A Developers Past time

I just interacted with an authentication system that one of it password rules is not to repeat a certain character 3 or more times.  So it mad me think of how I would accomplish this validation if I wrote the code. First thing that came to mind is a regular expressions (RE), i've tried and tried and couldn't figure out a RE that would solve any character repeated more than 3 times in a string.  I guess I'm not an expert in RE!  If anyone can figure this out, i'd appreciate knowing the RE. Therefore, i moved my logic to just loop within a loop.  Example below. <cfloop from="1" to="#len(variables.tmpPassword)#" index="pos">     <cfset curChar = Mid(variables.tmpPassword,pos,1)>     <cfset curCharCount = 0>         <cfset curPos = FindNoCase(curChar,variables.tmpPassword)>     <cfloop condition="#curPos# GT 0">         <cfset curPos =...

I'm not going to blog about how to use the application.cfc file, because there are a lot of experts out there that already has.  And Ray Camden has posted a CF8 "template" for application.cfc .  But i haven't seen anyone answer the question about using onRequest method within the application.cfc while using ajax / webservices in the same directory. As most of you have already seen, the normal "template" for onRequest is as follows: <cffunction name="onRequest" returnType="void"> <cfargument name="thePage" type="string" required="true"> <cfinclude template="#arguments.thePage#"> </cffunction> But since ajax and webservices are actually CFC methodology this included code will break it. Now I am not sure if the following cures all scenarios, but it gave me the ability to do webservices / ajax. <cffunction name="onRequest">   <cfargument name = "tar...

After reading on how to harden MSSQL 2005 installation, I realized the current directory structure doesn't lend itself for easy management of hardening the SQL installation, therefore, I am on a quest of moving the logical files in the database to a directory structure that makes it easier to lock down. To move a single database it is somewhat easy. ALTER DATABASE [name] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE ALTER DATABASE [name] SET OFFLINE [move physical files] [ don't forget each file {data/tLog/fulltext} ] ALTER DATABASE [name] MODIFY FILE (NAME = 'logicalname' , FILENAME =  'LogicalFilename' ALTER DATABASE [name] SET ONLINE ALTER DATABASE [name] SET MULTI_USER Moving all the databases wasn't that difficult either, it was just remembering to exec() the sql.  Also, using a script all databases had to be setup the same.  I had one database that had more than one data file - 2 for data, 2 for indexes.  I had to do that one manually. There is another way a...