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107 ColdFusion 2021 Revealing Details on How it was Created with Rakshith Naresh Feb 17, 2025

Rakshith Naresh talks about “ColdFusion 2021 Revealing Details on How it was Created” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Today we talk about some of the challenges the Adobe CF team overcomed with corona virus lockdowns In India and the complexities of implementing multi-cloud and containers which are totally new features for ColdFusion. CF 2021 new features Game-changing release for the next decade Cloud Easy cloud coding - even less lines of code than Node.js cloud Multi-cloud support Microservices Why? More efficient scaling apps Easier REST CF Image size and load 80%+ better Huge engineering task achieved New master runtime to do this Command-line installer (GUI optional) Custom runtimes New Language features IIFE (Immediately Invokable Function Expressions) Lambda Rest and spread operators Parallelism Destructing assignment Identity operator Dynamic switchcase Iterator support Java integration Performance Way faster than CF 11 or CF 2016 End of Life: CF11 already in 2019, CF 2016 in April 2021 Security Separate security team inside Adobe 3rd party vendor security certification All team devs certified in security coding best practices SSO SAML Backward compatible Old CFML code runs fine CF still works great on dedicated servers (not just cloud) CF admin All settings are scriptable Why the change from CF 2020 to CF 2021 name Because released at end of year Next release code name announced Testing it out Free development version CommandBox is the fastest way to download and install When will the first hot fixes come out? This was release last week Questions from CFers From thread https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10157911453630036/ IDE support - had used it for many years and migrated to other languages and frameworks due to IDE support (one of the major factors.) I believe that a new version of CF Builder was announced at CF Summit last week - due to release in the first half of 2021. I will clarify in the interview. Thanks for the question! PS have you checked out the free VSCode - it has EXCELLENT CFML support extensions. New version of CF Builder built on VSCode Front End tools What are improvements is Adobe doing in competition with Angular, React and Vue.js? how does CF 2021 work better with these front end technologies than CF 2018 did? These are front-end frameworks and CF is server side. Both are independent of each other and can not be each other's competition. You can easily connect any front end framework with server side CF with rest calls which CF already supports. JavaScript better data type preservation Easier REST coding Possible future auto generation of REST services Licensing SaaS I'm good with the license price but for 2020 they attempted to collect a license for EACH site (application) we hosted on a single server and we moved to Lucee. We would love to use ACF (as we had since v 3.5) but their license change nearly bankrupted us. Pay for EACH SITE??? where does it say that in the licensing? See detailed response and discussion at https://community.adobe.com/t5/coldfusion/adobe-coldfusion-license-bait-and-switch-for-saas-companies/td-p/10614494?page=1 “Yesterday we had a call with the Coldfusion Technical Marketing Manager who sincerely apologized for the experience we have had the past several months. By the end of the conversation, our position that we are not a service bureau and should not be subject to a custom agreement was accepted by Adobe, and we are able to continue to use the perpetual licenses we currently have. If others experience something similar to what we did, you may contact adobecoldfusion@adobe.

140 BoxLang modern JVM language that runs CFML code (new CFML engine and much more) with Luis Majano and Brad Wood Nov 26, 2024

Luis Majano and Brad Wood talk about “BoxLang modern JVM language that runs CFML code (new CFML engine and much more)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…BX is the acronym we use a lot like our file extensions are analogous to the cold fusion file extensions. So a CFM file, we call that bxm For box Lang markup, CMS, which Lucy six had his support for, which is cold fusion script”. https://youtu.be/T59ElgfjuY8 Show notes What is BoxLang? A new language for the JVM that includes CFML Inspired by cool CF, Groovy, Rust, Go, PHP etc Compiles into Java byte code, just like CF A new language for 2024 and beyond Not just targeting web server - see below for all runtime targets 7 MB core Tidy and lightweight core Super fast start up time in 100-200ms ACF core 120 to 300 MB Lucee core 20 to 120 - 300 MB Node 80 MB Add on modules for different target runtimes Similar in ideas to ACF and Lucee packages Target runtimes Web Server Miniserver Serverless Jakarta Android Web assembly Command line use Modules are designed from the start vs separated out as in ACF or Lucee Using tight Java libraries that are different from ACF or Lucee libraries Drastic architecture differences No OSGi copies See below for what OSGi is MVP for this language Created to be extensive in the core from the start Not a monolith Super strict on 3rd party JARs added to the core due to features in the modern JDK Oracle improvements in Java language and JVM Java 21 or higher only Other JVM that are based on Oracle JVM 21 or higher Fixes old syntax and function naming inconsistencies from CFML backwards compatible Has two parsers Antler parser library for BoxLang code 100% legacy CFML code via transpiler AST = Abstract Syntax Tree This is what compiles to Java byte code Linting and code quality metric tool and VS-code extension IntelliSense and semantics of the language. Open source AST so easy to extend and hook into it. In-line debugger is built in with scope introspection Can innovate in BoxLang language without breaking legacy CFML Transpiling Dynamic and can continue to edit legacy CFML code Or one-time translate to BoxLang language (BX) Can you translate back from BoxLang to CMFL? Not currently and technically it can be done - it is open source The syntax is very close to CFML script and tags Why

139 All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 2: PDF, CCS, SSO, perf, security) with Mark Takata Aug 27, 2024

Mark Takata talks about “All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 2: PDF, CCS, SSO, perf, security)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…So we decided to build this thing called CCS central configuration server. And it runs at the command line, basically, and allows you to control your servers from a central location.”. https://youtu.be/n_PNO4jYOuE Show notes Enhanced HTML-to-PDF Conversion New HTML-to-PDF conversion engine Supports new CSS features for pixel perfect PDFs Imbed audio, video and SVG Old tags features for manipulation of PDFs and forms etc still work Increased file size limit by x100 Optional future features eg DBX merge / header engine New PDF Engine and Library Updates Updates several libraries, including Java, Solr, and Hibernate More secure Runs faster Central Configuration Server (CCS) Simpler management of multiple ColdFusion instances Undo changes “Young” feature, UX a bit hard to set up, easy to use once set up. SSO CF Admin Integration (SAML/LDAP) Users can log in using their corporate credentials with SSO (Single Sign On) Pin point access to parts of CF Admin Groups support Performance optimizations to the ColdFusion engine. ACF 2023 came with Java 17 update which broke some security issues Cause initial slower in first release Was speed up with hotfixes. Future improvements in ACF 2024 Enhanced security features and protocols. SSO Java 17 Protect logs Integration with new technologies and frameworks. Updated libraries used by CF Improved support for cloud platforms and services. Developer tools and IDE enhancements. Accessibility improvements. Security, Stability, RAD and performance Bug fixes and stability enhancements. 200+ bug fixes 500+ for ACF 2024 Christmas holidays bug bash in JIRA https://tracker.adobe.com/ for public bug reporting Annual release cycle and ACF 2024 beta Features fully defined and beta for show at CF Summit West (Las Vegas) in October 2024 Better keep up with changing tech eg AI Why are you proud to use CF? He built his entire career on CF Has professional used 13 other languages too and always comes back to CF Can explain why CF compared to other programming languages RAD - fast prototyping CF is growing More CF jobs Hack and code in CFML 40 lessons Junior devs now asking about CF Easier to learn esp for anyone knows JavaScript Modern ecosystem WWIT to make CF more alive this year? TryCF Mark’s learning resources - ask him CF Community Talk about CF a local dev meetup Education CF Summit East announcements coming up What are you looking forward to at CF Summit East? https://www.carahsoft.com/learn/event/50994-adobe-coldfusion-summit-east-2024 April 24th, 2024 Reston VA, on the metro, near Dulles airport CF product manager Charvi Dhoot will be ther Free and free breakfast and lunch CF certification training April 23rd $99 Mark’s CF Summit talk on PDF all features CF Summit Online too https://adobe-coldfusion-online-summit-2024.attendease.com/ Happing now Smaller and more intimate event where you can talk with more other CFers and Adobe dev team. Dedicated conference space. Mentioned in this episode 063 Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips) with Mike Collins 110 CommandBox Workflow Magic (modules to speed up CF development), with Brad Wood 044 Let’s get GraphQL! (Smart API access from CFML), with Mark Drew 120 How is CFML Speed vs Other Languages? (Hint: really fast!), with Brad Wood Listen to the Audio Bio Mark Takata Senior ColdFusion Technical Evangelist Mark Takata is Adobe’s Senior Technical Evangelist for ColdFusion. With more than 25 years of experience in the tech industry,

138 All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 1: containers, GCP, GraphQL, JWT) with Mark Takata Jul 17, 2024

Mark Takata talks about “All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 1: containers, GCP, GraphQL, JWT)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…So we support Google's version of Pub Sub. And it's fairly simple. You know, you've got a you've got someone creating a message. You've got a subscriber that you can create to listen to that message, messages of contact message that I gaze at It just have, you know, timestamps and things like that”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1XLGUoRTX0 Show notes In this episode, we look at all the Adobe ColdFusion 2023 new features with the Adobe CF evangelist, Mark Takata. Modular, Secure, and Containerized Approach Adobe ColdFusion 2023 offers a modular and containerized way to build applications run across multiple cloud providers or on-premises without the need to rewrite your application. Future proofing your apps to future cloud tech changes. CF compiles to Java Even can run CF on Steam Deck (Linux game box) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Services Integration The new version enhances project efficiency through seamless integration with GCP services like Cloud Storage buckets (all levels) Doc versioning, aging / retention PubSub. - MQ - app messaging Firestore A NoSQL database Like AWS Dynamo but easier to use Access rights definable in CF admin or via code. Great docs Can use any other GCP features as APIs using CFHTTP Authentication is easy Including Google AI models such as Bard and Gemini Databases: MS-SQL, MySQL BigQuery VS Code extensions to help write this code Cool for more scaleable and modern CF apps! (Multi-Cloud support was added in ACF 2018 ACF 2021 already covers Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS cloud features. For doc storage and MQ features one tag Authentication is handled the same For NoSQL separate tags as features so different syntax GraphQL Support What is GraphQL? GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools. It is Open source (The GraphQL Foundation) Ahead of the curve More efficient data retrieval and manipulation. Make complex data queries and updates with fewer requests Improved the performance and code flexibility. ACF 2023 provides native GraphQL Query Support Direct consuming of GraphQL endpoints Future - serving GraphQL too JSON Web Tokens (JWT) JSON is Structured Text data - more compact than XML. JWP secures your JSON that you are passing around or saving to prevent man in the middle or injection hacker attacks. ACF 2023 has built-in support for JWTs enhanced the security of your CF app Mentioned in this episode 063 Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips) with Mike Collins 110 CommandBox Workflow Magic (modules to speed up CF development), with Brad Wood 044 Let’s get GraphQL! (Smart API access from CFML), with Mark Drew 120 How is CFML Speed vs Other Languages? (Hint: really fast!), with Brad Wood Listen to the Audio Bio Mark Takata Senior ColdFusion Technical Evangelist Mark Takata is Adobe’s Senior Technical Evangelist for ColdFusion. With more than 25 years of experience in the tech industry, Mark brings a deep knowledge of programming, design, and his love for mentorship to this role, where he is the main touchpoint for the CF community. Links Mark Takata | LinkedIn CFML slack channel takata@adobe.com Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:01 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Mark Tatar Cocker, would I make a mince meter?

137 ColdFusion Oracle Cloud Migration with MySQL (from VPS) with Scott Stroz May 12, 2024

Scott Stroz talks about “ColdFusion Oracle Cloud Migration with MySQL (from VPS)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…And the difference between Oracle clouds version of the manage the managed MySQL database is that in Oracle Cloud, it's Enterprise Edition. So if you are using MySQL heatwave in Oracle Cloud, you're actually using Enterprise Edition”. https://youtu.be/g9fce9kEeq8 Show notes What is Oracle Cloud? Oracle cloud services like AWS, GCP, Azure etc Servers, Storage, MySQL, AI etc OCI = Oracle Cloud Infrastructure How does it differ from AWS, GCP, Azure etc? Robust always free tier, not CC required Startups, open source or personal projects Oracle is the steward behind MySQL community edition MySQL Heatwave is cloud version of MySQL Compare AzureSQL etc Managed db Enterprise edition performance boosts and more security The latest MySQL New features - Ben Nadel posts Open Source version and closed source versions Caught up with MS-SQL Server MariaDB fork Original MySQL dev lead developer/CTO is Michael "Monty" Widenius SQL Server is a 'fork' of Sybase Docker images Auto Tuning and DBA AI and ML Oracle The Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) provides a holistic tuning solution. Why cloud hosting? Ease - no server management, no hardware management Fast upscale of memory, disk, CPU Fast scaling of extra servers and spin down too Ditto failover CapEx vs OpEx Small and Enterprise good, Medium less 37 signals posts on cloud vs inhouse Regions - data centers Patching and security Very hard to hack MySQL cloud Point in time recovery Easier Disaster Recovery Pre-problem detection Why use Oracle Cloud? Always free tier - 4 VMs, ARM CPU Lucee issue on ARM? Fixed with CommandBox https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ Two Oracle Autonomous Databases with powerful tools like Oracle APEX and Oracle SQL Developer Two AMD Compute VMs Up to 4 instances of ARM Ampere A1 Compute with 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month Block, Object, and Archive Storage; Load Balancer and data egress; Monitoring and Notifications Moved from VPS at HostMedia in Europe Lucee on MySQL Issues with migration that you solved Set up MySQL instance (VM) Now would just use HeatWave MySQL Update Datasource in CF Admin Use CommandBox to launch Lucee Paramedic experience and development skills Transferring skills from other careers to developing Deal with high stress - stay calm, calm others in chaos Troubleshooting skills - differential diagnosis - keep checking for evidence is true Intuition on what to do or not to do Layers of bugs New keynote Learning from your mistakes or other people’s mistake Code reviews Opportunity to learn Rotate reviewers Think bigger picture Code reuse Open source Time to go, time to stay Why are you proud to use CF? Ortus tools and packages Node packages CF community WWIT to make CF more alive this year? Mentioned in this episode Oracle Cloud Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks - new podcast, link coming soon CF Hour Dave Ferguson, Scott Stroz and Matt Gifford CF Suicide, Depression, and Recovery with Jorge Reyes From near death to better biz leader with Brie Moreau Forgebox ITB article CF Summit article Listen to the Audio Bio Scott Stroz Developer Advocate for MySQL 20+ Years as Software Developer/Architect 2 Years as Assistant Network Administrator 2 Years as Operations Manager for large Mobile Health System 14 years as a Paramedic. Specialties: Web application development with Groovy/Grails, Angular, Vue.js, Micronaut. Links Scott Stroz | LinkedIn scott.stroz@oracle.com http://www.oracle.com

136 Into The Box 2024 (all the details and speakers) with Jorge Reyes Mar 09, 2024

Bilbo's Bonus Pass: Get a 10% discount because you’re a part of our CF Fellowship community: ITBTERA24 Jorge Reyes talks about “Into The Box 2024 (all the details and speakers)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “...But it's just those aha moments where, Hey, I didn't know you could do that. So you can actually, when you go back home and do your job, then you can actually worry about looking more into it and implementing it. So that's kind of the idea behind all the sessions, actually”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSSxZmWkI_A Show notes What is Into The Box conference? Is it only for Box products topics? No - lots of CF topics, not just Box products Do not have to use ColdBox framework to use other Box products Website https://www.intothebox.org/ TeraTech is Silver sponsor Speakers and Topics 1 day pre-conf workshops The pre-conference day is dedicated to hands-on workshops designed to enhance your skills and knowledge in modern web development. These workshops include: Reactive Front-Ends with CFML, CBWIRE, and AlpineJS: Led by Grant Copley, this workshop will guide participants through building a modern web application using CFML and the ColdBox module CBWIRE. Bare Metal to the Cloud: Migrating Legacy Applications to Amazon Web Services: Daniel Garcia and Jon Clausen will provide live, hands-on examples of migrating traditional CFML applications to AWS, covering both "lift and shift" and distributed approaches. ColdBox 7 Unleashed: Luis Majano invites attendees to explore the advanced features of ColdBox 7, focusing on building a dynamic Headless CMS. Day 1 - May 16th Principles and Techniques to Write More Durable Code by Jacob Beers Build a Complex Web Form with RuleBox and TestBox by Annette Liskey User Rights Management Dashboard using cbSecurity by Irvin Wilson Reactive CFML with cbWIRE v4 by Grant Copley Taming the Data Sprawl: Strategies for Managing and Controlling Data Proliferation by Curt Gratz Demonstrating Monitoring Solutions for CF and Lucee by Charlie Arehart cbq — Jobs and Tasks in the Background by Eric Peterson VS Code powered up for modern CFML Development Day 2 - May 17th Schrödinger’s Backup: Is Your Backup Really a Backup? by Shawn Oden How to debug ColdFusion applications using "ColdFusion Builder extension for VS Code / CF Builder" by Vinay Jindal Design System: The basis for a consistent design by Jona Lainez and Esme Acevedo Web Hosting with CommandBox / PRO by Daniel Garcia CommandBox/Pro https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox-pro Migrate your Infrastructure to the AWS Cloud by George Murphy Headless Content For The Win! by Luis Majano and Esme Acevedo Passkeys and cbSecurity by Eric Peterson Web accessibility for all by Felicia Sephodi ITB/Latam https://latam.intothebox.org/ When? Wed May 15th to Fri May 17th 2024 Where is it this year? New location Washington DC Optica conference center, 2010 Massachusetts Ave NW, near Dupont Circle metro Travel 3 airports. Best two are WAS and DUL, both metro access to downtown DC Registration Register here Bilbo's Bonus Pass: Get a 10% discount because you’re a part of our CF Fellowship community: ITBTERA24 Cost Early bird $349 conf only, $449 workshop + conf Early bird ends March 30th Party Box evening event What are you looking forward to at ITB this year? Mentioned in this episode CF Suicide, Depression, and Recovery with Jorge Reyes Listen to the Audio Bio Jorge Reyes COO Jorge is an Industrial and Systems Engineer born and raised in El Salvador. In 2004 he moved to Mexico to complete his Bachelor's at the Insitute of Technology in Monterrey. In 2009 he returned to El Salvador where he worked as Operations Manager for SIHAM,

135 Lucee Migration (8 CFML code moving tips) with Mike Chytráček Feb 19, 2024

Mike Chytráček talks about “Lucee Migration (8 CFML code moving tips)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “...but we had migrated everything over and all new clients went to Lucy all new applications went to Lucy. And within I'd say maybe two years, we had probably 95% of our clients might get it off, some clients still required it”. https://youtu.be/DsSjRD68H70 Show notes What is Lucee? Why did you migrate to Lucee? 2018 switch from ACF to Lucee Adobe Licensing fishing call and new licensing model per application with $10ks extra cost. “SaaS” due to Mura Per core licensing beyond 2. Easy trial migration. Faster too! Worked great with both MS-SQL and MySQL 95% clints moved to Lucee 5% don’t understand open source or the support model Challenges with the migration Unsupported tags CFfileupload CFPDF Websockets CFspreadsheet Arrays and structs passed by reference in Lucee (vs by value) Scope overwriting for URL scope ORM Fixed by removing the ORM and replacing with straight SQL How Java classes are handled and created OSGI EHcache Requires setup PDFs Using wkHTML2PDF and JPG pixel perfect Via CFexecute Json keys - Linux and Windows - case issue - ACF uppercases the keys, Lucee keps original case Results of the migration CF Admin per site Mura and Masa CMS built on Lucee Themes and page builder Preside CMS Ortus Box tools Cost Esp with more cores Cloud easy - no licensing issue Faster to “buy” - no wait on licensing portal of ACF Runs faster Smaller install / load profile Support - via Slack or Lucee forums Less server issues with Lucee than ACF recently Regular (monthly) Lucee point update, easy rollback Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? CF and AI CF Camp CF IDE ideas. AI thoughts. Mentioned in this episode Lucee migration guide Calling Java from Lucee Masa episode Preside CMS episode Copilot episode Unity pay per download Listen to the Audio Bio Mike Chytráček Owner Mike first taught himself how to program on the Commodore 64 he received as a Christmas present in 1984. He was soon fascinated by the concept that you could plug your computer into a phone line and have the computer connect to other computers where you could meet new people and share ideas. It only seemed like a natural progression when he first discovered the internet in 1994. While simultaneously nurturing an IT career, he learned how to develop applications for the internet While working for a Chicago area dealership, he launched one of the first car dealership websites in the area (for 1998) and the only dealership that had it's inventory listed and updated daily. In 2000 he went to work for a small development company, SGSNet, in the Chicago area where he met future partner, Jeff Meister, and worked with clients like Ty, Gatorade, Carr Futures and Wilton Industries. In 2003 that small company was bought by Whittman-Hart, and by 2005 Mike and Jeff left Whittman-Hart to form Ignite Solutions and many clients followed them; Wilton Industries, Quaker/Gatorade, Dehnco to name a few. Mike is married with two children and in his spare time enjoys music, reading and spending as much time fishing the surf in the outer banks of North Carolina. Links Website: http://www.ignitesolutions.com Mike Chytráček | LinkedIn Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:01 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Mike Chaya tech are gonna total balls up your name there. So how do you pronounce it? It's a Triassic. SCI Triassic. It's like a silent that sounds so sci fi and modern. Yeah, that's how you pronounce it here wouldn't be how do you pronounce it or my grandparents pronounced it?

134 ColdFusion Legacy app – Is a Refactor Better than a Rewrite? with Denny Springle Dec 05, 2023

Denny Springle talks about “ColdFusion Legacy app - Is a Refactor Better than a Rewrite?” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “Refactoring is a way of taking in modernizing code that already exists, and bring it up to speed with generally modern best development practices. So you know, some object orientation, data modeling type of thing, as well as you know, either using a framework or building an application framework yourself, that hits all of the major obstacles that are that a framework will do for you generally”. https://youtu.be/_assa85CJQc Show notes Why is refactoring vs rewriting important today? vs 3rd option - leave the legacy app unchanged… Risks and rewards for each, best approaches Security, hacking risk and biz reputation Dev elegy to spaghetti Old style code with CF tags (vs CFscript Tech debt Urge to rewrite What does refactoring mean? Modernize existing code in place in production app Adding/improving framework Improving datamodel Incremental improvement that is always working Opportunity to get into the depths of the code and business logic Reuse Security Performance Feature flags New Ben Nadel book on this coming out soon House in dark analogy What does rewriting mean (really)? Understanding all the business logic and intelligence up front (and documented!) What really is the biz problem being solved No original devs or business users left May be to a new language, platform, database, OS/Cloud provider Or may be the same language, new version/upgrade. Recreate data model What are the risks and disasters of rewriting that you have seen? He was the “rewrite kid” in younger days Underestimate analysis time for understanding business logic Underestimate time for coding and testing Risk of project failure Users don’t accept the radically changed system or UX Now is is the “refactor” man He as seen 1 successful rewrite out of 5 Worse odds than Russian roulette! Always 90% done After 6 mos “we are 90% done boss” After another 6 mos “we are 90% done boss” Rewrite tips Extensive testing period, including beta testers (actual users) Only do when simple biz logic or well documented biz logic or big changes in business (merger or regulation change) Allow long shake down period after release If possible do slow rollout (how good SaaS work) Walk us through your ColdFusion refactor process? Agile sprint Reusability (and maintainable) A data model Move to Common code, objects Remove Deadwood code, tables, indices, and data Move to a MVC framework Why - code organization to Model, View and Controller parts of your code MVC is a standard in most modern languages Separating View code lets Switch out front ends - web vs mobile Easier for UX coders to edit the View code without messing up the CFML code logic or SQL queries Readability FW/1 - lightweight ColdBox - more features and ecosystem CFWheels Legacy non-maintained CF frameworks Fusebox Model Glue REST API REST API is a modern programming pattern Many 3rd party REST API All modern web programming languages use them CF makes consuming or providing REST API incredible easy One parameter in your CFC object! Encapsulation of data model and business logic Different front ends, same API Not a microservices fan any more Can become clunky and numerous Cloud resources and cost go through the roof Documentation may be lacking Amazon Prime case study of moving away from microservices Is Amazon moving away from microservices? The migration of the Audio-Video Monitoring Service from Microservices to Monolith was a significant change in Amazon Prime Video's architecture.

133 GitHub Copilot & AI-Assisted Coding (Unlocking ColdFusion’s AI Potential) with Monte Chan Nov 25, 2023

Monte Chan talks about “GitHub Copilot & AI-Assisted Coding (Unlocking ColdFusion's AI Potential)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “It is an AI pair programming tool. So this helps test your programming that basically, there's another person but in this case is a AI tool, if you will, so but you will be doing most of the typing. But then that will also give you some code suggestions, if you will. And to help you with coding. So sometimes can be a short one liner, or could be one whole block of codes. So you can save a lot of typing.” https://youtu.be/nk27Pr03lXg Show notes What is Github Copilot? An AI pair programmer. Essentially, Copilot is Auto Complete on steroid. When Copilot generates the codes, it does not know what it is writing. It is simply trying to predict the next word(s) based upon the information that it has. Works with VS Code, Visual Studio, NeoVim/Vim, and JetBrains IDEs via extensions https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/overview-of-github-copilot/about-github-copilot-for-individuals Who makes it? Microsoft who own Github Why should CFers use Copilot Helps you write code faster especially when it generate a whole block of code Write better code esp if your give it self-documenting variable and function names Can help with JavaScript, CSS and SQl too Improves a junior developer’s weak area more than it improves a senior developer. “Copilot makes you better at what you’re good at and lets you quickly master what you’ve yet to learn.” “Among developers who use GitHub Copilot, 88% say they are more productive, 74% say that they can focus on more satisfying work, and 77% say it helps them spend less time searching for information or examples.” from https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-copilots-impact-on-developer-productivity-and-happiness/ Any reasons to not use it? Trained on codes found in public repositories – The accuracy of the generated codes depends on the amount of codes in their respective public repos. The quality of the codes may or may not be good It takes the name of your file, the codes before and/or after the cursor in the current file, the currently open files in your IDE, and the codes in the files linked to the current file in context when trying to provide code suggestions. In other words, as you are building your projects, the accuracy rate should increase. Does it copy your code to add to its store of code? Controversy over where the code comes from - copyright issues? Business version has option to only use code from a your own private GitHub repo Tips on using Copilot Be precise and provide details Be descriptive to your file names, variable names, function names, …etc. Keep file tabs open especially those files which are relating to the current file. Keep in mind that Github Copilot is like an Auto-Complete on steroid. It does not have an idea in which language you are writing. The suggested code may not have the correct syntax (ex. Missing a bracket, missing a semicolon, …etc.) or the suggested variables/functions may not exist. So! Read and test the code generated! Github Copilot is trained on data found in public repositories. So! Put more ColdFusion codes in public repositories. ForgeBox? Mirror into public GitHub or write an extension Explain code Simple bug fixing Translate code to/from other programming Demo Pricing 30 day trial $10 per month for individuals; $19 for business license per user/mo Copilot Business comes with Copilot Chat More on features and differences between individual and business versions https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/overview-of-github-copilot/about-github-copilot-for-individuals Has Copilot changed the way your team approaches coding or collaboration?

132 ColdFusion Hosting options with Dakota Clum and Ryan Brown Aug 07, 2023

Dakota Clum and Ryan Brown talk about “ColdFusion Hosting options (what to consider when choosing a CF host)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “......you shouldn't have to be trapped with one hosting option or one provider. So when we think about the AWS are the answers of the world, when there's a need for those specific resources are specific tooling and libraries, we want to be able to support that. So, to your point, there's no kind of lock in, or anything like that you shouldn't do one or the other, you should keep all the options open to you. ” https://youtu.be/fwMKwg_J2QM Show notes What is new in CF hosting this year? Adobe is moving to an annual release schedule Investment in CF Adobe committed 10 years of support What to consider when choosing a CF hosting? CF support at app level, server layer, Responsible esp updates/hotfix support and proactive patch CF admin access All major release of ACF supported and able to rollback to older version during migration if needed Security Reliability Security Patching WAF firewall End point protection ColdFusion Hosting options AWS/Google/Azure Docker containers Easier clustering on the fly, pay only for time needed Scalable pricing but harder to budget VPS Cloud Your own server Resize on the flip Faster and easy backup and restore and cloning Dedicated server Pay monthly Shared Cheaper, but other users can use up resources / crash server On prem, managed, co-location Your own ACF license More control of physical server - he organization rule or in Load balancing Cluster CF servers Cluster database servers Azure SQL Database Geo-failover Caching front end such as CloudFlare ACF Licensing on your own versus a cloud provider Adobe cloud license Bring your own license CPU Core count ColdFusion Tuning & Optimization ColdFusion Installation & Configuration Config of CF server and JVM Patches of CF, Java, Windows JVM memory use Tuning to your app CF package manager Support Patch & Hotfix support Dedicated box - they self support as their VPS level has best support Shared level has worse support, as the money is not there to pay for it Might as well self host using Docker and DigitalOcean ColdFusion Upgrade Protection Access to new versions for migration testing Lucee vs ACF Older versions Need for AWS specific features Docker and Kubernetes Backups Backup strategy and retention time Onsite and offsite Disaster recovery (DR) plan Server, CF server settings, CF code, Database Protection against ransomware attacks Test your restores and DR plan Cost vs Downtime Future of CF hosting More CF adoption Multi-cloud Annual release cycle and new features App hosting pre-tuned vs genetic CF hosting AI FusionReactor AI features CF AI features for security and performance and tuning Mentioned in this episode ColdFusion Hosting: How To Choose the Best One Fun stories about different xByte customer experiences Listen to the Audio Bios Dacota Clum Dakota is CTO at xByte Hosting with a specialization in cloud and dedicated infrastructure solutions. He is responsible for delivering secure and innovative solutions that helps organizations reach scale. With a strong focus on customer satisfaction and innovative problem-solving, Dakota possesses a passion for helping organizations adopt enterprise cloud solutions. Links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dakota-clum/ Email: dakota.clum@xbyte.com Ryan Brown CMO for xByte hosting Ryan graduated from Virginia Tech with an Accounting Information Systems degree and has been in the I.T. industry for 28 years.

131 Lucee 6 with Gert Franz, Charlie Arehart, Ben Nadel, Mark Drew, Zac Spitzer Jul 13, 2023

Gert Franz, Charlie Arehart, Ben Nadel, Mark Drew, and Zac Spitzer talk about “Lucee 6” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “Welcome to the podcast. We’re coming here live from CF camp in Munich, Germany. And we are going to be talking about Lucee 6, the new release of Lucee CFML. And we’ve got some amazing experts here. Mark Drew who's done a lot of Lucee coding at distro kid. Then we’ve got Charlie Erehart, the ColdFusion troubleshooting expert giving an independent view on Lucee. Then we’ve got Ben Nadal all the way from New York City. And he's the top blogger among ColdFusion people according to our annual survey, and then we got good friends from Lucee Association, Switzerland, coming up at the end, but not least. And on the other screen, if you're watching on video, we have some of the attendees from Sierra camp when we open the set. Yay, go attendee. And we'll be opening up to audience questions later in the show. So why don't we just start by just going through each of the four panelists, and I'm just want to ask you, what are you most excited about in Lucee 6?” Show notes What are you most excited about the Lucee 6 release? It is released! (after 2019 announcement at CFCamp 2019) and years of covid it is finally released :-) Java integration, easier paths, tag islands Listeners: query, email, HTTP progress etc Do want we want to do and add to Lucee independent to ACF CFconfig, container friendly, cloud friendly now Fast startup (

130 Adobe CF Summit 2023 (ACF 2023, certification, annual releases and more) with Kishore Balakrishnan Jun 26, 2023

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit 2023” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “We’re going to be talking about CF summit in Las Vegas and what's new and what you need to know about that.” Show notes What are you looking forward to at CF Summit in Las Vegas in October 2023? ACF 2023 released - detailed sessions on new features Networking with other CFers and Adobe CF engineering team What performance improvements will be presented? AI-powered solutions coming in ACF 2024 Adobe is moving to annual release cycle due to the speed of tech change, including AI Adobe are looking for customers to give ideas for new features too What is the importance of the summit for CFers? Becoming a certified CFer Access to 50+ training videos and take an exam during the Summit or later at a time of your choosing 24 hours of video-on-demand training Constant updates of new topics are added Topics and Speakers Keynote speaker - Vivek Kumar, Senior Director of Engineering Call for speakers is open Sponsors FusionReactor xByte Media3 TeraTech Dates Mon 2 - Tue 3 October 2023 main conference Monday evening event Wed 4th for the certification Location The Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada Student pass Free to high school and college students Includes all the conference sessions, networking and t-shirts etc Need student id Does not include the evening event (due to alcohol being served there) Does not include hotel room Application form on the CF Summit website coming soon Cost Session Pass - $99 Access to all sessions & workshops on October 2nd and 3rd Access to all keynotes, panels, workshops & speaker Q&A Access to first-day party Professional Pass - $199 Access to all sessions & workshops on October 2nd and 3rd Access to all keynotes, panels, workshops & speaker Q&A Access to first-day party Access to ColdFusion Certification training on October 4th Registration Register | CF Summit 2023 (adobeevents.com) CF Summit India This is returning! In early December in Bengaluru, India Mentioned in this episode TeraTech Blog post CF Summit CF Certification TT ACF 2023 blog post https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/ Free Student Pass Listen to the Audio Bio Kishore Balakrishnan is a Director - Product and Growth Marketing at Adobe with a Master Degree in Computer Applications. At Adobe, he held roles of a Quality Manager, Program Manager and Senior Product Marketing Manager before becoming the Product and Growth Director. He enjoys being the 'voice of the customer' within the organization, liaise with the sales team to facilitate the selling process and clearly communicate the why, what and when to the marketplace for CF. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and kid. Kishore loves his long runs and cooking. Links LinkedIn Kishore Balakrishnan | LinkedIn Twitter https://twitter.com/kishore31 Email kishore31@gmail.com Episode transcript Michaela Light 00:01 Welcome back to the show. I’m here with Kishore Balakrishna from Adobe. And he’s the head of marketing for ColdFusion. And we're going to be talking about CF summit in Las Vegas and what’s new and what you need to know about that. Welcome Kishore. Kishore Balakrishnan 00:21 Thanks, Michaela, Thanks for having me. And it was a pleasure talking to you. Michaela Light 00:26 Yes. Good to see you again. And he’s done a lot of things in Adobe, he’s been the Quality Manager, program manager. And currently, he’s the product and growth Marketing Manager for ColdFusion. So and he’s been involved in CF. He’s been with ColdFusion for like at least 10 years now. Kishore Balakrishnan 00:49 Yes. Bein in ColdFusion for 10 years. Yes. Michaela Light 00:52 They should give you some award, you know.

129 MASA ColdFusion CMS (new open source Content Manager) with Guust Nieuwenhuis Mar 14, 2023

Guust Nieuwenhuis talks about “MASA ColdFusion CMS (new open source Content Manager)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "he’s joining us to talk about MASA CMS, a new CMS launched about a year and a half ago. It’s a fork out of the famous Muira CMS. And we’ll talk about why you even want to use a CMS at all, we’ve got some astounding statistics out of the confusion. State of the Union survey will be run every year that I think are important regarding this.” Show notes What is MASA? ColdFusion Entrepreneur CMS What is a CMS? Content Management System Store content in a database rather than hard coding in CF files Letting users at your organization edit content directly Avoids delays from developers updating content Or users editing CFM files directly and creating bugs in your code Workflow and control of content updates Why use a CMS? Better control of content edits Safer Better features What CMSes do CFers use? State of CF Union survey Why MASA? Introduction to MASA CMS Roots in Mura CMS (open source version 7.1) 1.5 years ago fork from Mura Rebrand Legal check Removed commercial software dependencies so it is GPL 2 license Source, docs and discussion hosted on GitHub Mura changed to closed source in version 10 Enterprise Content Management Features User roles, Workflow, version sets, content staging (previous draft) EU website store sales rules Security Features of MASA CMS UX easy to use Documentation https://docs.masacms.com/ New Admin file browser Layout manager - WYSIWYG drag and drop modules into your content page Inline edits Themes Look and feel of while site, CSS, colors etc Custom modules Plugins Non-visual functionality customization Admin functionality Modules Visual element with code Widgets Text box Image gallery Video Etc Events Rich event lifecycle Clear naming convention Many hooks to let you customize MASA using custom plugins Eg OnBeforeContentSave, OnAfterContentSave OO approach is good for MASA and not required ORM and beans API Front end JavaScipt access to MASA via API Adobe API M-tag When creating content in Masa CMS you use the [m] tag for rendering dynamic content. This is a very powerful way to access CFML and Masa functionality. Call CF custom functions from your content. Workflows Create a custom group workflow MASA statistics Thousands of content pages Hundreds of content editors/approvers Mura backward compatibility Very easy from the latest Mura open source version (7.1) - just a config file For earlier versions of Mura, you need to update a bit more in the code. Guust’s company can help with this. Future MASA versions have semantic versioning (https://semver.org/) eg 7.4.1 Major version number = 7 May have breaking changes or big changes A minor version number with the Major = 4 No breaking changes Batch version number within the Minor = 1 Small bug fixes Ember.js is a good example of version numbers 6-week minor version release cycle When enough changes they roll up all the minor versions to a new major version with depreciations of old features. Deployment options on different infrastructure ACF Lucee Cloud and Docker MySQL, SQL Server, Progress, Oracle Test suite What is the plan for new features? Roadmap Headless CMS Content Mobile Decoupled CMS Static content edited via admin in a separate site How many versions does MASA have so far? Support agreements MASA cloud hosting Going to CFCamp Mentioned in this episode

128 Stopping API security hacks cold (using ColdFusion API Manager) with Mike Brunt Mar 13, 2023

Mike Brunt talks about “Stopping API security hacks cold (using ColdFusion API Manager)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "We're going to be talking about API security and ColdFusion, which you may not have considered. This is a whole other attack service surface that your apps can be hacked by." Show notes Why does CF API security matter? Remote API calls: False assumption that APIs your app calls are secure - but they may not be Local API - is it secure? Are they still open but not used API use “APIs are extremely popular these days, with an average organization leveraging 15,564 APIs in total, up 201% year-on-year.” From this article in TechRadar, from April 2022. API use is increasing exponentially, which can expose serious security issues. Common API use Legacy database Other company’s data eg USP shipping tracking Blockchain ChatGPT Amazon AWS features And many more What is API A portal into the middle of your code functionality and data Sends and returns XML and JSON CF API Security attacks Credential Stuffing: Malicious actors using stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access to API endpoints. Pay close attention to the origin, rate and frequency of authorization requests. Cross-Site-Scripting XSS: As we can see, many of these attacks already exist in the website world. Here malicious actors try to insert subversive scripts (often JavaScript) which can be executed. In this case, validate all input using character escaping and filtering. Distributed Denial of Service Attacks DdoS: Impose limits on the amount and frequency of data inputs and outputs. Injection Attacks akin to SQL Injection: Check, sanitize and validate all the data inputs passed via API requests. In addition ensure that data delivered via the API does not expose any possible vulnerabilities. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks: Ensure that all transmitted data is fully encrypted. Actions to protect your CF app APIs Inventory All Existing API Endpoints - This should be a first step in determining what the attack surface could be. This audit should show the actual requirement of each API endpoint and any vulnerabilities shown in the table above. Both remote API calls and Your own APIs Look at API Manager monitoring Scan code for CFHTTP calls and CFCs that expose API Build API Security For New Applications/Features At The Planning Stage - As with the applications themselves, any security concerns should be in the very early planning stages of any new apps or features using API endpoints. Use Strong Authentication And Authorization On All API Endpoints - Ideally, there should be no API endpoints that are not strongly secured, if so, these will be captured by the inventory-audit. Encrypt All Traffic Via TLS - Ideally all traffic passing inward and outward should be encrypted and preferably via TLS. Use A Minimal Set Of Privileges - Ensure that users, systems, devices, processes etc, only have the minimum amount of privileges needed to operate. Again, this should become apparent during the inventory/audit. Avoid using the database SA/System Administrator user in APIs Expose Only The Very Necessary Data - the task of what data is exposed and passed should be determined via the API endpoint and not any application code. Again allow only totally necessary information. Validate All Input - Validate all data passing in and out of an API endpoint; for instance, if the endpoint only needs integers, there should be no text passing through. Create And Enforce Rate Limiting - Set limits which will reject excess transactions if they are exceeded. For instance 6,000 requests per day, per account; any requests which exceed this number will be rejected. Of course,

127 Modernizing ColdFusion Legacy Apps, Guust Nieuwenhuis Mar 12, 2023

Guust Nieuwenhuis talks about “Modernizing ColdFusion apps (through evolution, not revolution)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "We're going to be talking about modernizing your legacy ColdFusion apps through evolution and not revolution. And we'll explain what that means." Show notes Why not rewrite legacy apps? A feeling (to rewrite) isn’t sufficient Hot language Blame the tech stack not the architecture, CTO or the dev team Dev phrases Only my language Only rewrite not refactor - belief than is harder to recode than rewrite Tech > business Delays release Adds risk of project failure Lack of written business rules More bugs and less functionality Expensive “Rewrite code from scratch is the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make” - Joel Spolsky cofounder of Stack Overflow, Fogbugz and Trello Do nothing option Build up tech debt Increase security risk footprint month by month User dissatisfaction grows It works after years of tweaks and bug fixing and real world use Refactor instead Keep database the same Incremental improvements vs waterfall Agile Just in time refactor improvements - surgical micro rewrite Refresh front end with JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue Business case driven Legacy issues Spaghetti code Hard to follow Hard to change Poor naming conventions for functions, include and CFC files and variables Poor variable scoping (global variables can be overwritten and are generally dangerous Hardcoded “magic” values Deadwood code Security issues due to… Old framework Unsupported libraries Deprecated integrations No test plan or automated tests Not documented Hard to maintain or add new features Performance issues Adding features Better architecture API exposure for mobile app or partners Encapsulate functionality Set a boundary Microservices Vs Monolith Specialized CF Engine package management to remove unneeded CFML features for fast load and running. Strangler Fig Pattern Anti-corruption layer Document architecture decisions in JIRA Magic numbers to static variables Wrapper functions Event driven architecture Code trauma and political reluctance Same habits, same mistakes! Read more Eric Evans domain driven design Martin Fowler blog and books Strangler Fig Pattern Anti-corruption layer Ben Nadel Feature flags Links below Going CFCamp in June Mentioned in this episode His CF Summit preso Joel Spolsky article and quote Things You Should Never Do, Part I Eric Evans domain driven design Martin Fowler blog and books Strangler Fig Pattern Anti-corruption layer Ben Nadel Feature flags Listen to the Audio Bio Guust Nieuwenhuis is a Full Stack Web Wizard with experience in a wide range of technologies. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in projects for various clients like the European Commission, NSHQ (NATO), Adobe, AS Adventure Group, NS (Dutch railways), CZ Groep, Proximus, Avery Dennison and Mediagenix. Through We Are North, we do 'Customization-As-A-Service'. We don't build from scratch: we find the best solutions out there and tailor them to our customers' business needs. In doing so, we never lose sight of the goal of the client. In his free time, he plays the double bass and drums, crosses the forest on his mountain bike and coaches the youth at their local football club (where he is a board member as well). He likes spending time with his wife and two kids or meeting friends for a chat, game or drink. If he still has some time left, he mainly spends it behind his computer to fulfill his hunger for the latest trends in IT. Links

126 Revealing FusionReactor 9 (ColdFusion Monitoring New Tools) with David Tattersall Dec 01, 2022

126 Revealing FusionReactor 9 (ColdFusion Monitoring New Tools) with David Tattersall David Tattersall talks about “Revealing FusionReactor 9 (ColdFusion Monitoring New Tools)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “We’ll be talking about the amazing new features in fusion reactor nine, for making your ColdFusion apps run fast and not have crashes. Or if they do have slowdowns or crashes, you can quickly diagnose, what’s going on. And there are a lot of new features in version nine. So we’ll get into that in the episode, and we’ll go through some demos for those of you on video; you’ll be able to see the demo for those listening on audio; we’ll walk through the eight cool stuff that you’re seeing.” Show notes Our Mission + FusionReactor highlights How applications changed and the impact on monitoring Developers don't have it easy What is FusionReactor - why is it different? Unified Observability Platform® Identifying performance & stability issues Coming very soon to FusionReactor Common problems Performance Problems Resources limitations, due to Socket 10, or Cache (Resource Metrics, Profiler) External applications or systems such as a DB or API's (Distributed Tracing) Database issues, due to too many queries or poorly written (JDBC monitor) Memory Problems Allocating too much memory / Memory leak (Heap Analyzer / JDBC by Mem) Production Errors - the elusive corner case... Various issues - (Event Snapshots / Debugger - breakpoints & tracepoints) What is FusionReactor? Why should all CFers be using it? What are the differences between FR 8 and 9? What are the new features? Pricing on FR 9 What does ‘Unified Observability’ mean? How applications have changed and the impact on monitoring How FusionReactor has responded to those changes Identifying common problems using existing & new features New Logging Capability (FR9) Coming very soon to FusionReactor Cloud Why go to Cloud? When was FR CLOUD launched? https://teratech.com/podcast/into-the-cloud-with-fusionreactor-coldfusion-application-performance-monitor-with-david-tattersall/ Realtime production debugging for Java Alerting improved? What versions of ACF and Lucee does FR work with? all! Roadmap What's coming up (very) soon Infrastructure monitoring - Host machines, Nginx, DB's, K8s, Kafka, AWS etc. Lots and lots of dashboards - rendered automatically when we detect specific technologies or data sources Fully distributed tracing across different languages & technologies Synthetic monitoring - giving you an "outside in" view of your application Machine Learning & Al Ops (this is the future!) WWIT to make CF even more alive next year/2023? CF Camp 2023 Any other (new) conferences in sight? Mentioned in this episode How to tackle common performance and stability issues using FusionReactor How FusionReactor is able to ingest any application, ColdFusion or FusionReactor logs CF Camp 2023 in Munich 057 Into the CLOUD with FusionReactor (ColdFusion Application Performance Monitor) with David Tattersall FusionReactor 9 Press Release Listen to the Audio Bio David Tattersall David Tattersall has been in working in IT for over 35 years. Since co-founding Intergral in 1998, he has focused on company management, business development and sales & marketing. Intergral has become a leader in server monitoring and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions in the ColdFusion / Java segment. Intergral’s flagship product - FusionReactor - www.fusion-reactor.com is used on over 30,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers. Links www.fusion-reactor.com Intergral David Tattersall | LinkedIn Email David (at) fusion-reactor.com Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:02 Welcome back to the show.

125 State CF Union Survey Analysis (part 3: Community, Deployment and Wrapup) with Gavin Pickin Nov 17, 2022

Gavin Pickin talks about “State CF Union survey analysis (part 3: Community, Deployment and Wrapup)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "...Last time, we got to question 27. Now we’re in the whole section around ColdFusion community, which I know it's important to a lot of listeners. So let's have a look at..." Show notes 6. ColdFusion Community https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2022-survey-results-coldfusion-community-6 28. How often do you attend ColdFusion User Group meetings? Online CF Meetup - Charlie Arehart Michigan CFUG CF Hiawii ColdfusionIndia Mark Takata 29. What CF related topics are you interested in learning this year? Contains key for DevOps 30. What CF blogs do you read Charlie Arehart Pete Freitag Adobe Community Forum Ortus Nolan Erck Brad Wood FusionReactor Mark Krueger Mathew Clemente Michael Born 31. Which CF conferences will/did you attend this year? 32. What online CF communities do you participate in? Sean Corefield slack archive website 33. CF Open Source 34. I listen to the CF-related channels 7. Deployment https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2022-survey-results-deployment-7 35. What types of DEVELOPMENT setups do you use? 36. What types of PRODUCTION deployments do you use? 37. What hosting services do you use for your PRODUCTION deployments? Ideas for 2023 survey Google cloud Oracle cloud Abila cloud 38. What Docker Image(s) are you using, if applicable? (Check all that apply) Charie talk on Docker images Jon Claussen java byte code crunching 39. What deployment/build tools do you use? 40. What monitoring tools are you using? 41. How do you lock down your servers for security? 42. Have your CF servers suffered from a hacking exploit in the last 2 years due to a CF-based vector? (Remember, this is anonymous) 43. Are you using or planning to use AWS Lambda (serverless) 8. Wrap up https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2022-survey-results-wrap-up-8 44. What aspects of CF are keeping you and/or your company using it? Idea for 2023 survey - Tools and eco-system 45. What aspects of CF are preventing you or your company from embracing CF? 46. What are your company’s plans for your technology stack, if any? 47. What is your approximate salary range in USD? (Remember, this is anonymous) 48. What is your current arrangement for CF work? 49. What industry is your company in? 50. Any additional comments/suggestions for the survey? Mentioned in this episode Charlie Arehart UG CF feeds TryCF Google cloud Oracle cloud Abila cloud ColdfusionIndia Meetup Group CF blogs Charlie Arehart Pete Freitag Adobe Community Forum Ortus Solutions Nolan Erck FusionReactor Mark Drew Mathew Clemente Michael Born Listen to the Audio Bio Gavin Pickin Software Consultant passionate about Building Better Businesses using CFML, JavaScript, VueJS, Docker, Training, Podcasts and sharing all my lessons learned Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions Gavin started using ColdFusion in 1999 when working for the University of Auckland in New Zealand before moving to California. He has led teams, trained new developers and worked the full stack from graphic design, HTML and CSS JavaScript through ColdFusion MySQL and server administration. Gavin has a passion for learning and cannot understand why the 9-5ers aren’t listening to podcasts while changing diapers, watching video tutorials while cleaning baby bottles and folding clothes, or putting the kids to sleep with soothing phone gap mobile application cookbook recipes. Links Gavin Pickin (@gpickin) / Twitter George “Gavin” Pickin | LinkedIn Gavin Pickin - Web and Business Developer

124 gitStream (Way Faster ColdFusion Git Merging) with Luke Kilpatrick Nov 03, 2022

Luke Kilpatrick talks about “gitStream (Way Faster ColdFusion Git Merging)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "We'll talk about cool things you can do with Git to speed up your whole merge process using a new tool called Git stream." Show notes What is Git? Why should all CFers be using it? Top CF source control software GitHub was is made by Microsoft now GitLabs What are Branches, Pull Requests and Merges Branches of the code tree Code edit conflicts - merge required Most edits in different parts of the code base usually don’t need a merge with humans Risk of breaking the build CI - Continuous Integration CD - Continuous development - automated testing (TDD) Pull request (PR) is the request to do the merge + code review More rapid deployment cycles on the cloud Why do Merges suck in most companies? Waiting on humans to do the code review, who is best to review this change? Getting up to speed on that particular part of the code and why the change was made How does gitStream help? It analyses the pull request Uses CM YAML file to decide Types of change Small change - auto-approve Standard change - who will review Critical change - to core code Who is the best person to review Tags the PR Compare to triage at hospital ER department Ideal Small branches Fast PRs PR 100% faster (average time from 7 days to 3.5 days) Visibility and statistics on merge times gitStream features Triage of PRs Estimated time to review Works with VS Code Stateful labels, color coding What does gitStream cost? gitStream is free for all Reporting etc is free for upto 8 developers Paid Entreprise features beyond this https://linearb.io/pricing/ Hack-tober fest support for spam PRs Is this just for commercial repos or can open source projects use it too? Any GitHub hosted repo Both Install GitHub marketplace Roadmap Adding to GitLabs, BitBucket etc VS Code extension Mentioned in this episode gitStream Continuous Merge, a way to categorize and speed up code reviews on GitHub Hacktoberfest and gitStream Is DevRel forgetting the people who run software in production? -- Luke Kilpatrick and Mark Lavi - YouTube Listen to the Audio Bio Luke Kilpatrick Luke Kilpatrick started as a web developer in 1996, transitioning to building developer programs in 2010 with VMware. He has led or worked on developer experience teams at Sencha, Atlassian, Nutanix, Hazelcast and now at LinearB, working to improve the developer experience and speed up code reviews. Luke has managed and spoken at developer events worldwide, with highlights being Atlassian Appweek, Nutanix .NEXT, DevRelCon and /Data's Future Developer Summit. He lives in California, where he spends his spare time, on or under the ocean. Links LinkedIn Twitter Email: luke@linearb.io Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:02 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Luke Kilpatrick. And we're going to be talking about cool things you can do with Git to speed up your whole merge process using a new tool called Git stream. And we'll get into that in a moment. But first, if you don't know, look, he's been doing Cold Fusion for years, nearly Luke Kilpatrick 0:22 two decades, right? Yeah. Yeah. A long time. Michaela Light 0:25 Yeah. And you started off doing web development even before that, when the web hardly even existed in 1996. And right now, you do you lead the developer experience team at Linear B. And you've done that developer relations role at quite a few companies. So Luke Kilpatrick 0:46 yeah, I've been doing developer relations, but last 1012 years, cold fusion has always been sort of one of my first loves. And that's what got me into doing web development.

