trycf.com is a new learning initiative by Abram Adams. The idea of the portal is to offer tutorials for new or beginner level ColdFusion developers with interactive tutorials using which you can type in CFML code on the browser and see the results live! This is a great way to quickly learn the CFML programming without having to download ColdFusion. What’s more, Abram Adams also has a contest running right now where the you, the ColdFusion community, can help take […]
One of the world’s leading open-source research websites was experiencing performance issues because increasing volumes of data were taxing the system’s available memory. To solve the problem, the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) called on ITX Corp., an IT solutions provider. ITX rebuilt the site using Adobe ColdFusion, which helped eliminate memory problems, cut development times through the reuse of modularized code, and streamline SSRN’s web technology infrastructure. “Not only did the upgrade to 64-bit Adobe Cold Fusion help […]
I thank each of the 503 attendees for the overwhelming response and great feedback for the first ever ColdFusion conference from Adobe. The positive feedback post the conference on social media – Twitter, Facebook and the blogs has been really encouraging. We have also made note of some of the improvements that have been suggested and will work on those for a better CFSummit next year. The conference would not have been successful without the efforts from all the speakers. […]
I am pleased to let you know that there is a mobile app available for iOS and Android for the Adobe ColdFusion Summit happening in Vegas. Here is the link for the app on Google Play. And here’s the link for the app on iOS. The best part about this is app is that the entire app is built using the new Mobile features coming up in ColdFusion Splendor and ColdFusion Builder Thunder. The code for the app will be […]
Over the last few weeks there have been quite a few passionate discussions happening on ColdFusion. This post addresses those.
Amazon is organizing a webinar on the 18th of September at 10 am PT titled ‘Leverage the power of Adobe ColdFusion on AWS’. You can register for this AWS webinar here Learn about the AWS offering from, Tom Laszewski, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services Chandan Kumar, Computer Scientist, Adobe Akhila K. Srinivas, Software Engineer, Adobe
Please participate in this ColdFusion feature usage survey. This is not a typical feature usage survey for ColdFusion. The purpose of this survey is to understand the usage of some of the old or not-so-popular features of ColdFusion. The information gathered here will help Adobe deprecate/retain/provide alternate features in the next major version of ColdFusion. Thanks for your time.
We have received a great response so far for Adobe ColdFusion Summit happening in Las Vegas on the 24th and 25th of October. Speakers, the best from the ColdFusion community, and sessions have already been announced on the conference website. More sessions and speakers will be added in the coming days. If you are keen on attending the conference and are yet to register, please do it now as there are only last few places remaining for registration.
Amazon has recently announced price reductions on Amazon EC2 dedicated instances. Dedicated per region fee drops by 80%. Dedicated on-demand instance hourly price drops by 37% and dedicated reserve instance hourly price drops by 57%. This is could be relevant to those who are already using ColdFusion on AWS Marketplace or planning to use in future.
ColdFusion 10 update 11 is now available for download within the ColdFusion 10 administrator. This is a significant update as it has more than 50 fixes across various areas of the product. The most noteworthy additions are the support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012, MySQL 5.6 and 64-bit COM interoperability. Here are the key areas and some fixes made in this update: 1. JSON – serialization issues 2. Caching – ORM secondary cache and cached query with query params, 3. […]
There have been a couple of posts describing the vulnerability using the websocket functionality in ColdFusion 10. The Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is aware of this issue and is actively engaged with the ColdFusion Product Team to release a fix. Adobe PSIRT is not aware of this issue being exploited in the wild. There will be a new update released soon that directly prevents the ability to invoke non-remote methods on the CFC using Websockets.
[update: The REST e-seminar is now happening on the 6th of August at 8 am pacific. Register here ] There is a ColdFusion e-seminar happening on the 18th of June at 8 am pacific. The e-seminar will run for an hour. You an register for the e-seminar here.
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