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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....

Yesterday I spoke at the Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week online event. There was a great turnout (several hundred attendees), so my thanks to Adobe and Carahsoft for organizing a great event....

When working with Github Actions there are a few different ways to write a workflow yaml that uses a docker image or a docker container....

It was great to be able to present at the Into The Box 2020 conference again this year. Here are the slides for my talk: Continuous Integration Zero to Infinity....

Here's a little code snippet I wrote many years ago to dump out all the http servlet request attributes or parameters from ColdFusion / Lucee (CFML):

<cfset pageContext = getPageContext()>

<cfset httpReq = pageContext....

Thanks to the new commandbox vscode extension, it is now really easy to scan your CFML code for security issues from VS Code with Fixinator:

Here's how:...

I have published a new project called minibox - it is a tiny docker image meant for running commandbox....

I have a few static sites that are hosted using Netlify. I received an email from Netlify about one of my sites, a Content-Security-Policy Header Reference that said:

Failed to renew TLS certificate for content-security-policy.com....

I had a client working on setting up Fixinator to start up the Fixinator Enterprise Scanning server to run within their Continuous Integration pipeline. The CI script needs to pause or sleep for a few seconds while the server starts up....

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....

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....

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....