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November 2019 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting scheduled Wednesday, Nov. 13 in Bellevue, WA and online via ZOOM
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’}); […]
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”.
How do we make the mail run on port 587 without getting errors?
We will have another meeting of the Online ColdFusion Meetup, Thursday Nov 7 at 6p US Eastern time (note the changed time compared to the previous one on Oct 31). The presentation will be “SQL, I learned enough to break everything” with Dave Ferguson. 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 […]
I’ve been developing ColdFusion applications for about 20 years and sometimes I feel like I’m still learning. On occasion it takes stumbling across a feature to realize how something works. Consider the following code: <cfoutput> #NumberFormat(1.5)# </cfoutput> Now… some people might look at that and think, “of course it’s going to display 2.” Honestly, I had no idea. numberFormat() without a mask will round numbers. That seems strange to me, frankly, but live and learn. Try it for yourself. Anyone […]
The error is surprisingly easy to fix–if you know what to do, and where the docs tell you.
If you’ve been dragging your feet on converting from application.cfm to application.cfc, there are a few resources that can help you, both in doing it and in appreciating why you should.
We will have another meeting of the Online ColdFusion Meetup, tomorrow Oct 31 at 12p US Eastern time. The presentation will be “GET /cfml – A Guide to Writing API Wrappers” with Matthew Clemente. For more on the meeting, how to join (for free, no registration required) and more, see the event page: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/266032128/ And yes, the meeting will be recorded, as all 250+ of the Online CFMeetup sessions have been. Again, see that page for more info. And if you may […]
Did you catch this weeks live Modernize or Die Podcast – CFML News Edition?
Brad and Gavin host this weeks episode. Charlie Arehart is talking to the CFUGSFL Usergroup about FusionReactor online, and is giving away some Fusion Reactor goodies. We discuss the recent speakers on the Online ColdFusion Meetup and the next presenter is Matthew Clemente. We also remind everyone about your last chance to cash in on a free T-Shirt with Hacktoberfest. We announce upcoming conferences, discuss tweets videos and blog posts, and ForgeBox module of the week, vs code hint tip and trick of the week and more.
How to solve a problem that may not be obvious: the CFML image tags and functions that accept a URL won’t follow a redirect, but instead fail with this cryptic error.
