ColdFusion (2018 release) and ColdFusion (2016 release) mandatory updates

Why must I have the Update 4 of ColdFusion (2018 release) or Update 11 of ColdFusion (2016 release) installed before updating to Update 5 or Update 12 respectively? These are mandatory updates because the latest updates are now signed using a new code signing certificate and the code changes to check for the new signature were included in Update 4 (ColdFusion 2018) and Update 11 (ColdFusion 2016). If you are not on the specified updates and try to apply the […]

Online ColdFusion Meetup 10/24/19

Reminder for upcoming ColdFusion Meetup

CF2018 new install, (64bit windows) Error: ODBC service not running or has not been installed

New install CF2018 Developer Edition, adding DSN for MS Access gives error: “The ColdFusion ODBC Server service is not running or has not been installed…”

Note to Self: IIS 10 Pre-Requisites for ColdFusion 2018

These are the minimum requirements that need to be installed in IIS for a CF install.

Array with number vs Typed Array where the type is number

I have the following code <cfscript> data = [‘2342bas’, ‘asqwerewq’, ‘12314’, 12421, 1.1]; newdata = arrayNew[‘Numeric’](1); for (item in data) { newdata.append(val(item)); } writedump(newdata); newdata = []; for (item in data) { newdata.append(val(item)); } writedump(newdata); </cfscript> This result in Not sure this is wrong, but it is interesting

Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting Coming Up 10/16/19

Notice of upcoming ColdFusion User Group meeting, October 16, 2019

ColdFusion Summit 2019 – Presentation Files

The seventh edition of ColdFusion Summit happened in Vegas from Oct 1st – 2nd. There were more than 500 attendees from 320+ accounts being represented. We had four tracks with 40 sessions. Thank you to everyone that attended Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2019 and to the Presenters for the awesome sessions! Thanks to all the Presenters for sharing their slide decks. Please find below the content from the sessions: ColdFusion and Vue – building CFML-powered reactive applications – Matt Gifford ::  […]

Thoughts on the ColdFusion Specialist Program Exam

Observations on the exam for the ColdFusion Specialist program.

CFCamp 2019 Speaker Twitter List

Quick listing of CFCamp 2019 Twitter accounts for reference.

Error after accessing ColdFusion Administrator using connector port

UPDATE (10/10/2019): We’ve have now included patches for 32-bit IIS connector. The locations are also updated. Users who had installed Update 5 of ColdFusion (2018 release) and Update 12 of ColdFusion (2016 release) encountered an error after they’d tried accessing the ColdFusion Administrator using their connector port. The issue was reported by a few users that it might impact all their websites. This issue appears if and only if you access the ColdFusion Administrator using the web server port. We […]

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