When you may need to refreshwsdl for calls to web services

Have you ever found that calls to web services from CF suddenly fail? when nothing has changed on your end? (No change of your CF version, no change of CF admin settings, nor any change regarding SSL/TLS on the host–all of which can cause their own problems.) What may have happened is that the owner of the web service may have changed something about their definition of that web service (in terms of methods or properties or return types). And […]

Regular expressions – practical examples to get you started

Regular expressions – practical examples to get you started

Solving problems calling out of CF via https, by updating JVM

If you’re getting errors in calling out to https urls from CF, especially if it was working and now is not, you may NOT need to import a certificate, nor modify any jvm args. You may simply need to update the JVM that CF uses, as discussed in this post.

What’s new in Adobe ColdFusion?

Can you anyone tell what new features will come in 2020 in ColdFusion and what type of problems it will solve.

How do I know if an article won’t be published?

I wrote an article last month that has been “pending” for a while now.  How do I know if I create an article on the community that will not be published, or gets rejected?  Who do I communicate with?

Quick thoughts on structs

Three kinds of structs in ColdFusion

5 Reasons Why Adobe ColdFusion is Better Than C#

The .NET framework is one of the web’s most popular developing platforms. It consists of many different languages under one umbrella framework.  C# is one of these languages. Others include VB.NET and F#. It gets a lot of support as a great general programming language. But is it really that great?  Let’s take a look at a few points of comparison between C# and Adobe ColdFusion. Adobe ColdFusion C# Ease of Use Ask any programmer with CFML experience what is the easiest programming […]

Query by week

I am converting old Access DB’s to SQL and writing a CF app. I want to print a report that for shipments per week. How can I query a table with a ship date of 06/04/2019 and return everything that needs to be shipped in that week? The daily WHERE statement is WHERE shipdate = ‘#DateFormat(Now(), “mm/dd/yyyy”)#’

Breaking up character sequences using a regular expression

Breaking up character sequences using a regular expression

CF2018 PMT connectivity issues

we’re in a segregated enterprise network environment.  i’m trying to figure out how to get my workstation connected to our dev server.  I’m running PMT on localhost, I go to Settings and CF servers and add a new manual entry.   I put in the DNS name for the dev server and port 8500.  but when I submit changes, it attempts but fails to connect to the remote node.    I can open http://dev-server:8500/CFIDE/Administrator/index.cfm  from a browser on my workstation and […]

The replace function now accepts a callback

The replace function accepts a callback

arrayReduce – intialvalue vs default argument value

Why you should pass in the initial value with arrayreduce even through it’s optional