I parsed the stats today which I keep for my Railo ExtensionProvider. This provider is the CFC which allows people to download and install the Railo extensions I made.

Since november 2010, the stats are as follows:

At the Railo team, we wanted to schedule regular meetings with the team. Normally, you would just pick a date and time, and you're done. But that's not so easy with the Railo team, since we live all around the world. Our main developer Michael therefor created a "tea(m) time" page where we can see what time it currently is for all the team members. At second glance, it suddenly struck me that I never saw this kind of timezone usage before:

#LSDateFormat(now(), "long", getLocale(), tz)#

where tz is a timezone string like "Australia/Perth". So I looked it up in both the Railo wiki and the ACF documentation, to find out that I just hit another hidden gem in Railo!

Since I am absolutely thrilled to go to the US of A to visit cf.Objective(), I felt the immediate urge to put a badge on my (mango)blog. So I sloppily checked google and cfobjective.com for a plugin, but didn't find one. So I decided to create it myself. Using the SOTR2011 badges plugin by Guust Nieuwenhuis, it was very easy to create this new plugin.

I happened to see a Railo JIRA ticket, suggesting to add a REEscape() function for Railo. It caught my attention, because I recently blogged about my RegExSafe() function, which does exactly the same. REEscape does sound more logical then RegExSafe, if you think about the already existent functions REFind, REReplace, and REMatch.

So, I took it upon me to create this new function for Railo, which was essentially nothing more then renaming the function, and (for now) creating an installer for it. I assume the function will become Railo core in the near future, presumably for version 3.3.

Ever had to work with CSV files? It stands for Comma Separated Values, and although the file format looks incredibly simple, it can be a pain to work with. But not anymore!!!

Thanks to Ben Nadel's extensive research into CSV parsing, and a bit of extra coding and tweaking on my part, you can now start using <cfcsv> in Railo!

Now updated to version 1.2 (March 2015)