Hidden Gems in CF2018, part 4 – Dev features: CFML REPL, CFFiddle, and REST Playground

In part 4, we begin to turn our attention to developer feature changes in CF2018, particularly the new CF2018 CFML REPL feature, the CFFiddle site, and the CF2018 REST Playground feature.

CF2018 External Session Storage using Redis on an AWS EC2 Server

In this article, I’ll walk through setting up an EC2 Server on AWS and installing Redis for ColdFusion 2018 to use as session storage.

ColdFusion API Manager

I am new to this and in need of assistance with the ColdFusion API Manager.  If I add a User (such as Publisher), I cannot use the login credentials to log back into the API Manager.  I receive a “User not Authorized” error.  When I adjust any profile settings, I receive a “Form Error.”  Anyone with experience on this?  Articles are tutorials?  Thanks in advance

CF India Summit: Part One – Workflow and Document Management Made Easy w/ ColdFusion

With the 2018 ColdFusion and CFML conference season heading to a close, we now travel to India! Bengaluru, India to be precise. India is home to some of the world’s foremost experts in Adobe ColdFusion and the ACF engineering team. This would be an absolutely phenomenal opportunity for any of those available to go. Also… it’s free to register!   In this mini-series, we will bring to light some of the topics at CF Summit India 2018 . Our first article will focus […]

CF Camp 2018: Madness in Munich Part Five- AngularJS + ColdFusion

Welcome to our final installment of CF Camp 2018: Madness in Munich! This is our series pertaining to all things CF Camp 2018, the only CF conference in Europe. In our fifth and final part, we look upon Nolan Erck’s upcoming session, AngularJS + ColdFusion. Here he will discuss getting started with AngularJS and building a simple JSON API in ColdFusion. He will then show you how to interconnect the two in order to create a fully functional application. In […]

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 […]

Adobe ColdFusion (2018 Release) Public Beta

We are pleased to announce the availability of public beta for Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) and Adobe ColdFusion Builder (2018 release). As always, we appreciate every contribution you make and provide feedback on this most awaited release of ColdFusion. Get rewarded for your contribution! Each engagement earns you points. Below is a glimpse of the rewards, you can earn based on your contributions, starting today. To learn more, visit https://coldfusion.adobe.com/levels/. Activities Points Post a video tutorial about ColdFusion 2018 Public Beta 100 Post a […]

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 […]

Resources for learning more about CF2016

Think you have a good handle on the many things that were new in ColdFusion 2016, or do you think there were only a couple of new features? In this post, I point you to a couple dozen resources which highlight both its major and minor features, as well as its updates since the initial release, and still more resources on the new release. Though CF2016 has been out since Feb 2016, there are many folks who may have only […]

The power of ColdFusion functions and closures

The ColdFusion ecosystem has a number of MVC (Model-View-Controller) frameworks — with ColdBox and FW/1 (Framework One) currently being the most popular — and some of them are directly inspired by MVC frameworks in other technologies: cfWheels is heavily inspired by Ruby on Rails, for example. Most of these frameworks offer fairly standard features, regardless of which language they are built with, but some languages are unusual enough that their web frameworks look very different. I work with Clojure a lot. […]

Adobe Education Exchange

With the challenges the world is facing today, the need for creative ideas has never been greater. When students become creators of digital content, they can amplify their ideas and increase their impact. Educators have an opportunity and an obligation to foster creativity in their students and help them build digital skills. The Adobe Education Exchange is your online hub to help ignite creativity in your classroom. With instructional resources, professional development, and peer-to-peer collaboration, you’ll find the support you […]

ColdFusion 11 Migration Guide

We are happy to announce the first release of Migration Guide for ColdFusion 11. This guide will help you, to migrate your ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion 10 servers to ColdFusion 11 seamlessly. This guide also gives a fair overview for migration of legacy servers to the most recent and supported versions. This helps you understand the various phases of migration, along with, how to use Code Analyzer. The Code Analyzer reviews the CFML pages that you specify and informs you […]