Security Best Practices for ColdFusion
- June 11, 2013
We will discuss general guidelines about securing ColdFusion server and writing CFML applications. This e-seminar will also highlight some of the important sections of the lockdown guide. We will then discuss about recent important security hot-fixes and importance of keeping the servers fully patches. We will discuss how some of the recent attacks could have been prevented.
Presenter: Shilpi Khariwal
REST Support in ColdFusion 10
- June 18, 2013
You have heard of REST as a buzzword and as an architecture best suited for developing web applications. Now it’s time to take a dive into this new world full of possibilities. With ColdFusion Zeus natively providing the support for REST, let us explore what REST is all about, its core principles and how to develop an application which is faster, more scalable and secure, within minutes using components that you already know of. In this session we will cover 1)REST – What, why & when 2) Developing RESTful services using ColdFusion
Presenter: Paul Nibin
Enterprise ColdFusion - Technical and Business metric monitoring & analysis
As a platform known for nurturing rapid development, ColdFusion often spreads through an organization. As any technology spreads, it's important to keep up best practices like monitoring and continuous server analysis. FusionReactor and FusionAnalytics are two third-party tools from Enterprise vendor Intergral which can assist in the full circle of gathering knowledge and deploying that back into the development cycle. The forthcoming FusionReactor v5 offers real user experience monitoring with full-stack DB, page generation, network transfer and browser rendering metrics. Unlike many contemporary monitoring solutions, it sits within the JVM for deep metric gathering and with unique features like Crash Protection and recovery, can often prevent a server's failure before it's too late. Whilst FusionReactor takes care of the "right now", FusionAnalytics simplifies deep-dive root-cause analysis, long-term trending and SLA reporting at the click of a button. With the release of FusionReactor v5, organizations will also be able to monitor business data through transaction metrics. Enterprises serious about their platform will use the tools to empower their DevOps teams with a combination of technical and business metric information. This session will run through some of the benefits a ColdFusion platform monitored by FusionReactor and analyzed with FusionAnalytics can offer the enterprise marketplace
Revamped scheduled tasks in ColdFusion 10
The scheduling task management has been completely revamped in ColdFusion 10. We'll cover new aspects like conditionals, ranges, triggers, chaining, priority, grouping, and more. You'll see examples of how the new scheduling services in ColdFusion 10 will make you re-think how you use cron jobs in your applications.
Securing applications with ColdFusion 10 security enhancements
The session will include best practices for writing secure applications. It will discuss the new APIs and features added in ColdFusion 10. We will do hands on/Examples of each category. The session will also include brief about hot-fix installer and Secure profile features. We will end with discussing some of the configurations which can help largely protect an application.
Shilpi Khariwal (shilpik@adobe.com)
CF 10 Developer Week - CF User Experience upgrade through HTML5 charts and videos
Learn how to create an enriched user experience with CF10 that lets you access a large repository of interactive, client-side HTML5 charts and easily implement them using the built-in CFCHART tag.
Presenter Bio: Dave Ferguson - Dave has been working in information technology for many, many, years. He has spent the majority of that time specializing in large enterprise-class systems. Dave currently holds a Master ColdFusion Developer certification as well as many other information technology certifications. He runs his own ColdFusion blog,http://blog.dkferguson.com where he posts interesting things he comes across. He is also one of the voices of the CFHour podcast http://www.cfhour.com. The podcast, just like his blog, is mostly focused on ColdFusion but dabbles in to other technologies. Dave is also a member of the Adobe Community Professional group.
CF 10 Developer Week -What's new in ColdFusion10
What ColdFusion 10 has to offer to its existing users in terms of new and enhanced benefits. The session will cover the top features around HTML5, Tomcat integration, REST, Revamped scheduler etc. There will also be demos of various features, new tags, and functions.
Presented by: Ray Camden - Raymond Camden is an Developer Evangelist for Adobe focusing on ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, jQuery, and mobile development. He is a contributing author to numerous technical books including the best selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit. He's spoken at conferences around the world and maintains many popular ColdFusion community web sites. He's the manager of RIAForge.org, CFLib.org, and writes at his blog: http://coldfusionjedi.com. Raymond is the happily married proud father of three kids and is somewhat of a Star Wars nut.
