ColdFusion users should be aware that there were updates released last week (Apr 20) to the long-term support (LTS) versions of Oracle Java, 8 and 11 (the two versions supported currently by CF2021 and CF2018). For more on the updates, see the Oracle technotes: Release notes for java 11.0.11 Release notes for java 8.0_291 For some, that’s all they need to hear. For other folks, you may want to (need to) to know a lot more. For that, see a […]
Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Apr 29, 2020, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -4). The presentation will be: “Installing CF2021: choices, challenges, and solutions”, with Charlie Arehart. 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/277816061/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all 280+ previous Online CFMeetup sessions, […]
Let’s all offer a hardy welcome to our new Adobe ColdFusion Technical Evangelist, Mark Takata. It’s great to see Adobe creating (recreating) that position. I’m pretty sure that the last formal CF “evangelist” (with that name as their title) was Terry Ryan (about 10 years ago), and before that Adam Lehman (who later became Product Manager). And while Elishia Dvorak did indeed work AS an evangelist for CF, though her title was Technical Marketing Manager (she has moved over to […]
This may not be “news” for everyone but somehow it had slipped by me: the ColdFusion 2021 Lockdown Guide has been available since December 2020 (and was updated slightly in Jan 2021). I find no mention of it here, so I thought it a good post to share. The 2021 guide is about 9 pages longer than the 2018 version. The new version covers security-related aspects of new features in CF2021, such as CF package management (cfpm), as well as […]
Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Apr 15, 2020, at 6p US Eastern time (UTC -4). The presentation will be: “To the future with cbFutures!”, with Luis Majano. (Please note that time being later in the day, compared to our more typical mid-day US meeting time.) 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 […]
Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Apr 8, 2020, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -4). The presentation will be: “CSS Crash Course for CSS Haters or Novices”, with Jessica Keener. 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/277252125/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all 280+ previous Online […]
Have you ever wished you could confirm with 100% certainty what Java version is in use by the CF instance you are running? Or where the JVM’s location is (in case you are told to modify files related to it)? Maybe you don’t have access to the CF Admin, or aren’t sure you can trust you or a colleague are looking at the “right” CF Admin. The good news is that ColdFusion offers simple ways/variables that can show you each […]
UPDATE TO THIS POST (on Apr 30, 2021): See Adobe’s response to this problem, discussed in a post on Apr 30, 2021. I offered a comment on what I don’t like about the currently-proposed “solution”. I leave the rest below for historical perspective. This isn’t technically “ColdFusion news” but it affects those who may want to use the Adobe ColdFusion Docker images. Since 2018, they have been hosted on the Docker registry service from JFrog called BinTray. (It was never […]
Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Mar 11, 2020, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -5). The presentation will be: “ColdFusion 101: Intro for Beginner Devs, Decision Makers, & CEO’s”, 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/276609685/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all 280+ […]
Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Feb 25, 2020, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -5). The presentation will be: “The Golden Hammer: Confessions of a Recovering Database Abuser”, with Shawn Oden 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: “The Golden Hammer: Confessions of a Recovering Database Abuser”, w/ Shawn Oden […]
Folks using ColdFusion will want to be aware that last week (Jan 19, 2021) Oracle has released updates to Java 11 and Java 8, the current “Long-Term Support” versions of the Java JVM/JDK, which are supported by the various current and recent versions of CF. The downloads are available on the Adobe page where Adobe offers JVM updates. More about how to proceed to implement the update, in a moment. As is typical, the JVM update adds some modest features […]
Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Jan 28, 2020, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -5). The presentation will be: “Securing a ColdFusion Application with Fixinator & FuseGuard”, w/ Pete Freitag 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/275825925/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all 280+ previous Online […]
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