CFWT is looking to hire again... but this time for something totally different! We have a UI/UX contractor position open for full-time work for at least the next year, and potentially more. If you have a keen eye for usability and design, you might just be the person we're looking for. Your attention will be shared by two of our primary clients...

There are thousands of applications built by one brilliant programmer. It plays out like this: Bob, the founder of Acme, has a great app idea. He hires "a computer guy" - that's how my mom describes me, a guy who "works with computers" like I was an employee at Best Buy. This "computer guy" is fantastic. Let's call him Henry II because I just watch...

We are currently looking for someone with great react skills and good to great typescript skills. This is working on one of our teams for a fantastic fortune 500 customer. You will not regret this decision - be a part of the team that revolutionalizes a multi-million dollar product. Yes, we are paying a premium for this position. Here's the skin...

If you have been in the CF world for more than a minute you have heard of CF Webtools (CFWT). But (like CF itself) you may have some misconceptions. Common Myths About CFWT CFWT is at the low end of salary levels - nope again! we pay very competitive salaries and we are always evaluating so we can find good talent. We also have extensive incent...

If you know who we are then you know we try to be all things CF to all people. If you are advanced CF programmer for sure we want to talk to you! CF is awesome and we are the world's number one booster of the platform and language. But lately we are looking for more than just CF. One thing in particular is coming up again and again - ReactJS. ...

We are looking for a VueJS developer. This dev will be doing UI on one of our most active and dynamic customers. There is a Lot of activity and excitment. This is a full time remote position with good salary and benefits for a US Based developer - with the Muse's apology to my many friends accross the water. Here's some of the skills you will need:...

First - Yes, we are still looking for CF help so keep sending those resumes. We've added 5 or 6 devs in the last month or so but we have more to fill. Meanwhile We have a need for a genuine design expert to help with a large e-commerce site. This will be full-time remote work for the foreseeable future. Good salary and benefits and a great team....

It's been a busy month here at CF Webtools. We have an abundance of opportunities and we are currently hiring at least 4 or 5 folks right now. If ColdFusion is a core skill for you we are probably interested regardless of what else you bring to the table. Here's is just one of the projects we are working to fill. Coldbox Conversion Take an existi...

We are looking for 3 possibly 4 folks to hire at the moment. All of our positions are remote work but you must reside in the U.S. with the right to work in the U.S. Read to the end - I'll try to keep you entertained. It will help if you think I look vaguely like Russel Crowe... I mean in Gladiator... not... not Russel Crowe now. But I digress. W...

Our friend and colleague Wil passed away a few days ago after a hard-fought battle with cancer. Wil worked for CF Webtools for almost 10 years. His devotion and expertise are irreplaceable. He has posted on this blog frequently and was a frequent writer on his own excellent blog at Trunkful.com. His role here was as a senior architect and knowledg...

CFWT is growing again. We are looking for one, possibly two senior ColdFusion developers to join our staff. Our group is close-knit, dynamic and knowledgable. Here are a few things you should know. Yes you work from home and we will not ask if you are wearing a mask. You must be located in the US and legal to work here. (No agencies or overs...

Hey folks, we continue to grow and expand here at CFWT. Our Ops department is looking for a CF jack of all trades who isn't afraid of AWS or servers. Details below - see if you qualify! Seeking a ColdFusion Systems Administrator for CF Webtools. We are in Omaha, NE and are accepting both local and remote positions. Yes, you may work from home...

We provide W2 employment with benefits for remote workers (i.e. you can work in your PJs but don't make a habit of it). We collect experts like fine wine and provide them a happy home inside our hive mind. ColdFusion is our core tech so you need high aptitude in that language and platform (and we will test you to make sure), but you'll need a bit m...

DataBank has issued a Security Bulletin to all of their ColdFusion clients about the recent Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability. Databank has partnered with CF Webtools to do the patching for all of their ColdFusion client's servers. CF Webtools is a full service ColdFusion consulting company provided high quality development services and specializing...

I know I know - it's only been a week since we picked up our 7th new 2019 team member, but we are at it again. We have a need for up to 4 new ColdFusion developers. We are also looking for a new operations person to fill out that growing team. Info below. Yes you work from home so pants are optional unless you are skyping. Looking for folks leg...

As many of you are aware Oracle has changed their licensing for Java 1.8 and making it a pay to play for all commercial purposes. Here's a link to the licensing announcement. I'm not a lawyer and I'm not going to pretend that I understand these licensing agreements. But Oracle and Adobe (or their lawyers I presume) do understand these and as such t...

