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1 Feb 2024

In my recent work on migrating older projects to ColdFusion 2023, I encountered the need to recreate the functionality of the deprecated CFMENU tag. Although I hadn't used CFMENU before, adapting to the new environment prompted me to develop a soluti...

1 Jan 2024

Dealing with reserved words after Migration to ColdFusion 2023.

Last time, most of my work involved migrating sites from pretty old versions of ColdFusion, mainly versions 9 or 10, to ColdFusion 2023. Despite the fact that the sites were created by different developers, the task was relatively straightforward. In...

23 Mar 2022

The struct keys in THIS.DATASOURCES

Datasource creation in ColdFusionTo run a query in ColdFusion you have to define a datasource. The datasource is an object that contains connection and database properties. These are the properties which enable the query to execute on a specific loca...

3 Jan 2022

Zoom API on ColdFusion

1. ZOOM APP CREATION To work with the Zoom API, we can choose between OAuth and JWT (JSON web token) Zoom APP. Both provide a high level of security. You can find more details on the Zoom docs pages: https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/build as w...

9 Dec 2020

Azure Service Bus - Queues - An introduction

CFNext introduces integration with Microsoft Azure Service Bus, a managed message brokering service that enables decoupling of applications by allowing asynchronous transfer of data and state. The integration with messaging service falls into the fo...

9 Dec 2020

Understanding Simple Queue Service Usage through CFML- 2

Hi CFNext users, Please go through previousblog, if you haven't gone through. This post is about covering few more frequent operations on SQS using CF2021, which directly integrates cloud services into language. 4. Get Queue Url: You require the ...

9 Dec 2020

Azure Service Bus - Topics

This is the second of a series of posts, on Azure Service Bus integration with ColdFusion. In this post we will talk about how to use Topics in CF2021. Topics are used for one to many transfer of messages in a publish/subscribe scenario. You may ref...

2 Dec 2020

Understanding Simple Queue Service Usage through CFML- 1

Hi CFNext users, I will be covering AWS SQS integration with ColdFusion. This post mostly revolves around below items: 1. AWS SQS usecase 2. Setting AWS credentials 3. Create Queue 4. Setting Queue Attributes 5. Send, Receive and Delete messag...

16 Mar 2020

Can't find ColdFusion talent? It's time to re-evaluate allowing remote work.

One of ColdFusion’s biggest challenges is connecting the people who are developers, and the employers looking for people to fill their positions. I’ve heard this for (literally) decades.ColdFusion Developer: “Man… fewer and fewer companies are hiring...

6 Mar 2020

Don't forget that query results are also arrays

Thought I'd post on a page I recently had to revisit and how it used array notation to help display a query I was using. In this page I was displaying a listing which contains a list of parents with x number of children each. In a university for accr...

9 Jun 2017

Welcome back!

We thank the user community for your patience during our brief outage. In an effort to improve our service we recently moved ColdFusion Blog to WordPress based Adobe blogs. Unfortunately, during the transition we encountered some technical issues and...