Jetty Vulnerabilities in Coldfusion 11
Presently using jetty-server-9.0.7.v20131107.jar. Security scans have identified this jetty jar and a few other jetty jars to be a vulnerable. I tried to change the host setting from 0.0.0.0 to...
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 `{{ }}`...
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CF India Summit Part Three: All About ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks
Welcome back to the CF India Summit series! This was our last major CF conference for the year, but that doesn’t make it any less relevant. As a matter of fact, there were some of ColdFusion’s...
View ArticleLooking to Move our ColdFusion 2016 Web Server to the DMZ – Looking for Advice?
Is there anyway to create a front-end CF server that can pass the traffic through our Firewalls to the back-end CF server 2016. We need to be FISMA and HIPAA compliant and I am looking for advice from...
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 ArticleAvoiding data normalization with data compression
I am going to argue against data normalization and I am going to be using traffic tracking as an example. I am going to introduce some better approaches to get the job done. I was thinking of all...
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The Hidden Power Of CFQUERYPARAM!
Everyone knows that you should be using CFQUERYPARAM. It offers many benefits in the areas of security, data validation, and enhanced performance for your applications. In fact, Adobe recommends that...
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 ArticleCFCamp 2018 videos now available
If you missed the chance to attend CFCamp 2018, held in Munich Germany in Nov 2019, note that recordings of all 24 sessions have been made available. They are free for those who attended (who were...
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...
View ArticleTSQL – Getting New Primary Key
There are so many ways to getting a Primary Key from a table right after an INSERT, which should you use? Trick question. You get it when you do the INSERT, not after....
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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...
View ArticleRIAForge decommissioning
This is to notify all, that we will be decommissioning http://riaforge.org/ (“Site”) soon. This decision has been taken due to business reasons. If you are interested in reviewing or downloading any...
View ArticleColdfusion 2016 JDBC Connection To Oracle
I’m setting up a new coldfusion 2016 standard server on windows server 2016. I have successfully created a datasource that points to an oracle database using the oracle jdbc driver. The datasource...
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...
View ArticleAutomatic Close Tags
Hi, I’m new to ColdFusion Builder and have downloaded CFB 2018. I’m having trouble getting the editor window to automatically write the closing tag. I’ve gone into preferences and in the HTML section...
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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 ArticleODBC Connection not working on WinSrv2016
Hi everyone, By trying to connect to a data source via ODBC to a Windows System DSN, Coldfusion Administrator throws an error: [Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][SequeLink Server]The specified data...
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