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Regular Expressions are a powerful tool for both developers and computer users alike. Regular Expressions were originally developed on Unix systems and used in programs like Perl, sed, and grep.

No it IS NOT! But that is what a hosting company is telling one of my clients.

There is a survey up at the Cruise-N-Learn web site. Go over there and fill it out, it is for planning the Cruise-N-Learn MX conference in 2004 (that's right a conference on a cruise ship!). Even if you don't think you would be able to convince your boss, we would like to hear why.

The often forgoten function GetMetricData() function returns the same info as the cfstat utility.

Someone asked for a method to find out how much memory their cached queries, and components are using on the cf-talk mailing list today. In CFMX and in java there are no build in methods for determining the size of an object.

xcopy is useful program that is included with Windows.

I was curious to know how much overhead client variables incur in an application.

Need to know a server's hostname, not the http server name. Try this:

<cfset inet = CreateObject("java", "java.net.InetAddress")>

<cfset inet = inet.getLocalHost()>

<cfoutput>#inet.getHostName()#</cfoutput>

A while back someone asked about implementing generic search engine safe url's with Apache's mod_rewrite module. I came up with a solution but I didn't have a chance to test it until recently. What I mean by generic are URL's such as: site.com/page.cfm/id/123 and NOT site.