Quick Tip: How to Reset the ColdFusion Administrator Password

Resetting the ColdFusion Administrator password is easy as long as you have access to the machine.

Join us, Online CF Meetup, Jun 17: “ColdFusion Modernization Challenges – Improving Legacy Code…”, with David Byers

Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Jun 17, 2021, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -4). The presentation will be: ColdFusion Modernization Challenges – Improving Legacy Code While Retaining Your Sanity, with David Byers 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/278773692/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all […]

Support for Azul JDK — Updated

A quick update on the status of our support for Azul JDK: Our planned roll out of ColdFusion support of the Azul Zulu OpenJDK (including new CF installers) has been put on hold. We will continue for now with our regular update cycles, supporting the Oracle JVM (JDK or JRE). We expect to provide further updates on Java support changes by December 2021. Below was the original text of this post, now stricken out, but left to provide context. To […]

Properly handled quoted yes/no with serializeJSON in CF2021 and CF2018, solvable in CF2016

Did you know that CF2021 and CF2018 now “properly” handle serializing to json strings with the quoted values of “yes” and “no”, leaving them as strings rather than converting them to booleans true and false? And did you know that if you are on CF2016 (which does convert them), you can solve that with just a couple of lines of code? And that same solution can be used if you are on CF2018 or above and do WANT a string […]

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 […]