Starting fresh with upgrade from CF 10 on Win 2008 R2 – recommendations?
Hello there. We wish to retire our Windows 2008 64-bit R2 servers which a number of them are still running CF 10 Enterprise. Which version of Coldfusion would your recommend that would be able to run...
View ArticleHeavy Handed, but effective. Passing entire scopes into CFTHREAD.
The Scenario Recently, a company I work with wanted to improve the performance of their communication platform. Their SaaS website allows their clients to communicate with their customers by sending...
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Fighting Stagnation: Learning how to grow your skills in a stagnant...
“Ugh. This page is written in cfscript. I hate script. From this point forward, I don’t want to see anything you write anything in script. Tags only from now on.” I’ve been given that directive...
View ArticleGenerating encryption id
I have to generate encrypted id to every unique id and need to attach it to my url.That encrypted id should not be repeated..can u help me with this please. The post Generating encryption id appeared...
View ArticleSomeone asked: where can I find CF training resources that are not at least a...
I was asked today for help by someone who was looking for training for CF and who lamented that all the resources they found were “at least a couple years old”. I understood where they were coming...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Where to find installers for older versions of ColdFusion
This is going to be a really quick “quick tip.” A company I contract for just reformatted and reinstalled their web server for the sole purpose of “cleaning out the fridge.” There’s one problem. They...
View ArticleHow to get CF to know a user’s real IP address, when behind a proxy, load...
Someone asked how they could get CF to track the “real” ip address for someone, when their CF server was operating behind a particular proxy/caching solution–in their case Cloudflare, but it could...
View ArticleColdfusion 2018 error
Hello, We are using coldfusion 2018 on a windows 2016 server. We are getting an error as shown below, please advice how to fix this ? I have already checked and recompiled the database packages and all...
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Adobe could support and bolster the ColdFusion Community by creating a CF...
In my 20+ year history with ColdFusion, one element has been a constant. Is ColdFusion viable? Isn’t it a dead language? Nobody uses ColdFusion any more. …which is total and complete bull$#!t. If...
View ArticleCF updates temporarily missing. Get them here
If you’ve tried to get the update files for cf 2018, 2016, 11, or 10 in recent days–whether from the CF Admin “updates” page, or the update technote pages, you’ve found the update jar files are missing...
View ArticleWebsocket – channels?
This may be a noob question, and I admit that I am a noob when it comes to websockets. With ColdFusion, channels seem to be part of the core but when I research websockets in general, excluding...
View ArticleBreaking up character sequences using a regular expression
There was a question asked on the CFML Slack channel recently which I answered. I thought I’d share it here in case it’s useful for others. The problem was that the user had a string which was composed...
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Quick thoughts on structs
Here is a quick guide to all the different kinds of structs in ColdFusion <cfscript> // plain old struct a = {}; a.b = “Bunny”; a.c = “Canary”; a.d = “Doggy”; a.append({“a” : “Apple”});...
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Solving problems calling out of CF via https, by updating JVM
(Originally written Jun 2019, updated Mar 2021) Sometimes the solution to a problem is not what many may suggest it is. And the right solution may even be easier than a commonly suggested one. Over the...
View ArticleRegular expressions – practical examples to get you started
There are many posts already out there about Regular Expressions, but I’ve done a few blog posts which use regular expressions and thought it wouldn’t hurt to do yet another post on regular expressions...
View ArticleArrayFilter callback accepts 3 parameters
Just a quick post, but I noticed that the ArrayFilter docs on the Adobe site don’t mention that there are 3 parameters passed to the callback. So thought I’d post it in case people didn’t know. The...
View ArticlePre and post increment / decrement operators
In the excellent CFML News from Foundeo Inc there was a link to Compound Assignment Operators in CFML ( += and more) on Matthew Clemente’s blog. One of the examples Matthew shows is the value++ and...
View ArticleAdobe ColdFusion 2018 Accessibility Report is Available for 508 Compliance
VPAT Now Available for ColdFusion 2018! We just released the the 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) for Adobe ColdFusion 2018. It can be found on our website here:...
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Converting an array of structs to a query dynamically
I was working with some JSON data in Javascript and wanted to view the data in a table layout so I could quickly scan it to see what I was working with. This is easily done in a browser using...
View ArticleUpdating ColdFusion 9 For TLS 1.2 Usage
We are using ColdFusion 9.0.1 with jdk 1.7.0_75 version. We have to use TLS 1.2 in our systems. We have tried: Added -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2 line to JRun4 > bin > jmv.config file. Installed...
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