CFBreak 2026-17
2026 » Published on May 1, 2026
Week 17, 2026: Here's the latest from the CFML, ColdFusion and Lucee community.
| | Pete Freitag |
| Pete's Tip of the Week Set this.compileExtForInclude = "cfm"; in your Application.cfc. This tells ColdFusion to only execute CFML inside a cfinclude tag if the file extension is cfm. This can be both a performance enhancement and a security enhancement. |
| | Ben Nadel |
| AI Makes Sitting With Discomfort Feel Shameful Ben Nadel feels shame about sitting with discomfort in the age of Artificial Intelligence... Adding isSame() And isDifferent() Convenience Methods To ColdFusion Ben Nadel adds isSame() and isDifferent() to his global extensions for ColdFusion... |
| | Raymond Camden |
| Animated video backgrounds via a Web Component and ColorThief Earlier this year, the epic ColorThief library had a pretty significant update... Links For You (4/26/26) I was supposed to post this last week (I try to keep to a schedule of every two weeks), but I didn't get around to it because... Another Game: My Little Mortal Combat Hello awesome readers! I'm happy to announce my latest web game... |
| | James Moberg |
| cf-JEmoji: a CFML Emoji Wrapper for the Post-emoji-java Era This CFML wrapper provides support for newer emojis using the JEmoji Java library (and Java 17).... |
| | Ortus Blog |
| 🚀 ColdBox CLI 8.11: The Era of AI Skills Comes to Every ColdBox & BoxLang App ColdBox CLI 8.11 is here, and it's one of the most significant releases we've shipped for AI-assisted development... 🎓 Introducing skills.boxlang.io — The Open Agent Skills Ecosystem for BoxLang & the Ortus World Today we're launching something we've been quietly building for months: skills.boxlang.io — a public... 🛰️ Introducing cbMCP — Your ColdBox App, Live to Every AI Agent Today we're releasing cbMCP, the official ColdBox MCP Server — a BoxLang-only module... 🖥️ Build Cross-Platform Desktop Apps with BoxLang Today we're shipping the initial release of the BoxLang Desktop Runtime — powered by Electron, BoxLang, and Vite... |
| | Lucee Community |
| | Ortus Community |
| | CFDocs Function of the Week |
numberFormat()Creates a custom-formatted number value. For international number formatting use LSNumberFormat. The mask is made up of: _,9 Digit placeholder; . decimal point; 0 Pads with zeros; ( ) less than zero, puts parentheses around the mask + plus sign before positive number minus before negative - a space before positive minus sign before negative , Separates every third decimal place with a comma. L,C Left-justifies or center-justifies number $ dollar sign before formatted number. ^ Separates left and right formatting. numberFormat(number [, mask]) → returns string |
| | Upcoming Events |
| June, 18-19 2026: CFCamp Munich Germany: The only CFML conference in Europe - Tickets available now! | |
| June 22-23, 2026: Adobe ColdFusion Summit Las Vegas: Yep, you read that right CFSummit West is in June this year! Registration is open. |
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