123 State of CF Union Survey Analysis (part 2) with Gavin Pickin Nov 03, 2022

Gavin Pickin talks about “State of CF Union Survey Analysis (part 2)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "we're going to be doing our second part on the state of the ColdFusion survey results. And we've got some very interesting data that we found we've done Gavin put together some really cool graphs show it so if you're watching on video, be able to see those if you're not on video, you can go to the show notes page on teratech.com to have a look at the graphs when we get to those." Show notes 1. What is the State of the CF Union survey When did it start? 2007 as part of CFUnited conference 2. Why do you run it every year? Trends Making CF more Alive - best practices and tools all CFer could be using! 3. Frameworks and Methodology 15. What miscellaneous frameworks/tools are you using? 16. What CF features do you use for code reuse? 4. Tools 17. What do you use for source code control? 18. What tools/IDEs do you use? 19. What browser Dev Tools do you use? 20. What do you use to build REST APIs? API Manager 21. What caching solutions are you using? 22. Do you use Message Queues (MQ) in your CF apps? If so which one(s)? 5. Your Programming Background 23. How many years have you used CFML? 24. How many years have you used OO? 25. Other languages/environments you use? 26. How many CF developers at your organization? 27. How many total employees at your organization? Mentioned in this episode Gavin and Ortus code reuse podcasts Brad CF speed episode Matt Gifford OO book Design Patterns book Listen to the Audio Bio Gavin Pickin Software Consultant passionate about Building Better Businesses using CFML, JavaScript, VueJS, Docker, Training, Podcasts and sharing all my lessons learned Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions Gavin started using ColdFusion in 1999 when working for the University of Auckland in New Zealand before moving to California. He has led teams, trained new developers and worked the full stack from graphic design, HTML and CSS JavaScript through ColdFusion MySQL and server administration. Gavin has a passion for learning and cannot understand why the 9-5ers aren’t listening to podcasts while changing diapers, watching video tutorials while cleaning baby bottles and folding clothes, or putting the kids to sleep with soothing phone gap mobile application cookbook recipes. Links Gavin Pickin (@gpickin) / Twitter George “Gavin” Pickin | LinkedIn Gavin Pickin - Web and Business Developer Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:01 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Gavin pickin from audit solutions. And we're going to be doing our second part on the state of the ColdFusion survey results. And we've got some very interesting data that we found we've done Gavin put together some really cool graphs show it so if you're watching on video, be able to see those if you're not on video, you can go to the show notes page on tourtech.com. To have a look at the graphs when we get to those. If you don't know Gavin, he's originally from Down Under in New Zealand. And he's been doing cold fusion for ever, I want to say 1999 or something like that. Yeah. And he used to be at working at the University of Auckland, but now he moved to California is working for autists solutions where he does amazing things. And in particular, he you don't say this new bio, but don't you? Aren't you the force behind content box isn't that you Gavin Pickin 0:59 did spend a lot of time doing a lot of work the content box, but it got to a point was pretty stable. And we're using it and using it. And so we focus more on?

122 CFWheels ColdFusion Framework (new structure and features), with Peter Amiri Oct 02, 2022

Peter Amiri talks about “CFWheels ColdFusion Framework (new structure and features)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "...CFwheels is another ColdFusion framework. And it was originally modeled after Ruby on Rails. So if you remember back in the early 2000s, when Ruby on Rails came out, it was a complete mind change on how applications could be built. And that's why I got a huge following. And there was a lot of effort on the ColdFusion side to see if we could take that momentum that Rails had and bring that framework over to the ColdFusion side of the house..." Show notes What is CFWheels? Ruby on Rails for CF MVC framework vs procedural or heaven forbit spaghetti code Convention over configuration Eg Views dir vs XML config Built in structure / scaffolding The CFWheels open source project has been around since 2005 CFWheels is an open source CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) framework inspired by Ruby on Rails that provides fast application development, a great organization system for your code, and is just plain fun to use. One of our biggest goals is for you to be able to get up and running with CFWheels quickly. Why should you use CFWheels? Types of CF Devs Professional devs, CS trained, modern development patterns Self learned developers, procedural devs Easy onramp to Self learned devs to get MVC benefits without doing a CS degree first While modern for CS type devs Getting started materials Using CommandBox can get a sample CFWheels app in 5 seconds Moving from legacy CF frameworks Fusebox, Model-Glue, Mach-2, F/W 1 If MVC used then translates easily New CFWheels dev team Changing of the Guards at CFWheels Peter frontman/evangelist and admin and structure Been involved in CFWheels since near the beginning Worked on the CFWheels CLI project Worked with Rails books author to draft CFWheels book, which needed CLI Uses CFWheels in work projects Joined the core team Tom King, David Belanger, Adam Chapman, Per Djurner focusing on coding CFWheels Admin burnout, stepping back a bit Major CFWheels features Easy MVC Industry established concept MVC Easy MVC, no need OO expert compared to ColdBox Or legacy CF frameworks ModelGlue, Mach2 Conventions Routing engine Resource based RESTful routing engine for GET, POST, PUT, PATCH & DELETE Databases CFWheels uses ORM and Migrations. for database Less CRUD and SQL coding Automatically works if database structure changes Or even database changes Built in database migration system even across different DBMS App Documentation Automatic App Documentation using the built in doc viewer which grows with your application From special comments. Similar idea to JavaDocs Eg CFWheels API uses this Local docs (offline work) CFWheels API Lets you call the atomic components of CFWheels separately https://api.cfwheels.org/v2.4 Hybrid Development - Switch in and out of Wheels conventions Ecosystem CFWheels plugins at ForgeBox Add to the framework core Overwrite core functionality to change behavior https://www.forgebox.io/type/cfwheels-plugins Eg bCrypt, JWT, SAML, dotEnvSettings shortcodes CFWheels Fully Embraces ForgeBox Packages Community CFWheels has moved to GitHub Discussions. https://github.com/cfwheels/cfwheels/discussions Google discussions archived The CFWheels Channel on CFML Slack Has Been Archived the reasons for this move are to Move our discussions closer to the code in GitHub, allowing the poster and respondent to more easily link to specific branches, files, and even lines of code. Issues can be converted to discussions if they warrant further community input or discussions promoted to an issue once an issue or feature has had ope...

121 How to Get Your Next Ideal CF Job (using LinkedIn, Resume, GitHub), with Doug McCaughan Sep 26, 2022

Doug McCaughan talks about “How to Get Your Next Ideal CF Job (using LinkedIn, Resume, GitHub)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "...the company pivoted away from ColdFusion. And suddenly, after 12 years, you’re like, Oh, dear, I need to get a job..." Show notes A sudden need for a new job after a CIO total tech stack pivot. The whole CF team was let go How CF hiring works these days Network Your connections Informational interviews 70% of jobs are never advertized Allocate regular time to maintaining and growing your network, website, social media. GitHub Update your profile (aka your personal README.md) and link to your LinkedIn, Twitter, website etc Contribute to your fav CF open source projects - docs, code, small fixes Improve your chances for a great first impression LinkedIn Why Linkedin > FB, TW, YT etc Others support, LinkedIn is where hiring managers may see you and search for candidates Photo Background image Tagline About Employment Schools Use other sections Add people you know to expand your connections and hence post reach Always include a personalized note If unsure, send a message first Like, comment or post daily your name, photo and tagline will be in front of not only your own connections, but the people you comment on or tag Especially good to like and comment on 1) CF influencers 2) potential employers Be yourself LinkedIn Premium InMail Privacy shields down Jobs menu Resume Talk about results more than tech Cover letter Personalize Email vs PDF Your Ideal job exercise Get in a positive state of mind. WH via walk in nature, exercise etc. Then write down your vision of your ideal future job. What it is like a typical day, how you feel emotionally doing it, coworkers, boss etc. It is key that you get out of your current mental state of fear and anger before you do it. To get to a deep vision of what your true self wants in work. Don’t try to be realistic here. This is your dream. This will help in updating your LinkedIn and resume. I think you will get some good insights from doing it. If possible write first with pen and paper. Not phone or computer. You can always put in a doc later. Ann's best to get raw version out first to avoid the critical, sel editing mind interfering 😊 Why are you proud to use CF? I can rapidly develop error-free, reliable, robust solutions for customers. When I am asked, “can ColdFusion do X?” the answer is almost always yes. And it continues to evolve as our sector changes with developments like API management and microservices. When asked who uses ColdFusion? It makes me proud to be able to reference universities and academia, NASA, and Fortune 100 companies. WWIT to make CF more alive this year? It would be nice to see ColdFusion bubbling to the service outside of CF circles. Even my non-programming friends know to say .NET when talking Internet tech. Tech news talks of things like React, Vuejs, Python, and Rust. I don’t know how to make it happen but it would be great to see some publicity for ColdFusion. What are you looking forward to at ITB? If could attend, the people networking would be invaluable for me. As a matter of fact, while these conferences have shared such great knowledge, and influenced my development tools, such as using VS Code, the connections I make with people is always what I look forward to the most. Mentioned in this episode CF programmers FB group post CFers CF job search questions (FB group post link) State of the CF Union survey 2022 results Dream Job course https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/ Listen to the Audio Bio Doug McCaughan Husband to one wonderful wife, father to five fantastic children, programmer, juggler, technophile, DIYer, adventurer,

120 How is CFML Speed vs Other Languages? (Hint: really fast!), with Brad Wood Sep 25, 2022

Brad Wood talks about “How is CFML speed vs other languages? (Hint: really fast!)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "...It is freaking awesome to see CFML (both Lucee and Adobe) blowing the pants off other popular web frameworks. I think this sort of head-to-head comparison is great information to use when defending CFML as a battle-tested production server..." Show notes Why compare language performance? It is freaking awesome is it to see CFML (both Lucee and Adobe) blowing the pants off other popular web frameworks. I think this sort of head-to-head comparison is great information to use when defending CFML as a battle-tested production server. (results and tests below). Other ways to compare programming languages Modern development ecosystem Tools IDEs Libraries and frameworks Modern language Ease of coding (writing and reading) Ease of learning Connection to other systems and APIs Manufacturer and community there for the long term + support Ease of hiring App reliability Scalability Security Fashion / what is hot / new What are the TechEmpower performance benchmarks that you used in your testing? The benchmarks have a suite of tests, such as run 20 queries on a page and output some data, and every language and framework implements the same logic in their syntax and style. The tests literally take days to run in full and spin up each combination of language and framework in docker containers where they are hammered with oodles of traffic and then the juicy stats are recorded for sweet graphical comparisons. Since 2012 in EC2, now in Docker containers. Open source. The site is basically information overload. There’s just dozens and dozens of combinations of languages, frameworks, databases, web servers, etc-- and many of them are crazy fast micro frameworks you’ve never heard of which are pretty cool. You can apply a huge list of filters to try and carve down the list of frameworks to a useful size of equivalent ones. See results Not all the test results are the same. Play around with the site to compare your favorite languages and see how they hold up in the simple hello world tests vs the heavy lifting DB tests. I’ve stacked the cards a bit in my selections above, but I think it’s more indicative of a real world web app if we’re honest. What languages did you compare? Brad added the following to the site a year or so ago: Raw Lucee server Raw Adobe ColdFusion server ColdBox MVC running on Lucee ColdBox MVC running on Adobe ColdFusion All the famous languages: CF, PHP, Python, Go, RoR, Grails etc What about front ends such as React, Angular, Vue? What about Java (SpringBoot), WP, dotNot, Cloture Size of CF Docker image Doesn’t matter for this test May matter for clustered Docker solutions with orchestration How did CFML perform? Let me be the first to say Brad’s filters are pretty arbitrary. CFML does better on more complex pages with more queries than other languages. That’s because it’s got a little more overhead for a simple Hello World request (we’re talking ms here) but it’s JVM concurrency and datasource connection pooling really shine on a more complex test. As such, the link and screenshot above is for the “Data Updates” test Languages compared: Go is very fast. This is no surprise as Go is designed to be as small as possible and even discourages use of frameworks all together. I couldn’t get the filter to only show one of the Go configurations, but you can see it’s the only language that was as fast or faster than CFML in this test! CFML basically came in second place out of the selected languages and frameworks. Raw CFML is faster than ColdBox as expected but it’s not a massive difference. Node.js came in slower than both raw CFML and ColdBox MVC Groovy (Grails) came in slower than both raw CFML and ColdBox MVC

119 State of CF Union Survey 2022 Results In Depth Analysis Part 1 (14 cool ColdFusion, Database and Frameworks insights) with Gavin Pickin Sep 11, 2022

Gavin Pickin talks about “State of CF Union Survey 2022 Results In-Depth Analysis Part 1 (14 cool ColdFusion, Database and Frameworks insights)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "...so far right now, you know, we see 60% of people are using a supported ColdFusion licensed product..." Show notes What is the State of the CF Union survey When did it start? 2007 as part of CFUnited conference CFers community Why is Survey important for the CF community? Why do you run it every year? Trends Making CF more Alive - best practices and tools all CFer could be using! CF versions https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2022-survey-results-server-environment Adobe CF 2018 is the most popular version, closely followed by Lucee CFML 5.3 and Adobe CF 2021 Adobe CF (all versions combined) continues to be more popular than Lucee (all versions combined) ACF 2021 has gained a lot of users this year 60% of people are using a supported ColdFusion licensed product. Your (Uncle Sam) ColdFusion needs you to upgrade to the latest version. No excuse for not keeping your software up to date. Lucee sponsored support. Server Environment 2022 64% 836 Overall Engine CF 2021 537 152 18.18% 28.31% CF 2018 177 21.17% 32.96% CF 2016 94 11.24% 17.50% CF 11 66 7.89% 12.29% CF 10 26 3.11% 4.84% CF 9 or earlier 22 2.63% 4.10% 36% Lucee 5.3 or later 262 195 23.33% 74.43% Lucee 5.2 or 5.1 52 6.22% 19.85% Lucee 4.x or earlier 13 1.56% 4.96% Railo 4.x or earlier 2 0.24% 0.76% BlueDragon 0 0.00% Other 37 4.43% Environment https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2022-survey-results-your-environment Windows still strong, Many people do their own DevOps, and they’re more comfortable with a Windows Server Linux subsystem Chrome is still the strongest OS Databases SQL Server is still the most used database, way ahead of MySQL About 30% are open-source solutions A lot of them have community editions Frameworks https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2022-survey-results-frameworks-methodology/ Custom/homebrew is the most popular framework, ahead of ColdBox, FW/1 and CFWheels Vue.js has moved further ahead of React and Angular for front-end frameworks Cool ElsasticSearch option; one new Search coming out soon. CMS- the winner is "don't use at all" The second is custom homegrown CMS Mura might’ve dropped because it went commercial JavaScript libraries- almost 90$ of CFers use a library of some kind JQuery still number one CSS Top CSS library is Bootstrap again If you're not using CSS, maybe this year is a good time to pick up a little CSS allows tailwind. To make your apps look more modern and be responsive CFC dependency injection Why even use it? Which persistence frameworks do you use? Most don't use them What is it exactly? Way to help you store data somewhere, persistently these will help your life, and they'll make it easy to load data, retrieve data search for data, and make you really happy with all that ORM / Hibernate the most familiar one A lot of people love writing SQL What testing and mocking frameworks do you use? Why would I even want for those all those people who answered none to this question? What’s the benefit? What were this testing and mocking stuff all these other people are doing? Half the people in ColdFusion aren't testing and the other half are lying about it Selenium is the most used testing framework CF Mobile development frameworks For the longest time, the native was native Android; native iOS was a lot higher than in previous years.

118 Into The Box ColdFusion Conference 2022 (new details revealed) with Gavin Pickin Aug 19, 2022

Gavin Pickin talks about “Into The Box ColdFusion Conference 2022 (new details revealed) ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. Your community 20% discount code is: TERAITB20 You can use it either for just the conference, or the full access pass (Conference+Workshop) "...with the [ITB] conference, it's a great way to look at a lot of different things. ...usually people have heard of ColdBox, it's the biggest of the three MVC frameworks still left in ColdFusion, (according to the ... state of the CF Union survey). Framework One is still up there, but it doesn't have the same support now that Sean Corefield moved on, and then CFwheels has been revived in that doing well, too..." Show notes What is Into The Box conference? Started with ColdBox Developer Week, then Ortus Developer Week. 2022 is the 9th edition. Started as a pre-conference before CFObjective Houston 2016 was the first ITB standing on it’s own legs without piggy backing onto another Conference. 1 day before a 3 day conference was tough, we moved so we could get 2 days. We have PLENTY to TALK ABOUT - so didn’t take us long to need more than 2 days in our own conference. Box products and general CF topics Why did we need our own conference? Made a name for ourselves at Ortus at first with Documentation, and now through tools Great way to network as a Professional Open Source company, meeting clients and our contributors. ColdFusion as a whole, likes to keep most talks framework agnostic, so we needed our own conference to show all of the content we get demands for. Every year is improving. Great response when we offered one day workshops, and in the past even 2 days of workshops, plus 2 days of the conference, 4 great days of content, and the attendees loved it. And ITs GROWN AND GROWN until this year’s conference, and it looks like the best one yet!!!!!!! Why ITB? Advantages for our company If given the chance to attend the conference, it will help our company to: Learn from ColdFusion industry leaders and Ortus core team members. Inspire new ideas to use on projects within our company. We will catch more bugs with improved testing practices earlier, costing us less money in support and maintenance. Learn more about Package Management with ForgeBox and CommandBox, to better utilize community libraries, so we don’t have to reinvent the wheel all the time. All Into the Box Attendees get a free month of CFCasts.com - Ortus’ great online video training website. All of the Into the Box Videos will be made available after the conference for attendees, so we can watch all of the sessions, even the sessions we missed in person. Advantages for you As far as why I’m excited at the prospect of attending this conference: There’s an impressive line-up of experts who are working with technologies, tools, and methodologies we use daily. Hands-on workshops with experts allow me to learn new practices and techniques and improve my skills. The friendly, intimate spirit of the conference makes it easy to interact with speakers and ask questions. As the conference attracts seasoned developers, I’m excited to learn from everyone and discover their experiences and best practices from their projects. The ColdFusion/CFML-related technology is changing rapidly; it’s essential to learn what’s possible and current in the ecosystem and dive deeper into those areas we need to explore. Opportunity to network with other ColdFusion developers. Pre-Conf Speakers Michael Born Matthew Clemente Kai Koenig Brian Rinaldi Charlie Arehart Mark Takata Raymond Camden In Person Speakers Abram Adams Brad Wood Dan Card Daniel García Eric Peterson Esmeralda Acevedo Gavin Pickin George Murphy Grant Copley Javier Quintero John Farrar Jon Clausen

117 ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 – future CFML) with Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel Jul 28, 2022

Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 - future CFML)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "We're gonna be talking about Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee and how they compare and contrast and all cool new features coming in the next five years that we prognosticate future performance. Improvements might be coming CFML engine updates and how you can best approach those confusion security. And we'll wrap up with some other questions about being a good CFML developer and conferences this year. Show notes Where do you see CFML (ACF and Lucee) in the next 5 years Future Features we want to add Features we want to remove PaaS, FaaS, Lambda Better CF admin config Lucee 6 CFConfig and CommandBox Engine Packages, cloud and microservices AWS and other cloud provider reliability, multi-cloud The persistent parallel thread that reliably run in the background Event gateway without lots of code Alt: Scheduled tasks and microservices Full Null support Cfscript syntax ACF vs Lucee Target tech Front end - React, Angular, Vue, new one? Intermittent internet access Browsers and devices Modern Eco-system In some ways the ecosystem is as or more important than the actual language for programmer productivity Tools IDE Adobe CF VScode extension Sneak preview session at cfdevweek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTiPoRm0P04 AI/ML features CFML IDE Lucee Page parts feature - speed of line execution Better error handling - let it run type code - Erlang language Code coverage, language feature coverage FusionReactor line execution code tool In general Reliability and performance Auto Scalable Secure Modern language features and ecosystem Backward compatible CFML Alive! Learning CFML speed in 1 week See roundtable 2 Hiring CF dev vs cross-hire and train Polyglot programmers Tech fashion Dev first vs CIO led PR and marketing Gartner Audience CF dev Dev Ops CIO and CEO Also teaching and increasing staff Reducing dev stress CFML Engine Updates New version releases Security hotfixes Script your deployments JSON based config Docker images ACF Lucee CommandBox ones Charlie ITB conference pre-conf workshop Why is it still wise to use CFML WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What is the next conference you are attending? Mentioned in this episode ACF and Lucee roundtable 1 ACF and Lucee roundtable 2 Lucee 6 features episode Adobe Dev Week 2022 blog post Language speed comparison - Lucee 2nd fastest - Brad Wood blog ColdFusion is more modern than you realize - Charlie Arehart Dev Week talk Implementing third-party CF libraries Gavin Pickin CF Meetup Adobe VS Code CF code IDE extension Ben’s blog Brian Bockhold Dev Week session (Wed July 20, 1430) “Exploring AWS Java SDK developer features using the Java integration implemented in ColdFusion 2021” Let it fail code - Erlang language Code coverage FusionReactor and TestBox Listen to the Audio Bio Charlie Arehart A veteran server troubleshooter who’s worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting). Links Twitter: https://twitter.com/carehart Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carehart LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carehart Web http://carehart.org/ Gert Franz Gert was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. He is one of the key people behind Lucee. Back in the late eighties,

116 Lucee 6 Release Features, Behind-the-Scenes, with Zac Spitzer Jul 01, 2022

Zac Spitzer talks about “Lucee 6 Release Features, Behind-the-Scenes ” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. I'm here with Zac Spitzer from the Lucee Association Switzerland along with some other organizations that I'll tell you about later. And we're going to be talking about some exciting breaking news about Lucee six. All the features in that and when you can get your hands on it. And a bit about behind the scenes on what happens in Lucee and how you can best get support from the Lucee folks." Show notes Lucee 6 beta release Breaking news - early beta in early July Update: The beta is delayed until some breakers are fixed - see Zac's Lucee 6 roadmap and 5.3.9 blog post Download from https://www.lucee.org/ Open beta, separate docs site or local docs VS Code and other IDEs read from cfdocs site Free and can sponsor 5.3.9 regression release first Beta length 180 alpha builds https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/secure/GHGoToBoard.jspa?sprintId=58 Open collective support The Lucee process and his role Lucee Community Manager Jack of all trades Support Lucee docs (originally by Pix8), Zac speeded it up https://docs.lucee.org/ Build engineer Log4j fix - upgrade Travis.ci migration to GitHub actions Ticket triage Dev schedulers Facilitate Misha to focus on deep (PM) Help Brad Wood on CommandBox integration Learning Java “Code speaks louder than words” Improving dev workflows QoQ improvements Extensions dependencies → Lucee Lite Lucee 6 New features Single context mode Vs current multi-context in Lucee (and one context in ACF) Faster server startup Web sites each have one Json config (from XML) Fixing bad CFML defaults CFLocation AddToken = False is now default Java type UDFs Type = Java Add Java code direct in your CF code! Autowrapping of the Java code Currently Lucee uses OSGI for JARs for dynamic use Subcomponents Better TryCF.com experience Query of Query Less funky that ACF - more like regular database queries - same semantics 10x Faster performance (as of 5.3.8) for single table Joins different Future CF functions inside a QoQ query Prior announced features in Lucee 6 Improve the Startup Time

115 ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 2) with Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel Jun 16, 2022

Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about "ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 2)" in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "So this is part two of our panel discussion on Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee ColdFusion, or CFML, as they like to say. And if you haven't checked out last time, I'll put it in the show notes. But part one, we covered the ease of programming modern IDE, and open source versus closed source licensing differences. Some of the cool features in Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee, are ease of installation community in third-party tools and engine speed, scalability, and performance. So all of those topics, check out the first part. But this time, we're going to be talking about other things in Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee all the way cool places you can get documentation from how you can get help and support some of the podcasts out there. And engine updates. And we'll probably talk about some other things too because Gert gave us an extensive list of extra topics that we will work on fitting into the episode along with any other topics that Charlie, Ben, and Mark provided." Show notes Docs (links below): much more than just CFML Reference, for both ACF https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2017/11/did-you-know-theres-far-more-to-the-cf-docs-than-just-the-cfml-reference/ Lucee Cfdocs.org ACF and Lucee and different versions Open “source” in that all can add examples LearnCFinaWeek.com TryCFM.com CFFiddle.org (ACF) ACF CFML reference and tutorial (developer’s guide 3000 pages) Adobe dox system - poor SEO / google search Prior versions PDF of all docs Good on keeping prior versions docs Good on features in each release and hotfixes Lucee weaker on new features in new releases “Hacktoberfest Lucee bug month (October) Charlies Hidden Gems posts and talks Ortus open-source GitBooks Learn CFML in 100 mins book IDE help - color coding, hover help, F1 on keywords Meta resource on CFML docs Where do I get help (free & paid) Paid Tech support Adobe CF support programs Lucee support by individual companies like Rasia, Ortus etc. LAS donations for new features Third parties eg Charlie Arehart, Mike Collins Community support (free) ACF Adobe CF Forums community.coldfusion.com Adobe CF Portal cfinstal@adobe.com (Free install support) Lucee Lucee Forum/Mailing list (Discourse) hello@lucee.org (contact Lucee) Both CFML slack Limited retention of posts due to free version (paid would be many thousands of dollars due to per seat cost) Mixed up topics as many folks don’t use threads Linen exposes Slack content https://cfml.linen.dev Twitter Facebook CF programmers group Ortus Discord SlackOverflow Google searchable Used by Ganter analysts in programming language reports Tiobe index (supposedly rates “popularity” of languages) CF usually ranks poorly How it really works: “Basically the calculation comes down to counting hits for the search query +" programming" From https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/ Conferences IntoTheBox (in-person and remote, in Sept) CF Summit (in-person and remote, in Oct) CFCamp (postponed again for 2022) Meta listing of them, with dates, locations, links https://www.cf411.com/cfconf How to find ACF and Lucee developers? Drive for new CF developers Bringing in other modern languages CFML training Meta resource of free CFML training resources ACF cert CFCasts.com YouTube Ortus Paid training: https://www.cf411.com/cftrainers Other CFML resources (meta resource of them): https://www.cf411.com/cfres Podcasts CF Alive Modernize or Die Working Code, with Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel,

114 Are your Database Relationships in a Rut? with Dave Ferguson Jun 15, 2022

Dave Ferguson talks about "Are your Database Relationships in a Rut?" in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "Perhaps we should just talk about, you know how some ColdFusion developers get stuck in a rut with their database or other pieces of CF ecosystem? Dave Ferguson 6:54 Yeah, mostly, I mean, I would say Yeah, mostly like database specifically. Everybody, I mean, you get this happens with anybody in anything you do. When you get really good at doing one thing. People just tend to stick with it. Because it's like, that's the train just the way I know how to do something. And I'm going to do this because it just makes my life simpler. But at the same time, you're almost doing yourself a disservice, because you're not learning something new that can make your life even easier. So you don't want to have that stuck in a rut of I'm going to do, I'm gonna do the same thing at that 10. Well, you want to do the same thing over to you, you're really good at it. But getting really good at something allows you to learn something else easier then. So if you just stick to one thing, you're never going to get down that I'm going to learn something else easier, because I'm just sticking with one specific thing." Show notes CF Rut? Don’t get stuck in a CFer rut Just because you have always done Try new ways too Hence trying different approaches Definition of “insanity” What relational databases do most CFers use? SQL Server MySQL Is there a better way? Most systems don't need an elaborate, and possibly expensive, relational database. Most can get by just fine with something else. Can horizontally scale-out to accommodate large data volumes Documents typically align better with code objects Evolve as the app / data evolves without restructuring Types of database Hierarchical databases Network databases Object-oriented databases Relational databases Links data via Primary and Foreign keys Standard T-SQL query language Ridged schema/structure Referential Integrity (ACID) NoSQL databases You don't have to store your data in predetermined columns each row can have a data structure the other rows don't Examples MongoDB Apache CouchDB MarkLogic Azure Cosmos DB Couchbase Key value databases (a type of NoSQL) Amazon DynamoDB Oracle NoSQL Database InfinityDB Redis Wide-column Stores Google Bigtable Amazon DynamoDB Apache Accumulo Apache Cassandra Apache HBase Why Column formatting and names vary row to row Columns are stored separately on disk Data searching can be faster Graph Databases Neo4j ArangoDB Dgraph OrientDB Amazon Neptune Intensive data relationship handling. Relationships are treated as a first-class citizen Structure and schema of a graph model can flex as applications and industries change Database can e Transactions pros and cons Relational databases have transactions - a group of SQL statements either all succeed or are all rolled back. Is this always best for app? Downsides of NoSQL No / Minimal ACID Support ACID = Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability ⇒ Transactions Little to no standardization between NoSQL products NoSQL uses "Eventual Consistency" over transactions Avoid NoSQL for Banking Online gaming Rights Management Complex / Dynamic querying Use Collection = table createCollection Document = row objects What database type is more appropriate than others for certain data? Where does using a hybrid of databases makes sense and how that would look to a system? How easy is it to use alternative databases with CF 2021? ACF 2021 Package manager Install MongoDB locally Use MongoDB Atlas DO MongoDB CAP Theorem Consistency

113 ACF and Lucee Roundtable, with Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel Jun 14, 2022

Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about "ACF and Lucee roundtable" in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "Michaela Light 1:41 So let's start off by looking at how Adobe CF 2021 and Lucee 5.3 and how they compare for ease of programming and CFML. Mark Drew 1:57 I'm gonna have to jump out of the the Adobe side. Or maybe stake my my my bad claim is that I don't really know much about Adobe ColdFusion for the last five, six years since I haven't used it. Michaela Light 2:17 So it's okay. Ben and Charlie have been using it. And bring Yeah, I mean, just to clarify to the audience, Mark and Gert are more on the Lucee side of things. Ben and Charlie are more on the Adobe ColdFusion side of things." Show notes Ease of programming in CFML Modern CFML cfscript very similar to JavaScript on front end and server side Objects, closures, loops etc Lambdas, promises, closures, async features, fat arrow functions CFML more intuitive than Node.js Blocking and async CFML blocking by default is best - easier to code and what you need most of the time Async iteration CFML simplifies complex libraries and coding methods in other languages Modern IDE VS Code Adobe new add on Free CFML extensions available Open source vs closed source Cost Mindset - community When features are added Open bug list and prioritizing Democracy and pay for features Add to main language or extension Licensing differences Lucee: free Can pay for a support contract for tech support and other custom help ACF: Free for development, testing and staging servers 30 day trial turns into dev edition if no key added standard vs enterprise Free education std license (for teaching and students, not school administration use) AMI also offers 30 day trial Charges begin after 30 days Freemium model Avoids barrier to entry Hosting Cloud Docker Microservices and lamada Cores Kubernetes clusters and auto scaling Compare to IBM, Microsoft, Redhat in cloud licence Pet Freitag Fuseless AWS lambda CFML features in ACF and Lucee PDF support Cloud support Ease of Installation and hardware requirements Zip/express/light install option Much faster start up time (2 seconds) Much smaller install image (50-200 MB vs 1000 MB) Cf2021: CFPM package management to only include the features you actually use in the CFML engine Full/gui install option War deployment option Silent install feature Commandbox Docker Lucee images Adobe images Commandbox images for either AWS AMI Hosting options Admin settings export/manage via json Cfconfig (commandbox extension) Cfsetup (cf2021 similar functionality) Community and 3rd party tools Rich community support, tools, ecosystem Adobe reinventing products, not always compatible Poisons the well of the community CFML Engine Speed, scalability and performance The engine does this scaling work for you CF runs fast on real life apps Performance issues always come down to bad code or database structure or API call delays Developer egonomics vs performance CFML is easy to learn and code in and sometimes you have to understand the consequence Load testing is key to exercise your app in real life situation Great monitor FusionReactor Also ACF PMT, SeeFusion, Java monitoring tools Garbage collection tuning is still a mystery to me. It’s magic. What you can expect in the future episode Docs (links below): much more than just CFML Reference, for both ACF Lucee cfdocs.org Community support (links below) ACF Adobe CF Forums Adobe CF Portal cfinstal@adobe.com (Free install support) Lucee Lucee Forum/Mailing list (Discourse) Both

112 Four Cool ColdFusion Books with author Luis Majano Apr 18, 2022

Luis Majano talks about “4 Cool CF books” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Learn Modern CFML in 100 minutes Why wrote Started by Mike Hanky 100 minutes of CF on GitHub but not completed Inspired by Ruby in 100 mins Luis asked to complete the CF book Take CFML to next level, modern What about Who it is for Reference for all CFers to write in modern CFML Newbies to CFML How to read/buy Online Open source book In GitBook Kept up to date with pull requests Print and Kindle and PDF CF code to export to PDF for Amazon Really 100 minutes? Yes Future Mini videos on the chapters for CFCasts 102 ColdBox HMVC Tips and Tricks Why 102? Was (100 + 1) + 1 - overachiever Why wrote Help ColdBox users Wrote 30 minutes per day 5 tips per day and from the team What about Who it is for All levels of ColdBox users Newbies Medium advanced How to read/buy Oruts site PDF + eBook Made with Ulysses book publishing tool Closed source Future - video version for CFCasts Two new books announcement 102 CommandBox Tips and Tricks All levels of CommandBox users Newbies Medium Advanced Server spin up Undertow JBOSS Package management ForgeBox 1000 open source modules CLI (Command Line Interface) and REPL 102 TestBox Tips and Tricks Automated testing TDD (Test Driven Development) - write unit tests before writing the code Developer paralysis from having to write tests first Refactor code to be testable Write tests for only the most complex CFCs Just in time testing - write test after you see a bug so that bug doesn’t come back later BDD (Behavior Driven Development) - higher level testing and user behavior From top requirements and stories down Also Mocking objects and data (was MockBox) Dummy code objects until the real object is created API mocking Coverage testing Currently with FusionReactor Might be standalone later Why to test What to test When to stop writing test Launch at ITB Other books https://www.ortussolutions.com/learn/books/ Online documentation of these products ColdBox CommandBox TestBox WireBox CacheBox ContentBox https://ortusbooks.com/ Online is up to date, printed book is out of date ColdBox Why are you proud to use CF? The best language - used many ASM, Basic, C#, Grovey, Java, CF Productive WWIT to make CF more alive this year? Build solutions in CF (not focus on cool language features) Tell folks about it! What are you looking forward to at Into The Box Web Development Conference 2022? New family friendly venue in Houston TX 1 day workshops Other big speakers, including from other languages Mentioned in this episode Ortus Solutions Learn Modern CFML in 100 minutes 102 Tips and Tricks GitBooks CFCasts podcast episode with Eric Peterson Ulysses ITB conference Sept 2022 Brad CommandBox extensions podcast episode Listen to the Audio Bio Luis Majano Luis Majano (@lmajano) is a Computer Engineer that has been developing and designing software systems since the year 2000. He was born in San Salvador, El Salvador in the late 70’s, during a period of economical instability and civil war. He lived in El Salvador until 1995 and then moved to Miami, Florida where he completed his Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering at Florida International University. Luis resides in Houston, Texas with his beautiful wife Veronica, daughter Alexia and son Lucas! He is the CEO of Ortus Solutions (@ortussolutions), a consulting firm specializing in web development, ColdFusion (CFML), Java development and all open source professional services unde...

111 CFCasts Behind the Scenes with Eric Peterson Mar 17, 2022

Eric Peterson talks about “CFCasts Behind the Scenes” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is CFCasts Netflix for ColdFusion Free and paid levels Why should every CFer check out CFCasts CFML-based tutorials Full-stack content (CFML, JavaScript, Databases, etc.) Free! (and Paid) Why we built CFCasts “Netflix for CFML Developers” Screencasts for CF History LaraCasts.com - PHP / Laravel CFCasts domain registered in 2014 Why has it not got Box in the name, like all the other Ortus products? We already had the domain. ;-) When was it launched? 2020 - Record all ITB videos and wanted to sell them (virtual conference) Part Virtual event due to covid Whole Ortus team helps created the content, along with other CF experts Stats 343 Videos 23 Series 500+ accounts plus more viewers not logged English and Spanish Localization Content Box vs other CF ITB Videos Object-Oriented Programming course by Nolan Erck ColdBox Workshop Code samples for workshops in Git repos How we built CFCasts ColdBox Lucee InertiaJS VueJS MySQL Vimeo Stripe Responsible design - works on phone, tablet, desktop Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI Future features Video page redesign better UX Refactoring to ElasticSearch, more filters and search results From MySQL text search Why are you proud to use CF? Lots of innovations in the CF space Lots of the world runs on CF More sites in CF than BuiltWith etc shows due to intranets and modern coding practices WWIT to make CF more alive this year? Learn new CF features and tools BuiltWithCFBox Git repo What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? In Person Workshops September 27-30 New Location? Mentioned in this episode ForgeBox.io CFCasts MySQL InertiaJS TailwindUI Into The Box Listen to the Audio Bio Eric Peterson Eric Peterson is a CFML and Javascript developer at Ortus Solutions (ColdBox, CommandBox, etc.). He attended the University of Utah and received a degree in Information Systems thinking he would hate programming as a career. He started programming in CFML (and in general) in 2012 and has never been more happy to be proved wrong. He is the current maintainer of qb, Quick, and ColdBox Elixir as well as a prolific module author on ForgeBox.io. He loves creating tools to help bring CFML up to date with other modern languages and communities. In his free time, Eric loves to participate in theater, musicals, and to spend time with his wife, three children, and one dog. He can be found on Twitter at @_elpete. Links Twitter GitHub @elpete Interview Transcript Michaela Light 0:00 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Eric Peterson. And we're talking about CF casts behind the scenes. We're going to learn what is in CF casts all the cool ColdFusion stuff in there, why He created it, and some other interesting stuff in ColdFusion land and CF casts. Welcome, Eric. Eric Peterson 0:20 Hey, thanks for having me. Michaela Light 0:22 You're welcome. And for those of you don't know, Eric is a CFML, and JavaScript developer, he works at audit solutions. And you know, the guys who make all those box products, among many other things, and they also make CF costs, which is probably why we're talking. And I'm surprised to learn Eric, though you did an Information Systems degree, thinking you thought you would hate programming. Eric Peterson 0:48 Yeah, I did. Especially after my first programming course, in college. I just, it was, I don't know, it just wasn't, it didn't click. I remember, it was a Java course. And all I was doing was sticking things out in the console. And I thought, well, this is kind of boring. And I remember jumping forward to like, we made the game,

110 CommandBox Workflow Magic (modules to speed up CF development), with Brad Wood Jan 31, 2022

Brad Wood talks about “CommandBox Workflow magic (modules to speed up CF development)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why use Workflows in your CF coding? You probably already do use workflows if you don’t call them that Eg source control steps Bitbucket Pipelines Local dev → staging → production Ticketing system Shared tools for code formatting Scripts to automate common tasks Teams and Individual developers What is CommandBox? CLI = Command Line Interface for CFML Lots of addons written in CFML Built in help Very colorful ASCII art too REPL Integrated shell Run multiple CF virtual server on one machine, different versions of ACF and Lucee Auto install Fast test of different versions Command line automation Task runners Batch Scripting in CFML! - more powerful than BASH Package management Libraries used in your app install and correct versioning ForgeBox integration Modern CFML more powerful ecosystem than Node, Pyphon etc Written in CFML, runs on top of JVM Open source CommandBox Modules to improve workflow Bullet Train Saves time knowing what you are doing the CLI Fun too! Dotenv Makes personalizing passwords, databases, SMTP server etc for each dev easy Keeps passwords out of your CF code and source control - more secure Cfconfig Back up and restore CF Admin settings - even between different CF versions or ACF and Lucee CommandBox and Docker instances create settings automatically Disaster Recovery - easy restore of settings Save settings to source control (though careful about passwords for datasources) Dev vs production settings quick for locking down a server Diff of settings between two servers - diagnosis settings bugs Host updater Easy management of local host names vs IP addresses - a local DNS override in effect Keeps hosts file clean when you stop using that virtual server. FusionReactor Adds easy support to enable FusionReactor on the servers you start inside CommandBox. FR licensing covers multiple ComandBox CF servers on the same machine FR Cloud license counts the time used in containers dynamically Other cool modules we didn’t cover in the episode that Brad loves CFFormat Cfdocs service manager (paid) $49 per server (lifetime license) Ngrok What do CommandBox and these tools cost? Free. Professional Open source (with optional paid support and training) Mentioned in this episode Bullet Train Dotenv Cfconfig Host updater FusionReactor ITB conference Modernize or Die podcast CommandBox All CommandBox modules on ForgeBox CommandBox 4 Deep Dive (new version revealed) with Brad Wood Box Patreon levels CFCasts Lucee Discourse Forum ColdFusion Programmers Facebook Group Listen to the Audio Bio Brad Wood Brad grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors. Brad has been programming ColdFusion since around 2002 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He first fell in love with ColdFusion as a way to easily connect a database to his website for dynamic pages. He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server. Teacher of the CommandBox Deep Dive full workshop at IntoTheBox ColdFusion conference. Links CFML Slack Box Channel Box Team Slack Channel Twitter Brad's Website Interview Transcript Michaela Light 0:03 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Brad wood. And we're going to be talking about command box workflow ma...

