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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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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Running CFML on AWS Lambda

Andrew Dixon — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 11:50:52 +0000

Pete Freitag from Foundeo has created a new framework called Fuseless for running ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) code on AWS Lambda, Amazon’s serverless compute environment. Using the open source Lucee CFML Engine, Pete has managed to come up with a wrapper that allows Lucee to startup on Lambda and then execute the required code. There are a …

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CFCamp 2018 Presentation – Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Andrew Dixon — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 10:50:12 +0000

Here is my Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) presentation from CFCamp along with my slide notes: Slide 4 & 5 – Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) I’m going to explain AWS’s Docker service, Amazon Elastic Container Service, and associated services that allow you to create a CI environment on AWS using Docker for your application. Slide 14 …

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Looping over arrays in Lucee CFML

Andrew Dixon — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:23:46 +0000

I’ve been back to doing some coding in CFML this week and working on a project that has been worked on by several different people and I happened to notice several different ways had been used to loop over arrays in various different parts of the code, one of which I must admit I had …

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