If you're considering or have already implemented the latest CF updates from June 2024 (CF2023 update 8 and CF2021 update 14), you might have struggled a bit to understand completely what Adobe was getting at in the update technotes, as they can sometimes be rather terse in covering some points (wor...
Last Friday it was an absolute honor to talk about ColdFusion security at Summercon.
Ben Nadel creates an x-input directive in Alpine.js which allows outer component properties to be bound to inner component properties....
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Ben Nadel tries to build a tri-state switch / toggle using Alpine.js....
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Don't miss that Adobe had added a useful feature (a "patch", made available in Apr 2024) to help in identifying any CFML code you may have which refers "implicitly" to scopes that would no longer searched (for any variables without a scope prefix), which is the new default behavior for CF2021, CF202...
Don't miss that Adobe had added a useful feature (a "patch", made available in Apr 2024) to help in identifying any CFML code you may have which refers "implicitly" to scopes that would no longer searched (for any variables without a scope prefix), which is the new default behavior for CF2021, CF202...
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use attributeCollection to manage locking in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how he highlighted the dynamic parts of a pretty-printed JSON value in JavaScript....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the viability of the Minimum Viable Product; and whether solopreneurship is still possible in the web application industry....
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It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Jul 16, 2024) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, and 21, as well as the new short-term release 22.
It's that time again: there are new JVM updates released today (Jul 16, 2024) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, 17, and 21, as well as the new short-term release 22.
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to access the internal key-casing of a struct key in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel looks at the OWASP Java Encoder project's recommendation to double-encode dynamic URLs in an HREF context....
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Ben Nadel creates a user defined function, toEntries(), for normalizing collection iteration in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to sort an array with a subset of priority items in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the insecurities that they feel at work regardless of how much value they create for their companies....
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Here's great news for those still running CF2018 or earlier, who may have been holding off upgrading to CF2023 because you would have to pay full price.
Here's great news for those still running CF2018 or earlier, who may have been holding off upgrading to CF2023 because you would have to pay full price.
Ben Nadel updates his FusionCode algorithm to allow for key-casing and type-coercion settings to be configurable in ColdFusion....
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I'm delighted to announce that I've been selected to speak again (for the 12th straight year) at the upcoming Adobe CF Summit conference, to be held in Las Vegas Sep 30-Oct 1.
I'm delighted to announce that I've been selected to speak again (for the 12th straight year) at the upcoming Adobe CF Summit conference, to be held in Las Vegas Sep 30-Oct 1.
Ben Nadel and the crew talk about the mechanics of A/B testing; and, how it might be incrementally added to a bulk email system....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to extract illegal tag names from the OWASP AntiSamy HTML sanitization error messages in ColdFusion....
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Ben Nadel creates a FusionCode algorithm which is a ColdFusion-oriented version of Java's HashCode concept....
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Ben Nadel demonstrates how to build a simple, fixed-size cache using an ordered struct in ColdFusion....
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