CFBreak 2026-14
2026 » Published on April 10, 2026
Week 14, 2026: Here's the latest from the CFML, ColdFusion and Lucee community.
| | Pete Freitag |
| Pete's Tip of the Week Similar to JavaScript, in CFML you can have multiple a var statement declarations for the same variable without causing an error.
function test() { var x = 1; if (x == 1) { var x = 2; } return x;
}
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| | Ben Nadel |
| Unified ColdFusion Custom Tag Traversal In CFML Engines Ben Nadel demonstrates how to traverse a ColdFusion custom tag stack across all three major CFML engines... Adobe ColdFusion 2025 Bug: getBaseTagData() Doesn't Work Inside Closure Ben Nadel demonstrates that getBaseTagData() doesn't work inside a closure in Adobe ColdFusion 2025... |
| | Raymond Camden |
| Links For You (4/5/26) Happy "Three Days Before My Birthday Day"! Oh - yeah, and happy Easter too, but I'm personally a bit more excited
about turning 53 as I've decided... |
| | James Moberg |
| Parsing PDFs into structured data with CFML and OpenDataLoader OpenDataLoader is an open source Java library that actually handles this well... |
| | ColdFusion YouTube Channel |
| | Ortus Blog |
| BoxLang Goes Serverless on Google Cloud 🚀 We just shipped the BoxLang Google Cloud Functions Runtime — and it brings the same
write-once-run-anywhere serverless experience you already know... Introducing BoxLings! An interactive teacher for BoxLang and TDD/BDD We believe the best way to learn a programming language is by writing code — real code, with real feedback, and real tests... BoxLang v1.12.0 - Destructuring, Spread, Ranges, Watchers, Oh My! BoxLang 1.12.0 marks a meaningful turning point... The Loneliness of CTO Leadership: How to Make Important Decisions with Confidence Being a CTO can be surprisingly isolated... How to Develop AI Agents Using BoxLang AI: A Practical Guide AI agents are transforming how we build software... BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 7 of 7: MCP — The Protocol That Connects Everything 🔌 A chatbot with no memory isn't a conversation — it's a series of isolated queries... BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 6 of 7: Memory Systems & RAG — Building AI That Remembers 🧠 A chatbot with no memory isn't a conversation — it's a series of isolated queries... BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 5 of 7: One API, 17 Providers — The Provider Architecture Deep Dive 🛡️ Vendor lock-in is the silent killer of AI projects... BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 4 of 7: Middleware — The Missing Layer in Every AI Framework 🧵 Agents make live LLM calls... |
| | Masa CMS |
| v7.2.10 Security Vulnerability Fix What was the issue ? We've been informed multiple critical, high and moderate vulnerabilities in Masa CMS... v7.3.15 Security Vulnerability Fix What was the issue ? We've been informed multiple critical, high and moderate vulnerabilities in Masa CMS... v7.4.10 Security Vulnerability Fix What was the issue ? We've been informed multiple critical, high and moderate vulnerabilities in Masa CMS... v7.5.3 Security Vulnerability Fix What was the issue ? We've been informed multiple critical, high and moderate vulnerabilities in Masa CMS... |
| | Adobe ColdFusion Forums |
| | Lucee Community |
| | Ortus Community |
| | CFDocs Function of the Week |
directoryCreate()Creates an on-disk or in-memory directory in the specified path directoryCreate(path) → returns void |
| | Upcoming Events |
| June 22-23, 2026: Adobe ColdFusion Summit Las Vegas: Yep, you read that right CFSummit West is in June this year! Registration is open. | |
| April 29 - May 1, 2025: Into The Box Washington DC: Registration is now open for the 2026 Into the Box Conference |
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