It’s Up To Us To Stop Hackers

The first month of 2019 has passed and it was full of year end wrap up articles about anything and everything from 2018. Most were fluff articles on pop culture and such. What I found most interesting were the articles that quantified the past year of hacking and security breaches. According to NBC News, Hackers stole nearly half a billion personal records in 2018. There were fewer breaches, but the breaches were bigger and worse and more data than ever was stolen. Crypto-miners have improved as well and not in a good way.

Creating a ColdFusion Product Demo Using ColdFusion and CubePortfolio

Often times on an eCommerce or product information web site, you will need to display product images that your client’s potential customers will be able click and zoom into. People typically prefer to view multiple images of a product prior to buying that product. This demo solves that problem using the following technologies: Adobe ColdFusion – Retrieves product and product image information from the database, and includes business logic jQuery – JavaScript Framework Cube Portfolio jQuery Plug-In – Provides the […]

Convert a string To Title Case

Convert a string To Title Case using Regular Expressions

Adobe please change the portal, for working with posts having dozens of comments: 5 proposed enhancements

Do you find the portal annoying to use, when a blog post has dozens of comments and replies? Here are some proposed improvements that would help solve several challenges.

runAsync, futures and callbacks in ColdFusion

A look at runAsync, futures and callbacks in ColdFusion 2018 Update 2.

Proxy fields for CF Updates missing on only some servers (CF-2016)?

Have not been able to figure this one out.  On my Dev servers, the CF Updates in cfide update panel work, and the fields there to use a proxy are showing. However in my test and production servers, the proxy server fields do not show at all in the update settings panel. I used the same install method of coldfusion 2016 for all three regions, so I am a bit stumped by this difference. Any suggestions?

How to claim complimentary CF Builder licence?

I have reached the “Guide” level on the ColdFusion community portal. According to https://coldfusion.adobe.com/levels/ this makes me eligible for “12 months of complimentary license usage for ColdFusion Builder”, but there are no instructions on that page about how to claim this licence. Can anyone help or clarify?

Incomplete Install CF2016 Update 7

Although the CFAdmin > Updates shows that Update 7 is not applied and that there are two available updates, I am assume that the update is applied. The version number above shows a mux of 5 and 7, however implies 7 is applied since the build number (311392) matches that of Update 7,  TomCat version was updated correctly and the new function GetCanonicalPath() is present.  

CF2016 with updater 8 crashes when using Java 11 on Windows 10.

CF2016 with updater 8 crashes when using Java 11 on Windows 10.

ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 2, ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 8, and ColdFusion 11 Update 16 released

Update (2/15/2019): We’ve updated the known issues documents with the following issues: Scheduler deletes all tasks. The QueryExecute function throws an exception. We are working on the other issues and we will share a status update shortly. Thank you for reporting the issues. Update (2/13/2019): This blog is updated with the following details for: ColdFusion Builder (2018 release) Update 1 We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion releases: ColdFusion (2018 release) Update […]

Reverse an array in ColdFusion and other tricks using slice syntax

Reverse an array in ColdFusion and other tricks using slice syntax adding ColdFusion 2018

Sorting an array using ArraySort, BubbleSort and QuickSort

Sorting an array using ArraySort, BubbleSort and QuickSort as a technical exercise.