March 26, 2020
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....
March 4, 2020
Understanding how UTF-8 works is one of those things that most programmers are a little fuzzy on. I know I often have to look up specific on it when dealing with a problem....
February 10, 2020
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....
January 29, 2020
I use the cfparam tag a lot in a view as a way to assert that a variable is of a specific type....
January 13, 2020
When restoring a SQL Server database from a bak file you may need to know what the Logical Names of the storage files are in order to restore them....
January 8, 2020
When attempting to clone a large git repository over https, hosted on an on premise GitLab instance, I kept getting the error:
error: RPC failed; curl 18 transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
fatal:...
January 7, 2020
Have you ever had to find a file by a file name or file extension? Sure you have! Here's how I locate a file when I'm using a Mac or Linux shell....
December 17, 2019
Recently I blogged about how I'm running SQL Server on Mac with Docker and Oracle on a Mac with Docker, so here's how you can run PostgreSQL locally using Docker... more specifically docker-compose....
November 22, 2019
Here is a quick guide to creating bullet lists, also known as ul lists or unordered lists with Markdown.
You can use * or -
As long as you start the line with a * or a - markdown will interpret that as a list item....
November 13, 2019
I had a question today asking why Fixinator does not add cfqueryparam to static values within a query....
November 5, 2019
Oracle puts out a Windows and Linux binary for their Oracle Database servers, but what if you want to run it on a Mac? The solution for a while was to use a VM and boot up the linux version. Nowadays using Docker is a little bit easier....
October 23, 2019
I've always found Timing Attacks to be an interesting type of web application vulnerability. You need to understand timing attacks before you can understand how to use the Timing-Allow-Origin http response header....
Pete Freitag