Event Gateway Instances – How verify is running ?

Event Gateway Instances – How verify is running whithout log in CF Adminisration

ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 6 and ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 13 released

We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions: ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 6 ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 13 The updates fix bugs that were reported in the previous update release. If you had installed the preview updates of these releases, make sure that you revert the update URL to the default value to receive update notifications. IMPORTANT: If you will be using the Administrator interface to perform the update, note that you must […]

Using ColdFusion, Tabulator, and WordPress in unison

Making dynamic tables for a WordPress site using Tabulator and ColdFusion

Online ColdFusion Meetup meeting, Nov 14, 6p ET. All welcome

We will have another meeting of the Online ColdFusion Meetup, Thursday Nov 14 at 6p US Eastern time (note again the changed time compared to ones in Oct, which were at noon). The presentation will be: “Web Acceleration to the Rescue”, with Bruno Zugay 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 […]

Preview builds of ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 6 and ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 13 released

UPDATE: 11/20/2019: We’ve released update 4 of CF 2018 and update 13 of CF 2016. For more information, see Update blog. IMPORTANT: These are preview builds and we DO NOT recommend applying them to your production environment. We are pleased to announce that we have preview builds available for the following updates: ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 6 ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 13 The preview updates contain fixes for bugs that were reported after the release of the previous updates. We […]

Announcement – Pre-release for the next major version of ColdFusion

We are excited to announce that we will soon open up the pre-release for the next major version of ColdFusion. To express interest in this pre-release, please fill up this survey The next version of ColdFusion is a game changing release for ColdFusion with significant focus on modernization of the platform, cloud integration and support for microservice architectures. Here is the vision statement for ColdFusion next: “To be the modernized platform of choice for building cloud-native microservice applications with absolute […]

Adobe ColdFusion Summit India in Bangalore on Dec 7th

We are excited to announce the second annual Adobe ColdFusion Summit in Bangalore on December 7th. The conference would have a keynote from Adobe and two tracks filled with exciting sessions. The sessions would be taken by Adobe Engineers who worked on those features. The conference also allows attendees time to interact with the entire team working on Adobe ColdFusion. The conference is FREE to attend, just register at the link provided below: https://cfindiasummit.attendease.com/register/registration/form Location :: Adobe Systems India Private […]

Why I keep going back to the learning, getting started, etc. articles.

When’s the last time you looked at a getting started post? If you haven’t maybe there’s something new there.

Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting Nov. 13, 2019

November 2019 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting scheduled Wednesday, Nov. 13 in Bellevue, WA and online via ZOOM

ColdFusion Builder 2018 – Datasource ‘XXX’ could not be found.

I installed ColdFusion 2018 on our Windows 2012 sandbox server with SQL Server 2012 Express installed.  I am able to configure several datasources using the CFAdmin which shows OK as the status.  But when I try using the connection in a cf page from CFBuilder, I get the error, Datasource AP2 could not be found. The error occurred in D:/ColdFusionBuilder2018/ColdFusion/cfusion/wwwroot/CFTest1/TestDB.cfm: line 3 1 : // script 2 : <cfscript> 3 : myquery = QueryExecute(‘SELECT * FROM artists’, [], {datasource = ‘AP2’}); […]

How to implement a special hotfix that Adobe may give you

If you’ve been told by Adobe to apply a special hotfix file (with a name like hf-something.jar), to fix a problem with a recent CF update, just be very careful how you proceed. Either of a couple of wrong moves could leave you feeling “the problem was not fixed” or worse, totally new “inexplicable” problems could occur that “no one else has reported”. Just follow these steps, for safe “update fixing”.