ColdFusion 2021 "refreshed" installers available (with update 5)...but only in one place for now

Here's some surprising news: Adobe has released a "refreshed" installer for CF2021, which includes update 5 (which came out last week) built-in.

From: Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting

Creating a Mailing List with Mailersend

I've long since wanted to add a mailing list to the blog as a way that people could directly show interest in what was being posted.

From: Michael Walter Van Der Velden

Rerunnable Data Update Scripts for MySQL/MariaDB

Using the INSERT IGNORE statement you can easily manage reference table's data using re-runnable sql scripts.

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

Presenters welcome at the online CF Meetup

This is a call to anyone who may have a CF-oriented presentation: we would welcome you presenting it on the Online ColdFusion Meetup.

From: Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting

Building a Modern Release Process for Blog Posts

One of the earliest articles I ever wrote was about the posting process that my blog posts followed.

From: Michael Walter Van Der Velden

Adobe CF Summit 2022 Recap

The Adobe CF Summit 2022 is done! I'm down in the hotel lobby waiting for my ride to the airport which means it's officially time to work on my conference recap! Honestly I can't think of any reason that this conference wasn't a huge success for everyone involved.

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

Adding CloudFlare Turnstile CAPTCHAs to CFML Sites

CloudFlare recently released a new CAPTCHA service called Turnstile, which aims to provide a better user experience for CAPTCHA's.

From: Pete Freitag's Homepage

ColdFusion Summit 2022 Slides

I'm back from another excellent CFSummit.

From: Pete Freitag's Homepage

CF Summit 2022 Notes

Sometimes I take notes during the conference sessions. And to my surprise people are actually reading them. :) Here's everything I jotted down during the Adobe CF Summit 2022 presentations. Enjoy.

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

Speaking at CF Summit on Monday

FYI for anyone attending the Adobe CF Summit this week, there's been a small schedule change.

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

My CF Summit 2022 Schedule

Hotel confirmation is in hand, plane ticket has been booked, it’s official…I’m going to the Adobe ColdFusion Summit in Las Vegas! Much like Into The Box earlier this month, the CF Summit is a must-attend event for anyone looking to stay up on CFML development practices.

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

Markdown That You Might Not Know

I write every one of my blog posts in Markdown.

From: Michael Walter Van Der Velden

I made a daily web game

It seems like simple daily web games, à la Wordle or Framed, have been quite popular over the pandemic.

From: Michael Walter Van Der Velden

Into The Box 2022 Recap

Into The Box 2022 is a wrap! My first in-person conference since this pandemic madness began two years ago.

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

Ways to suppress a finding in Fixinator

Code is complex, so any static application security testing (SAST) tool will find things that may not be an actual security issue.

From: Pete Freitag's Homepage

Spring Boot JWT - How to Secure your REST APIs with Spring Security and Json Web Tokens

In this tutorial, you will learn how to secure REST APIs with Spring Security and Json Web Tokens.

From: Dan Vega

Web Components in Your CFML Application

Web Components provide a modular way to build a consistent design system and user experience across your entire application.

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

Speaking at Into The Box 2022

(In my best comedian voice) so, the pandemic…am I right?! Next week I’m flying out to Texas for my first in-person conference in WAY too long! I’ll be giving 2 talks at one of my favorite events: Into The Box in Houston Texas!

From: South of Shasta: Software Development, Web Design, Training

Simple Parallel Execution in ColdFusion or Lucee

A really handy feature of the arrayEach() function is the parallel argument.

From: Pete Freitag's Homepage

Switching to Webmention Comments

A while back I introduced likes to the blog through the use of Webmentions and Bridgy.

From: Michael Walter Van Der Velden

Creating a ColdFusion UUID in MySQL

The uuid() function in MySQL returns a 36 character hex string, formatted as: aa479ea9-1d9d-11ed-ba03-564760fe47b7 ColdFusion's createUUID() function returns a 35 character hex string formatted as: AA479EA9-1D9D-11ED-BA03564760FE47B7 Both store the same amount of data (16 bytes), the only difference...

From: Pete Freitag's Homepage

Slides and Recording from My ColdFusion Developer Week Presentation on Advanced Features of S3

I’m grateful that I’ve spoken at Adobe’s ColdFusion Developer Week over the years.

From: Brian Klaas

Improving Twitter Embeds using the Twitter API

For a long time now, I've been frustrated by how slow the official twitter embed is.

From: Michael Walter Van Der Velden

Type Guards in Typescript

Often times when I speak to developers who have just started writing typescript, they have begun to understand static typing.

From: Michael Walter Van Der Velden