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Robert built a Slack clone on BoxLang with no bundler, no database, no auth. Channels are free because addresses are free. Presence isn't stored, it's derived. DMs are channels with computed names. Two bugs taught me more than the features: frames aren't ordered, and `content-length` counts bytes.
The Node That Won’t Come Back: Fixing ColdFusion Cluster Rejoin Failures
Every couple of years I hit the same wall. A client needs a real .docx, not HTML pretending to be one, and CFML has never had a good answer for it. You end up shelling out to a COM object on Windows, or hand-writing OOXML, or gluing Apache POI together with cfscript and hoping the POI version already on the server...
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You don't have hours to spend ramping up on ColdFusion. You need to get in. Get out and deliver. Let's do that. Copy and paste this i...
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Part 7 of our ColdFusion support chat series shows how to turn Slack events into customer conversations by updating your app's state.
Robert rebuilt his 8-year-old Vue D&D combat app in BoxLang, using SocketBox/WebSockets for real-time state. Features SRD 5.2 character creation, turn-based combat with fog-of-war, and a chunked map system with dual-layer tiles and POI markers. Encounter state lives server-side; ~300 TestBox tests cover it.
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting - Announcing Java updates of Jul 21 2026 - thoughts and resources
CommandBox is a free, open-source CLI from Ortus Solutions that gives ColdFusion the modern developer tooling it historically lacked. It…
Learn how to receive Slack Events in ColdFusion and verify requests to protect your support chat from spoofed or malicious HTTP calls.
Learn how to turn Slack replies into customer conversations in ColdFusion, with production-ready handling for failures, retries, and real-world edge cases.
Part 9 brings the full reference implementation together, combining Slack webhooks, customer conversations, event handling, SSE, retries, and ops tooling.
If you already run NetBird, you have an ngrok replacement installed and may not know it. The client has an expose command (added in v0.66; I'm on 0.74.7) that publishes a local port to a public https URL through NetBird's reverse proxy. One command, optional password, and the tunnel dies when you press Ctrl+C....
The Ghost That Won’t Leave: Fixing ColdFusion Classloader Leaks on Redeployment
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting - Announcing ColdFusion updates of Jul 14 2026 - p1 security update - thoughts and resources
Ben Nadel creates a StructPop() user defined function (UDF) in ColdFusion that will return a struct value and delete the given key in a single operation.
Every few months I open an archive folder and find WDDX files sitting there. A serialized query someone saved with in 2006. An export from a Lucee app that has since been rewritten. A .dat file that turns out to be a WDDX packet wearing a disguise. WDDX was Allaire's XML data format from 1998, and if you have been...
You need to use the List Functions from our last post. Here's a game. Tweak it. Devour it. Then write your own. Copy and paste this i...
