Adobe CF certification now only US$149, including many hours of training

If you may not have heard the news or noticed it on the Adobe CF Certification page, the price is now listed as only US$149. If you’ve not seen or heard anything about the “new” CF certification, it is greatly improved over the one from several years ago (which was just an exam). The new certification process entails about 20 hours of 50+ recorded videos and exam prep materials, in addition to the exam. It was first rolled out at […]

Java Keystore – CFHTTP / JSON

Cannot send JSON to server due to communication issues – I believe it the Java security certificate

cfhttp connection failure when calling https url’s

This is one of the most common error when it comes to make calls to https url’s with <cfhttp. A lot of articles are out there explaining how to install SSL certificate with keytool. But again its not very easy for everyone to understand.  Best way to do it is using certman (CF admin) plugin, which was available on https://certman.riaforge.org/ but since its been taken down it was no where to be found. I recently found it in https://github.com/cfmaniac GIT repo […]

ColdFusion Certification is online now!!!

Can’t step outside? Still want to polish up your skills? We heard you and we made it happen! Now you can master the major features from Adobe ColdFusion’s latest release from right where you are, because Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion is now online! This industry-led certification program from Adobe comes with 50+ online videos and is specially designed to fit every coder, with both basic and advanced level proficiency in any computer language. Upon completing the program, you will […]

Adobe ColdFusion Summit East :: Washington, D.C on April 22

We are excited to announce the fourth annual Adobe ColdFusion Summit East in Washington, D.C on April 22nd. The conference is on April 22nd  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: https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/CFSummit2020/Custom?name=About%20the%20Summit Event Time : 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM Location: Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 Ninth Street […]

Configuring Jetty on HTTPS in CF2018

In this blog, we’ll learn how to configure Jetty on SSL using self-signed certificate created by a key tool. To configure Jetty on SSL, follow the steps below: Step 1: Generate a private key in a KeyStore file. Provide the details when it is prompted. cfroot\jre\bin\keytool -genkeypair -alias certificatekey -keyalg RSA validity 365 -keystore keystore.jks Step 2:  Export the certificate using the self-signed certificate. Note: You can use a self-signed certificate or a certificate from a Certificate Authority. cfroot\jre\bin\keytool -export […]

ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 6 and ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 13 released

We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions: ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 6 ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 13 The updates fix bugs that were reported in the previous update release. If you had installed the preview updates of these releases, make sure that you revert the update URL to the default value to receive update notifications. IMPORTANT: If you will be using the Administrator interface to perform the update, note that you must […]

Preview builds of ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 6 and ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 13 released

UPDATE: 11/20/2019: We’ve released update 4 of CF 2018 and update 13 of CF 2016. For more information, see Update blog. IMPORTANT: These are preview builds and we DO NOT recommend applying them to your production environment. We are pleased to announce that we have preview builds available for the following updates: ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 6 ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 13 The preview updates contain fixes for bugs that were reported after the release of the previous updates. We […]

CFMAIL on port 587 Issues!

How do we make the mail run on port 587 without getting errors?

Solving error during CF update: Failed Signature Verification

The error is surprisingly easy to fix–if you know what to do, and where the docs tell you.

ColdFusion (2018 release) and ColdFusion (2016 release) mandatory updates

Why must I have the Update 4 of ColdFusion (2018 release) or Update 11 of ColdFusion (2016 release) installed before updating to Update 5 or Update 12 respectively? These are mandatory updates because the latest updates are now signed using a new code signing certificate and the code changes to check for the new signature were included in Update 4 (ColdFusion 2018) and Update 11 (ColdFusion 2016). If you are not on the specified updates and try to apply the […]

Thoughts on the ColdFusion Specialist Program Exam

Observations on the exam for the ColdFusion Specialist program.