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Download the public beta of ColdFusion Splendor from here Various enhancements have been added to the core CFML language to provide a better development experience. Script support for CF tags and member functions for CF data structure were long pending feature requests and we are happy to add these two along with a few more enhancements in ColdFusion Splendor (codename). The following list shows the enhancements made in the CFML language: Script support for tags Member functions for CF data […]
In case you haven’t already noticed,the public beta for the major version of ColdFusion codenamed Splendor and for the next major version of ColdFusion Builder Thunder is now available. Here is where you can get access to the public beta for both the products on Adobe Labs – http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion/ You can quickly go over what’s new in ColdFusion Splendor here. There are also a couple of videos on the video tab that gives you a quick introduction to what’s new in […]
ColdFusion 10 Update 13 is now available. This update introduces support for OS X 10.9 Mavericks. It fixes the web server connector issue on OS X 10.9 reported as bug #3653076. Users who are on OS X 10.9 or who plan to upgrade to 10.9 should apply this update. Users on other platforms need not apply this update. For further details you may refer this technote.
You may be aware of a new community initiative happening to promote, create and manage open source solutions for ColdFusion. This team directly addresses one of the key challenges that ColdFusion has when compared other competing technologies. There more than 100 developers already churning out interesting open source solutions as a part of Team CF Advance. If you are interested to join the team, drop a note to Denard Springle – denard.springle@gmail.com or use their signup form available here. Happy […]
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 […]
ColdFusion Enterprise installation includes FIPS compliant RSA BSAFE JCE Crypto Provider. Default algorithm used by this library for random number generation is ECDRBG (A variant of Dual Elliptic Curve). RSA has released an advisory regarding same (ESA-2013-068) listing unsafe random bit generation algorithms. ColdFusion sets the default random number generator algorithm to FIPS186Random (JVM argument -Dcoldfusion.jsafe.defaultalgo=<algorithm>) which is completely safe to use. So good news is by default your ColdFusion 10 installation is secure. Note that CrypotJ libraries are not […]
We updated the ColdFusion 10 Mandatory Update bits on Nov 21, 2013. This has been done to implement certain internal changes in the code signing mechanism. Users who are on ColdFusion 10 Update 8 and above are not affected by this change. They need not reapply the Mandatory Udpate. Users on Update level 7 and below can follow this article to reapply the Mandatory Update. Users on a new ColdFusion 10 installation (build number 282482 or 283922) should apply the Mandatory Update. Users […]
New security update is available for coldfusion versions 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2 and 10.0. This hotfix addresses the security issues specified in the technote here. Here is the link to the security bulletin for this hotfix. It also includes few important bug fixes for coldfusion 10 as specified here. We recommend locking down your server by following the lock down guide and disable unused features in the production environments.
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.
