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# Pete Freitag's Blog

## Latest Blog Entries

### Understanding Claude Code Permissions and Security Settings

October 20, 2025 — Going in the deep end exploring how claude code permissions work and what security protections are available.

### ColdFusion Security Training Class December 2025

October 09, 2025 — Pete is teaching an online ColdFusion developer security training class.

### ColdFusion Summit 2025 - 30 Years of ColdFusion

September 25, 2025 — Celebrating 30 years of ColdFusion at the 2025 ColdFusion Summit in Las Vegas

### Generate 6 Digit Security Codes in Java or CFML

August 07, 2025 — Shows how to use java SecureRandom to generate a six digit security code.

### ColdFusion Developer Week 2025 Slides and Video

July 14, 2025 — Slides and video links for my presentation at ColdFusion Developer Week 2025

### Potential gotcha with searchImplicitScopes and cfparam

June 23, 2025 — Be careful when using cfparam to deal with searchImplicitScopes.

### Simple Load Testing with curl

June 19, 2025 — How to use curl for a simple HTTP load test.

### Fixinator 6.1.0 - Detecting Undefined Remote Arguments

May 29, 2025 — The release of Fixinator 6.1.0 and its features.

### The CWE 25 and ColdFusion - CFSummit East 2025 Slides

March 27, 2025 — Slides for my talk at the 2025 Adobe ColdFusion Summit East Conference in Washington DC

### Understanding and Checking for Tomcat CVE-2025-24813

March 17, 2025 — Writes are disabled by default in Tomcat's DefaultServlet, here's how to check your server.

### Java 21: Could not find agent library instrument on the library path

March 05, 2025 — Debugging the error: Could not find agent library instrument on the library path

### Fixinator Version 6 Released

March 04, 2025 — Version 6 of Fixinator a CFML code scanning tool has been released.

### ColdFusion 2025 Breaking Changes Explained

March 04, 2025 — List of breaking changes in CF2025 and how to use Fixinator to spot them.

### Fixinator's New Compatibility Scanner

October 31, 2024 — Fixinator's New Compatibility Scanner: Upgrade to the latest ColdFusion version with confidence. Identify compatibility issues, deprecated features, and removed tags/functions.

### ColdFusion Summit 2024 Slides: 20 ways to secure CF

October 04, 2024 — My slides and an outline of my CF Summit 2024 talk in Las Vegas

### Latest ColdFusion Security Updates - September 2025

September 10, 2024 — A list of the latest ColdFusion Security Updates

### Left and Right Accept Negative Counts

May 02, 2024 — You can pass a negative value into CFML left or right functions.

### Fixinator fixes unscoped variables

March 21, 2024 — Fixinator now finds and fixes unscoped variables relating to searchImplicitScopes

### ColdFusion searchImplicitScopes and APSB24-14

March 12, 2024 — Learn about the searchImplicitScopes change in APSB24-14.

### Lucee RCE Vulnerabilities February 2024

February 22, 2024 — Lucee RCE vulnerabilities in February 2024, affecting remote code execution and client variables. How to fix isDefined calls, CF\_CLIENT cookie values, and REST CFC requests.

### Popular Entries

Here are some entries that have been popular over the years:

- Finding Duplicates with SQL
- Howto Create an RSS 2.0 Feed
- The 15 Most Useful Linux commands
- Parsing, Modifying, and outputting XML Documents with Java
- SELECT a random row with SQL
- What is the difference between ASCII Chr(10) and Chr(13)
- SQL Pagination with LIMIT and OFFSET
- 20 ways to Secure Apache Configuration
- How I cut AWS Lambda Java Cold Start Times in Half
- Returning TOP N Records
- Mastering ColdFusion's CFQUERYPARAM
- Java LTS Versions Explained with EOL Dates
- How to read a ColdFusion Stacktrace
- The newline cat mystery

You can find the full entry archive here.

Pete is a husband and father located in the scenic Central New York area. He owns a ColdFusion Consulting & Products company, Foundeo Inc. Pete is a frequent speaker at national conferences including Adobe ColdFusion Summit, Into The Box and others. His past work has been featured in publications such as Forbes, and TechCrunch. Pete studied at Clarkson University, where he earned a BS in Software Engineering.

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