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October 2019, Newsletter
#welovelucee

Dear William

Hello from Lucee-land. Here is the news and happenings from October. Happy Halloween!

CF Camp 2019 Recap
By Michaela Light

A huge Thank You to Michaela Light for this recap of CF Camp 2019! And the bonus link in her blog "CFML Open Source: Everything You Need To Know About Lucee".

Full videos of all presentations are available for purchase at the link below as well.

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Lucee at ApacheCon

by Igal Sapir

Watch Igal's Lucee presentation at ApacheCon on YouTube!

TIL: Generating .xlsx Files with CFML - An Easy Way to Reduce File Size

By Matthew J. Clemente

I�ve been under the (mistaken) impression that when generating spreadsheet files with ColdFusion, my options were limited to XLS or CSV. I would generate the former using the built-in spreadsheet functions (spreadsheetNew()) and the latter by manually assembling strings into a comma-delimited format.

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CFML Posts from Ben Nadel

A huge THANK YOU to Ben Nadel for all of the very detailed posts around CFML, Lucee, and his work with it. We have heard from many community members about how much they appreciate all the time Ben takes to write and provide detailed examples. Here are some of Ben's posts from this month:

Using RegEx To Filter Keys With Redis Key Scanner In Lucee CFML 5.2.8.50 And Jedis
Building A Simple Redis Key Scanner Using Lucee CFML 5.2.8.50 And Jedis
Thought Experiment: Splitting A Single Data Table Up Into High-Writes And High-Reads For Better Performance In MySQL
CFQueryParam "Fails Silently" With Empty Lists And IN Clauses In Lucee 5.2.9.40

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November 2019, Newsletter
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Dear William

Greetings! Happy Thanksgiving to all, even if you are not in the US. We here at Lucee Association Switzerland are thankful for everyone in the active and growing Lucee community.

In case you missed it - videos of all of the CFCamp 2019 sessions are available for a small fee. Check out http://videos.2019.cfcamp.org/
If you attended CFCamp 2019, access to the videos is included in your ticket price. You should have received an email with a personal link to the videos. If you did not, please contact Michael Hnat.

Is it necessary to cfqueryparam all values?
By Pete Freitag

Here is a short example of when cfqueryparam is necessary and when it's not.

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Using Redis with Lucee: An Approach with the CommandBox Docker Image and Ortus Redis Extension

By Matthew J. Clemente

Well, the title feels a bit like word soup, but I think it�s accurate. When I got started with Lucee, containers, and external cache providers, I blogged about using Memcached. At work, we�ve since shifted our stack, and now primarily use Redis for caching.

This post outlines some reasons for that change and includes an example repo of the Lucee/Redis configuration discussed - which is to say, it is divided into two parts, why and how, and if you�re only here for the code, here�s a link to the repo: mjclemente/redis-lucee-extension

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CFML Posts from Ben Nadel

A huge THANK YOU to Ben Nadel for all of the very detailed posts around CFML, Lucee, and his work with it. We have heard from many community members about how much they appreciate all the time Ben takes to write and provide detailed examples. Here are some of Ben's posts from this month:

Using MySQL�s Null-Safe Equality Operator With CFQueryParam�s Null Option In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62 1
Closure Variable-Access Changes With Function Expressions vs. Function Declarations In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
ColdFusion Performance Experiment: Caching Per-Application Settings In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Confusion Over this.mappings And expandPath() Not Working In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62 1
Superficial Performance Comparison Between ColdFusion Query-of-Queries (QoQ) And Array Functions In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Replacing ColdFusion Query-of-Query (QoQ) INNER JOIN And LEFT OUTER JOIN With Array Functions In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Safe Navigation Operator Works In Comparison Expression Even When NULL In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Replacing ColdFusion Query-Of-Queries (QoQ) With Array Functions In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Serializing A MySQL RecordSet As A Set Of INSERT Statements Using Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40
Adding A TTL To All Persistent Keys In Redis Using LaunchDarkly Feature Flags And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40

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December 2019, Newsletter
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Dear William

Greetings! Happy holidays and best wishes for a wonderful year in 2020!

