Functions are first class citizens

Functions are first class citizens in CFML meaning you are able to do some interesting things, avoid duplication and write less code.

What was new in CF10, 11, or 2016 that you may have missed?

Wondering what was new or changed in CF 10, 11, or 2016 that you may have missed?

ColdFusion 11 “Core Support” ends on April 2019

The “Core Support” for ColdFusion 11 ends on April 30, 2019. That means, no more Security patches/updates by Adobe for this version of ColdFusion after end of April 2019. The detailed timelines are mentioned here in the EOL Matrix. What is Core Support then? Core support is the time frame wherein the product and the support programs are available. This provides, five years of product support from the general availability date of a product. General availability is the date when […]

Hidden Gems in CF2018, part 3 – Security, Performance, and the PMT

Part 3 of the series moves on to covering the new CF2018 Auto Lockdown tool, various performance enhancements, and the new CF2018 Performance Monitoring Toolset (PMT).

Great news: editing comments no longer loses paragraph formatting!

As some may have noticed, there has been a problem for some months where if you were to make a comment in a blog post here in the portal, and then you edited that comment, all its paragraph formatting would be lost–and the comment would become a sea of words, as one big paragraph.

Practical uses for reduce functions

Practical uses for reduce functions

ColdFusion 2016 Distributed mode Apache web server

Hello, We are running two Red Hat 7 servers, one to run CF 2016 (Server A) and one to run Apache 2.4.6 (Server B). I’ve read instructions on how to get CF to run in distributed mode, but I’m not having any luck getting it to work. Is there a walkthrough on how to go about it? I’ve installed CF on the Apache server (Server B) to get the connectors set correctly, and changed the workers.properties file to point to […]

ColdFusion Events in 2019

We have a lot of ColdFusion events planned for 2019. We start off with Roadshows in February covering Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. These would be breakfast events and you could register online at https://coldfusion-roadshows.meetus.adobeevents.com/. ColdFusion team would also be present at the World’s Largest Developer Expo at Developer Week in Bay Area from Feb 20 – 24. If you are in the area please feel free to drop by our booth. Adobe ColdFusion Summit East The fourth […]

CF2018 External Session Storage using Redis on an AWS EC2 Server

In this article, I’ll walk through setting up an EC2 Server on AWS and installing Redis for ColdFusion 2018 to use as session storage.

Intersection and diff of two structs

Intersection and diff of two structs with a bit of refactoring thrown in.

Hidden Gems in CF2018, part 2: Installation, Administration, and Configuration

In this part two of a series I have started on Hidden Gems in ColdFusion 2018, we will look first at hidden gems related to installation, administration, and configuration.