CF 10 Developer Week - Make Your Site Searchable with ColdFusion 10 and Solr
Solr, an open source, enterprise search platform from Apache, is becoming the standard search engine for use with ColdFusion. In this session, we discuss how to set up Solr collections, index collections, and run searches against those collections and new enhancements such as data import handler and dynamic custom fields.
Presented by:Scott Stroz - Scott Stroz specializes in developing and deploying enterprise-level web applications, as well as integrating new programming features into older applications to help organizations achieve growth by migrating data management to advanced web technology. His experience with web application development technology spans nearly a decade, during which he was named an Adobe Community Professional. Scott excels at completing unusual, complex and challenging tasks, and he embraces new technology and its possible inclusion in current and future projects, earning him the title “Chief Problem Solver.” Scott is recognized as an industry expert through his speaking engagements at conferences and user groups and contributions to a number of technical publications.
CF 10 Developer Week - Adobe ColdFusion : The most popular server side platform for PDFs
ColdFusion and PDF are both Adobe products, so it should be no surprise that it is very simple to work with PDFs in ColdFusion. This demonstration shows you how quickly you can create PDFs dynamically, work with existing PDF. It will also show you the power of populating, submitting and embedding PDF forms with ColdFusion
CF 10 Developer Week - Revamped Scheduled Tasks in ColdFusion 10
The scheduling task management has been completely revamped in ColdFusion 10. We'll cover new aspects like conditionals, ranges, triggers, chaining, priority, grouping, and more. You'll see examples of how the new scheduling services in ColdFusion 10 will make you re-think how you use cron jobs in your applications.
CF 10 Developer Week - Speed your websites using Caching in ColdFusion 10
This session walks you through the basics of Caching including the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of Caching. The session also focuses on how caching in ColdFusion will affect the performance of your apps including the latest functionality available for Caching in ColdFusion 10
CF 10 Developer Week -Secure your apps using ColdFusion 10
The day your application gets hacked will probably be one of the most unpleasent days you will ever work. While we would all love to ignore the security holes in our applications, some things just can't be ignored for too long before consequences arise. ColdFusion 10 is loaded with security enhancements that make building secure ColdFusion applications easier than ever. In this session we will cover each new security feature and describe the vulnerabilities that the feature is designed to circumvent..Presenter Pete Freitag: Pete Freitag has over a dozen years experience building web applications with ColdFusion. In 2006 he started Foundeo Inc, a ColdFusion consulting and products company. Pete helps clients develop and architect custom ColdFusion applications, as well as review and improve the performance and security of existing applications. He has also built several products and services for ColdFusion including a Web Application Firewall for ColdFusion called FuseGuard and a ColdFusion server security scanning service called HackMyCF. Pete holds a BS in Software Engineering from Clarkson University.
CF 10 Developer Week - Leverage the productivity of ColdFusion within Java SpringMVC
Learn how to use ColdFusion as the VIEW layer with the Spring MVC framework. We will cover how to build the Models and Controllers in Java. And then how to pass java models/variables into ColdFusion to render your pages with CFML. Giving you the best of both worlds - low level java and rapid development of CF. We will also cover using Spring WebFlow with ColdFusion. Presented by: Mike Nimer
CF 10 Developer Week - Get productive using the language enhancements in ColdFusion 10
Get productive using the language enhancements in ColdFusion 10
Wednesday June 6, 2012 11:00 AM US/Pacific
As always, the latest release of ColdFusion introduces quite a lot of language features which would make the development easier and more productive. In this session, learn the new language syntaxes as well as the enhancements to the existing language constructs that have been added in ColdFusion 10.
Presenter Bio: Matt Gifford - Matt Gifford is an RIA developer from Cambridge, England, who specializes in ColdFusion development. With over ten years' industry experience across various sectors, Matt is a consultant developer and director of Gorilla Works Ltd.