Year-End Development Update: Announcing Lucee 5.3.4.73 (Release Candidate 2) and Final 2019 Sprint
By Patrick Quinn, Lucee Global Product Manager

Season�s Greetings, Lucites! On behalf of eveyone at LAS, here�s hoping you�re all having a great holiday season! Hopefully Lucee has been more nice than naughty for you this year, but whatever the case, we�re ever-focused on sprinting towards better and better releases. On that note, today we�ve got some announcements to make.

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Looping Over Dates in CFML

By Andrew Dixon

A question came up on the CFML Slack a couple of days ago where someone was asking about looping over a date range, e.g. from 1st August 2018 to today. He suggested he was going to �do it the old fashioned way using DateDiffs and DateAdds� so he could do it with �regular numbers�.

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CFML Posts from Ben Nadel

A huge THANK YOU to Ben Nadel for all of the very detailed posts around CFML, Lucee, and his work with it. We have heard from many community members about how much they appreciate all the time Ben takes to write and provide detailed examples. Here are some of Ben's posts from this month:

The Elvis Operator Can Be Chained Multiple Times In A Single Expression In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Common Mistakes That Engineers Make During The Designer-Developer Hand-Off
Error Variable Randomly Exists After Running CFExecute In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Getting ColdFusion Date Objects From UTC Milliseconds In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62

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Become a Lucee Member or Supporter

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February 2020, Newsletter
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Dear William

Happy New Year Lucee fans! We hope 2020 is off to a great start for everyone.

We are working with CFML community members to have some exceptional blog posts this year. If you would like to contribute to the Lucee community by writing for us as well, please contact us! Or if there are particular topics you would like to read about, let us know that as well.

Here's the latest from Lucee and the community of CFML bloggers.

Announcing Lucee 5.3.4.77 (Final)

By Patrick Quinn, Lucee Global Product Manager and CEO of Webapper Services

Today we�re announcing a final release of Lucee 5.3.4 (5.3.4.77). As I explained in December 2, we decided to extend this version to a second release candidate phase.

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Resources for Web Push Notifications

This month we had a great forum discussion about push notifications in Lucee. In addition to a great discussion, many resources are linked in this topic. Check it out here: Resources for Web Push Notifications in Lucee

Sizing Your Redis Cache for Sessions - A Quick Lesson Learned

By Matthew J. Clemente

Hindsight being 20/20 makes the lesson of this post appear comically obvious, but as the underlying issue took a while to track down, I thought it worth documenting. The embarrassing TLDR; is that you should make sure that your Redis cache is appropriately sized for your session data or you might end up with errors that are difficult to debug.

I imagine the general principle discussed here applies to a wide range of ColdFusion setups in which Redis serves as an external object/session cache - whether you�re using the Lucee Redis extension, Redis as an external cache for Adobe ColdFusion, or, as I�ve discussed before, the Ortus Redis Extension for Lucee.

Check out the Lucee YouTube Channel!

CFML Posts from Ben Nadel

A huge THANK YOU to Ben Nadel for all of the very detailed posts around CFML, Lucee, and his work with it. We have heard from many community members about how much they appreciate all the time Ben takes to write and provide detailed examples. Here are some of Ben's posts from this month:

