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title: "Blogs.RegexAdvice.com - smells like community spirit"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/13/blogsregexadvicecom-smells-like-community-spirit.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/13/blogsregexadvicecom-smells-like-community-spirit.html"
published: "2005-04-13T17:28:00"
updated: "2005-04-13T17:28:00"
tags: ["Regex"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "http://blogs.regexadvice.com/ is really starting to pick up. I haven't posted there a lot myself, but looking at the latest batch of posts - people are really investing time and effort into writing useful stuff. And…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Blogs.RegexAdvice.com - smells like community spirit

By Roy Osherove April 13, 2005 In [Regex](https://osherove.com/blog/category/regex)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 13, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

[http://blogs.regexadvice.com/](http://blogs.regexadvice.com/) is really starting to pick up. I haven't posted there a lot myself, but looking at the latest batch of posts - people are really investing time and effort into writing useful stuff. And it's all regex centric.

As worthy of a community,  there's even [a big debate](http://blogs.regexadvice.com/SSmith/posts/3258.aspx) going on right now as to whether one should even use Regex to validate things such as email address or dates. You'd be surprised as to what the "gurus" think.

So - if you're at all interested in Regular expressions, much like SqlTeam.com weblogs is a great place for internal-hardcore data,  so is [http://blogs.regexadvice.com/](http://blogs.regexadvice.com/) \*starting\* to be.

I do wish [Darren](http://blogs.regexadvice.com/DNeimke/) took the time to start removing all those spam comments though...

## More in Regex

[All posts in Regex](https://osherove.com/blog/category/regex)

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- May 2, 2005

    ### [Regulator 2005 & GUI threads goo- news on both?](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/5/2/regulator-2005-amp-gui-threads-goo-news-on-both.html)

- Jan 16, 2005

    ### ["Buy first, ask questions later"](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/16/quotbuy-first-ask-questions-laterquot.html)

- Jan 11, 2005

    ### [The Regulator now hosted at Regex.osherove.com](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/11/the-regulator-now-hosted-at-regexosherovecom.html)


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