A regular presenter at national and international conferences and online meetings, Matt also contributes articles and tutorials to international industry magazines, and maintains his blog www.mattgifford.co.uk.
As an Adobe Community Professional for ColdFusion and Adobe User Group manager (Hertfordshire, UK), Matt is a keen proponent for community resources and sharing knowledge.
Matt is the author of “Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion.
CF 10 Developer Week - What’s new and different about ColdFusion 10 on Tomcat
In this session, veteran CF troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will review and explore these new capabilities and any differences. He'll address such things as changes in using external or the "internal" web server, config tweaks people have done in JRun and whether/how those are to be done on Tomcat, as well as logging, configuration, and other matters. More than that, Charlie will identify new capabilities that Tomcat enables (related to deployment and performance), some of which may not be identified by Adobe as "new" for us as we make the transition.
Presenter Bio: Charlie Arehart - A veteran ColdFusion developer and troubleshooter since 1997 with more than three decades in enterprise IT, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Professional. As an independent consultant, he provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance (and training/mentoring) for organizations of all sizes and CF experience levels (carehart.org/consulting).
Besides running the 2700-member Online ColdFusion Meetup (coldfusionmeetup.com, an online CF user group), he also hosts the UGTV repository of recorded presentations from hundreds of speakers (carehart.org/ugtv), the CF411 site of over 1700 tools/resources for CFers (cf411.com), and the new CF911 site of troubleshooting resources (cf911.com). A certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for each version since CF 4, Charlie's spoken at each of the major CF conferences worldwide and is a contributor to all three volumes of Ben Forta's ColdFusion 8 and 9 WACK books.
CF10 Developer Week - ColdFusion Builder: The professional IDE to Boost Your Productivity
ColdFusion Builder has many features that makes CFML coding easier and faster, like code assist for functions and variables, auto code complete, code insight for CFCs and ORM entities, tighter integration with ColdFusion server, line debugger, advanced search functionality, extensibility using extensions and many more. This session will explain such productivity features, including those that are not easily discoverable. Presenter bio: Ramchandra Kulkarni - Ramchandra Kulkarni works as Sr. Computer Scientist at Adobe and is a lead engineer for ColdFusion Builder. He has more than 18 years experience and has worked on servers, IDE, web applications and mobile applications. He blogs at http://ramkulkarni.com/blog
About the Presenter: Ramchandra Kulkarni works as Sr. Computer Scientist at Adobe and is a lead engineer for ColdFusion Builder. He has more than 18 years experience and has worked on servers, IDE, web applications and mobile applications. He blogs at http://ramkulkarni.com/blog
CF 10 Developer Week - Using ColdFusion frameworks for Application development
Finding the arguments about increased productivity, maintenance, employ-ability, and community testing persuasive, you may have finally decided to join the large number of people who are using a ColdFusion framework for their application development. Since the framework space has exploded in the last few years with so many new frameworks and so many different areas, it is very difficult to keep up. So you’re left with a hard task: deciding which framework, or even combination of frameworks, is right for you.
CF 10 Developer Week - Building applications using ColdFusion 10 and ORM
We've all heard the buzz about CF10's ORM integration, but exactly what is it, and how can you use it? This session will demystify the idea of ORM by introducing the concepts that you need to know to get started using it right away. Not an object oriented developer? No problem! As long as you know what an object is, and a little bit about cfcs, this session will help you get past the buzzwords and be productive with ORM on your next project.
Presenter Bio: John Whish - John Whish, also known as Aliaspooryorik, is the author of the book; "ColdFusion ORM - A guide to developing applications using ColdFusion ORM".
He has been working with ColdFusion since version 4.5 and is the manager and founding member of the official Adobe ColdFusion User Group for Devon (UK). An Adobe Certified Expert in Advanced ColdFusion 8, John regularly blogs about ColdFusion and contributes to several FOSS projects. In previous years he has spoken at the cf.Objective (USA) and Scotch on the Rocks conferences (UK) on subjects; ORM, HQL and ValidateThis.