Struct Iteration Methods Like Each, Map, And Filter Include Null Values In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Replacing Depth-First Recursion With A Breadth-First While-Loop In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Depth-First vs Breadth-First Tree Traversal Using A While-Loop In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Snapshotting ColdFusion Component State In Order To Find Memory Leaks In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Passing isArray() Decision Function Does Not Ensure Member Methods In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Repositories And Data Access Layers Can Have As Many Methods As You Find Helpful
Using A Closure To Encapsulate Depth-First Tree Traversal In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Strange MongoDB Error When Incrementing A Document Property In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Lucee Appears To Incur Request-Cloning Overhead When Spawning CFThread Tags In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Using A File Upload Or The Request Body To Overcome The Slow Processing Of A Large Form POST In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
A Months-Long Journey Of Incrementally Increasing Performance Of A Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40 Service
Using The FusionReactor API (FRAPI) To Add Custom Instrumentation In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40
Using The FusionReactor API (FRAPI) To Add Custom Instrumentation In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40
Wrapping The FusionReactor API (FRAPI) For Safe Consumption In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40

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May 2020, Newsletter
#welovelucee

Dear William

Greetings Luceeites! From all of us at Lucee, we hope this difficult time across the world finds you and yours healthy and able to enjoy this extra time together. We have quite a lot of news for you this month, so let''s begin.

Announcing Lucee 5.3.6.53 (Release Candidate)

By Patrick Quinn, Lucee Global Product Manager and CEO of Webapper Services

Greetings, Lucites! Short and sweet indeed, just like (hopefully) our new-and-improved release cycle. We''re actually still getting into a good rhythm with the new schedule--it''s not quite as short and sweet as we''ve envisioned. Specifically, we''re looking for the sprints to be 2 weeks max, with a ticket list in the range of 10 or so tickets (which will obviously vary based on the complexity of the tickets in a given sprint), with release candidate periods of about 2 weeks. But we''re definitely moving the right direction.

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Building Custom Lucee Docker Images

by Igal Sapir

Lucee has had support for Docker with the latest and greatest images on Docker Hub for several years now. They are generated as part of the build process by Travis CI and come in a few different variations like different versions of Java, Tomcat, and Lucee.

In this post I will cover a different project which makes it easy to build custom Lucee Docker images.

Attend the Into The Box 2020 Online Conference

Last chance to sign up for this awesome conference taking place Thursday, May 7th - Friday, May 8th. The conference has moved to online with the same content and speakers but for a lower price and no travelling required.

Check it out here: https://www.intothebox.org

From Pete Freitag''s Blog

Scan CFML for Security Issues from VS Code
Dumping HTTP Servlet Request Attributes and Parameters in CF

State of the CF Union 2020 Survey (Partial Results)

By Michaela Light, CEO at TeraTech

Here are the partial results through April 15th of the 2020 State of the CF Union survey. See how you compare with other CFML developers. Discover what most developers use for tools, languages, database and development methods.

Lucee 5.3 Pulls Ahead of ACF 2016, CF Security Good News and Vue.js > Angular

Lucee 5.3+ is the most popular version this year with CF 2016 in second, just ahead of CF 2018.
ColdBox was just beaten out by "Homegrown" as the most popular general framework, followed by FW/1, Fusebox and CFWheels
Vue.js has come ahead of Angular since last year as the most popular JS framework. With React in third place.
GitHub is the most popular source control, with Git based BitBucket and GitLab coming up behind. Non-Git solutions are way behind.
Visual Studio Code overwhelmingly beat Sublime Text and Notepad++ as the most popular editor for CFers
CommandBox, AWS and Container deployment has increased since last year but most CFers continue to use their own servers or ISP servers
Hardly any CFers had hacked servers this year. Win!
Favorite reasons to keep coding in CF: RAD, fast to learn, fun coding, great language features, existing CFML code base

Ortus Solutions Debuts Its Lucee AMI

By Paulina Lainez of Ortus Solutions

After several weeks of hard work, Ortus Solutions is proud to release its Lucee CFML Hardened AMI. Ortus long saw the need to bring Lucee CFML servers to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Now, users will have a server up and running in seconds without going through configuration hell. As innovation and modernization are key pillars for Ortus, the team decided to provide a smoother and secure experience for developers and devops alike.

