Join us, Online CF Meetup, Jan 7: “Code and Tell: Building Your Own Tools with CommandBox”, with Matthew Clemente

Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Jan 7, 2020, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -5). The presentation will be: “Code and Tell: Building Your Own Tools with CommandBox”, with Matthew Clemente For more on the presentation, the speaker, how to join the group join (free), as well as the URL for the online meeting and more, please see the meetup event page: “Code and Tell: Building Your Own Tools with CommandBox”, with Matthew Clemente Thursday, […]

Add Google recaptcha to Cold Fusion form

Does anyone know how to add a recaptcha to a Cold Fusion form? The form should not submit until the recaptcha has been checked off. I keep finding everything with PHP for this, but nothing with a Cold Fusion form. Here’s a simple form I created below. I’m not sure how to put the code in a special box here. I also left the Secret Key and Site key off of here on purpose. <cfparam name=”FORM.username” default=”” type=”string” > <cfparam […]

Online ColdFusion Meetup 2020 year in review

Did you know that the Online ColdFusion meetup has had 20 meetings this year? indeed our 278th talk on Dec 10? or that this is our 15th year? Let’s review the sessions this year.

What CF2021 giveth, CF2021 taketh away for now it seems. Some new features on hold?

I’ve not heard an official word on this from Adobe, but I can report that there are a few features that were “new” in CF2021, whose doc links HAD worked when the release first came out, but now the doc links get a 404. The implication seems to be that the feature, while still “in” CF currently, is one that’s been put “on hold” for some reason, as if perhaps we should not use them. Maybe they may be removed, […]

cfhttp connection failure when calling https url’s

This is one of the most common error when it comes to make calls to https url’s with <cfhttp. A lot of articles are out there explaining how to install SSL certificate with keytool. But again its not very easy for everyone to understand.  Best way to do it is using certman (CF admin) plugin, which was available on https://certman.riaforge.org/ but since its been taken down it was no where to be found. I recently found it in https://github.com/cfmaniac GIT repo […]

Azure BLOB Cloud Storage with ColdFusion 2021

CF2021 introduces integration with Azure Blob, Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Operations such as Creating containers, Deleting container, Uploading File, Downloading File, Block Upload, Shared Access Signature are supported.

ColdFusion 2021 Zip Install Experience

ColdFusion (2021 release) introduces an entirely new install experience, with a lightweight zip install option. Since it packages only the core CF2021 modules and has a trimmed down JDK, the zip is less than 150 MB, and both deployment and server startup time have been reduced significantly, compared to the full/GUI installer (which is still available).

Iterator Support in ColdFusion 2021

This post talks about the new language feature introduced in ColdFusion 2021 , “Iterator Support”

AWS S3 Cloud Storage with ColdFusion 2021

CF2021 introduces integration with Amazon S3, a cloud storage service where you can store and retrieve objects. Operations such as Creating buckets, Deleting Buckets, Uploading File, Downloading File, Object Locking, Bulk Upload are supported.

Join us, Online CF Meetup, Dec 10: “Using CommandBox CLI to manage all your servers”, with Brad Wood

Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Dec 10, 2020, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -5). The presentation will be: “Using CommandBox CLI to manage all your servers”, with Brad Wood For more on the presentation, the speaker, 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/274974315/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all 270+ previous Online CFMeetup […]

Azure Service Bus – Topics

This is the second of a series of posts, on Azure Service Bus integration with ColdFusion. In this post we will talk about how to use Topics in CF2021. Topics are used for one to many transfer of messages in a publish/subscribe scenario. You may refer this document for more on the subject. The following example demonstrates how to create a topic, publish messages to the created topic and subscribe to it. For the prerequisites to this exercise please refer my previous blog post on Service […]

Understanding Simple Queue Service Usage through CFML- 2

Hi CFNext users,  Please go through previous blog, if you haven’t gone through. This post is about covering few more frequent operations on SQS using CF2021, which directly integrates cloud services into language. 4.  Get Queue Url: You require the queue URL to send, receive, and delete queue messages The following example query request gets the URL for the specified queue.  stdQueueUrl = stdQueue.getQueueUrl(); 5.  Send a message to a queue: The following example shows sending a message to an existing queue sendMessageMetadata = {                   “messageBody”=”Send Message to ColdFusion […]