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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 […]
I found some very strange behaviour of ColdFusion’s query component. When you use this component to build a query of query (QoQ) of another ColdFusion Query and use order by on several colums, the last column in the order by list is added to the selected output. This appears to happen in CF9, 10, 11 and 2016, but not in Lucee. /* Create an unsorted CF-query */ unsorted = QueryNew(“col1,col2,col3,col4″,”VarChar,VarChar,Integer,VarChar”); for (a=10;a gte 1;a–){ QueryAddRow(unsorted); QuerySetCell(unsorted,”col1″,”col1 #a#”); QuerySetCell(unsorted,”col2″,”col2 #a#”); QuerySetCell(unsorted,”col3″,”#a#”); […]
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Communication between applications or services have become more common in today’s applications, and one very popular open-standard file format is JSON (Java Script Object Notation). This is a human-readable data interchange text that represents complex data or objects formed by attribute-value pairs. Sometimes you will need to create or edit a .json file in your IDE and the more complex the object, the more difficult is to read it if it is not properly formatted, to assist you in this […]
Just got notification of a new Coldfusion Meetup meeting coming up December 14th at noon eastern. The topic is “Protect your CFML Apps with FuseGuard 3” and given by Pete Freitag. More details can be found here: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/245685781/. The Meetup is managed by Charlie Arehart and I’d recommend joining up if you’re not currently a member. He always finds good topics and presenters. More information on it can be found here: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup.
Since ColdFusion 10, the CF Administrator has a feature for applying updates to their installed ColdFusion version. This process is generally very easy, but sometimes people face challenges, and there are several resources that can help you find the updates as well as better understand the update process and resolve problems with it, as I discuss here.