CFML Posts from Ben Nadel

A huge THANK YOU to Ben Nadel for all of the very detailed posts around CFML, Lucee, and his work with it. We have heard from many community members about how much they appreciate all the time Ben takes to write and provide detailed examples. Here are some of Ben''s posts from this month:

Referencing String Characters Using Array-Notation In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92
Pretty-Printing A ColdFusion Query Object In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Zipping Image Archives With DEFLATE And STORE Compression Methods In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Printing Emoji Characters From Unicode CodePoints In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92
Considering MySQL, CFQueryParam, Prepared Statements, And SQL Queries That Use IN Clauses In ColdFusion
Spreading SQL And CFQueryParam Tags Across Multiple Function Calls In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40
Understanding ReadOnly And Exclusive Named Locks In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92
Rediscovering My Love Of ColdFusion And CFML In 2020
Executing Command-Line Processes From A Working Directory Using ProcessBuilder In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Running CFExecute From A Given Working Directory In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Built-In Functions And Member-Methods Return Different Data Types In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92
Scaling An Image During A Draw Operation Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
The Default MySQL Driver Settings Do Not Appear To Truncate Long Text In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92
Creating A Partially-Transparent Overlay Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Reading EXIF Orientation And Auto-Orienting Images Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
The Affect Of File-IO On Performance Experimentation In Docker And Lucee CFML

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November 2020, Newsletter

Dear William

We''ve got some exciting news for you! In this newsletter, you can find our newest blogs, donate options, and releases.

Our latest news

Highlights of New Release (5.3.7.43)

Oct. 2020

Michael Offner

The focus for the 5.3.7 sprint was stability and regressions, with bug fixes and improvements in the code. Read the details about the solved tickets and highlights.

ColdFusion Development: Less Coding for Faster Turnaround

28 Sept 2020

By Michaela Light

As any ColdFusion expert and consultant will tell you, we constantly run into companies using only select parts of ColdFusion and not its full potential. It's like a chef with a huge spice rack who only uses paprika.

Forcing Lucee to re-check the physical paths of application defined mappings without a restart

15 Oct 2020

By Julian Halliwell

This post is a follow up to one of Ben''s from almost a year ago.

From the Lucee forum

Elastic Search Application Performance Monitoring for Lucee
By Xavier De Cock
New Memory Scope Report - Lucee Performance Analyzer 1.0.0.12
By Zac Spitzer

Purge Debugging Logs - 5.3.8.82
By Zac Spitzer
Updates to the original post Using native Java threading in Lucee
By Brad Wood

Adobe ColdFusion Summit West 2020

November 17-19
(Online This Year)

This week the call for speakers email was sent out for the online version of the Adobe ColdFusion Summit. You can sign up here https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/?sdid=sign_up_emea

The Summit home page is here: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

Podcasts

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CF Alive Podcasts with Michaela Light

Ortus Solutions is producing fun and informative weekly podcasts for CFML developers

Modernize or Die CFML News Edition podcasts

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April 2020, Newsletter
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Dear William

Greetings Luceeites! From all of us at Lucee, we hope this difficult time across the world finds you and yours healthy and able to enjoy this extra time together. We have quite a lot of news for you this month, so let''s begin.

Announcing Lucee 5.3.5.92 (final) and 5.3.4.80 (hotfix)

By Patrick Quinn, Lucee Global Product Manager and CEO of Webapper Services

Hello again Lucites. How's things? Anything much going on lately? Rumor has it there are some headlines, or some such, but you couldn't prove it by the Lucee dev team, because we just continue to crank out builds. Today, we're announcing two final releases, plus a new sprint that will produce the next Release Candidate in a couple of weeks, or so.

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Lucee developer team expanded with full time Java developer, Mircea Botez

Let's welcome Mircea Botez to the team!

