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

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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and error CF docs - but just documents individual tags - not the why Books CF Web Application Construction Kit - now out of date Learn CF in 100 minutes Ortus book Training Linda Adobe college curriculum Conferences CFUG CF certification CF Slack channel What plans do you have for the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, Dave is an avid gamer and competitive martial artist with multiple championship titles. Links https://twitter.com/dfgrumpy https://github.com/dfgrumpy/learncfinaweek Mentioned in this episode https://teratech.com/comprehensive-coldfusion-training-list-16-resources/ State of CF Union survey Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:01 Welcome back to the show today we've got an exciting episode about learn CF in a week, which is an amazing website, free training. Oops, I let the cat out of the bag there on the how it's priced. And I've actually got three experts who helped put together local fusion in a week we've got Dan frederick's of the North Virginia CPG. We've got Dave Bergson, who's joining us from sunny California, and Carl von Stephen. And I'm forgetting where in the country you are call California as well. Another sunny California is on the other end at the other end of California, the Republic of Northern California. So I'm cool. Well, glad you all could join us here and I think we should start off because not everyone knows what this thing is learn CF in a week. What exactly is it? Daniel Fredericks 0:52 I'm gonna let Dave mentioned this because Dave is one of the originals. Just a quick history that did was part of this originally when they put it together five, six years ago. That's been a while. And then he realized that we that it needed to be upgraded. So he conned or asked both Carl and myself to join in. And we've been sort of helping administer putting the new thing together. So Dave can probably give you a better sense of where learns the up for week came from DEF CON with cookies is probably a good, good thing, but I still haven't given you the cookies. So. Dave Ferguson 1:29 So, backstory like Dan said learn CF in a week was started a long time ago to try and bridge the gap between somebody wanting to learn the language and just reading help documentation. We can go online and go to CF docs and wherever else you want you to figure out how to write certain tags and so on and so forth. But there was nothing to really say if you're new to the language. Here's how you would start here's how you would finish and kind of just help you along the way versus just hunting and packing up. 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.

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

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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 Boeing Company, and Organizer of the Seattle ColdFusion User Group and Vice President for his company, O’Daniel Designs. Leon is an avid Seattle Seahawks fan, father of 2, and has been married for 28 (almost 29) years to his wife Gina. Leon tries to make himself available to help other ColdFusion developers to help with anything he is able. You can contact him at leon@odanieldesigns.com. Seattle ColdFusion User Group Logo: Seattle ColdFusion User Group Link: https://www.seattlecfug.org | https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group 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. Nolan Erck Nolan Erck has been developing software for 21 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 a variety of 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. 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. Links https://southofshasta.com/ Twitter: @southofshasta http://sacinteractive.com/ Twitter: @sacinteractive Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:01 Hey, welcome back to the show here we have a special episode. And it's a panel of cold fusion user group experts. We've got Leon, Nolan and Daniel. So and we might have drew as well joining us, he isn't here yet. But if you pop in the middle, I'll introduce him there. And my name is Michaela light. This is the CF alive podcast. And today we're going to be looking about running or starting a cold fusion user group. So welcome, everyone. And if you don't know, our guests here, Leon runs the Seattle cold fusion user group. And Nolan runs a user group down in Mount Shasta area in California. Sacramento, I'm sorry, Nolan Erck 0:48 no worries, just it's just, Michaela Light 0:49 it's just your company name has Shasta, and it gets me confused. Nolan Erck 0:53 I had that happen before. Michaela Light 0:55 Yeah. And then Daniel runs the circuit, Chicago ColdFusion user group. So we nearly got all the time zones covered in the United States. And if anyone listening, if you run a youth group, please let us know in the comments about it, we'd love to hear what you're doing. And if you're interested in starting youth group, let us know that in the comments. And if you just wish you could attend to us, or you can tell us that too. So I think we should start off by just explaining what is a ColdFusion user group or the acronym CPG that sometimes gets bandied around. Leon O'Daniel 1:32 So you know, for, for my opinion, a confusion user group is a community of people that all have a common interest in cold fusion, and are interested in sharing their knowledge about cold fusion and about learning about opportunities and additional information in that area. also supporting technologies for cold fusion. 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.

