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Is ColdFusion Really Becoming Popular Again?
I have somewhat of an unwarranted gambling degenerate reputation here at the WebProNews offices. It may or may not have to do with the time I was pushing a double digit debt in lunches from various bets. However, I would not bet on ColdFusion. I even previously wrote about the …
By Michael MarrRead More
April 26, 2012 -
ColdFusion Based Sites Are Target For Latest SQL Attack
In the beginning of December, it was discovered that a SQL attack was making its rounds across the internet. It was redirecting visitors from their site to a malicious one, titled – “Lilupophilupop”. The attack was named after the URL with the same name. It is being reported that over …
By John VinsonRead More
January 6, 2012 -
Gaining More Clojure Insight Through Cfmljure
I mentioned it in passing in one of my early posts about using Clojure from CFML but, since only one person signed up, thought it was worth mentioning again: there is a mailing list for cfmljure where you can ask questions about the project and Clojure itself or, if you’re …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
September 23, 2011 -
Handle All Your ColdFusion Projects With Leiningen
Leiningen is a build tool for Clojure that handles all of your project / library dependencies and makes it easy to work in a more test-driven development style. Once you’ve installed Leiningen, you can start a new project, on the command line, by typing lein new myproject and it will …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
September 22, 2011 -
Using Clojure Code Within CFML
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll have seen me posting about Clojure quite a bit recently. I really like the simplicity and elegance of Clojure. I like the function programming style. I like that it’s a dynamic scripting language. I like that it can also be compiled to JVM …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
September 21, 2011 -
The End Of CFUnited
Many blog posts have expressed their sadness at the passing of what has become one of our community’s great traditions: CFUnited. I’ve been fortunate enough to attend the last seven years – as a speaker – and it’s always been a unique event, with the largest gathering of CF developers …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
September 20, 2011 -
Adobe Leave The CFML Advisory Committee
By now, many of you will have read Adam Lehman’s blog post that Adobe is no longer part of the CFML Advisory Committee. Adam had initially disabled comments (but now he’s opened things up) on that post and folks have been asking me all morning for my take on this …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
July 26, 2010 -
Important Hotfixes For FW/1 1.0 And 1.1
Two FW/1 users ran into a problem with error handling where methods from the wrong subsystem could be called if an exception occurred. I considered this an important enough issue to provide hotfixes for previous releases. You can now download tagged releases for 1.0.1 and 1.1.1 which incorporate the error …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
July 13, 2010 -
Veracode Now Supports Security Testing In ColdFusion
Application security firm Veracode has introduced a series of improvements to its SecurityReview automated static binary and dynamic web application testing service that provides developers with a cloud-based approach to improve software application security. Veracode SecurityReview now features a number of new APIs and reference integrations that support security testing …
By Mike SachoffRead More
June 29, 2010 -
Why Scala Makes Sense
I’ve not been blogging much lately because I’ve been heads down in a large ColdBox / ColdSpring / Reactor project and it’s literally been taking all my time. What free time I ought to have has been consumed by FW/1 and managing the growing Railo Consulting business! The large project …
By Sean CorfieldRead More
June 15, 2010