2012 Andy Trice On PhoneGap And Apple Rejections
Andy Trice has written a great ADC article highlighting PhoneGap advice on dealing with Apple application rejections. This one is recommended reading.
2011 Regular Expression Book In Korean
The Korean edition of my Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions was published a while ago, but my copies just arrived today, and thus this post. I've been writing since the mid 90s, and have dozens of translations neatly organized on my shelves. But, it's still quite a thrill every time I get my hands on a new translation. And this Korean translation is no exception. The book is beautiful and of particularly high quality, the printing is crisp and clear, the paper is a high-end off-white that is highly readable, the text shading I use to highlight matches in the Regular Expression examples was implemented really well, there is a nice pull out reference card in the back ... as I said, just beautiful. Any Korean readers out there? I'd love to hear what you think of this one.
2010 Regular Expressions Book In Korean
My Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes is now available in Korean. Thanks to Jaehoon Jung for sending me the URL.
Here's the full list of translations of all of my books.
2009 For Now, Avoid Kindle Version of My RegEx Book
My Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes has proven to be a very popular book, and tens of thousands of developers have used it to get started with Regular Expressions. The book teaches RegEx incrementally, and for each example a block of text is used, and matching text is shaded to clearly demonstrate what the Regular Expression is doing.
Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes has apparently now been released for the Amazon Kindle. I've not seen the Kindle version yet (as I don't have a Kindle yet), but readers are reporting to me that the Kindle version is missing the shading, making all of the examples rather useless!
I've contacted the publisher about this problem, and hope they'll correct it quickly. But for now, I suggest you avoid the Kindle version of the book, and stick with the print version.
2009 Remus Stratulat's Flex Regular Expression Tester
Remus Stratulat has posted the source code for a simple Flex Regular Expression tester. If you need to use Regular Expressions in ActionScript code, this can get you started quickly.
2008 Check Out Ryan Swanson's Flex RegEx Explorer
Ryan Swanson has created a really nice Flex 3 Regular Expression Explorer, and he explains his creation here.
2008 CFINPUT Integer Validation Flaw
As per this TechNote, <CFINPUT validate="integer"> allows the dollar symbol ($) to bypass generated client side validation. I don't know how long this has been the case, but the solution (as noted in the TechNote) is to use a regular expression instead.
2008 SQL And Regular Expression Books Published In Chinese
My Sams Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes and Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions In 10 Minutes have both been published in Chinese by Turing Book. Links are on the books pages. And here is a full list of all book translations.
2007 Scorpio Adds Two New RegEx Functions
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 Scorpio.
2005 SQL And Regular Expression Books Now In Russian
I now have books available in Russian! Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (3rd edition) and Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes have both just been released in Russian by Williams Publishing. Links to the new Russian editions are on the book pages. The full list of non-English editions of my books (15 different languages to date) has also been updated.