After Upgrading to Update 5 on CF2018, pages randomly won’t load.

Strange Tomcat error after installing Update 5

Note to Self: IIS 10 Pre-Requisites for ColdFusion 2018

These are the minimum requirements that need to be installed in IIS for a CF install.

Using ColdFusion to send a one off SMS Message using AWS SNS (in five lines of code!)

Sending a simple SMS Message using ColdFusion and Amazon Web Services’ Simple Notification Service quickly and (relatively) painlessly.

How do I know if an article won’t be published?

I wrote an article last month that has been “pending” for a while now.  How do I know if I create an article on the community that will not be published, or gets rejected?  Who do I communicate with?

Adobe could support and bolster the ColdFusion Community by creating a CF focused jobs portal

It is more difficult than it needs to be for employers to find qualified ColdFusion talent, and for Developers to find companies that are hiring for ColdFusion positions. Adobe could help with a solution that would also bolster the community by creating a CF Jobs portal.

Quick Tip: Where to find installers for older versions of ColdFusion

CFMLRepo.com has installers for ColdFusion dating back to version 1.5.

Fighting Stagnation: Learning how to grow your skills in a stagnant development environment

Maintaining a legacy application can be a challenge, especially when the team is reluctant to try new techniques. Increment new methodologies gradually so as not to scare off developers stuck in their ways.

Heavy Handed, but effective. Passing entire scopes into CFTHREAD.

When you’re dealing with and lots of variables that exist in (potentially) many different scopes, one approach could be to pass the whole scope into the thread.

I wanted a pre-conference workshop to bring more developers into the CF fold… Adobe one-upped me with something even better.

I wanted a pre-conference workshop to bring more developers into the CF fold… Adobe one-upped me with something even better.

Quick Tip: CF 2018 Array Negative Indices are Read Only

Array negative indexes in CF 2018 appear to be read only.

Other social resources for ColdFusion

The CF Community is vast.  Here’s some other places you can turn to in order to find help or network within the ColdFusion community.

CF2018 External Session Storage using Redis on an AWS EC2 Server

In this article, I’ll walk through setting up an EC2 Server on AWS and installing Redis for ColdFusion 2018 to use as session storage.