Mircea joins the Lucee core committers as a new full time Java Resource. A 30 year old from Romania, Mircea has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Iasi and years of Java experience. Mircea is diving into the code and converting all extensions from Ant to Maven. And in time, he''ll be speeding up the delivery of awesome features across the code base. We are sure that you will hear lots from Mircea soon and with luck meet him at CFCamp. Our most heart-felt thanks to Rasia and DistroKid for directly sponsoring Mircea''s contribution.

Migration from Adobe ColdFusion to Lucee

by Andrew Dixon, Technical Director at MSO

Whilst Lucee is generally compatible with Adobe ColdFusion (ACF) and the vast majority of your ACF code will run on Lucee "out of the box" it is worth noting that there are some differences.

During its design and implementation, some differences have been introduced to either give Lucee a performance advantage or just to generally improve on the ACF implementation. Also, some features of ACF have deliberately been left out of Lucee, either because they are proprietary technology owned by Adobe or the Lucee team believe they serve little to no value and therefore should not be included.

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Attend the Into The Box 2020 Online Conference

Because of COVID-19 a lot of web developer related conferences have been cancelled, like Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2020. That is not the case for Into The Box! They have moved the conference to online. Same content and speakers but for a lower price and no travelling required.
Check it out here: https://www.intothebox.org/

Also, in case you missed it CommandBox 5.0 released!

Lucee Performance Analyzer!

This cool new extension from Zac Spitzer helps developers find the weaknesses in their applications.

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Lucee Server Snapshots and "Light" builds now on ForgeBox

If you use CommandBox to deploy Lucee, you can now use the snapshot releases directly from forgebox.

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6 Ways to Stay Connected with Other CF Developers

By Pete Freitag

Looking for a few ways to stay connected with other ColdFusion developers? Here''s a few of my favorites:

CFML Slack Channel - this is a public slack channel that anyone can join for free. It currently has over 3,400 members. A great place to ask questions, or even just passively listen and learn from the other conversations.
Modernize or Die Podcasts - Ortus Solutions puts out two podcasts one is a weekly news podcast, and the second is the Soapbox edition which is more of an interview style podcast.
CF Alive Podcast - Hosted by Michaela Light of Teratech, this is an interview style podcast feature various CFML developers.
CFML News Email - this is a email newsletter that I publish. The goal here is a monthly newsletter but I''m a bit behind on that trend at the moment ;-)
Adobe ColdFusion Community Portal - Adobe''s online ColdFusion portal for news and articles from both Adobe and various CF community members.
ColdFusion Bloggers - an oldie but goodie, this has been around for years and is now maintained by CFWebTools (thanks for keeping it running!).

What else am I missing?

ColdFusion DevOps Explained (Faster and Easier Development)

By Michaela Light

In this article, we'll explore:

Why CIOs should adopt the ColdFusion DevOps model.
How to customize ColdFusion DevOps to fit your team.
The tools you must use for ColdFusion DevOps.

Let's talk about it!

Check out the Lucee YouTube Channel!

CFML Posts from Ben Nadel

A huge THANK YOU to Ben Nadel for all of the very detailed posts around CFML, Lucee, and his work with it. We have heard from many community members about how much they appreciate all the time Ben takes to write and provide detailed examples. Here are some of Ben''s posts from this month:

Array.Sort() Operator Must Return INT-Sized Result In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80
Tag Islands And CFScript-Based Tags Bring Perfection To ColdFusion In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80
Avoiding Self-Closing IFRAME Tags Using htmlParse() In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80
Reading XmlText Values From The XML Document Produced By htmlParse() In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80
Retrofitting Markdown Onto 15-Years Of Articles Using htmlParse(), XPath, And Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80
Pixelating An Image Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Using Subtraction To Power The Array Sort Comparison Operator In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Exploring Color Histograms In GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Replacing Transparent Image Backgrounds With GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Centering An Image Annotating Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Annotating An Image Point Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
Getting Image Width And Height Using GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.2.9.31
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Creating A GraphicsMagick Playground With Docker, CommandBox, And Lucee CFML

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September 2020, Newsletter
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How One Company Improved Their ColdFusion Security (From Datanapped to Safe)

Aug 15, 2020

By Michaela Light

One day a company much like yours -let's call them "The Company"- called us to get our help with a serious problem. Someone had hacked into to their ColdFusion server and encrypted all of their important data files. Subsequently, The Company received an email asking for $100,000 to decrypt these files. The Company had been both hacked and "datanapped".

