Archive for August 13th, 2003

13
Aug

Preliminary MAX session sign-up statistics

We received some preliminary statistics on attendees signing up for our MAX sessions. My session, Integrating ColdFusion with Microsoft Office, is ranked number 5 right now for ColdFusion sessions.

I’m really excited about this session since I’ve been given approval to depart from the traditional “this is how you use CFOBJECT” session to do a real comparative analysis of different access methodologies. I’ll review and provide code samples for interacting with Microsoft Office through automation, document properties, HTML, XML, and Jet, including options available for Linux servers and the brand new options for Office 11 users.

The session is available in three different time slots so there’s no excuse to miss it. See you at MAX!

13
Aug

CustomTag: ShortenLogUrls helps save your blog layout

We noticed recently that if someone posted a comment on our blog with a really long URL it wouldn’t wrap and as a result it would throw off the whole template. To address this we wrote a custom tag that uses regular expressions to search for long URLs in the comment area and cut off the text portion.

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