109 Meet the Adobe ColdFusion Evangelist (CF AMA) with Mark Takata Jan 24, 2022

Mark Takata talks about “Meet the Adobe ColdFusion Evangelist (CF AMA)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is a "CF evangelist"? What do you do Tech evangelist vs support/sales evangelist Mark from tech background → tech evangelist Dev experiences Dev relations Support Route issues to the CF engineering team or CF sales team Speaking Webinar Training Social Media listening, engage, comment Promoting other related trainings and CF job posts CF Pain points → CF product manager Aditya CF management team loves data and examples Who is Mark Sacramento CA UC Davis CF dev, high volume apps ColdFusion conferences and training CF Summit East → online CF Dev Week What are you looking forward to at ColdFusion Dev Week? CF Summit West In person event Adobe Factors: location, corporate risk and perception, safety first ColdFusion certification Training videos improved with outside help including Dave Ferguson of Learn CF in a Week Professional test New lower price $149 Video will be free in future - only pay for the cert test Gamification of training Eval of modern CF skills in diff areas AI/ML Git code evaluator Licencing We brainstormed on licensing problems from CFers and potential solutions. Note: Mark is not an attorney, does not play an attorney on TV and does not make official Adobe licensing policy. Here he what he wrote on this: a clarification regarding Licensing: Any and all commentary regarding licensing during this podcast represents my personal opinion and experiences as a multi-decade ColdFusion developer. Any ideas or concepts floated do not represent Adobe's plans, goals or roadmaps for licensing. In short, I am not qualified nor even authorized to speak officially for Adobe regarding licensing terms or plans. Everything we spoke of here regarding licensing was "just Mark" chatting. Thank you for understanding.:-) " - Mark He does however have a big influence inside the Adobe ColdFusion team. So I imagine the ideas will get back to them. :-) - Michaela Cloud AWS marketplace 300k+ downloads Corales licenses images Enterprise-level High-level virtual machine required 30 days free trial on free AWS machine Docker anywhere Other cloud vendors such as Google, Azure, Digital Ocean Sales licensing worksheet → interactive licensing tool Blue-green licensing Live server updates Blue server going away Green is new one Only count the Green servers Legal legacy licensing Physical servers vs VPS vs containers vs Llamda Vision Fair Simple Pay us Cores clause Cores x containers SaaS licensing costs extra Why does Adobe care what our programs do? Hosting licensing Usage of features New package manager - much smaller install 138 MB vs 1 GB Auto code scan CF Report Builder Was last in CF 2016 More users of it than Adobe realized VS Code Adobe ColdFusion IDE Estimated release date Q2 2022 Replacement for CF Builder? Mentioned in this episode CF Summit CF Dev Week ITB Channels Adobe ColdFusion YouTube channel TeraTech Ortus CFCasts CF training resources Listen to the Audio Bio Mark Takata Mark Takata has been a full-stack application developer, graphic artist, UI/UX expert & technical writer for more than 20 years. He has extensive professional experience in ColdFusion, C#, JavaScript, VB.net, SQL and several other languages. He is currently the Technical Evangelist for ColdFusion at Adobe and has served in that role for the past 9 months. In his limited spare time, Mark enjoys mountain biking, overlanding in his Jeep, and playing Destiny 2 (horribly). Links Email: Takata (at) adobe.com

108 Adobe ColdFusion Dev Week 2021 Revealed with Kishore Balakrishnan Jun 10, 2021

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe ColdFusion Dev Week 2021 Revealed” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What exactly is CF Dev Week 3 days of online CF goodness 8 sessions per day over several timezone, with breaks during the day to keep up with home or work Not just webinars - interact with other CFers, CF engineering team, sponsors One place where all CF devs, designers, decision-makers and thought leaders come together Meet the CF engineering team Network with other CFers Replaces the in-person event CF Summit East (due to the pandemic) Recording too Why all CFer should go? 23 sessions from top CFers How many years has CF Dev Week been running? 6 years Why is it so important to the CF community? Shows Adobe is fully backing CF Show new features in new CF 2021 release Seeing who is using CF and cool ways they are using Community building Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about How - open call for speakers - committee led by Kishore, Elishia, Dan Wilson, Brian Klaas, Mark Takata Topics Giancarlo Gomez - WebSockets 101: An Introduction to WebSockets on ColdFusion Mike Collins - ColdFusion Scaling Corbin Crutchley - Using ColdFusion APIs in Expo Mobile Apps Luis Majano - Building modern web apps with ContentBox Modular CMS Brian Sappey - API MP Pete Freitag - Securing ColdFusion Applications Cloud Features in CF 2021 - CF engine Dave Ferguson - NoSQL, solving your relationship problems one model at a time Brian Sappey - CI/CD Framework Charlie Arehart - ColdFusion at 25: not the kid most have stuck in their minds Rey Bango - Security Session Sami Hoda - What’s New at AWS in 2021 Burke Holland - I was wrong about Azure Mike Brunt - Java - Write Once Run Anywhere - JVM - Not "Out Of The Box Ready"! Ben Nadel - Feature Flags Change Everything About Product Development Ray Camden - Extending PDF Capabilities with Adobe Document Services Brian Klaas - Developing apps with Queues and Pub/Sub Mechanisms (SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ, etc) David Byers - ColdFusion Modernization Challenges - Improving Legacy Code while Retaining Your Sanity Mark Takata - The CIO’s Perspective: ColdFusion 2021 By the Numbers Mark Takata - RAD SPAs w/ CF & JS David Tattersall - Become an Application SUPERHERO - Reduce technical debt impact and keep applications performing as they should Keynote - CF 2021 and the next version - Asish Garg Sponsors TeraTech Mitrah Soft Techversant Mura Lucid Outsourcing Solutions Hostek Foundeo Fusion Reactor Mark Takata - the new CF developer Evangelist CF Certification online $149 https://coldfusion.adobe.com/certificate/ Take any time Dates Tue 22 - Thu 24 June, 2021 US time zones Immediate recordings Cost Completely free Register at https://adobe.vconfex.com/ Location online Other CF Events CF Summit online December How is CF as a business doing? New customers 20% over target What are the other things that we could expect this year? Mentioned in this episode CF Dev Week website CF Certification CF 2021 new features (CF Alive pod) State of Union survey Adobe ColdFusion Dev Week Listen to the Audio Bio Kishore Balakrishnan Kishore Balakrishnan is a Principal Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems with a Master Degree in Computer Applications. At Adobe he has held roles of a Quality Manager, Program Manager before becoming the Product Marketing Manager. He enjoys being the 'voice of the customer' within the organization,

107 ColdFusion 2021 Revealing Details on How it was Created with Rakshith Naresh Dec 16, 2020

106 Adobe CF Summit 2020 (What to Expect) with Kishore Balakrishnan Oct 19, 2020

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit 2020 (What to Expect)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light "This situation is not right for having physical events this year. So we are going to make it online. And we are very excited to that this is going to be one of the biggest conferences for CF this year..." Show notes What exactly is CF Summit? One place where all CF devs, designers, decision-makers and thought leaders come together Meet the CF engineers in person How many years has CF Summit been running? 8 years This year goes online CF Summit virtual event stats and interesting facts No cost. It is FREE No visa needed No hotel room booking Other advantages as well Dev Week for CF Summit East 10x bigger than physical event last year This year will be the biggest CF Summit event Anyone in the world can attend Most of the sessions in the US time zone Some will be in European and Asian time zones Expecting 5000 attendees There will be a way to get a copy of the code Up to speakers to share or not Should be available immediately after the session is finished OK to raise hands and ask questions Anything could happen Home office new rules apply How can I attend it? The new platform for attending an online webinar (to be announced) No waiting for recordings to come out Will be available immediately Best practices for attending online events Watch in your time zone No back to back talks scheduled Enough time to move at your own pace Why is it so important to the CF community? Shows Adobe is fully backing CF Show new features in new CF releases 65% of attendees are new to CF Summit Seeing who is using CF and cool ways they are using Community building Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about 35 speakers already selected Once they confirm it will be announced on website Some names are already on the list Charlie Arehart Matthew Clemente Elishia Dworak Dave Ferguson Pete Freitag Brian Claas George Murphy Rakshith Naresh Brian Sappey Dan Skaggs Mark Takata Dan Wilson Topics CF 2020 CF Lambda Modernizing CF Apps API manager PDF functionalities Security of CF Apps SQL CommandBox And many more... Dates November 17-19, 2020. Week before Thanksgiving Usually in October Had to push to November because of the priorities in Adobe crew on CF 2020 release Two days, but prolongs to three because of the different time zones Cost Free! It is online! Location Usually in Las Vegas, but online this year What is new this year? ColdFusion 2020 should be launched and widely discussed Other CF Summits TBA Why should CFers go to CF Summit? Learn about a lot of changes in ColdFusion in recent years Especially now CF goes to cloud Talk to CF experts and developers Also with Adobe CF crew Drop by Adobe booth anytime during the conference Contribute to the future of ColdFusion (2022) Raffles during the event When is ColdFusion 2020 going to be released? In 2020 :) 3 more months in 2020 left, so not long What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? Mentioned in this episode ColdFusion 2020 - ColdFusion 2020 release date poll ColdFusion 2022 Fixinator CF Lambda MAX Adobe products API manager PDF functionalities Security of CF Apps SQL CommandBox CF Summit website Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Roadmap with Ashish Garg State of the CF Union 2020 Survey Final Results CF Summit 2019 Listen to the Audio Bio Kishore Balakrishnan is a Principal Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems with a Master Degree in Computer Applications. At Adobe he has held roles of a Quality Manager,

105 CFML Open Source Learning with John Farrar Sep 26, 2020

John Farrar talks about “CFML Open Source Learning” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light Show notes OLS (Open Learning Server), why another learning solution? Why coding in ColdFusion? CFML Lucee and ACF Containers let you host CF apps on any cloud ISP (Google, AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean etc) Micro-services architecture Server encapsulation Vs Monolithic server architecture ColdBox Version 6 cbPromises cbStreams cbElasticSearch Vue.js SPA = Single Page App PWA = Progressive Web App Quick = OO database built on top of your RDBMS QB = Query Builder Why OLS Who will use Education Corporate learning Why Can port and deploy anywhere Adaptive instruction - Individual student customized learning paths Easier course creation because of no need to decide what parts to focus on the most - system gives feedback Gamification RFR - Repetition for retention. Spaced testing. Agile learning + Agile instruction How can listeners help? CF Open Source in corporate land jQuery, Angular, React, Vue, Node, and the list goes on. Some corporate types say they don’t like using open source but I have heard of few that do. It’s like saying you would not use VSCode because it is open source but you would use Visual Studio. Perhaps they won’t use Chrome, but they would use Edge? If that makes sense to them, they should do what makes sense. It just doesn’t make sense to me. Now, Ortus produces solutions like ColdBox, and many other solutions. Their work is open source but they are a commercial company. In fact most open source solutions come from commercially motivated creators. Crowd sourced efforts are a challenge to build momentum but as these solutions break through we find commercial creations can often be a great source of social goodness. It’s amazing how many commercial solutions are free. Over half the internet runs on free open source technologies. A solution to a problem by definition includes trade-offs - as decisions were made on what to prioritize in this particular solution. Why are you proud to use CF? Investing in server languages is about impact. ColdFusion has been a faithful return on investment technology. I would not say that I am proud of my tools, but rather that the tools have helped me create solutions that serve the end users well. WWIT to make CF more alive this year? CF is alive and well, but it has to keep earning it’s place in the market. How can CFML influence it’s future today? Perhaps by being the platform where disruptive technology is built. Results people notice. What did you enjoy at Into The Box this year? I have wanted to attend a multi-track virtual conference for years. Who knew this is how it would happen? They used Sococo and it was a learning experience. It was the best virtual conference I have attended by a broad margin. It was also worth the time on it’s own and better than some conferences that I attended in person. Don’t get me wrong because this conference is still better in person. Looking forward to going to Texas for Into The Box 2021. Resources and Bio Mentioned in this episode Progressive Web App CFA episode with Ray Camden Microsoft PWA (Progressive Web App) ColdBox cbPromises cbStreams cbElasticSearch Vue.js Ortus Quick Online learning resources: The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy by Charles Hugh Smith Arbinger: Leadership and Self Deception The Anatomy of Peace Outward Mindset Nine Lies About Work Mindset ( The new psychology of success ) What Motivates Me Story Wars ( CF dead perpetuates the debate ) Fundamentals of Software Architecture book Sococo Listen to the Audio Bio John Farrar John has a passion for understanding which tradeoffs are the right choice vs...

104 CFer Mental Helpers (Stay Sane during Crises) with Jeff Kunkel Sep 20, 2020

Jeff Kunkel talks about “CFer Mental Helpers (Stay Sane during Crises)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why now In normal times, 20% of Americans have mental illness every year (APA) Now in lockdown and economic depression, it is >60% ill 30% clinical depressed 30% PTSD (and remaining 40%...) Who is this episode for CFers with mental illness Even if they don’t realize it yet CFers with teammates with mental illness CIOs, PMs, Team Leaders and manager concerned about their staff What is mental illness? Significant changes in thinking, emotion and/or behavior Distress and/or problems functioning in social, work or family activities But can be hidden as it is in the mind Types Depression Hopelessness - negative self-talk, self-hate Numbness Apathy Anxiety Obsessive Worry, beyond reality OCD Paranoia Not dealing well with uncertainty Bipolar Affective Disorder Schizophrenia Dementia Causes Stress Distress - bad Eustress - good Trauma Isolation Oxytocin Lack of support Poor nutrition Chemical imbalances Lack of sunlight Vitamin- D Serotonin Lack of sleep Lack of exercise Overindulgence Chemical effects Addictions (Mind-body connection The stereotypical ColdFusion developer! What to look for Withdrawn Outbursts Anger, crying, jokes Cries for help Dark humor Denial Poor attendance/performance Physical sickness eg backache, exhaustion Sudden changes Eating Sex Drug How can we help? Good boundaries Be a resource Open door policy 1 on 1 check-in Daily stand up brief check-in of feelings Relate personal experience Show you care Go to groups and churches. Team building activities/outings Make reasonable accommodations Recommend professional help Getting professional help Your primary care physician Your insurance company may have a list of covered providers The website for the board of licensed professionals in your state Ask someone how they found theirs See the end of the presentation for some additional links How not to help Tough it through Blame Panic Diagnose Excuse poor performance Make light of their situation Shaming Potential pitfalls Some people do not want help Denial All ready dealing with it It can be very uncomfortable To be ill To be around the ill To discuss EQ Shame Forcing the issue can make it worse Suicide Time to talk about the elephant in the room Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US Is 2nd leading cause in 30-year-olds On average, there are 129 suicides per day. Approx 40k per year 1.4M suicide attempts per year (2018) An estimated 9.3 million adults (3.9% of the adult U.S. population) reported having suicidal thoughts in the past year. Suicide and self-injury cost the US $69B per year (2015) The annual U.S. suicide rate increased by 24% between 1999 and 2014 After suicide It is not your fault Be supportive Support survivors (let’s take a breath!) Prevention - Self-Care Practice what you preach Eat right Get some sleep Blue blocker glasses Go out in the sun Go in nature Accept help from others Working From Home Get dressed Keep a schedule Have a separate work area Limit distractions Have regular proactive breaks away from the computer Get “face time” with colleagues via Zoom etc Allow yourself to be bad at WFH WFH as a skills Good boss for staff WFH Practice Rat race rant We are not looking at these incredible mental illnesses and suicide statistics as being indicative of ...

103 Cool Lucee CFML (GigaBytes file parsing and more) with Gert Franz Aug 27, 2020

Gert Franz talks about “Cool Lucee CFML (GigaBytes file parsing and more)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why are you using Lucee at DistroKid Fast, Secure, Scalable with cloud Node → Lucee Bitbucket pipelines CommandBox TDD AWS autoscaling Tell us something about DistroKid CF performance tuning Know your data Keep common lookups in memory (structure) One background file parsing process went from 330 hours to 2 hours! What is the advantage of Lucee over other languages CFLoop File=fileName 20 GB text files Index, Item Array of values from separators (eg comma-separated data etc) Uses much less memory than CFFILE Read which sucks the whole file into memory Lucee tasks Can continue automatically if server crashes ParseCSV OnBody OnHeader OnFooter Asynchronous Queries to database (for Logging etc) Loggin analytics to Elk Logly Log events are added to a queue then batch added to the database in the background Query Listeners Checks for async query errors SQL manipulation pre-running query Mail Listeners Email pre-send events On error event Update headers in email for test server Future listeners CFHTTP calls Lucee LEX extensions Minimum install is 21 MB - add extensions for optional features such as PDF processing, image processing etc → Fast load time 25-30 extensions Extensions can be written in CFML or Java Lucee 6 faster load time Goal part and add {s Add trip ticks (‘’’) for code Why cfscript less code less output of whitespace Other developers who know JavaScript can code CFscript Avoid EnableCFOutOnly and other whitespace workarounds in CFML Strict mode - require scoping Lucee hidden features Programming language choice .Net “free” or expensive Language Religion or Drug addiction What are the key features you use? How did the usage of Lucee change during your time at DK Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Show up and share your passion and love of CFML CF dark matter x100 verbose Mentioned in this episode Lucee Redis MemCache Data Grid Listen to the Audio Bio Gert Franz Gert was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. He is one of the key people behind Lucee. Back in the late eighties he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched to later IT as a profession and programmed for several companies in the past as a database administrator and system analyst. Gert spoke a lot at all major conferences in the past and will for sure in the future. He now leads the Dev department at DistroKid. Links Gert (at) rasia.ch Website Twitter LinkedIn Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:01 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with good friends, all the way from Switzerland. And when we talk about cool new stuff in Lucee cfml, including gigabyte file parsing and asynchronous logging to the database and mail listeners, query listeners, all kinds of cool things you can do in Lucy these days and catch up with what he's been up to. So welcome, Gert. Gert Franz 0:38 Hello, and thank you for having me back. Because you're so right, yes, Michaela Light 0:42 it's been nearly a year it's far too long. I mean, so many things. So if you don't know who God is, he's heavily involved in the Lucy open source ColdFusion project. And since he was an astrophysicist he just decided he must do something more complicated and decided to start writing a cold fusion application server. Gert Franz 1:07

102 ColdFusion in Biz (the Latest Trends in CF consulting) with Joby John Feb 14, 2020

Joby John talks about “ColdFusion in Biz (the Latest Trends in CF consulting)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Biz side of CF Hiring CF developers Attitude is key Skills can be learned Training new people on CF - out of college or from other languages Versions used by their customers Mostly CF 2016, some CF 2018 Some even older versions Why not the newest version? Cost of CF Cost of migration Why upgrade then? Way better performance and security in CF 2018 Scaling team Double team size Fast to scale down in future too Knowledge transfer New trends in frontends on top of CF jQuery to React or Angular Latest trends in tech Better UI CF backend Fashions in IT CF growing From smaller projects to enterprise projects Migrating away from CF? No - Too costly to recode in other languages such as Python or Java CF scales well Testing What versions are people migrating to ACF to Railo or Lucee Only small projects Bigger customers more focused on the code base investment than server software cost Cloud licensing issue of ACF vs Lucee CF 2020 solves this for ACF Adobe partnership program Adobe CF certification program Coming to CF Summit India 2020 Why are you proud to use CF? The first customer we worked with was using ColdFusion to develop their web application and from there we worked with many customers who use ColdFusion. We were able to build a strong team of ColdFusion to help our customers from there WWIT to make CF more alive this year? We are planning to hire more college freshmen this year and provide them ColdFusion training. Invite more non-Indian partners to the summit More college classes in CF - support for this. What did you enjoy at CF Summit India? It was a pleasure to meet a lot of developers and talk to them. It was a pleasure to bring my ColdFusion team and they were so excited to see new trends in Coldfusion and see an active Coldfusion community in India Mentioned in this episode LearnCFinAWeek Why is ColdFusion Better Than Other Programming Languages? Listen to the Audio Bio Joby John Joby John is CEO of Techversant Infotech, a 200 person consulting firm specializing in ColdFusion Technology based in Kerala, India and Alberta, Canada. He is a young and vibrant leader. He is responsible for corporate vision, strategy, business growth and total customer satisfaction. Links https://www.techversantinfotech.com/ https://www.facebook.com/jzz44 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jobyjohn/ Email joby.john (at) techversantinfotech.com Interview transcript Michaela Light (00:01): Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Joby John from tech Versant and we're going to be talking about the business side of cold fusion and new trends in cold fusion. Um, welcome to the show. Joby. Hi Micheala and uh, just in case you don't know him. Um, he is CEO of tech first and Infotech and he, they have 200 people working there. They're a consulting firm that specializes in cold fusion and they're based in Corolla, India and Alberta, Canada. So, um, he's a young vibrant guy. Um, I met him at CF summit, India, um, end of last year and he's got a lot of interesting ideas around cold fusion. So, uh, let's maybe, um, start off by talking about hiring ColdFusion developers cause I know that's a topic of interest to both managers and coffee from developers. You know, what, what have you seen trend wise? Um, you know, hiring ColdFusion developers? Yeah. As you know, Joby John (01:04): base is not that great in Confucian even in India. But we, we always run a recruitment program throughout the year, like interviewing more people, always try to find more people because our customers need more cultivation developers. So, and another thing is that we used to have peop...

101 CF Summit India 2019 Revealed with Adobe’s Kishore Balakrishnan Nov 15, 2019

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “CF Summit India 2019 Revealed” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What exactly is CF Summit India? Started in 2018 For people who can’t travel to the US or Europe from Asia CF Summit West in Las Vegas 8th year Expecting 250-300, 200 registrations already one months out Last year 210 from 173 companies Also attendees came from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and other Asian countries How many years has CF Summit India been running? 2nd year Also CF Summit West and East in USA, expanding Adobe presence at CF Camp 2020 DevWeek in SF NAGW (National Association of Government Web developers) Other conf in the plans too Listener suggestions Why all CFer should go? Learn CF new features Future roadmap of CF (through 2028) Networking with other CF developers, CF speakers and Adobe CF senior staff See the entire Adobe CF engineering and sales team Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about Topic Area - ColdFusion Roadmap and New Features coming in Next Release - Top ColdFusion Features and Benefits - API Development and Management - Performance Tuning and Management - PDF Manipulation and Advanced Security 10 speakers 0. Ashish keynote 1. Edwin - CF Security Analyzer 2. Suchika - CF Scheduler 3. Piyush - CF performance 4. TBA - CF API Manager 5. Nimit/Dubey - PMT 6. Ashudeep – Language features (2018 + u5 (Update 5)) 7. Ajay - CF Document Management with PDF and Excel 8. Ketki - CF UI frameworks 9. Rakshith CF 2020 Date Saturday December 7, 2019 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Evening event Includes breakfast, lunch and breaks Cost Main conference Free CF Certification in 2020 Location Adobe Tower, Block A, Prestige Platina Tech Park, - Marathahalli-Sarjapur Outer Ring Rd Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 560087 (Same as last year) Other things you can do in Bengaluru? The garden city What is new this year? CF 2020 CF 2018 enhancements Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive in 2020? Talk about what CFers are doing with CF Banks and Govt especially for security, performance and productivity What are you looking forward to at CF Summit India 2019? Mentioned in this episode Adobe ColdFusion India Summit 2019 DevWeek in SF NAGW (National Association of Government Web developers) conference Japan CF Day Listen to the Audio Bio Kishore Balakrishnan Kishore Balakrishnan is a Principal Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems with a Master Degree in Computer Applications. At Adobe he has held roles of a Quality Manager, Program Manager before becoming the Product Marketing Manager. He enjoys being the 'voice of the customer' within the organization, liaise with sales team to facilitate the selling process and clearly communicates the why, what and when to the marketplace for CF. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and kid. Kishore loves his long runs and cooking. Links LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Email kishore (at) adobe.com Interview transcript Michaela Light: 00:01 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Kishore Bally Krishna from Adobe and we're going to be talking about CF summit, India 2019 and all the new details on that, some revealing some information that hasn't been out there publicly yet about the speakers and topics and some other cool news about the event. So welcome Kishore. Kishore : 00:23 Thanks for going to, it's always good to be back talking to you about goldfish fishing. Michaela Light: 00:27 Yeah, and we have lots of fans of the podcast in India. There are thousands of developers in cold fusion in ...

100 CF Alive (Revolution Retrospective) with Nolan Erck and Michaela Light Nov 15, 2019

Nolan Erck talks about “CF Alive (Revolution Retrospective) ” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is the CF Alive revolution Making ColdFusion Modern, Vibrant and Secure! MCFGA ColdFusion is a vibrant and modern language for complex, data-driven enterprise apps. While some companies have abandoned ColdFusion as dying, more visionary dev teams have embraced CF. Learn how they are making it the most modern, secure and state-of-the-art web development ecosystem. Why was it started? What aspects of CF are preventing you or your company from embracing CF? 72% CF is seen as dying/legacy. Annual State of CF Union survey, 2018 Language shame, depression, Burnout → excited and learning again Make CF Cool again Hiring issues More Young CFers 9-5 programmers Contant “Homeplay” and learning 30 mins per day method Lunch and learn When did it start 001 Amazing Adventures with CF WebSockets with Giancarlo Gomez March 29, 2017 What has changed in ColdFusion since it started CF Alive podcast Modernize or Die podcast CF Alive book released CommandBox and ForgeBox Non-ColdBox Box products Soft Skills and open to mental health issues more openly discussed Conference inclusivity and diversity including speakers - anonymous topic selection CF conferences CF Summit East growing CF Summit India Improved CF Camp in Europe ITB Latin America Improved code of conduct Separate Q&A in CF Camp Office Hours area for 1 on 1 questions Shy questioners Showboaters New speakers Learned Modern CFML in 100 minutes released CF Angular book new edition LearnCFInAWeek revamp CF Certification released New CF tools Framework updates for ColdBox, CFWheels, FW/1 Foundeo new products Fixinator and FuseGuard (on top of HackMyCF) CFScript.me FusionReactor new release and cloud version Adobe PMT Security Auto Lock Adobe API Manager Ortus CF box products 4 year roadmaps released WireBox TestBox Adobe at non-CF conferences such as DevWeek and NAGW promoting CF And Brad Wood at DevNexis CF 2018 release Auto lock down Mega performance increase CF containerization revolution Lucee 5 Modern CF, cfscript CF 2020 multi cloud and containerization CF top in web Security Performance, Productivity and Security More positive atmosphere in CF Community CF Slack channel more positive What are you looking forward to in 2020 for CF Alive? CF 2020 Lucee 6 Adobe and Ortus roadshows and webinars CF Rocks book New CF conferences WWIT to make CF more alive this year? Be the change you want to see in the world - Gadhi StackOverflow public and searchable Friendly and professional answers Being visible about using CF Made with CF logo Blog Social share on Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn etc CF Pride Mentioned in this episode CommandBox ForgeBox Jeffrey Kunkel, Oh My GAD episode CF Suicide, Depression and Recovery episode with Jorge Reyes https://teratech.com/podcast/cf-alive-at-chicago-cfug-michaela-light/ https://teratech.com/podcast/cf-camp-2019-everything-cfml-with-kai-koenig-and-mitchi-hnat/ https://www.amazon.com/Learn-ColdFusion-Enterprise-Application-Development-ebook/dp/B07K4X9BF5 Hear Us Roar: A Manifesto for Women and Minorities in Startup, Tech, and Business Communities with Sophia Eng Getting Real with Women in Tech with April Graves Smart Developer Career Strategies and How Women Can Get Ahead in Tech with Sami Gardner The Opportunities of Being a Woman in Tech Today with Elliotte Bowerman Learn ColdFusion in a Week with Carl Von Stetten, Daniel Fredericks and Dave Ferguson Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit), with Elishia Dvorak

099 CF Camp 2019 (Everything CFML) with Kai Koenig and Mitchi Hnat Sep 27, 2019

Kai Koenig and Mitchi Hnat talk about “CF Camp 2019 (Everything CFML)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "...So there's an interesting German saying basically that is basically in German it's called like, Ooh, in telecom shown, so literally means efficient later. It means something like you have to look beyond the area of your plate. So you need to look at other things to be, to keep up to date and to get inspiration and to learn supplementary technologies. And you can't just really stick with one technology and one platform nowadays from, from all point of view. And that makes it's common sense, right? Like even if you are like a core web developer using on the back end at some point it's quite likely that you will need to do some javascript coding for example. Show notes What is CF Camp? How many years has it be running? 10 years The Lucee and ACF CF conference in Europe Lucee is bigger in Europe than US How does CF Camp compare to Adobe CF Summit? More Lucee More ColdFusion eco-system talks as well as CFML ones Where is it? Munich Airport Marriott Hotel, Freising Venue and hotel rooms are at same hotel (different from prior years) Freising has lots of historical and beer brewing history Is it only for German CFers? No, it’s for all Developers The main language is English Most ppl are from across Europe. Some from India, USA, New Zealand, Australia When is it? 17-18th of October 15-16th there is the Pre-Conference Programme with PresideCon (1d), Cold-/TestBox Trainings, Logstash/Kibana and Linux Introduction (1/2d) Preconference classes €49 Oct, 16th Get into Linux Centralize your logs with the Elastic Stack PresideCon 2019 - Preside is an open source app framework and CMS, runs on ColdBox and Lucee Ortus classes €849 for two days ColdBox From Hero to Super Hero: API Edition (Oct, 15-16th) BDD with TESTBOX (Oct, 15-16th) What do you get in the ticket? Ticket price includes access to all sessions, access to the after show party, access to the fair, food, and drinks during both days and a conference goodie bag with several swag and vouchers! Yubikey 5 to go passwordless for future applications Evening show and dinner and beer Also you get access to the video recordings of the session from 2019 and the recordings of CF Camp 2018 Plus unlimited fresh orange juice Proper coffee €330 (about $365) How many CFers come? Last year 150 attended Counted today: 160ppl Who is speaking Call for speakers open process Paper call, anonym process, multiple rounds Used PaperCon Diversity support Topic selection Charlie Arehart, Eleftheria Batsou, Miguel Beltran, Wil de Bruin, Jen Doherty, Mark Drew, Rob Dudley, Seb Duggan, Nolan Erck, Gert Franz, Uma Ghotikar, Matt Gifford, Majid Hajian, Michael Hnat, Kenigbolo Meya Stephen, Kai König, Francisco Mancardi, Lara Martín, Eric Peterson, Jorge Reyes, Joel Stobart, Maciej Treder, Dom Watson, Brad Wood, Sebastian Zartner What topics are covered? Topic areas: “Core CFML” Mobile Web / Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Web Dev best practices Infrastructure - Deployment and Tooling, Security etc Full list: A Comedy of Errors ... in Web App Security An in-depth introduction to Vue.js A REST API in under 5 minutes with Preside Automated Database Migrations with CFMigrations Building secure applications But doesn’t everyone on the Internet speak English? Comparing Monitoring Solutions for CF and Lucee Continuous Documentation - The best time is now Deploying and Testing your sites with Bitbucket Design Patterns: Common Solutions to Common Problems End to End Testing of Coldfusion Applications using Test Cafe Flutter for Web: Beautiful Apps and Websites with a Single Codebase Asynchronous and synchronous code.

098 Adobe CF Summit West 2019 (All that is new) with Kishore Balakrishnan Sep 25, 2019

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit West 2019 (All that is new) with Kishore Balakrishnan” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "...all the ColdFusion developers, that's one place where you get to meet the actual ColdFusion developers who develop the product and interact with them as well. And it's also one place where, and they also in fact, but, uh, it's sort of a place where you could get some ideas from each other. Uh, it's not, it's not an everyday occurrence that I could envision a developer who's developing ColdFusion that is the Adobe engineers, uh, get to interact with the developers, but the actual code developers to know how the features which they're developed are being utilized... Show notes What exactly is CF Summit West? One place where all CF devs, designers, decision-makers and thought leaders come together Meet the CF engineers in person Why all CFer should go? 40 sessions from top CFers CF Specialist Certification Showcase your CF skills Help in CF hiring with a portal of certified CFer Career development Full day CF classes with Charlie Arehart and Pete Freitag How many years has CF Summit West been running? 7 years Why is it so important to the CF community? Shows Adobe is fully backing CF Show new features in new CF releases 65% of attendees are new to CF Summit Seeing who is using CF and cool ways they are using Community building Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about How - open call for speakers - 160 topic submissions to a topic selection committee led by Elishia Abram Adams, Charlie Arehart, Kailash Bihani, Brian Bockhold, Rick Buongiovanni, Matthew Clemente, Mike Collins, Paul Dumas, Elishia Dvorak, Nolan Erck, Dave Ferguson, Tony Ferraro, Daniel Fredericks, Pete Freitag, Ashish Garg, Uma Ghotikar, Matt Gifford, Giancarlo Gomez, Edwin Samuel Jonathan, Brian Klaas, Josh Kutz-Flamenbaum, Andy Lambert, Luis Majano, CEO, George Murphy, Rakshith Naresh, Piyush Kumar Nayak, Uday Ogra, Eric Peterson, Gavin Pickin, Brian Sappey, Suchika Singh, Denard Springle, Greg Stanley, Mark Takata, Andrew Tarvin, David Tattersal, Intergral , Minh Vo, Carl Von Stetten, Dan Wilson, Bradley Wood, Kevin Wright, Bruno Zugay Topics Adobe ColdFusion Keynote - CF 2020 sneak peeks Angular for ColdFusion Developers Approaches to more secure ColdFusion code Augmented Reality powered by React Native and ColdFusion - A transformation to mobile app development Automating your tasks using ColdFusion Scheduler Beyond "Read All": Build Fine-Grained Control of Amazon Web Services in Your ColdFusion App Caching and Performance in ColdFusion Closing Keynote ColdFusion and Vue - building CFML-powered reactive applications ColdFusion for the next decade – All about the buzzworthy ColdFusion 2020 Customer Showcase: Learn How Central San uses ColdFusion to Interconnect and Manage Enterprise Infrastructure Assets Document workflow and management made easy with ColdFusion From Legacy to Modern, Techniques to update your Legacy Sites GET /cfml - A Guide to Writing API Wrappers Getting Started With CF's Docker Images Harness the Best of the Best: ColdFusion and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Integration Humor That Works: The Secret to Being More Productive, Less Stressed, and Happier Making Modules — Utilizing Reusable Code through ColdBox Modules Meet Solr, ColdFusion's Search BFF No more excuses - let FusionReactor instantly show you performance problems and defects in your code Please pass the salt: Serve up passwords with a side of entropy Practical Functional Programming in ColdFusion Rapidly Prototyping Single-Page Applications with Coldfusion & Javascript Real-time SMS Texting with ColdFusion & AWS Reinforcement Learning with ColdFusion - Adding Practical Autonomy To Your Web Applications

097 State of the CF Union 2019 Survey, with Brad Wood (in-depth analysis) Sep 13, 2019

The final results for the 2019 State of the CF Union survey are out. Thanks to all the CFers who filled it out this year. Discover what most developers use for tools, languages, database and development methods. Before we begin with the results, we’d like to thank everyone who participated and responded to this year’s survey. And a special thanks to Brad Wood who helped me edit the survey questions and reviewed the results with me. Show notes If by any chance you are new to ColdFusion, it is a development platform for creating modern web applications on the JVM. The CFML language has tags that resemble HTML syntax for templating HTML and script that resembles JavaScript syntax for writing business logic. It is designed to be powerful, expressive and easy to get started coding in. Many features are built into ColdFusion that require add ons for other languages. Related: Why ColdFusion is still alive A lot of people are still on ColdFusion 11. This means that still so many people need to get out of the legacy hell. Upgrading people! That's what makes a programming language alive! Everyone's welcome to read the results. They're at the TeraTech survey page and you can all see all the results in as much detail as you care to. Let's just have a look at this. 1. What version of CFML Engine do you use? 2. What type of CFML Engine are you running? 3. What CF Server OS are you using 4. What OS do you run on your laptop/PC? 5. What browsers/client platforms do you support in your apps? 6. Databases you use? 7. What MVC Frameworks do you use? 8. What ColdFusion-based CMS do you use? 9. What JavaScript libraries do you use? 10. What CSS frameworks do you use? 11. What CFC dependency injection frameworks and tools do you use? 12. Which persistence frameworks do you use? 13. What testing and mocking frameworks do you use? 14. What type of CF Mobile development frameworks are you using? 15. What CF features do you use for code reuse? 16. What do you use for source code control? 17. What tools/IDEs do you use? 18. What Browser Dev Tools do you use? 19. What do you use to build REST APIs 20. What caching solutions are you using? 21. How many years have you used CFML? 22. How many years have you used OO? 23. Other languages/environments you use? 24. How many CF developers at your organization? 25. How many total employees at your organization? 26. How often do you attend ColdFusion User Group meetings? 27. Which CF conferences will/did you attend this year? 28. What online CF communities do you participate in? 29. I listen to the CF Alive podcast 30. What types of DEVELOPMENT setups do you use? 31. What types of PRODUCTION deployments do you use? 32. What hosting services do you use for your PRODUCTION deployments? 33. What Docker Image(s) are you using, if applicable? 34. What deployment/build tools do you use? 35. What monitoring tools are you using? 36. How do you lock down your servers for security? The first part of the analysis is done. We will do part 2 very soon. Make sure to follow us. Listen to the Audio Bio Brad grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors. Brad has been programming ColdFusion since 2001 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He first fell in love with ColdFusion as a way to easily connect a database to his website for dynamic pages. He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server. Brad is the ColdBox Platform developer advocate at Ortus Solutions and lead developer of the CommandBox CLI. Links CFML Slack Box Channel Twitter Brad Interview transcript

096 Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Roadmap (Multi-cloud, micro-services and more), with Ashish Garg Aug 14, 2019

Ashish Garg talks about “Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Roadmap (Multi-cloud, micro-services and more), with Ashish Garg” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes ColdFusion Future PM → VM → Cloud → Containers → Serverless What will make CF take off more CF 2020 Vision - To be the modernized platform of choice for building cloud-native microservice applications with an absolute focus on ease of use without getting locked to a particular cloud vendor (multi-cloud). Multi-cloud Micro-services container deploy CF 2020 Roadmap - modernized ColdFusion for the next decade Compare to the move from CF5 to CFMX J2EE That enabled Enterprise java development using CF Now cloud Cloud Most enterprises are moving to the cloud Why is cloud so important to enterprises and CIOs? Less upfront cost CapEx vs OpEx Pay monthly vs up front. Computing as a utility vs investment in build and maintaining, specialization of server building and maintenance (including security patching, upgrades), better redundancy And more flexibility for having to know how many servers you need up front - or change the number of servers day to day, minute to minute. Better for the budget - more predictable Faster time to market, less work on maintaining servers. Easier to manage Managed services - including software Many extra services available via the cloud Eg database as a service Sizing, no downtime or maintenance No need for DBA (apart from database design) 40+ AWS services Backup is taken care of for you CF will provide easy access to key cloud services - See Services section below The old distributed vs centralized debate Easier to scale Reliability Better but now centralized so when it does go down it affects everything AWS went down Multi-cloud, multi-region deployment Multi-cloud - better features or implementation on certain cloud providers Eg HIPPA compliance easier on Azure Better regional availability, government restrictions on US and EU govt sites Can start small for development then easily scale (both in how beefy the machine is and number of machines in the cluster) CF makes multi-cloud easy AWS Azure Combined AWS and Azure make up ⅔ of the cloud market for CFers currently Other cloud vendors coming in future Cloud platform-agnostic - portability Portability layer so CFers can write this for new cloud providers as DO How fast can it move to a new cloud Depends on how the app is written. Containers make this easier. Full-blown cloud app needs abstraction layer. Database provisioning may take time. AWS cloud formation template to make a new one CF cloud licensing Moving to cloud licensing (granularly pay per hour/minute) Rakshith working on this Technical issues are easier to solve Free Intro pricing for developers compare to AWS - Freemium marketing - low barrier to entry CF AWS already has hourly pricing - AMI Monitoring Monitoring, security and scaling built-in Performance Monitoring Toolset (PMT) will be transformed to be cloud/container ready - Monitoring of cloud services Messaging and alerts of performance issues AWS cloud watch integration Centralized performance monitoring of cluster (Virtual Private Cloud = VPC) Auto-scaling? Kubanetics or ECS orchestration of containers Move to serverless Calls going out, coming back, performance metrics of cloud services Logging All logging to be sent to a centralized repo across all the nodes. The idea is to make log inspection for debugging across your nodes and microservices super simple. Possible new dedicated logging service and integration with existing logging services such as Splunk API Manager logging, control and monitoring of API use will move into cloud too

095 ColdFusion CommandBox vs Node.js, with Nolan Erck Jul 31, 2019

Nolan Erck talks about “ColdFusion CommandBox vs Node.js (Dev Feature shootout)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes The myth that JS has all the cool tools and CF is dying Node.js has lots of cool dev tools CommandBox What is Node.js JavaScript based webserver and dev tools, CLI Very popular and lots of updates What is CommandBox? CFML based webserver and dev tools, CLI Installing Node Installing CommandBox 1. Ease of install Both Easy to install Both Open source and free Score: CommandBox 1 Node 1 2. Command Line Both have REPL - read–eval–print loop Both Run Batch files CommandBox BulletTrain add on - more colors and more informative prompt Score: CommandBox 2 Node 2 3. Running files Both Easy from the command line Replaces other script languages such as BASH with one you already know (JS or CFScript Eg file processing, production deployment, photo file processing Score: CommandBox 3 Node 3 4. Built-in Help Node --help Box help Help name spaces Score: CommandBox 4 Node 4 5. How they work Node Running a JavaScript application engine on your computer (or server) Code is processed thru the engine Spins up different services as needed Customizable per project via ".json" con CommandBox Running a CFML application engine on your computer (or server) Code is processed thru the engine Spins up different services as needed (modules, packages) Customizable per project via ".json" con Score: CommandBox 5 Node 5 6. Ease to set up a new project npm init Wizard interface asks questions Node json file NPM = Node Package Manager www.npmjs.com box init Same with box json file Score: CommandBox 6 Node 6 7. Dealing with dependencies (frameworks and libraries required for production) Node In package.json, "dependencies" section Things your app needs to run jquery, lodash, Angular, libaries from your team, etc "npm install" Node goes out to "the registry" and grabs those assets Puts them in "node_modules" folder CommandBox In box.json, "dependencies" section Things your app needs to run jquery, lodash, Angular, libraries from your team, etc "box install" CommandBox goes out to "the cloud" and grabs those assets Puts them in "installPaths" folders Score: CommandBox 7 Node 7 8. Dev dependencies (dev tools) Tools and libraries you want on dev machines but not production Eg Testing frameworks Node In package.json, "devDependencies" section Things your app needs to build CLI Tools, Typescript transpiler, Code Analyzer, Linter,etc Angular CLI, TypeScript, Webpack, etc "npm install --dev [thing]" Node goes out to "the registry" and grabs those assets Puts them in "node_modules" folder CommandBox In box.json, "devDependencies" section Things your app needs to build jquery, lodash, Angular, libaries from your team, etc "box install --saveDev [thing]" CommandBox goes out to "the cloud" and grabs those assets Puts them in "installPaths" folders Score: CommandBox 8 Node 8 9. Package management Node npm Registry Magic place in "the cloud" where reusable JavaScript lives "npm install [some library]" Node talks to "the registry", downloads the lib These dependencies live in the "node_modules" folder of your project Adding My Project to npm Create a package.json le Follow a few basic guidlines README, semantic version, Author, etc More details CommandBox ForgeBox CommandBox has a Registry: ForgeBox The "npm" of the CF world Not just *Box stuff! Can install CFWheels, Mura, FW/1, etc Any general CFML project can live here ForgeBox replaces CFLib,

094 Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification, with Elishia Dvorak Jul 25, 2019

Elishia Dvorak talks about “Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is the CF Specialist Certification? 1. + 22 hours video training (get access to the videos and demo files 2 weeks before the hands on training). This must be completed prior to the hands on class You can ask questions of the Adobe experts during this time 2. a full-day hands on class taught by top Adobe ColdFusion experts. Instructor plus TAs 3. Multiple-choice assessment 4. Adobe ColdFusion Specialist certificate. And LinkedIn badge to help you stand out from the crowd Cost $399 including the video training, hands-on class and assessment Why Certify See where your skills are compared to other CFers Learn new features that you might have missed Improve chances of promotion or being hired How is this different from the old certification program? The old one was CF 9 Only a test - did not include any training The new one is video training and 1-day training with Q&A plus a test 1-day training Small classroom format 1 instructor + 2 TAs Requirements Bring a modern laptop with CF 2018 and CF Builder 2018 already installed on it Install help provided Why did you decide to bring it back? It has been 10 years Developers, managers and organization for both certification and training from Adobe Future - other topics such as CF Security (by Pete Freitag) What does it cover? All versions of CF CF 2018 is best Fundaments Modern CFML coding best practices It includes all the major features in the latest release of Adobe ColdFusion – to use CFML to develop, test, debug and deploy web apps. It also shows how CF acts as a glue between different systems. Does not be cover non-language features such as the API Manager or Clustering.. Course Outline Introduction to ColdFusion Basics of HTML (Static Vs Dynamic sites) What is ColdFusion and CF Builder? ColdFusion Installation Dynamic generation of Pages using CFML (Hello World) ColdFusion Administrator ColdFusion Datasources Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder ColdFusion Builder Primer Debugging applications Advanced features ColdFusion Fundamentals Commenting code Conditional statements Reusing code with Reusing code with Custom Tags and CFModule Writing and Using CFFunctions Working with forms Working with forms – best practices Database Operations Displaying database data – cfoutput and cfloop Introducing CurrentRow Using the Resultset data – current row, record count, cache, column list, valuelist() Using URL data in dynamic queries Creating dynamic SQL for multiple search criteria Query parameters and caching Variable and Data Types Working with lists Working with arrays Working with structures Looping over data Shared Scopes and Handling State Addressing the web’s statelessness Session and Application Variables Locking shared scope variables Application Framework Using the application framework Configuring application settings Handling application events Handling request events Handling session events OnServerStart() applicationStop() PDF Operations in CF Installing HTML to PDF Engine Creating PDFs with HTML to PDF Conversion with Introduction to DDX support Object-Oriented ColdFusion Instance-based components Caching instances Adding methods to a component Public and Private Property getters and setters Constructors Inheritance Composition Interfaces Models When Sign up now Video release mid-Sept On site class Monday Sept 30th Availability 120 seats Where

093 ColdFusion with Carl Von Stetten, Daniel Fredericks & Dave Ferguson Jun 24, 2019

Carl Von Stetten, Daniel Fredericks and Dave Ferguson talk about “Learn ColdFusion in a Week” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is Learn CF in a Week? http://www.learncfinaweek.com/ Learn CF in a Week is a community-driven training program that teaches all the basics you need to be a ColdFusion Developer in one week. Online Course PDF E-book Sample files Started by Simon Free and many contributors for CF10, now updated for CF 2018 Adobe and others have helped How much does it cost? Free. Open source. Why did you create it? To bridge the gap between reading online docs and learning the language Who contributed http://www.learncfinaweek.com When was it first released? Approx 2010 What versions of ACF and Lucee is it for? All versions since CF 11 because CF is backward compatible Examples for ACF, but mostly works ok in Lucee What are the cool features of it? Walks through features Subsections Hands-on exercises with solutions Modern CF code - cfscript, commandbox Written by developers for developers Sections Database access Applicaton.cfc Logic Setup Installing ColdFusion 10 Installing MySQL Installing Sample Files Basics Decision Making and Scopes Looping Data Handling Code Reuse Application.cfc OOP ORM Mail Document Handling Caching Security Error Handling and Debugging I18n What to do Next - learning resources Is it realistic for a non-CF programmer to learn CF in a week and be productive? Yes. Without human help! What about a non-programmer (eg an HTML graphic designer)? Yes if you spend more time on the Basics chapter What other ways are there to learn CF? Trial and error CF docs - but just documents individual tags - not the why Books CF Web Application Construction Kit - now out of date Learn CF in 100 minutes Ortus book Training Linda Adobe college curriculum Conferences CFUG CF certification CF Slack channel What plans do you have for the future of Learn CF in a Week? Gotchas coming from specific languages Advanced sections Containers Performance API manager Cloud Frameworks Package Management ForgeBox More resources Statistics Learn CF a Week meetup at CF Summit How can listeners help out with Learn CF in a Week? Google group for contributors and help Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CF Summit West? Listen to the Audio Bios Carl Von Stetten Carl is in his 19th year working as a Geographic Information System (GIS) Analyst with a San Francisco Bay Area municipal wastewater agency. He develops and maintains multiple internal ColdFusion-based GIS applications for use by agency staff, and is well-versed in Microsoft SQL Server and Esri ArcGIS technologies. He can often be found hanging out in the ColdFusion Slack team, on the Adobe ColdFusion forums, or on Twitter (@cfvonner). Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/cfvonner Daniel Fredericks A ColdFusion Developer for over 15 years specializing in Government Contracts. Continuing to learn more modern techniques all the time such as OOP, API development and more. In my spare time I spend time with my wife and 2 kids, coaching and playing sports with them, and watching a lot of sports. Links: You can find me on FB, Twitter (@fmdano74), Slack and other CFML based sites. Dave Ferguson Dave has spent the majority of his life living in sunny Southern California. Over the past almost 20 years has worked in information technology after his attempt at being a career restaurant manager failed miserably. He has spent the majority of that time specializing in large enterprise-class systems. When not writing code,

092 How to start and run a CFUG (experts panel) with Daniel Garcia, Leon O’Daniel, Michaela Light and Nolan Erck Jun 20, 2019

Daniel Garcia, Leon O'Daniel and Nolan Erck talk about “How to start and run a CFUG (experts panel)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is a CFUG? ColdFusion User Group CFers gather to learn and share about CF. May have presentations too. And other related technologies Learn about opportunities, network Why is a CFUG important? CF still relevant Share tips and tech Help keep CF alive Keep up with new tools and ideas How do you start a CFUG? Finding a Location is key Important not to move every month Free venue, allows food, has a projector and AV Easy part of town to reach after work (allow for traffic patterns in your town) Meetup Pro members in major metropolitan areas may have the ability to reserve space at WeWork (a Co-Working Space) for little to no charge. HackLab - add to their calendar Meet at User Group Member’s company conference rooms Zoom Video Conference Meeting time and frequency Middle of week - Tues or Wed ideal, Thursday ok Nth Wed of month Ask members what day 6pm works if you have food provided or for sale 6:30pm - 8pm Every month vs every other month Don’t move the day around Name badges and go around room intros Name, company, what hope get out of group Tips on getting speakers Ask speakers from CF conferences (CF Summit, Into The Box, CF Camp etc) Ask CF Vendors (Integral, Foundeo, BlueRiver, Ortus etc) Tech Recruiters talk on job market Tech people you know, CFers at your company Ask related tech vendors and from other conferences Alternatives to expert speakers Code show and tell Help members give mini-talks (5-10 mins) Show a record preso and talk about it Backup presenter Get slides ahead of time Developer show and tell Hands-on workshop Open forum Q&A Promoting a CFUG Email list Several reminders Website Great for meeting announcements Past meeting recording Bio Adobe Forum CF breakfast event Free software give away Extra tickets to speakers and attendees each month Lucee Eventbrite Meetup - people can search for this Your company LI friends CF Slack channel Instagram - share speaker photo before event, share photos from event after Promote active members on website Freebies - Adobe, vendors, Training company such as Linda At conferences - CFUG T-shirt, postcards Grab extra swag FB Live (or YouTube live) of meeting Believe.tv allows for multiple presenters and screen share Manager Co-manager Burnout Vision and member guidelines How do you deal with disruptive members? Facilitate discussion on topic, keep concise How do you encourage quiet members to speak up and participate? CF Alive book - community guidelines Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CF Summit West? Listen to the Audio Mentioned in this episode Mike Born CF Popular article Bios Daniel Garcia Daniel Garcia is the founder and manager of the Chicagoland ColdFusion User Group. He works for American Access Casualty Company as a Lead Application Developer as well as a part-time freelancer. Working with ColdFusion since 1999 (CF4), he is passionate about the technology and strives to be a full stack web developer (or as close to one as he can be). He is a husband, father, wisenheimer, cinefile, regaler of useless knowledge, barbershopper, and has an irreverent sense of humor. His mantra is "work smarter, not harder" and "KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid)". Leon O'Daniel Leon O’Daniel has been designing and developing web sites using ColdFusion since 1997. He splits his time between being a Senior Web Application Developer and Leader of the Boeing ColdFusion Community of Practice for the ...

091 Vue.JS FusionReactor and Therapy, with Raymond Camden May 30, 2019

Raymond Camden talks about “Vue.JS FusionReactor and Therapy” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "...There could have been tools to make that a little bit easier to make the scaffolding quicker. It's, but like, it's, you know, it's like when I go anywhere now with my children, right? I don't like casually go anywhere, but my kids are coming. I'm bringing snacks and bringing diaper bag and all that. And I like them being with me. But it's a process. And that's kind of how I felt about Angular. You know, view, you know, view definitely has a process to it has a command line as a scaffolding tool. And you can build big applications. But then, but it also supports simple progressive enhancement..." Show notes Vue.JS Why and what excites you about Vue Simple progress web apps enhancements - easier than jQuery Eg progressive search and filtering Simple to get started with than Angular Vue has two way binding between your DOM and JS data jQuery this is manual Easier with dynamic HTML with tokens that are replaced by JS data by Vue Compare to Handlebars, mustache, Jade and Pug Excited about its simplicity and power Find other Vue logic from other similar sites CodePen online code edit Compare to Angular.JS Angular hard to use on smaller scale use on a single page of an app - it expects to run the whole app Needs more handholding, conventions Major Angular update - leaders were not helpful to people upgrading Even needing to explain the version numbering change What Vue is especially good for Apps Single page enhancement For micro apps (4 lines) just uses JavaScript Example of Vue.JS on Plex media server API Fetch - does AJAX type calls super easy Axeos library Vue Challenges More documentation for people new to JavaScript apps What folders can you ignore when starting Learning Get started in an hour Sarah Drasner CSS tricks site FR first impressions for new CFers Therapy with his wife dying a year ago Neutral party listening to all the emotions and experiences Good for any mental health issues - anxiety and depression Mentioned in this episode Progressive Web Apps- CF Alive episode Why Programming in Node.JS is so powerful- CF Alive episode John Farrar: Vue- more is less CodePen Sarah Drasner CSS tricks Vue articles Getting started with FusionReactor Finding and fixing your slow ColdFusion pages with FusionReactor Ray’s Wife died blog posts Building a plex server duration search with Vue.JS CF Suicide and depression- CF Alive episode Oh my GAD- CF ALive episode Listen to the Audio Bio Raymond Camden Raymond Camden works as a Developer Experience engineer for American Express. He works on serverless, JavaScript, web standards, and enterprise cat demos. He is the author of multiple books on web development and has been actively blogging and presenting for almost twenty years. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.raymondcamden.com), @raymondcamden on Twitter, or via email at raymondcamden@gmail.com. Links Raymond's Blog Twitter LinkedIn GitHub Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:00 Hey, welcome back to the podcast. I'm here today with Ray Camden. And we're going to be talking about Vue.JS, FusionReactor and also Therapy. So if you don't know Ray, he is sometimes known as the Jedi Jedi Master. And he was for a long time in the ColdFusion community. He kind of went off in other directions, but now he's playing around with FusionReactor and doing some other cool stuff with Vue.JS. So he works as developer experience engineer for American Express now, and he works on server lyst, JavaScript web standards, enterprise cat demos, that sounds very enterprise cat demos. Yes. And he's also the author of lots of books on web development. And he's got a very prolific Brock blog.

