Quick tip: escaping string literals in dateTimeFormat()

Just a quick tip since I didn’t find this to be well documented anywhere and someone else probably has this exact same problem.  Frequently, I display time and date on a page.  I used to do it like so: #dateFormat(now(),’dddd, mmmm d, yyyy’)# at #timeFormat(now(),’h:mm tt’)# …but why use two functions when you can use one, right?  So I tried using the following: #dateTimeFormat(now(),’dddd, mmmm d, yyyy at h:mm tt’)# But got briefly stuck when the ‘t’ in the date […]

CF India Summit: Part Two- Keeping Up to Date With Modernized ColdFusion

This article is inspired by the hardworking Adobe CF team members who are giving sessions at the upcoming CF India Summit. Many sessions will be given on new features and advancements that they have worked so hard to implement into Adobe ColdFusion and CFML. These newest advancements in our platform and language make me ask:. How can we keep up with all this tech change? Have you ever looked towards the future curious to what may be in store? Of […]

Why the death of EdgeHTML is bad for the Internet

Microsoft gave up on it’s browser engine, EdgeHTML in favour of Chromium. It’s IE 6 all over again.

ColdFusion as an essential tool in my development toolbox.

ColdFusion is the most important tool in my development toolbox; but it’s not the only tool. Developers are wise to embrace new technologies and not become too entrenched in one solution.

Amazon Corretto Support/ Java Going away

Looking for Java Answers in 2019.

Is there a plan to either get CF on Java 11 or get users the new patches? 

Will there be support for Corretto?

Taffy for REST – Part 8: Buefy = VueJS + Bulma

We have been at this for a couple of months, so it is really exciting to finally have a functioning application to show. Everything up until now has been changes to database, changes to beans, changes to resources, changes to `application.cfc`. But there has been no UI to speak of; that was deliberate. There is a wall between front end and back end development. This has some consequences. We are not going to be asking ColdFusion to generate HTML. It […]

Modernization of Adobe ColdFusion Helped Improving Security, Deployment and Other Important Aspects

With the modernization of Adobe ColdFusion, we are witnessing some major improvements in many fields. Security is just one of many. Auto Lockdown features, Containerization and many more are visible as well. Let’s dive in and see what make CF modern and reliable. Security Security concerns are an important part of any programming language. No platform is 100% secure. But there are many tools and best practices out there to help you be as secure as you can be. Keeping […]

CFFiddle for Flow control tags and a few more functions

Picking up from where we left off on updating the docs with CFFiddle links, we have now extended the links to the following tag and function categories: File functions Query functions Decision functions Data output functions Flow control tags The next step is to insert CFFiddle links for the other tag categories, wherever possible. As always, please use CFFiddle to test the samples. If there are sample(s) that you want to be modified/corrected, share the link in this thread or […]

ColdFusion API Manager

I am new to this and in need of assistance with the ColdFusion API Manager.  If I add a User (such as Publisher), I cannot use the login credentials to log back into the API Manager.  I receive a “User not Authorized” error.  When I adjust any profile settings, I receive a “Form Error.”  Anyone with experience on this?  Articles are tutorials?  Thanks in advance

Java.null.pointer error while migrating to Coldfusion18.

Hi, I’m migrating from cf11 project to CF18 with the help of this resource (https://forums.adobe.com/message/10661306#10661306). I have kept a copy of cf11 neo*.xml files and uninstalled cf11. Proceeding further and installing cf118 and done kept the neo*.xml files in the cfuion/lib folder, I have done the configurations of IIS and CFAdmin properly. But after all the setup I’m facing Java.null.pointer exception. I have checked the java and jvm section of cfadmin where the JVM Argumentslooks like this ( -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005 […]

Taffy for REST – Part 7: Login

Changes include Updating DB schema Updating Bean/Entity New Taffy endpoint for loggin in Validating taken Granting and denying access Resources https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/cfml-reference/coldfusion-functions/functions-a-b/arrayfilter.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53404670/passing-data-to-a-member-functions-that-uses-a-function/53405539 https://github.com/jmohler1970/Taffy_withUI