I had a customer reach out to me last week about moving their session storage to Redis, so I decided to play around a bit with it. I’d never really had the need to utilize Redis or any of the other caches, as the companies I’d worked with used the local CF cache or other solutions. So I saw this as an opportunity to play and learn. To start, it is dead simple to get yourself a Redis instance going. […]
If you remember, in the last part of this blog series we tackled writing to a DynamoDB. This week, we’re tackling the editable table structures that will let us do a little ETL and massaging to our data before we push it to the dynamoDB. To make this work, we’ll be using the HTMX JS library, a lightweight, easy to use JavaScript toolset. You can find it here: https://htmx.org/ So what does this library do? In short, it allows you […]
Part 1: Building a data import workflow using Cloud datasources and CFML Connecting & interacting with DynamoDB on AWS We’re going to kind of go backwards here with this web series, but I wanted to make sure we build out our scaffolding before we get into the meat of the actual code. As a reminder, we’ll be building a system which pulls data from a Google Sheet using BaseQL to generate a GraphQL endpoint (read-only) which will feed a page […]
Alrighty! So this is going to be the first post introducing a little project I’m going to be building up and sharing the code to on Github for folks to use if they would like. I’ve actually had this workflow requirement come up several times in my development career, so I’m going to assume it is something the community might find useful. The App Essentially, the app will take a non-db datasource (in our case, Google Sheets), import that sheet […]
I’ve been a CFML developer for a long time, as have a lot of you. But everyone can always learn something new. There’s also a new generation of devs hungry for resources to learn about CMFL, figure out how to move over their existing knowledge, or just get certified as they search for their first ColdFusion position. I get a lot of questions about where to go for CFML knowledge, so I thought I might compile a few things here, […]
Last time I posted, I added a write functionality to my already existing talks on reading from Airtable APIs using GraphQL by integrating with the BaseQL plugin. There’s been some cool updates there and I wanted to share them, as they potentially open up an amazing and exciting new arena for using ColdFusion to write sites that leverage low-code/no-code sources for data. One big piece of news coming from BaseQL is that you no longer need to have a pro […]
During the last CFSummit (2021) I did a talk on leveraging Airtable’s API using the BaseQL plugin to perform CRUD operations using GraphQL. You can find the talk here: All Videos – ColdFusion (adobe.com) Except, as a couple folks pointed out, I actually just showed how to do R operations, no C U or D, as my time was a bit short. I’d figured extrapolating from my talk would be fairly trivial. As it turns out… not so much, there’s […]
As you all know, the Log4J exploit situation has continued to evolve, and our security team has just released the latest recommendations for dealing with the latest know issues. Read the tech note here: https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/log4j-2-17-0-vulnerability-coldfusion.html Folks who have already updated their Log4J versions to 2.17.1 are at the recommended level. However, please note that even though Log4J 2.17.0 was found to have a potential attack vector, our security team did not find any exploitable attack vector or mechanism with Adobe […]
The big news a few weeks back was the announcement by Microsoft that they now had a fully featured VS Code IDE that runs completely in the browser. This was exciting news for folks who liked the idea of being able to code anywhere, whether on a Chromebook or an iPad or their Tesla display (maybe, honestly haven’t tried that one). In any case, the excitement and hype quickly gave way to the dreaded “but” as limitations on what this […]
Update: the Log4J patch has been uploaded (12/17/2021). More information here: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/12/update-coldfusion-security-updates-log4j-vulnerability/ As most of you are aware, the Log4J (aka “Log4Shell”) vulnerability is currently the hot topic of discussion amongst… well, basically everyone. Adobe engineering & security have been hard at work determining which versions of ColdFusion might be affected and what, if any, workaround/mitigation steps are available. Please head over here: Log4j vulnerability on ColdFusion (adobe.com) and bookmark the page, as it will be updated if/as things change. […]
You might have heard that ColdFusion has a command line interface (well… actually we have a couple!), but what can it do? Turns out, quite a lot! Let’s get you introduced to the CF CLI!
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