This is what "Chemo Day" is for me. I am on a three week chemo cycle. I have chemo one day in week one and one day in week two. The third week I have off to let my body recover some. * Show up god awful early. (note my work schedule in the IT field has always had me working late, nights, over nights etc. but never early AM's.) * A nurse accesses the chemo port in my chest. I had to have surgery back in December to place a Power Port in my chest that provides direct access to the vein leading into my heart. This allows the chemo drugs to be pumped in faster. As well as saving my arm from having ..read more

I want to thank everyone for all the support, prayers, thoughts that so many have been sending me. This really helps with my spirits. For a while I had zero hope. My hope is elevated some. I'm still alive 5 months into this and I feel fine. The chemo is being kind to me. I don't have any nausea, I have some fatigue, and I'm slowly losing my hair. Back in January I went to the Mayo Clinic for a second opinion. They did an MRI on my chest and abdomen in order to get a better look at the tumors and see how many there were. The hope was to see that there wasn't much spread in the cancer and that ..read more

First of all I want to thank everyone for all the support, prayers, thoughts that so many have been sending me. This really helps with my spirits. For a while I had zero hope. Next, I am in the process of getting a second opinion. It takes several visits, new sets of tests, scans, and meeting with multiple doctors. So it is a process and takes time. I live in Minnesota and I'm just over an hour away from the Mayo Clinic. I was able to get a referral to the Mayo where their oncology department has doctors and surgeons that specialize in this exact form of cancer. So far the oncologist that ..read more

Cholangiocarcinoma, also known as bile duct cancer, is a type of cancer that forms in the bile ducts. Symptoms of cholangiocarcinoma may include abdominal pain, yellowish skin, weight loss, generalized itching, and fever. Light colored stool or dark urine may also occur. That's the diagnosis I've been given. I have stage 2 bile duct cancer. The first I knew something was wrong was a week before Thanksgiving when my urine turned dark brown, my stool was ghost white, and a few days later my eyes and skin started turning yellow. I'm figuring gallstones at this point. I spent the weekend of 23rd ..read more

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 in the ColdFusion stack. If it has to do with ColdFusion we will be able to help! Both CF Webtools and DataBank are highly engaged in helping their customers maintain secure environments. Patching and regular maintenance are part of that process ..read more

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 there are changes to note. On January 24th Adobe announced that Adobe will maintain support. via a Long-Term Support Agreement with Oracle, for Java 8 and Java 11. Thank you Adobe! I have questions as I'm sure everyone else does. I've been asking rep ..read more

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 records in 2018. There were fewer breaches, but the breaches were bigger and worse and more data than ever was stolen. Crypto-miners have improved as well and not in a good way. Previously I wrote about Cryptojacking and Hacking for Bitcoins. These ..read more

UPDATE: Adobe has released updates for the last update. ColdFusion 11 Update 17 was released that supersedes Update 16. ColdFusion 2016 Update 9 that supersedes Update 8. Many of us have been testing these new updates including myself and so far they look good. We have not heard any news on any additional updates for ColdFusion 2018 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 qu ..read more

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. ColdFusion 11 did NOT get this update most likely due to ColdFusion 11 nearing end of life. ColdFusion 2018: Server Auto-lockdown includes a new installer for Mac OS. ColdFusion 2018 and ColdFusion 2016: Updated the following OEMs: Jetty 9.4.12ExtJS 6.6JP ..read more

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) 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 cart to "test" stolen credit cards. This is a very serious problem and as such clients are asking us to hel ..read more