Copying AWS EC2 Tags to EBS Using PowerShell

These days when creating an EC2 instance in the AWS console UI, by default, the tags are duplicated across Elastic Block Service (EBS) and Elastic Network Interface (ENI) attached resources being created.

From: Chris Tierney

ColdFusion Summit East 2023 Recap

The 2023 CF Summit East Conference wrapped up yesterday — it was a fun, albeit short, trip. I’m already on a flight back hope; sadly no time for tourist things on this trip (tho my sushi dinner with Minh Vo yesterday was fantastic so I’ll take that as a win).

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

Poor Man’s Storage Data Wipe On Windows 10/11

The usual person in the tech industry will inevitably have a storage medium you “must” secure before letting it out of your possession.

From: Chris Tierney

Be Aware of Mura CMS Security Issues

Mura CMS was a popular open-source content management system (CMS) written in ColdFusion.

From: Chris Tierney

Accessing Azure MariaDB server with Navicat

Database client Navicat doesn't seem to recognize MariaDB servers hosted on Azure.

From: cfSimplicity

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Mura CMS and Masa CMS (CVE-2022-47003 and CVE-2022-47002)

BackgroundMura CMS is a popular content management system written in ColdFusion/CFML.

From: Hoya Haxa - A Security Research Blog

Debloat Windows 11

Perform the following at your own risk.

From: Chris Tierney

Purchasing Adobe ColdFusion

Are you in the market or considering purchasing Adobe ColdFusion’s full or upgrade license? While you always have the option of going straight to Adobe, I recommend purchasing through a reseller.

From: Chris Tierney

A prototype is not a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a term that I hear used a lot, and the concept seems pretty simple. Yet it is too frequently misused in place of prototype by junior developers and non developers (management).

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

Senior Developers vs Master Developers

We need to do away with the term senior developer in the software industry. Here is why I propose we start using the term Master Developer.

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

Learning “AWS Backup” Restorations for On-Prem VMWare VMs

CF Webtools has maintained VMWare ESXi guest OS instances, managed by vCenter, for about 7 years.

From: Chris Tierney

Improving Lucee's QoQ Support Again- now 200% faster

Two years ago, I published this post detailing how I had refactored the Query of Query support in Lucee to be much better and also much faster: https://www.

From: Coders Revolution

On ColdFusion, XXE, and other XML Attacks

An IntroductionThis is the first of what may become a few blog posts based on my CFSummit 2022 talk.

From: Hoya Haxa - A Security Research Blog

Rerunnable data update scripts for Microsoft SQL Server

We can implement a SQL Server equivalent of MySQL/MariaDB's "INSERT IGNORE" using MERGE INTO as follows...

From: Steve Neiland: Blog of a Web Developer

Adding validation drop-downs to your spreadsheets with CFML

The Spreadsheet CFML library now supports adding validation drop-downs to cells programmatically.

From: cfSimplicity

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

Slides from ColdFusion Summit 2022 - "Below the Surface: Web Vulnerabilities Hiding in your Applications"

Photo credit: @coldfumonkehI attended my first CFSummit, where I talked about a handful of web vulnerability classes (SSRF, Session Puzzles, Cryptography flaws, and XML attacks) that might be overlooked by some ColdFusion/CFML developers.

From: Hoya Haxa - A Security Research Blog

Reading large spreadsheets with Lucee

The Spreadsheet CFML library now supports reading large spreadsheets via streaming.

From: cfSimplicity

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

Henry II on Vacation - Why Teams Matter

There are thousands of applications built by one brilliant programmer.

From: ColdFusion Muse

Fixing problems using spreadsheet-CFML on Linux

Out of the box, some Linux builds are missing components needed to generate spreadsheets.

From: cfSimplicity

Wiki.js Active Directory Authentication Configuration

I have recently taken the opportunity to explore Wiki.

From: Chris Tierney