Blog

November 30, 2003

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...

You Look Fantastic, You Must Be Using Cold Fusion!

Bad hair day? Cold Fusion, "the latest in Extensions trends and technology", saves the day (and apparently, Dreamweaver is involved too). Details at http://hairextension.com/ultra_sonic_cold_fus.htm.

ColdFusion, Neo, and ... Pokémon? I am so Confused!

Visit http://www.republicjewelry.com/cfusion.htm for the Cold Fusion Theme Deck Pokemon Trading Card Game (featuring "Neo"?!?!?!).

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!

RegEx to Match a URL

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...

Back Up

My site was down since early this morning. The culprit? Network recabling, and a cable not plugged back in. Sorry about that. :-(

Stuff

November 22, 2003

I Am Starting to Dislike Houston

Guess where I am ... anyone? ... Houston, and once again I am waiting for a flight because I missed my connection. Ok, in all fairness it is not Houston's fault this time, well, not entirely. My flight leaving Salt Lake City this morning left an hour late (some sensor had frozen, you'd think they'd...