CFBuilder Extensions – Apptacular

How do I install/Add Apptacular and other extensions to CFBuilder 2018 now that RIAforge is gone? Thanks!

ColdFusion 101: Different ways to create and add data to structures

An on-going series of posts covering ColdFusion basics for new developers. This series is intended to cover basic concepts, and demonstrate how there are many ways to accomplish tasks. This will cover some, but not all of them.

ColdFusion 101: Tags, Script and Functions, Part 1 – Tags

The first in an on-going series of posts covering ColdFusion basics for new developers. This series is intended to cover basic concepts. In this article, I cover the building blocks of ColdFusion; Tags, Script, and Functions.

What happened to $itemlabel$ in CF2018 CF Chart?

CFCHART $ITEMLABEL$ value no longer available in CF2018?

Using Azure Blob Storage w/CF2021

Need help displaying a MS Azure blob file on a webpage.

cfif question using NOT IN ?

I have a routine that checks the validity of some items in a transaction against some values in a database.  I need to add a new variable to check against.    I want to check the transaction rows that are selected to see if any match the value IMITEM.Webaccessibility with having the value ‘A’ or ‘S’.    In the example below I added the column to the query so it is selected, but what is the best way to check the compared […]

ColdFusion users should note and apply new Jan 2021 updates for Java 11 and Java 8

Folks using ColdFusion will want to be aware that last week (Jan 19, 2021) Oracle has released updates to Java 11 and Java 8, the current “Long-Term Support” versions of the Java JVM/JDK, which are supported by the various current and recent versions of CF. The downloads are available on the Adobe page where Adobe offers JVM updates. More about how to proceed to implement the update, in a moment. As is typical, the JVM update adds some modest features […]

Join us, Online CF Meetup, Jan 28: “Securing a ColdFusion Application with Fixinator & FuseGuard”, w/ Pete Freitag

Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Jan 28, 2020, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -5). The presentation will be: “Securing a ColdFusion Application with Fixinator & FuseGuard”, w/ Pete Freitag 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/275825925/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all 280+ previous Online […]

retrieving old certifications

trying to find older CF 8 & 9 certs

Week() function

At one of our customers we’re migrating an old CFMX7 application to CF2021. In certain reports the Week() function is used. <cfset oldlocale = SetLocale (“Dutch (Standard)”)> We’re performing the initial tests in our CF2018 developer environment. In using Week() in CFMX7 the week starts at Mondays and weeknumbers are correct. Using the same source code in CF2018 the week suddenly starts at Sundays and weeknumbers are incorrect (for instance today – 21/01/2021 – returns week 4 instead of week […]

Coldfusion Error handler – application.cfm

CF Server 2018 Windows Server 2012 R2 Within my Application.cfm file, I have a tag to handle web errors: <cferror type=”exception” template=”MyErrorHandler.cfm”> Within MyErrorHandler, I have a “oops … something went wrong” message with an image, and followed an email sent to the administrator (me): <cfsavecontent variable=”errortext”> <cfoutput> An error occurred: http://#cgi.server_name##cgi.script_name#?#cgi.query_string#<br /> Time: #dateFormat(now(), “short”)# #timeFormat(now(), “short”)#<br /> <cfdump var=”#error#” label=”Error”> <cfdump var=”#form#” label=”Form”> <cfdump var=”#url#” label=”URL”> </cfoutput> </cfsavecontent> <cfmail to=”abc@xxyz.com” from=”abc@xxyz.com” subject=”Error: #error.message#” type=”html”> #errortext# </cfmail> I have […]