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Sorcerer's Isle

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:59:00 +0100

Today I launched my revamped weblog, Sorcerer's Isle. The purpose of the new blog is two-fold: to ditch the terrible PHP-based blog software that runs this site, but also to expand and re-focus the things I will be writing about - and indeed, t...

Java RegEx Utilities - v0.7 preview

Thu, 9 Apr 2009 21:47:14 +0100

Java RegEx Utilities, or jre-utils, is a CFC which provides a convenient way to access Java's regular expression functionality. Whilst ColdFusion, Railo, and openBD are all built on Java, and CFML does have regular expression functions, they do...Java RegEx Utilities, or jre-utils, is a CFC which provides a convenient way to access Java's regular expression functionality.

Whilst ColdFusion, Railo, and openBD are all built on Java, and CFML does have regular expression functions, they do not actually use the Java regular expression engine, which supports many useful regex constructs.

The purpose of jre-utils is to provide this extra power to CFML developers in a familiar and easy to use way.

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.

Open Source Railo

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:03:21 +0100

Earlier today, the eagely awaited Railo 3.1 public beta was announced! And the reason for much of this eagerness? Railo is now Open Source and Free Software, released under the LGPL v2. This license requires that any changes to Railo's sour...

Elemental Views & Stormy Weather

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:43:21 +0000

The exhibition ended last night, and it was a good show this year, with a lot of excellent photos on display. I did reasonably well - whilst I didn't win any of the trophies, two of my images received certificates of merit, plus I received a pa...

Photo 2009 - Exhibition

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 21:50:39 +0000

This coming Monday 9th March, I will be exhibiting a panel of photographs at my Camera Club's annual exhibition, Photo 2009, to be held at the Fairfield Hall in Croydon. In total there will be more than 150 mounted prints, plus over a hundred s...This coming Monday 9th March, I will be exhibiting a panel of photographs at my Camera Club's annual exhibition, Photo 2009, to be held at the Fairfield Hall in Croydon.

In total there will be more than 150 mounted prints, plus over a hundred slides and digital projected images. These latter two will be displayed when the Exhibition is officially opened by Damian Demolder (Editor of Amateur Photographer), at 20:00 on Monday the 9th.

The prints will be available to look at all week long, at any time that Fairfield Hall is open - starting on the morning of Monday 9th and running until the evening of Saturday 14th.

The exhibition and opening event are both free to attend, and with Croydon Camera Club regarded as one of the best clubs in the region, there are sure to be some excellent pictures on display.

Anyone remotely interested is strongly encouraged to visit.

A taster of just two of my fifteen images is available if you follow the next link to view the full version of this blog entry...

Why Railo 3?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 02:53:53 +0000

It's been nearly half a year since Railo 3 was released, and with 3.1 just around the corner it is a good time to write a post about some of the features that continue to make Railo such an excellent CFML engine! This blog entry covers things n...It's been nearly half a year since Railo 3 was released, and with 3.1 just around the corner it is a good time to write a post about some of the features that continue to make Railo such an excellent CFML engine!

This blog entry gives ten reasons for using Railo 3...

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Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:00 +0000

If the momentus event this post is celebrating wasn't obvious from the title, here is an even bigger clue: echo "scale=33;4*a(1)" | bc -l | perl -e'$p=;$p=~s/^(\d)\.(\d)(\d)\2(\d)\d(\d)(\d)\d{3}(\d{2})(\d)\d\d{17}(\d)\d*$/\2\5\1\3\4\6\8\...

Snow

Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:09:35 +0000

There's been a little bit of snow in England for the past few days, and whilst I haven't had a chance properly go out and take photos, I have grabbed a few random shots. (each image links to a larger version)

Switch on String in Java

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:50:41 +0000

For anyone working with any other modern language, (such as CFML, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, and more), using a String within a switch-case statement is not an issue, and probably something you've done many times without thinking about. However, whe...For anyone working with any other modern language, (such as CFML, C#, JavaScript, Ruby, and more), using a String within a switch-case statement is not an issue, and probably something you've done many times without thinking about.

However, when working in Java you cannot use strings in a switch statement.

Fortunately, despite what many sites suggest, there is a solution -

T-Mobile G1 - Google's Android mobile phone

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:35:00 +0000

On Thursday, the G1 mobile phone was finally released in the UK, and — ignoring the sensible policy of not getting first-generation devices — I ordered mine as soon as the website was available. (Which was at 11:30 - two and a half hou...On Thursday, the G1 mobile phone was finally released in the UK, and — ignoring the sensible policy of not getting first-generation devices — I ordered mine as soon as the website was available.

I now have my G1 and have written up my first impressions.

As I become more familiar with the Android-based device, I will be updating this entry with more details and photos.

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