Could this happen to your company?

Setting Lucee Admin Password with CommandBox

Sept 2, 2020

By Pete Freitag

One of the recent changes to Lucee is that no longer allows you to enter an admin password from the web based lucee admin if one had not been set yet. This is a great feature for security, but for local development it makes things a bit more cumbersome.

You''ll see what I mean when you hit this error message:

No Password Set Yet!

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NerdVision now supports Lucee!

July 9, 2020

By Zac Spitzer

So maybe you are a Lucee user and asking what is NerdVision?

NerdVision is created from the makers of FusionReactor - Intergral. NerdVision is a SaaS service to enable developers, DevOPS and support to see inside applications during production run-time.

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MuraCMS No Longer Opensource

Last month it was announced that MuraCMS will not be opensource anymore also the GitHub repository was taken offline. For everyone using MuraCMS and wants to continue to use an actively maintained and professional supported open source CMS that runs on Lucee, there are some great alternatives:

ContentBox: easy to use CMS by Ortus Solutions
Preside: very powerful enterprise CMS by Pixl8

Podcasts

103 Cool Lucee CFML (GigaBytes file parsing and more) with Gert Franz

Gert is a Lucee board member but also the Head Of Engineering at DistroKid. During this interview he gives some great insight into what he and the team are working on and all the extensions they have build for Lucee: https://teratech.com/podcast/cool-lucee-cfml-gigabytes-file-parsing-and-more-with-gert-franz/

Modernize or Die CFML News Edition podcasts
For 68 sessions now, Ortus Solutions is producing fun and informative weekly podcasts for CFML developers. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eik0NCrg_vk&feature=youtu.be

From the Lucee forum

Optimizing Your Code - Scope Cascading
By Igal Sapir
New Application.cfc flag to disable searching query result sets for unscoped variables, since 5.3.8.19
By Zac Spitzer

Using native Java threading in Lucee
Brad Wood started this thread which has a lot of great information by several of the Lucee community developers.

CFML Posts from Ben Nadel

A huge THANK YOU to Ben Nadel for all of the very detailed posts around CFML, Lucee, and his work with it. We have heard from many community members about how much they appreciate all the time Ben takes to write and provide detailed examples. Check out Ben''s blog here for many fascinating CFML insights!

Check out the blog

Adobe ColdFusion Summit West 2020
November 17-19
(Online This Year)

This week the call for speakers email was sent out for the online version of the Adobe ColdFusion Summit. You can sign up here https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/?sdid=sign_up_emea

The Summit home page is here: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

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August 2020, Newsletter
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Our latest news

S3 Series from Brian Klass Continues: Going Beyond the Basics of Using AWS S3 in CFML

May/June 2020

By Brian Klass

This series continued throughout June and July. If you missed it, check it out!

Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (S3) is an amazing service. Super fast, super reliable, and cheap, it's often referred to as the "file storage of the Web." On an average day and in a single AWS region, S3 will handle 60 terrabytes of data transfer per second. It's the backbone - and data lake - of many companies. CFML engines have long made it simple to utilze S3 for file storage. I've written about reading files from and writing files to S3 from CFML before.

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Creating a Symbolic Link with ln -s What Comes First?

July 13, 2020

By Pete Freitag

One thing I''ve had to google more times than I''d like to admit is the path argument order for the ln command. What comes first in the ln -s command on linux or Mac? So I thought I''d write a little blog entry for future me to find.

