Did that title catch your attention? It did mine too. I happened upon that headline while skimming the WSJ this morning, it's at the top left of the first page of the Marketplace section. It turns out they are discussing Cold Fusion (as opposed to ColdFusion), but still, the next time anyone starts...
I am a night person, the wee hours are when I get most inspired. Here's a regular expression I wrote last night, um, make that this morning. It matches an IP address, and also ensures that the values are within the allowed range (0-255)....
The most amazing collection of ASCII art is online at http://www.romanm.ch/english/, and not just still images, the movie sequences are incredible. But after all the oohing and ahhing I could not decide what amazed me more, that someone would go through the effort to build all this content, or that...
Yes, you read that correctly. I have a small ColdFusion app that I need help porting to several other languages (including Java, PHP, ASP.NET, C#, and Perl). This is not a big project, nor is it paid work (the best I can offer you is some recognition and publicity). If you, or someone you know, can...
Designers (UI people) and developers (coders) usually have totally different views of the world, and that was highlighted for me last night when I attended a local user group to watch the big MX2004 product introduction and demo (great event by the way, I was really pleased at how well Breeze...
I have recently been spending countless hours tinkering with regular expressions (for a project that I'll blog within the next few days, I hope). ColdFusion has great regular expression support, but the REFind() and REFindNoCase() functions annoy me no end. I like that I can opt for a position and...
The following tip was sent to me by Ben Cline, and is posted verbatim. Thanks Ben. Ben writes ... I found something lacking in the Macromedia documentation and nearly everything I’ve read about CF. It’s the use of XSL parameters. I found a way to successfully do this, and have tried to...
This is just too funny (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/09/01/offbeat.gps.thief.ap/index.html). A thief in Wisconsin stole a device used to track prisoners on home detention. And of course, the device not only alerted the authorities but also tracked the thief. You've got to love it when...
A thread of the forums (http://webforums.macromedia.com/coldfusion/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=681710) turned into a request for a SubStr() function and a discussion as to why it did not exist. CFML does have a Mid() function, but the third parameter (the length) is required, and this is...
I registered all my phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry (http://donotcall.gov/) the 2nd day they were accepting registrations, I even received the automated e-mail confirmation messages. When I saw a note somewhere reminding that August 31st is the deadline for initial registrations...