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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.....

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12 comments - Posted by Matt at 3:49 PM - Categories: Coldfusion

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

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7 comments - Posted by Matt at 2:15 PM - Categories: regex | Coldfusion