

Observations on the in-person portion of the ColdFusion Specialist program.
An associate and I were just conferring on the number of nuggets we get from these summits. The Adobe products crew & engineers seem to be enhancing the platform in useful and meaningful ways. It’s always intriguing to see how other developers leverage the platform with with emerging technologies and solutions. I’ve been assured by the Adobe folks that a Coldfusion 2020 Summit will be held again in Las Vegas and I encourage Coldfusion developers to plan for a Summit […]
We are running CF2018 Update 3 with external web server (Apache) and we are getting ready to update the server to Update 5. I understand that I’ll have to upgrade to Update 4 before we go to 5. I was reading through documentation (https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-2018-update-5.html#Connectorconfiguration) and it says that we have to “Recreate Connector”. After upgrading to Update 5 I ran the connector and got message that it was already configured: [root@server1]# ./wsconfig -ws Apache -bin /usr/sbin/httpd -script /usr/sbin/apachectl -dir /etc/httpd/conf/ […]
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Tackling poor performance by replacing QueryConvertForGrid with SQL Window functions and Common Table Expressions
CFML has had Query of Queries for years and it’s been a useful tool but in modern CFML there is no need to use it at all.
Observations on the online portion of the ColdFusion Specialist program.
Quick listing of ColdFusion Summit 2019 Twitter accounts for reference.
The Server Auto Lock-Down installer does not allow you to apply lock-down for newly created sites without re-installing the lock-down tool from the beginning. Follow the procedure to re-install the lock-down tool for a new site. Assumptions ColdFusion is configured with one site cfsite1, and the runtime user name of ColdFusion after lockdown is cfuser. In addition, you have already locked down the instance cfusion (located as C:\ColdFusion2018\cfusion). The magic folder path for the site is C:\ColdFusion2018\config\wsconfig\1 You have a second site called cfsite2, which […]
We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions: ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 5 ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 12 IMPORTANT: If you are updating the 2016 and 2018 releases of ColdFusion to updates 12 and 5 respectively via the ColdFusion Administrator, ensure that Update 4 of ColdFusion (2018 release) and Update 11 of ColdFusion (2016 release) are installed. These are mandatory pre-requisites before updating. The following are links to the tech notes for each […]
Sending a simple SMS Message using ColdFusion and Amazon Web Services’ Simple Notification Service quickly and (relatively) painlessly.