His hobbies include writing biographies in the third person.
CF 10 Developer Week - Improve your apps through unit testing
Join us as we review what unit testing is, what it is not, and how it can improve your application code quality and maintainability. We will cover a brief introduction to unit testing concepts and dive into getting setup and writing and running unit tests. We will walk through the basics of the MXUnit framework and then quickly start writing and running unit tests for our ColdFusion code.
Presenter Bio: Jamie Krug - Jamie Krug developed a love for programming early on, writing a BASIC program on a RadioShack TRS-80 to track "little league" baseball batting averages at an early age. He has since continued to enjoy programming and the learning experiences along the way. Primarily building Web applications in CFML since 2001, Jamie is a passionate learner and also geeks around with JavaScript, Groovy, Java and Linux, among others. He also greatly appreciates and participates in many open source software projects. You'll find Jamie occasionally blogging at http://jamiekrug.com/blog/ and sharing other tid-bits at http://identi.ca/jamiekrug and http://twitter.com/jamiekrug.
CF 10 Developer Week - Hidden gems in ColdFusion 10
Prepare to be surprised! In this talk, veteran CF troubleshooter and presenter Charlie Arehart will continue his tradition of identifying hidden gems, this time in CF10. Sure, we hear all about the big, new features, or some that wow certain developers, but in every release (of CF and CFBuilder) there are always lots of little things that go unheralded, and this is true in CF10 as well. Some may solve a long-standing problem for you, or provide a new technique, whether related to coding, troubleshooting, administration, enterprise integration, and more.
Presenter Bio: Charlie Arehart - A veteran ColdFusion developer and troubleshooter since 1997 with more than three decades in enterprise IT, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Professional. As an independent consultant, he provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance (and training/mentoring) for organizations of all sizes and CF experience levels (carehart.org/consulting).
Besides running the 2700-member Online ColdFusion Meetup (coldfusionmeetup.com, an online CF user group), he also hosts the UGTV repository of recorded presentations from hundreds of speakers (carehart.org/ugtv), the CF411 site of over 1700 tools/resources for CFers (cf411.com), and the new CF911 site of troubleshooting resources (cf911.com). A certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for each version since CF 4, Charlie's spoken at each of the major CF conferences worldwide and is a contributor to all three volumes of Ben Forta's ColdFusion 8 and 9 WACK books.
CF 10 Developer Week - RESTful WebServices made easy in ColdFusion 10
REST is a buzzword and an architecture best suited for developing web applications. With ColdFusion 10 natively providing the support for REST, let us explore what REST is all about, its core principles and how to develop an application which is faster, more scalable and secure. In this session we will cover: 1) REST – What, why & when 2) Developing RESTful services 3) Testing RESTful services Presented by: Chadan Kumar
CF 10 Developer Week - Power your ColdFusion 10 apps with HTML5 WebSockets
Get introduced to the powerful yet simple to use built-in support for HTML5 WebSockets and how they are used within ColdFusion 10. Minimal JavaScript experience is suggested before attendance.
Presenter Bio: Ray Camden - Raymond Camden is an Developer Evangelist for Adobe focusing on ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, jQuery, and mobile development. He is a contributing author to numerous technical books including the best selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit. He's spoken at conferences around the world and maintains many popular ColdFusion community web sites. He's the manager of RIAForge.org, CFLib.org, and writes at his blog: http://coldfusionjedi.com. Raymond is the happily married proud father of three kids and is somewhat of a Star Wars nut.
CF 10 Developer Week -What's new in ColdFusion10
What ColdFusion 10 has to offer to its existing users in terms of new and enhanced benefits. The session will cover the top features around HTML5, Tomcat integration, REST, Revamped scheduler etc. There will also be demos of various features, new tags, and functions.
