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September 7, 2003

Barnes & Noble Buys My Name

Apparently, Barnes and Noble has bought Google keyword sponsorship for my name. Any time someone enters my name as a search term, up comes B&N's sponsored link. This is quite an honor, I think.

I'll be in Europe later this month to take part in a series of partner briefings on ColdFusion MX 6.1 and Studio MX 2004. We'll be in Germany (Nürnberg), Belgium (Antwerp), France (Paris), and England (London). Details and registration information are posted at...

ColdFusion Stuff

September 7, 2003

User Group Presentations in Tokyo and London

I'll be speaking to the Japan ColdFusion User Group in Tokyo on September 17th, and to the UKCFUG in London on September 24th. Details of both events will be posted to my home page as soon as I have them. If you're in either neighborhood, drop by.

Book Page for Windows 2000 Developer's Guide

My "Windows 2000 Developer's Guide" (IDG 0764546538) was translated into Chinese, and I have started receiving regular requests from Chinese readers asking for the book page URL. I have not seen a copy yet to know what URL is in it or why the listed one apparently is not working, but for those...

Books

September 4, 2003

Wall Street Journal: "Cold Fusion Isn't Dead"

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...

RegEx: Match and Validate an IP Address

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)....

Astounding ASCII Art

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...

Looking for Non-ColdFusion Developers

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 and Developers: Genetically Different?

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...

Two New RE (regex) Functions

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...