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ColdFusion 2023 – Google Cloud Platform – FireStore

Cloud Firestore is a flexible, scalable NoSQL cloud database to store and sync data for client- and server-side development. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud products. Here are some use cases where Firestore can be effectively applied: Real-Time Applications: Firestore allows real-time listeners to be attached to data, enabling the development of applications that require real-time updates like collaborative tools, real-time analytics, dashboards, or gaming leaderboards. Offline Synchronization: Firestore supports automatic offline data persistence. This is […]

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Mura CMS and Masa CMS – Preliminary Security Advisory

Multiple versions of Mura CMS and Masa CMS contain an authentication bypass vulnerability that can allow an  unauthenticated attacker to login as any Site Member or System User.

Understanding Simple Queue Service Usage through CFML- 1

Hi CFNext users,  I will be covering AWS SQS integration with ColdFusion. This post mostly revolves around below items:  AWS SQS usecase  Setting AWS credentials   Create Queue   Setting Queue Attributes   Send, Receive and Delete messages   Purge and Delete Queue. Prerequisite: CFNext, AWS account with an access key ID and a secret access key. SQS described as per Amazon AWS: “Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and […]

How to get a feed of new posts or comments in this CF portal blog

Here are the RSS feed urls for portal blog posts and comments.

Hidden Gems in ColdFusion 2018, Part 1: Series Overview

In every release of Adobe ColdFusion, there are the few major features which receive a lot of attention from Adobe and from CF users, but there are often dozens of lesser-known features that may help you, whether regarding coding or such things as security, administration, installation, configuration, tuning, monitoring, and so on. And of course, there can be important compatibility/migrations to be aware of, and still more.

State-of-the-Art Tools That Keep ColdFusion Alive

Am I the only one who gets excited when sitting down to hash out some new CFML code? You know. one of the best parts about using ColdFusion (or Lucee for that matter) is the ease of use. CFML is a language that is capable of many things, but it’s simple to use. Ever stop and wonder why? It’s because of a state-of-the-art tool and third-party support integration. Whether it’s containerization, source control, IDEs, or monitoring solutions, there are many […]

Making Adobe ColdFusion a Thriving Community

CF Community is alive Despite its great technological features, ColdFusion is only as strong as its community. Nobody should feel alone when coding in CF anymore when there is a vibrant CF Community you can be part of. That is why outreach to developers outside the community is so important. Together, we can help to solve issues, learn new features, and create better code for the future. Without active CF experts and developers in a community, ColdFusion wouldn’t be really […]

ColdFusion Blog redirection to ColdFusion Community Portal

We announced the new ColdFusion Community Portal, last year. We have been maintaining the ColdFusion Blog and ColdFusion Community portal in parallel. In an endeavor to serve you better on a single platform, we have decided to redirect ColdFusion Blog to ColdFusion Community Portal. All the existing blogs/comments can now be accessed via the community portal as well. Only a few “subscribe” comments have not been updated on the posts available on the community portal. The changes will be implemented on […]

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 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 […]

Wonder when support for a given CF or CF Builder version ends/ended?

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’?”)