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Brush Up On Your ColdFusion Programming Skills Fast!

October 16, 2015 11:43 am Published by

We all have the habit of leaning heavily on Google. I’ve heard from friends how their IT team only uses Google to solve problems. I want to pretend that’s not me. Solving problems for others (where I started) is one way to start learning about code. As I expressed earlier in a post about Adobe ColdFusion, I’m no developer. When I was first learning  ColdFusion Programming, here’s a few things that helped me learn faster. Solving problems for people. As a ColdFusion Support specialists we encountered real world errors, problems and questions. The hands on experience was phenomenal. At Hostek when we find...
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Is Adobe ColdFusion Dead Or Getting Better?

October 9, 2015 10:42 am Published by

You might hear ColdFusion is a dying language. I’ve believed it myself. Since being introduced to ColdFusion (CFML) around 2005 and respecting its power & simplicity, my curiosity had moved on. At first ColdFusion was something I needed to support for customers. Eventually however that evolved to developing internal tools for monitoring mysql performance, integration with marketing automation systems, recaptcha and more. It was fun and I learned a ton. That’s also when I learned that app development wasn’t for me. One of the greatest reasons ColdFusion loses traction remains: It’s so easy anyone can pick it right up, but to develop a...
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How We Solved A Major SQL TLS 1.0 Problem

October 1, 2015 1:32 pm Published by

We had a customer who was working on PCI compliance – and failing scans due to weak ciphers and TLS 1.0 being enabled. We have some information about PCI Compliance in our support wiki describing what is disabled on our shared servers and why. Since we help customers obtain PCI compliance by providing guidance and a secure infrastructure we thought this would be a simple task that we are familiar doing. We have a PowerShell script for disabling weak ciphers and outdated protocols on Windows Servers (Windows VPS Hosting in this case). We ran the script and completed the process by rebooting the server....
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4 Questions To Bounce Back From Hosting Problems

September 24, 2015 2:37 pm Published by

Let’s talk about a developer who is taking over a new project for a new client. This new project is a beautifully wrapped disaster waiting to happen. A mixture of ad-hoc development and a few dedicated servers from who knows where. Sound familiar? This is one reason businesses abandon custom development in exchange for SaaS website building platforms. To avoid the risk of developers who create partial solutions that lack long term thought & little documentation. The cost is massive for hosting problems like this. The options available today for businesses are endlessly overwhelming. But there’s hope because smart companies are leveraging...
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