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I couldn't help myself, stop your whinging.

CF has grown up, it doesn't need one company to hold its hand.

I'm off to CFcamp on Friday Friday gotta get down on Friday!.

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While testing an app on CF9 today I came across a difference between how CF8 and CF9 handle the query tag.
Some old code someone had written was causing cf9 to throw an error.

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Scotch on the Rocks 2011, is less then a month away

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I've heard things like "it's not that bad, it's just political stuff blocked"

Well I recently made 2 trips there and I can say it is F$(£ed!!.

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As has been mentioned on the SOTR blog a few hours ago, you can now buy tickets for 2011, the earlier you get in the cheaper they'll be, 10am this morning they were £58, some lucky people got in early ;) .....

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When you hear of things like "800,000 developers use coldfusion" do you ever think something like "hmmmm, I think there is 7.8million!" or "really?.......".

I once worked out the average number of CF Devs I've come across per company during my career is 8 Devs per company, some companies had 2, some had 25, but when I worked out the average it was 8.

If this was the normal average then I'd say we would have 100,000 employers out there on average advertising a couple of jobs a year, so we'd see around 250,000 job ads a year for coldfusion.....

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Ever had trouble finding where a variable is set, displayed or manipulated throughout a large application?
I can remember often trying to find code before having any knowledge of regex. An example of a problem I used to face several years ago is the following.
I would inherit a large mess of an application and in the code I would find a variable #abc123#, not knowing where this is set I would do a

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[a-zA-Z0-9_]+[a-zA-Z0-9_./]+@[a-zA-Z0-9_]+\.[a-zA-Z]+\.?[a-zA-Z]+

This tutorial is aimed at people who'll see the above regex and think WTF is this? 
Regex is literally the easiest thing for a programmer to learn, far easier then CF and HTML, but if you're unfamiliar with regex, it looks.... weird....

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What a great time!

I met many new friends at SOTR, many developers, from government employees to dealers in dildos (literally).

Seen some great presentations also, from CSS 3 to Pomodoro.

I met some people whose blogs I’ve read for a long time like Ben Nadel and Ray Camden and also met some bloggers I didn't know of, it was really great catching up with old work colleagues, but most exciting of all had to be getting a photo taken that will appear on Ben Nadels blog.

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