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

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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. And he's done a lot of presentations. So welcome, Ray. Raymond Camden 0:55 Thank you for having me. Thank you for inviting me. Michaela Light 0:58 Yeah. So you're welcome. A lot of it's nice to have you back on the show. I'll link in the to other episodes you had on the CF Alive podcast and the show notes on progressive web apps and using Node JS. But today, we're going to look at Vue.JS, which is a front end framework that a fair number of ColdFusion developers use, in fact, I interviewed john Farrar a couple of years ago, and he was kind of excited about it. And I'll put that episode in the show notes too. But I'm sure you have a totally different take on it from John's, even though you both do have beards. So Raymond Camden 1:32 yeah, I went to one of his presentations on view. And that was my first introduction to the topic. I don't know if I have a different take on it. But I have been using well before ups, I've been using Angular JS for a while. And I liked it. You know, I've been I'm potential I saying I liked it with a little bit of pain. Yeah, I could get things done. I liked it in comparison to everything else I looked at. But I wasn't necessarily thrilled to start a new project with it. You know, if I had some, like random, weird, stupid idea, which are even most of my ideas are like that. Just a thought of starting a new Angular project was a bit of a impediment in terms of all the stuff that you had to kind of set up and get working. And that could absolutely have been my fault. 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. So I have one page site, that's totally fine. on that one page, I want to add a little bit of interactivity. And the past I would have use jQuery for that. And now I'll use the view because view works great at that smaller scale. And it also works great with for applications as well. And I want to apologize if I'm a bit my soapbox here now, but it seems like most people talking about JavaScript have the assumption that you're always building applications with routing and state management and all that fancy stuff, you know, enterprise JavaScript apps. Whereas like, a lot of my JS work over the years has been a much smaller scale, still important to the client, still, you know, adding good things for end users, but at a scale that I don't see talked about, and a lot of conferences and blog posts now and to me view supporting the full range of what people can bill makes it a huge win for me off the soapbox. 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.

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

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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

