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November 25, 2003

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!

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...

Blackstone Sneak Peaks

We hosted a "sneak peak" session yesterday afternoon here at MAX, engineers from all the product teams (in bee costumes, don't ask) used the opportunity to showcase cool stuff they were working on (stuff that may, or may not) make it into future products. Mike Nimer presented for the ColdFusion...

Footage Anyone?

I am collecting pictures and video of the MAX 2003 Day 1 Keynote (the first morning when I presented), stuff taking by attendees in the audience. If you have anything you can share please comment, thanks.

ColdFusion Powered Flex?

Lots of the impromptu chats I have been having here at MAX have been focused on Flex, and specifically how it relates to ColdFusion. So, no, Flex is not a ColdFusion killer, it is not even a ColdFusion competitor. The truth is that I don't think we've done an adequate job yet of articulating the...

The MAX Buzz

Finally, a few minutes of blogging time ... MAX 2003 has been a blast thus far - there is incredible excitement, attendees seem excited and enthusiastic, the facilities are great, and everyone seems to be having fun. That's a good thing. The Day 2 keynote was hilarious, our very own Tim Buntel and...

ColdFusion MAX

November 18, 2003

Codename: Blackstone

During this morning's MAX 2003 keynote I announced that the next major version of ColdFusion is in the works, the product is codenamed "Blackstone". I also listed the high level themes for this future product, and just so things are clear, this is the text from the slide I showed: Key themes for...

Made it to Salk Lake, Finally

What an adventure (and I use that term somewhat loosely). There are no non-stop flights from Detroit to Salk lake City, and so my flight Monday was on Continental via Houston. I arrived in Houston as did a major storm system (complete with torrential rain, lightning storms, tornado warnings, and...