CF Summit 2016 Reminder: $299 Standard Early Bird Rate Ending Soon & Sessions Posted

Remember that the ColdFusion Summit 2016 Early Bird Rate of $299 is ending soon on August 31st, so be sure to register now here!

Sessions have also been posted online, with a Customer Showcase track devoted to customer implementations where you will learn how different ColdFusion features were leveraged to build real-world business solutions.

https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/schedule/sessions/

Hope to see you there!

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2016 Sessions Posted!

We just posted the *almost* complete list of sessions available for ColdFusion Summit October 10th and 11th.  There will be a total of 40 different sessions over the two day conference.   

This year's content will be different than previous years, as we have a large number of customer showcase sessions that are focused on real-world implementations of ColdFusion on various technology topics.  We're really excited to offer these, and encourage you to take a look at the descriptions for more information.  

Please see the session listing at the ColdFusion Summit website here: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/schedule/sessions/ for a list of the sessions and register ASAP!

In addition, though the API workshop is still open we will be closing it so if you have any interest in learning more about how to implement APIs in your organization you still have some time to register for that workshop.    

  

Bug fixes in ColdFusion (2016 release)

We acknowledged at CFSummit that we need to move the needle when it comes to bug fixes in the product. Just as we had announced, we are making improvements in this axis. Here are some of the highlights so far. A total of 423 legacy bugs (legacy bugs are those that were reported in previous versions starting from ColdFusion 11) were resolved as a part of the release. A total of 95 external bugs were fixed in just update 1 and […]

Breakfast with Adobe ColdFusion Team July 26-Aug 4

Please join the ColdFusion team for breakfast and hear about what's new in ColdFusion 2016 and the new API Management solution.

All events will be held at the following locations and dates, and will include breakfast.

 

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2016 – Security Workshop Sold Out!

We had to close registrations for the Preconference full day Security Workshop happening on October 9th.  Hopefully you have already signed up if you wanted to join that hands-on lab.

We still have a few seats left in the API Workshop.  As a reminder, below is the topic description.  Please register today if you would like to attend, as this workshop will likely sell out soon as well.

Developing and Managing APIs with Adobe ColdFusion API Manager

This full day preconference lab will cover API development with a focus on REST based APIs. It will include an overview of Adobe ColdFusion API Manager and walk through configuration of the environment, and various features available to create and manage APIs.

Register today here: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/register/

 

Updates for ColdFusion 2016, ColdFusion Builder 2016, ColdFusion 11 and ColdFusion 10 released

This article announces the release of updatesColdFusion 2016, ColdFusion Builder 2016, ColdFusion 11 and ColdFusion 10.

These updates address a common vulnerability mentioned in security bulletin APSB 16-22 

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2016 Preconference Workshops almost Sold Out!

There are only a handful of seats available for our preconference workshops on API and Security topics, so we will be closing registration very soon due to capacity limitations.  Please register today if you haven't yet!

As a reminder, these workshops are full day hands-on labs so it's a great learning opportunity for your teams.  Below is a summary of the workshop descriptions:

Topic 1
Developing and Managing APIs with Adobe ColdFusion API Manager

This full day preconference lab will cover API development with a focus on REST based APIs. It will include an overview of Adobe ColdFusion API Manager and walk through configuration of the environment, and various features available to create and manage APIs.

Topic 2
Security

This full day hands-on training session will focus entirely on the topic of security as it relates to web developers, reviewing examples of how vulnerabilities are exploited and how to mitigate these vulnerabilities within your code.

Both of these full day preconference labs will have prerequisites and will require students to bring their own laptops for use. Further details on what will be covered and prerequisite information will be provided soon.

 

Register today here: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/register/

ColdFusion 2016 and ColdFusion Builder 2016 Update 2 are available for early access

ColdFusion 2016 and ColdFusion Builder 2016 Update 2 early access builds are now available for your testing and feedback.


Note: The early access builds mentioned here have now been released in final form. So do not use the prerelease files or info below, but rather see the later blog post:

https://coldfusion.adobe.com/updates-for-coldfusion-2016-coldfusion-builder-2016-coldfusion-11-and-coldfusion-10-released


 

Using ColdFusion APIM To Import API From Swagger

As discussed in previous blog there are 5 ways of creating APIs in ColdFusion API Manager. We have already seen How To Create Manual API In ColdFusion API Manager. Now we will import an API from Swagger.  Swagger is a specification for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. APIM supports Swagger 1.2 as well as 2.0. Read more here : Using ColdFsion APIM to import API from Swagger  

How To Create Manual API In ColdFusion API Manager

ColdFusion API Manager helps you to create APIs that expose core functionalities of application and other backend systems. These APIs are then published and managed at runtime. We can create APIs in multiple ways : Creating API Manually Importing API from Swagger Importing API from ColdFusion REST services Converting a SOAP service into a REST service Import a SOAP API through a proxy service In the series of blogs to follow we will cover each flow. In this blog we […]

Adobe ColdFusion survey for the next version

As you are probably aware, we are in the planning stage for the next version of ColdFusion. You may have already seen a blog post asking you to submit your wishlist for the next version. This post is about a survey that will give Adobe valuable information about your usage of ColdFusion. Please take a few minutes to take this survey and provide your feedback. The data from the survey will be used to validate a set of hypothesis about […]

ColdFusion (2016 release) – Security audit report

As you are probably aware, with each version of ColdFusion, security is at the top of the priority list. With the latest release of ColdFusion, it is not just the security related features. Emphasis was laid on the inherent security of the ColdFusion platform by itself. To validate this, the PSIRT (Product Security Incident Response Team) at Adobe helped arrange a third party security audit for ColdFusion. The audit did come up with a few findings. Our Product engineers did […]