Your life as a CIO is filled with make-or-break decisions. The size, trajectory, and effectiveness of your employees rest on a handful of choices often made early in or tenure. And maybe a few bigger choices further down the line. This is normal. A lot of weight rests on an IT department, regardless of what […]
Adobe ColdFusion Security Best Practices (Server Auto-Lockdown)
Most security features and protocols focus on prevention. Firewalls, security analyzers, and proper coding all keep hackers away. And sometimes, unfortunately, security breaches still occur. What then? A hacker roaming the contents of your company’s server should be treated like any active burglar. First, by sounding the alarms. Then preventing the robber’s movement. That’s what […]
CFML Open Source: Everything You Need To Know About Lucee
In this blog post, we will learn: What is open source? What makes open-source different? What is Lucee? What makes Lucee different from ColdFusion? Is it up-to-date? Are you a CIO who instinctively looks at price tags? It’s OK to admit you are. We’d all be a little better off minding where our money is […]
7 Steps To Get The Best Coldfusion Web Application Performance
Summary Learn about the simple performance tuning tricks and habits that will help you get the best ColdFusion web application performance and save your company hours of time and precious resources, all the while saving some money along the way. How much is “slow” costing your company? In the cutthroat world of IT, seconds mean […]
5 Reasons Why Adobe ColdFusion is Better Than C#
The .NET framework is one of the web’s most popular developing platforms. It consists of many different languages under one umbrella framework. C# is one of these languages. Others include VB.NET and F#. It gets a lot of support as a great general programming language. But is it really that great? Let’s take a look […]
4 Focus Areas for the Best ColdFusion Server Optimization
Some people may believe that they have the best web server setup. It might run smoothly now, but what happens when it is fully loaded? Does your server still work at its very best? Probably not. What would it take to have better servers? “It was Nielsen I think that had a survey some years […]
Adobe ColdFusion Vision for the Next 10 Years, with Rakshith Naresh
I was happy to catch Rakshith Naresh, Adobe ColdFusion Product Manager, and sit down and talk about the next 10 (and more!) years of ColdFusion. He gave an amazing talk at CF Summit East 2019, about cool new features of Adobe ColdFusion 2018 and what the future brings. Why do some CIO’s think that Adobe […]
State of the CF Union 2019 Survey (Final Results)
The final results for the 2019 State of the CF Union survey are out. Thanks to all the CFers who filled it out this year. Discover what most developers use for tools, languages, database and development methods. 1. What version of CFML Engine do you use? (Check all that apply) Others 2. What type of […]
Why is ColdFusion Better Than Other Programming Languages?
CFScript It is considered best practice to write ColdFusion Components and all business logic in CFScript and to use CFML only in .cfm files amongst HTML. The CFScript syntax provides a way of writing CFML code without using tags, and it can either be in a script based component (CFC) or inside the cfscript tag. CF tags are […]
CF India Summit: Part One – Workflow and Document Management Made Easy w/ ColdFusion
With the 2018 ColdFusion and CFML conference season heading to a close, we now travel to India! Bengaluru, India to be precise. India is home to some of the world’s foremost experts in Adobe ColdFusion and the ACF engineering team. This would be an absolutely phenomenal opportunity for any of those available to go. Also… […]