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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, which may be just what you've been waiting for, whether you're solving a long-standing problem or providing a new technique related to coding, troubleshooting, administration, enterprise integration, or more. Charlie will also help identify edition differences, pricing, migration issues, and more. Securing Mature CFML Codebases Pete Freitag Software Engineer & Web Consultant, Foundeo Inc. Large and mature ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) code bases have unique challenges when it comes to ensuring that they are secure. This session will go over some techniques for finding vulnerabilities, and improving the security of your CFML application over time. Step Into Serverless With AWSAnd Adobe Coldfusion Brian Klaas Senior Technology Officer, Johns Hopkins University Adobe ColdFusion is a great tool for web applications, even if it's not the right tool for every job. For examples, it's not easy to do machine learning, video compression, and computer vision from within ColdFusion. Who wants to set up servers or Docker Clusters for those tasks when ColdFusion isn't the best fit? In this session, we will take a look at getting started in a serverless environment with Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Step Functions-a powerful, visual way to orchestrate functions and services within the AWS Cloud. Along the way, you'll learn about AWS services, such as Lambda, S3, Rekognition, Translate, and Transcribe. Join us to see how you can invoke and track serverless workflows from within your ColdFusion applications, and how to harness the vast array of AI and computational power that AWS provides with a simple "embrace and extend with ColdFusion" approach. Faster Queries In Coldfusion & SQL Server Eric Cobb Database Development Manager, Centauri Health Solutions, Inc Adobe ColdFusion makes it easy to retrieve data from SQL Servers, however, sometimes, your queries may not be performing as well as they could be. In this session, we will take a look at ways to speed up your queries in both CFML and SQL Servers, as well as discuss things you may be doing that are slowing your queries down. With a detailed look at SELECT statements, Stored Procedures, indexes, and learning to read query execution plans, this session will have you well on your way to turbocharging your queries in CF & SQL Servers alike! Refreshing Your UI: Modern Uses For Websockets Giancarlo Gomez Owner of CrossTrackr, Inc. and Fuse Developments, Inc. & Senior Web Application Developer, Duty Free Americas Is your application suffering from stale UIs? Is your server begging you to limit the amount of useless calls just to see if there is something new to display to your users? Do your users suffer from finger clicking pain due to refresh button abuse? Well, look no further my friend, we have the solution that is right for you- welcome to the world of WebSockets! In this presentation, attendees will learn how easy it is to implement WebSockets into your applications as of Adobe ColdFusion 10. Our speaker will review some real-world uses of this technology, and discuss some tips and tricks to help keep them up and running through several failure points. Attendees of this session should have some knowledge of JavaScript, as it is needed to work with WebSockets. CF + ReactJS Minh Vo Advantage Data Inc., Lead Engineer at Draft Studios, Head of Development and Security at Advantage Data Today, it is still uncommon to find an Adobe ColdFusion developer with a high JavaScript skill that has had to deal with interactivity programming to a high degree. In this session, attendees will learn how to rig the following functionalities: parallax, scroll handling, simple animations, ColdFusion web sockets for real-time interactivity, fetching JSON from a ColdFusion CFC, and extreme reusability and modularity. Join us as our speaker conveys the essence of a ReactJS + CF project buildout in 45 minutes. You'll want to go straight home to build out the funky stuff we made! The Many Hidden Benefits Of The Adobe API Manager To Unlock The Power Of API's Brian Sappey Applications Architect at Market America and Manager of Engineering, SHOP.com In this session, attendees will learn how to utilize the many hidden features of the Adobe API Manager, with a provided look and examples to get you started. Furthermore, attendees will gain a full understanding of the many benefits of using the native API's which power the API Manager. Whether you are migrating from an existing platform, automating your workflows, or integrating with third-party sites, this session will give you the ability to enhance your development experience. As an added benefit, our speaker will be providing a real-world example of a custom WordPress Plugin, which was built to integrate with our internal and external API's utilizing the Native Adobe Manager API's. Revamp Your Monolith With Hierarchical MVC Luis Majano President, Ortus Solutions Come learn about building your applications using a hierarchical modular approach. Leave the age of monoliths behind with HMVC. In this session, we will explore the architecture behind HMVC and create a RESTFul application that is modular, versioned and scalable. We will then containerize the application and deploy it into a Docker swarm. Keynote - Ashish Garg - Engineering Director, responsible for CF and other ELearning tools at Adobe, Adobe Connect CF Summit 2019 Agenda Date Wednesday April 10th 2019, 8am - 5pm Includes breakfast, lunch and breaks Cost Main conference Free Pre-conference workshop $99 full day training Location Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 Ninth Street NW Washington, DC 20001 Near to the metro (Same hotel as last year) Other things you can in DC? National mall Museums White House What is new this year? Recording sessions is planned ...

