Archive for November, 2005

Chapel Services Now Podcast…

Gustavus’ Daily Chapel services are now available online as a podcast, a series of audio files delivered via a syndicated feed (RSS). By subscribing to the podcast “feed,” files are downloaded automatically to a computer, iPod, or other digital music player and listened to at any time. Files may also be individually downloaded as well. […]

Regular Expression to find HTML links with title attributes

I recently needed to write a regular expression to find HTML and XHTML links with title attributes (<a href="http://www.gustavus.edu" title="Visit the Gustavus Adolphus College homepage">Gustavus</a>). Here it is: <a[[:print:]]*title=('|"")?(.*?(?=1))1?[[:print:]]*>([[:print:]]*)</a> Note that the [[:print:]] parts are applicable to ColdFusion regular expressions and would have to be changed to something else if you aren’t using ColdFusion. Additionally, […]

Application.cfc roundup

For those of you programming with more recent versions of ColdFusion, these links might be helpful when learning and working with Application.cfc files. Ray Camden’s Application.cfc PDF skeleton reference Coldfusion MX 7 Application.cfc Reference Extend the ColdFusion MX 7 Application Framework using ColdFusion Components Designing and Optimizing a ColdFusion Application Application.cfc, one that will work […]

Daylight Savings Time

Since the time change for the end of daylight savings last month, our iCalendar files on the college calendar have been using the wrong time. This was caused by our usage of a constant timezone modifier for adding to event start times and end times. As a result, whenever someone had added an event to […]