CFWT is growing again. We are looking for one, possibly two senior ColdFusion developers to join our staff. Our group is close-knit, dynamic and knowledgable. Here are a few things you should know. Yes you work from home and we will not ask if you are wearing a mask. You must be located in the US and legal to work here. (No agencies or overs...

The first month of 2019 has passed and it was full of year end wrap up articles about anything and everything from 2018. Most were fluff articles on pop culture and such. What I found most interesting were the articles that quantified the past year of hacking and security breaches. According to NBC News, Hackers stole nearly half a billion personal...

This is a very quick note to alert everyone that there is a critical bug that was introduced with yesterdays updates for ColdFusion 2018, ColdFusion 2016, and ColdFusion 11. Adobe is very actively working on a resolution. The bug is simply this, in cfscript queryExecute() is broken. This is the bug report. Here is an example of what is no longer wo...

Adobe just released updates for ColdFusion 2018, ColdFusion 2016, and ColdFusion 11. Please note that this is most likely the last update that ColdFusion 11 will receive due to it's core support end of life is coming up in April of 2019. Some New Features This update includes adding support for Java 11 to ColdFusion 2018 and ColdFusion 2016. Cold...

CF Webtools is actively looking to fill 3 developer positions on our ginormous ColdFusion development team. Each position has a unique set of needs. Here are some facts about working with CF Webtools. Yes you work from home so your flip flops will not weird anyone out. Europe is great and has many fine developers, but our we are looking for f...

This is Part 3 in a short series of articles about blocking entire countries from a website. Parts one and two cover CloudFlare and CloudFront. CF Webtools has been asked numerous times to block an entire country or countries by many clients. The issue is that there's a lot of hacker activity from certain identified countries and the client(s) doe...

CF Webtools has been asked numerous times to block an entire country or countries by many clients. The issue is that there's a lot of hacker activity from certain identified countries and the client(s) does not do any business with those countries. Typically it's entire server hacking attempts, but more recently it's to use the client's shopping ca...

On September 11th of 2018 Adobe released a critical security patch to patch a very dangerous flaw (CVE-2018-15961) that could allow an attacker to upload a file that can be used to exploit and take control of the server. Adobe updated their security note to alert everyone that there are active exploits in the wild. "UPDATE: As of September 28, Ad...

The jokes in our water cooler chat have become a little tired so we are looking for some new material. If you think you are entertaining (and smart and talented) enough to join the Muse' Merry M... er.. Merry Persons, here's what you need to know. You will work from home but if you are not wearing pants we don't need to know that. We love our m...

Today's short note is brought to you by "Don't Do That On Production!" At CF Webtools often times we get called in to help troubleshoot servers that are failing to perform well. We often hear the same sort of symptoms that goes like this. The server has been running fine for months then suddenly for no reason it's slow, CPU usage is high, and it ha...

In another chapter of "The Cloud Never Crashes", I woke up Sunday to one of my AWS instances that was 'crashed' with a notice of "Amazon EC2 Instance scheduled for retirement". Retirement? What does that mean? I went to check my email and realized that the "retired" instance was the email server. Doh! It took me a little while to figure out what th...

p> You guessed it Thomas, CF Webtools is hiring again. We are looking as many as 4 advanced ColdFusion programmers to add to our already large team of CF folks. Here's the stuff everyone wants to know. Yes these are remote development positions. No we are not hiring outside the U.S. (sorry!) Yes the position is W2 with benefits after a short ...

At CF Webtools we recently went through a round of server upgrades to handle the Authorize.net ending support for older TLS versions. Now USPS, United State Postal Service, is doing the same thing with their Shipping APIs. This is going to be happening for all API's and most likely all this year as PCI requirements for ending support for TLS 1.1 an...

Adobe has announced the Public Beta of Adobe ColdFusion 2018 is now available. This release brings an all new Performance Monitoring Toolset that is available with both the Standard and Enterprise versions (So I've been told). There's plenty of language improvements and updates and a new Public Beta of ColdFusion Builder 2018. Hurry up while suppli...

Adobe released important security updates and big fixes today, update 6 and update 14 for ColdFusion 2016 and ColdFusion 11 respectively. These updates resolve an important insecure library loading vulnerability (CVE-2018-4938), an important cross-site scripting vulnerability that could lead to code injection (CVE-2018-4940) and an important cros...