090 CF Alive at Chicago CFUG with Michaela Light Apr 08, 2019

I was a guest speaker in an episode of Chicago CFUG, with host Daniel Garcia. Show notes CF Alive Making ColdFusion Modern, Vibrant and Secure By Michaela Light Who is Michaela Overview Legacy ColdFusion Modern ColdFusion CF Tools Outreach Marketing Vibrant ColdFusion CF dying? What aspects of CF are preventing you or your company from embracing CF? 72% CF is seen as dying/legacy. Annual State of CF Union survey, 2018 Modern CF Secure Scalable CF and Docker Virtual machine Share same config with others, staging and production orchestration layer tools Better testing Free CF CF Docker tools Source control IDEs Frameworks Server monitoring REST APIs and microservices CommandBox CMS Easy front end integration Dependency Injection Frameworks ORM Package Management Outreach WWIT to have a happy, healthy ColdFusion developers community? Education Network Teach Hiring Better CF Community Marketing The CF Alive Revolution Mentioned in this episode Lucee CFML HackMyCF Fuseguard Fixinator FusionReactor Kubernetes Heroku Dokku TestBox MockBox Portainer CommandBox Git BitBucket GitHub Sublime Dreamweaver Preside jQuery WireBox Listen to the Audio Bio Michaela Light Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for over 20 years. She founded TeraTech which focuses on ColdFusion development and optimization. She founded the CFUnited conference and ran MDCFUG. She is the current host of the CF Alive podcast and has interviewed over 60 ColdFusion experts about What It Would Take to make CF more alive this year. Links CF Alive book CF Alive podcast CF Alive Inner Circle TeraTech blog TeraTech YouTube channel Regular Social media posts (TW, LI, FB) Interview transcript Daniel Garcia 0:01 Okay, I like to thank everyone for coming this evening. We've got quite the treat. We've got Michaela light is going to talk to us about CF Alive. She's been doing some fantastic. evangelism, I guess is a great word for this and why ColdFusion is just awesome still, and it's always been awesome. And we're going to let her tell us why. So thank you very much. Michaela 0:23 Yeah, thanks for inviting me to the Chicago CFUG. And, yeah, I'm going to talk about CF Alive, which is the title of a book I published last fall. It was actually released at the CF Summit West in Las Vegas. And the subtitle is making ColdFusion modern, vibrant and secure and we'll talk about all those aspects of it. So fabulous. And we go so the roadmap for CF Alive is that confusion is modern and alive. And it's great for doing complex data-driven applications. And while some companies have abandoned ColdFusion as dying, you know, more visionary developers like ourselves, have embraced CF and learn how to make it more modern. So more modern, secure. And also, I think if you look at how ColdFusion is used in the most modern web development, departments and shops is the most state of the art web development ecosystem. So we'll look at why that is. So who am I? As I said, I wrote the book CF Alive. I'm also host of the CF life podcast. I just out of interest. How many people here have ever listened to any CF Live podcast episode? Maybe you can tell me how many people raise their hands if any four of us and one of our move on you with the podcast at Bertram? Oh yeah, he was a guest. Read more Join the CF Alive revolution Discover how we can all make CF more alive, modern and secure this year. Join other ColdFusion developers and managers in the CF Alive Inner Circle today. Get early access to the CF Alive book and videos Be part of a new movement for improving CF's perception in the world. Contribute to the CF Alive revolution Connect with other CF developers and managers There is no cost to membership.

089 All about the Adobe CF Summit East 2019 ColdFusion with Kishore Balakrishnan Apr 01, 2019

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit East 2019 ColdFusion” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "... every year, we are seeing an increase in the number of developers that are coming to the events like you would have seen, and even Las Vegas event last year was bigger than the year before. And hopefully this year, the Summit East is going to be bigger than what it was the last year." Show notes What exactly is CF Summit East? Started in the second year of CF Summit in Las Vegas For people who can’t travel to the West coast Expecting 250-300 people, 400 registrations already two months out How many years has CF Summit been running? 4th year Also CF Summit India Plans for an event in Europe DevWeek in SF Why is it so important to the CF Community? Learn CF new features Future roadmap of CF (through 2028) Networking with other CF developers, CF speakers and Adobe CF senior staff Why all CFer should go? To learn about Adobe’s commitment to CF New features in CF Direction of CF CF Roadmap through 2028 Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about 11 speakers Keynote Ashish Garg - Engineering Director, responsible for CF and other ELearning tools at Adobe and Adobe Connect Ashish will be talking about CF 2018 and how CFers are using it. Geek Out With The Smart Language Additions In Coldfusion 2018 Rakshith Naresh Product Manager for ColdFusion, Adobe Adobe ColdFusion 2018 brings numerous nifty improvements to the language. The goal of this session is to not just show you the new improvements in action but also to inspire you to incorporate some of these powerful features in your existing applications. In this session, we will see firsthand on how the changes can be applied to a popular existing application. It goes without saying that new applications with new code can also take advantage of the new feature set. See a lot of code. Have fun. And hey, if you can apply what you learn, then you can also win at answering some of the interactive programming questions that might be thrown at you. More power to all you developers! Rakshith is the Senior Product Manager for Adobe at ColdFusion. This is the man who literally decides the future direction of ColdFusion. He is very passionate about ColdFusion and greatly appreciates the useful input from the CF Community. Making Your Applications Fast And Furious With The New Performance Monitoring Toolset In CF 2018! Elishia Dvorak ColdFusion Solution Consultant & Evangelist, Adobe The all-new Performance Monitoring Toolset in Adobe ColdFusion 2018 is geared towards today's development needs, providing a full-spectrum solution to not only self-diagnose and heal, but also a profiling capability for the developer who needs something more to tune existing applications for performance. In this session, attendees will learn how to easily diagnose bottlenecks in your current applications, be the first to know about production problems, and take your troubleshooting to the next level with the new self-healing connector tuning capabilities. Elishia was once a CF developer, she quickly moved her way up the ranks to become Adobe’s Technical Marketing Manager for ColdFusion and eLearning. Adobe Coldfusion 2018 Hidden Gems Charlie Arehart ColdFusion Troubleshooting Consultant, CArehart.org It's that time again-another new version of ColdFusion (CF) has come out: Adobe ColdFusion 2018. Now is the time for veteran CF troubleshooter and presenter Charlie Arehart to continue his tradition of identifying "hidden gems" within the new release, as he's been doing since CF4. Sure, most people can name a few of the big, new features in each release, while others will lament that "there's not much new," when in fact there is! Just as in every release of CF, there are always lots of things that go unheralded,

088 CFWheels (A ColdFusion Framework for the REST of us) with Tom King and David Belanger Feb 25, 2019

David Belanger and Tom King talk about “CFWheels (A ColdFusion Framework for the REST of us)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "... So, if you had to compare these four frameworks to personalities of animals you know what would you say to them kind of roughly felt like to you?" Show notes What is CFWheels? MVC framework inspired by the Ruby on Rails (RoR) framework CFWheels is an open source CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) framework inspired by Ruby on Rails that provides fast application development, a great organization system for your code, and is just plain fun to use. Team 4 wheels - Andy Bellenie, Adam Chapman, Tom King, David Belanger Why is it a framework for the REST of us? Hybrid development style - pop on legacy code into a View module and it will just work (then refactor later) Convention over configuration No XML config file - but do have config files with cfscript that set CFWheels variables Streamlined ORM, but can add in SQL queries when you want to Inspired by RoR with over 10 years of development (first commit 2006!) Rails is an inspiration and not a rule of law, but a useful reference: i.e, routing Friendly framework Great for those who might have tried other frameworks and found them overwhelming Convention over Configuration Good for beginners Lots of user-friendly documentation How different is CFWheels from ColdBox or FW/1 or Fusebox? (They are all MVC frameworks) What animal does each framework remind you of? ColdBox = Friendly Tiger who does everything FW/1 = Fast bird, who gets in an out fast, lightweight Fusebox = Neglected dinosaur, powerful but has not been maintained recently CFWheels = Horse - just get on and ride Why use a framework at all? See the first page of the CFWheels docs https://guides.cfwheels.org/ Team and maintenance faster Why not use a homegrown framework? Easier to pass code base on to other developers Especially for open source projects You benefit from other people fixing bugs in the framework RESTful routing https://guides.cfwheels.org/cfwheels-guides/handling-requests-with-controllers/routing Resource-based routing Can easily just turn your app into an API eg to an Angular front end Microservices? Not so much Single framework with plugins Fads in IT Own ORM (Active Record Style) Dynamic Finders, i.e findOneByEmail Model Validation Own ORM so independent of CF engine ORM changes Lots of stuff Built-in Database Migrations / MySQL MSSQL Postgres Documentation / automatic developer documentation Test Suite based on RocketUnit Commandbox based CLI CORS handling (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) CFWheels 2.1 feature Protect from CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) Flash handling The Flash is just a struct in the session or cookie scope with some added functionality. It is cleared at the end of the next page that the user views. This means that it's a good fit for storing messages or variables temporarily from one request to the next. Nothing to do with Adobe Flash player! Plugins - ForgeBox Future - next release 2.1 Bug fixes Faster startup CORS functionality 2.x Moved code to cfscript (from CF tags) Form helpers Small but Friendly community Google mailing list for help CFML slack channel #CFWheels room Blog Github Twitter You Outreach? Mostly word of mouth currently Why are you proud to use CF? It always works! Fast to develop WWIT to make CF more alive this year? Support Lucee PHP beater And in the cloud More blogs and education Talk it up in your proposals Education - talk to teachers who are teaching the classes Or teach CF at schools or universities yourself More open source apps

087 ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .Net (which is a better friend) with Brian Cain Dec 19, 2018

Brian Cain talks about “ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .Net (which is a better friend)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlxeFjG5LDM&rel=0 Show notes Speed of development Different from other languages Not constrained to a particular framework or dev methodology (eg what Microsoft or Java) RAD “Time of thought to launch” is way faster with CF CF 10 hours .Net weeks, especially for flexible changes PHP days Wild West too much freedom but not support OO as well as CF Java weeks Good on OO but much heavier weigh dev process Pickier coding Nimble response to customer requests and market changes How friendly to the developer Least .Net and Java. Need a lot of computer science / “gearhead” developers to use well Not a dev friendly Middle PHP - open source is good CFML - tag based is easy to get started, cfscript and OO are powerful to move forward with Avoid over engineering Strong Typing Hiring Post programming jobs vs CF job Easy to train developers from languages in 1-2 weeks Learn the syntax CF is forgiving about how you code Hackathon comparison Roadmap Oracle Java changes WP (WordPress) or Drupal developers vs pure PHP DNN (Dot net Nuke) sites vs .Net .Net roadmap PHP roadmap Faster maintenance Good CFML saves on refracting later CFQueryParam Object reuse Java yes PHP not built in .Net yes CF yes Schools and universities What is a good developer Solve problems and head off future problems due to maintenance and scalability Free Adobe curriculum and CF licenses for learning Third party add-ons PDF generation What is the attraction of .Net, PHP or Java? Security Legacy The two edged sword of full backward compatibility Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? Publicity from organization eg NASA CF helps get us to Mars What did you enjoy at CF Summit? Mentioned in this episode Learn CF in a week Free Adobe curriculum and CF licenses for learning Kishore Balakrishnan Email kishore (at) adobe.com Article - Modernization of Adobe ColdFusion (More Secure Than Ever) Listen to the Audio Bio Brian Cain Brian has been developing for 20 years, 16 of them in ColdFusion. Dev Team manager for Careers division of Farms.com Links LinkedIn Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:00 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Brian Cain. And we're gonna be talking about cold fusion versus PHP versus Java versus.net. It's like a super boxing kind of for way thing. And we're asking, which is your better friend as a developer, and we'll be looking at several topics, their speed of development, object orientation, how many add ons there are, and that L Word legacy development platforms. So we might even talk about security features for platforms. And if you don't know, Brian, you've probably seen him at some of the confusion conferences around he's been in the cold fusion world decades, and he's been developing for 20 years, been doing cold fusion for 16 years. And he's the deputy manager for careers division of bombs calm. So welcome. Brian Brian Cain 0:50 Hi, Thanks for having me. Michaela Light 0:52 Yeah, so let's just start off with speed of development. Because, you know, that's often critical in organizations these days, how do these four languages compare? Because you've programmed in all of them, right? Brian Cain 1:06 I yeah, I have it as far as the, the speed of development, you know, ColdFusion is, has always been the by far the fastest and easiest one to use for me, in fact, that the last day of summer, one of the keynote speakers kind of threw out a buzz phrase that really stuck with me, but he talked about time of thought to launch. So it was the idea of, okay,

086 Adobe ColdFusion 2018 (All that is new) with Kishore Balakrishnan Dec 13, 2018

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe ColdFusion 2018 (All that is new)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Performance improvements Performance tuning Server Monitor (NEW) Flag performance issues and isolate problem areas so that you can initiate corrective action much faster. Know the average response time and throughput across the cluster, or specific to a node, application, or page, in real time. The information will also be automatically archived for historical analysis. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/server-monitor/ Code profiler (NEW) Swiftly identify and resolve complex performance issues buried deep in your code. Get the detailed information required to pinpoint the root cause of bottlenecks, and troubleshoot applications more effectively. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/code-profiler/ Database Monitor (NEW) Make sure your database does not act as a drag on application performance. Monitor all database queries, transactions, and query cache, visually, and get pre-determined or customized alerts to pro-actively take preventive or corrective action. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/database-discovery/ External Services Monitor (NEW) Zero in on external factors such as web services, file system, mail server, LDAP, Microsoft SharePoint, or transfer protocols, that could be slowing down application performance. Ensure that all the components of your IT infrastructure are working in sync. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/external-services/ Automatic connector tuning [NEW] Ensure that your websites are always up and running. Eliminate 503 Service Unavailable errors by allowing the Performance Monitoring Toolset to dynamically adjust connector settings based on incoming traffic. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/connector-tuning/ Distributed cache (NEW) Improve performance and enhance scalability by leveraging built-in support for three popular industry engines: JCS, Memcached, and Redis. Also plug in your own caching engine by implementing a simple CFML interface. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/distributed-caching-coldfusion-2018-release Security tools and improvements Security code analyzer from CF 2016 Auto lockdown (NEW) Now implement lockdown of your production server with a single click. All steps in the lockdown guide will be systematically followed, ensuring that the security measures are fail-safe and in compliance. Post-lockdown, the system will continue to be monitored for potential breaches. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/server-auto-lockdown/ New Language features: Asynchronous programming (NEW) Boost the performance of your principal application by offloading resource-intensive code segments to a secondary thread. Simply use the RUNASYNC function to execute code without the overhead of managing multiple threads. Once the result is ready to be consumed, you will receive a notification. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/asynchronous-programming-in-coldfusion-2018-release/ Modern admin UI (NEW) Enjoy a sleek, new responsive UI built on single web page architecture. Carry out all admin tasks faster with easier access to all the ColdFusion settings—just search for what you need. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/new-administrator-ui-coldfusion/ External storage for session scope (New) Eliminate concerns about memory constraints to store session data because you can now configure an external distributed store to retain session data outside memory. Get rid of sticky session configuration, and enjoy complete load balancing across all cluster nodes. REST playground (NEW) Create and manage all your REST services from a single application. The simple, intuitive UI makes it a breeze to validate the accuracy of your APIs. Make changes to your REST APIs without having to...

085 Design Thinking for CFers (10 tips for better apps) with Dee Sadler Sep 11, 2018

https://youtu.be/rBUa6HbL48c Dee Sadler talks about “Design Thinking for CFers (10 tips for better apps)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights Design thinking Hands-on UX problem solving, human-centered, iterating loop Ideating, prototyping, development, usability testing Goes well with Agile MVP (Minimum Viable Product) vs perfect So get user feedback Design for future vision and plan vs Frankenstein piecemeal design Solving user problems/workflow vs adding features User stories Business needs + user needs - pain points User interviews UX > UI Keys 1. Empathetic User avatar(s)/persona(s) and demographics and motivations 80/20 focus Always be observing (users) in the wild 2. Contextual You want the user to be aware of where they are in their journey. 3. Human Friendly, trustworthy, transparent 4. Discoverable Make things obvious, purposeful and discoverable. Fewer buttons, colors Clear CTA (Call To Action) on each page 5. Intuitive Easy to use Strong visual hierarchy 6. Clear and Concise Remove irrelevant information or tools before reaching the user objective — get to the point 7. Learnable No one wants to use a product that is ridiculously difficult to learn — dumb it down! 8. Efficient Fast to do tasks. Including on different device 9. Delightful Using your app is fun and has nice surprises 10. Better Constant improvement Constant usability testing Storming a hill method Who = user What = user task Wow = measurable and time-bound success → epics and stories Why are you proud to be UX director? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist. Mentioned in this episode 10 UX Design Fundamentals Developers Should Learn Design Thinking — Not Just For Designers 11 reasons why a developer should learn design Designing for developers

084 ColdFusion High-Performance Teams (15 tips and technique) with Jorge Reyes Sep 03, 2018

Jorge Reyes talks about ColdFusion High-Performance Teams with some tips in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why High-Performance Teams Distrust Fear conflict Lack of commitment Avoid accountability Inattention to results What do you mean by High Performance Efficient Reliable Effective Consistent Predictable - Product expected results The Projectized Organization PM is king People > Process Servant Leadership Team rules and processes Help team members grow in tech and interpersonal skills Generalizing specialists Empower and encourage emerging leaders Learn team motivators and demotivators Encourage communication via slack or other collaboration tools Shield team from distractions Track performance and forecast Share project Vision Agile teams vs hierarchical teams Self-organizing Servant Leader-Facilitator Everyone knows their Roles Biz representatives - does and don’t Can Prioritizes features Makes change requests Provides the acceptance criteria Can not Change features or priorities Decide due date Attend planning meetings or retrospectives Scrum master Facilitates team and biz reps Coaches Servant leader Follows up Project sponsor Dev team Front End Code Test DevOps Team > lone development or talent Even if Luis the CEO is on the team Team Evolution Forming → storming → norming → performing High-Performance Teams Performing stage of team evolution tech skills “Throwing people into the fire” A hard task a bit above what they already know with the support of mentors For growth and motivation Distributed teams Team tools Video conferencing - Zoom Cameras on to see body language Focus on meeting IM - Slack and email Keban boards - Trello, JIRA Online calendar - Google, Outlook, iCal Conf call tips Keep to time limits (15 min for stand-ups) Have a timekeeper on the team who pays attention and reminds Culture of integrity Start on time and end on time Agenda Very clear of expectations - be up front of my role as the meditator for meeting Document and record Burndown chart Burn up chart Estimating release date Team velocity CF summit Luis, Gavin, Jon from Ortus are speaking Post-summit training on ColdBox (2 days) Ortus Roadshow - containers 2? Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CF Summit in Las Vegas? Mentioned in this episode CF Suicide episode Slides Book Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet 079 Help Your ColdFusion Team Find Flow (7 keys to PM success) with Christine Ballisty 060 Virtual Power Teams for ColdFusion Development (3 mistakes to avoid) with Peter Ivanov Stand up = daily stand up meeting = Scrum Zoom Slack Trello JIRA cloud Into The Box conference Listen to the Audio Bio Jorge Reyes Jorge is a passionate Industrial Engineer born in El Salvador with 7 years of experience managing projects. Business manager at Ortus Solutions, Corp. Links Email: Jreyes (at) ortussolutions.com Twitter Ortus Solutions, Corp Interview Transcript

082 ColdFusion and the Blockchain Revolution with Mike Brunt Jul 23, 2018

Mike Brunt talks about “ColdFusion and the Blockchain Revolution” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Shoe notes What is the Blockchain? DLT = Distributed Ledger Technology Transactions and identities 2009 Bitcoin launch - decentralized value exchange, peer to peer Etherium - BLT plus code (DAPs) Easier to use Coins based on ETH Ethereum Solidity (like Javascript) Smart Contract Other blockchains Compare Blockchain to a network level protocol Compare Blockchain to music P2P (distributed) vs Napster (centralized) Disintermediation Permissioned vs Permissionless blockchain (self-governing) Why does it matter to CFers? Blockchain uses REST API CF is the easiest way to create apps that use REST API Calling Blockchain APIs from CF using the API manager Using CF as the best glue between the blockchain and databases The data req in a blockchain app is still in databases CommandBox now officially supported by Adobe Blockchain projects that Mike is working on Land Dollar - coin backed by land Digi FreeLabs - biofuels AI and Blockchain JVM tuning and AI? Blockchain vs GDPR approach to privacy Ownership of your own data Self-sovereign identity - control which parts of your data you share Blockchain evolution vs web evolution and CF Lack of developers H1B Overhyped CF revolutionized web development EOS $4 Billion raised CF and Java for blockchain development Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? CFUGs Sample apps ForgeBox What did you enjoy at CF Summit West last year? Mentioned in this episode Ethereum Bitcoin Ethereum Solidity Go-lang (Google) Blockchain groupings hyperledger Linux foundation (Apache founder) Visual dev tools Eugene, OR Blockchain user group Digi FreeLabs IDX broker Industry 4.0 and IoT Digital Twin Estonian e-residency Goldman Sachs 300,000 hours of legal work done by an AI legal system FusionReactor SeeFusion GDPR Self sovereign identity Dock.io Sovrin Indy hyperledger project for self sovereign identity Bitcoin News ForgeBox ColdBox Listen to the Audio Bio Mike Brunt Mike Brunt was born in Northern England in 1948. It was a time of austerity for the British people who had rationing in place due to the effects of the Second World War. He pursued a management career in transportation equipment becoming Director of Excess Stock at British Leyland Truck and Bus. He moved to the USA in 1989 and eventually took up a career path in technology, coinciding with the emergence of the World Wide Web. Mike then became involved in Teleradiology working alongside Kodak, Lucent Technologies and GTE. Currently Mike is still deeply involved in technology, being a specialist in capacity planning and tuning for Java systems and he is becoming ever more involved with Blockchain and peer-to-peer based infrastructure. In addition to his career path Mike is a composer and musical having been involved in the creation of 11 electronic music albums, Mike also paints with well over 100 paintings located in Los Angeles, New Zealand and Eugene Oregon. Lastly Mike is a Permaculture Certified Designer and lives on a 5 acre farm in the Eugene area of Oregon. Mike Brunt is also known as CF Whisperer. Links Twitter FaceBook Instagram CF Whisperer Java Mem JVM Services Interview Transcript: Michaela 0:00 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Mike Brunt sometimes known as the CF whisperer. And he has been doing cold fusion since version one. And he's an expert at tuning cold fusion web service. And he's done it for many large organizations arou...

083 Better Bug Squashing (New Issue Tracking Tool) with Kirk Deis Jul 02, 2018

Kirk Deis talks about "Better Bug Squashing (New Issue Tracking Tool)" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is the problem with how you find bug issues now? User emails User phone calls Text messages Lack of complete info to reproduce the bug PM tools can track bugs Asana, Basecamp etc Bug and Issue trackers can help you prioritize issues JIRA, Bugzilla, Fogbugz Pay by team members and sites User anger over reporting bugs Why you need a pro tool for bug reporting What is The Bug Squasher? More fun to use - modern sexy clean design Lean Screen capture Future video capture too App info auto sent Fun with marketing Bug Squashing Rap video To install - Add header to website Can restrict by IP who can report - great for live apps How did you come up the idea for The Bug Squasher? Bad user reporting His story Film School - Dream of being Screenwriter 9-5 job SEO and ad agencies From marketing on the side projects to full service marketing agency Lots of tech: Web development, PPC, Video production, Email Marketing, Content Creation His thoughts on the Tech Gig economy Upwork, Fiverr etc Why are you proud to help squash bugs? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? Coupon Code 20Alive for 20% Off Mentioned in this episode Bug Squashing Rap video The Bug Squasher Listen to the Audio Bio Kirk Deis Kirk Deis (pronounced “Daysss”) is the CEO of two companies based in Newport Beach, California. Treehouse51.com (ad agency) & TheBugSquasher.com (universal web app). He has been featured in Forbes, online publications and other podcast shows. Website Links The Bug Squasher Treehouse 51 Social Links The Bug Squasher: Instagram Facebook Twitter Youtube YouTube Rap Video Treehouse 51: Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter Best way to reach Kirk Deis is to message via the contact form on either site. Option 2 would be to email Kirk Deis at Kirk@Treehouse51.com Interview Transcript: Michaela 0:01 Welcome back to the show. And today we're going to look at better bug squashing if I can get the words out, it's a new issue tracking tool. It just came out a few weeks ago. And I'm here with Kirk dice, who's the CEO of the bug Scotia. And also he runs a whole tech marketing agency called treehouse 51, so we're going to look up what the problem is, with how you're currently getting bugs reported to you, and why the maybe a better way to do it, and we'll look in detail of what the bug squatter can do, and how he came up with the idea of it. And also will, if we have time we'll have we'll ask them about the tech gig economy. Because I know a lot of folks listening sometimes deal with folks on up work or five or whatever. So there's some interesting discussion there as well. So welcome, Kirk. Thanks for having me. Are you doing? Yeah, great. Happy. I probably mispronounced naming names for now. days, right? Yes. Kirk Deis 1:00 Kirk Deis Yeah, yes. Michaela 1:02 All right. So what is the problem that listeners, you know, they probably are getting bugs reported to them on their apps. But why? What are they doing that not as efficient as it could be? Kirk Deis 1:15 So I guess I guess the best way to answer that I told the story of why we why even go through all this stuff. And all of it started spent about 11 months and developments. And we had a client, it was an older lady in her 70s. And she understood the concept of turning on a computer. And that was about it from that, from that point forward. It was like, You guys got to solve mistakes. And we were designing a website for her. And she sent sent me this email. That was no joke. It was like, 10,000 words, single space. It was just, it was a nightmare.

081 Assert Control Over Your Legacy Applications (TestBox Quick Start) with Ed Bartram Jun 24, 2018

Ed Bartram talks about “Assert Control Over Your Legacy Applications (TestBox Quick Start)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. "Unit tests are typically testing the logic within a particular method or group of methods and not anything else that those methods are and that includes external dependencies such as a database. So what we do is we write integration tests which are structured much like unit test to test those external dependencies to make sure that the code that you have that's making those calls out actually work correctly without error and then you can even in the case of database calls insert records into it in order to do your unit tests against let's say, read function to make sure that it's coming back correctly so it's doing what you intended it to do." - Ed Bartam Show notes Why unit test? A unit is a method, function or small group of same Why do it? Refactoring is safer improving quality and reliability of their application Faster finding bugs when you change code Better deployment during your build process What is integration testing Testing logic vs testing external dependencies Functional tests with Selenium What TestBox? A test creation framework and scripting language Set up - before test suite is run Tear down - after test suite is run Before unit test is run After unit test is run Automated vs manual testing Good automated testing characteristics Repeatable Can be run at push of a button One test A suite of tests All unit tests Works with CI (eg Jenkins or Ant) so tests are run during your build process automatically Consistent test results independent of the environment (eg database) Full coverage of all code in the unit Independent of other tests - can be run in random order - no dependencies between tests Easy to detect if an error occurs and report on it so you can Test setup and tear down of dependencies TestBox does all the above Need to move code to methods or functions TestBox tips and best practices What tests to write How to name them Test_[method name]_[When to test]_[Expected enresult] How to write them When to write them TestBox color coding Tests that pass - Green Test that fail - Yellow Test that errors out - Red Result actions CI backout the deployment Slack Email Ring a bell via a Raspberry Pi Who broke the build gets to wear a special hat for rest the day Free open source Doesn’t require ColdBox Paid support is available CFML slack testing channel Replaces mxUnit Mocking and MockBox Spies and Stubs too Blackbox unwritten code Design patterns What is a legacy application? Michael Feather book working effectively with legacy code Test Driven Development (TDD) Write a little bit of your test before your code Then write a little bit of code to pass the test Repeat Know as “Red-Green testing” How to install TestBox quickly in your existing environment CommandBox one line install of TestBox Or download and manually install How do we improve our code coverage then? which prescribes writing tests and then writing code to make those tests pass. Start with current bugs you are working on fixing First pull out the queries into methods and writer tests for them Second pull out logic into methods and write logic Could move to MVC - but not required CFMs = views and controller CFCs = model Why CFers resist writing tests Takes too long to writer Too hard to write tests Too late to write tests for existing code Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into the Box? Mentioned in this episode

080 Help Your ColdFusion Team Find Flow (7 keys to PM success) with Christine Ballisty Jun 17, 2018

Christine Ballisty talks about “Help Your ColdFusion Team Find Flow (7 keys to PM success)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes The role of a digital project manager today beyond managing tasks, schedules and budgets Her background in UI and web designer Hats I wear Account Manager Positive biz relationship Check-in calls Planning ahead for enhancements Business Analyst Requirements and wireframes Images help Project Manager Whiteboard Support Representative What is Flow, why is it so important today for you and your team Flow = complete focus in current task, in the zone Protect CF developers from interruptions prioritize Work smart vs multitask Many hats “Spin cycle” - work never ends Productive, efficient and happy 7 keys to success Plan for everything That my team has what PM tools Google calendar - multiple calendars, color-coded, vacation tracking, blocking off time Liquidplanner for resource allocation and projects and due dates and completion date, PDF timelines Trello - boards of tasks and break by phases and person. Drag and drop cards Slack with bots and status controls for DND mode A channel per project Can be noisy - mute channels, mark self DND, use red emoji for not available On desktop and phones for immediate response If Then This That Monthly time logging reminder Trello card comment reminder Fun reminders of birthdays etc Practice gratitude Better happiness and productivity and creativity Leads to flow Kindness matters - shows that you care, flow more, better relationships with coworkers Banish ‘the Ego’ Including complaining and negative thinking and talk Important person in the company, not a cog in the machine Clear priorities vs urgent - take a step back Focus on our shared end goals Music Above and Beyond (EDM) Jaytech Brain.fm Spotify search for look-alike track Health is wealth! Self care before you help others Block self time in your calendar Massage Trip planning Fun food at lunch Lunchtime walk with coworkers Might vent to release problems Surprise coworkers with a coffee etc Healthy people are happier and more productive Care about Enough Sleep helps me Busy brain Lavender essential oil diffuser by bed Stay off phone by bed - don’t play games in bed White noise app (fan, rain etc) Melatonin Set and shape expectations Client expectation and reality match And stay match during project Evernote recap of all client meetings Train clients to expect this No misunderstandings Less client anxiety Client can use in their internal communication Start by listening and reflecting back Shared goals Choose your battles You will have fights - but you can choose which ones to respond to Find solutions to end goal first Keep emotions out of it Have fun! lastly, but not least of all, Quarterly fun team events, coffee dates, draw pictures on each other whiteboards Separate offices shared with one other person Extra day Remote developers screen shares Daily stand up meetings Video chats Liberal Work from home policy Why are you proud to work with Mura and CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at MuraCon? Mentioned in this episode LiquidPlanner Trello Slack Google Calendar Topic: The DPM's Guide to Creating Project Flow for Digital Teams Description: The role of a digital project manager today goes well beyond managing tasks, schedules, and budgets. DPMs are tasked with communicating direction, interpreting vision, foreseeing issues, managing dependencies and maintaining the health of their team ...

079 Slatwall ColdFusion eCommerce Unleashed (Beyond Shopping Carts) with Sumit Verma Jun 16, 2018

Sumit Verma talks about “Slatwall ColdFusion eCommerce Unleashed (Beyond Shopping Carts)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is Slatwall Enterprise level eCommerce platform More than just a shopping cart A flexible way to build eCommerce websites that integrates easily with other software for payments, marketing, sales, shipping etc Easy to customize for your individual business processes In summary, you could create your own Amazon.com clone. But add on subscriptions, events, reviews. “The headless commerce” - all the backend of eCommerce Why use an eCommerce platform Saves a lot time over custom coding More flexible than a shopping cart Security PCI compliant PA-DSS certified GDPR Reliability SaaS, hosted on AWS SLA and support Auto-scaling Monitoring Investment Free Open source for self-hosting Full service SaaS ad$1500-5000/mo depending on level Features Total customization MVC Event-driven architecture Integrations architecture Collections - Custom data lists Workflows Templates (eg email) Cart abandon email Inventory notifications Call any service methods Automation Events Reports REST API Product catalog Subscriptions Tickets Digital content Product reviews Taxes and shipping Order management Customer management Inventory management Promotions Technology CFML Server: Coldfusion 10+, Railo 4.0.1.003+, Lucee 4.5+ Database Engine: MySQL, Microsoft SQL or Oracle Hibernate ORM Operating System: Windows, Mac OSX, Linux REST API Integrations Mura plugin, other CMSs Payment processing - Stripe, Payflowpro, Authorize.net Shipping - FedEx, UPS ERP - SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Netsuite, Micros (SaaS version) Marketing - Marketo, Hubspot, Eloqua, Salesforce New features available in Slatwall: Collections Pick, Pack, Ship Accounting and Inventory Enhancements QuickBooks Online Other accounting interactions and exports Point of Sale Star Micronics m-pop with iPad Sites using Slatwall 400+ developers using Slatwall solve very complex eCommerce requirements while maintaining their legacy platforms. CalPIA TotalWine Sotheby's Inc Magazine Scientific American FastCompany magazine Why are you proud to use CF? RAD Fast to get up to speed - cross training developers from other languages Clean, concise code WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at MuraCon? Mentioned in this episode Slatwall AWS His MuraCon session Description: Topic - Slatwall: eCommerce Unleashed We take a closer look at some new Slatwall Projects that launched in 2017. Learn how these businesses leveraged the flexibility of the Slatwall platform to solve very complex eCommerce requirements while maintaining their legacy platforms. CalPIA TotalWine Sotheby's As we review these projects we will also highlight new features available in Slatwall: Collections Pick, Pack, Ship Accounting and Inventory Enhancements Point of Sale Listen to the Audio Bio Sumit Verma Sumit brings over 15 years of RIA, web development and technology management expertise to ten24. He is directly responsible for overseeing the development process for each project and managing ten24's technical infrastructure. Sumit has successfully implemented projects calling on his diverse skills that involve: E-Commerce Applications, ERP Applications, CRM Applications, Client/Server Solutions, System Analysis & Architecture, Database Designing and Administration, for clients such as Working Advantage, Pongo Resume,

078 Agile ColdFusion API Development (Amazing Postman, ColdBox and Agile secrets) with John Farrar Jun 11, 2018

John Farrar talks about “Agile ColdFusion API Development (Amazing Postman, ColdBox and Agile secrets)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why build APIs in ColdFusion? Built in Works reliably Why APIs Link to other apps Separate data connector from biz logic Microservices Vue, Angular, React Why Build in APIs using ColdBox and Postman Why ColdBox for APIs Why using ColdBox instead of Coop that you wrote ColdBox 5 new features for APIs RESTful principles work well with ColdBox Why Postman for API Postman is used by 5 million developers and more than 100,000 companies to access 130 million APIs every month. Free upto 1,000 calls/month $8-21/user/mo beyond that depending on the version Included: 10,000 monitored calls/month, 1 million regular calls Pre-purchased: $200/month for a pack of 500,000 monitored calls Postman free is awesome at everything from manual to automated end to end API testing. Fake out your API Mock API Share API calls, folders, workspaces and environments Document API Views Pretty Raw HTML Debug API Replay an API call Test API Part of your CI script Postman Travis Newman automated API testing Smart test sequences Monitor API Use the console What is Agile Dev? Why should you care? Regression testing 2 week sprints with 12-20 new features Git feature branch merge with master branch then run automated tests Continuous small wins Fast stakeholders engagement and feedback Retrospect meeting What went well What could have gone better Vs who messed up If you are not having fun then something is wrong Naming sprints with fun name named from Letter of alphabet and random category Einsteinium (letter E and chemical element) Frakta (letter F and Ikea item) More traction Work as a team, less supervision Scrum master Breaks Fear of sharing problems Fear of asking for help Code review Egoless programming Remote team: Zoom and Slack video chat and Live share in Visual Studio Code review Keeps your own UI preferences Remote Pair programming BDD style testing Focus on critical tests > important tests > mundane tests Writing a story vs check box testing End to end integration test Unit test TestBox Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Mentioned in this episode ColdBox Postman BDD – Behavior-Driven Development RESTful principles Building REST APIs in ColdBox documentation CI = Continuous Integration Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong BHAG = Big Hairy Audacious Goal Agile development Microsoft Visual Studio Code Has a CFML extension TestBox and ColdBox extension CFLint plug in 30% of CFers use it CommandBox Mark Drew Docker episode Into The Box Session Description: Agile API Dev In this session, we will be taking a look at built in APIs using ColdBox and Postman. Yes, postman free is awesome at everything from manual to automated end to end API testing. If you think you know Postman, learn how to do BDD style testing, use the console and much more to build and maintain your APIs like never before. Listen to the Audio Bio John Farrar John Farrar started programming in the late 70's on a Commodore PET. He served in the U.S.Navy and then met his wife during his reservist years. This was when the Amiga drove his computer interest for several years. Eventually, he became a web developer and in the later 90's he started using ColdFusion building dynamic websites. With about twenty years of web development,

077 Fundamentals of Unit Testing, BDD and Mocking (using TestBox and MockBox) with Uma Ghotikar Jun 04, 2018

Uma Ghotikar talks about “Fundamentals of Unit Testing, BDD and Mocking (using TestBox and MockBox)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is unit testing? Test small piece of functionality Low level, small scope, a method, a function, a clause Why do unit testing To validate every part of the app whether the UI is ready or not Easier to know where the bug is located Faster to run than general user tests, more thorough test coverage of all use cases, easy to automate Can write tests before you code So know where your code needs to raise an error Guidelines to write unit tests Fast for immediate feedback (milliseconds) during refactoring and coding Avoid database, file system, http and API calls - mock them instead Modular - so can reuse the test Independent of other unit tests Robust - work the same independent of time of day etc Keep them up to date Clear defined purpose - one piece of functionality Clear pre-conditions, actions and expected outcomes When you code make sure you can get the test to fail first before you write code to make it pass Reactive programming Most tests are of code in the Model part of MC Why do you like xUnit and BDD styles of testing? TDD focuses on testing your low level functions and methods Tedious to write all these tests BDD checks you satisfy your customer requirements at high level User story and scenario What is TestBox? Open Source The Given – When – Then syntax BDD syntax and xUnit The general structure for writing unit tests. Set up, Tear down phrases What is mocking? Why do you like MockBox Open source What is BDD and why do you like it High level CI How do TestBox and MockBox work together for BDD Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Mentioned in this episode TDD = Test Driven Development BDD = Behavior Driven Development xUnit TestBox CFML slack test channel MockBox Session Description: Topic: Intro to Unit Testing, BDD and Mocking using TestBox & MockBox This session will cover the basics such as what is unit testing, why to do unit testing and guidelines to write the unit tests. It will then cover xUnit and BDD styles of testing in TestBox, Given – When – Then syntax and the general structure for writing unit tests. We will then look into the mocking and demo examples of unit testing using TestBox & MockBox. Listen to the Audio Bio Uma Ghotikar Uma Ghotikar has more than 6 years of experience in web application development, database design and development. She has a technical educational background. She did Master of Science in Information Systems from George Mason University, USA and Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from University of Mumbai, India. She enjoys coding especially the back-end development and learning new technical skills. Links LinkedIn Interview transcript Michaela 0:00 Welcome back to the show. And today we're looking at the fundamentals of unit testing, be DD, which is behavior driven development and mocking and using test box and Dropbox, do that, and I'm here with Alma Gattaca. And if you don't know her, she is a cold fusion developer been doing it CFL on cold fusion for six years now. And she is giving a talk on this topic at into the box. So we will cover what is unit testing and why everyone listening should be doing it. And guidelines for writing great unit tests. And then also we'll look in detail at test box. And what it lets you do and how to structure unit tests using it will look at what marketing is and how to do that using mock box and why you want to do that. And we'll also look at behavior driven development or BDD and why you s...

076 Breaking out of your ColdFusion comfort zone (How to make CF mainstream) with Igor Ilyinsky May 21, 2018

Igor Ilyinsky talks about “Breaking out of your ColdFusion comfort zone (How to make CF mainstream)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes CF from a biz perspective When CF makes sense or not makes sense for a biz When works, not work Dev cost Maintenance costs How hard to hire good CF devs When pick CF How big the project is How much fits our existing CF code base Client preference When pick WP If just CMS and blog When other languages If have existing package in that language CF Obstacles CF was the lowest barrier to learn Blessing and curse Blessing - easy to create new apps Curse - some bad developers have written bad quality code Now some languages you don’t have to set up a server to use it Cloud spin up instant in cPanel setup Node.js CF setup improvements Dockerization CommandBox Silent CF traditional installs CF Benefits Rapid Application Development Esp for occasional coders or new coders Strong CF community New innovation Docker Cloud “Future proof” Modules (Forgebox) Plug in risk that the developer wrote good code Cost of license is small compared to cost of the code Plenty of high quality CF devs Closed platform is more security than open source State of CF Union survey Most CF devs have done for a long time Need more young CFers Adobe CF education version Adobe free college training materials How get kids and younger people into it Entrepreneurs putting up a simple app Adobe priority on CF? Compare to Google and Node.js Engage community more to develop language features that they want Collaborative with community Tag line - for everything you want to build on the web Politics of why technolicals CF connects with Stumbling blocks for CF gaining mainstream status CF community to provide sample code to services and APIs that work with multiple languages Maybe a central list or repository of these! Just in time component incorporation of parts of the CF server Pay for support subscription vs the platform up front Lightweight platform footprint Engage programmers of other languages such as JavaScript CF devs largely operate in a bubble Exposed to other languages and techniques Stepping out of your CF comfort zone Engage other technologies Docker AWS Make these more turnkey for CFers to use Getting more news and PR for CF scaling and security How Igor got started with CF What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? Mentioned in this episode WannaCry ransomware State of CF Union survey results 2018 blog post The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright) with Tridib Roy Chowdhury Episode Thomas Grobicki 041 The true ROI of ColdFusion (how to sell CF to your boss or client) Listen to the Audio Bio Igor Ilyinsky Igor is the founder of FirmWise, and has helped redesign over a hundred law firm websites. He is a Marketing Technologist, Entrepreneur and entertaining presenter focused on advancing Law Firms to the highest level of marketing technology automation… Igor's gift is knowing how to translate techy jargon into common sense English that anyone can understand; even battle hardened attorneys. His experience in web development for nearly the past two decades and his popularity as a speaker make him the quintessential authority on what trends to pursue and what fads to avoid. As the Founder of FirmWise, the only web hosting platform developed specifically for law firms, Igor has helped define the web presence for over 200 law firms, and continues to pioneer strategy for the industry. Specialties: Expertise in Law Firm Marketing, Web Content Management, ColdFusion, Web Hosting, Web Design, Database Architecture, IT Management and Search Engine Optimization (...

