CFFiddle for Spreadsheet, List, Struct, and Date/Time functions

In a previous blog, we’d mentioned that we have started linking code samples in docs to CFFiddle links. Building upon our previous efforts, we’ve now extended CFFiddle to the following function categories: Spreadsheet functions Struct functions List functions Date/time functions The next task is to link CFFiddle with Query and Decision functions, and also a few File functions. As always, please use CFFiddle to test the samples. If there are sample(s) that you want to be modified/corrected, share the link […]

Cannot get Coldfusion 11 started

Can’t start Coldfusion 11 Application Server in Windows 10 / Update 8 has been applied using IIS 8,

Oracle JDK and ColdFusion 11

Currently we are utilizing ColdFusion 11 with the latest patch installed.  We also using Oracle’s JDK 8 Update 192 JRE to keep ColdFusion JVM current with the latest java release. Due to Oracle posting the following information on their website (see below), we would like to know what is Adobe going to do in reference to the licensing issue.  I need to know this information ASAP just in case my company has to go out and purchase a license agreement from Oracle. Per Oracle’s […]

CF Camp 2018: Madness in Munich Part Five- AngularJS + ColdFusion

Welcome to our final installment of CF Camp 2018: Madness in Munich! This is our series pertaining to all things CF Camp 2018, the only CF conference in Europe. In our fifth and final part, we look upon Nolan Erck’s upcoming session, AngularJS + ColdFusion. Here he will discuss getting started with AngularJS and building a simple JSON API in ColdFusion. He will then show you how to interconnect the two in order to create a fully functional application. In […]

Spreadsheet Data Formatting Not Working

No matter what I do, I can’t seem to get a data format to be applied to a cell.

Taffy for REST – Part 4: More VERBS

Repository https://github.com/jmohler1970/Taffy_Verbs Introduction Video starts on how Github fits into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Then it covers even more verbs. Ends with a demo of the REST services in action. Resources https://github.com/atuttle/Taffy http://taffy.io/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/taffy https://github.com/jmohler1970/Taffy_Verbs

Extracting text/html out Word (.docx) files

Repositories https://github.com/jmohler1970/WordExtractor https://github.com/jmohler1970/WordExtractor_demo Introduction We are going to be extracting out HTML from a Word (.docx) file. .docx is an example of an Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) file. It is a ZIP of an XML document. By unzipping the file and locating the appropriate XML file, we can process the data an generate HTML Resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/cfml-reference/coldfusion-tags/tags-u-z/cfzip.html https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/cfml-reference/coldfusion-functions/functions-t-z/xmlparse.html

Taffy for REST – Part 3: VERBS

Repository https://github.com/jmohler1970/Taffy_Verbs Introduction This video is on a newer repository that covers many more verbs and endpoints than the previous.  Resources:  https://github.com/atuttle/Taffy http://taffy.io/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/taffy https://github.com/jmohler1970/Taffy_Verbs

What CF Summit Needs is a CF101 Pre-conference Workshop

How many beginner developers are out there wondering how to do the most basic things we take for granted?

Identify Unlinked Pages – CF Builder

We have a large number of legacy pages in our application’s code repository which are not linked to other pages. Is there a way in ColdFusion Builder to see which pages are not linked so they can be deleted?

Adventures in Installations – Installing CF 2018 Developer Edition on Ubuntu 16.04 + Apache

TLDR;  After beating my head against my monitor trying to figure out why ColdFusion wouldn’t configure a web server on install under Ubuntu and Apache, I learned you need to run the wsconfig after the fact, and the commands you need (assuming you installed in the default location) are: cd /opt/coldfusion2018/cfusion/runtime/bin/./wsconfig -ws Apache -dir /etc/apache2/ -v ———- Alright… I’m tired of waiting for someone to come up with a CF 2018 AWS instance.  I really want to play with the […]

RTF to PDF Formatting

Hey Guys, I was wondering if you have any ideas on why on using CFDOCUMENT to convert a RTF to a PDF the formatting breaks especially if the RTF has a table. Thanks!