A second priority 1 CF security update in one week, released Jul 14 2023
Just days after a P1 security update released on Jul 11, Adobe has released yet another on Jul 14.
Just days after a P1 security update released on Jul 11, Adobe has released yet another on Jul 14.
I saw this question posted on a ColdFusion forum the other day: "Are there any serious, open full-time ColdFusion positions outside government contracts out there? Preferrably WFH.
From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the :placeholder-shown CSS pseudo-class to style elements based on the visibility of an input's placeholder pseudo-element....
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Vertically collapsing accordion UI components are simple to implement these days using native HTML.
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Ben Nadel reflects on several months of architecting his ColdFusion data access layer (DAL) to return Arrays (of Structs), not Queries....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about a variety of topics that enter Ben's mind....
From: Ben Nadel
Folks using CF2023, 2021, or 2018 will want to know that a Priority 1 security update has been released today affecting all 3 releases, update 1 for CF2023 (its first), update 7 for CF2021, and update 17 for CF2018 (its last).
On Jul 28 at 6pm US Eastern, I'll be offering this talk (online) on the Hawaii ColdFusion Meetup (hosted by John Barrett).
Ben Nadel looks at switching from the iOS Numeric keyboard to the Text keyboard by dynamically changing the inputmode of the Input control....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that Adobe ColdFusion returns NULL dates as NULL values when using the returnType="Array" behavior in the CFQuery tag....
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Ben Nadel fixes a character encoding bug in his ColdFusion code by including the charset argument in his fileRead() function call....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the CFCamp ColdFusion conference in Munich, Germany....
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TL; DR: If you use AES-CBC (or another block cipher operating in CBC mode) to decrypt user-controlled ciphertext, validate the ciphertext with an HMAC or similar integrity check prior to decryption to avoid Padding Oracle vulnerabilities.
Ben Nadel and the crew talk why finishing a project feels so hard; and, what we can do to get our projects across the finish line....
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Server logs in ColdFusion are a must-have resource to help you tune, monitor, and troubleshoot your servers.
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in the wake of Apple's new Vision Pro release....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to compact an array in ColdFusion. That is, to remove the undefined values / indices....
From: Ben Nadel
Hi, I'm Nolan. My team is building a brand new ColdBox 6 app from scratch. We're using Docker, AWS, CommandBox, GitHub Actions, several modules from ForgeBox, Bash scripts, and Alpine.js. And ya know what? This tech tech may very well become the new base line on which I start all future projects.
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With so much great content at CFCamp, I'm having a hard time deciding between sessions! This is my best guess as to where you'll be able to find me.
From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training
I'm sitting in a hotel room in Munich, recovering from jet lag. That can only mean one thing: CF Camp is back, and I was picked as one of the speakers. :)
From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training