Welcome to the Tower, my programming and web development blog. Here you will find articles relating to CFML, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript and Regular Expressions, plus discussions on the associated tools, technologies, techniques and ideas.</p> <p>For more general topics, please visit <a href="http://www.sorcerers-isle.net">Sorcerer's Isle</a>, where you will find articles on my other interests. Regular Expressions

<p>The <a href="http://cfregex.net">cfRegex project</a> is two things. Firstly, it is a complete regex implementation for CFML, providing more functionality, flexibility, features and power than the existing CFML RE functions. Secondly, it is a drive to encourage people to properly learn and make use of regex. <p style="text-align:center;"><a href="/article/introducing-the-cfregex-project.html">Read the rest of this article to find out more.</a></p> <div style="text-align:center;margin:2em;"> <a href="http://cfregex.net" title="Visit cfregex.net"><img src="http://cfregex.net/resources/images/cfregex-logo.tagb.png" alt="cfRegeX :: First-class Regex for CFML :: http://cfregex.net"></a></div>

2011-07-22T22:20:48Z

<p>It's 1st June 2010 today, and that means we're celebrating for the third time the annual International Regular Expressions Day.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bennadel.com">Ben Nadel</a> kicked off this event two years ago, in order to promote the use of Regex, especially amongst those who might consider them something scary and obscure.</p> <p>As before, Ben is running a contest, this year's prizes being some O'Reily Regex books and IIS Mod-Rewrite Pro licenses.</p> <p>Entry to the competition requires writing some code, and the deadline is today, so if you're interested then hurry up and <a href="http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1923-3rd-Annual-Inter-National-Regular-Expression-Day-And-Prizes-June-1st-2010.htm">read the blog entry to find out more</a>.</p> <br/> <p style="text-align:center"><big><a href="http://www.regular-expression-day.com/">Happy Regex Day!</a></big></p> <br/>

2010-06-01T14:20:26Z

<p><a href="http://www.hybridchill.com/projects/jre-utils.html">Java RegEx Utilities</a>, or jre-utils, is a CFC which provides a convenient way to access <a href="http://www.java.com">Java</a>'s <a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/">regular expression</a> functionality.</p> <p>Whilst <a href="http://www.adobe.com/coldfusion">ColdFusion</a>, <a href="http://www.getrailo.com">Railo</a>, and <a href="http://www.openbluedragon.org">openBD</a> are all built on Java, and <a href="http://www.opencfml.org">CFML</a> does have regular expression functions, they do not actually use the Java regular expression engine, which supports many useful regex constructs.</p> <p>The purpose of jre-utils is to provide this extra power to CFML developers in a familiar and easy to use way.</p> <p>I will shortly be releasing v0.7 of jre-utils, which adds a number of new functions, as well as making things more consistent, so I decided I would give this quick preview of what it contains.</p>

2009-04-09T21:47:00Z

<p>Today, 1st June 2008, has been officially decreed as Regular Expressions Day.</p> <p>And in honour of this event, there are a couple of regex-oriented competitions happening.</p> <p>Ben Nadel, nominator of this great day, kicked things off with a handful of prizes for the best comments: <a href="http://bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:1243.view">June 1st 2008 - National Regular Expression Day!</a></p> <p>The deadline for Ben's competition is today - that is, you must post the comment on (or before) RegExp Day, and the winners will be selected tomorrow.</p> <p>Don't despair if you miss that though, as Steve Levithan also has a regular expression competition running, and the deadline for that is Friday 13th, almost two weeks from now: <a href="http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/regexday-2008">Regex Day Contest</a></p> <p class="c">Happy Reg Ex Day!</p>

2008-06-01T14:48:46Z

<p>I have just released <a href="http://jreutils.riaforge.org">Java RegEx Utilities</a> on <a href="http://www.riaforge.org">RIAForge</a>, which is a CFC enabling easy access to Java Regular Expression functionality, adding to what is available in the standard CFML functions.</p>

2008-04-05T23:30:13Z