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CFUG Meeting Notes — ColdFusion 9, Flex, and Flash Builder
I’ve been told now by several people that they wished they could have made it to last night’s joint meeting of the Philly CFUG, Flash, and Flex user groups, and it’s not even 9:30; so I figured I would...
View ArticleFrom ColdFusionJedi: Are you aware of the MIME/File Upload Security Issue?
I came across this little security issue with the way CFFILE checks MIME Types for files to upload – it basically uses what ever the browser tells the form the file is. That can be easily spoofed,...
View ArticleColdFire Nominated for Community Achievement Award
Yesterday I found out that ColdFire was nominated for a CFUnited Community Achivement Award in the Best Open Source Project category. If yoiu would like to show your support, please visit the link...
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Setting up CFServer in Windows7/Vista IIS 7
A little tip for anyone looking to install Cold Fusion on a Windows 7 machine, there’s a little tip to get the ISAPI suport you need otget CF8/9 working on IIS 7.0. (it’s similar to the fix for Vista,...
View ArticleThe Future of ColdFusion, a panel discussion
Whether or not you like writing ColdFusion code, there are quite a few of us here that use it. If you’re interested in the future of the language — good, bad, or otherwise — you may be interested to...
View ArticleBuild Excel and PowerPoint Files With POI
If you need to write Excel or PowerPoint files via ColdFusion chances are you want to use the Apache POI libraries. If you don’t want to mess with loading up these Java libraries yourself there is a...
View ArticleData-Centric Development with ColdFusion 9 and Flash Builder 4
I recently posted a series of tutorials covering the new data-centric development features in Flash Builder 4. In the tutorials I cover generating ColdFusion services, client-side data typing, data...
View ArticleJavaLoader and Memory Consumption
If you are using JavaLoader to load external Java classes in ColdFusion, please be sure you are aware of the possible impact on server memory. From the JavaLoader documentation: Due to the way classes...
View ArticleCFBuilder, Flex 4, and Flash Builder 4: Now Available
Earlier this week the Flex 4 SDK — the open source ActionScript framework that makes Flex work, Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder) — the preferred IDE for writing Flex code, and ColdFusion Builder...
View ArticleNew Version of POI Utilities and Tags on Scorpio-Dev
New versions of the POI utilities and custom tags have been developed for POI 3.6. Thanks to John Piotrowski there have been some additions to the POIUtility API with this release, including new...
View ArticleOWASP Libraries Now On CF 8 Servers
The topic of cross site scripting (XSS) comes up at code review quite frequently, and for good reason. Just look at what happened to twitter today. While ColdFusion does have some built in protections...
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