Creating a Development Environment/Workflow for solo or small team development using ColdFusion, MS SQL Server, and Docker Compose – Part 1

How I set up a basic development environment suitable for a single developer, but expandable to multiple developers using Docker, Adobe ColdFusion, Git, Docker, and BitBucket. Part 1 – Software and file structure

Modernize or Die® Podcast – CFML News for January 7th, 2020 – Episode 35

For the show notes and audio version of the podcast – visit the website https://cfmlnews.modernizeordie.io/episodes/modernize-or-die-cfml-news-for-january-7th-2020 For the video version – watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/Zs3AT013CHY Summary: Gavin and Brad host this weeks episode.They talk about CF Summit 2019 Vegas releasing more videos from the sessions on YouTube. The playlist has 16 videos already. They also remind you to sign up for Rakshith’s upcoming Webinar on CF2020. They talk about Gavin and Michael Born’s plan for a new Live Coding Series. They […]

Configuring Jetty on HTTPS in CF2018

In this blog, we’ll learn how to configure Jetty on SSL using self-signed certificate created by a key tool. To configure Jetty on SSL, follow the steps below: Step 1: Generate a private key in a KeyStore file. Provide the details when it is prompted. cfroot\jre\bin\keytool -genkeypair -alias certificatekey -keyalg RSA validity 365 -keystore keystore.jks Step 2:  Export the certificate using the self-signed certificate. Note: You can use a self-signed certificate or a certificate from a Certificate Authority. cfroot\jre\bin\keytool -export […]

Video recordings of ColdFusion Summit 2019 Sessions

Happy New Year to all of you!!! The recordings of ColdFusion Summit 2019 are available at the ColdFusion YouTube Channel. Feel free to share the same to your team. The Adobe ColdFusion team would be at Developer Week Conference & Expo from February 12-16 at Oakland Convention Center. If you are in the area please do drop by.  

Should you convert all your CFQUERY sql to stored procedures? A different perspective

Some folks would say that one should ALWAYS favor putting SQL in a stored procedure versus running it dynamically from within CFQUERY. Here are some thoughts that offer a counterpoint.

Adobe 2019 ColdFusion Summit Sessions

A 2019 ColdFusion Summit playlist has been created.

Problem picking-up my datasource

Any assistance would be appreciated 🙂 I connected my CF2018 to my mariaDB server: Actions Data Source Name Driver Status rhce MySQL OK But, I’m getting below output: SELECT sno, firstname, lastname, city, country, age FROM scientists Sno FirstName LastName City Country Age #sno# #firstname# #lastname# #city# #country# #age# From my RHEL7 server, I can pull the data: MariaDB [rhce]> select * from scientists; +——+———–+————+————-+———+——+ | Sno | Firstname | LastName | City | Country | Age | +——+———–+————+————-+———+——+ | […]

Online ColdFusion Meetup meeting, Dec 19, 11a Central. All welcome

We will have the 258th meeting of the Online ColdFusion Meetup this week, Thursday Dec 19 at 11a US Central time. The presentation will be: “Start Doing `Integrated` Testing”, with Gavin Pickin For more on the meeting, how to join (for free, no registration required), the URL for the online meeting, a link to see the time and save it in your calendar for you in your own timezone, as well as more, please see the meetup event page: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/267142342/ Please […]

How to access AlwaysEncrypted column using Microsoft JDBC Driver in Coldfusion 11?

I would like to know how to accomplish the same using Cold Fusion 11. I have installed MS JDBC 7.4 driver to cfusion/lib folder and I am able to access to Database through it. However I am not sure how and where to add/register SQLServerConnection.registerColumnEncryptionKeyStoreProviders. Kindly help if this is possible from ColdFusion 11. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/jdbc/azure-key-vault-sample-version-7.0?view=sql-server-2016

Online ColdFusion Meetup meeting, today Dec 12, 12p ET. All welcome

We will have another meeting of the Online ColdFusion Meetup today, Thursday Dec 12 at 12p US Eastern time. The presentation will be: “Please pass the salt: Serve up passwords w/ a side of entropy”, with Brad Wood For more on the meeting, how to join (for free, no registration required), the URL for the online meeting, a link to see the time for you in your own timezone, and more, please see the meetup event page: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/267002432/ Please note again […]

ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 7 released

We are pleased to announce that we have released Update 7 of the 2018 release of ColdFusion. ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 7 addresses vulnerabilities that are mentioned in the security bulletin, APSB19-58. The update includes a fix for the ColdFusion Administrator UI. The vulnerability affects Windows platform only. Users on non-Windows platform need not apply this update. For more information, see the tech note. Please update your ColdFusion versions today. Let us know if you face any issues while installing the updates. […]

Upcoming ColdFusion 2020 webinar

This post is to let you know that early next year we will have a ColdFusion 2020 webinar where I will walk through the significant progress we have in accomplishing the below vision for ColdFusion 2020. As a recap, here is the vision: “To be the modernized platform of choice for building cloud-native microservice applications with absolute focus on ease of use without getting locked to a particular cloud vendor (multi-cloud).” I will be showing demos that give you a […]