Jekyll and Hyde: The balance between getting a job done and creating a work...
Programming with Adobe ColdFusion is like creating a masterpiece. We, as developers are creative; solving problems and crafting with code the way an artist would with oil and canvas. I sincerely...
View ArticleAdobe ColdFusion Support Policies and Options FAQ
Many of you might be interested to have more clarification around our support policies and time periods, especially with newer version releases and pending core support deadlines. Hopefully, this post...
View ArticleROT13 in action!
ROT13_Demo Demonstrates a ROT13 library What is ROT13? ROT13 stands for Rotate 13. It takes every character in a string and moves it down the alphabet 13 places. If it falls off the end it wrap...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Negative Indexing on arrays in ColdFusion 2018
Imagine the following array of letters in the English alphabet: <cfset variables.Alphabet =...
View ArticleTaffy for REST – Part 9: Buefy flavored HTML
I talked a lot about Buefy in video 8, but I didn’t have a chance to dive into the HTML. Rather than having a long video, I split it at the end of the `assets/app.js` discussion. Patterns VueJS `{{ }}`...
View ArticleConverting XML to JSON using xmlTransform()
I know very little about XML other than it’s a pain in the !@#$% to parse, search, and use. I’m much more familiar with JSON and using ColdFusion structures and arrays. That being said, I’m working...
View ArticleAdobe ColdFusion Summit East, April 2019 in Washington DC
If you missed the chance to attend the Adobe ColdFusion Summit, held in Oct 2018 in Las Vegas, you can see many of the same talks (from Adobe and community members) at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit East...
View ArticleTaffy for REST: Part 10 VueJS + Bootstrap
Hurray. Last video in this series! After working with Buefy and Bulma and experiencing some of what they have to offer, I decided to make a bit of a U-turn. I was drawn to Bulma because of its CSS only...
View ArticleOpen Web Application Security Project – OWASP
Note: I should have pointed out that all this is built into ColdFusion. There is no downloading, installing, or configuring. Introduction Any input that your website accepts has to treated as if it...
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Coldfusion 10 on Windows10
I have installed CF10 on my windows 10 machine but the problem i have is the handler mapping is missing. except for Everything seems to be working except for when I try to run a cfm page. Then i get an...
View ArticleProvide your input on the future versions of Adobe ColdFusion
Here is the link for a really important survey for us here at Adobe. Your responses will help determine some of the potential future directions of the product. This survey is one among the series of...
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pseudo rest parameters with CFML
In Javascript there is the rest parameter syntax, which is useful when you have a method which can accept multiple additional arguments. Have a look at the example of MDN to see how it works....
View ArticleUnion and diff of arrays
When working with arrays in CFML there are times when you want to know the values that set A contains, that are not in set B. There isn’t a native function to do this in CFML (you can do looping etc to...
View ArticleDo I need an API?
There’s a lot of ways to accomplish a task using ColdFusion. Some are elegant; some are not. Some involve a lot of steps, and some can be as simple as the page they exist upon. There’s many ways to...
View ArticleFinding the symmetric difference of two arrays
My previous two posts looked at intersection of arrays and Union and diff of arrays. This time I’m going to look at finding the symmetric difference. So first, what the heck is a symmetric difference?...
View ArticleGetting the union of two structs
I’ve recently been blogged about unions, intersections, diffs and disjunctive unions of elements in arrays. I thought I do the same for structs. First up here’s how to do a union: function...
View ArticleIntersection and diff of two structs
I recently blogged about finding the union of two structs. Following on from that I wanted to look at finding the intersection (keys common to both) and diff (keys unique to the struct). So without...
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CF2018 External Session Storage using Redis on an AWS EC2 Server
I recently had an opportunity to work with a client who was scaling their resources. It was relatively minor… they had a single ColdFusion server and wanted to move to two. As part of this scaling...
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Practical uses for reduce functions
In my last post I used structReduce. I thought I’d post some more examples of what you can use reducers for. The classic example is to sum the values in an array. data = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]; result...
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What was new in CF10, 11, or 2016 that you may have missed?
Are you moving up to, or considering a move to CF2018, or perhaps CF2016? If so, might you have skipped over one of the previous releases, whether CF2016, CF11, or CF10? And you might you wonder “what...
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