

At CF Webtools we have been preparing for this inevitable day for the past few years. We’ve been upgrading our clients servers and services to handle TLS 1.2 calls to Authorize.Net and other third party processors for a while now. Recently Authorize.Net announced a “Temporary Disablement of TLS 1.0/1.1” for “a few hours on January 30, 2018 and then again on February 8, 2018.” This is in preparation for the final disablement of TLS1.0/1.1 on February 28, 2018. As you […]
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ColdFusion documentation has had an interesting journey over the last few years. From a wiki-based approach to an Adobe-unified approach, the docs have come a long way and are ever evolving. Today, we have launched a unified and one-stop destination for all things docs. We have revamped the docs site and made it more centralized. Visit the new and improved ColdFusion User Guide (https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/user-guide.html). The new layout is user-friendly and makes navigation easier. We have divided the docs into three main […]
We are excited to announce the third annual Adobe ColdFusion Summit East in Washington, D.C on April 25th. The conference is on April 25th and we are having two tracks. We have sessions from experts in the community which would cover most of the major features of ColdFusion. The conference is FREE to attend, just register at the link provided below. Register Here: http://carahevents.carahsoft.com/Event/Details/48292-adobe Event Time : 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM Location: Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 Ninth Street […]
ColdFusion, or CF, is a particularly rapid web app development platform which comes with a range of different advantages. This is the main reason for which it’s preferred – because it is able to deliver particularly high performance, regardless of the used language. It fits incredibly well into the powerful and potent systems of the server and websites which are using this particular platform could be potentially integrated within varying databases. With over 20 years of experience in using ColdFusion, […]
The 2018 ColdFusion State of the Union survey is now available: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/StateoftheCFunionsurvey2018 This is a yearly survey done by TeraTech getting the pulse of the ColdFusion community gauging CF’s use, integration with other technologies, source code management, etc. It gives a holistic picture of how CF is being used out there in the world as well as a picture of the current developers. This is not associated with or sponsored by Adobe but i would expect that they do pay attention to […]
So on the discussion thread the other day someone asked about links to slides from the ColdFusion Summit. Turns out there was one but it got me thinking about CF.Objective 2017 that happened in DC on July 20th and 21st this year. More info on CF.Objective can be found here. So far there isn’t any news on if it will be held this year but it is still early yet. There are a few links on the site to some […]
Have you wondered just when “support” (available updates) for a given CF or CF Builder version will (or did) end? This post tells you, for the past several CF releases, and all CF Builder releases, with some additional related information (like, “what’s ‘core support’ vs ‘extended support’?”)
We have a websocket setup on an internal network 192.16.1.x IP addresses. The server is running CF 2016 Updated to the latest patch as of this post. We have a controller/publisher that was being run from an iPad and listeners/subscriber computers. A user clicks through the site on the iPad and the displays update. This worked until a week ago. Attempting to run Chrome on the server and open the controller URL using the 192.168.1.10:8500 URL (using ColdFusion’s internal web […]
[Originally published: Jan 2018; updated Feb 2025, Sep 2023, Jan 2021] Do you know how to quickly and easily find the EULA (End User Licensing Agreement) for your installed ColdFusion version? Sure, you can search for and find one online (I show links to those below), but did you know it’s actually available as a file right in your installed CF instance? Frequently when people want to consider, discuss, debate, or simply confirm the terms of the EULA for a […]
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Recently I worked in a project where special characters needed to be stored in a database, to be specific we needed to handle Chinese characters, to achieve this, some configurations need to be done in the ColdFusion Administrator regarding the Connection String setting and the database has to be created with certain parameters. Creating the Database to use Unicode create database meid default CHARACTER SET=utf8mb4 default COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci As you can see the character set is utf8mb4, and the collate is utf8mb4_unicode_ci. You may […]