Observations on the exam for the ColdFusion Specialist program.
Quick listing of CFCamp 2019 Twitter accounts for reference.
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 […]
Here are the RSS feed urls for portal blog posts and comments.
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/ […]
Hi, I have a permanent position in Quantico VA for a Coldfusion Developer. You must have an active SECRET clearance to apply. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks, Nancy Colwell nancy@2020itservices.com 310-918-4641 (cell)
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.

