Lucee Archives - Andrew Dixon

CFCamp 2023 – “Extras”

Andrew Dixon — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 19:34:37 +0000

One of the things I’ve always loved about conferences is hearing about things that might not be “new” but you just haven’t come across before, so I thought I would list them here for my future benefit and for the benefit of anyone else who happens to come across them. Lucee Start-Up Listeners Lucee has …

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Using Argon2 in Lucee CFML

Andrew Dixon — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 13:25:27 +0000

A couple of months ago I wrote about password hashing in CFML (if you haven’t read that, I would suggest reading it before reading this) and in the post, I mentioned that Argon2 as being the currently recommended algorithm for password hashing but that, at the time of writing, neither Adobe ColdFusion or Lucee natively …

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Password Hashing in CFML

Andrew Dixon — Tue, 12 May 2020 19:45:13 +0000

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. What is hashing? By hashing the password, you are not storing the original password, only a calculated representation of the password, …

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Looping over dates in CFML

Andrew Dixon — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:24:06 +0000

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”. In …

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Datetime Timezone Handling in Lucee CFML

Andrew Dixon — Sat, 25 May 2019 10:15:41 +0000

Today I came across an issue which I’m sure I’ve had previously, many years ago, but I couldn’t remember how to solve it and what the correct way to handle it was. The issue was I had a datetime string, from a third party source, which I know they where giving in a particular timezone, …

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Functions without parameters in CFML

Andrew Dixon — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 20:55:21 +0000

I’ve been programming in the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) since 2000 and every now and again I find out something which I didn’t know, which always surprises me. Yesterday, while working on something I accidentally found out that in CFML you can pass parameters to a function without those parameters actually being defined in the …

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