075 Planning for CFML ISP disaster (Commandbox and Docker to the rescue) with Mark Drew May 14, 2018

Mark Drew talks about “Planning for CFML ISP disaster (Commandbox and Docker to the rescue)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. "Challenge, a current client was planning for Disaster Recovery environments but disaster nearly struck due to the requirement of the ISP to move the servers!" Show notes Funtimes in deploying real projects “Your mission, Mark, should you decide to accept it, is… As usual, should you or any member of your I.M. Force be captured or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your existence. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Mark.” Background: Real client that is moving from big hosted tin to a more elastic solution Temporal variations in requirements. ASide from busy seasons we have Weekends! All the environments were different too. So we needed a way to have *SOME* standardization Vagrant vs Single instances vs Clusters, Railo vs Lucee 5 instances per machine 5 machines Dedicated across clients Range of different machines such as windows , linux, PHP, Java and even InDesign running batch scripts. Started out as a disaster recovery project but as ISP needed to move the client out it has turned into a full cloud implementation Several Terabytes of image files for example Build Workflow Providers Gitlab Can script deployment pipelines Jenkins Issue can not script your deployment process Bitbucket Stages CommandBox Pre-Commit Hooks Testbox Cflint Docker image creation successful CommandBox Post commit builds External testing Load testing JMeter Submitting to your docker repository Different docker images? Test vs Normal 2. Docker Server Monitor Fusion Reactor and FusionReactor Cloud by Integral 3. Artefact Caching Build times 4. Logging Getting the right data ELK (The Open Source Elastic Stack) ElasticSearch Logstash Kibana JournalD 5. Configs Live/Dev/Test 6. Central Session Storage CFConfig (CommandBox feature) Servers Environment Variables (Production etc) Generic names eg database for db server Resource domain names Create Aliases for them Handle them with hosts files memcached/redis to store sessions 7. Load Balancing and Orchestration Round Robin load balancing Portainer Kubernetes Docker Compose and Swarm Elastic Container Service AWS 8. Data Changes / Workflow Some solutions: CFMigrations - Eric Peterson Versioning of database QueryBuilder (Fluent Query Builder for CFML) - Eric Peterson Currently using hand crafted SQL files (can be run multiple times) First time alters the columns Second time updates data 9. Dependency Trees of Docker CommandBox handles this 10. Hard Stuff Only one copy of each Scheduled Tasks runs Canary Deployments Green Blue Deployments Service Url for health of the app. Why are you proud to use CFML? WWIT for you to make CFML more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at ITB? His podcast Localhost.fm Mentioned in this episode Mission Impossible Intro Gitlab Jenkins Bitbucket Testbox cflint CommandBox Docker CF Alive Docker episodes Getting Started Fast with Docker, with Mark Drew Secrets From the Folks Who Make the Official Lucee CFML Docker Images, with Geoff Bowers Using Portainer.io (Docker Container Management) with Neil Cresswell 066 The Docker Revolution for Faster ColdFusion Development (and Easier DevOps) with Bret Fisher 071 ContentBox in the Cloud (Docker Magic) with Gavin Pickin JMeter

074 Progressive Web Apps (A Gentle Intro for CFers who are scared of PWAs) with Ray Camden May 07, 2018

Raymond Camden talks about “Progressive Web Apps (A Gentle Intro for CFers who are scared of PWAs)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. By our nature web developers are prone to anxiety. Show notes What is a Progressive Web App (PWA) from a high level The next level from Web 2.0 “Progressive Web Apps are user experiences that have the reach of the web, and are: Reliable - Load instantly and never show the downasaur, even in uncertain network conditions. Fast - Respond quickly to user interactions with silky smooth animations and no janky scrolling. Engaging - Feel like a natural app on the device, with an immersive user experience.” What is a PWA in more detail? A Progressive Web App is: Progressive - Works for every user, regardless of browser choice because it's built with progressive enhancement as a core tenet. Responsive - Fits any form factor: desktop, mobile, tablet, or whatever is next. Connectivity independent - Enhanced with service workers to work offline or on low-quality networks. App-like - Feels like an app, because the app shell model separates the application functionality from application content . Fresh - Always up-to-date thanks to the service worker update process. Safe - Served via HTTPS to prevent snooping and to ensure content hasn't been tampered with. Discoverable - Is identifiable as an "application" thanks to W3C manifest and service worker registration scope, allowing search engines to find it. Re-engageable - Makes re-engagement easy through features like push notifications. Installable - Allows users to add apps they find most useful to their home screen without the hassle of an app store. Linkable - Easily share the application via URL, does not require complex installation. (from https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/ ) Why care? Better UX, more engagement, more ad revenue or sales How compare to a native app Easier to build Very easy to install (just go to the website link!) Cross device on release Not for complex Progressive - grac Background sync Push notifications How different from Responsive web apps? Progressive apps are responsive with other features too Famous Examples Uber - runs great even on 2G networks tech details https://eng.uber.com/m-uber/ Pinterest - user engagement time up 40%, ad revenue up 44% Tech details https://medium.com/dev-channel/a-pinterest-progressive-web-app-performance-case-study-3bd6ed2e6154 Tinder - 90% reduction in download size Tech details https://medium.com/@addyosmani/a-tinder-progressive-web-app-performance-case-study-78919d98ece0 Forbes - content load time down from 6.5 to 2.5 seconds, 40% increase in user engagement Tech details https://digiday.com/media/new-mobile-site-forbes-boosted-impressions-per-session-10-percent/ What is the preferred way of building a PWA? Uses Mobile chrome features Frameworks Bootstrap for the responsive part Offline libraries for connectivity independence What are you looking forward to at ITB? Mentioned in this episode https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/ PWAstats.com Chrome User Experience report (CrUX) Brad Wood CommandBox episode Listen to the Audio Bio Raymond Camden Raymond Camden is a senior developer advocate for Auth0 Extend. His work focuses on Extend, serverless customization, and the web in general. He's a published author and presents at conferences and user groups on a variety of topics. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.raymondcamden.com), @raymondcamden on Twitter, or via email at raymondcamden@gmail.com. Interview Transcript: Michaela 0:01 Welcome back to the show today we're talking about progressive web apps, something that you might have been afraid of. But after this gentle introduction from Ray Camden,

073 Oh my GAD (General Anxiety Disorder) with Jeffrey Kunkel Apr 30, 2018

Jeffrey Kunkel talks about “Oh my GAD (General Anxiety Disorder)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. By our nature web developers are prone to anxiety. Web development takes a monumental dedication to continuing education, networking, and being an expert source for many of your coworkers. Learning to manage stress early can be one of the most indispensable skills for a long healthy career in web development. Be it FOMO, Impostor Syndrome, Analysis Paralysis, or just generally feeling overwhelmed, developers of all levels can benefit from learning to take a step back and allow themselves to relax and be productive. I will focus on my perspective of being a web developer with anxiety in today's web development world. I'll talk about using "Fake it 'till you make it" philosophy to help combat the anxiety of keeping up with the ever evolving web. I also plan to delve into "Impostor Syndrome," and more specifically how to foster self confidence in your ability without cultivating an ego. By the end of my talk I'd like people to leave with the stress management skills and frame of mind to increase their productivity and overall job satisfaction. This talk is ideal for developers feeling the weight of career and having stress and anxiety productivity issues.QB Show notes Why this matters to all CF Developers 20% of general population 60% of CFers sometimes have Anxiety Disorder Introverts Stressful profession Anxiety Stress → bad for health and happiness Can follow you home Can lead to suicide Bad for productivity FOMO Impostor Syndrome Late to Git Fear of being accused of being a fake, not knowing the topic Just start learning it Ok to admit you don’t know something and learn it Stackoverflow CF slack channel Google Ask Impossible to know everything about everything in full stack development Self confidence in your ability without cultivating an ego Remember what it was like to be new to this Analysis Paralysis Overwhelm Too many tasks to do Lack of priorities Planning up front save time in the end Lots of tabs → more anxiety and distractions Turn of speakers - so chat notification don’t interrupt my train of thought Perfectionism Adding bells and whistles to code Ok to come back to less important issues later (add to todo list) Limited perfection to top priority issue Is anxiety all bad Advantage of double checking OCD = Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Interruptions → anxiety spikes Save where you where Todoist note Git Stash Self medication Alcohol Food Caffeine Can be bad for your health Negative feedback loop Conferences Alcohol Stress management skills Take a break Wrist tracker reminder Deep, slow breathing Yoga Reach out to developer friends and CF Community Getting Things Done method Music while I work Turn off sound notifications on computer and phone Mindsets "Fake it 'till you make it" philosophy You never learn if you panic before you start CF Community Standing desk Exercise Sleep Naps Earlier to bed vs later getting up Less Caffeine Family time Female CFers more anxiety Talk about your anxiety Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Mentioned in this episode CF Suicide episode Into The Box Conference Todoist Getting Things Done book by Dave Allen Introverts guide to conferences article Getting Real with Women in Tech with April Graves Brain.fm Melatonin Railo Lucee Node.js JSconf CFObjective Tech Has an Anxiety Problem. This CEO Is Working to Combat It STRESS & ANXIETY IN THE TECH INDUSTRY Listen to the Audio

072 ContentBox in the Cloud (Docker Magic) with Gavin Pickin Apr 23, 2018

Gavin Pickin talks about “ContentBox in the Cloud (Docker Magic)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. He is one of the speakers at Into The Box 2018 conference. Show notes What is ContentBox and why would you want to use it with Docker? ContentBox is a great Modular CMS built on top of ColdBox Using CommandBox and Forgebox you can install modules and extend your app in seconds. You can extend and build on top of ContentBox easily to mold it to your liking. Interception points CFCs It’s just ColdBox MVC under the hood. Big changes in 3.8 releasing any day now. themes , modules and widgets now upgrade proof Docker friendly Version 4 - maybe at ITB - come and find out. Env Variable support CFConfig for loading your CF Engine from scripts ContentBox docker image Which has a few extra ContentBox goodies added on top of the usual CommandBox docker image. File mounts Special settings Old School servers vs Docker and CI Painful to think about old school server 10 page documents of the setup Using a Docker file mount to be able to share Media files between 2 instances For images and documents Persistent storage A bit a CDN How to cluster sessions so your ContentBox site can run in the cloud, on more than one instance. More speed More reliability Separated from other sites Horizontal scale vs vertical scale Auto scaling with Docker Swarm Portainer Couchbase / Redis Extension for Clustered Caching Elastic Search ColdBox APIs Scaling 4 servers high traffic Travel sites Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into the Box this year? What other conferences are you going to attend? Speaking at CF Summit West again - if they pick me - speaker deadline April 15th. CF Objective on hiatus this year so first time in 6 years I won’t be speaking there MuraCon in Sacramento early in April. Waiting for dates NCDevCon - would love to attend this one. CFCamp - I wish… maybe next year. Brad and Luis will probably be there. Ortus Developer Week Ortus Roadshow ContentBox + Docker Start to finish, launch your ContentBox site in the cloud with Docker. We will look at the ContentBox docker image, which has a few extra ContentBox goodies added on top of the usual CommandBox docker image. We will learn how to use a file mount to be able to share Media files between 2 instances, and how to cluster sessions so your ContentBox site can run in the cloud, on more than one instance. Ortus Keynote The Ortus Keynote gives you insight into Ortus Solutions, the past, present and future. You'll meet the members of Team Ortus, community members, speakers and sponsors. We'll tell you a story about CFML, which we think you will want to hear, and learn what Ortus and the community is doing for CFML and the future of CFML. You will get updates on an array of Ortus *Box products, including recent releases & upcoming plans and features in our roadmaps. We will finish with Ortus's plans for the future… as well as remind you of a driving force behind all things Ortus. Alexa and ColdBox APIs Alexa from Amazon powers the Amazon Echo, Amazon Fire TV and is Amazon's answer to Siri, Cortana and Google home. Amazon's Alexa Skills Kit allows developers to build their own set of abilities that can be published to the Alexa App Store for consumers to use. This Session will walk through the pros and cons of voice, how to design a voice user interface, how to get started with ColdBox, and how to design Alexa Commands that integrate with your ColdBox API. ColdBox Zero to Hero Full day workshop - sold out Mentioned in this episode Gavin’s ITB sessions Comprehensive list of ColdFusion conferences ContentBox episode (with roadmap) Digital Ocean

071 CommandBox 4 Deep Dive (new version revealed) with Brad Wood Apr 16, 2018

Brad Wood talks about “CommandBox 4 Deep Dive (new version revealed)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. He is one of the speakers at Into The Box 2018 conference, a system architect for Ortus Solution and lead developer of the CommandBox CLI. Show notes What is CommandBox Command line utility (CLI) Windows, Mac, Linux Manage CF apps and servers from command line Run CF code from command line Written in CFML - open source What if CFML compiler was Why all CFers should be using it State of the CF Union survey 70-80% of CFers use Productivity especially around managing multiple server versions Very fast spin up a new server for testing (

070 Font Awesome and ColdFusion (never build icons again) with Nolan Erck Apr 09, 2018

Nolan Erck talks about “Font Awesome and ColdFusion (never build icons again)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Tired of having to make "delete", "edit", "new", "save", "confirm", and "purchase" icons for your clients? In 3 different sizes (desktop, tablet, mobile)? And new versions for each color scheme you use? Enter Font Awesome! Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons, that are totally customizable, all by just including a CSS file in your project. It's free, compatible with current devices and browsers, easy to use and customize to your liking. Font Awesome is compatible with Bootstrap, various other frameworks, screen readers, retina displays and cuts down the time you spend doing "boilerplate" work in PhotoShop for every project! Target Audience: Designers and CF developers that are tired of having to rebuild the same icons for every project. Attendees should know some basic HTML and CSS, no further programming or PhotoShop skills are required. Show notes What is Font Awesome A vector based CSS font that you can use in CF apps that displays icons without graphic files Why should CF developers care? Auto sizing for desktop, tablet and mobile Easy to change the look and feel in code - no need to go back to a graphic designer. Display or change icons in code (JavaScript) Faster page loading. 100s of commonly used icons included Vector based graphics - no pixelation on zooming Pricing Free open source version 900+ icons Automated Accessibility Paid version with themes $60/year 500+ more icons Font CDN Subset only the icons you need into a custom font Version 5 Demo The tag “icon” - overrides the old meaning of italic Treating icons like fonts - changing sizes and colors, applying styles Bordered, spinning and rotated icons Stacked icons Divs Float Rotating icons Installing Font Awesome Add one line of javascript to your header code. CSS Lint Documentation Online docs Blog Support (paid version) How does it work with Bootstrap? No problem Pros and cons of Font Awesome Pros Saves grunt work Better UX No pixelation Responsive ready Faster site Cons 30 Mb download to install on website (vs CDN) A 700k file overhead on Free version Paid Subscription (on Pro version) Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box Mentioned in this episode Font Awesome MuraCMS (ColdFusion Content Management System) used Font Awesome in the admin screen Into The Box conference MuraCon - dev and marketing (digital experience) tracks ColdFusion conferences roundup Demo code CSS Lint tools Link 1 Link 2 Preso and demo Jazz conference a 3-day event, March 21-23, 2018, on Web & JavaScript Development! All tickets include workshop day, and there will be 4 concurrent tracks. Workshops and sessions include: Angular, React, Vue, JavaScript, JS Frameworks, HTML5, CSS3, tools, techniques. This is not a mega-conf - rather it is an intimate event with less than 250 attendees Ray Camden Simon McDonald Jessica Kennedy Listen to the Audio Bio Nolan Erck Chief consultant at South of Shasta Nolan Erck has been developing software for 19 years. Starting in the video game industry working on titles for Maxis and LucasArts, then advancing to web development in 1999, his list of credits includes Grim Fandango, StarWars Rogue Squadron, SimPark, SimSafari as well as high-traffic websites for clients. Nolan manages the SacInteractive User Group, teaches classes on aspects of software development, and regularly gives presentations at conferences and user groups across the country. Links Twitter GitHub Interview transcript

069 Marketing Dark Arts for ColdFusion developers (FB Advanced Audience Creation and Tracking) with Logan Mayville Apr 04, 2018

Logan Mayville talks about “Marketing Dark Arts for ColdFusion developers (FB Advanced Audience Creation and Tracking)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Marketing best practices How marketing strategy is different from Google AdWords (push vs pull) Ungated value for free (paid FB: Give - give - ask/offer Google: ask Replace “sell” with “give” Multi-touch even before email How to find your target audiences on Facebook Turn cold audiences warm by building trust and authority with content Advanced retargeting strategies to convert warm audiences into leads FB pixel and retargeting 9 standard tracking events → infinity events with Google tag manager Google tag manager Scroll depth Button clicks Video plays Time on site The key to success Audience (re)targeting Different messaging Ad creative tips and tricks Mobile > desktop Sponsored content vs ads Eye catching (not FB blue) One thought actions (6-8 touches before ask) Negative keyword to eliminate research clicks in expensive PPC Social identity protocol FB quasi monopoly on your social identity Network Switching cost Privacy and FB data breaches Cambridge Analytica Targeting and creepy advertising FB privacy scandal Political FB marketing FB experiments on the content you see Echo chambers More polarizing of the voters $350million fundraiser from small donors Look-a-like Tripwire to upsell WWIT to make CF more alive this year? Awareness and pain What are you looking forward to at MuraCon? Mentioned in this episode Google and Facebook account for more than 63% of digital ad spending FB is worth more than Exxon - data is more valuable than oil Google tag manager MuraCon Marketing funnel Cambridge Analytica scandal FB ending the relationship with third-party data providers Axxon and Experidian Article: Facebook is running experiments on you Last year Ardath Albee book Park Howell keynote Listen to the Audio His Session Description: Topic: The 2018 Guide to Facebook Advertising for Lead Generation. In 2017, global digital ad spending ($209 billion) surpassed television ($178 billion) for the first time. In the U.S., Google and Facebook account for more than 63% of digital ad spending. But in addition to huge brands using their ad spend on digital instead of TV, Facebook has actually seen a renaissance in direct response marketing. But what about lead generation for enterprise and B2B? Can you sell on Facebook? In short, yes. But in a marketplace over-saturated with ads, a holistic strategy encompassing content marketing and personalization in conjunction with display advertising has never been more important for lead generation. Savvy marketers looking to use Facebook ads for lead generation need to replace “sell” with “give” and let the business roll downhill from there.In this presentation, Logan will demonstrate: How to find your target audiences on Facebook Turn cold audiences warm by building trust and authority with content Advanced retargeting strategies to convert warm audiences into leads Bio Logan Mayville Logan Mayville is a digital marketing consultant for Southwestern Consulting specializing in direct-response initiatives like lead generation and e-commerce. As a certified Facebook advertising buyer and content str...

068 More you missed from Adobe ColdFusion 10, 11, And 2016 with Charlie Arehart Apr 02, 2018

Charlie Arehart talks about “More you missed from Adobe ColdFusion 10, 11, And 2016” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Are you moving up to CF2016, or maybe 11? In doing so, are you skipping over 11, or perhaps even 10, in that move? Shops often drag their feet upgrading from one version of CF to another and may well skip multiple releases in the process, so that they may not have paid attention to what was new in the release(s) skipped. Can you name the top 5 or 10 features/changes in these three most recent releases? In this presentation, veteran CFer Charlie Arehart will help fill these gaps for you, highlighting the top features of 10, 11, and 2016, along with some hidden gems. (Whereas his classic "hidden gems" talks have gone deep to uncover a few dozen features per release, this talk will necessarily focus on just some key ones.) With demos and resources for learning more, you'll be in a better position to take full advantage of your new CF installation. Show notes What are the top features CFers may have missed Isn’t CF10 end of life? Yes but lots of people still running it (or CF9) ← security risk! State of CF Union Survey With CF 2018 about to come out why should CFers care about these “old” features? JVM changes - in CF 10 and forward JRUN → Tomcat Cloud deployment shifts The Elvis operator 100% cfscript is possible as of CF 11 No day zero security issues for 4+ years CF Summit East Dual track 10 speakers http://carahevents.carahsoft.com/CFSummit2018/Speakers http://blogs.coldfusion.com/adobe-coldfusion-summit-east-in-washington-d-c-on-april-25/ Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 Ninth Street NW CF conferences in DC Allaire DevCon 2000 CFUnited-08 20th anniversary of first CF conf in FT Collins CO Robi Sen CFUN in NIH Mentioned in this episode The State of the CF Union survey 2018 CF Alive Charlie episode on CF 10, 11 and 2016 missed features CF Alive Mike Collins CF Scaling episode Charlie’s forum post about “CF 2016 It Works!” “I'm not aware of any issues with CF2016 specifically, affecting some large percentage of folks moving to it, which should lead someone to conclude that they should not move to CF2016” Charlie’s blog post CF 10 updater help Charlie Arehart's Ultimate List of 200+ New ColdFusion 10 Features ColdFusion 11 New Functions and Tags ColdFusion 11 Hidden Gems ColdFusion 2016 What is new ColdFusion 2016 Hidden Gems Adobe products End of Life and Release dates CF10 End of Life 5/16/2017 CF 11 End of Life 4/30/2019 ColdFusion EULA All of Charlie’s presentations (over 100!) CF2016: What's deprecated and/or 'no longer supported' (note: nothing 'removed') With the Update of ColdFusion 9 to ColdFusion 11 the underlying chart engine changed from WebCharts3D to ZingCharts Adobe bug tracker CF-oriented Troubleshooting Consultants CF-oriented Application Development Consultants Beyond the CFML reference - the developers guide 3000 pages developing cf applications The first CF event at NIH was called the DCCFUC (DC CF User Conference) - see the bottom of Charlie’s talk there Charlie’s blog post about some pre-history of CFUnited Allaire ColdFusion DevCon in Boston in 99 The FT Collins CF DevCon Listen to the Audio Bio Charlie Arehart A veteran server troubleshooter who’s worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting). Links Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Website Interview transcript Michaela: Welcome back to the show. And today, we're gonna be looking at what you may have mi...

067 The Docker Revolution for Faster ColdFusion Development (and Easier DevOps) with Bret Fisher Mar 30, 2018

Bret Fisher talks about “The Docker Revolution for Faster ColdFusion Development (and Easier DevOps)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Docker containers have revolutionized much of how we build, ship, and run the software. Bret will highlight the far-reaching effects of this pivotal technology and how it's blazing a trail for the future of app development and deployment. 5 birthday of Docker 300 meetups The key benefits for choosing to deploy CF and Mura on the Docker toolset Developers Docker for Mac or Windows runs Linux Docker containers Build CI and CD CIDE Docker Build tool YAML file that describes your app Docker Compose DevOps CD = Continuous Deployment Agile deployments Docker image package format Code, config and all its dependencies Docker hub AWS elastic container service Orchestration SHA-1 hashed for security Windows 2016 has Docker support built in Downsides to Docker Learning curve, new concepts. Make it a goal to replace a tool, not add to your tool list The dev-staging-prod pipeline Basic "daily docker commands" for working with software on your machine. Go to store.Docker.com to get current and correct install instructions for your version of Windows, Linux etc Docker compose command line Docker compose up and down CommandBox Commit to version control CI tool (eg Jenkins) → continuous testing → green light (passes all tests) Push good image to container registry Keeps old versions (via diffs only) Tagged images Pull down to staging or production and run Local dev environment benefits Consistency between devs between dev and prod Isolation of different CF versions etc for different projects Faster set up for new devs on team or new projects From 12 page set up a guide to 1 page Can run Linux or Windows CF A platform of tools for devs and DevOps Docker-Machine to manage local and cloud containers Docker Swarm (built into Docker) Your existing cloud vendor’s Docker tools DO simplicity Docker is pre-installed for droplets Docker Machine driver built in AWS - lots of features and tools 3 different Docker deploy options ACS is easiest Microsoft Azure new features CommandBox Why are you proud to use Docker? WWIT to make Docker more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at MuraCon? Mentioned in this episode Docker for Windows or Mac Docker Build YAML file Kubernetes Netflix Chaos Monkey Docker Swarm Portainer episode Rancher CNCF Diagram of container ecosystem Awesome Docker Code for America DockerCon in US and EU CommandBox Bret’s slides Bret’s Udemy Docker course Bret’s YouTube Docker videos Bret’s GitHub Docker AMA Session Descriptions How Docker is Changing IT Docker containers are a 5-year old project that has revolutionized much of how we build, ship, and run software. Bret will highlight the far-reaching effects of this pivotal technology and how it's blazing a trail for the future of app development and deployment. Workshop: Intro to Docker & Containers This fast-paced hands-on workshop will take you from Docker 101 to an understanding of how to use Docker Compose for easy local Mura development. You'll learn which Docker edition is right for you and your laptop OS, and get it working in the workshop (if you don't already have it). Bret will teach you some basic "daily docker commands" for working with software on your machine. You'll get plenty of background on the "what, why, and how" on Docker for development while getting your hands dirty running and managing containers. Journey to Docker Production

066 The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright) with Tridib Roy Chowdhury Mar 28, 2018

Tridib Roy Chowdhury talks about “The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes The state of CF 22 years old and it continues to do well Over last 8 years it is not dying Annual % growth 6-7%$ New releases every two years 18 quarters beat our sales goals Room for bigger goals What is CF? A glue that holds many systems together API glue Adobe API manager - faster and the least memory of any API manager Internal Adobe survey 80% of CFers believe it is the fastest developer language 78% of CFers have built new apps this year CF Builder is most used IDE (31%), beating Sublime Text (22%) Improving speed and fixing bugs Speed of CF apps, security 70-80% of CF apps are external facing vs intranet apps CF 2018 Why takes users a long time to upgrade to latest version Backwards compatibility good Improve performance without CFML code changes in old apps Performance monitor Show exact line of CF code or SQL that is causing problem auto tuning - Make tuning more data based decision AI and ML methods Historical performance data Code profiler Distributed caching built in and still works with 3rd party cache (plug in) OOPS enhancements to lists etc Parallel operations X.0 release Testing customer code Reducing false positives Automating QA No automated upgrade wizard - because have to do QA anyway Adobe Senior leadership team look at outstanding bug list every 2 weeks Keep prior promises on existing features Security no day zero issues for over 4 years But important that you install security patches as they come out Move to the cloud has made security even more important (Adobe is one of the largest cloud companies) Dedicated CF security team monitoring worldwide CF Security czar A priority for all developers All engineers are certified on security best practices 3rd party security audit of new releases of CF Lockdown guide Docker containerization official version released Metered Licensing His take on the future of CF. CF Summit East and West. Growing Young CFers Adobe CF education edition Adobe program to sponsor colleges to teach web dev using CFML Video CF training Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Mobile Cloud AI, ML What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? Wed April 25th in Washington DC Celebrate great CF customer stories CF community portal Mentioned in this episode White paper on API manager performance (PDF) “In our tests, when using a lightweight web-service, a single node of API Manager served 500 concurrent users at the rate of 22,000 requests per second, with a latency of less than 14 milliseconds. A single node of API Manager, can therefore, serve close to 2 billion requests per day. A cluster of API Manager Nodes can handle an even higher volume of traffic or it can lower the latency.” Adobe bug tracker Approx Size of CF test code base for regression testing new CF releases is currently around 700k lines of code in the Adobe test code base. This keeps on increasing with every release. Research report CF is most secure entreprise development system CVE details specifies the number of critical vulnerabilities. In comparison with other languages. http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/74/PHP.html http://www.cvedetails.com/product/1526/SUN-JRE.html?vendor_id=5 https://www.cvedetails.com/product/19117/Oracle-JRE.html?vendor_id=93 http://www.cvedetails.com/product/887/Apache-Tomcat.html?vendor_id=45 https://www.cvedetails.com/product/2002/Microsoft-.net-Framework.html?vendor_id=26 https://www.cvedetails.com/product/22568/Rubyonrails-Ruby-On-Rails.html?vendor_id=12043

065 Portainer.io (Docker Container Management) with Neil Cresswell Mar 26, 2018

Neil Cresswell talks about “Using Portainer.io (Docker Container Management)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Portainer.io, which is an open-source "human friendly" Management UI for Docker Docker command line is very complex. Portainer greatly simplifies this. Portainer gives you access to a central overview of your Docker host or Swarm cluster. From the dashboard, you can easily access any manageable entity. The containers section provides a view of all available containers. You can see details about the containers (state, image, exposed ports...), filter or sort the containers and manage them using standard actions (start, run, remove...). Container Details You can access a lot more information in the container details section and trigger common operations, access the stats and logs sections, start an exec instance to open a console in your container or even commit a container to create an image. Container Stats Portainer allows you to view container stats in real time: CPU and memory usage, networking and processes running in the container. Container Logs Easily investigate the behavior of your container by inspecting its logs. Container Console Portainer allows you to start an exec instance which allows you to open a console in your container directly in your browser. Container Creation Access the container creation form, which allows you to simply create your containers. It also gives you access to advanced container creation options. Future auto scale Image List The images section provides a view of all available images. You can easily pull new image from the Docker hub or a private registry and easily manage all your images. Access a lot more information in the image details section from the size of the image to the related Dockerfile information. You can also manage image tags and push it to any registry (either Docker hub or any private registry). Network List The networks section provides a view of all available networks. Easily manage your networks from a centralized view or quickly create new networks. Volume List As for the networks, you can easily manage the available volumes from this section and create more volumes. Cluster Overview When using Portainer with Docker Swarm or Swarm Mode, this section gives your more details on each node in your cluster. Portainer allows you to manage to multiple Docker environments from a single instance. User Management And User Access Control Portainer adds a security layer on top of Docker with authentication, multiple user management and the ability to define restrict access to some resources. Prevent Crypto miner hacking Pricing - free Install - 3 seconds from command line Competitors SHIPYARD - no longer being developed PANAMAX - 3 years in beta - not released to production yet Swarmpit - new Documentation, help, support Docs Swagger API Slack group 240 million downloads, 10 million per week Microservices Swarm Why are you proud to use Docker? WWIT for you to make Docker more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Mentioned in this episode Portainer.io Docker version 18 RaspberryPi Docker Swarm Kubernetes CF Alive episode Getting started with Docker for CFers with Mark Drew Listen to the Audio Bio Neil Cresswell Neil is the co-founder of Portainer.io, which is an open-source "human friendly" Management UI for Docker; the founder of CloudInovasi.id, which is a Indonesia-centric Docker Container as a Service Provider (and which provided the initial inspiration for Portainer), and is the co-founder of a NZ company called Emerging Technology Partners, which specialises in Docker consulting. Neil obtained initial exposure to Docker technologies through his previous role as CEO of IndonesianCloud,

064 Adobe API Manager (the business case) + CF Summit sneak peak with Elishia Dvorak Mar 21, 2018

Elishia Dvorak talks about “ Adobe API Manager (the business case) + CF Summit sneak peak” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes API Manager REST SOAP Created in CF or any other language What it is Throttling, metering SLA Authorization OLOF Analytics Versioning Lifecycle management Notifications Debugging APIs Cluttering Why use it Business value You need to manage you APIs - either spend time building yourself or buy Security GDPR Internet of Things Need to be upto date on security issues Costs - part of CF Enterprise A separate product - its own installer Very fast deployment of CF built APIs New in CF 2016 Changes in CF 2018 release (Ether) Separate later release after GA release of CF 2018 A game changer - non-CFers are using it Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CF Summit East? It is much bigger now Two tracks Free CF 2018 release and roadmap Both government and commercial CF developers are welcome Pre-early bird on CF Summit West $99 Call for speakers, including new speakers Mentioned in this episode Adobe API manager CF Alive episode How to implement Adobe's API Manager (with Swagger, ColdFusion, and API's) with Brian Sappey Episode All about the Adobe CF Summit East 2018 ColdFusion with Kishore Balakrishnan Charlie’s forum post about “CF 2016 It Works!” “I'm not aware of any issues with CF2016 specifically, affecting some large percentage of folks moving to it, which should lead someone to conclude that they should not move to CF2016” Adobe roadshows CF Summit East Conference event CF Summit West Las Oct 1-3 Hardrock The Adobe ColdFusion portal Listen to the Audio Bio Elishia Dvorak Elishia Dvorak Technical marketing manager for ColdFusion and e-learning products. She started out as a CF developer. Interview transcript Michaela: Welcome back to the show. Today I'm talking with Elishia Dvorak. And we're going to talk about the API manager that came out in ColdFusion 2016 and its being updated for ColdFusion 2018. And if you haven't come across that, we'll look at what is and why you'd want to use it? What the business case for is? And very excitingly, it's actually attracting new people who aren't even ColdFusion developers currently to use cold fusion because of it. So welcome Elishia. Elishia: Thank you and hello everyone. Michaela: And if you don't know, she is the Technical Marketing Manager for Adobe ColdFusion. and also there e-learning products. And she actually started out as a ColdFusion developer quite a few years ago. Elishia: That's right and thanks for the introduction. I did start out years and years ago as a ColdFusion developer for a short stint but I did spend quite a lot of time and most of my years in my career doing support and account management for the larger architectures, so that's where most of my experience is and really architecting solutions and troubleshooting a problem. Read more And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.

063 Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips) with Mike Collins Mar 13, 2018

Mike Collins talks about “Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. In this session, we will answer common questions around deploying applications across multiple JVM instances, servers or containers. How many instances, servers or containers do you really need? What happens when an instance goes down? What is the best way to manage sessions? We will look at key performance metrics and session management strategies to increase your uptime and improve your end-users overall experience. Session topics will include: Using Local and Remote Web Servers, Load Balancing (Hardware and Software based), Tomcat Connector Features, Understanding ColdFusion Clustering, Using Docker Containers and Orchestration, Using Session Management Strategies, API Based Applications, Load Testing Applications and Security and Monitoring. We will have several demonstrations along the way. Show notes Why CF scaling matters Faster site Reliable - no single point of failure Seamless sessions between servers in a cluster - esp ecom What are common scaling issues How much JVM memory to allocate Garbage collection settings Connector best practices, connector admin manager → key metric Plan for alerts and snapshots Deploying applications across multiple JVM instances, servers or containers. How many instances, servers or containers do you really need? What happens when an instance goes down? What is the best way to manage sessions? Key performance metrics and session management strategies to increase your uptime and improve your end-users overall experience. Server Sizing CPU Memory Using Local and Remote Web Servers Load Balancing (Hardware and Software based) Tomcat Connector Features Understanding ColdFusion Clustering Using Docker Containers and Orchestration Using Session Management Strategies API Based Applications Microservices Load Testing Applications and Security and Monitoring. Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CF Summit East? Mentioned in this episode EHcache Redis CF Server monitor FusionReactor Sticky Sessions Round Robin F5 load balancer Kubernetes (container orchestration) JMeter load testing CF Summit East Listen to the Audio Bio Mike Collins Senior ColdFusion consultant at SupportObjective providing development, services including applications, migration projects, and annual ColdFusion support. Mike started using ColdFusion during his time with Allaire, Macromedia, and Adobe. Over the years Mike has given several ColdFusion conference sessions concerning developing and architecting ColdFusion applications. Links Support Objective Interview transcript Michaela: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Mike Collins and we're going to be talking about scaling your ColdFusion Applications. And we'll look at some of the JBM things you can do that and some of the key performance metrics and session management strategies you might use. And we'll look at both using local servers and using clever things like Docker to do it more remotely. So, we'll also briefly look at load testing security and monitoring if you will scaling your application. So welcome Mike. Mike: Welcome, thank you. Michaela: And in case you don't know Mike, he's been with ColdFusion since it was born back in the earlier days. He used to work at he's been at Macromedia and Adobe. And now he's got his own business school Support Objectives that provides annual ColdFusion support and consulting. So, he's a really smart guy I am so happy you got him here on the show today. So yes. So, tell us you know why is scaling important in the ColdFusion world, because maybe people haven't really thought about this topic?...

062 The Great ColdFusion Entrepreneurial Adventure (from side jobs to freelancing to your own biz) with Samuel Knowlton Mar 05, 2018

Samuel Knowlton talks about “The Great ColdFusion Entrepreneurial Adventure (from side jobs to freelancing to your own biz)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes His journey from side jobs to freelancing to his own biz Moved to NYC to become an actor - did CF side jobs to pay the rent Side job risks Missed taxes and compliance Liability What to expect Accounting Separate biz bank a/c and credit card Incorporation options LLC, LLP, S-corp, C corp Delaware Wyoming Government compliance The unincorporated biz tax in NYC Liability concerns Biz insurance Workers Comp General liability insurance Errors and omissions Umbrella Your own biz Employees vs Subcontractors Payroll and employment taxes Use a payroll service! Quickbooks Xero Perks Healthcare 401k Write-offs Home office deduction Infrastructure Support of your clients Good will Legitimacy with clients Support system eg Jira Toolsets - hardware and software common to all staff Ramp Up time Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Docker and containers What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Building and managing your own enterprise: Infrastructure, Support, Payroll, Taxes and Toolsets. An introduction to your own business from the founder of inLeague (15+ years in the market) with an emphasis on how ordinary developers can manage a shop, grow a team, and still write code. Topics will not include Getting Rich Quick or Venture Capital. Into the Box - Samuel Knowlton Mentioned in this episode Different business types Types of business insurance Types of payroll taxes Common business deductions Xero CFML slack channel Jira Forgebox Into The Box Listen to the Audio Bio Samuel Knowlton Founder and president of inLeague, boutique ColdFusion software development house. Interview Transcript Michaela: Welcome back to the show. And today, we’re going to be looking at the great entrepreneurial adventure using ColdFusion. How Samuel Knowlton went from side jobs to freelancing to his own business. And we'll look at some of the risks involved in doing side jobs you might not be aware of in particular is this really wacky taxi came across that didn't even make sense to be honest to me. And we’ll also look at some of the liability concerns you may have in working for other people; freelancing or in your own business. And some of the perks you can make some money by incorporating as well so. We'll also look at infrastructure you might want to set up, and how you support your clients if you start a business, and the tool sets you use for your ColdFusion business. So welcome Samuel. Samuel: Thank you very much Michaela. Michaela: Yes and if you don't know Samuel is the founder and president of in league which is a beauty ColdFusion software development house. Been around for about 16 years now. Congratulations! I think in dog years that's probably about four lifetimes right. Samuel: Well that said still what half your company so you have something to look forward to. Read more And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job,

061 Virtual Power Teams for ColdFusion Development (3 mistakes to avoid) with Peter Ivanov Feb 26, 2018

Peter Ivanov talks about “Virtual Power Teams for ColdFusion Development (3 mistakes to avoid)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why virtual ColdFusion software teams? Experts are hard to find and may not want to relocate Offshoring and labor arbitrage Easier scaling of projects Fast delivery 81% of teams are virtual - Forrester Research Common problems and mistakes with virtual teams Neglecting the team’s personal life and personality Meet each team member and lifeline successes and struggles In person Zoom video call What makes their heart sing Only have meetings for problems or if manager has need Regular meetings, not manager dominated, all people get a chance to speak personal update from each person (

060 Migrating legacy CFML to MVC (Model View Controller) with Nolan Erck Feb 20, 2018

Nolan Erck talks about “Migrating legacy CFML to MVC (Model View Controller)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What exactly is legacy ColdFusion? A broad term Non-framework code Might use CFIncludes or some CFCs to be modular Even giant 10k lines of code Self-posting forms What the MVC design pattern is and what problems it solves MVC = Model View Controller Model = biz logic and SQL View = front end UI - HTML, CSS, JS Controller = the glue that holds the Model and View together and says which part calls which Customer in a restaurant ordering from a Menu (View) from a Waiter (Controller) to make the food in the kitchen (Model) Maintenance easier Whack a mole bugs Biz logic, HTML, JS and SQL all mixed up together Bit rot/Technical debt Hard for designers to edit the code as the HTML is mixed up Merge conflicts Hard to fully test Manually testing Duplicate code, unused code (deadwood) Specialization of labor UI experts CF developer SQL database engineer How the FW/1 and ColdBox frameworks use a convention-based approach to bring consistent structure to an application Both are modern MVC Use folder to separate the three parts, file naming conventions FW/1 is minimalist, one file, easy to get started MuraCMS uses it ColdBox is heavyweight with more features and add-on packs in the Box ecosphere Testing Caching Etc Ortus supports Other MVC frameworks that are not as maintained CFWheels - These are convention based frameworks Fusebox - XML config file framework Mode Glue - XML config file framework Mach-ii - These are convention based frameworks What Dependency Injection (DI) is, how it simplifies the “model” portion of applications, and how they are used in FW/1 and ColdBox Keeps your objects organized Tools DI/1 Wirebox We did a whole interview on this topic in another episode of CF Alive DRY = Don’t Repeat Yourself DI and MVC are independent How to refactor real-world procedural code into MVC-style code What code belongs in the model, the view, and how the controller ties the two together. Cut parts out of giant file to include files Move out the SQL and CF logic Dedup similar code Move out the front end code to View include files Start running with the remaining code in the View Strategies for migrating large applications in phases. ColdBox legacy tool feature Version code such as Git 2 branches Legacy MVC Maintain both AB test each branch All URLs will change Using CommandBox and Git to spin up on-demand instances of ColdFusion and manage our code. CommandBox command line CF Instant server setup or config Any version, Adobe ColdFusion, Railo, Lucee CFML Tool costs FW/1 free ColdBox free, pay or training and support CommandBox - free Git free to paid Source Tree - free Sublime Text - free to shareware paid $35 CF Builder free 30-day trial, $300 Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What did you enjoy at CF Summit? Nolan’s CF Summit workshop description Do you maintain legacy ColdFusion applications, perhaps written with old procedural-style code? Have you been told you should be using a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework but don't really understand how that works? Does the idea of rewriting the entire application seem like an impossible task? What if you could instead revamp your code in phases, without having to do it all at once? Come to this workshop and learn: What the MVC design pattern is and what problems it solves How the FW/1 and ColdBox frameworks use a convention-based approach to bring consistent structure to an application

059 Adobe CF Summit East 2018 with Kishore Balakrishnan Feb 07, 2018

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “All about the Adobe CF Summit East 2018 ColdFusion” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What exactly is CF Summit East? Started in second year of CF Summit in Las Vegas For people who can’t travel to West coast Expecting 200 people, 160 registrations already two month out How many years has CF Summit been running? 3rd year Why is it so important to the CF Community? Networking with other CF developers, CF speakers and Adobe CF senior staff Why all CFer should go? To learn about Adobe’s commitment to CF New features in CF Direction of CF Roadmap through 2025 Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about 10 speakers Rakshith Naresh - new features of CF 2018 (second half of 2018 release date) Elishia Dvorak - CF API manager Tridib Roy Chowdhury - Keynote State of CF with customers, Adobe’s plans, customer experiences with CF Charlie Arehart - new in CF 10, 11, 2016 that you may have missed Pete Freitag - Securing mature CFML codebases Masha Edelen - Power of Simplicity in FW/1 Framework Eric Cobb - Building Better SQL Server Databases Kevin Schmidt - PDF Trip Ward - Angular.js and CF Mike Collins - Distributed caching Dave Watts and Theonic Way - Upgrading legacy CF servers Date Wednesday April 25th 2018, 8am - 5pm Includes breakfast, lunch and breaks Cost Free Location Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 Ninth Street NW Washington, DC 20001 Close to last’s year’s location at Marriott Near to the metro Other things you can do in DC? National Mall Museums White House What is new this year? Last year 110 attendees - CF govt focused Recording session is planned CF growing over last year Dollar sales Number customer Why are you proud to use CF? Started as Java dev → QA → CF dev → marketing manager WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? CF community paritation Spread the CF Alive message For every 1 public site there are 4 private/intranets 30% of CF installed base is government What are you looking forward to at CF Summit East? Mentioned in this episode Conference event Roadmap episode Educational free Community Portal blog about CF Summit Listen to the Audio Bio Kishore Balakrishnan Kishore Balakrishnan is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems with a Master Degree in Computer Applications. At Adobe he has held roles of a Quality Manager, Program Manager before becoming the Product Marketing Manager. He enjoys being the 'voice of the customer' within the organization, liaise with sales team to facilitate the selling process and clearly communicate the why, what and when to the marketplace for CF. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and kid. Kishore loves his long runs and cooking. Interview transcript Michaela: Welcome back to the show. Today, we're looking to talk about the Adobe C.F. Summit East. And I'm here with Kishore Balakrishnan. And we're gonna learn all about this band it's in its fourth year as a lot of exciting changes. So if you haven't heard of the CF Summit East, we're gonna learn what that is, and why all ColdFusion developers on the East Coast see if they can get there. And we also will reveal who the speakers and topics are this year, and the location, and also what is new with the event. And we'll also talk about Kishore’s background. You may not know this; he's the senior marketing manager for ColdFusion Adobe. But he also programs in ColdFusion. So we'll talk about his background later in the show. So welcome Kishore. Kishore: Thanks Michael for having me on the show, have a lot of good things. Michael: So… oh great! Yeah I mean we did over 50 episodes last year, and planning to do a similar number this year.

058 Progressive Web Apps Building – Amazing Lucee CFML and ColdBox Tricks with Miles Rausch Jan 29, 2018

Miles Rausch talks about “Progressive Web Apps Building - Amazing Lucee CFML and ColdBox Tricks” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What a Progressive Web App? (PWA) Eg google docs A web app that gives you a native app experience (including offline use) Content cache Background working so UI stays as single page Install icon to your homepage Why the heck should make your web apps Progressive? Better user engagement More responsive UI and better user experience Why should your trust your users’ network connectivity 100% of the time? Emerging markets in China, India and Africa What support is there for Progressive Web Apps? Who is leading the charge and Google Creators of Chrome browser Creators of many Progressive web apps Android browser support Firefox browser Microsoft Windows 10 support IE Standards groups for Progressive APIs Lucee Adobe Who is left behind Apple Safari browser How the the Offline First movement related to this What if the client device crashes while they are editing offline? How to easily implement Progressive Web apps using ColdBox and Lucee (and a bit of CommandBox too!) Demo where he pulls his network connection live Your move to Lucee CFML Why are you proud to use CFML? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? Progressive Web Apps are more than just a UI fad, like parallax or scroll-triggered animations. PWAs are quickly becoming the best practice for creating reliable, fast and engaging user experiences. Like progressive enhancement, which treated JavaScript as an optional enhancement for a website, progressive web apps treat the network itself as an optional enhancement. By treating the network as untrustworthy, developers are forced to create better web apps that capitalize on modern browser features when they exist and fallback to traditional client-server communication when they don't. This talk builds the most cutting-edge client technologies upon the solid foundations of ColdBox, giving CFML developers a helpful path into the future. Google has been a strong supporter and proponent of PWAs and the Offline First movement, but their examples and toolkits make too many or too few assumptions about the reader's server technology. This talk will use ColdBox and Lucee (through CommandBox) as the server language, allowing CFML developers to wrap their heads about this new movement and hopefully incorporate its philosophy and techniques into their existing and upcoming projects. Mentioned in this episode Progressive Web Apps Offline First Forbes case study of a Progressive App Twitter light - mobile progressive web app Google Progressive case studies site The “Progressive” in Progressive Web Apps (Chrome Dev Summit 2016) Patrick Kettner, Product Manager for Microsoft Edge, talks about the "progressive" in PWAs, service workers, AppCache, and more! Service worker Index.db Slides.com CommandBox open source command line CFML and package manager Similar in idea npm and Yarn for Node.js Progressive Web App Dev Summit Google I/O event annual developer festival Listen to the Audio Bio Miles Rausch Miles Rausch is a web developer from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is a writer for people, and a writer for computers. He believes that he is destined to spend his time at a keyboard. During his work time, he develops for both server (in CFML using the Lucee engine) and client (where he tries to be unobtrusive, semantic and responsibly future-facing). At the same time, Miles have been having a flirty affair with Node.js and React. In his personal time, he writes short stories and novels. Fiction is as strong a passion for Miles as programming, and he has published in some online publications ...

057 Into the CLOUD with FusionReactor (ColdFusion Application Performance Monitor) with David Tattersall Jan 08, 2018

David Tattersall talks about "Into the CLOUD with FusionReactor (ColdFusion Application Performance Monitor)" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is FusionReactor CLOUD? CLOUD version of FusionReactor with extra features over the on-premises version What is FusionReactor FR is on premise tool Server Monitor and alert Crash protection Low overhead CF and Java application performance monitor Less than 1% overhead compared to 2-5% on other monitors Low overhead includes lots of tools such as debugging, JDBC, Database It can measure 100’s of different metrics + alert you to potential issues Agents CF Java Node.js Why go to the CLOUD? Keep more data More AI in the app More analysis of the data See patterns in billions of transactions Is this secure? Yes, your data is kept separate from others Can obfuscate some data such as credit cards Can use Fusion Analytics if you prefer not to use the CLOUD When was FR CLOUD launched? August 2017 Daily deployment and improvements (no version numbers) - it is a SaaS! FR CLOUD demo CLOUD license It includes a copy of FR regular CLOUD $99/mo/server Ent, $149/mo/server Ultimate Upto 5 instances per server Docker containers on demand licenses vs reservations for permanent servers On demand is 10% more cost but is only billed by the minute of use FR CLOUD works with Java too Data retention (not just memory) from a week to 30-90 days (depending on the CLOUD version Ent or Ultra) Capturing only interesting transactions (ITs) - not all of them Powerful alerting engine on any of the metrics in FusionReactor CLOUD, with integration to many common Alerting Channels - such as Hipchat Slack PageDuty Email HTTP hooks Why did you add FR to the CLOUD? Save server monitoring data to the CLOUD so it doesn’t clog up your server Combining metrics from multiple servers (instances), say across a cluster, to provide a combined application view FusionAnalytics for on premise, in-depth analysis Two way link from FR CLOUD to the local FR so can run a stack trace or GC from the CLOUD Webinar on this at https://www.fusion-reactor.com/webinar/fusionreactor-CLOUD/ They use use FR to monitor FR CLOUD What versions of ACF and Lucee does FR work with? ACF 6.1, 7 MX (FusionReactor 4.5) ACF 8,9,10, 11, 2016 (latest version of FR) Railo 3.x, 4.x Lucee 4.5, 5.x Also supports Java containers e.g. Tomcat, JBoss, GLassfish, Websphere + many Java frameworks e.g. Spring and Struts How was CFCAMP this year? Next conference DevNexus Feb 23-25 2018 Why are you proud to support CF? WWIT for CF to be more alive this year? Mentioned in this episode Jetty - Eclipse Jetty provides a Web server and javax.servlet container, plus support for HTTP/2, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS and many other integrations. Using FR with Docker Swarm Brad Wood video ColdFusion on Docker Listen to the Audio Bio David Tattersall David Tattersall has been in working in IT for over 30 years. Since co-founding Intergral in 1998, he focused on company management, business development and sales & marketing. Intergral has become a leader in server monitoring and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions in the ColdFusion / Java segment. His flagship product - FusionReactor - www.fusion-reactor.com is used on over 25,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers. Links www.fusion-reactor.com Interview Transcript Michaela 0:00 So welcome back to the show. I'm here with David Hansel and he's the CEO of integral in Germany and from their worldwide headquarters, he's gonna be demoing to us my home office home office, he's gonna be telling us all about fusion reactor cloud, which is their new version.

056 send.Better() – Giving ColdFusion Email a REST with Matthew Clemente Jan 01, 2018

I am talking with Matthew Clemente about "send.Better() - Giving ColdFusion Email a REST" in this episode of CF Alive Podcast. Your application sends emails; they might be alerts, confirmations, reports, surveys, newsletters, support-related, or invoices. The process of setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting these emails generally alternates between boring and frustrating; developers are happy to move on to richer, more modern portions of their applications. It really doesn't have to be like this. AWS SES might be the best known of the transactional email services, but that doesn't mean it's the best. Mailgun, Sendgrid, Postmark, and Sparkpost all provide compelling email-as-a-service offerings, built around developer-focused REST APIs. The offerings and features varying slightly from one provider to the next; which is the best for you? As usual, the answer is that it depends, but I'll help you find out. We're going to cover: The benefits provided by using a transactional email service A pragmatic, use-driven comparison of the major players in the space Pitfalls, considerations, and tips when configuring your DNS records and integrating a transactional email service with your application Interacting with the actual APIs, and showing how easy they are to use with ColdFusion So let's dive in and see easy it is to send better emails, get detailed reporting, access logging that doesn't make you want to pull your hair out, and take advantage of advanced features, such as webhooks, transactional templates, and inbound email rules. Show notes But isn’t email dead? Open, accessible, resilient Slack, messaging Email as in interface for your application (it’s neglected) Transactional emails Use cases Purchase confirm Mini surveys with links for options Account creation Email verification Password reset Receipts Requested updates Comment notifications Weekly digests or report Where Speed and deliverability matter CFMAIL + SMTP settings TLS on encrypted send Set in your Application.cfc rather than hardcoding in each CFMAIL tag Dev → stage → live Mailtrap.io ← fake smtp server for mocking Why emails on Dev servers matter and how to do them right Send Plain text and HTML emails Why transactional email services? Separate from your marketing and other emails → better deliverability and speed Lots more data on your emails is available Which email services do you like? Which is best (trick question, they all have specific use cases that make sense) AWS SES - low cost, less features, harder to set up $5/50k emails Postmark - pure transactional emails, highest deliverability, speed, great features, more expensive $50/50k emails Spartpost - developer friendly, free tier to 10k/mo, more marketing focused $9/50k emails Sendgrid - does both transactional and marketing emails $20/50k emails mailGun - developer friendly, free tier to 15k/mo, detailed developer features and logging, good inbound email handling, $20/50k emails Who NOT to use and why? MailChimp GetResponse ConstantContact Deliverability SPF DKIM DMARC Dmarc.postmarkapp.com - friendly reporting How to test your deliverability (Mail-tester.com) How to set a transactional email service Use a subdomain for config but can send from your main domain REST API or SMTP Start with SMTP If you need more features move to REST Also faster CFML wrappers exist for these Using Web hooks in email processing Inbound Bounce processing Link processing and verification Email open processing Zapier integration The future of ColdFusion email Why are you proud to use CF? Easy to create Community that helps out esp slack channel WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? CF slack channel CF Alive podcast Help with Github projects

055 How to implement Adobe’s API Manager (with Swagger, ColdFusion, and API’s) with Brian Sappey Dec 25, 2017

Brian Sappey talks about "How to implement Adobe's API Manager with Swagger, ColdFusion, and API's" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast. In this session, you will be provided a look, with examples, about a successful implementation of the Adobe API Manager into a large scale Enterprise environment. You will learn how to configure the API Manager, migrate your existing API's, and create new ones utilizing Swagger. As an added bonus you will learn how to accelerate your SDLC by utilizing API's to automate the API creation process along with the on-boarding of subscribers. Lastly, you will see first hand how to wrap the entire API Manager into a developer portal using, you got it, API's! Show notes What is the Adobe API Manager? Built using Java and Angular Comes with CF Entreprise SOAP to REST WSDL Analytics End point level and resource level Realtime Debugging APIs Drill down to problems and solve Replay Sandbox and failover server Versioning Security Metering and Throttling, SLA Clustering API key management Why should CFers be using it? Productivity and Debugging API Simplify API creation and consumption More control over your API, who uses them and how much they can call them What is Swagger? How did you migrate to it from Layer 7? Cost saving $400k Automation and SDLC Microservices Auto documentation Programmatic building of APIs Why are you proud to use CF? Performance Improvements at Adobe with conference, roadmap 30 CF developers at MarketAmerica WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Stronger CF community Modern CFML use and use of REST Forrester whitepaper Be ok asking and talking with Adobe What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? Mentioned in this episode Adobe API Manager CA API manager (formerly Layer 7) Rakshith Naresh, Adobe Product Manager for ColdFusion Swagger- the world’s largest framework of API developer tools for the OpenAPI Specification(OAS) REST SOAP WSDL = Web Services Description Language Elastic search PCI security API endpoint SLA = Service Level Agreement API Contract API keys microservices Listen to the Audio Bio Brian Sappey Brian Sappey is an Applications Architect and Manager of Engineering. His most recent focus has been redesigning the E-commerce infrastructure at Market America/SHOP.com. He is an avid supporter and user of the Adobe API Manager. Links CF Summit Adobe Events Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Brian Sappey. I hope I’m saying your name that right there Brian. It looks kind of vaguely foreign even though I know you're American. Brian: yes Sappey Michael: Sappey, all right. And we're gonna be talking about how he's implemented Adobe's A.P.I. manager with swagger ColdFusion A.P.I. And we'll look at what the A.P.I. manager is and why you should be using it. And what swagger is and how you might use that. And how they migrated from using Layer seven for all these stuff, and some of the big cost savings they had and a whole bunch of automation they're doing in that ColdFusion development using this. So welcome Brian. Brian: Thank you, appreciate it. Thank you giving me the time. Michael: Oh! You're so welcome. Thanks for staying up late to do this. I know it's after hours for you. And I know you're off to CF Summit in a few days. So glad you were able to fit this interview in. So tell us what is the… not everyone's use the A.P.I. manager in ColdFusion. Tell us what that is and why we should be using it. Read more Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview,

054 ColdFusion Practical Digital Accessibility with Bouton Jones Dec 18, 2017

Bouton Jones talks about “ColdFusion Practical Digital Accessibility (revealing 3 you didn’t know)”, in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. This will address the compelling reasons -- including legal -- for applying Accessibility to digital documentation: Word, PDF, PowerPoint, and Web. Examples of poor Accessibility will be presented with illustrations of the resulting effects for users with disabilities. Finally, it will cover strategies and solutions. Show notes What does Accessibility mean? Part of usability for people with disabilities Blind Dead Color blind Mouse Epileptic Autistic ESL (English as Second Language) Delexic A11y = How did you get interested in Accessibility? How is your talk at CF Summit going to be different from all the other Accessibility presos we might have seen? Why is Accessibility so important today? 20% of Americans have disabilities of one kind or another 508 compliance ← US govt websites Moral requirement Legal requirement It is just Practical W3C guidelines What can you do to make your ColdFusion apps Accessible? HTML Semantic HTML Text choice Navigation Without a mouse Graphics Image Alt tag tips Skip links Pop ups JAWS, NVDA and ChromeVox testing Flash RIAs Captcha What about other files in your app? Word and PDF documentation, Presentations, Email, Social media Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? Bouton’s full notes and slides Complete Video Playlist Mentioned in this episode W3C guidelines JAWS, NDVA and ChromeVox screen readers Semantic HTML Google Recaptcha 1. "ColdFusion and Section 508" by Jon Brundage and Michaela Light 2. "Generating Speech with ColdFusion and Java" by Raymond Camden 3. "Everyone’s invited! Meet Accessibility Requirements with ColdFusion" by Steve Shinney at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2016 Nielsen Norman article on simple language is better Selling ColdFusion ROI episode Videos How ARIA landmark roles help screen reader users by Léonie Watson with Nomensa Think Accessibility: SXSW 2017 Capital One Event with Mike Paciello, Founder and CEO of The Paciello Group, and Sarah Goelitz, UX Content Strategist at Capital One. Produced by AccessibleMedia. Published on Mar 14, 2017. Make Technology Work for Everyone: introducing digital accessibility (UK) - 4:41 Making a PDF accessible with Acrobat Pro DC - 3:12 What is Accessibility? [CC] - 5:46 Web Accessibility for people with Disabilities - 1:59 Keeping Web Accessibility In Mind - 11:34 A Personal Look at Accessibility in Higher Education - 5:58 Fiverr cartoon images Listen to the Audio Bio Bouton Jones Business Systems Analyst with over ten years’ experience as a ColdFusion contractor and consultant. Currently living in Austin, Texas after over a decade on the road. Links www.BoutonJones.com Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. We're going to be talking about ColdFusion practical digital accessibility with Bouton Jones. I think I just made a meal of your name there. Not the Jones. Bouton: Bouton Michael: Bouton, yes. I practiced it three times before we hit record, but still much screwed up. Bouton: [Crosstalk] [00:18] variation. Michael: Well that's good. So we're going to be looking at what accessibility actually means, and a lot of those things you may not have thought of before. And also, we're going to look at how this presentation you're giving at C.F. Summit on practical digital accessibility is different from other accessibility talks people may have seen before. And there’s some interesting stuff there I just been talking with you about it,

053 CF Suicide, Depression, and Recovery with Jorge Reyes Dec 11, 2017

Jorge Reyes talks about “CF Suicide, Depression, and Recovery”, in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Suicide T or F quiz The person with suicidal thoughts will have those thoughts all of his/her life Suicidal Thoughts shouldn't be talked directly. You will make the person kill him/herself faster If a person already tried to kill him/herself. A new attempt is less likely. Suicide happens without warning Someone bragging about killing him/herself just wants to draw attention to themselves. People with suicidal thoughts - they absolutely want to die. Developer thinking about suicide Disclaimer: we are not doctors and don’t play one on TV either How a developer he had trained then a month later he killed himself But he seemed engaged and happy The tip of the iceberg - small talk and big talk How he helped a developer friend who wanted to kill himself Developer depression Not talking about this The history of depression and mental illness - fear of talking about it Rather die than talk about it Fear of being judged Stress and anxiety Tools for releasing anxiety and depression Exercise Meditation Time in nature Sleep Relaxation Massage Digital detox day Friend time Understanding and listening Human touch Laughter - silly movie or laughter yoga Shame = not deserve to exist “Coward”, “easy way out” PTSD Friends of those who are suicide Be aware of other people Take some action Resources Call Suicide prevention lifeline its free Confidential And available 24/7 1800 273 8255 https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Addictions don’t help, they cover up Alcohol Drugs Food TV and media Shopping Overwork What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? Moving out of CF legacy hell Mentioned in this episode Dissociative moment PTSD and TRE Pigs in the Parlor: A handbook for deliverance from demons and spiritual oppression. by Frank Hammond I Jumped Off The Golden Gate Bridge and Survived Listen to the Audio Bio Jorge Reyes Jorge is a passionate Industrial Engineer born in El Salvador with 7 years of experience managing projects. Business manager at Ortus Solutions, Corp. Links Jreyes (at) ortussolutions.com Twitter Ortus Solutions Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Jorge Reyes, and we're talking about a very interesting subject. And it's very serious for some developers out there in ColdFusion which is ColdFusion suicide, depression, and recovery. And Jorge here has a very interesting story to tell of a couple of experiences he's had with this. But we're gonna start off the show with a quick true or false quiz for everyone listening. And we're also gonna look at if you have any friends who’ve either thought about suicide, or committed suicide, how you can deal with that. And we'll have some resources in case anyone's feeling suicidal, or knows someone who is. So, very important topic. Welcome Jorge. Jorge: Thank you Michael. Michael: So, you mentioned you put together a little quiz for me and the listeners; true or false. Jorge: true or false Michael: What are those questions? Jorge: Yeah, because it is important that we kind of set in check some of the assumptions that people have about suicide, or people considering to commit suicide. So, I wanted to kind of access you and the audience with those. Michael: I'm ready. Jorge: yeah Michael: I hope everyone listening has sharpened their pencils, or their fingertips on their keyboard. Jorge: So the first one… Michael: We’ll put it on the show notes too. Jorge: Cool!