"Just add more resources..." is a comment I hear quite frequently in our corner of the tech world. It is often thought of as an easy "solution" to IT challenges. Unfortunately, adding additional developers can often result in further bottlenecks. The following is a real life example (the names have been changed to protect the innocent)! Let's t...

I have seen a lot more people asking questions about making SFTP or FTPS secure connections from ColdFusion using the <CFFTP> tag. They are trying to figure out why they cannot make a connection. Often the error is "Algorithm negotiation fail" or "Connection Error". People are posting their questions on many support forums including Adobes fo...

This is something that might not come up often, but every once in a while we have to connect to a Sybase database. This is a built in feature in the Enterprise version of ColdFusion. However, if you have the Standard version of ColdFusion you have to manually add the JDBC jar file and build the connection string by hand. This is easy to do once you...

At CF Webtools we have been preparing for this inevitable day for the past few years. We've been upgrading our clients servers and services to handle TLS 1.2 calls to Authorize.Net and other third party processors for a while now. Recently Authorize.Net announced a "Temporary Disablement of TLS 1.0/1.1" for "a few hours on January 30, 2018 and then...

In my last article about the Adobe ColdFusion MailSpoolService I mentioned that I was going to try to get specifics on expected performance in the Standard Edition vs Enterprise edition of the MailSpoolService. Adobe has not respond to my requests with actual data. While attending the ColdFusion Summit 2017 I tried to get a clear answer from any of...

Are your free CPU cycles making others rich? There's a chance they are and it's at your expense. A recent article at Vice.com states that "At Least 1.65 Million Computers Are Mining Cryptocurrency for Hackers So Far This Year". If this is to be believed then it's possible a server you are running has been compromised and is actually mining cyrpto...

Adobe just released security updates for ColdFusion 11 and ColdFusion 2016. This is a critical security update and you should be updating your ColdFusion servers. The information below is from the CF Webtools operations group. If you need help upgrading your VM or patching your server (or anything else) our operations group is standing by 24/7 - gi...

Part 3 in the super-guru's Mary Jo Sminkey's series on robust error handling. Enjoy! So in my last post on error handling, I promised in this next one to cover logging of Ajax requests. As more and more of our site involves Ajax requests, this has become an important part of my error logging and debug work. If you want to know how to do this rea...

CF Webtools has revamped its awesome referral program to make it awesomer - or even more awesome. As you may know we have been offering generous referral bonuses to developers for years. If you bring us business we try and reward you. In 2016 CF Webtools paid out nearly $100,000 in referral bonuses! But our old program was hard to understand so our...

The Muse is fortunate to have a number of very talented and smart developers work for him. Mary Jo Sminkey has been with CF Webtools for several years now and we simply love having her around. She's a fantastic developer and a fantastic resource. You might catch her at cf.objective() where she will be speaking next week. Meanwhile, you might rem...

This is the moment the developers have been waiting for. After having thrown both the developer and his application under the bus, we are going to make room under there for the customer. Now if you are customer reading this, take heart. While I'm going to say some things that will hurt, in the end I'm going to rub salve on the wound and we will all...

When last we checked in with Bob and the Muse (part 1 - applications) they were trying to come to grips with Bob's complex... I mean his application's complexity. We are now at the stage called "developer involvement" where he and the Muse are speaking with Sugar Sweet - the Muse's crack developer (and the name of a girl I dated in college). Let's ...

Let's go Live to Bob and the Muse Consider this typical interaction with a prospective customer: Muse: Tell me what you need Bob. Bob: I have an application hosted on ColdFusion 9. I want to upgrade to the latest version and move it to the cloud. Muse: That's a good choice. The latest version of ColdFusion performs splendidly in the clou...

Yes it is that time again. The Muse wants to add another talented developer to his aggregate brain. If you think you might qualify send your resume (yes, we would like a resume) to jobs@cfwebtools.com Please note: All of our developer jobs are remote. That does mean you need to be stand offish. It means you work from home. We prefer you take a show...

CF Webtools is looking to add ColdFusion developers to our expert team. We provide an engaging community, good salary, full benefits and the opportunity to work on interesting code of infinite variety. You have to be proficient in ColdFusion of course (we will test you). You have to have more than just ColdFusion however. Every advanced developer h...

Feb. 2016 Job Posting As many of my readers know, we generally look for new developers every 2 to 3 months. So the time is come again. Soft Skills Yes these come first for us. Ownership - You see the big picture and work to accomplish goals for the client rather than checking off individual tasks. Eclectic Tech - You are always picking up w...