In just a few short weeks some of us from WRIS Web Services will be attending the 2018 ColdFusion Summit in Las Vegas.

It’s the nature of the beast….sometimes, without warning...websites and applications break. You can blame it on the internet, technology, or the full moon. But at the end of the day, when you are in the middle of a ColdFusion emergency, you need someone to fix it.

You've probably heard of SSL. It stands for "Secure Sockets Layer." By definition, SSL is "a secure protocol developed for sending information securely over the Internet." Think of it this way...without SSL in place on a website, it's like having a private conversation with someone in the middle of Progressive Field. During an Indians game. Meaning anyone could hear it. But with SSL, that conversation takes place in a locked room with just you and the person you are talking to...much more private.

If you’ve ever touched a computer at all, chances are you know what HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is. It’s how a website is built, right? But unless you are in the website development field or are responsible for a website built in it, you likely have not heard of CFML, or ColdFusion Markup Language. ColdFusion is an application development tool used for writing web pages that interact with databases, and contrary to what the uninformed may think, it is NOT a dead language.

2018 is upon us. Hopefully, this past year was good to you and your organization, thanks in part to your website. If not, now’s the time to figure out what to do moving forward.

When was your ColdFusion based web application first developed? Was it more than 10 years ago? More than 15 years ago? If so, and if you have only done superficial updates since then, you may be finding it more and more difficult to secure quality developers who can help when an issue arises.