052 Git ColdFusion Source Control with Nolan Erck Dec 04, 2017

Nolan Erck talks about "051 Git ColdFusion Source Control (Getting Started and Best Practices)" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is "source control" and when / why all CFers need it? Repository = library for your code with versions baked in For Windows, Mac, Linux dev For any kind of code you write: CF, C++, Java, iPhone, Ruby, COBOL, PHP, QBASIC, InstallShield Docker config info or CommandBox scripts Database creation scripts Even documentation or graphics fields Though best with text files Your desk or brain? (just kidding) The problems of home made source control Copying files to Bak or zip Future Confusion and Deadwood code Security issue Team changes Revert to an earlier version across multiple files Why not just have everyone work directly on the production server? (bad idea) Even a shared dev server is a bad idea What is Git? Server GitHub, Bitbucket, Unfuddle, BeanStalk, host your own Client OSX: Tower, GitBox, SourceTree, SmartGit Windows: TortoiseGit, SmartGit Can mix/match among team members. Free to $50 Why Git and Costs Free options for server and client Command line or GUI Modern industry standard Alternatives to Git Subversion, CVS, Team Foundation Server, Visual SourceSafe, PerfForce, Mercurial. How to use Git from a GUI Allow 1-2 h to get started if you have never used Git The difference between Git and GitHub Git is the protocol GitHub is one brand of Git server Common Git commands Add Just because you make a file, that doesn't mean Git watches it for changes. Commit The “committed” version of the file is stored locally. Only file delta are stored by Git (not a copy of every version) Push Do this whenever the file(s) is ready to be shared with your team, or ready for inclusion in the latest build Branching Do this: Always when you are changing the site Git Flow Technique Versioning Branches or tagging Different customer customizations Hot fixes Reverting Merging Automatic merges if only different line have been changed Merge conflicts if two people/branches have changed the same code lines “Commit early, commit often” Git Best practices Make a branch called “Master” for what the Production server should look like. Don't actually write code in this branch. Write in other branches, then merge them into Master. Anytime you “pull from Master”, you get an exact copy of what's on the Live server. Make a branch called “QA”. As bugs are fixed, merge them into QA. When everything in QA has been tested and debugged, merge it into “master”. Don't be afraid to make “temporary branches” to try out new ideas. No harm in making and deleting new branches. More Git Resources Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CFCAMP? Git Source Control: for the Rest of Us What about those designers/JS/CSS folks that WEREN'T using Subversion, and don't CARE about how under the hood Git uses a different type of pointer file storage thing, blah blah blah? There's a whole new wave of developers/designers that could stand to have an intro to Git that matches their workflow more concisely. Target Audience: People that want to learn a) what source control is, and when/why I should use it, b) people that don't drop down to a command-line interface for such tasks, c) everyone that's been snickered at when asking how to use a GUI tool to start learning Git, instead of those strange command-line instructions. Assumed knowledge: A familiarity with asset files and the idea that "I need to make backups of these and share them with my team in an organized way".

051 Improve your CFML Code Quality with Kai Koenig Nov 27, 2017

Kai Koenig talks about "Improve your CFML Code Quality (with some Cool Tools)" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why does code quality matter? Long code lifetime Reduce maintenance cost Easier to read Reduce bugs without testing What does code quality mean in practice? Bad Code smell (see below for article) Complexity Bad variable or function naming Poor var What tools are there for managing and measuring code quality? Code review tools Code of conduct for code reviews Egoless programming Rhodecode repository Upsource from Jetbrains Static analysis Lint Runtime analysis Code coverage / execution paths Duplicate code Code Correctness Does the code fulfil its spec Behavior Driven Development Complexity McCabe index # Lines of code per class/component/function Cyclic dependency trackers Dependency graph generation Why is there a lack of tools for CFML in this field? CF less formal than some other languages RAD focus Historically CF attracts a lot of cross-training developers, less of a formal Computer Science background Allaire, Macromedia and Adobe have not been interested in this aspect of a language ecosystem What cool tools exist for other languages? List of tools for static code analysis Linters What tools do exist for CF? Varscoper A bit stale - no good support for cfscript CFQueryParam checker CFLint Based on CFparser (using ANTLR compiler generator) Outputs HTML, XML or JSON for Findbugs 2.0 will have API CFLint code of conduct Various doc tools ColdDoc Stale DocBox Home-brew stuff for specific use cases Why are you proud to use CF? Can be released rapidly and is maintainable and works well with Java WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Better CF developer tools Market position of paid server product - open source version More publicity for Lucee as open source language Shift perception Ortus tools Ortus buy ColdFusion What are you looking forward to at CFCAMP? Let's talk about code quality. We all agree that our code needs to be functional so that it meets business requirements. We also should aim for code that is well written and maintainable for future changes. There are a lot of elements playing into that. A well thought system architecture is an important foundation. The selection of an appropriate framework could be the next step. In the end you might look at how to format and write your code on a line-by-line basis. This talk will provide an introduction into code quality. We will look at various aspects around this term first. From there we can investigate different ways how you can perform code analysis. This will help you measure and understand code quality. There is a range of categories of tools available, some of which also support CFML. In the second part of the talk we'll look at the details and usage of CFLint. CFLint is a static code analyser for CFML that is based on the CFParser project. Mentioned in this episode CFCAMP Bad code smell CFML Complexity Metric Tool DocBox Code coverage Lucee Fusion Reactor DocBox wiki ColdDoc CFlint Intellij CF lint plugin Adobe CF Builder Agile eXtreme programming - peer programming Rhodecode Upsource from Jetbrains Smartbear Collaborator McCabe index - Cyclomatic complexity Cyclic dependency Decoupling Varscoper CFQueryParam checker CFLint CFParser Antlr parser generator TeamCity CI CFLint code of conduct CFMobile DroidCon UK conference Listen to the Audio Bio Kai Koenig

050 OAuth 2 for Me and You (Social Login Lowdown) with Matt Gifford Nov 20, 2017

Matt Gifford talks about “OAuth 2 for Me and You (Social Login Lowdown)” in this episode of CF Alive podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why use OAuth 2? Saves complex login code Easier for user - no more forgotten passwords Single Sign On Less PCI security issues - not storing emails and password What is OAuth 2 Social login using FB, TW, Google, GitHub, BitBucket, Link, Microsoft Live, Instagram, Yahoo OAuth 2 is totally different protocol from OAuth 1 Much simpler now More secure Adds scope - what permissions does it want from your FB (name, email, can post etc) How does it work? Header based Signature = Token + key JSON or URL What are the the alternatives? OpenID SAML How to use OAuth 2 from ColdFusion Use a wrapper What is your favor wrapper? MonkehTweets How to register your app with FB and other providers Local dev, staging and production URLs Call back URL Scope Client ID + token secret value Save locally (not in the cloud) Later option to revoke or regenerate these if you are hacked What does OAuth 2 Cost? Open source - free Time to set up code and registration CF in Cyprus Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Modern CommandBox REPL ForgeBox package management Open source contributions What are you looking forward to at CFCAMP? Authentication is key when dealing with the web, certainly when calling, liaising with and using external API services. You may even need to implement ( or may already have ) your own authentication service for your apps or for others to use. In this session, Matt will discuss the OAuth 2 protocol, what it means to be a consumer or provider, and how to navigate the handshake communications between the service. At the end of this session, you will walk taller, safe in the fact that you are filled with knowledge of OAuth 2, how to use it and how to build your own service. Mentioned in this episode His Book "Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion" His book "PhoneGap Mobile Application Development Cookbook" OAuth 2 Wiki Single Sign On Scotch on the Rocks conference MonkehTweets Twitter Social Login by Jeremy DeYoung OpenID SAML Lucee CFML CommandBox ForgeBox CFCAMP Listen to the Audio Bio Matt Gifford Matt Gifford is owner and primary primate at his own development consultancy company, monkehWorks Ltd. His work primarily focuses on building mobile apps and ColdFusion development, although he's such a geek he enjoys writing in a variety of languages. He's a published author and presents at conferences and user groups on a variety of topics. As an Adobe Community Professional and Adobe User Group manager, Matt is a keen proponent for community resources and sharing knowledge. He is the author of "Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion" and "PhoneGap Mobile Application Development Cookbook" and also contributes articles and tutorials to international industry magazines. Visit Matt at www.monkehworks.com or @coldfumonkeh on Twitter. Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Matt Gifford, and he's joining me from Cyprus which is hot and sunny as opposed to England where I am right now which is kind of a little dreary actually. I think I was a good move you made there Matt. And we're going to be talking about OAuth 2, and how you can use that do really amazing logins on your ColdFusion apps. And we'll look at how it works, what it is, how you can use it in ColdFusion. And we’ll ask him what his favorite rapper is; and I mean code rapper, not music rapper there. And we’ll also look at some of the intricacies of registering your app with Facebook, and Twitter, and Google and some of the other providers you can use OAuth with.

049 CF Continuous Integration Plumbing with Bitbucket Pipelines with Guust Nieuwenhuis Nov 13, 2017

Guust Nieuwenhuis talks about “CF Continuous Integration Plumbing with Bitbucket Pipelines” in this episode of CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is Bitbucket Pipelines? What is Bitbucket? What is Git? What is a code repository? Built on top of AWS Why CFers should use Bitbucket Pipelines? Easier setup Integrated with Bitbucket Why Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Micro releases What he likes about the Bitbucket repository Github is good for open source projects, but is more limited for private repositories Bitbucket allows unlimited private repositories Can config based on different branches Dev branch Production / Master branch Feature branches Docker containers integration Docker Hub CommandBox as basis for Docker Using it with Teams Queue and concurrent builds Slack integration Email on test fail Costs Free to start With 50 minutes build time / month for free Various Packages with more build minutes or buy 1000 extra build minutes for $10 https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing How to get started with Bitbucket Pipelines Why are you proud to use CF? Easy to use Flexible Productive WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Using modern techniques Growth in Box products Docker containers What are you looking forward to at CFCamp? Meeting CF developers from across Europe Sold out Bitbucket Pipelines brings continuous integration and delivery to you GIT repository, empowering you to build, test, and deploy your code with a simple push. Guust will get will tell you all about it and show you several scenarios in which Bitbucket Pipelines will accelerate your releases. You'll learn how to configure your Bitbucket repository, define your pipelines, use your own docker containers and deploy directly to your environments. Bitbucket Pipelines will have no more secrets for you! Mentioned in this episode: CFCAMP Github Bitbucket Bitbucket Pipelines Jenkins Bamboo Docker Containers Ortus Roadshow webinars Continuous Integration Trello JIRA issue tracker AWS (Amazon Web Services) Node.js Npm CommandBox TestBox Lucee Slack Yaml config file AWS CLI Amazon S3 His social media name Lagaffe Listen to the Audio Bio Guust Nieuwenhuis Guust Nieuwenhuis is a freelance Senior Full Stack Web Developer with experience in a wide range of technologies. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in projects for various clients like: European Commission, NSHQ (NATO), Adobe, AS Adventure Group, NS (Dutch railways), Proximus. Recently Guust started developing his own product: Pedrillo. It's a SAAS solution for music orchestra's to manage their musicians, events, library, etc. In his free time, Guust plays the double bass and drums/percussion, both in small ensembles as in symphony orchestra's. He likes spending as much time as possible with his family and meeting friends for a chat, game or drink. When he still has some time left, he mainly spends it behind his computer to fulfil his hunger for the latest trends in IT. Links Website Twitter LinkedIn Stackoverflow SlideShare Interview Transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Guust Nieuwenhuis. I hope I'm saying name right there. It sounds pretty Belgium to me. And we're going to be talking about continuous integration in ColdFusion with a bit bucket pipelines. And Guust is doing a talk at C.F. camp on plumbing with bit bucket pipelines. So, we're going to look at what those are, and why all ColdFusion developers might want to have a look at those. And why doing continuous integration in continuous development are a good thing. What he likes about the bit bucket repository.

048 Best Practices Are Best, Except When They’re Not with Nolan Erck Nov 06, 2017

Nolan Erck talks about "ColdFusion Best Practices, Except When They Are Not", in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What really is a best practice? May evolve over time Day job vs college best practice What is Technical Debt and why you don’t want it Quick fixes that cost you later Good, cheap and quick - pick 2 When CFForm tags can be cool Best practice - use HTML form tags + Javascript libraries But - Non-programmer Dreamweaver editing for intranet with CFFORM When it is ok to changing code on your production code VP of marketing editing HTML + CF link to update Git Using a Non-MVC framework Best practice FW/1 or ColdBox Beginner CF team + custom XML framework + tight hard deadlines Emailing errors to your team vs logging Best practice CFLOG or LogBox or BugLogHQ + Slack When the problem is not code Developer stuck in the middle Removing “alter” from the code story Why are you proud to use CF? Less code to write No need for 3rd party libraries WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Modern CFers helping the middle CFers and the 5 tag CFers What are you looking forward to at NCDevCon, CFCAMP, CF Summit? Mentioned in this episode Ext JS javascript library MVC = Model View Controller FW/1 ColdBox CFML Slack channel Ben Nadel blog Ray Camden blog Mura blog NCDevCon CFCAMP CF Summit Episode on CF Summit “Best Practices Are Best, Except When They're Not, Nolan Erck” Listen to the Audio Bio Nolan Erck Nolan Erck is the Chief consultant at South of Shasta. He has been developing software for 19 years. Starting in the video game industry working on titles for Maxis and LucasArts, then advancing to web development in 1999, his list of credits includes Grim Fandango, StarWars Rogue Squadron, SimPark, SimSafari as well as high-traffic websites for clients. Nolan manages the SacInteractive User Group, teaches classes on aspects of software development, and regularly gives presentations at conferences and user groups across the country. Links Twitter GitHub Website LinkedIn Interview Transcript Michael: Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Nolan Erck from South of Shasta consulting. And we're going to be talking about ColdFusion best practices, but more importantly when the best practices are not the best practice. So we'll look at best practices and what they really are. What is technical debt, and why you don't want too much of it on your project. Picking two of good, cheap, and quick, and how to do that. We’ll look at a very naughty tag called C.F. form, and when they actually could be cool to use. And when it is okay to change code on your production server. We'll also look at some frameworks you may not be using, and what to do with error messages, and the best practice there. So, welcome Nolan. Nolan: Thanks for having me. Michael: Hey, I'm glad to have you back on the show. And Nolan’s being very popular. He was speaking in C.F. objective. I think you are in four sessions, or something. Nolan: Part of four sessions, yeah. Michael: Yeah, and he's also speaking N.C. Defcon, C.F. camp, and C.F. summit. So we'll talk more about those towards the end of the episode. But first, let's just clarify what exactly is a best practice? We hear about them all the time. What exactly is a best practice? Nolan: So best practice is a technique, or a guideline of some kind that has generally been accepted by whatever community you're part of. In this case ColdFusion or CFML. As that's the at least currently less proper respected way to do whatever the task is you're talking about. The reason I say most current is sometimes, best practices of all over the course of the evolution of the language,

047 What is new in Fusion Reactor 7 (20 new features), with David Tattersall Oct 30, 2017

David Tattersall talks about “What is new in Fusion Reactor 7 (20 new features)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is Fusion Reactor Monitor and Alert for server problems Highlights of Fusion Reactor Crash Protection Memory, CPU Multiple JVMs supported Debugger Code profiler Less than 1% of CPU used What is new in Fusion Reactor 7 20 new major features 100 minor improvements and bug fixes Memory profiler Soft released August 2nd 2017 Currently on version 7.04 MBean requests and 100s of attributes Full SQL statements in each request (from Request History) Pricing $39/mo/server $79 for Ultimate Do you have a developer edition? $199/year Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CFCAMP? Mentioned in this episode APM = Application Performance Monitor JVM = Java Virtual Machine JDBC = database requests MBean AWS Cloudwatch Listen to the Audio Bio David Tattersall David Tattersall has been in working in IT for over 30 years. Since co-founding Integral in 1998, he focused on company management, business development, and sales & marketing. Integral has become a leader in server monitoring and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions in the ColdFusion / Java segment. His flagship product – FusionReactor – www.fusion-reactor.com is used on over 25,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers. Links Release notes New features YouTube channel FusionReactor Monitor Interview Transcript Michaela 0:00 Welcome back to the show I'm here with David has or co founder of integral and make us a fusion reactor and today we're talking about what's new in the freshly released fusion reactor seven with over 20 new features in it. And we're going to be doing a demo later in this which I'll will be talking through. So those of you are listening by audio will be able to get all the exciting stuff and welcome David. Thank you, Michael. Thanks for having me. So just for the people who haven't heard of it, what exactly is fusion reactor? David Tattersall 0:32 So fusion reactor is a lightweight application performance monitor, it supports all the major Java containers, Tomcat jetty web sphere, J boss, of course, while fly also cold fusion. So fusion reactors been around since 2005 now. And we are the number one monitoring. So solution for cold fusion. Michaela 1:03 So basically, if you have a cold fusion server that slow or crashing you, you want to have fusion reactor to help figure out what's going on David Tattersall 1:11 and prevented Absolutely, yeah, so there's two main areas that we focus on those performance related issues, or those some defects and the code bug in the code that you're trying to find out. And, as you rightly say, so the job of the monitor generally monitors do two things a measure, and they alert so measure is in terms of metrics. So things like web requests, JB bc activity, memory and CPU, all the metrics in and around there. Read more And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.

046 Secrets From the Folks Who Make the Official Lucee CFML Docker Images, with Geoff Bowers Oct 23, 2017

Geoff Bowers talks about “Secrets from the folks who make the official Lucee CFML Docker images” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes Secrets from the folks who make the official Lucee Docker images Treat your servers like cattle and not pets - throw old server away and instantiate a new clean one Much faster server spin up (seconds) Much easier server setup and programmable install Continuous delivery ⇒ more confidence at rolling out code changes Dev → stage → production CF DevOps Tips Version control of server instances No more running server upgrades or patches for CF, the JVM, the OS, the DB - pull a new Docker image and create a fresh server Programmatically server config Orchestration of server clusters High availability by having 2+ containers in different data centers (on AWS) Checkbox for MySQL replication (and read replicas) “Infrastructure on demand” Paying by the minute (auto shut down staging server at night and weekends to save 50% on your AWS costs Security scanning of docker images Converting to Docker No writing files locally → CDN or other shared location 5 day convert to Docker Daemon consulting Why Serverless is cool. Spaghetti server architecture Lasagna layers Ravioli micro services What new apps are you building in Lucee CFML University private video hosting AWS transcoding service Queue + auto scaling of servers 16 TB of data High availability infrastructure Tricks to migrating legacy ACF to Lucee CFML The app that would never die How he started WebDU and why they consciously chose to close it after a 10 year run. What did you enjoy at CFObjective? How did you come up with the name Daemon and @modius? Daemon (is pronounced Demon in the US) like Encyclopaedia / Haemoglobin Why are you proud to use CFML? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? Mentioned in this episode Lucee CFML Tomcat Docker Containers Chef Ansible Vagrant Debian Linux OpenJDK Alpine Linux - very lean (5MB) Microsoft Windows Docker containers Farcry CF CMS Patrick Quinn episode AWS Park My Cloud DockerHub Brian Klass AWS episode AWS transcoding service Amazon S3 Amazon EC2 Azure Digital Ocean Brad Wood Listen to the Audio Bio Geoff Bowers Geoff Bowers is a CEO of Daemon in Sydney Australia for 22 years so far and a President of Lucee Association (LAS). He has ran WebDU conference for 10 years. Links Website Twitter Interview transcript Michael: I'm here with Geoff Bower from Demon. [If I'm saying that right. He gave me extensive lessons on how to pronounce it.] And we're going to be talking about secrets from the folks who make the official Lucee CFML Docker images. So as well as that, we’ll look at some ColdFusion dev ups tips. Why is he thinks Servulous is so cool these days, and some of the neat apps he's building with Lucee CFML with his team there down in Australia. And also look at tricks they use on migrating legacy Adobe ColdFusion to Lucee. And we’ll also do a little bit of chat about web [inaudible] [00:40], and a few other interesting things. So welcome Geoff. Geoff: hi there Michael: And just in case you don't know, he’s C.E.O. of Demon, has been around for like 22 years, been doing ColdFusion forever, or at least since version one. Geoff: Seems like forever. Now probably since version… I think might be version was is three and a half I can’t remember. Michael: In 97, was three and a half? Geoff: Nearly three and a half. 97 is sort of the time frame. Michael: Yeah,

045 CommandBox + ForgeBox: ColdFusion Code, Package, Share, Go! with Luis Majano Oct 16, 2017

Luis Majano talks about “CommandBox + ForgeBox: ColdFusion Code, Package, Share, Go!” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why he created CommandBox three years ago Then there were better tools with other languages and other CFers were moving He took the lead in creating better CF tooling Tired of CF language shaming Created at an Ortus company retreat What the heck is CommandBox is now A very thin java layer than wraps Lucee that creates a headless server A class loader All coded in CFML Open source - any CFer can modify and contribute A package manager Like Mavin, MPM, Yarn A CLI and REPL What the heck a CLI And what is a REPL? Can run, evaluation and print code (in a loop) Scripts and batch files with full OS and piping between scripts JVM containers Future plans Orchestration of cloud servers Docker Any WAR file How containers can save you time and headaches Containers vs VMs Total change in doing DevOps Docker Swarms for scaling Fast to spin up - light up CFML is ahead of other languages CFML portability Digital Ocean, AWS Portainer No need for Node Using CF tools See Brad’s article on this below Package management What the heck is a package and why would you want to manage it? Reusability of code Gives the Dependencies Continuous Integration Similar flow and process to what you get in Node Only need a descriptor Box.json in the folder for it to be treated as a package Installation Versioning Package scripts Artifacts Git integration JAR endpoints Future - Mavin and Grable support Why every CFer should create a ForgeBox account Help promote the CF community Encourage sharing of code and knowledge by making it easy MVP did this for Java Great for your resume What is ForgeBox Cloud Repository for packages Supports multiple versions of your code in one package Can lock specify dependencies and versions 400+ contribution already there Gamification of contributors Free open ForgeBox vs Paid Private ForgeBox SaaS Private version for government users and commercial code (vs open source) ForgeBox Entreprise can run in a container on your private server Try CommandBox in 10 mins Download it Install it Start a new server Why are you proud to use CF? Proud to be a modern CFML developer The tools and apps (the ecosystem) around the language make you more productive WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Use cool tools for CFML Write cool apps in CFML Share about them online and at conferences What did you enjoy at CFObjective? What are you looking forward to at NAGW, CFCAMP and CF Summit? Mentioned in this episode Denny Valient of Railo Lucee CFML Docker containers REPL WAR file Portainer No need for Node blog articles by Brad Wood Grunt Gulp Upcoming book Modern CFML in 100 minutes book This book is inspired by the original Ruby in 100 minutes and Mike Henke's work on CFML in 100 minutes. The purpose of this book is to jumpstart developers into the ColdFusion (CFML) programming language from a modern perspective and a focus on best practices and object orientation. Ortus Solutions NAGW CFCAMP CF Summit Listen to the Audio Bio Luis Majano Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer born in El Salvador and is the president of Ortus Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in web development, architecture and professional open source support and services. His background includes over 17 years of software development experience, architecture, and system design. He is the creator of the ColdBox MVC Platform, ContentBox Modular CMS, CommandBox CLI and many more open source projects.

044 Let’s get GraphQL! (Smart API access from CFML), with Mark Drew Oct 10, 2017

Mark Drew talks about “Let’s get GraphQL! (Smart API access from CFML) ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes History of API use: SOAP, REST, GraphQL, oh my! Why GraphQL? Why Facebook invented it 2012 Open source version released in 2015 + spec released What exactly is GraphQL A query language for APIs For example, if you look at a single tweet, obtained from Twitter's API, you will so a stack of information that you don't need! If only there was a way to query this data to get just what you need. GraphQL - A language specification that solves the same problem that SQL did for Relational Databases. Fundamentals of GraphQL Hierarchical Parse the graph of data - parents → children → grandchildren Product-centric Strong-typing Client-specified Queries Introspective The API is self-documented Language Concepts Fields and subfields types and fields, not endpoints. Access the full capabilities of your data from a single endpoint. GraphQL uses types to ensure Apps only ask for what’s possible and provide clear and helpful errors Edges Nodes Filters Arguments Fragments Variables Mutations CRUD operations Versioning Add new fields and types to your GraphQL API without impacting existing queries. Aging fields can be deprecated and hidden from tools. By using a single evolving version, GraphQL APIs give apps continuous access to new features and encourage cleaner, more maintainable server code. How about in CFML? Client libs Java Server Libs IDL based on the GraphQL apec Must strip extra whitespace from the query you submit Who are actually using it and why? Github Facebook Intuit Pinterest Coursera Shopify Sky TV Faster to run Good for mobile apps Apollo tools and server How was cf.Objective for you? What are you looking forward to at CFCAMP and NCDevCon? Mentioned in this episode Adam Tuttle SOAP REST REST endpoint REST get REST post REST delete JSON Swagger auto documentation creation GraphQL History of Facebook inventing GraphQL The star warsAPI test playground The GraphicQL swapi demo GraphQL edge GraphQL node GraphQL filter GraphQL Fragment GraphQL Mutations CRUD = Create Read Update Delete Matt Gifford Paw REST software SAML Apollo GraphQL tools and clients Graph.cool Preside CFML CMS Listen to the Audio Bio Mark Drew Mark Drew has been programming CFML since 1996, and even though he has had forays into Perl, ASP and PHP he is still loving every line of code he has crafted with CFML. His career has concentrated on eCommerce, Content Management and Application Scalability for various well-known brands in the UK market such as Jaeger, Hackett, Hobbs, Dyson, B&W, Diesel amongst others. He founded CMD, a London based web development consultancy. Links Twitter LinkedIn CFML Slack Mark (at) CMDHQ.com Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Mark Drew from Command MD, a web development consultancy in London, he's the founder. That's a bit like George Washington founded United States except it's a little bit smaller. Mark: Just a tad, just a tad, we'll soon be quite as … you know give me 400 years and … Michael: There we go yeah. Mark: And I'm sure we'll be quite as big as the United State. Michael: Exactly, so we're going to be looking at getting graphical with GQraphQL. We’ll look at the history of A.P.I. use, and where GraphQL fits into that. Why you should use it, who's using it, what exactly is the fundamentals of it,

043 Revealing the ColdFusion 2018 Roadmap details, with Rakshith Naresh Oct 05, 2017

Rakshith Naresh talks about “Revealing the ColdFusion 2018 Roadmap details ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes How has CF changed over the last few versions API management platform Docker container - official images will be available by end of Q3 2017 + Redhat openshift platform What features are you focusing on CF 2018 Performance New Performance Management Suite Runtime faster Distributed caching (on separate server in your cluster) ASync programming Security Automated lockdown CF has the least number of issues of any App dev platform No Zero Day issues over the last 4 years (other languages have had them!) Language OO better inheritance including interface inheritance Pre-alpha release will be announced on blogs.coldfusion.com PDF better conversion How do you decide what features to add? What is the long term commitment of Adobe to ColdFusion? How are ColdFusion sales going for Adobe? Sales are growing 12% per year The biggest revenue for CF sales was this year Hence Adobe continues to invest in CF 5 years of support plus 2 years extended support CF 2016 will have full support through 2021. Extended support through 2023 CF 2018 will have full support through 2023. Extended support through 2025 Security hotfixes are provided in full support period Why are you proud to use CF? He has been on the CF team for 11 years (during CF 8 build as engineer) CF is critical to 76% of our customers in their tech 70% of Fortune 100 companies use CF 50% of Fortune 500 companies use CF WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? New features in CF 2018 CF Summit support Large customer and analyst (Gartner and Forrester) conversations Changing the perception of CF as being a modern and alive technology What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? 500+ attendees - was sold out last year Mentioned in this episode Adobe ColdFusion 2018 roadmap Adobe ColdFusion open buglist Elishia CF Summit episode Redhat openshift container platform - a container application platform that brings docker and Kubernetes to the enterprise CF Summit API management platform Docker containers Adobe ColdFusion (2018 Release) Public Beta Related Docker containerization official version Docker containerization metered licensing cost The only form on cloud pricing that is available currently on AWS where you can pay by the hour - They will soon have CF 2018 on AWS too. Why You Should Attend CF Summit 2018 Listen to the Audio Bio Rakshith Naresh Rakshith Naresh senior product manager for ColdFusion at Adobe. He decides the future direction of CF there. Links Twitter LinkedIn Adobe Interview Transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Rakshith Naresh. I hope I'm saying your name right there. I had to practice it several times. Rakshith: [Crosstalk] [00:09] Michael: Excellent. He's the Senior Product Manager for ColdFusion Adobe, and he's the guy who decides the future direction of ColdFusion there. And in today's episode, we're going to be looking at the ColdFusion 2018 roadmap that they're working on, and be released in a few weeks’ time on the Adobe site. So, we're going to start off by looking at how ColdFusion has changed in the last few versions, and what particular features they're focusing on for ColdFusion 2018 that's going to be released next year. And also, we’re going to look at how they decide what features to add, and the long term commitment of Adobe to ColdFusion. And if I can squeeze Sir Rakshith’s binds back we'll find out how to ColdFusion sales are going. So, welcome Rakshith. Rakshith: Thanks a lot Michael, it's great chance to be on this podcast.

042 The true ROI of ColdFusion (How to Sell CF to your Boss or Client) with Thomas Grobicki Oct 03, 2017

Thomas Grobicki talks about “The true ROI of ColdFusion (how to sell CF to your boss or client) ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. We re discussing the ROI of using Coldfusion. I strongly believe that the case to use CF has to be made for business reasons. All "I strongly believe that the case to use CF has to be made for business reasons. All to often the discussion is about the technical merits and completely ignores why a business might want to use CF, particularly CF enterprise." - Thomas Grobicki Show notes Why the ROI of using ColdFusion is much higher than you think Saved time developing apps Easy built in features Web services Easy db query Easy migration between db platforms Charting Threading And many more Google maps Few lines of code to write or read later in maintenance 50% more efficient to code in than .Net, PHP, Java, C++ Savings of $10-100k+ depending on team size, developers and project size. Better reliability Cost of outages SLA refunds Reputation and trust with customers Auto bug reporting Self healing databases 99.8% app uptime And most of the downtime is Windows patching scheduled downtime Savings of $10-100k depending on your SLA and customer base Lost opportunity cost of delayed features to market Lost customers due to slow feature delivery Savings of $10k-1M+ depending on your customer base size and product pricing Value of RAD of new features for new customer demos for their strongest pain point that was missing from your app (and all your competition) 50% of sales have been closed due to this Backwards compatibility of CFML among versions Not having to extensively rewrite when a new version of CF comes out Not having to use 3rd party libraries to get stuff done When you upgrade the non-CF language you have to retest/recode to allow for this. Sometimes the library is even discontinued and you have to replace and recode to replace it ColdFusion deals with this for you because the features are built in Saving $10-100k Total savings from using CF $40k-$1.3M ← How to make the business case for using CF Why CF Enterprise vs Standard If an Enterprise feature saves you even ½ a month of developer time it is worth it Overcoming concern of availability of developers in CF There is an active CF consulting marketplace But easy to train good web-db developers from languages to CFML They already know HTML, CSS, JS, SQL They already know how to write good scripting language code Easy to learn CFML Be ok investing in your staff The developers programming skills and attitude are more important than the language they first Overcoming fear about Adobe exiting the CF market 10 year road map for CF 50+ developers on the Adobe CF development team Adobe support the annual CF Summit Adobe CF developer week 6 CF conference this year Adobe is selling thousands of new CF licenses every quarter Plus upgrades Plan B: Lucee CFML open source 200k+ public CF sites and many more intranets and cloaked sites Dealing with End of Life cycle CFML features CF report builder Crystal Reports is not an option CF Chart Provide replacement 3rd party tools if a feature is deprecated Provide a migration tool if changing how features work The horrors of migrating from CF 10 to CF 11 Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Mentioned in this episode ROI = Return on Investment SLA = Service Level Agreement RAD = Rapid Application Development Legacy apps in any language are harder to maintain whatever the language Idea: CFML for PHPers guide Adobe CF Summit Adobe CF developer week

041 The Opportunities of Being a Woman in Tech Today with Elliotte Bowerman Sep 29, 2017

Elliotte Bowerman talks about "The Opportunities of Being a Woman in Tech Today" in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "I have actually spent the last dozen years in the tech industry. And it has been so incredibly fulfilling to be a part of technologies that are really changing the world. And I think that anyone who's called to this industry is, in fact, a unicorn. We want to make something bigger than ourselves, we see the magic in the ones and zeroes, and in the opportunities that technology opens up for the world." - Elliotte Bowerman Show notes The opportunities of being a women in tech today Focus on opportunities rather than challenges Power, Pay, Play gaps Women do better at crowd funding Why you need to break The Rules in tech You don’t have to fit into the culture Still connect Be more of you Don’t be afraid of conflict Need to 100% ready to leap up Vs 60% for men I can learn fast on the job I can delegate Salary negotiation You are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you Don’t accept the first offer 20% more or transparency Be up front about your needs - hiring is a 2-way street Being shy about your needs is not cute Lean in vs Leap out Lean in - taking a seat at the power table Focus on ourselves Overcoming the negative voices in my head Growing up Awkward, chubby, ashamed of being smart Get comfortable with discomfort ← reframe Fear → I am excited Power pose legs taking up space Changing the bully dynamic of the tech industry Meeting her high school bully on FB Glitter is a Shame repellent Glitter eye shadow - how do you want to be seen? Sparkle back harder Mind-set - what is YOUR glitter? Hiding your special magic vs sharing it Google #Iamremarkable Are you wearing your Power bling today? Overcomes not being noticed at meetings Ready for battle Avoid the zombie unicorn women in tech Scarcity mentality Why security is a lie, and the search for safety is dangerous and limiting for your career Confidence in our skills A community of support “If you are not growing then you are going” Save some money Mentioned in this episode: Book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg Lean in women of the 415 group Google #Iamremarkable Salesforce salary audit Book Superbetter by Jane McGonigal Yes x Yes Yes conference Listen to the Audio Bio Elliotte Bowerman Elliotte Bowerman, is the Unicorn Muse and cofounder of the Unicorn Scouts. Elliotte Bowerman, the Unicorn Muse, helps professional unicorns - women in tech - "get in their glitter" to get more pay, more power and more play in their careers and their lives. An award-winning journalist, tech PR executive and former VP of Marketing, Elliotte has worked with 20+ startups over the past dozen years. She's been the most senior woman at multiple tech companies, built and managed teams in difficult work environments, and learned how to bend and break "the rules" to turn her job into a lifestyle delivery system. Elliotte is a single mother, soul marketer, entrepreneur, professional play-grounding guide, conscious life crafter, speaker, writer, workshop leader, artist, and magic maker. In addition to working with adults, Elliotte is also dedicated to helping "unicorn kids" - the magical ones that don't quite fit in with the herd - be seen, supported and encouraged to shine. In 2017, Elliotte co-founded the Unicorn Scouts with her 7-year-old daughter. She Kickstarted more than $10,000 to create a global community - a Glitter Guild - that brings artful, in-powering, magical odysseys to alternative folks of all ages. These adventures teach life skills - including shame resilience, creative self-expression, boundary setting, gratitude, mindfulness, and community - through interactive stories an...

040 CFML Secrets with Patrick Quinn (AWS, Lucee and SeeFusion) Sep 26, 2017

Patrick Quinn talks about “CFML Secrets (AWS, Lucee and SeeFusion” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. He is the CoFounder, CEO and CTO of Webapper and Global Product manager at LAS. "We think doing more of what we’ve been doing would be the best way to make CFML a more “alive” community. For Webapper’s part, we’ve updated our offerings to include Amazon cloud hosting, released 3 new versions of our SeeFusion product in the past year (including with AWS integrations), and, most importantly, we’ve put our financial and technical backing behind Lucee, the F/OSS CFML platform. In our opinion, Lucee is the most exciting and energetic force in the CFML world. We think it’s the future of CFML, and we’re excited to watch it grow, and to be a part of that growth with our Lucee-centered products and services." Patrick Quinn Show notes The Challenges of AWS managed Lucee hosting What is new at Webapper AWS “Infrastructure as code” The move from Adobe ColdFusion to Lucee CFML ACF cloud pricing model and Adobe EULA - pay per server virtual instance Joined LAS On the Board of Directors Global Product Manager of LAS Monthly release cycle / sprint More transparency Build automation Test driven development What is exciting about Lucee in the coming year Same day/hour Security hotfixes More releases and smoother regressions/fewer bugs Test coverage checking The Lucee Roadmap for Lucee 5.3 and 6.0 Approx 12-18 months away (not official date) Feature voting in Lucee JIRA ticketing system Sponsored fixes Backwards compatibility of X.0 releases Commercial software vs open source software Supporting the last two prior major releases. 5-10 year support window Lightweight install and small footprint Faster start up Official Lucee AWS server gold image in the cloud (AWS marketplace) AMI (Amazon Machine Image) Pre-installed, pre-optimized Contributor paid cloud version SeeFusion Secrets for CF high performance CF Cloud monitoring support Amazon cloudwatch integration Been available for 13 years SeeFusion 5.2 due in August Cloud licensing by server per hour Why are you proud to use CFML? We’ve always loved CFML as a core tool of ours because of its combined simplicity and power. It has also acted as a great technical “glue” for us over the years, connecting systems, marshaling different technologies together into one stack, etc. Beyond its usefulness, we’re also proud of its history, in particular of its status as the first application server to market in 1995. Since most of us at Webapper worked at Allaire Corporation, we’ve always been proud of being part of that technical and corporate history. Best of breed tool WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? We think doing more of what we’ve been doing would be the best way to make CFML a more “alive” community. For Webapper’s part, we’ve updated our offerings to include Amazon cloud hosting, released 3 new versions of our SeeFusion product in the past year (including with AWS integrations), and, most importantly, we’ve put our financial and technical backing behind Lucee, the F/OSS CFML platform. In our opinion, Lucee is the most exciting and energetic force in the CFML world. We think it’s the future of CFML, and we’re excited to watch it grow, and to be a part of that growth with our Lucee-centered products and services. Adobe CF 10 year roadmap, CF Summit support What are you looking forward to / did you enjoy at CFObjective? Looking forward to more of the defining characteristic of cf.Objective()--namely, that it’s the most advanced CFML conference in existence. In-depth sessions about the latest topics, trends and tooling in web software development. It’s also a great time for the worldwide Lucee team to spend some in-person time together

039 How Women Can Get Ahead in Tech with Sami Gardner Sep 22, 2017

Sami Gardner talks about "Smart Developer Career Strategies and How Women Can Get Ahead in Tech" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. "It is a bare minimum to be hardworking, competent, and skilled, and have a degree. That's like saying a car has wheels. Nobody's going to buy a car just because it has wheels. Nowadays, you have to really position yourself. So, when you're thinking about the type of job that you want, how you're going to get there. You have to be strategic especially when you are in something like tech where people want to get into tech." - Sami Gardner Show notes Smart Career strategy - how to get to your ideal job Reverse engineer your dream job skill set from LinkedIn searches Be ok learning on the job Specialized vs full stack Getting over the full stack mentality Lack of on the job training → turnover The consequences of poaching staff Lack of job loyalty and faster raises 2 year average stay Job ad buzzword overload What are issues you have experienced with being a woman in tech Gender Confidence differences when applying for jobs and tasks Women need to feel 150% confident that they can do a job or to even attempt anything Men are ok to feel 60% confident that they can do a job + think they can learn the rest at the weekend Job title rolette Different titles in different companies for the same job Getting your own job title vs programmer 1-4 Detail work Lunch and learn - the why vs the how Desire for job stability vs risk Freelance rates vs permanent jobs salary How to deal with not being listened to in meetings Use the “man microphone” to repeat what you say so that people pay attention Being discouraged from going into tech when in school Being redirected into nurturing careers by school officials Wanted to join the electronics club but was told she couldn’t Don’t worry about about math, because you are a girl Persistence and working around obstacles Hiring pool male bias University bias Networking to get junior devs - ask existing staff “do you know someone?” Why are you proud to be a woman in tech? Mentioned in this episode LinkedIn Advanced Search Listen to the Audio Bio Sami Gardner Sami Gardner is a Career Stagnation Stopper, Librarian, and World Traveler. She inspires technical, artistic, socially conscious types to craft their career on their terms. With experience in peer counseling, higher education, and facilitating career services at international tech bootcamps, she guides clients in evolving their careers. Links Sami Gardner Facebook LinkedIn Interview Transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Sami Gardener, and we're going to be talking about smart developer career strategies, and also how women can get ahead in tech. And we're going to look at how you can create, having your ideal job over a few years with a strategy which many people don't even think about. So, some new stuff in there. And also, we're going to have a look at some of the consequences of how tech careers are currently set up and or how they're not set up. We'll also look at some of the gender confidence differences between men and women when applying for jobs, and doing projects. How to deal with not being listened to in meetings, Job Title Roulettes and how she deals with the desire for job stability versus risk. Also, we'll look at how to deal with being discouraged from going into tech when you're in school. So, welcome Sami. Sami: Hi, thank you Michael. I'm glad to be on. Read more And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF...

038 Level Up Your ColdFusion Web Apps With Amazon Web Services, with Brian Klaas Sep 18, 2017

Brian Klaas talks about “Level Up Your ColdFusion Web Apps With Amazon Web Services” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is well known to developers for providing a vast army of on-demand servers on which you can run anything, including CFML or Node.js. AWS offers a whole lot more than servers in the cloud, though. AWS is comprised of over 40 services which enable powerful Web/mobile application functionality, and you can tap into nearly all of them using your favorite programming language. With only a few lines of code, you get powerful, hugely scalable functionality that would otherwise be near-impossible to build yourself. This talk will show you how to tap in to the power of multiple AWS services from your CFML code, and mix in some Node.js goodness along the way. Show notes Get super fast, infinitely scalable file storage with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Invoke on-demand Node.js microservices through AWS Lambda Tap into AI to manage and search images with Reflektor Utilize a high-throughput NoSQL datastore with DynamoDB Plan for common problems when dealing with cloud service providers What are Amazon Web Services and why should CFers care? It is far more than just EC2 AWS is comprised of over 40 services which enable powerful Web/mobile application functionality What exactly is S3 storage? Get super fast, cheap, infinitely scalable file storage Replicated over multiple data centers around the world ACF and Lucee both support S3 storage Storing log files, images, videos, user docs Athena for text file search Life cycle policies - if files not used in over N months move to slow storage (Amazon Glacier). How to tap into AI to manage and search images with Reflektor Amazon Rekognition - image recognition for faces, auto tagging, matching confidence score Poly text to speech Lex natural language process The great S3 outage of 2017 loss/downtime risk vs cost of home building or duplication at other cloud services Amazon eats their own dog food (AWS including S3) ⇒ they are highly motivated to have super high up time. How you can Invoke on-demand Node.js micro services from ColdFusion through AWS Lambda Lambda Run in Docker containers but without you have to provision them or the servers underneath them AWS Lambda automatically scales your application by running code in response to each trigger. Your code runs in parallel and processes each trigger individually, scaling precisely with the size of the workload. With AWS Lambda, you are charged for every 100ms your code executes and the number of times your code is triggered. You don't pay anything when your code isn't running. Utilize a high-throughput NoSQL datastore with DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. It is a fully managed cloud database and supports both document and key-value store models. Geo distributed data for speed and increased reliability Avoiding common problems when dealing with cloud service providers Vendor lock in Fall back code when your provider fails Friendly service degrading - only certain functionality stops works Cached data Getting started It is easier than you might think SDK are easy (even though originally written for Java) CFDUMP is your friend AWS blog and stack over examples Why are you proud to use CF? Productive fast Easy to combine with other languages and SDKs Be a polyglot programmer! WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? More people highlighting the cool projects they have created in CFML What is possible with modern CF Better official tooling support Fast CF server spin up What are you looking forward to at CFObjective?