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Comprehensive ColdFusion Learning and Training List (Learn CFML Fast)

July 6, 2020

By Michaela Light

Lately, I have been reading comments asking about CF training and certification. A lot of CF developers want to improve their skills. Another question asked a lot is: "I want to learn ColdFusion programming which websites or books can you recommend for me?"

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Ortus Announces Two Workshops for August!

August 4, 2020

By Paulina Lainez

At Ortus, we pride ourselves in delivering relevant and engaging content. That''s why decided to host two virtual workshops this August! You''ll have the opportunity to attend

Containerization with Jon Clausen, August 20th
CommandBox Zero to Hero with Brad Wood, August 27th - 28th

From the Lucee forum

New Application.cfc flag to disable searching query result sets for unscoped variables, since 5.3.8.19
By Zac Spitzer

How to install Lucee on Windows 2019 Server IIS (Video Tutorial)
By Andreas

CFML Posts from Ben Nadel

A huge THANK YOU to Ben Nadel for all of the very detailed posts around CFML, Lucee, and his work with it. We have heard from many community members about how much they appreciate all the time Ben takes to write and provide detailed examples. Check out Ben''s blog here for many fascinating CFML insights!

Check out the blog

Adobe ColdFusion Summit West 2020 (Online This Year)

July 18, 2020

By Michaela Light

Every year ColdFusion developers, experts, and enthusiasts gather for an awesome event: The CF Summit West. This year's conference was due to take place on the 28th and 29th of October 2020, at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas.

But it turns out there's a slight change of plans.

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March 2020, Newsletter
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Greetings Lucee enthusiasts! Here''s the latest from Lucee and the community of CFML bloggers.

Announcing Lucee 5.3.5.78 (Release Candidate)

By Patrick Quinn, Lucee Global Product Manager and CEO of Webapper Services

Hello again Lucites! It''s February, which means love is in the air! You love Lucee, and that''s why we love you. And there''s nothing we love more than *shipping* Lucee to you, so today we''re enamored to announce the next Lucee release candidate--5.3.5.78.

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CFParam for Integer or Empty String

By Pete Freitag

I use the cfparam tag a lot in a view as a way to assert that a variable is of a specific type. For example if I want to make sure that someID is an integer, you can use something like this:

    <cfparam name="someID" type="integer" default="0">

That works great for integers that are required, but what if we are dealing with a integer from a DB column that could be NULL now when that is passed in it would be an empty string, and that doesn''t pass the integer type test. Since there is not an integer or empty string type you can use the regex type:

     <cfparam name="someID" type="regex" pattern="^[0-9]*$">

SameSite cookies with Apache

By Pete Freitag

Almost two years ago I wrote about how you can enable SameSite cookies with IIS on cookies that do not have the ability to be written as SameSite. Today I was helping a client on Apache do the same thing, here''s how we can add SameSite=lax to a JSESSIONID cookie for example:

Header edit Set-Cookie ^(JSESSIONID.*)$ $1;SameSite=lax

But suppose you just wanted to make all cookies set by your web app SameSite, you can just do this:

Header edit Set-Cookie ^(.*)$ $1;SameSite=lax

This works by appending ;SameSite=lax to the end of all Set-Cookie http response headers.

Announcing CFsnippets.com

By Michael Born

I''ve always wanted a nice cheatsheet website for CFML. Something where you could grab an H2 datasource config without having to google or search for it in an old code repo. I thought if you had all datasource configs together in one place, it would be easier for me (and other CFML devs) when building new apps.

Notes on Migrating from MS SQL Server to PostgreSQL

By Matthew J. Clemente

I'm not a database guru or SQL sherpa, but from time to time I do fill the role of de facto DBA. The following are some notes and observations from a recent, successful, migration from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL. Is it everything you need to know? Absolutely not. But there are some points and resources that will hopefully be helpful.

