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