037 Getting Real with Women in Tech with April Graves Sep 15, 2017

April Graves talks about "Getting Real with Women in Tech" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. April is a senior software engineer working on projects for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "It's interesting I started the ColdFusion user group in Orlando because I was so excited. I was new in the field. It was 1998 and it was my first programming job. I wanted to learn from people. I was really excited and so, I started the user group actually to learn. And through that group, I think is how you found me because you know, we would all kind of network and those types of things." - April Graves. Show notes How did speaking at conferences help your career? She also started the ColdFusion user group in Orlando When you teach, you learn Met great new friends Got invited to write a magazine article Got audience feedback on my talk - helped me improve Better for the job interview! The challenge of getting women to speak at events Schools don’t encourage girls to stand out Women more socially aware so more sensitive to potential feedback Perceived risk What are issues you have experienced with being a woman in tech Difficult being taken seriously Being given more responsibilities Had to work harder to get to the same responsibilities as men hired at the same time Taking care of kids while working full time Not being heard the same way as men in meetings Pay gap Women not negotiating as much or at all on new jobs Aggression trap when speaking up (fear of the B word label) Back talk on getting power through sex rather than ability Manager had low expectations initially How have you dealt with them? Speak to it when it happens eg in a meeting Prepare for salary negotiation using salary surveys and other tools Better for Millennials Everyone has something to bring to the table → better software Giving everyone on the team a fair say Encouraging teen women to go into STEM careers Mentorship Role model Sit in the front row of class and speak up Women in Science event Google #Iamremarkable Mentioned in this episode A Google engineer wrote that women may be unsuited for tech jobs. Women wrote back. (article) The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google (article) A Female Tech Industry Veteran’s Response to the Googler’s Manifesto (article) #IamRemarkable movement @iamremarkable (Twitter) Star VC apologizes for his role in tech's sexist culture (article) Study: Female Coders Better Than Men, But Perceived As Worse (article) Hear Us Roar: A Manifesto for Women and Minorities in Startup, Tech, and Business Communities (article) Gender-Fluid Geek Girls; Negotiating Inequality Regimes in the Tech Industry Female and minority at Google Listen to the Audio Bio April Graves April is a Senior Software Engineer with nearly two decades of experience designing and developing software solutions for customers like the DOD, Public Safety, Financial Services and NASA. She has founded user groups, written for journals, presented at conferences, and currently a member of the NASA Speaker Bureau. April has used her education and experience to share knowledge with the new generation of Computer Scientists as a mentor and Adjunct Professor. Links LinkedIn Interview Transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with April Graves. We’re going to talk about getting real with women in tech. And April is a senior software engineer working on projects for the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. And has been doing software related things for many decades now. And welcome April. April: Hi, thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Michael: Now, I met April through the C.F.

036 Getting started fast with Docker, with Mark Drew Sep 14, 2017

Mark Drew talks about “Getting started fast with Docker” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. In this presentation, Mark Drew will go through the fundamentals of the Query Language, structure, use cases and how we can get started with GraphQL endpoints. In a world where APIs and REST are the way that we can communicate with services, it can become an arduous task to get to the information you need. For example, if you look at a single tweet, obtained from Twitter's API, you will so a stack of information that you don't need! If only there was a way to query this data to get just what you need. Enter Facebook's GraphQL language. A language specification that solves the same problem that SQL did for Relational Databases. Show notes What the heck is a Docker container and why should all CFer care? Analogy with containerized shipping of goods across the sea The challenges they overcome Separation of apps from how they are deployed Need to pre-warm your server before running new code Scripting of container building Live and dev versions can be the same Environment variables eg which db are we using Able to test on load balanced cluster Docker containers are lightweight compared to VM Fast to start up Able to run other types of task in micro services and micro transactions Adobe CF vs Lucee CFML licensing on Docker Separate lifecycle for each container All developers in same environment Easier port mapping running many versions of CF, db, OS etc Safe and clean way to test out new programming languages VMs vs Containers Docker vs Vagrant Are traditional ISPs going to go away? But now you have to keep your CF etc patched How to Get started with the Docker Engine Install Docker Before needed VirtualBox VM first Now we have native versions on Linux and Windows Kitematic to search for instances - auto download and install Attach a volume (OS folder) to your container Create a Docker file (it is called DockerFile!) From command Copy CF files Docker Build Commit to Docker version control such as Docker Hub private repository (or AWS repository) Command Box WTF is Docker compose? Create a whole web app environment with multiple containers for CF, db etc Virtual networks between them Documents the environment How Docker Swarm can make your sites more reliable Docker clusters Automatic restart Automatic adding extra Docker instances Rolling updates across your cluster Docker Cloud and Continuous Integration Jenkins Slack bot messages Why are you proud to use CFML? It actually gets stuff done Modern language Forgebox Commandbox CFML scripting Easy to scale WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? More Forgebox contributions Code of conduct on GitHub No more X vs Y flame wars - focus on the positive of X (or Y) What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? Mentioned in this episode Docker Amazon Docker Heroku container provider Google containers Kubernetes CommandBox Malcolm Mc Lean invented the common sized container in 1956 Reefer - refrigerated containers (and not something you might smoke!) Lucee CFML Jenkins CIBot VM = Virtual Machine MongoDB YAML (Docker Compose file format) Puppet (for Vagrant) Chef (for Vagrant) Git Repository for the containers Ubuntu Linux Alpine Linux Tomcat Headless Wind Rancher Lucee Docker Docker Hub Docker Swarm Docker Cloud A WAR file Ruby programming language Node.js Ortus Forgebox RIAForge 99Percent invisible podcast Localhost podcast Listen to the Audio Bio Mark Drew Mark has been programming CFML since 1996, and even though he has had forays into Perl,

035 Hear Us Roar: A Manifesto for Women and Minorities in Startup, Tech, and Business Communities with Sophia Eng Sep 08, 2017

Sophia Eng talks about “Hear Us Roar: A Manifesto for Women and Minorities in Startup, Tech, and Business Communities with Sophia Eng” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. She has a passion for closing the minority and gender gap in business leadership and ownership. Recently, she founded a community group called Women in Growth, open to all women in startup, tech, and business communities for support. Have you heard already about the Google #Iamremarkable movement? Show notes How men and women in tech are different and the same? Buying patterns Women buy the most, repeat buy more, most social sharing AB testing and CRO Decision making Social conditioning vs DNA in tech skills Women get 50% of degrees are 30% of corporate employee Women are systems oriented too How traditional female characteristics help in programming Empathy for innovation Mother coders organization helping mothers learn to code Why she wrote her first article overcoming fear to hit publish Hear Us Roar: A Manifesto for Women and Minorities in Startup, Tech, and Business Communities Felt vulnerable and did it anyway If not me, who If not now, when How did writing articles and speaking at events help your career? Women supporting women group Gender silence Cultural silence Children silence WWIT for women in tech to speak up more this year? Whether it’s speaking up in the meeting room or writing a viral blog post. Do it afraid. Do it anyway. You’re hired to speak up, and if you don’t do it, you’re being selfish. Hurts business, hurts other women, hurts men too The challenge of getting women to speak at events Why fewer women attend conferences Need to sell you going to your manager Women have tended not to speak up, especially to men or when men are the room The frat party atmosphere at some events Code of conduct What are issues you have experienced with being a woman in tech How have you dealt with them? Encouraging girls/teen girls to go into STEM careers How she got involved in the Google #Iamremarkable campaign Self-promotion is key to getting raising and promotion esp Why are you proud to be a woman in tech? Female and minority Osmo kid tech game playosmo.com Mentioned in this episode Google #Iamremarkable campaign STEM Mother coders “If not me, who? If not now, when?” There are several possible sources for this quote including Emma Watson on Gender Equality at the UN In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt, I told myself firmly: if not me, who? If not now, when?” She extends her invitation to both men and women. “Men, I would like to give this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue, too. Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society. I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for fear it would make them less of a man. In fact, in the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20 to 49, eclipsing road accidents, cancer and heart disease. I’ve seen men fragile and insecure by what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either. We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes, but I can see that they are. When they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence. If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong. It is the time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals. We should stop defining each other by what we are not and start de...

034 What’s New In CF 10, 11, And 2016 That You May Have Missed? with Charlie Arehart Sep 05, 2017

Charlie Arehart talks about “What's New In CF 10, 11, and 2016 That You May Have Missed?” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. In this presentation, veteran CFer Charlie Arehart will help fill these gaps for you, highlighting the top features of 10, 11, and 2016, along with some hidden gems. (Whereas his classic "hidden gems" talks have gone deep to uncover a few dozen features per release, this talk will necessarily focus on just some key ones.) With demos and resources for learning more, you'll be in a better position to take full advantage of your new CF installation. Show notes Why should CFers care about new features CF10? When it was released 5 years ago and has gone end of life earlier this year Because some people may only now be moving from 9 or earlier to 10 or later Or people on 10 or above may not have paid attention to what was new then Highlighting the top features of CF10, CF11 and CF 2016 along with the hidden gems Tags, functions Admin features Security features Installer improvements more Don’t some updaters also add new features? Yep, as well as bug fixes, security fixes Sometimes functionality is removed in updaters (like YUI-based features removed with new CF2016 installer released in Dec 2016) But what about Compatibility issues? Adobe tries to remain backward compat, but some problems in each version In CF10 especially, charting engine changed, causing many issues for some Good news about trying updates: single click to install AND to uninstall If update fails, try stopping CF and doing manual installation Licensing issues differences between versions There are changes related to this in each release Some missed that in CF9, Adobe allowed for use of prod license for dev, staging and testing (in addition to long-existing Developer edition) Some aspects of that tightened up in CF 11, 2016 Also often changes about cores, vm’s, cloud deployment Read the ColdFusion EULA to know what’s changed JVM updates: each release comes on latest JVM version at the time of CF installer build Adobe always supports updating to latest available jvm update for that version Certain updates also support moving to next major JVM version Learning what’s new/different helps you take full advantage of your CF installation Resources for learning more Charlie and Michael also talked about some recent travels Are you moving up to CF2016, or maybe 11? In doing so, are you skipping over 11, or perhaps even 10, in that move? Shops often drag their feet upgrading from one version of CF to another and may well skip multiple releases in the process, so that they may not have paid attention to what was new in the release(s) skipped. Can you name the top 5 or 10 features/changes in these three most recent releases? Mentioned in this episode Charlie Arehart's Ultimate List of 200+ New ColdFusion 10 Features ColdFusion 11 New Functions and Tags ColdFusion 11 Hidden Gems ColdFusion 2016 What is new ColdFusion 2016 Hidden Gems Adobe products End of Life and Release dates CF10 End of Life 5/16/2017 CF 11 End of Life 4/30/2019 ColdFusion EULA All of Charlie’s presentations (over 100!) CF2016: What's deprecated and/or 'no longer supported' (note: nothing 'removed') With the Update of ColdFusion 9 to ColdFusion 11 the underlying chart engine changed from WebCharts3D to ZingCharts. Adobe bug tracker Dave Epler CF-oriented Troubleshooting Consultants CF-oriented Application Development Consultants FusionReactor Listen to the Audio Bio Charlie Arehart A veteran server troubleshooter who’s worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides short-term, remote,

033 The Impact Of Unexpected Load and How To Counter It with Charlie Arehart Aug 28, 2017

Charlie Arehart talks about “The Impact Of Unexpected Load and How To Counter It” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. He was one of the speakers at the CF.Objective Conference. In this session, veteran server troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will guide a more detailed review of the issues above, including how to identify such traffic, more on these specific impacts, and most important identifying the solutions along with their pros and cons. He has helped shops achieve dramatic reductions in impact from such automated requests, resulting in greater server stability and performance. Show notes Are Spiders Eating Your Servers? The Impact Of Their Unexpected Load and How To Counter It Where does unexpected load come from? How to identify spiders eating your servers DOS attacks, script kiddies Malformed requests What Google Analytics misses in load Load balancer testing Use a test page rather than probing your homepage every 5 seconds What about robots.txt? Doesn’t that block bots? SaaS Tools that search for “bad” traffic flooding your server and don’t let it into your server Older CFer, older resources Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? For years I’ve watched people try to tame “server problems” with a focus on their code, their SQL, the jvm, and so on. Yet often it turns out that the root cause is actually unexpected load. And that load may be from things you never expected (automated), at volumes you never expected. I’ve found folks with as much as 80% of their web traffic to be such unexpected automated traffic! Worse, there are characteristics of such automated visits that may actually have MORE IMPACT than “real users”: for instance, did you know they create a new session–and run session startup code–for each page they visit?! The good news is there are solutions to better manage (or simply block) such automated requests which may already exist in your environment, and tools you may consider (some free, some commercial) which can be easily implemented. There are even SAAS solutions that could help alleviate such problems with just a single tiny change in your environment! You may also want to consider some admin configuration options related to sessions and/or client variables, as well as reconsider some coding choices in your session startup code. Mentioned in this episode Web spiders Googlebot Yandex Bidu Yahoo slurp FusionReactor User agent header faking IP address spoofing On session start Load Testing Robots.txt CF411.com Cloudflare Cloud/SAAS Firewall-level Application Firewalls tools list CFML Job Resources Ortus Solutions CF Alive episode on What's New In CF 10, 11, And 2016 That You May Have Missed? Mike Brunt Scary DBA Pass conference Database fundamentals CF Slack channel FB programmers group TeraTech blog on CFML online groups Mary Jo Sminkey CFObj Advanced Error Handling Strategies ColdFusion Alive podcast episode Gert Franz CFObj Debugging ColdFusion Alive podcast episode CFML Resource Sites Adobe CF blog blogs.coldfusion.com 2000 sales of CF per quarter CF Summit CF Meetup CFObjective Twitter hashtag Things you can do in DC Listen to the Audio Bio Charlie Arehart A veteran server troubleshooter who’s worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting). Links Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Web Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Charlie Arehart and he's a veteran ColdFusion tro...

032 Going Modular With Fw/1 Subsystems 2.0, with Steven Neiland Aug 14, 2017

Steven Neiland talks about “Going Modular With Fw/1 Subsystems 2.0” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. He was one of the speakers at the CF.Objective Conference, and currently works remotely out of Tampa Florida as a senior web developer at SiteVision Inc. Show notes What is FW/1? What is a framework? Why you should be using a framework? Why use an open source ColdFusion framework rather than a homebrew framework Why should CFers be using FW/1 over other CF frameworks? Light weight compared to ColdBox What are the new subsystems 2.0? A cut down version of a FW/1 system Similar to ColdBox modules What is new with FW/1 2.0 subsystems? How to Enable subsystems Create subsystems directory and drop the subsystem there. That is it! No config required. Much easier than in 1.0! How to Access subsystems Conventions Bean factories are easier to use eg DI/1 or Wirebox A kind of Dependency Injection Why should you be using subsystems? When not to use subsystems Auto Wiring Why are you proud to use CF? Easy to get started in. Build for real people rather than computer scientists. WWIT (What Would It Take) for you to make CFML more alive this year? Technical point of view it is very alive. STable language, no quirks, Better PR and marketing to the masses (and not just Fortune 500). Reach schools etc Lucee marketing tour with Gert What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? Glad Adobe is back Hanging out with the Lucee guys and new features WWIT for you to make cf.Objective more alive this year? A reflexion of the state of CFML Adobe CF Summit has pull some of Lucee more blog posts and ra-ra more awesomeness WWIT to make Lucee more alive this year? Better docs - key for an open source language. Expand. More comprehensive. Easier to get into Marketing Tech issues compared to other languages Moment JS and CFML Building web applications today involves writing a lot of repetitive code. Frameworks and snippets take reduce some of this right off that bat, however we can take this a step further. We FW/1's new subsystem architecture to make whole workflows reusable as modules. By modularizing your code you can not only reuse it for other projects with minimal work, you can also share fixes and improvements between projects that use the same module automatically. In addition, you simplify your code base by breaking you monolith down into discrete segments which you can then dedicate developers to without those developer needing to know the intricacies of the parent applications the module will integrate with later on. Mentioned in this episode FW/1 Sean Corfield ColdBox Fusebox Ryan Cogswell created subsystems FW/1 Sections, Items “Stand on the shoulders of giants by using an open source framework” Framework Abuse Bean factory Dependency Injection DI/1 Wirebox Using Subsystems in FW/1 Listen to the Audio Bio Steven Neiland Originally from Cork Ireland, Steven Neiland currently works remotely out of Tampa Florida as a senior web developer at SiteVision Inc. Links LinkedIn Twitter GitHub Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Steve Neiland and he is senior developer at ‘Site Vision’ and he's joining us here from Florida; where it's probably hot and sunny and humid as it usually is in Florida at this time of the year. Steve: It's only eighty degrees. Michael: Only eighty degrees. All right well that'll get you ready for Washington D.C., the height of summer where you're going to be in a few weeks at sea 00:29 [inaudible]. And today's episode, Stephen and I are going to talk about going modular with FW1- frame work 1 using subsystems and he's going to talk about a 2.0 version of that.

031 Everything CF Summit That You Need to Know, with Elishia Dvorak Aug 09, 2017

Elishia Dvorak talks about “Everything CF Summit That You Need to Know” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. She was one of the speakers at the CFObjective Conference, and she is the Technical marketing manager for ColdFusion. Show notes What exactly is CF Summit? The largest developer focused Adobe conference Largest conference focused on ColdFusion and related technologies Large budget Why is it so important to the CF Community? Shows the commitment of Adobe for CF Lots of CF tech info to learn Why all CFer should go? 40 sessions rich with CF info 2 keynotes optional labs and workshops The most Adobe CF folks Network with CFer you have only met online before When is it? Thurs-Friday Nov 16-17 2017 Wed Nov 15 optional labs and workshops Where is it? The Mirage, Las Vegas The hotel is nearer the conference floor (2 minutes from the elevator to the conference space. No need to walk Tropical pool setting and wildlife exhibits How much does it cost? Early bird price $349 $130 pre-conference labs Extra discount Announce2017 $249 Special discounts for government employees or group discount cfsummit (at) adobe.com Easy to get low priced plane tickets to Las Vegas including Southwest How many years has CF Summit been running? 5 years! What is new this year? New venue New CF content More hands on lab workshops 4 tracks, 40 sessions Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about Charlie Arehart What is new in CF 10, 11 and 2016 that you didn’t know about Brian Klass AWS and CF, auto scaling Adobe Engineers behinds the scenes of CF 2018 features Nolan Erck Aguilar.js and CF The Special Event this year? Thursday night Casino view + free drinks event at restaurant No loud band Other things you can do in Vegas? Stay over the weekend after the event for fun Bring your spouse and kids Casinos Big Shows - Mystère by Cirque du Soleil. Michael Jackson ONE by Cirque du Soleil. LOVE Cirque du Soleil. O Le Rêve - The Dream. Pitbull - Time Of Our Lives. Blue Man Group at Luxor. Criss Angel MINDFREAK LIVE! ... KÀ by Cirque du Soleil. Criss Angel MINDFREAK LIVE! David Copperfield Penn & Teller Piff the Magic Dragon Show Boyz II Men Britney: Piece of Me Carlos Santana Céline Dion Donny & Marie Elton John The Million Dollar Piano Jennifer Lopez ALL I HAVE Reba, Brooks & Dunn Tenors of Rock The Righteous Brothers Wayne Newton: Up Close and Personal World Famous Gospel Brunch at House of Blues Amazing locations Venetian gondolas Bellagio fountains Great restaurants and bars from simple to swanky Why are you proud to be involved in CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? CF Summit More CF training What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? Mentioned in this episode Las Vegas show CFObjective Conference Listen to the Audio Bio Elishia Dvorak Elishia is the Technical marketing manager for ColdFusion. She started out as a CF developer. Links CFSummit Questions: cfsummit (at) adobe.com LinkedIn Twitter Adobe blogs Elishia (at) adobe.com Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Elishia Dvorak from Adobe and she is the technical marketing manager for cold fusion and in charge of C.F. summit and we're going to talk today everything about CFSummit that you need to know. And we're going to look at what exactly C.F. summit is and why it is so important to the cold fusion community. Why every cold fusion developer should be going to this and we’ll also lo...

030 Design Patterns for amazing app architecture (16 patterns), with Brad Wood Jul 25, 2017

Brad Wood talks about “Design Patterns for amazing app architecture (16 patterns)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. He is one of the speakers at the CFObjective Conference, a system architect for Ortus Solution and lead developer of the CommandBox CLI. Show notes What is a design pattern? Why should you be using them in your projects? Commons solutions to common problems Becoming a better software craftsman Architect better apps Command box 2-day training Extending Command box Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? Patterns to talk about Builder Object pool Singleton Strategy Composite Decorator Facade Front controller Chain of responsibility Memento Observer (publish/subscribe) Double checked locking Anti-patterns Anemic domain model God object Premature optimization Readable, clear, concise code first Then only optimize code pieces that are slow Improbability factor Honorable mentions Law of demeter Not too many dots in lines of code for class use Too many dots make you dotty Principle of least astonishment Brook’s Law Mentioned in this episode Design patterns book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software was published in 1994 by the so-called "Gang of Four" Code Complete is a software development book, written by Steve McConnell Book Mythical Man Month by Albert Brooks Command box training Sean Corfield article on Anemic domain model in the ColdFusion Quarterly Cyclomatic complexity Code smell MVC WORM = Write Once, Read Many code FusionReactor auto profiler Jenkins run time test recording Command box 3.7 directory watchers Testbox code coverage (with FusionReactor) Travis CI Docker Docker Swarm Forgebox DevOps Best Practices CFconfig app Lucee CFML Book Uncle Bob’s clean code Listen to the Audio Bio Brad Wood Brad grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors. Brad has been programming ColdFusion since 2001 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He first fell in love with ColdFusion as a way to easily connect a database to his website for dynamic pages. He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server. Brad is the ColdBox Platform developer advocate at Ortus Solutions and lead developer of the CommandBox CLI. Links CFML slack box channel Twitter brad * WWIT= What Would It Take? Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Brad Wood and he is the amazing application system architect for Ortus Solutions as well as being evangelist for many of their Box products. Today, we’re going to be talking about design patterns so you can have amazing architecture in your apps and there's a whole bunch of patterns we're going to look at. We’re going to look at just in case you’ve been asleep for the last 20 years and missed what a design pattern was and how it affects coding. We’re going to look at that and why you should be using them and how they can be common solutions to common problems and help you produce better code in less time. In fact, generally, just become better software craftsman and architect apps better. Also, we'll briefly look into the CommandBox two-day training that Brad is doing before the cfObjective conference. He's giving a talk on design patterns at cfObjective which is o...

029 Behind the Scenes at CFObjective, with Carol Hamilton Jul 17, 2017

Carol Hamilton talks about “Behind the scenes at cfObjective” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. She is one of the speakers at the CFObjective Conference and the cf.Objective Co-chairperson content advisory board and steering committee. Show notes Hot Speakers this year New topic this year New Location Discounted govt rate and one day option Her role in the conference What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? Mentioned in this episode Speakers http://www.cfobjective.com/speakers/ Schedule http://www.cfobjective.com/schedule/ Register http://www.cfobjective.com/register/ Listen to the Audio Bio Carol Hamilton Carol is the cf.Objective Co-chairperson content advisory board and steering committee. She helps pick the venue, does marketing, advertising, and has been meeting every week for nearly a year to make the conference the best one yet. When she is not busy on the conference she is a super mom and developer Links Twitter Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Carol Hamilton, and she is gonna talk about some of the behind the scene's info at this year's CF Objective. We're gonna look at some of the exciting speakers at the conference, some of the topics coming up that are interesting, and talk about the location, which has changed since last year. There's also some interesting options available this year that weren't available in prior year objectives. We'll talk about Carol's role in how putting CF Objective together. So welcome, Carol. Carol Hamilton: Hey, thanks for having me. Michael: So what are the speakers that you are interested in this year? I know you're involved in helping pick the speakers, so you probably know everything about all the speakers. Carol Hamilton: Yeah, I guess that's the problem with asking me that is that I do know all the speakers and I get to know them pretty well working with them over the year, over multiple years, seeing them around. So I mean, I'm not gonna be able to pick a favorite but I would have to say I'm super excited to see Mark Usher back. Did you ever get to see Mark Usher around when you were around? Read more Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers. Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey. Join the CF Alive revolution Discover how we can all make CF more alive, modern and secure this year. Join other ColdFusion developers and managers in the CF Alive Inner Circle today. Get early access to the CF Alive book and videos Be part of a new movement for improving CF's perception in the world. Contribute to the CF Alive revolution Connect with other CF developers and managers There is no cost to membership.

028 Advanced Error Handling for ColdFusion, Javascript and SQL with Mary Jo Sminkey Jul 10, 2017

Mary Jo Sminkey talks about “Advanced Error Handling Strategies for ColdFusion, Javascript and SQL” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. She is one of the speakers at the CFObjective Conference and a long-time ColdFusion developer, having worked with CF since the Allaire days, and for many years she authored and sold one of the most popular eCommerce platforms for the language, CFWebstore. Today she works for CFWebtools as a Senior Developer, continuing to support and build large eCommerce websites. Show notes Why every CFer should be doing error logging CF error logging Global Error Handler Capturing Different Scopes Preventing unwieldy numbers of error emails Logging to capture larger amounts of data vs. emailing all errors Tracking User Actions Per user history of pages accessed held in session scope Shopping cart contents User account info JS/Ajax error logging Ajax tracker in user session Track Ajax request parameters Log Ajax response and/or success SQL Server error logging Stored procedures errors Log table to log SP params and info Unexpected NULL values Strategies for debugging errors on live sites Variety of open source and 3rd party solutions for error logging Using site analytics to track and fix issues on their live sites 404 errors 301 redirects Log events in analytics Search results events Full Stack Application performance management tools Full user interactions tracking Reporting on performance too All in one place Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? More developer outreach to bring in new developers - we are still developing it, cool new features What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? Mentioned in this episode Mary Jo’s full custom CF error handler Only emailing on unique errors Bugsnag - with REST API collector, Javascript collector, subscribe to bug, track as fixed, renotify if it comes back, bug high level alerts, searchable by customer IP BuglogHQ - open source CF tool FusionReactor for slow CF pages and SQL queries Source maps for minified production JS code CodeKit (for Mac) Jenkins build server JSON structure saved to server and displayed with JSON viewer Solr search Browser Hawk CFLOG Logbox Dynatrace Cisco Appdynamics Listen to the Audio Bio Mary Jo Sminkey Mary Jo is a long-time ColdFusion developer, having worked with CF since the Allaire days, and for many years she authored and sold one of the most popular ecommerce platforms for the language, CFWebstore. Today she works for CFWebtools as a Senior Developer, continuing to support and build large ecommerce websites. In her spare time, she enjoys a wide variety of hobbies, including dog training and showing, sewing, knitting, board gaming, origami, handbell choir and other musical pursuits, and is a reviewer for Amazon products via their Vine program. She is a cancer survivor and suffers from fibromyalgia as well as various RSI issues from years of computer work so encourages young developers to pay attention to their ergonomics and learning how to ensure a healthy work environment. She enjoys cosplaying and attending conventions and runs a Facebook group for Cosplay with Disabilities which helps advocate and support people who cosplay with disabilities and the challenges that entails. Links CFWebtools blog Twitter Facebook (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Mary Jo Sminkey, and she is speaking at cf.Objective() on advanced error handling strategies for ColdFusion, JavaScript and SQL Server. We're gonna be looking in this episode,

027 State of CF Union Survey 2017 pt.2, with Brad Wood Jun 22, 2017

Welcome back to the part 2 of the State of the ColdFusion Union 2017 Survey analysis. In case you missed it, follow this link to read the State of The CF Union 2017 Analysis part 1. Filling out CF surveys Usually, there are more respondents once the results are out. When we put out, we say, "Okay, this is the final survey results," another flurry of people say, "Oh yeah, I forgot to do it," and they come in and fill it out. Even though it's a relatively small sample of the population, State of the CF Union survey is the largest out of the ColdFusion surveys, so probably one does get the best sampling, from the survey. And it's a free survey. We tell as many people as we can about it and if anyone . There were a few comments from people saying, "How can we get 'regular ColdFusion programmer starts the survey'?" They're not part of the social spheres, and it's very difficult to get things in front of them. It can be frustrating sometimes. There's people that do show up sometimes at conferences and you ask them about a certain technology and if they're using it. It might be three or four years old, and their response is, "I've never heard of that." That's one of the frustrating parts, this other area of opportunity is increasing the engagement of the CF community out there so people are more familiar with what's going on. CFML Slack has been a fantastic platform. Brad’s example: ‘’Recently, somebody asked on CFML Slack about a querying language for ColdFusion, and I happened to see it and so I gave them a link to a query builder project that Eric Peterson made a while back, and like four other people all saw it and said, "Oh, that looks really amazing. I'll try that." I was thinking CF Slack's sort of like the telegraph of our time for ColdFusion developers. It's really brought the communication points together so it's a lot easier for people to hear about stuff like this. The trick is just you have to onboard people to get them there. ‘’ A lot of people in the dark-matter-part of the ColdFusion community don't even know these conferences exist. In fact, they may not even know CF version 2016 exists. No one’s trying to make fun of people, it's just how would you hear about it if you're not on a mailing list and you're not in a social community? They may not even know that Lucee open-source exists and that there's a free open source version of CFML. One of the good things about this survey is a fair number of people have said after reading the results, they suddenly realize some technologies that existed that they had never heard of. There were a couple of write-in responses. Someone said, "I had no idea there were so many options in ColdFusion." This could be a useful thing. It takes a lot of work to put the survey together and it takes a lot of work for everyone who fills out the survey too, but it's very valuable because it does make people aware of what new technologies are out there and what trends are out there. Here’s what you will find in the part 2 of this analysis: 25. What type of mobile development frameworks are you using? 26. What aspects of ColdFusion are keeping you or your company using it? 27. What aspects of ColdFusion are preventing you or your company from embracing? 28. What caching solutions are CFers using? 29. What miscellaneous frameworks/tools are you using? 30. What monitoring tools are you using? 31. What types of deployments do you use? 32. What do you use to build REST APIs? 33. What deployment/build tools do you use? 34. What is your approximate salary range in USD? 35. How do you lock down your servers for security? 36. Have your CF servers suffered from a hacking exploit in the last 2 years due to a CF-based vector? 37. What CF communities do you participate in? 38. What percentage of your PROFESSIONAL development time is spend on CFML?

026 Gitlab Server Deep Dive with Continuous Integration, with George Murphy Jun 09, 2017

George Murphy talks about “Gitlab Server Deep Dive with Continuous Integration” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. John was one of the speakers at the Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he talked about Gitlab server with Continuous Integration. Are you ready to do a deep dive into setting up a Gitlab Repository on your localhost and doing Continuous Integration with your team? Show notes Why Source Control is critical on every ColdFusion project Why a Git repository? (over subversion or CVS etc) Only save deltas of code changes, not copy whole repository Easier merging Git tags for code freezing, version releases Built for distributed team Immediate code sharing Concern over public vs private code repository Why Gitlab? Enterprise edition paid per user Community edition free You can run GitLab: on site on a Linux server VM Virtual box VM player or workstation Cloud Built in issue tracker Built in Continuous Integration Built in wiki for documentation 25+ 3rd party integrations including: Slack integration to notify commits made by team members in a certain slack channel Integration with JIRA, Bugzilla Alternative Git services: Github Bitbucket What is Continuous Integration and why you should be using it? Why are you proud to develop in CF? RAD of very complex apps Govt use CF a lot WWIT to make CF even more alive this year? Mentioned in this episode Bit N OBF files Virtual Box Digital Ocean droplets ESXI virtual machine No need for FTP or SSH GitLab CI tools - no need for Jenkins Slack 3rd party tools eg Kyber online meetings from Slack Jenkins Continuous Integration CommandBox Listen to the Audio Bio George Murphy George is a long time CF developer, focused on ColdBox and CF server maintenance. Currently Senior Software Developer at Fig Leaf Software. He's been working with and exploring various web technologies since the late nineties. ColdFusion aficionado since version 4.5. ColdBox Evangelist. Loves collaborating with other developers and bouncing ideas off them and having them bounce ideas off me. I truly love spending and sharing my time with my lovely wife, daughter and friends. Links Twitter Website (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Interview transcript Michaela Light: Welcome back to the show. I am Michaela Light from TeraTech, and I'm here with George Murphy, long time ColdFusion developer. He is an expert on GitLab, and he's giving a talk at Into The Box all about GitLab and some of its amazing features, including Continuous Integration. We're going to be talking about not just GitLab, but some other repositories you can use for source control. We'll also check in what the hell is source control, and why everyone who does ColdFusion should be using it. In our recent State of the Union survey, not everyone is using source control. We'll also look at what Continuous Integration is and why you should be using that, and how GitLab lets you do that for free, and some of the other features in there. Welcome, George. George Murphy: Thank you Michael. Michaela Light: Let's start off with, what the heck is source control? I know every listener here probably knows what it is, but just in case anyone didn't. Why is it critical to use it on every single ColdFusion project you do? George Murphy: To keep it real simple, source control is a way for developers to be able to commit their code and to be able to keep different versions of their code without having a bunch of folders and forgetting what folder you saved something in, or having your laptop or your work station hard drive crap out on you,

025 Why Programming in Node is so Powerful, with Ray Camden Jun 04, 2017

Ray Camden talks about “Why Programming in Node is so Powerful (how CFers can learn)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. He is also one of the speakers at CFObjective Conference. In this talk, Raymond will introduce ColdFusion developers to Node.js development. This will be a high-level talk more focused on the "mechanics" of working with Node versus a deep dive into the language. The focus will be on, "Given that I do so and so in ColdFusion, what is it like to do the same in a Node app?" I'll discuss how to get started, what it is like to deploy a Node application, how to test, where to learn more, as well as talk about the things that tripped me up on my way from CF to Node. Show notes What is Node.js? Server based JavaScript engine Why program in Node? Same syntax as client based JavaScript Very light weight What is the hardest thing for a CFer learning Node? Node Deployment tips How to test your Node app Why are you proud to use CF? Practical Get stuff down fast Easy to learn WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Medium articles Other non-CF conferences What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? Mentioned in this episode Node.js Wikipedia on Node.js Twitter Node.js Digital Ocean droplet BlueMix by IBM Now by Zeit.co Docker AWS CommandBox CF Debugging talk by Gert Franz Charlie Arehart Lazy loading Micro-services Go language CF Alive Serverless podcast Listen to the Audio Bio Raymond Camden Raymond Camden is a developer advocate for IBM. His work focuses on LoopBack, API Connect, serverless, hybrid mobile development, Node.js, HTML5, and web standards in general. He's a published author and presents at conferences and user groups on a variety of topics. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.raymondcamden.com), @raymondcamden on Twitter, or via email at raymondcamden@gmail.com. Links Website Twitter Linked In Jedi Master (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Ray Camden and he is the developer advocate for IBM and he does an amazing amount of stuff. He works on Loopback, API Connect, Servilus, hybrid mobile development, HTML 5, web standards, and Node JS which is what we're hear to talk about today. Fortunately, Ray has his army of storm troopers with him in the room, just in case there are any difficult questions that have to be handled. I take it you're a great fan of Star Wars, I think I've known that for a long time. Ray Camden: Just a little bit. Michael: Just a little. In today's episode, Node JS for Cfers, we're gonna look at what Node JS really is, why you should be programming in it, and what the hardest thing for a Cfer learning node is. We'll also look at deployment tips, how you can test your node applications, and also Ray is going to be talking on the subject of CF objectives, so we will be looking at that as well. Welcome, Ray. Ray Camden: Thank you. Thank you so much. Michael: For those few people who've been isolated in the universe and don't know what Node JS is, what exactly is it? Read more And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job,

024 CFML Debugging Jedi Tricks and Templates, with Gert Franz May 31, 2017

Gert Franz talks about “CFML Debugging Jedi Tricks and Templates” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. He is also one of the speakers at CFObjective Conference. In this session, we will have a closer look at the debugging templates Lucee and Adobe ColdFusion have aboard. Especially in Lucee, there is a lot of hidden information buried in the depths of the data. You can extract this data and write your own fancy debugging template. In Lucee this is a simple CFC that contains a few methods which display the data. As a takeaway from the session, you will receive a shiny new debugging template for Lucee which you can extend as you see fit. Show notes What is a debugging template? The debugging template displays the info that can be optionally displayed at the bottom of every page, containing the formatted debugging information provided by the CFML engine Why use a debugging template? Gives lots of info what has happened in the code, what CFC run, what parts were slow What about security? Limit debugging display to certain IP addresses Don’t turn on in production Be careful about displaying information about your application to the public What is the overhead of turning this feature on? 1-2% overhead in Lucee (in ACF it used to be 50% many years ago) Why write your own? There is tons of additional info in the debugging information which may or may not be displayed by the selected debugging information. You can decorate the data with your own additional info Do I need some special skills to work on the debugging templates? Just a regular CFC Create a configuration struct containing the info you want to have displayed Output method What happens if you have a bug in your debugging template The regular CFML error handler kicks in Lucee debugging handling extra features More granularity by website and IP Has additional information in the debugging Debugging and Performance jedi tricks Rewrite the code as tag or script as appropriate in order to understand it The Code Monkey (wrong) - talk to a plushie and explain your problem, often helps solving the issue yourself. Apparently I used the wrong term. It is rubber duck debugging. Make a copy of the code and ruthlessly cut out pieces until the error doesn’t happen anymore - the last piece you cut is related to the bug Format your code, even your SQL What I learned from the Railo project To be happy and to do what you love To let go the past How can I contribute to Lucee, how can I help? Become a supporter or even a member, if you want to get involved in the future of Lucee Why should I attend any conference You will be learning many new techniques, meet cool people, get to know who is behind all the magic, network Is it still worth learning Lucee or CFML? You get better rates at freelance jobs It is a very modern language Why are you proud to use CF? Because I helped develop the language and keep it from vanishing WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Speak about it, be proud to use it, write your apps with it What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? Meet my friends Great topics and great presenters See the capital again :) Very often people just stick with the debugging templates that come with either Lucee or ACF. They are nice and helpful, but if one wants way more information, he needs to unlock the potential and extend the existing ones or even write his own new debugging template. Mentioned in this episode Pete Freitag (CF security) Ray Camden’s Var Scope checker The Ultimate Var Scope Resource list “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” Ferris Bueller Lucee website Listen to the Audio Bio

023 Modules Make Your Projects Have Superpowers, with Eric Peterson May 27, 2017

Eric Peterson talks about “Modules Make Your Projects Have Superpowers” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. He is a CFML and Javascript developer at O.C. Tanner in Salt Lake City, Utah and more recently with Ortus Solutions (ColdBox, CommandBox, etc.). Eric is also one of the speakers at CFObjective Conference. Show notes What exactly is a Module? A self contained bundle of code Encapsulated Similar idea in other languages WP Plugin Ruby Gem NPM package What is ColdBox? MVC framework Why use Modules? Save time by dropping in a module to your app Where can I find pre-written Modules Forgebox.io Creating a new module from existing reusable code in minutes Why share your modules as open source code Saving timing with Module conventions - module superpowers Using Modules outside of ColdBox Sharing modules between other frameworks Cool API examples Fast versioning of APIs with Modules API transformations API versioning endpoints Github API 39 amazing modules that Eric has shared on Forgebox Testing Modules, augmented testing The ColdBox framework viewed as a Module What is like being a new CF developer vs a seasoned one Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? ColdBox Modules are the preferred unit of code reuse in ColdBox applications. ColdBox Modules are extremely powerful and can provide anything from a simple component to a full self-contained api module. This talk will showcase some common module types in ColdBox, provide tools for quickly scaffolding shared modules, investigate testing modules (both with and without an embedded ColdBox application), and sharing your modules with the world. Mentioned in this episode ColdBox CFLib GitHub ColdBox module config file ColdBox Interceptors API versioning cbgithub QB Query Builder cffractions All of Eric’s modules Postmark email module cbmodule Template Lucee CFML Travis Continuous Integration “For me participation in CF open source and conferences changed everything about seeing CF as alive vs dying” - Eric CF Slack Community Introducing ColdBox to a Legacy Application blog post by Brad Wood Listen to the Audio Bio Eric Peterson Eric Peterson is a CFML and Javascript developer at O.C. Tanner in Salt Lake City, Utah and more recently with Ortus Solutions (ColdBox, CommandBox, etc.). He attended the University of Utah and received a degree in Information Systems thinking he would hate programming as a career. He started programming in CFML (and in general) in 2012 and has never been more happy to be proved wrong. He is the current maintainer of ColdBox Elixir and a prolific module author on ForgeBox.io. He loves creating tools to help bring CFML up to date with other modern languages and communities. In his free time, Eric loves to participate in theater, musicals, and to spend time with his wife and two boys. He can be found on Twitter, GitHub, and on his blog. Links Website Twitter (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Eric Peterson, and he is the module superman. He's written over 40 modules in ForgeBox and he's giving a talk ... We're going to be talking today about modules make your projects have superpowers. He's giving a talk cf.Objective in a few weeks, and we're going to be looking at what exactly a module is and why you'd use modules, where you can find pre-written modules, how you can save time with them, and also you don't have to use them with ColdBox. You can use them with other frameworks so he's gonna talk about that. Also, we're gonna look at some of the ways you can use [inaudible 00:00:40], and putting together a query builder with modules,

022 FusionReactor Application Performance Monitor – Why It’s Different Than Other APM Tools and What’s New in Version 7 & the CLOUD, with David Tattersall May 23, 2017

David Tattersall talks about “FusionReactor Application Performance Monitor - Why It’s Different Than Other APM Tools and What’s New in Version 7 & the CLOUD” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. His flagship product - FusionReactor is used on over 25,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers. Show notes What exactly is FusionReactor? Low overhead CF and Java application performance monitor It can measure 100’s of different metrics + alert you to potential issues How long has FusionReactor been around and who’s using it? First launched in 2005 5,000+ customers, 80% US 25,000+ servers running FR in production What differentiates FusionReactor from other Java APM tools? Crash protection and improved application/server resilience Built in low overhead, safe & secure, familiar “developer tools” - debugger, line profiler and memory analyzer - help you get to the root of the problem as fast as possible in your production environment What’s the overhead on the server when running FusionReactor? Less than 1% overhead compared to 2-5% on other monitors What is exciting in the new version 7? Support for JMX (Java Managment Extensions) MBeans (Managed Beans) → Better metrics Direct integration between FusionReactor and AWS Cloud watch Debugger one click breakpoint, decompile your code on the fly Memory Analyzer - identify heap utilization - spot memory leaks Why did you add FR to the CLOUD? Save server monitoring data to the cloud so it doesn’t clog up your server Combining metrics from multiple servers (instances), say across a cluster, to provide a combined application view Powerful alerting engine on any of the metrics in FusionReactor CLOUD, with integration to many common Alerting Channels - such as Hipchat Slack PageDuty Email HTTP hooks FusionAnalytics for on premise, in-depth analysis Two way link from FR CLOUD to the local FR so can run a stack trace or GC from the cloud Webinar on this at https://www.fusion-reactor.com/webinar/fusionreactor-cloud/ Use FR to monitor FR CLOUD What versions of ACF and Lucee does FR work with? ACF 6.1, 7 MX (FusionReactor 4.5) ACF 8,9,10, 11, 2016 (latest version of FR) Railo 3.x, 4.x Lucee 4.5, 5.x Also supports Java containers e.g. Tomcat, JBoss, GLassfish, Websphere + many Java frameworks e.g. Spring and Struts What is in your dev roadmap for the next year? FR 7 launch FusionReactor CLOUD launch Intelligent analysis of data - to determine why something is broken Log analysis Introduction of a new agent for Node.js monitoring Why do you support CF conferences around the world? Why are you proud to support CF? WWIT for CF to be more alive this year? Mentioned in this episode CF and JVM server Log files JProfiler Remote production debugging CF code JVisualVM MAT GC Roots analysis Memory leak detection Debugging Line Profiler Memory profiler Session management JVM metrics and Garbage Collector JMX MBeans UEM (User Experience Monitoring) FusionReactor Standard, Enterprise, Ultimate FusionAnalytics Velocity DevOps conference Listen to the Audiio Bio David Tattersall David Tattersall has been in working in IT for over 30 years. Since co-founding Intergral in 1998, he focused on company management, business development and sales & marketing. Intergral has become a leader in server monitoring and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions in the ColdFusion / Java segment. His flagship product - FusionReactor - www.fusion-reactor.com is used on over 25,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers. Interview Transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with David Tattersall and he's speaking to us from his home o...

021 Behind the Scenes at CFObjective, with Steven Hauer May 18, 2017

Steven Hauer talks about “Behind the Scenes at CFObjective” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. He is currently the International Business Manager for Bridges for Peace. Show notes What CFObjective is Where CFObjective is being held this year? When is CFObjective Wed night opening event Thurs and Friday 4 tracks Who should come Advanced CFers Government CFers Speakers low speaker to attendee ratio - easy to interact with them Why should CFers come to CFObjective Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? Mentioned in this episode CFObjective CFObjective Speakers Listen to the Audio Bio Steven Hauer Steven Hauer is currently the International Business Manager for Bridges for Peace. He is married to the love of his life Cheryl Hauer and living in Jerusalem, Israel. He likes to play the guitar. With his son Jared, he is instrumental in the development and evolution of dev.Objective(). Links Facebook Twitter Interview Transcript Michael: Hi, welcome back to the show. I'm here with Steven Hauer from cf.Objective(). We're going to be talking about everything cf.Objective(). Welcome, Steven. Steven Hauer: Well thank you, Michael. It's good to be able to talk to you today. Michael: What exactly is cf.Objective() for anyone who hasn't heard of it? I know it's been around for 11 years, but maybe someone out there hasn't heard of it. It's a ColdFusion conference, right? Steven Hauer: It is a ColdFusion conference. It initially started in 2006 in Minneapolis and a simple one line description of the conference CFML and web-centric conference. It covers a wide variety of topics relating to software development. Michael: Why the objective in the name? Steven Hauer: That was sort of a play on a CMFL tag at one point when we originally started the conference. It was, I guess we were making it our objective to put on a conference that was meeting the needs of the community that were in an area that weren't particularly being addressed by what was available at the time. The conference has always had a focus on the strong intermediates to high-level user rather than the beginning user of CFML. That was ... most conferences come off as either to the general population within a community or a product specific conference where somebody has whatever it is that they're developing, they want to support for that. With cf.Objective() we were targeting the best of the best, the programmers that either were already or wanted to go beyond what the everyday average developer's going to do. Read more And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.

020 Secrets of High-Security ColdFusion Code, With Pete Freitag May 02, 2017

Pete Freitag talks about “Secrets of High-Security ColdFusion Code” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. Pete is the founder of Foundeo, creator of FuseGuard and HackMyCF and he is a ColdFusion security expert. Show notes Why should you care about security in your CF code What is the most common misconception about website security How long does it typically take between being hacked and discovering the hack How to get started securing your CF code Are some versions of CF more secure than others and why? Why the evaluate() and iif() functions may be the windows your hackers enter your site through How File Uploads can let the bad guys in Why storing API keys in your code is a terrible idea ColdFusion Session hijacking Isn’t it a bad idea to document security holes on the public web? How does CF security compare to Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java and other programming languages What other ways do hackers get into CF servers? IIS SQL Server Windows Social engineering What about modern SSL Tell us why someone should be using FuseGuard and HackMyCF Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? The task of securing your large code bases from vulnerabilities can be an overwhelming and time-consuming task. Many developers don't know where to start, and never do. This session will arm you with an approach slaying those legacy security vulnerabilities in your CFML code. You will also learn about several vulnerabilities and things to look out for as you develop new code. Mentioned in this episode FuseGuard HackMyCF HTTP vs HTTPS Listen to the Audio Bio Pete Freitag Pete Freitag has well over a dozen years of experience building web applications with ColdFusion. In 2006 he started Foundeo Inc (foundeo.com), a ColdFusion consulting and products company. Pete helps clients develop and architect custom ColdFusion applications, as well as review and improve the performance and security of existing applications. He has also built several products and services for ColdFusion including a Web Application Firewall for ColdFusion called FuseGuard (fuseguard.com) and a ColdFusion server security scanning service called HackMyCF (hackmycf.com). Pete holds a BS in Software Engineering from Clarkson University. Links Foundeo Twitter Blog (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Pete Frietag, or Freitag. How do you say your name Pete? Pete: In German, I mean, it's Freitag, so probably if you want to go with that pronunciation, it'd be Freitag. Michael: Freitag. In America, we say ... Pete: You say Freitag. Michael: Freitag. All right. He's the founder of Foundeo, that sounds very whatever, founder of Foundeo. He is a ColdFusion security expert. He's the creator of FuseGuard and HackMyCF. Not surprising to me, we're gonna be talking about secrets of high security ColdFusion code today on the CF Alive podcast. We're alive here at Into the Box, which is why we're on the same piece of video real estate here. Coming up in this episode, we're going to be looking at why you should even care about securing your ColdFusion code, and what the common misconception is about website security. How long does it typically take between a site being hacked and discovering the hack? How you should get started securing your CF code, and are some versions of ColdFusion more [inaudible 00:01:11] than others, and why is that the case. Read more And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-genera...