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Check out the Lucee YouTube Channel!

CFML Posts from Ben Nadel

A huge THANK YOU to Ben Nadel for all of the very detailed posts around CFML, Lucee, and his work with it. We have heard from many community members about how much they appreciate all the time Ben takes to write and provide detailed examples. Here are some of Ben''s posts from this month:

Sending FusionReactor Tracked Transaction Metrics To The Cloud Dashboard With Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40
The "Top" Argument In Dump() Will Not Protect You From Circular References In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
StructCopy() Does Not Necessarily Return A Native Struct In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
Trying To Debug "Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction" Errors In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40
Using ColdFusion Tags In CFScript In Lucee CFML
Exploring Tag Islands (Tags In CFScript) In Lucee CFML 5.3.1.13
Dynamically Instrumenting ColdFusion Component Methods With FusionReactor Tracked Transactions In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40
Adding A Description To FusionReactor Tracked Transactions In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40
Experiment: Wrapping CFThread Execution In A FusionReactor Tracked Transaction In Lucee CFML 5.2.9.40
Exploring The Triple Equals (===) Operator In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.77

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June 2020, Newsletter
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We''ve got some exciting news for you! In this newsletter, you can find our newest blogs, donate options, and the latest releases.

Our latest news

Announcing Lucee 5.3.6.61 (Final)

May 2020

Patrick Quinn

From everyone at LAS, we''re hopeful that you and yours are faring well under the circumstances. Our mood always gets a little boost from shipping Lucee, and today we''re announcing the final release of 5.3.6. There were 7 tickets addressed this time.

New Release Candidate (5.3.7.34-RC)

May 2020

By Michael Offner

There is a new Release Candidate ( 5.3.7.34-RC ) available to download from our download page. Bug fixes and improvements in the code, the focus for the 5.3.7 sprint was stability and regressions, details in the tickets below.

New Series from Brian Klass: Going Beyond the Basics of Using AWS S3 in CFML

May/June 2020

By Brian Klass

Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (S3) is an amazing service. Super fast, super reliable, and cheap, it's often referred to as the "file storage of the Web." On an average day and in a single AWS region, S3 will handle 60 terrabytes of data transfer per second. It's the backbone - and data lake - of many companies. CFML engines have long made it simple to utilze S3 for file storage. I've written about reading files from and writing files to S3 from CFML before.

Check out the blog

Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week recordings

Whether you are a new developer, someone with little to no experience, or have been using Adobe ColdFusion all your life, the Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week provides something useful for everyone! Check out the Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2020 recordings here.

CFML Posts from Ben Nadel

A huge THANK YOU to Ben Nadel for all of the very detailed posts around CFML, Lucee, and his work with it. We have heard from many community members about how much they appreciate all the time Ben takes to write and provide detailed examples. Check out Ben''s blog here for many fascinating CFML insights!

Check out the blog

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Ortus - Intothe Box 2020 was an amazing two-day virtual event!

Into the Box - A Virtual Experience'' was a 2-day 2-track event with speakers from around the world about modern web and mobile technologies, development processes, software and more. You can purchase the recorded presentations here.

Ortus Solutions has a lot coming up this year as well. Read about it in this post.

Current Box Releases

Relax 4.1.0 Released
ColdBox 6 RC Released!
CommandBox 5.1.1 Released
FORGEBOX v5.1.0 Released

Password Hashing in CFML

May 12, 2020

By Andrew Dixon

As we all know, or at least should know, if you are storing passwords in a database, they should only ever be stored as hashes and NEVER as plain text or using reversible encryption.

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Announcing Lucee 5.3.6.53 (Release Candidate)

Building Custom Lucee Docker Images

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Lucee 5.3 Pulls Ahead of ACF 2016, CF Security Good News and Vue.js > Angular

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Highlights of New Release (5.3.7.43)

ColdFusion Development: Less Coding for Faster Turnaround

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