ACF Builder Extension: Code Assist

Adobe ColdFusion Builder Extension for Visual Studio Code “Code Assist” Often, the main reason we use a purpose-built IDE for our development work is for getting help with things like code completion, hinting, scaffolding and other similar features. This is often a big differentiator from more simplified editors such as, for example, Notepad. VS Code comes out of the box with many powerful features, but the CF extension adds specific code assist features for Adobe ColdFusion code. One of the […]

ACF Builder Extension: Security Analyzer

Adobe ColdFusion Builder Extension for Visual Studio Code “Security Code Analyzer” Security is a critical aspect of programming. The Security Analyzer is a powerful, useful tool for CFML developers to use to help prevent vulnerable code in their application. It can warn about potential threats, give you an idea on the level of the threat, and suggest potential solutions to the issues. As of CF2021, Security Analyzer functionality is available and valid for ALL licensed versions of ColdFusion (in the […]

ACF Builder Extension: PMT Code Profiler

Adobe ColdFusion Builder Extension for Visual Studio Code “PMT Code Profiler Report Integration” The Performance Monitoring Toolkit (PMT) provides critical performance data for your running Adobe ColdFusion servers. It monitors all transactions and captures a variety of data metrics including response and run times, errors, and other data. The Builder Extension provides the ability to view data from the PMT server in a report. * It should be noted, to get full functionality from the extension, a running Adobe ColdFusion […]

Modernize or Die® – CFML News Podcast for August 2nd, 2022 – Episode 159

Eric and Daniel host this week’s CFML News Podcast. To listen or subscribe to the podcast visit our site or watch on Youtube. They discussed the 3rd part of the Adobe Lucee Roundtable podcast from CFAlive. They discussed the CF Config support for Lucee Scheduled tasks, ColdBox 6.8.0, and Adobe’s VS Code Extension for ColdFusion Builder. They reminded you of Adobe Developer Week and how to get the recordings as well as Brad’s Community post on How does CFML really perform compared […]

ACF Builder Extension: RDS Integration

Adobe ColdFusion Builder Extension for Visual Studio Code “RDS – Remote Development Server” RDS has helped ColdFusion developers with their development workflows for a very long time, and ever since Adobe ColdFusion Builder version 1.0 (code named “Bolt”) CF developers have been able to interact with various aspects of their development environment using RDS. In the ACF Builder Extension, this is also the case, with powerful capabilities that become available when using & logging the extension into RDS. * It […]

ACF Builder Extension: Server Panel

Adobe ColdFusion Builder Extension for Visual Studio Code “Adobe ColdFusion Server Panel” One of the incredible differentiating features of the Builder Extension is the ability to setup & control your servers directly from VS Code. This was a very popular feature in ColdFusion Builder (Eclipse) and provides nearly identical functionality here. * It should be noted, to get full functionality from the extension, a running Adobe ColdFusion server (2016,2018 or 2021+) is required. In the left-hand pane of the CF […]

Public beta of Builder Extension for VS Code

We are pleased to announce the Public Beta of ColdFusion Builder extension for VS Code. If you are using ColdFusion Builder, would you like to take part in helping the CF team make Builder the best it can be? Please download the CF Builder Extension from https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=com-adobe-coldfusion.adobe-cfml-lsp. The all-new Adobe ColdFusion Builder plug-in on VS Code helps developers to edit and validate code, manage files and projects, debugging and scan for security vulnerabilities. Check out some of the cool features […]

Modernize or Die® – CFML News Podcast for July 26th, 2022 – Episode 158

Gavin and Dan host this week’s CFML News Podcast. To listen or subscribe to the podcast visit our site or watch on Youtube. They discussed Adobe Developer Week last week and how to get the recordings! They discussed Brad’s Community post on How does CFML really perform compared to other languages? They discussed webinars, meetups and workshops, the upcoming Ortus Webinar, as well as Adobe Webinars and Workshops. They discuss upcoming conferences, including updates for ITB, CF Summit, the CF Summit Ortus […]

All CF DevWeek 2022 videos now posted on Youtube

Great news: the recordings for all 17 of the sessions from Adobe ColdFusion DevWeek 2022 are now posted on Youtube, in the AdobeColdFusion Youtube channel. More specifically, a playlist for the week of sessions has been created, which offers the sessions in the order they were presented. For information like the topic descriptions and speaker bios, note those were offered on the Devweek site, which for now is still available here. The videos will also be posted soon here on […]

Modernize or Die® – CFML News Podcast for July 19th, 2022 – Episode 157

Gavin and Eric host this week’s CFML News Podcast. To listen or subscribe to the podcast visit our site or watch on Youtube. They discussed Brad’s Community post on How does CFML really perform compared to other languages? Adobe Developer Week is this week! They discussed a possible Lucee 6 beta coming soon, maybe. They discussed webinars, meetups and workshops, including last weeks Koding with the Kiwi + Friends with Wil De Bruin, the upcoming Ortus Webinar and Seattle CFUG Meetup, as […]

Updating the admin username in your ColdFusion 2021 administrator

How to manually change the username for the ColdFusion 2021 administrator, the good news is it’s still the same method you may have already used.

Stop Long Running Pages

I have a page that runs a lot of join queries. The page usually runs in 5-10 seconds, but sometimes it runs 60+ seconds and is causing our server to crash. While I optimize that page is there a way to stop a CF page from running when a certain page load time is reached? For example, when the page load time is at 30 seconds I want it to stop running. Is there a way to do that?