019 A Whirlwind Tour of Preside Application Framework in the Wild, with Alex Skinner Apr 22, 2017

Alex Skinner talks about “A whirlwind tour of Preside application framework in the Wild” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. Alex is one of the speakers of the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Preside Platform Deep Dive and Marketing Automation using the Preside Platform. Show notes What the heck is Preside? An open source application framework built on top of ColdBox and Lucee Why it is more than a CMS Why they moved from ACF to other CFML engines in 2005 The journey via BlueDragon, Railo to Lucee 100% Lucee CFML shop now Back porting issues with Elvis operator with Adobe ColdFusion 2016 All open source stack Preside ColdBox Lucee CFML Tomcat MySQL with MariaDB Galera Linux Why they shifted Preside to an open source model in 2012 Formal bidding process competing with open source CMSs Django, Rails, CodeIgniter etc So, in theory, you can take your app to another agency in the future in case of problems Typical work is 30% CMS and 70% custom code Still have maintenance deals and SLAs on the back end so it was revenue neutral overall Building partnerships with other CF consulting shops The Longevity of Preside and Lucee Migrating from an expensive proprietary CMS to open source Preside/Lucee Building complex business systems on top of Preside application 5x faster custom build time Certification systems Online learning add-ons (like Moodle) Membership associations Join, renew, minutes, attending meetings Data-driven applications The Daredevil risk of live coding during your preso The advantages of non-throwaway scaffolding The “Quake key” to access the Preside console How it accelerates your custom code development on top of Preside Injecting custom functionality into the framework using full cascading inheritance Blending your extension into the framework vs loose coupling of customizations ColdBox Interception points Better developer experience Tagging into the data layer vs a rigid API Funky stuff using the CF_Preside_Parm tag No need for a middle service layer Derivative eg auto image manipulation Preside Extensions and Mashups Elastic search Search documents and data Star wars mash up Closed source extensions too CRM Task manager Data tenancy in your ORM Slicing the database between users so they only set their segment of the data Supporting a SaaS business model Versioning of data Multilingual data Multiple site hierarchy you only see the news data for your site Easy document management portals for magazines and editorial processes Versioning, rollback, tagging Hierarchical model or content model (like Allaire Spectra) Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Join the Preside team in a deep exploration of what this powerful, Coldbox-based platform gives to the CFML development community. Witness how the platform can be used to rapidly develop custom web applications with seamlessly managed content tools and much more... Mentioned in this episode CF Alive episode 007 Marketing Automation using the Preside Platform with Dominic Watson Member of LAS (Lucee Association Switzerland) http://lucee.org/ Popularity is self-perpetuating (may not be the best) ColdBox CommandBox Twig support MariaDB Galera Listen to the Audio Bio Alex Skinner Alex Skinner is the managing director and co-founder of global digital agency Pixl8. Started with CF 4. Providing strategic direction and consulting on the more advanced projects undertaken. In addition, he works with our platform team to deliver our Open Source CMS and MVC Framework Preside CMS. Links Preside

018 VUE More With Less, with John Farrar Apr 22, 2017

John Farrar talks about “VUE more with less” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. John is one of the speakers of the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about VUE more with less. In his ITB talk, John shares how to learn to move beyond jQuery with super friendly JavaScript with VueJS 2. Show notes Here are some of the topics talked about in the episode: What is VueJS? A progressive web app (not single page app) Closer to a desktop app in behavior How to know when to jump into a new framework Why he used to avoid JavaScript (and how it advanced ColdFusion) Why he moved beyond jQuery What problems do the JS frameworks solve jQuery - abstracts out the browser JavaScript differences React - data states in a single page responsive UI using a shadow copy of the DOM MVVM solution Angular - solve the same problem as React but is fully object oriented No version numbers - it is backward compatible and progressive VueJS - building an interactive site with super friendly code Great documentation in English on their site even though it was created in China The most approachable of these JS frameworks Why he is concerned about mounting technical debt in companies today Rank your most critical issues and first the most important first Create automated tests to make sure that past technical debt does not come back A public company technical debt clock Check company moral! How to pick a framework (hint - it is not just popularity contest) Solves the problem you have Why do I really want to use a JavaScript library It is fun The same to Googlebot with or without the framework A growing and thriving community and docs, training courses - to get answers to questions The community has viable funding Is it validated in real-world solutions The challenges being in the framework Olympic circle Vue, Angular and React None are the cult solution How VueJS make JavaScript super friendly VueX and how to stick your data in name spaces The interesting story of how JavaScript has evolved over the years Pre-rendering on a Node.JS server Webkit JS clean up compile step Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? CF is thriving in the intranets Super B2B tool CommandBox What is CF’s market? + Lucee hits new markets Teach CFers how to build better community What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Mentioned in this episode ASC orientated - Approachable Sustainable Collaborative The Open Learning Server Tincan - The Tin Can API (sometimes known as the Experience API or xAPI) is a brand new specification for learning technology that makes it possible to collect data about the wide range of experiences a person has (online and offline). This API captures data in a consistent format about a person or group’s activities from many technologies. Rick Mason Lansing ColdFusion User Group “Never first, never last” - Microsoft motto “Great programmers plan the best path through the woods… BUT they don’t resist the multiple daily unexpected rock climbs.” - John Farrar MVP goals for projects The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank There are no facts inside the building - it is a guess - we don’t know until we test - so get outside The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek Leaders eat last jQuery React Angular VueJS Created by Evan Yu DOM (Data Object Model) Bootstrap Handlebars Technical debt The way your code works is the interface with your...

017 Managing an international team, Git, CFML, Node, Joomla, with Scott Coldwell Apr 20, 2017

Scott Coldwell talks about “Managing an international team, Git, CFML, Node, Joomla, Headaches and Heartaches” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Scott is one of the speakers of the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Managing an international team, Git, CFML, Node, Joomla, headaches and heartaches. In his ITB talk, Scott shares how source control is the cornerstone of any substantial codebase, but managing incoming changes and getting them out the door can be complicated, time-consuming, and frustrating. "You know developers are so anxious to get started on things and they just jump right in and sometimes Source Control is seen as a second-rate thing and, but I gotta tell you it's just crazy not to use it. It is absolutely critical. Even for a one-man show to have things in source control, to have a good history of what you've done, and to have those backups and the possibility to deploy in an automated way. I just can't imagine not having source control on every single project that I work on." - Scott Coldwell Episode highlights Why is source control critical for all ColdFusion developers How to best manage lots of incoming changes via Git and keep aligned with your business process and release cycle Lessons from the trenches on working with multiple teams, in multiple time zones, multiple countries and multiple programming languages (CFML, PHP and Node) Avoiding Deployment Day Disasters Project management war stories Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT (What Would It Take) to make CF more alive this year? Conferences, podcast The Modern Face of CFML What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Source control is the cornerstone of any substantial codebase, but managing incoming changes and getting them out the door can be complicated, time-consuming, and frustrating. In git, where branching is a first-class operation, we'll look at tried-and-true strategies to manage code changes, and see how those strategies align with business processes and release cycles. Working with one team is tough enough, but with multiple teams, in multiple time zones, countries, different programming languages, cfml, php and node things get even more complex. I have worked in this environment, working through some tough lessons, and learning a lot on the way. Join me as I tell you a few stories, and give you some strategies for dealing with your project, no matter how small, or big and complex it is. Mentioned in this episode Git stashing - a local commit off to the side and come back to it later Git commit without push Git branching and merging Project release cycle/ Sprint 3 weeks total 2 weeks development + 1 QA/bug fix/plan next release Plus release notes The good cadence of the cycle Agile methodology Daily scrum meetings Scrum master helps with good communication within team and developers staying focused on tasks Challenge of defining tickets before start coding His project tools Notification only during certain times Seamless between computer, web and phone Helps keep things moving Channels to organize communication Mute channels not interested in but @ mentions still Better team orientation than Skype. Better feature than HipChat Slack Jira bug tracking Confluence wiki Sourcetree and bitbucket Beyond compare - side by side comparison - can hide what you define as “less important” changes, can find Sublime code editor - multiline edit, quick selections, nice themes Core meeting time for all teams Deployment process The enemy of reliability is complexity “I didn't have time to write a short program, so I wrote a long one instead.” with hat tip to original quote about writing letters by Mark Twain Ticketing system - track bugs, hotfixes and change requests Gitflow

016 Adventures with ColdFusion and ContentBox in the Wild, with Seth Engen Apr 19, 2017

Seth Engen talks about “Adventures with ColdFusion and ContentBox in the Wild” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Seth is one of the speakers of the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about ContentBox In The Wild. In his ITB talk, Seth will mention a variety of specific real-world scenarios where ContentBox has answered business needs. "We're dealing with in theming essentially HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is the one area where it's probably most like other content management systems but with ContentBox I think there's a real power." - Seth Engen Episode highlights What the heck is ContentBox? How is it different from other open source ColdFusion CMSs? Built On top of ColdBox framework Security good Scalable Great support from Ortus Why use ContentBox Themes and what are the amazing things that you can you do with them? How ContentBox widgets make it easy to program common business needs A CFC with a UI that you can drag and drop in the content page Some data and properties are exposed in the UI so that user admins can edit directly How creating ContentBox modules helps with integration to other software Integrate with 3rd party software such as Stripe to charge credit cards Integrate Full Calendar and Google Calendar API into one module Called from a widget Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? Community Education such as conferences Education to folks who have old info about CFML What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Learning Networking ContentBox In The Wild ContentBox is an open source CMS ready and waiting for use in your next project. See a variety of specific real world scenarios where ContentBox has answered business needs. This demonstration will outline business needs and their associated solution using a ContentBox theme, widget, or module. Objectives: Customizing Themes w/ Customized Menu Solutions Creating Widgets for Common Business Needs Developing Modules for Robust ContentBox Integration Mentioned in this episode ContentBox ColdBox BootSwatch theme toggler ForgeBox download themes, widgets and modules CKTemplates - WYSIWYG editor integration FontAwesome icons and themes Code from the talk is available on ForgeBox and GitHub Ortus Developer week Speaker details Seth Engen is a co-owner of Computer Know How, a Wisconsin-based technology firm that he started with Curt Gratz in 1997. At the companies start he was introduced to CFML (version 4) and has been programming in the language ever since. Seth really enjoys creating web applications with great user interface experiences. Links Twitter Computer Know How (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Interview transcript Michaela Light: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Seth Engen from Computer Know How. In fact, he was the co-owner of that. Founded it quite awhile ago back when ColdFusion 4 was out. We're going to be talking about adventures with ColdFusion and ContentBox in the wild. Not just theoretical but practical. We'll check in what ContentBox is, how it's different from other open source ColdFusion CMS's, why you should be using ContentBox themes, and some of the amazing stuff you can do with them. How ContentBox widgets make it easy to program common business needs, how creating modules help with integrating ContentBox out of software. Welcome, Seth. Seth Engen: Thanks for having me. Michaela Light: Let's just start off for folks who don't know, what the heck is ContentBox? Seth Engen: Well, ContentBox as the website and some of the documentation indicates is just an open source CMS, Content Management System. It's very similar to a WordPress, something like that. But for us,

015 Better ContentBox Themes, Amazing UI, with Esmeralda Acevedo Apr 19, 2017

Esmeralda Acevedo talks about “Better ContentBox Themes and easily creating an Amazing UI” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "I could become more active in the community. But I'm already part of the Box team on Slack and that's how people can reach me. I'm new to this if I can help anybody there, as it is I've had a lot of people helping me when I was building my project." - Esmeralda Acevedo Esmeralda is one of the speakers of the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where she will talk about Developing ContentBox Themes. In her ITB talk, she wants to share what's new in ContentBox 3, and the big updates from Layouts in earlier versions. Show notes Amazing Theme UI From Layouts to Themes Creative Themes Headerview, Footerview, styles How to change out your Theme Better Theme Setting and how they affect the users ContentBox Theme Modules and Events How climbing mountains helps her code better Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Esme will be presenting with Gavin Pickin the ContentBox evangelist Developing ContentBox Themes Themes are new in ContentBox 3, getting big updates from Layouts in earlier versions. Components of a Theme - Learn about the different components of a Theme, and how to customize and use them. Layouts, Views, Templates, Widgets & Modules. Themes, not Layouts - Themes is our new mantra. We have transitioned layouts to what we now call ContentBox Themes. They have been revamped to support ColdBox 4. New Theme.cfc - The theme descriptor CFC is now named Theme.cfc. Backward compatibility still remains, but now the new descriptor will provide a nice way for editors and tools to target. Theme Setting Groups + Help - You can now create theme setting groups in the theme descriptor Theme.cfc and the new admin UI will present them in a categorized and ordered format. This is a great way to visualize theme settings. You now have the ability to add notes and help in the form of modals, all built from the Theme.cfc Theme Modules - Themes can now include ContentBox modules in a new folder convention called modules. This allows you to ship your theme with 1 or a billion modules. New Theme Events - The theme life-cycle now presents several new events: cbadmin_preThemeSettingsSave, cbadmin_postThemeSettingsSave, cbadmin_onThemeSettings, cbadmin_onThemeInfo Mentioned in this episode ContentStore custom fields Sass compiles CSS - CSS with superpowers ForgeBox Vue.js Listen to the Audio Bio Esmeralda Acevedo Esmeralda Acevedo is a Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions, Corp. Her professional journey began about 17 years ago as a graphic/web designer, in the time of tables and frames. After graduating from California State University with a major in Art and a minor in Computer Science, she was hired to work along CFML developers. Although Esmeralda was mainly involved in the design aspect of the projects, she gradually became more involved in assisting the programming team. Eventually, Esmeralda returned to school to complete a technical degree, with an emphasis on software development. Now, in addition to her experience with graphic design tools, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Indesign, etc., she has added application development tools, which include CFML, MySQL, Javascript, CSS, Bootstrap, Coldfusion, Coldbox, ContentBox to the list. Away from the computer, she has a love for the outdoors. As John Muir said, “ Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” Besides washing the spirit clean, nature clears her mind to solve programming issues or inspires me to create designs. (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Interview transcript

014 NGINX: A Smart Middle Man Between Your App and Your Users, with Kevin Jones Apr 18, 2017

Kevin Jones talks about "NGINX: a smart middle man between your app and your users" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Kevin is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Using NGINX as an Effective and Highly Available Content Cache. In his ITB talk, he wants people to understand what NGINX means and the powerful features contained in the platform that can be used in building an HTTP caching layer, and why NGINX is often used as a framework to build powerful, scalable and highly available content delivery networks. "Right now there's about 350 million known websites on the internet today that use NGINX, so it has a really, really large footprint. It's widely adopted in the community, and now NGINX is a company. So, we've built NGINX Plus, which is a commercial version on top of that open source version, so we kind of handle both sides of the matrix." - Kevin Jones Show notes What is NGINX? A smart middleman between your app and your users Good for DevOps But it is not a network firewall, but be used to build a web application firewall When you should be using it A 10-year history and the hockey stick growth in features happening right How it works with Docker containerization and microservices Application Delivery Controller (ADC) - virtualized load balancer Round Robin Least Response Time Least Connections Requeuing of request How it can implement smart Layer 7 Security fast API gateways in your DMZ Blocking by IP, subnets, ports Authentication Protections for Denial Of Service attacks Metered access Country blocking The value of virtual proxy software The power of NGINscript (JavaScript-like language) What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Mentioned in this episode NGINX Virtual web server Open source and commercial versions Igor Sysoev CTO, based in Russia TPC UDP SSL optimization Asynchronous non-blocking architecture Shared memory zones for all the workers Load balancing GUIP Proxy HTTP via proxy HTTP caching Streaming media Layer 7 Security Listen to the Audio Bio Kevin Jones Kevin Jones is a Technical Solutions Architect at NGINX, where he specializes in the integration and implementation of NGINX for various companies around the world. He has a strong background in infrastructure management, application monitoring, and troubleshooting. Links Blog Twitter Interview transcript Michaela Light: Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Kevin Jones, from NGINX, and he's going to be talking about the past, present, and future of the modern web using NGINX, which, as I understand it, is kind of like a virtual middle man between your app and the users of your app, and it has lots of applications. So, we're going to be looking at what it is, when you should be using it, looking at the 10-year history of it, and the hockey stick growth in feet just that's happening right now with it, how it works with docker containerization and microservices, application delivery controller, virtualized load balances, how it can implement smart layer seven security fast, the value of having a virtual proxy software with the power of engine stripped to let you customize it. And welcome, Kevin. Kevin Jones: Thank you. Nice to talk to you. Michaela Light: Yeah. So, what exactly is NGINX? Kevin Jones: Yeah, so NGINX has been around for a while. It's been around since 2007. It's actually originally an open source project, and still is an open source project, and essentially it's a lot of things. Essentially it's a web server, it's a reverse proxy, it can do HTTP caching, and it can also do load balancing of traffic, and it can also do TCP and UDP traffic as well, proxying. So,

013 Spiders Eating Your Servers? Impact and How to Fix, with Charlie Arehart Apr 18, 2017

Charlie Arehart talks about “Are spiders eating your servers? The impact of their unexpected load and how to counter it” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. These days a lot of people are concerned about site security and they'll … Either they or someone in the organization will run some sort of a scam against their server, but when they run that scan, again what are they doing? They're trying to call lots of requests with different forms of potentially bad break-in type code. And those tools, sometimes they're not as careful and they might make a request every second." - Charlie Arehart Show notes Why your ColdFusion app being slow might not be your SQL, JVM, or even your CF code What exactly is unexpected load What kind of unexpected traffic have you seen Is it a lot of traffic? Is it common to find on CF servers? What can be the crazy problems with unexpected traffic? But, but, what about intranet-only sites - aren’t they safe from unexpected traffic? How you can mitigate these problems fast What about robots.txt? Doesn’t that block bots? Ok, but aren’t spiders and bots getting smarter, so harder to handle? Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? The move to the countryside Charlie says: For years I've watched people try to tame "server problems" with a focus on their code, their SQL, the jvm, and so on. Yet often it turns out that the root cause is actually unexpected load. And that load may be from things you never expected (automated), at volumes you never expected. I've found folks with as much as 80% of their web traffic to be such unexpected automated traffic! Worse, there are characteristics of such automated visits that may actually have MORE IMPACT than "real users": for instance, did you know they create a new session/client variables, and run session startup code, for each page they visit?! The good news is there are solutions to better manage (or simply block) such automated requests which may already exist in your environment, and tools you may consider (some free, some commercial) which can be easily implemented. There are even SAAS solutions that could help alleviate such problems with just a single tiny change in your environment! You may also want to consider some admin configuration options related to sessions and/or client variables, as well as reconsider some coding choices in your session startup code. In this session, veteran ColdFusion server troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will guide a more detailed review of the issues above, including how to identify such traffic, more on these specific impacts, and most important identifying the solutions along with their pros and cons. He has helped shops achieve dramatic reductions in impact from such automated requests, resulting in greater server stability and performance. Mentioned in this episode Web spiders Yandex Bidu Yahoo slurp User agent robots.txt Listen to the Audio Bio Charlie Arehart A veteran server troubleshooter who's worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting). Links Website Twitter Facebook LinkedIn (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Interview transcript Michaela Light: I'm here with Charlie Arehart, veteran ColdFusion server troubleshooter. Hey Charlie. We're going to be looking at some very strange stuff, which is why your ColdFusion might be slow, but it's nothing to do with your SQL JVM or even your CF code. And what we're going to be talking about is an unexpected load. So,

012 Extreme Testing and Slaying the Dragons of ORM with Luis Majano Apr 16, 2017

Luis Majano talks about "Extreme testing and slaying the dragons of ORM" in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Luis is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about the theory of Behavior Driven Development, Slaying the ORM Dragons with CBORM and The Ortus Keynote. "And usually with test driven developers, developers really give up. It's really not fun. That's the truth. And it's tedious. And sometimes when you have big object-oriented applications it can really be daunting to create all the mocks, and sometimes you're just testing an ‘if statement' at that point. So it can be really dumb at that point." - Luis Majano Show notes Why Behavior Driven Development How is it different from Test Driven Development How TestBox makes both easy Semantics BDD deep dive Why you shouldn't miss the Ortus Keynote Box roadmaps Modern CFML development Addressing the issues companies adopting ColdFusion: Language shaming, modern tools Why it is sometimes hard to hire good CF developers The driving force behind all things Ortus How Luis came to the brink of moving to Goovy and why he came to ColdFusion Behavior-Driven Integration Development Exposed How Behavior-Driven Integration Development is different from Behavior Driven Development Why you should be doing it How to implement it fast Slaying the ORM Dragons with CBORM Why use an ORM Why it is sometimes seen as a dangerous dragon How to tame the ORM dragon Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Mentioned in this episode All BDD code will be available at this repository: https://github.com/elpete/integrated-workshop Code Coverage with Testbox + FusionReactor Listen to the Audio Bio Luis Majano Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer born in El Salvador and is the president of Ortus Solutions (www.ortussolutions.com), a consulting firm specializing in web development, architecture and professional open source support and services. His background includes over 16 years of software development experience, architecture, and system design. He is the creator of the ColdBox Platform (www.coldbox.org), CommandBox CLI (www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox), ContentBox Modular CMS (www.ortussolutions.com/products/contentbox) and is an Adobe Community Professional. Links Twitter Interview transcript Michaela Light: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Luis Majano and he's the CEO of Ortus and all things Box. He created ColdBox and CommandlineBox and TestBox. I don't know. All kinds of things. If it has 'Box' in the name he probably had something to do with it. And we're going to be talking about Behavior Driven Development. Why we should be doing it. Why it's different from Test Driven Development. How TestBox makes both easy. And we're going to look into some of the semantics of that. And then Ortus is also doing a Keynote of this conference and why you shouldn't miss that. Going to look at some of the roadmap stuff. What modern ColdFusion development is. Addressing the issues that companies adopting ColdFusion have with language shaming, modern tools, and sometimes it being to hire good ColdFusion developers. And the driving force behind all things Ortus. And I managed to get Luis to tell us a little story about how he came to the brink of moving to Groovy and why he came back to ColdFusion. This was a few years back. We'll also be looking at Behavior Driven Integration Development, because he's giving a workshop on that, and how it's different from Behavior Driven Development, which got my head scratching for a bit but we're going to make it all clear in this...

011 Portable CFML Cloud deployments, Microservices and REST with Jon Clausen Apr 14, 2017

Jon Clausen talks about "Portable CFML with Cloud deployments, Microservices and REST" in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Jon is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Hall PaaS: Cloud CFML deployments with CommandBox and Bringing Legacy Apps Back To Life with Box Microservices. Show notes Hall PaaS: Cloud CFML deployments with CommandBox Small container What is PaaS and why would you want to use it? Platform as a Service How you you save DevOps headache with smart cloud deployment Will talk about the options for using container-based PaaS solutions such as Heroku, Dokku, Kubernetes, etc for quickly standing up and scaling environments How to implement on demand or scheduled scaling Bringing Legacy Apps Back To Life with *Box Microservices what is a Microserver Monolithic code vs microservice architecture maintainable. portable and scalable How to overcome resource intensive sections of your code using microservice Easier to rewrite Why box microservices? rapid from concept to deployment easier deployment Why are you proud to use CF? most portable efficient resource use RAD WWIT to make CF more alive this year? talk it up easy and pain free development RESTful services 1-day workshop What is REST? representational - JSCON or XML from you model Why Stateless matters? Portable API pattern Scalable API pattern Transfer HTML binary internal REST transfer Logic deduplication Versioning of API This workshop is designed for beginning or intermediate ColdBox developers and focuses on the understanding and implementation of RESTful applications, modules, and microservices. At the end of the workshop, the participant will have developed a working RESTful API service which can be used as a baseline template for their own future development needs. The API service will be scaffolded and implemented using a variety of readily-available tools, such as CommandBox and the ColdBox REST application skeleton. What are you looking forward to at Into The Box conference? Mentioned in this episode Docker swarm Heroku Dokku Kubernetes Listen to the Audio Bio Jon Clausen Jon Clausen hails from Grand Rapids, Michigan and has been developing CFML applications for over a decade. He was born and raised in South Dakota and attended SDSU and DePaul University. In 2004, after 14 years with a Fortune 100 company, he founded Silo, a full-stack development and technology consulting firm in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jon has developed and written applications in CFML, Javascript, PHP, and Ruby in addition to dabbling in Java, Python, Bash, Scala and Clojure. He keeps current with both old and new database technologies including SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, and - his personal NoSQL favorite - MongoDB. After hours, Jon enjoys theater, fishing for smallmouth bass on the Great Lakes, and chauffeuring his 12-year-old daughter back and forth to the horse stables. He is pleased to represent Ortus Solutions as a product evangelist for the Box products and is eternally grateful for tools like ColdBox and CommandBox, which continue to evolve and demonstrate a bright future for CFML development (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Links Ortus Solutions CommandBox Interview transcript Michaela Light: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Jon Clausen. I hope I'm pronouncing that right, Jon. Jon Clausen: Clausen but close enough. Michaela Light: Clausen, all right. And he's the president of Silo Webworks and a part of the artist team and he's going to be speaking into the b...

010 All things ContentBox (new API,ContentStore,Themes) with Gavin Pickin Apr 13, 2017

Gavin Pickin talks about "All things ContentBox (new API, ContentStore, Themes and more)" in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast,with the host Michaela Light. Gavin is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Bringing Legacy Apps Back To Life with *Box Microservices, Ortus Keynote and Developing ContentBox Themes. "ContentBox is Ortus's creation. It's basically a content management system for ColdFusion. So over the years we've obviously built plenty of website for ourselves at Ortus. But also for clients along the way as well. We were not really happy with the previous content management systems around and instead of building our little apps every time we- Luis Majano, of course, decided to build ContentBox. So it's been out in the market for several years now and we've made a lot of changes over the last couple of years." - Gavin Pickin Show notes What ContentBox is and why would you want to use it? What does it cost? (hint it is Open Source. One line install with CLI) Why an API? The ContentBox API Unleashed The hidden features of Mobile app front ends and built-in JSON packets Why using the ContentStore for custom settings is better than a database Contentbox 3.5 and 4.0 features native image support with auto thumbnails custom ContentStore fields easier overrides - A story about CFML, which we think you will want to hear, and learn what Ortus and the community is doing for CFML and the future of CFML. Why you want to use ContentBox Themes and what is new about them? Theme Modules and Widgets Expose custom theme settings Powerful Theme events Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Mentioned in the episode ContentBox ColdBox ContentStore ContentBox Themes Ortus University Listen to the Audio Bio Gavin Pickin The ContentBox Evangelist, Gavin Pickin has been coding in ColdFusion for over 17 years. Gavin started using ColdFusion in 1999 when working for the university of Auckland in New Zealand before moving to California. He has lead teams, trained new developers and worked the full stack from graphic design, HTML CSS JavaScript through to ColdFusion MySQL and server administration. Gavin has a passion for learning and cannot understand why the 9-5ers aren't listening to podcasts while changing diapers, watching video tutorials while cleaning baby bottles and folding clothes, or putting the kids to sleep with soothing phone gap mobile application cookbook recipes. You will find him blogging at gpickin.com and on twitter @gpickin and occasionally being mocked on cfhour's podcast. Links Gavin Pickin Blog Twitter - @gpickin (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Interview transcript Michaela Light: Hi, welcome back to the show. I'm here with Gavin Pickin, the ContentBox evangelist at Ortus Solutions. And we're gonna be talking about all things ContentBox today. So, we're gonna look at why you wanna use it and what you'd use it for. And we'll look at the new API that's coming out in it and all the cool things you can do with that. And, there's some of the hidden features in there which let you have a mobile app be the front end or even output JSON packets with just a simple change. Also we'll look at the contents tool as a way of storing custom settings, which is better than using a database. Gavin will explain why that is. We'll also be looking at themes. Which are out in ContentBox, and what you can do with them. Lots of cool stuff there. And then, Gavin will be revealing some of the new stuff in ContentBox 4.0 that is gonna be unleashed during the conference. So, welcome Gavin. Gavin Pickin: Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

009 Tuning & Troubleshooting ColdFusion Using Native Tools with Mike Brunt Apr 12, 2017

Mike Brunt talks about "Tuning & Troubleshooting ColdFusion Using Native Tools" in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Mike is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Tuning & Troubleshooting ColdFusion Using Native Tools. There are various tools and utilities which ship with ColdFusion and tend to be ignored when tuning is needed, also when trouble strikes. Server Monitor, for instance, is very powerful when used correctly. This practical session will show how to get the best from these powerful, built-in tools. "There is a server monitoring in ColdFusion, and there has been for some time, but I'll explain in a minute what the best feature of that is, which is better than most others that's out there, the commercial tools. Yeah, absolutely if you're going to put new code out there of any note, you know you need to check what's going on, because again, it's like flogging a dead horse, it's not expensive to do so, apart from time." - Mike Brunt Show notes Why monitor your CF server? 18% in the State of the CF survey don't monitor Why use the built in CF Server Monitor? What versions of CF is the server monitor in? The hidden features of CF stat Why you should be load testing your CF apps? And how to do it for free. Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Mentioned in this episode Free server monitor tools Server monitor snapshot in one file of queries, JVM state when you reach a monitor limit Runs on Jetty, separate JVM container JVM monitoring tools JMeter load testing tool Blaze Meter Taffy API Listen to the Audio Bio Mike Brunt Mike Brunt also known as CF Whisperer. Links CF Whisperer (* WWIT = What Would It Take) Interview transcript Michaela Light: Welcome back to the show, I’m here with Mike Brunt, also known as CF Whisperer, and we’re going to be talking about his upcoming into the box session, Tuning and Troubleshooting Using Cold Fusion Native Tools. We’re going to be looking at, well first of all we’re going to look at why you should be monitoring your server, and I’ll explain why some people don’t even do that, and how and why you use the built-in tools in the CF server monitor, the hidden features of CF Stat, and why you should be low-testing all of your CF apps. Welcome, Mike. Mike Brunt: Hey, good to see you again, good to be here. Michaela Light: It’s good to be here, good to be alive on the CF Alive Podcast. Mike Brunt: Right. Michaela Light: Before we get into what you’re going to be talking about, the into the box conference on troubleshooting and tuning Cold Fusion using the native tools, let’s back up a bit. Because in the recent state of the CF Union survey, 18% of people didn’t monitor their server at all, and the people who take that survey tend to be the people active on Slack and in forums, and what have you, so you’d hope they’re the cream of the cream of Cold Fusion developers, which makes me wonder of the people who didn’t take the survey, probably even more don’t monitor their servers. Why should someone be monitoring their Cold Fusion server? Mike Brunt: Well because first of all, the logging in Cold Fusion is great, and it’s the best I’ve ever come across in any application server environment. There’s a wealth of information in there, and it’s a great place to start monitoring your server, and I’ll sit back and say everybody should monitor, think of production. It was Nielsen I think that had a survey some years ago which said after eight seconds, anyone on the webpage would go elsewhere if they had an alternative. Eight seconds doesn’t sound like a long time, but you know I wouldn’t still be doing what I’m do...

008 The Best REST You’ve ever Had: ColdBox REST with Nathaniel Francis Apr 12, 2017

Nathaniel Francis talks about "The best REST you've ever had: ColdBox REST" in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Nathaniel is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box Conference where he will talk about The best REST you've ever had: ColdBox REST. "ColdBox has allowed CFML to really move forward. One of those ways is with REST APIs. What that provides is instead of these full-bodied, traditional applications, you can make something that anything can touch. You can use any type of front-end technological mobile obviously is universal now, even things all the way down to the watches and the Internet of things to be able to talk to a REST API." - Nathaniel Francis Show notes Why REST over regular CF Separate front end from data Easy to support multiple platforms such as phone, desktop, and IoT Versatility Why the CB REST API CB, CF Wheels, ACF, Node Move to CB REST is easy Converting from CFM to REST SQL Hibernate ORM -> REST REST and CouchBase Lightweight Star Wars app Why are you proud to develop in CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Nathaniel Best SciFi books End Game and Dune, or a Git merge of both! Mentioned in this episode REST IoT Internet of Things ColdBox ORM CouchBase Listen to the Audio Bio Nathaniel Francis Nathaniel Francis is an employee of Computer Know How, the Wisconsin-based technology firm and ColdBox Alliance Partner. He has been working with ColdBox since he started at CKH in September of 2012. His focus is on ColdBox applications, ContentBox sites, and ColdBox REST apps. He is a husband, father of 8, worship leader, theologian, sci-fi enthusiast, and balding. Links Twitter Website Interview transcript Michaela Light: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Nathan Francis. We're going to be talking about the best REST you ever had. That's not a nap. That's rest as in ColdBox REST. We'll also be looking why you might want to use REST instead of doing regular ColdFusion and why ColdBox is the best REST. Nathan has used a whole slew of different REST APIs. He's got a lot of experience there. We'll also look at how, if you need to convert between REST APIs, or convert from regular ColdFusion code to REST, how easy it is to do that. Also, we'll look at a cool project he's been working on using REST and Couchbase, which is a really light weight setup he's got. Welcome, Nathan. Nathaniel F.: Thank you, sir. Glad to be here with you. Michaela Light: I think we better start with the big question in the room, which is why should anyone use REST instead of regular ColdFusion? A lot of CF developers don't even use REST. Nathaniel F.: Yeah, that's very true. I think part of that comes from CFML's heritage itself, which CFML excelled. It was one of the main languages that excelled at making just full bodied applications dynamically. Since it thrived in that area, when the tech industry moved to some newer ideas, it had a good sweet spot. ColdBox has allowed CFML to really move forward. One of those ways is with REST APIs. What that provides is instead of these full-bodied, traditional applications, you can make something that anything can touch. You can use any type of front-end technological mobile obviously is universal now, even things all the way down to the watches and the Internet of things to be able to talk to a REST API. That really makes your program universal. That bounds to the traditional sweet spot that CFML has traditionally been in. REST APIs are versatile. That means when you write something, you know it can reach a lot farther than just the browser that it used to. Michaela Light: If you wanted to swap out a different front end, that would be really easy to do? Nathaniel F.: Yes, absolutely. It'd be very easy to do. What that does is it makes both ends of your application ab...

007 Marketing Automation using the Preside Platform with Dominic Watson Apr 09, 2017

Dominic Watson talks about "Marketing Automation using the Preside Platform", in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with the host Michaela Light. Dominic is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Preside Platform Deep Dive. "Preside has been around for a lot longer than it appears to have been around. It was at Pixelate. It was a commercial application that we licensed to all of our customers, but nobody else outside of Pixelate used it, but it competed on a lot of features for the other CMS's out there. We have a large number of medium, large-sized clients that were using it." - Dominic Watson Show notes Why use a CMS? Why yet another CF CMS? Why they had shifted from closed source to open source. Problems with this shift How it's different from ContentBox and MuraCMS It is an application platform with CMS abilities Why use an application platform? How to customize with Preside extensions? Better at customizing than other CMS Why Extensions are key Cascading inheritance and overriding core behavior Why you need to be doing marketing automation in your business apps? Marketing filters for user behavior Email center - transactional emails, broadcast, marketing automation List segmentation ColdBox invisible framework Task managing Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box conference? Preside is CMS and custom app dev built on top of ColdBox Coding more responsibly Mentioned in this episode Preside ContentBox MuraCMS State of the CF Union survey 2017, Q8 What CMS do you use Marketing automation Hubspot Infusionsoft Listen to the Audio Bio Dominic Watson Dominic Watson trained as a Musical Theatre actor before embarking on a career in London's west end. Fortunately, this folly was cut short by an overtaking love of all things programming that led to a decisive career change building web applications. Programming CFML for over 10 years, he is now the technical lead at Pixl8 Interactive, a London-based digital agency specializing in Web and Intranet development, and lead developer of Preside, our open source CFML CMS and application development platform. Links Preside.org Slack channel presidecms.slack.com (free invite on Preside website) Interview Transcript: Michaela Light: Welcome back to the show. I’m here with Dominic Watson, the lead engineer of Preside at Pixelate Interactive. He is going to be talking about doing marketing automation using the Preside platform, which is a ColdFusion platform and CMS. We’re going to look at some basic questions here, why you’d even want to use the CMS and not your own homegrown piece of code or not use one at all? And why yet another ColdFusion CMS had to be created, and why they shifted from closed source to open source and problems they had with that, how Preside is different from ContentBox and Mura CMS and other CMS’s and what exactly is an application platform, and how you can customize the Preside application platform with the extensions and cascading inheritance and overriding core behavior, and also why you should be doing marketing automation in your ColdFusion business apps. Welcome Dominic. Dominic Watson: Thank you. Michaela Light: Yes, hello, joining us from England. Let’s start off with the big question in the room. Why should people use a CMS instead of just rolling their own code or not using one? Dominic Watson: Sure. I’ll answer it, to start with, for us, we have a business that sells services, so we create sites for our clients. All of our clients require CMS. They are large organizations with multiple editors. They won’t have their own in-house teams so they need to be able to create content through ...

006 CF State of Union Survey 2017 with David Tattersall Apr 07, 2017

David Tattersall talks about "CF State of Union Survey 2017" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. David is the CEO of Integral, and is building FusionReactor, fusion analytics and fusion debug. "I think what the ColdFusion guys want or are looking for with that is provide a platform that enables ColdFusion to be sort of a core component of an architecture that's also connected to other technologies. It's enabling other technologies to be more easily connected to CF, which is a great thing really." - David Tattersall Show notes CF State of Union Survey 2017 What version of CFML does David prefer API Manager Management systems Mentioned in this episode CF 2016 CF 11 API Manager CF9 FusionReactor Brad Wood Lucee TeraTech Ruby on Rails Upwork Listen to the Audio Bio David Tattersall David Tattersall is the CEO Intergral Information Solutions GmbH. Links LinkedIn Intergral Interview transcript Michaela Light: TeraTech ColdFusion consulting. David, tell us a little bit about yourself, David. Who are you? David T.: Hi. Who am I? My name's David. I'm the CEO of Integral. We're going to build FusionReactor, fusion analytics, and fusion. I'm working from home today, so this is my home office in the background. Michaela Light: What a wonderful home office. We're here to talk about the state of the ColdFusion union survey this year. What were the most interesting things you saw in that, David? David T.: I'd say highlighting some of the most interesting things, what struck me was actually it was the first question, what version of CFML engine do you use? Check all that apply. I think in the past looking at the previous state of the union surveys within, sort of let's say a year of releasing a new version of ColdFusion, typically the number of users using that version had pretty much reached the number of users who were using the previous year's, or the previous version. Read more And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free!

005 Dependency Injection, why is it awesome and why should I care? with Nolan Erck Apr 06, 2017

Nolan Erck talks about "Dependency Injection, why is it awesome and why should I care?" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. Nolan has been developing software professionally for more than 19 years, starting in the video game industry as a Tools Programmer advancing to web development in 1999. He has worked on high profile projects for LucasArts, Maxis, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Schools Credit Union, and Alive N Kicking Magazine among others. His list of credits includes Grim Fandango, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, SimPark, and SimSafari, as well as high-traffic websites for a variety of technology-based companies. "The bigger your app gets, the more CF components you'll have, the more you run into cases where in order to build one component you might have to create three or four other components first and then stick them inside the main master component you're dealing with." - Nolan Erck Show notes What is Dependency Injection? When / why would I use this in my projects? Intro to Aspect-Oriented Programming (or AOP). Intro to Inversion of Control (IOC). What is "Bean Management"? Why are you proud to develop in CF? What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Mentioned in this episode LucasArts Maxis Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes Schools Credit Union Grim Fandango Star Wars: The Phantom Menace SimPark SimSafari SacInteractive User Group Listen to the Audio Bio Nolan Erck Nolan currently co-manages the SacInteractive User Group and is an active member of the Web Developer community, giving presentations on Object-Oriented Programming and Web Development for groups across Northern California. Nolan is also certified in Adobe ColdFusion, and is an in-demand consultant, providing training and development experience for a variety of companies. When he's not consulting or talking about himself in the third person, Nolan can usually be found working on one of several music projects. Nolan is also one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Dependency Injection. Links GitHub South of Shasta Twitter LinkedIn Interview Transcript Michaela Light: Back to the show. I'm here with Nolan, and he is gonna be telling us all about dependency injection, and various ways you can do it in ColdFusion, and why you'd want to do it, and what it is. And we're going to be looking in detail at that. He's giving a talk at Into the Box, coming up in about a month's time now. Exciting stuff. Nolan has been developing for nearly 20 years now, and he actually started off creating video games, and even worked on the Star Wars video game at Lucas Arts, and shook hands with George Lucas one time. Several times, in fact. Since then, he's been doing ColdFusion and a lot of object-orientated stuff, so welcome Nolan. Nolan Erck: Thank you. Thanks for having me. Michaela Light: Dependency injection. I know a lot of people don't really use it or aren't quite sure why they should use it, and yet when we did our recent State of the ColdFusion Union survey, 90 percent of people are using CFSs, but less than 50 percent are doing any dependency injection. So tell us what it is and why we should be using it. Nolan Erck: Right. Yeah, I have seen similar stats before too. So I think a lot of people are using SF components as just a way to sort of dump CF functions into a little container and- not using components for much more than a glorified function library. Which is a good starting point for components, but there is a lot more you can do with them after that. So once you get comfortable with components and you have different CFCs that solve different types of problems, you might have one that handles talking to your user table in the database, you might have one for handling security in the application,

004 Performance Tuning and the Future of Lucee with Gert Franz Apr 05, 2017

Gert Franz talks about "Performance Tuning and the Future of Lucee" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Gert was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. Back in the late eighties he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched to later IT as a profession and programmed for several companies in the past as a database administrator and system analyst. Gert is also an upcoming speaker for the Into The Box Conference, where he will talk about how to make CFML fast. "Knowing basic things or very general things about the application or the CFML engine per se is very important so that you know that you're not using certain things excessively because otherwise, it's no wonder that your code only responds in two or three seconds." - Gert Franz Show notes Performance tuning Common techniques for programming Importance of basic response time on pages Basic execution time ColdFusion code tweaks Lucee, way ahead in terms of performance Into The Box Conference Mentioned in this episode Railo Lucee CF Camp 2016 CF Sharepoint Into The Box Conference Listen to the Audio Bio Gert Franz Gert Franz is the CTO of Rasia GmbH. He was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. Back in the late eighties he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched to later IT as a profession and programmed for several companies in the past as a database administrator and system analyst. Links Rasia IO LinkedIn Interview Transcript Michaela Light: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Gert Franz from Rasia and he did a lot of work on Railo and Lucee, the CFML open source engine. He's talking at the Into the Box Conference. What's your topic, Gert? Gert Franz: I don't even know how I named it but it's actually about performance tuning step by step. Showing in iterations how to get from a very high, I'm not saying the numbers now, from a very high number of seconds to a very low number of seconds, with different iterations where you avoid certain things in your programming and then you just use common techniques and I'll explain the details why things are good and why you shouldn't use things. Michaela Light: That is great. You're going to help people speed up their code and learn some things to avoid and things to do better? Gert Franz: Hopefully. Everyone has their tricks and tips and how they are improving the performance of their code but this came out of an assignment from a client and while I was doing the iterations I always had to prove that I did something. I told him, "Okay, what I'm going to do is I'm going to create iterations of the code," and I'm explaining each of those. He said, "Oh, that's fantastic. Why don't you give a talk about this." I go, "Well that was my idea in the first place." I was asking him for permission to do this. Read more And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) p...

003 Kick Your Server to the Curb and Go Serverless with Raymond Camden Apr 02, 2017

Raymond Camden talks about "Kick Your Server to the Curb and Go Serverless" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Raymond is a developer advocate for IBM. His work focuses on LoopBack, API Connect, serverless, hybrid mobile development, Node.js, HTML5, and web standards in general. He's a published author and presents at conferences and user groups on a variety of topics. "I look at my history of building websites of ColdFusion, and I see a lot of cases where I could have, and not all the time, but I could have replaced it with something a little bit simpler, like Serverless." - Raymond Camden Show notes OpenWhisk Serverless REST service Mentioned in this episode OpenWhisk Serverless My Cloud Node.js REST Bluemix Watson services IBM Apache PhoneGap Lucee CFML CommandBox 025 Why Programming in Node is so Powerful (how CFers can learn), with Ray Camden 073 Progressive Web Apps (A Gentle Intro for CFers who are scared of PWAs) with Ray Camden Listen to the Audio Bios Raymond Camden Raymond is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about going Serverless. Links Blog Twitter Interview transcript Michaela Light: Welcome back to The Box interviews. I'm here with Ray Camden, developer advocate for IBM, and a long time fan of ColdFusion, and he's speaking on, what are you speaking on, Ray? It sounded like a very interesting topic about OpenWhisk. Raymond Camden: Yeah. So I'm speaking about Serverless with Apache OpenWhisk, which is a project that IBM is heavily involved with, as well. Michaela Light: And for those who haven't understood what OpenWhisk is, because it sounds like, from what I've read, it could do a number of things. Some of which are incredibly powerful. Ray, what exactly is it? Raymond Camden: Let me back up and talk about Serverless first, because I kind of avoided the topic for a while myself, because I knew the name was kind of stupid, and even more so than My Cloud, you know, Serverless, I knew, was the exact opposite, unless they were running on imaginary numbers, or something, but the best way to think of it is function as a service. Read more And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing,

002 First Look into the IntoTheBox Conference with Brad, Luis & Gavin Apr 02, 2017

Brad Wood, Luis Majano, and Gavin Pickin talk about "First Look into the Into The Box Conference" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Brad, Luis and Gavin are all speakers of the Into The Box Conference. In this episode, we are going to find out what exactly is the conference about; if there are ColdFusion secrets to come out, and more. Brad and Luis are speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference. Brad will talk about Converting Legacy Apps into Modern MVC, CommandBox Server Minions, Box Microservices and Ortus Keynote. Luis' topics in the conference are Integration Development, Slaying the ORM Dragons with CBORM, and Ortus Keynote. "The whole conference is about empowering ColdFusion developers to modernize themselves. Also take a look at a job that was a great companion. We do it day in and day out as well. Uh huge ecosystems, so how to teach and showcase the integration pieces between CFML and Java and we do this a lot in everything that we do. A lot of techniques for developers. A lot of business processes. Continuous integration processes. Testing processes, which a lot of developers hate. This is something that's very big for us. You'll see that from the sessions, there's a big gamut of coverage." - Luis Majano Show notes Showcasing processes of CF developers Modernizing CF dev practices New applications Adapting a competitive edge Architecture and business processes Integration of ColdFusion Date of the Into The Box Conference Who are the speakers at the conference Mentioned in this episode Into The Box Java CFML Ortus REST Lucee TeraTech Listen to the Audio Bios Brad Wood Brad grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors. Brad has been programming ColdFusion since 2001 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He first fell in love with ColdFusion as a way to easily connect a database to his website for dynamic pages. He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server. Brad is the ColdBox Platform developer advocate at Ortus Solutions and lead developer of the CommandBox CLI. Luis Majano Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer born in El Salvador and is the president of Ortus Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in web development, architecture and professional open source support and services. His background includes over 17 years of software development experience, architecture, and system design. He is the creator of the ColdBox MVC Platform, ContentBox Modular CMS, CommandBox CLI and many more open source projects. He lives in Texas with his beautiful wife Veronica, baby girl Alexia and baby boy Lucas! You can read his blog and technology musings at https://www.luismajano.com. Gavin Pickin Gavin Pickin – Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions Gavin started using ColdFusion in 1999 when working for the university of Auckland in New Zealand before moving to California. He has lead teams, trained new developers and worked the full stack from graphic design, HTML CSS JavaScript through to ColdFusion MySQL and server administration. Links Into The Box Java CFML Ortus REST Lucee Interview transcript Michaela Light: Here with Brad, Luis, and Gavin, all from Into The Box Conference, and I am going to find out exactly what this conference is all about. I think there's some ColdFusion secrets gonna come out. I can read some in that white board behind you guys so it's not too secret. Oh, he's covering it up now. All right, Luis. Into The Box, who is this for? Someone's never heard of this conference,

001 Amazing Adventures with CF WebSockets with Giancarlo Gomez Mar 29, 2017

Giancarlo Gomez talks about “Brief Introduction To Websockets” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Giancarlo is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about WebSockets in CFML. In his ITB talk, he plans to get into some CF Websockets code. Reviews a couple of concept apps and how to build them using WebSockets. Creates a live dashboard, a collaborating form, a little game and maybe the good old chat. Discuss some tips and tricks to help keep them up and running thru several failure points. "With WebSockets, when the client connects, it creates a bi-directional connection that the server not only knows that the client is there, but the client also knows that the server is connected and he can send data back and forth. Now when something triggers on the server, through that connection, that message can be sent in real time to not only one, but multiple connected clients that are set to receive that data." - Giancarlo Gomez Show notes Why CF Websockets is way more than just a chat client How CF Websockets are better than Ajax CF 10, 11 and 2016 differences in Websocket features and licensing Lucee CFML Websockets using SocketId open source version Why adding push notifications live on your website is so powerful Mentioned in this episode CrossTrackr ColdFusion 10 ColdFusion 11 Pusher PubNub Socket.io open source websockets PubSub Lucee open source CFML South Florida ColdFusion User Group Listen to the Audio Bio Giancarlo Gomez Giancarlo Gomez is a full-stack developer with over 17 years experience with various languages, technologies and a passion to continue to learn. He has been a designer, developer and project lead for several companies stateside and can even say this path took him across the pond years back for a piece of software he wrote that required installation and configuration. The internet was much slower back then and a flight was required. He is the owner/lead developer of Fuse Developments, Inc. established in 2004, his consulting business specializing in web and mobile development and CrossTrackr, Inc., a SaaS for the CrossFit community, targeted towards athletes and gym owners providing real-time insight into athletic progress and health metrics. Links Twitter GitHub Giancarlogomez.com Interview transcript Michaela Light: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Giancarlo Gomez- I think I'm pronouncing your name right there? Also he's known as JC, which is a lot easier to pronounce. And he is the co-manager of the South Florida ColdFusion Users Group, which actually is now a virtual user group. Anyone in the world can join in there; it's through Meetup. And he is not only a dad and a husband, but ... Web developer, musician, he owns Fuse Developments, and he created CrossTrackr, in case you do CrossFit and want to track how well you're doing. So welcome, JC. Giancarlo G: Hello, Michael, thank you. Thank you for having me. Michaela Light: So I know you're speaking at the upcoming Into The Box Conference and you're talking about WebSockets and ... Tell us a bit about that. First of all, maybe we'd better back up a bit. What the heck is a "WebSocket," in case people have never used it? I mean, I know it's been in ColdFusion for a few versions now, but that doesn't mean people even know it exists. Giancarlo G: A WebSocket is the ability to send real-time information back and forth between the server and the connected client, with very little to almost no lag. Rather than the user having to poll the server or look for information from the server, the server immediately, once it knows it has information that it can send to subscribed clients, it will do it in real time. Read more

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