Updating the admin username in your ColdFusion 2021 administrator

How to manually change the username for the ColdFusion 2021 administrator, the good news is it’s still the same method you may have already used.

A gotcha using ColdFusion Archive (CAR) files

CAR’s are a great feature but don’t let the pop-up blocker in your browser make you think it doesn’t work.

Don’t forget the built in web server

I was reading Mark’s CLI Installation blog post and remembered when I was testing ColdFusion 2021.  I was doing it on my desktop and I did not have a webserver on my machine.  Now I could’ve tested using CommandBox but I wanted to mirror how I would be installing on production so went with the Adobe developer edition and installing and configuring everything that way.  My goal was to catch any ColdFusion issues that might pop up in my code.  […]

Sometimes its ok to have trust issues

If you didn’t write it, then its ok and best not to trust it.

Adding an Emergency Shutoff Switch to Your Applications

Sometimes you just need to take your application offline for some length of time and having an emergency shutoff is a quick and easy way to do that. Show your users a friendly message while you work behind the scenes on something that means your application has to be unavailable.

Letting your non development colleagues update text on your site with a simple JSON file

A JSON file can sometimes be the answer to letting non-developers help you fill in standardized sections of a website and help you get an application out the door quickly.

Use variables for more than just the where clause in your queries

We all use variables in our queries from time to time in our where clauses, parameterized of course, but that’s not the only place to use variables to get more out of your queries.

Rounding large numbers for easier display

How do you round down a large number so that you can display it easier. How I got stuck on a what turned out to be a simple solution.

Warm Up Sketches

How to leverage an artist’s daily routine to “warm up” and get their creative juices flowing for the day to kickstart your own daily coding.

Don’t forget that query results are also arrays

A real world scenario where remembering queries are also arrays helped build a quick display of a list of entries.

New CFML Badges Website

Fun website to spruce up your readme,documentation files, etc.

CFSnippets.com website now online

New CFML website out there for developers of all ages.