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ColdFusion HTML-JS-CSS Tech

Dynamic Form Templates with CFInclude

ColdFusion is a pretty powerful language when it comes to managing all your server / enterprise resources, but it is also useful to manipulate user interfaces. In this post, we speak about using the CFInclude tag to build intuitive user experiences. To start with, here is our problem. We had multiple pages in a website, […]

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API Manager ColdFusion Talks

ColdFusion API Manager at CFSummit 2018

At CFSummit 2018, I presented on how APIs are redefining how software is built today, and how the ColdFusion API Manager helps you with your API deployments and management. The session spoke about, why the APIs are the need of the hour in any enterprise environment that deals with large amounts of data, and are […]

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ColdFusion Tech

ColdFusion 2018 – Improvements on Arrays and Strings

ColdFusion 2018 includes a host of new enhancements on Language. Language improvements have been considered based on use-cases that make more sense in today’s world, and while also taking into consideration all the bugs and enhancements logged by the community. Significant enhancements are Null Support – with ColdFusion now Null aware, working alongside other technologies […]

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ColdFusion Talks

Language improvements in ColdFusion 2018 at Adobe Immerse ’18

Get insights into the language improvements in ColdFusion 2018, at the Adobe Immerse Webinar on June 12, 2018. I will be speaking about Null Support, Final variables, Abstract Methods, Data Type Preservation, Asynchronous Programming Constructs, and a host of improvements on Array. Here’s the session abstract. Learn how ColdFusion 2018’s new asynchronous programming constructs allow […]

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API Manager ColdFusion Tech

Exposing SOAP webservices through ColdFusion 2016 API Manager

The latest version of ColdFusion bundled in an API Manager, allowing you to moderate publishing and access of your APIs. The API Manager acts as a proxy to existing REST and SOAP web-services. Just wrapped up an article on Adobe DevNet that speaks about exposing existing SOAP based web services. Have a look at the […]

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ColdFusion

ColdFusion WSConfig configuration backups

ColdFusion 11 update 5 helps address a issue with connector reconfigurations, that could potentially leave you in the lurch. The update includes a workflow to backup your custom configurations while un-configuring ColdFusion from an IIS site or an Apache instance. Here’s a little more detailing about what the workflow does. On unconfiguring the connector on […]

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ColdFusion

ColdFusion 11 Hotfix 5 and ColdFusion 10 Hotfix 16 are out!

Hotfix 5 for ColdFusion 11, and Hotfix 16 for ColdFusion 10 are out, and fix close to 150 bugs collectively! Connector fixes for IIS are available for ColdFusion 11, and that would imply the need to reconfigure connectors if you are on a ColdFusion 11 configured with IIS. ColdFusion 11 also packs Apache 2.4.10 support. […]

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ColdFusion

ColdFusion 11 Hotfix 3 – Early Access

Hotfix 3 for ColdFusion 11 is out for early access, with a long list of fixed bugs. Early access / public preview for ColdFusion releases was a request we received at CFSummit, and here they are! View the list of Issues Fixed Read the Release Notes Instructions to apply the hotfix are available here. Appreciate […]

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ColdFusion

ColdFusion and Nginx

Nginx is that popular webserver that’s been increasingly eating up the webserver market share. Wikipedia says over 30% of the top 100K sites run on Nginx. The Nginx wiki speaks of the webserver as a high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. The most striking feature of Nginx though, […]

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ColdFusion

Busting the HTTP Error 500.19 on ColdFusion 11 + IIS

Here’s a little trouble shooting tip to bust an IIS HTTP Error 500.19 (Internal Server Error) that may pop up when IIS is configured with ColdFusion 11. The error mostly occurs when IIS is unable to interpret configurations specified in the web.config file. In this post I speak about fixing a specific cause of a […]