Originally posted July 26 2021; updated Aug 5 2021 ColdFusion users should be aware that there were updates released last week (Jul 20) to the long-term support (LTS) versions of Oracle Java, versions 8 and 11. Java 11 is the version currently supported by CF2021 and CF2018. For more on the JVM updates, see the Oracle technotes: Release notes for Java 11.0.12 Release notes for Java 8.0_301 These updates, like most JVM updates, include security-related fixes. Among them are a […]
Great news: all the session recordings are now posted for CF Dev Week 2021. This includes the 20 sessions (from community members and Adobe engineers) as well as the Adobe keynote. The sessions are posted at the videos page here on the CF Portal, which also has most or all recordings from various (but now all) previous Devweeks and CF Summits. It also offers various Adobe webinar series, like the recent one on the API Manager. The recordings play in […]
Every year, Teratech offers an online “State of the CF Union” Survey. The one for 2021 has been open for several weeks and will be for a while longer (no date listed). It’s comprised of several questions about what CF engines, versions, and related apps and tools you may use, as well as a few more general topics. The results are also offered online and are updating as people complete the survey. (You can also view the see in advance […]
Originally posted July 13, 2021; updated May 3, 2023 (slight rewording, and adding mention of VSCode version of CFBuilder) Here’s news that will interest some: the Adobe ColdFusion Security Code Analyzer tool now works with even the free Developer edition or Standard edition/license, as of CF2021. Prior to CF2021, it worked only with CF’s Enterprise license or Trial edition (2018 and 2016), and specifically NOT with a Standard license or the free Developer edition. Whether you may be currently using […]
Have you perhaps tried to download ColdFusion from the Adobe site, only to find after you fill out the CF dev/trial download form that the download would not start? You’re just left at a page which offers no other means to download (Adobe could and should fix that by offering links on that page in case this could happen). Or perhaps you’ve tried to file a bug report at the Adobe Tracker site, only to find that the bug report […]
I’d like to make a proposal, and I wonder what others think. Let me expand on the title here. Background If you’ve used CF’s query caching features, you almost surely know that when you run a query (or stored proc call) that uses cachedwithin or cachedafter, there will be a “cached” indicator in the resulting query metadata (if you dump it), or the debug output (if you’ve enabled it), or the RESULT struct (if you named one for the query). […]
[Originally posted June 18 2021, updated July 13 2021] Here’s some news that may surprise and delight those interested in using the Adobe CF Docker images, which I just learned yesterday and today: First, you can now pull the Adobe CF images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), including both the CF2021 image and 2018, as well as the add-on and PMT images for CF2021. These are official Adobe images, to be clear. A simple example–that works today–and will give you the CF2021 […]
Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Jun 17, 2021, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -4). The presentation will be: ColdFusion Modernization Challenges – Improving Legacy Code While Retaining Your Sanity, with David Byers For more on the presentation, the speaker(s), how to join the group join (free), as well as the URL for the online meeting and more, please see the meetup event page: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/278773692/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all […]
Did you know that CF2021 and CF2018 now “properly” handle serializing to json strings with the quoted values of “yes” and “no”, leaving them as strings rather than converting them to booleans true and false? And did you know that if you are on CF2016 (which does convert them), you can solve that with just a couple of lines of code? And that same solution can be used if you are on CF2018 or above and do WANT a string […]
While we’ve heard for several weeks about the coming Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week event (June 22-24) since it’s announcement here and elsewhere, some great news is that the agenda has now been posted. (The topics have also been trickled out via the Adobe CF twitter account.) You can find all the session topics and their times at the registration site. When you click the “Agenda” menu option, you’ll find the 3 days of sessions, in two tracks with about 3-4 […]
Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Jun 3, 2021, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -4). The presentation will be: “Getting Started with FusionReactor”, with Brad Wood. For more on the presentation, the speaker(s), how to join the group join (free), as well as the URL for the online meeting and more, please see the meetup event page: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/278404050/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all 280+ previous Online CFMeetup sessions, available at recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com, […]
If you may not have heard the news or noticed it on the Adobe CF Certification page, the price is now listed as only US$149. If you’ve not seen or heard anything about the “new” CF certification, it is greatly improved over the one from several years ago (which was just an exam). The new certification process entails about 20 hours of 50+ recorded videos and exam prep materials, in addition to the exam. It was first rolled out at […]
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