Public beta for Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) and Adobe ColdFusion Builder (2018 release)

We are pleased to announce the availability of public beta for Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) and Adobe ColdFusion Builder (2018 release). The public beta is available on the ColdFusion community portal. If you are new to community portal, watch the video on the portal or read the getting started document for the ColdFusion community portal. Get rewarded for your contribution! Each engagement earns you points. Click on the “Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) public beta” banner on the right hand side […]

ColdFusion Security updates for ColdFusion 2016 and ColdFusion 11

Adobe released important security updates and big fixes today, update 6 and update 14 for ColdFusion 2016 and ColdFusion 11 respectively. These updates resolve an important insecure library loading vulnerability (CVE-2018-4938), an important cross-site scripting vulnerability that could lead to code injection (CVE-2018-4940) and an important cross-site scripting vulnerability that could lead to information disclosure (CVE-2018-4941). These updates also include a mitigation for a critical unsafe Java deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2018-4939) and a mitigation for a critical unsafe XML parsing vulnerability […]

Cannot get ColdFusion to follow Symlinks…

So I have two websites…  www.mydomain.com  and myapp.mydomain.com.  The www. site is located in the C:/Inetpub/wwwroot folder.  The myapp. site is located in the C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/myapp folder.  IIS serves both websites perfectly.  (I’m running IIS on Windows Server 2012 R2, btw). The problem I’m having is that both sites need to access the C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/myCfFiles folder.  The www. site, of course, sees the myCfFiles as a subfolder so www.mydomain.com/myCfFiles will let me access my CF files…  But the myapp. site cannot see C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/myCfFiles, because […]

More you missed from Adobe ColdFusion 10, 11, And 2016 with Charlie Arehart

  Charlie Arehart talks about “More you missed from Adobe ColdFusion 10, 11, And 2016” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Are you moving up to CF2016, or maybe 11? In doing so, are you skipping over 11, or perhaps even 10, in that move? Shops often drag their feet upgrading from one version of CF to another and may well skip multiple releases in the process, so that they may not have paid attention […]

ColdFusion Summit 2018 and Q2 Roadshows

The sixth annual Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2018 would be held from Oct 1st – 3rd 2018 at Hard Rock Casino and Resorts, Las Vegas. The registrations for the same are now open at https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/. Pre-Conference Labs would be held at October 1st followed by Full Conference on Oct 2nd & 3rd. The announce rate is $99 for the Full Conference. It would be valid till April 30th 2018. Call for Speakers is also open at https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/speaker-application/. Also we are trying to cover […]

ColdFusion performance issues and optimization

Performance issues are one of the biggest challenges to expect when designing and implementing web applications. Performance problems can disrupt your business, which can result in short and long term loss of revenue. The ColdFusion support team at Adobe, has dealt with several performance related issues with ColdFusion and a couple of them, around JDK 1.8 as well. Based on our experience with customers, the major performance issues could be categorized as – CPU hikes, Website crashes, Processing of slow […]

How to do a Thorough Test of ColdFusion Web Applications

How upsetting is it to have a deployed ColdFusion application that is full of bugs and issues? Is the cost of going back and fixing the problems hurting your bottom line? Are you concerned that proper testing procedures were not followed during development due to time constraints or developers just not knowing the proper way to test? You are not alone. In fact, one CIO lamented that developers “can’t imagine how to test code,” and don’t think about testing “before, […]

Cryptojacking: Hacking for Bitcoins

This is a brief follow up to my previous article on Hacking for Bitcoins in which I detailed how servers were being hijacked with cryptocurrency miners and using your servers CPU power to mine for Bitcoins or other blockchain cryptocurrencies. This is an updated twist on that hack. I saw this Ars Technica article today and it points out that the newer twist is to inject code into your websites code and then process cryptocurrency mining on your website user’s […]

Which CF conferences will you be attending this year?

The year 2017 was very “generous” with conferences about ColdFusion. If we take a look how many of them were, plus webinars and other online resources, we can say it’s the best so far. And to think that a year or two back, people were asking “is ColdFusion dead?” Muracon 2017 Adobe ColdFusion Government Summit IntoTheBox 2017 ColdFusion Conference cf.Objective 2017 NCDevCon CFCamp 2017 Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2017 ColdFusion webinars Confirmed conferences for 2018 Confirmed conferences for 2018 So far […]

Opinion: Adobe can Improve the ColdFusion community by providing official support for more code editors.

Adobe has no official plug in for ColdFusion in other code editors like Sublime, VSC, Atom, and Brackets. This should change.

Adobe ColdFusion Roadshow February 20 – March 3

Join the Adobe team as we begin the year with a series of Roadshows!  Breakfast will be provided, and you’ll hear about the new features in the upcoming release and direction of Adobe ColdFusion along with more detailed plans over the next couple of years. The events will be held from 8:00am to 11:00am at hotels in the following locations. February 20: San Diego, CA Courtyard by Marriott San Diego Downtown, 530 Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101 February 21: San Jose, CA […]

ColdFusion SFTP and FTPS Secure Connection Failure

I have seen a lot more people asking questions about making SFTP or FTPS secure connections from ColdFusion using the <CFFTP> tag. They are trying to figure out why they cannot make a connection. Often the error is “Algorithm negotiation fail” or “Connection Error”. People are posting their questions on many support forums including Adobes forums and their new ColdFusion Community Portal. This is a problem people are experiencing in ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion 11. In the last few years […]