Taffy for REST – Part 1: Setup

TaffY: The REST Web Service Framework for ColdFusion

CFFiddle for Array, String, and Math functions

We’ve started linking the code samples with CFFiddle in ColdFusion documentation for functions. As a start, we’ve included CFFiddle links for the following function categories: Array functions Mathematical functions String functions In the next couple of weeks, we plan to include CFFidlle links for Spreadsheet, Struct, and List functions. In the next three to four months, we plan to link every tag and function, wherever possible, with CFFiddle links. As always, please use CFFiddle to test the samples. If there […]

Make form processing simpler with Brian Kotek’s FormUtils

Have you ever had to work with HTML tables filled with rows and columns of data? If you have, you know that picking out all the data out of the form scope can be difficult. As a ColdFusion developer, I wish forms could submit arrays and structs.

Top 5 Security Issues Solved with Adobe ColdFusion 2018

The Conficker Worm of 2008 In 2008, The Conficker worm program (also known as the Downadup worm) replicated itself across computers around the world and is still alive to this day. It turns your computer into a spam machine and monitors your sensitive information through keystroke logging. This info is then sent back to its programmers for their use. This worm defends itself by disabling your antivirus software. This worm continues to open backdoors for future hostile takeovers. The Conficker […]

CF Camp 2018: Madness in Munich Part Two- Building APIs with CFFractal & ColdBox

Welcome back to our series, CF Camp 2018: Madness in Munich! This is our series that highlights some of the upcoming conference sessions at the ONLY CF conference in Europe. In Part One, we talked about the importance of Java security, how it pertains to ColdFusion, and the benefits of Elasticsearch. Today, we draw inspiration from Matt Gifford’s upcoming session: Building an API with cffractal and ColdBox. While I will leave the API construction process down to Matt; let’s discuss what APIs are, […]

Attending ColdFusion Summit 2018 was worth my while

I’ve been programming with ColdFusion full time since 2000 and I finally attended a summit at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas this year (2018). The developers were treated quite well and the benefits outweight the fees for certain.   So, I expect I will return again. After submitting my suggestions to a handful of engineers and the product development crew with Adobe, they strongly suggested I join the CF Community, so here I am! If I can be of service, I’ll put my two cents in. Regards community! J. […]

ColdFusion 9.01

  We have a problem with ColdFusion Code we used to develop a shopping Cart Application integrated with PayPal. The application stopped working. We are using API for the integration. we are running ColdFusion 9.0.1. We update Java to Java 8 and we are still having the issues. Do we need to upgrade to ColdFusion 11 for the application to start working? How can we check to see that our code is compatible with Coldfusion 11?  

Slide and code from my session at ColdFusion Summit on language additions to ColdFusion 2018

First of all, thank you for attending my session – Developer’s Las Vegas: Geek out with the smart language additions in ColdFusion 2018. As promised, here is my slide deck and the entire code samples. I had a great time presenting this really powerful set of language improvements to CF 2018. I loved the interaction and the questions that you had as an audience. The code samples actually point to a shared fiddle application of mine. Once you login to […]

There seems to be a problem with editing replies here, since the recent portal update

Update: while this problem was resolved in early Feb 2019 (see this post for more), it has come back in late Feb 2019. To Adobe folks responsible for the portal: I noticed the new portal UI update in recent days. Hope it may help some. I am running into some issues. First up, I am finding that if I offer a reply to someone’s question, and then I go back to edit that reply, the system is losing all the paragraph […]

CF2018 on IIS v10 Win auth issue

I am trying to install CF2018 Standard on Windows2016 with IIS10. Having an issue with restarting a server on port 80. Every time I need to restart it, I have to go to IIS and disable Windows Authentication and enable Anynymous Authentication. Then, once it’s started, I can go back and do the oposite. Anyone can suggest why I am having this issue? I contacted support and after several times trying they don’t know the answer. Thanks, Eugene

Oracle’s Java policy change

This blog post is to let our ColdFusion users know that Adobe is aware of all the changes that Oracle has made related to Java and the impact it can have on ColdFusion users. We are doing our best to ensure that there is minimal to no impact to all our ColdFusion users. We are currently exploring various alternatives within Adobe to handle this change. As soon as we are ready to communicate publicly about our future path, we will keep […]

How does Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) run on Java™ EE application servers?

The Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) runtime environment is a Java application that takes advantage of many powerful services in the Java EE platform to connect to databases, manage security, and process application requests. When Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) Enterprise Edition is installed in the Java EE configuration on top of a Java application server, it uses the server’s Java EE infrastructure to execute ColdFusion applications as pure Java bytecode. Developers can then continue to develop and deploy ColdFusion pages while […]