Nov
15
2011
Coldfusion's future
I couldn't help myself, stop your whinging.
CF has grown up, it doesn't need one company to hold its hand.
Posted by Matt at 1:50 AM - Categories: Coldfusion
Category: Coldfusion
Mar
1
2011
CF9 precedence to dbtype
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.
Posted by Matt at 4:27 AM - Categories: Coldfusion | regex
Feb
7
2011
SOTR under a month out
Scotch on the Rocks 2011, is less then a month away
Posted by Matt at 5:03 AM - Categories: Coldfusion
Jul
1
2010
SOTR 2011 tickets on sale
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 ;) .....
Posted by Matt at 6:06 AM - Categories: Coldfusion
Jun
30
2010
CF Population size
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.....
Posted by Matt at 3:49 PM - Categories: Coldfusion
Jun
6
2010
Searching code with regex
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
Posted by Matt at 2:15 PM - Categories: Coldfusion | regex
May
31
2010
Regex day email validation
[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....
Posted by Matt at 4:09 PM - Categories: Coldfusion
