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Adobe ColdFusion 2018 Tutorials and Resources
Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) is released with new features and enhancements. These features are explained through blog post / articles by the ColdFusion community are listed for quick reference. Contact me for any additions/corrections to the below list. Big thanks to Charlie Arehart for his detailed list of ColdFusion 2018 collection.
Created: Aug 28, 2018 Updated: Jun 21, 2021 Total Tutorials: 105
Announcements & Whitepapers
- Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release) | Release Notes
- Known Issues in Adobe ColdFusion (2018 release)
- CF2018 Server Performance White Paper
- CF2018 Security Audit Report
- CF2018 API Manager Performance White Paper
- CF2018 Lockdown Guide
- ColdFusion Roadmap
Language Enhancements Tutorials
- Enhanced Support For New Operator
- Null support in ColdFusion 2018
- Closures in ColdFusion Tags
- Member Functions introduced in ColdFusion (2018 release)
- Arrays and String enhancements in ColdFusion 2018
- Abstract Classes and methods
- Covariants, and Final Components/Methods/variables
- Default Function In Interface
- Writing CFMs without Semicolons
- Named Parameters in ColdFusion
- Asynchronous programming in ColdFusion 2018
- REPL in ColdFusion (2018 release)
- Server Auto-Lockdown
- Distributed caching in ColdFusion (2018 release)
- Custom cache plugin – How to implement it
- Distributed caching in ColdFusion (2018 release)
- REST enhancements in ColdFusion (2018 release)
- Garbage First helps boost CF2018 performance
- Testing For Future Data-Types With isFuture() And isEmptyFuture() In ColdFusion 2018
- Passing A Timeout To .get() Will Not Override An Existing Future Timeout In ColdFusion 2018
- Saving A Future In An Intermediary Variable Breaks Error Handling In ColdFusion 2018
- EXPERIMENT: Creating A Promise-Inspired Future Constructor In ColdFusion 2018
- Mysterious Error Handling Behavior With Proxied Futures In ColdFusion 2018
- The .error() Method Cannot Catch Future Task Timeout Errors In ColdFusion 2018
- Providing A Timeout To A Future Method Changes It To A Synchronous Blocking Call In ColdFusion 2018
- Timeouts Only Apply To Last Future Thread, Not The Preceding Future Chain In ColdFusion 2018
- Errors Thrown In Future Threads Don’t Report Complete Details In ColdFusion 2018
- The Future Methods .then() And .error() Are Blocking In ColdFusion 2018
- CF 2018 Spreadsheet Functions
- Hidden Gems in ColdFusion 2018, Part 1: Series Overiew
- Hidden Gems in CF2018, part 2: Installation, Administration, and Configuration
- Hidden Gems in CF2018, part 3 – Security, Performance, and the PMT
- Hidden Gems in CF2018, part 4 – Dev features: CFML REPL, CFFiddle, and REST Playground
- Hidden Gems in CF2018, Part 5 – Language Changes - ColdFusion
- Adobe ColdFusion Comprehensive Guide (More Powerful, More Modernized, More Alive)
Server Management, Release Updates, Licensing & Installation Tutorials
- Mystery of Health Score – Performance Monitoring Toolset
- Database Monitoring using Performance Monitoring Toolset
- Performance Monitoring Toolset- Incoming Services
- Code Profiler in Performance Monitoring Toolset
- Auto Discovery in Performance Monitoring Toolset
- Mystery of Health Score – Performance Monitoring Toolset
- Topology: Bird’s eye view of ColdFusion Deployment
- CF Server Section – Performance Monitoring Toolset
- View cluster and node metrics: Active monitoring
- View cluster and node metrics: CF Metrics
- View cluster and node metrics: Application monitoring
- Thread Dump Analysis using Performance Monitoring Toolset
- Performance Monitoring Toolset : Connecting the dots using JVM Metrics
- Mystery of Health Score – Performance Monitoring Toolset
- Alerts and Notification
- Monitoring ColdFusion Servers
- Configure ColdFusion Performance Monitoring Toolset settings
- Other info and resources on CF2018, like pricing, upgrades, licensing, trials, support timeframes
- Adobe ColdFusion Backward Licensing
- How long will CF 2018 (and 2016 and 11) be supported?
- ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 1, ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 7, and ColdFusion 11 Update 15 Released
- ColdFusion 2018 / Web Services / Java 10 / JDK tools.jar
- Running ColdFusion on Corretto
- Adventures in Installations – Installing CF 2018 Developer Edition on Ubuntu 16.04 + Apache
- CF 2018 ckeditor 4 erases or disallows styles
- Modernization of Adobe ColdFusion Helped Improving Security, Deployment and Other Important Aspects
- CFFiddle for Flow control tags and a few more functions
- Hidden Gems in ColdFusion 2018, part 1: Series Overview
- ColdFusion 2018 Lockdown Guide
- Hidden Gems in CF2018, part 2: Installation, Administration, and Configuration
- What’s an admin to do: Oracle’s changed stance on production use of Java, going forward?
- CF2018 External Session Storage using Redis on an AWS EC2 Server
- ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 2, ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 8, and ColdFusion 11 Update 16 released
- Urgent CF security update released March 1 2019, for CF11/2016/2018, Part 1
- CF security update (March 1 2019), part 2: further details, prevention, and more
- ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 3, ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 10, and ColdFusion 11 Update 18 released
- Running the CF 2018 PMT? Have you manually applied the recent update to it?
- My ColdFusion 2016 to ColdFusion 2018 Upgrade
- Having problems after applying a CF update? What to check, and how to recover!
- More info on the CF Security Update included in the March 1 CF updates for CF11, 2016, and 2018
- ColdFusion licensing for Docker and other containers
- Fix available for CF11 update 18 query caching bug
- Did you know the CF2018 installer has removed the web server integration step?
- Refreshed CF2018 installer includes Java 11, and more
- Updates released today for CF2018, CF2016, and CF11
- ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 4, ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 11, and ColdFusion 11 Update 19 released
- Getting started Adobe’s ColdFusion Docker images - ColdFusion
- Did you know: Release Notes page summarizes key changes in all CF updates
- Sep 2019 updates released for CF2018 and CF2016, with a strange twist
- ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 5 and ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 12 released
- Folks may want to hold off on the Sep 24 2019 CF updates
- Adobe should consider a different model for handling CF security fixes
- Error after accessing ColdFusion Administrator using connector port
- ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 11
- ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 11 - Tech Notes
- ColdFusion 2018 Performance Monitoring Toolset Update 2
