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DataMgr Is Worth A Look

I have been hearing lots of good things about some of the CRUD options available for use in ColdFusion applications.  With a new side project coming up I decided to give DataMgr by Steve Bryant a try.  I can say right from the top that I was very impressed with this tool.  According to the [...]

Adobe Releases Public Betas of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder

This is just a quick note that Adobe has released the public beta versions of ColdFusion 9 and the new ColdFusion Builder. Download links are below. I would also like to point out that while you try these versions out, please report any bugs you find to Adobe. This will benefit them by allowing them [...]

Adobe Releases Hotfix for FCKEditor Security Issue

Adobe has just released the hotfix for the FCKEditor security issue. You can read about and download the hotfix directly from Adobe. A summary of the potential exploit taken from the Adobe security bulletin: A vulnerability in FCKEditor, which is included as part of ColdFusion 8, could allow a remote attacker to upload files in [...]

FCKEditor Security Issue Not Just a ColdFusion Problem

While reading through some of the ColdFusion blogs the last couple of days, I think one issue has been missed: The security vulnerability in FCKEditor exists outside of ColdFusion. In other words, if you are using the FCKEditor tool outside of ColdFusion, or your ColdFusion site uses the stand alone version (and not the embedded [...]

ColdFusion & .NET: Comparing List Functions

It’s been awhile since I have added a new post to the series that compares code in ColdFusion & .NET. Today’s post covers something I use quite a bit throughout some of my applications: storing values in a list type format. If you have programmed in ColdFusion for years, you take the built in list [...]

ColdFusion Gets Some Gartner Love

Finally, some good press for ColdFusion! Mark Driver, a Gartner analyst, recently published an analyst note on ColdFusion. It has some good things to say about ColdFusion and that Abobe has strong support for the product. Nice to see others praising a product that we in the ColdFusion community have praised for years. The report [...]

Will Twitter Kill RSS Feeds?

I have read numerous articles this week on the subject of Twitter replacing RSS feeds for some people, so I thought I would share my two cents on the subject. I’ll start by saying I was a late adopter to Twitter, having been signed up for only a few months now. Over that time period [...]

ColdFusion: Grab Yourself a TinyURL

I have been working on a new application the last few days and one of the requirements was to generate a short URL. There are many different URL shortening services out there today, but I decided to go with one of the original services, TinyURL. Although this service does not provide any sort of API, [...]

Preventing XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Attacks in ColdFusion

With the recent issues Twitter has faced in recent days, I thought it would be important to show how you can prevent XSS attacks in ColdFusion. For a detailed explanation of what XSS is you can read a good summary here. So how can you protect against this type of attack? ColdFusion has some built [...]