CF DevWeek 2021 agenda now posted

While we’ve heard for several weeks about the coming Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week event (June 22-24) since it’s announcement here and elsewhere, some great news is that the agenda has now been posted. (The topics have also been trickled out via the Adobe CF twitter account.) You can find all the session topics and their times at the registration site. When you click the “Agenda” menu option, you’ll find the 3 days of sessions, in two tracks with about 3-4 […]

Join us, Online CF Meetup, Jun 3: “Getting Started with FusionReactor”, with Brad Wood

Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Jun 3, 2021, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -4). The presentation will be: “Getting Started with FusionReactor”, with Brad Wood. For more on the presentation, the speaker(s), how to join the group join (free), as well as the URL for the online meeting and more, please see the meetup event page: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/278404050/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all 280+ previous Online CFMeetup sessions, available at recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com, […]

cfpdf and xfdf for comments

I’m trying to create a comment (annotation) in a pdf document using the cfpdf tag to import comments from an xfdf file.  I’m using Coldfusion 2018.  For the life of me I can’t get this to work.  In the Coldfusion Guide online, it has a note about an attached file for an example of comments xfdf but the online user guide doesn’t have any attachments.  Does anyone have a simple example of an xfdf file for creating a comment in […]

Configuring TLS/SSL and Authentication for Elasticsearch in Performance Monitoring Toolset

ColdFusion Performance Monitoring Toolset uses Elasticsearch 5.6.16 as data store. As vital information about servers are collected and stored in datastore, we need an end to end encryption. Therefore, if you want to configure TLS/SSL and authentication for Elasticsearch, you must make some changes in the following: Elasticsearch Performance Monitoring Toolset JVM 1. Elasticsearch changes Download and install x-pack plugin. Run elasticsearch-plugin install x-pack by navigating to ColdFusion2021PerformanceMonitoringToolset/datastore/bin in terminal. Generate certificates by using certgen in ES. Run certgen at […]

Adobe ColdFusion Projects page is now live!!

We have just launched the Projects page on our Community portal to enable our developers to find some examples to help them get started quicker in their Projects. All these Projects are free to download and to reuse. Please feel free to reuse the Projects or part of the Project. Here are some of the Projects that we have uploaded for you: 1: Cloud Library Showcase App Source Code  This project showcases the Cloud features in the 2021 release of […]

ColdFusion + JavaScript Frameworks: How to build scalable and interactive applications

Adobe ColdFusion and JavaScript frameworks have emerged as essential elements of modern web development. Frameworks will not only strengthen your applications appeal but will also reduce development time and improve functionality for your users. While creating .cfm templates with JavaScript is certainly possible, this project will also show you how frameworks like Vue.js or React can provide you with the enhanced capability of creating rich, dynamic UI components and features. Download the Project here. Document guide for the project available […]

Adobe CF certification now only US$149, including many hours of training

If you may not have heard the news or noticed it on the Adobe CF Certification page, the price is now listed as only US$149. If you’ve not seen or heard anything about the “new” CF certification, it is greatly improved over the one from several years ago (which was just an exam). The new certification process entails about 20 hours of 50+ recorded videos and exam prep materials, in addition to the exam. It was first rolled out at […]

Cloud Library Showcase App Source Code Project

The all-new ColdFusion 2021 has made it even easier to benefit from cloud services like laaS, PaaS and SaaS. You can now utilize S3 or Azure Blob to store data and DynamoDB or MongoDB to retrieve it. And that’s not all! You can also use SQS and Azure Service Bus to rapidly communicate with different databases. Download this project to know more about how the brand new Adobe ColdFusion helps organizations to build their architecture, optimize workflow and migrate to […]

ColdFusion DAM

Adobe ColdFusion gives you the option to use a storage provider and manage all your digital media assets in one location. Download the project for a 360 degree view at how to maintain versions, store assets and share them to other users via email. Download the Project here. The DAM uploads folders available here. **In order to download the project, please login to the community portal

Building REST APIs with ColdFusion

With Adobe ColdFusion, writing REST API calls is a breeze! Using its built-in REST features, you can seamlessly create and publish functions in a component as a REST resource. Download the project for a first-hand look at REST APIs and learn how to register, create and consume web services in Adobe ColdFusion. Download the Project here. Document guide for the project available here. **In order to download the project, please login to the community portal

ColdFusion + Excel: Harness the Power to Create, Read &Publish Professional Documents

Excel documents are critical to most organizations; so being able to manipulate them efficiently is a must. Luckily, with Adobe ColdFusion you can accomplish many Excel driven tasks with just a few functions and a little coding. Download the project for a look at the different use cases and applications that can be accomplished with Adobe ColdFusion, with respect to Excel documents. Download the  Example here. Document guide for the project available here. **In order to download the project, please […]

Bintray decommissioning

Announcement On May 1, 2021, all Bintray services will be deprecated, and your accounts will be disabled. For more information, see the official Bintray blog.  This means that the ColdFusion, Performance Monitoring Toolset, and API Manager containers for the versions 2016/2018/2021 will no longer be accessible. This may lead to interruption in your automation scripts and other CI/CD pipelines. Solution  We have moved all the containers to ColdFusion downloads. You’ll load the tar file in Docker and then run ColdFusion or the other tools.  Here are the commands:  Load the ColdFusion tar file, docker load < <name of the […]