Presenter Bio: Rakshith N - Rakshith Naresh is the Product Manager for ColdFusion. Though he recently moved into the Product Management for ColdFusion, Rakshith is not new to ColdFusion. He has been working in the ColdFusion Engineering team researching and building features for ColdFusion 8, ColdFusion 9 and even for the new ColdFusion 10. He is passionate to work with ColdFusion community and deliver value to businesses. When not at work, Rakshith loves to take a trek or a run in the park.
CF 10 Developer Week -Getting Started with Web Application Development Using ColdFusion
What is ColdFusion and why would you want to use it? This session will answer that and show off some of the simple power of ColdFusion. By the end you should have a clear answer of what CF is, what it can do for you, the huge productivity benefits it has to offer, and why so many ColdFusion developers are passionate about this tool.
Presenter Bio: Elishia Dvorak - Elishia Dvorak has been assisting ColdFusion customers with server support, consulting and training since 1999. She is the a co-founder of SupportObjective LLC, an Adobe Reseller and Solution Partner specializing in ColdFusion. Prior to SupportObjective she was with Allaire, Macromedia, and Adobe performing Enterprise Dedicated support for some of the largest ColdFusion architectures. She continues to promote ColdFusion with SupportObjective assisting ColdFusion customers with successful deployments.
Support for REST in ColdFusion 10
You have heard of REST as a buzzword and as an architecture best suited for developing web applications. Now it’s time to take a dive into this new world full of possibilities. With ColdFusion Zeus natively providing the support for REST, let us explore what REST is all about, its core principles and how to develop an application which is faster, more scalable and secure, within minutes using components that you already know of.
eCommerce made easy with Adobe ColdFusion and Slatwall
Creating an eCommerce solution that can fit thousands of different business requirements is not easy. Add multiple platforms and databases to the mix and it's really challenging to create a solution that can serve the unique need of various businesses. ColdFusion's rapid application development times combined with enterprise level features like Object Relational Mapping (ORM) enabled ten24 to create powerful, robust, flexible and highly scalable open source eCommerce application. In this seminar, ten24 will share the architecture and features of Slatwall eCommerce application.
Get your blog up and running on Mango Blog
Join Laura Arguello, creator of Mango Blog, as she introduces Mango Blog. Mango Blog is an extensible blog engine released under the Apache license, built with ColdFusion. It provides the core engine to administer and publish entries and the necessary architecture to extend its basic functionality by adding plug-ins. Mango Blog can be easily customized by the use of exchangeable and completely customizable skins.
Introduction to ColdFusion Zeus
In this session, Raymond Camden will introduce you to ColdFusion Zeus, the latest iteration of the ColdFusion Application Server. New features such as REST, Web Sockets, and closures will be demonstrated.
Monitoring ColdFusion with FusionReactor
If your CF server starts acting up, how do you go about resolving problems? If you’re on ColdFusion 8 or 9 Enterprise, you may know that you have a built-in ColdFusion Server Monitor. Did you know there is an alternative tool that supplements it well? FusionReactor is a commercial third-party tool, which can monitor not only any version of CF (6, 7, 8 or 9, whether Standard or Enterprise) but also Livecycle and any other Java web application or server in your environment.
Such monitoring is about more than “watching a screen”. You can arrange to receive email alerts with valuable information (sort of a black box recording before a crash), and FusionReactor also creates really valuable logs that can also help with post-mortem analysis. They can also assist with deciding on CF server configuration settings, watch trends for hardware upgrades, and more. And as of FusionReactor 4, these logs now track information that previous only the CF Server Monitor displayed (but didn’t log at all). Finally, an additional tool, FusionAnalytics, can help analyze and visualize that data over minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and so on.
In this 50-minute session, veteran CF troubleshooter and independent consultant Charlie Arehart will introduce and demonstrate these and other key features of FusionReactor (including stack tracing and crash protection), and will end with a brief demo of FusionAnaytics.
Introduction to RIAForge
In this session, Raymond will talk about the open source hosting site RIAForge.org, built using ColdFusion. Raymond will discuss why it was built and why developers should make use of it, as well as how it can help people new to the open source world. During the session Raymond will talk about how the site was built and the tools behind the service.
