James Moberg articles - 90 total
CF_Timer Revisited
I posted an update to my ColdFusion CF_Timer custom tag on my new myCFML blog with the same title. ...
Ben & Ryan Show Guest Appearance & myCFML
I was recently invited to be a guest on the "Ben & Ryan Show" podcast to share some custom...
PDF Generation, Bloat and Optimization
The State of myCFML PDF Generation My current comparison is with CFDocument on the...
CFFrankenstein: Choosing to use EXEs instead of CFML BIFs
I choose to use a lot of third-party Windows command line programs as part of our ColdFusion/CFML...
Using ColdFusion to Generate Pre-Signed Wasabi Download URL
There was an internal decision to use Wasabi Cloud Storage instead of Amazon S3 and I needed to use...
ColdFusion getQRSVG() UDF - Returns responsive SVG source
In a project I'm working on, I needed to generate a QR code and display it within an HTML file that...
Backporting New ColdFusion 2025 Function listGetDuplicates()
I saw a post on Linkedin regarding the "Unlocking the Power of listGetDuplicates". I like unlocking...
isValidHexString ColdFusion UDF
While working on my ColdFusion colorTools CFC, I wondered if isValid() supported a "hex" type since...
ColdFusion colorTools CFC (In Progress)
While working on some internal graphs to represent daily Fastly WAF/CDN statistics, I realized that I...
Java HashCode Identity Crisis
I was unit testing a global UDF that accepts a string and leverages Java's built-in hashCode method...
ColdFusion Dump Alternative
The cfdump tag (AKA cfscript "writedump" function) outputs the contents of a variable of any type for...
Testing if IP is within a CIDR Range
I recently wrote a blog entry about using a third-party Java library to standardize IPv4 & IPv6...
Using IPAddress Java Library with ColdFusion to Standardize IPv4 & IPv6 Addresses
Our Microsoft IIS web server is configured to accept IPv4 connections and, since 1996, we've recorded...
phoneFormat & makeTelLink ColdFusion UDFs
Standardization & validation is important, but good luck getting all you clients and your...
getLastWorkWeekInMonth() ColdFusion - Returns Last Full Work Week
While integrating a new feature for a client to flag customers that were requesting vouchers to be...
ColdFusion Wrapper for Zint Barcode Generator
I referenced Zint Barcode Generator in a post from 2020 and included a very basic command line syntax...
structToTable - Generate HTML/Text Output for Display/Email
When working on new logic and I want to dump a variable, I often use an internal CF_DumpLite...
ColdFusion PayPal REST API CFC
PayPal's NVP/SOAP API for Website Payments Pro accounts suddenly stopped working sometime around...
Hack WKHTMLTOPDF PDF to enable Adobe Acrobat Field Editing
I recently integrated the auto-generation of survey results into a downloadable PDF using ColdFusion...
HeatColor UDF (based on jQuery library)
When displaying values in a table, I like to use color to visually indicate whether the number is...
ColdFusion Summit History (Tourist Edition)
I wouldn't call myself a regular at conferences, but I've enjoyed attending some CF-related...
CDN, WAF, WAAP... What do you use?
In the early 2000s, many of our customers still viewed the internet as a passing trend. During this...
Embed a Full HTML Document Inline Using Shadow DOM
We use ColdFusion/CFML to generate valid HTML documents for PDF generation using jsoup &...
Searching the CFML Output Buffer for a String
In one of our projects about 10 years ago, we were fetching HTML fragments from a trusted third-party...
CFML wrapper for emoji-java (identify, sanitize & convert emojis)
A ColdFusion application that we developed a couple years ago worked with Twilio to log incoming text...
Transforming TSV data using ColdFusion & Miller (Command line FTW!)
We license data from multiple providers and discovered that not all data can be treated equally even...
Comparing Language Detection Libraries (& API) Using Java/ColdFusion/CFML
Language detection is a feature that we needed in a past project. I wrote an article in 2020...
Importing Data from a Pre-95 Excel 2 Worksheet XLS file.
Q: How do you solve a problem you don't know how to solve? A: Turn it into a problem that you do...
Convert Numbers to Text using ColdFusion and ICU4J
(This is a repost from my abandoned tumblr blog; dated 2016-11-17) A client requested that we spell...
TempCache ColdFusion UDF
There's been many occasions where a user-specific payload has been generated (shopping cart, check...