger Proves that Web is a Business Tool

PakTribune.com, the online version of the Pakistan Tribune, is running a story today on how, with the merging of powerful back-ends and usable front-ends, the true power of the Internet is just now becoming a reality. To quote: "One of the most recent signs of this new evolutionary phase is the...

Coming Soon: MAX 2004 Japan

MAX is heading to Tokyo, Japan. DevCon Tokyo last year was an incredible success, and I have every reason to believe that MAX (February 19-20, 2004) will be too. I am not sure exactly what I'll be presenting there yet, but if you're in that part of the world, I hope to see you there. Details are at...

"Creating Globalized ColdFusion Applications" Article

Paul Hastings knows internationalization, localization, and globalization issues like few others, and he also seems to know all there is to know about how these subjects pertain to ColdFusion. Paul (who wrote the chapter on this subject for my Advanced ColdFusion book) has written a great article...

Brazilian Interview Published

www.com.br has published an interview they did when I was down in São Paulo last month. It looks like the full article is for subscribers only (http://www.europanet.com.br/euro2003/index.php?cat_id=21), but here's a cover shot http://www.europanet.com.br/upload/www/capa42g.jpg. (Thanks to...

CFMX COM Hot Fix Posted

If you are using COM components with ColdFusion MX 6.1, check out this updated technote and hot fix: http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/com_hotfix.htm.

ColdFusion

November 30, 2003

ColdFusion Ties with IBM WebSphere in Builder.com Awards

The Builder.com 2nd Annual Readers' Choice Awards have been published. In the "Best Java Application Server" category Apache Tomcat won, 1st runner-up is a tie between ColdFusion MX / JRun and IBM WebSphere. Dreamweaver MX won "Best Web Development Tool", and by a significant margin too (almost 40%...

ColdFusion Stuff

November 29, 2003

Shop the NFL with ColdFusion

This find sent to me by William Steiner (ECICFUG Manager). The official NFL shop at http://www.nflshop.com/ is powered by ColdFusion MX (on Linux or Win2K, or both, Netcraft is inconclusive on this one).

RegEx Patterns to Match Zip Codes and Postal Codes

Need to match zip codes or postal codes? Of course, no two countries use the same format. But here are solutions for USA, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The USA format is simple, five digits as 99999 or zip+4 as 99999-9999. A simple RegEx could be: d{5}(-d{4})? If you want to omit zips with a...