Ben Nadel considers different ways to map strings onto integers in ColdFusion: hashCode, MD5 hash, and CRC-32....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the challenges of learning new technology; and, the disconnect between the demand of learning and the expectation of understanding....
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Do you feel you understand all there is to know about the CF Package Management feature (and cfpm tool), added by Adobe in CF2021? It has far more capabilities than most may realize.
Ben Nadel suggests that all calling services be identified in the HTTP User-Agent header; and then, secondarily, in any additional custom HTTP headers....
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Ben Nadel suggests that all calling services be identified in the HTTP User-Agent header; and then, secondarily, in any additional custom HTTP headers....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to generate secure URLs using URL signatures in order to prevent URL tampering in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates why defining emails using pure templates creates a lot of flexibility in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about strategies for managing the overwhelming amount of stuff that we have to do in a finite amount of time....
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As most know, ColdFusion runs atop Java (and has since CF6).
If you may learn there's a new Java update available, it may well be relatively simple for you to apply that update, but if you're running important applications that rely on Java, it's in your interest to give some consideration to various matters related to doing such an update.
It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Jan 16, 2024) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, and 21.
Ben Nadel demonstrates several ways to create an abstraction for timeboxed code execution in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates that per-application mappings in ColdFusion can map directly to files, not just directories....
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Ben Nadel looks at how to consume large external configuration files inside a ColdFusion component....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about their goals for 2024. And, invite you to submit suggestions on how the show can be improved....
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Ben Nadel shares everything he learned after sending 7 million emails over 5 days using ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel looks at using Cloudflare Turnstile in ColdFusion as a CAPTCHA alternative....
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Ben Nadel continues to explore error handling during async iteration in ColdFusion. It seems that Adobe ColdFusion 2023 and Lucee CFML 6 have different behaviors....
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Ben Nadel explores the notion of a Retry Policy for CFHttp requests in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel considers the ergonomics of Tag and Object APIs in ColdFusion....
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