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

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CFWheels is an open source CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) MVC framework inspired by Ruby on Rails that simplifies application development through convention over configuration. With over 15 years of continuous development since its first release in 2006, CFWheels provides developers with fast application development, organized code architecture, and built-in features like RESTful routing, ORM capabilities, and database migrations. Whether you are migrating legacy ColdFusion applications or building modern APIs, CFWheels balances flexibility with developer-friendly simplicity, making it an ideal choice for teams seeking rapid development without overwhelming complexity. 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, what would each one feel like to you?" Show notes What You Need to Know About 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 What are you looking forward to at Into The Box? Passionate Fun Mentioned in this episode CFWheels ColdBox FW/1 Fusebox State of the CF Union survey Into The Box conference Listen to the Audio Bios Tom King Tom is a freelance full-stack web developer and has been working with CFML since 2001, and with CFWheels since version 1.1.3. He joined the core team in 2014 and spoke on CFWheels 2.0 at CFCamp 2016. He has created everything from custom CMS systems to eLearning platforms with CFWheels, mainly for the Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford Martin School, both at the University of Oxford. Alongside his freelance work, he's also CTO of a new startup, Kinherit LTD, which works in the area of end-of-life planning (wills and probate etc). When not coding, Tom will usually be found behind a set of drums, or hidden deep in a wine cellar. Links Website CFWheels Twitter David Belanger David is a Canadian ColdFusion developer who lives in Argentina with his wife and 4 extremely active children. He's been with CF since version 4.5 and was briefly the only reseller of CF in Argentina before Adobe acquired Macromedia. He's dedicated full-time to CF development on several new and legacy projects as well as a strong CF advocate and a current member of the CFWheels Core Team. He currently works full-time “creating things that matter” at Intoria Internet Architects, a web development company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada Links Twitter Website Main site GitHub Google Groups Slack Channel Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Episode transcript Michaela Light 0:01 Welcome back to the show I'm here with David Ballenger and Tom King and we're going to be talking about CF wheels a cold fusion framework for the rest of us and we'll look at what CF wheels is and what's coming up in the new release of CF wheels and some really cool things you can do with restful routing and the CRM that's built into it and lots of other cool stuff so welcome Tom and David and if case you don't know them that two of the four wheels on the CF wheels team I guess you could call it a CF wheels bus so to speak and Tom has been doing cold fusion since 2001 and he he joined see if we'll switch from one what a while ago and he even spoke on it and see if camp few years back so three years ago now so and then. David He is our Canadian ColdFusion connection currently living in Argentina so he's very international and he's been doing cold fusion since version four or five which is a long while ago so and helps get cold fusion more exciting in Argentina and Latin America. So welcome David and Tom Both 1:29 Thank you having us Michaela Light 1:30 yeah so I guess the the elephant in the room is for those people who haven't UCF wheels and I know from our cold fusion developer survey the State of the Union survey not everyone uses CF wheels the maybe people wondering what what is CF wheels I obviously has something to do with ColdFusion but but what is i Both 1:54 was just you can just go ahead Tom King 1:56 Well... Tom King 2:00 In short, it's an MVC based framework. And it was inspired somewhat by Ruby on Rails. And it's got about let's go over 10 years worth of development in it. And the idea was to have a really successful framework where we got inspired by the Ruby on Rails concepts and translated them as Seth, I think, David, you know, a bit more about some of the sort of history side of it, don't you? Read more How TeraTech Approaches ColdFusion Framework Solutions TeraTech brings a unique perspective to CFWheels discussion across multiple knowledge channels, recognizing that modern ColdFusion development requires frameworks that balance power with accessibility. Through the CF Alive Podcast and community engagement, TeraTech emphasizes how CFWheels enables development teams to maintain mission-critical applications while implementing modern development methodologies. We provide comprehensive resources including the free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist, which covers continuous integration, automated testing, and portable development environments that work seamlessly with CFWheels projects. By hosting in-depth discussions about framework comparisons and showcasing real-world implementations through our ColdFusion development services, TeraTech demonstrates how CFWheels solves the challenge of keeping legacy applications "alive" with modern architectural practices. This approach ensures that organizations depending on ColdFusion for mission-critical operations can confidently evolve their applications without abandoning the language that powers their business. FAQs About CFWheels ColdFusion Framework What is CFWheels and how does it differ from other ColdFusion frameworks? CFWheels is an open source MVC framework for CFML inspired by Ruby on Rails that emphasizes convention over configuration. Unlike ColdBox (which provides extensive enterprise features like a "friendly tiger who does everything"), FW/1 (a lightweight "fast bird"), or the neglected Fusebox framework, CFWheels functions as an approachable "horse you just get on and ride." It offers over 15 years of development maturity, built-in ORM with dynamic finders, RESTful routing capabilities,...

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

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In this CF Alive Podcast episode, Brian Cain joins host Michaela Light to compare ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .NET—four of the most popular web-development languages. They explore which platform delivers faster development, simpler maintenance, and a friendlier developer experience. If you’re choosing a stack for enterprise or rapid-application development (RAD), this episode will save you some pain and arguments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlxeFjG5LDM&rel=0 Speed of Development in ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .NET ColdFusion’s greatest strength is time of thought to launch—how quickly an idea becomes a live feature. ColdFusion: Around 10 hours for similar features .NET: Takes weeks, especially when changes arise PHP: Days, flexible but less object-oriented Java: Weeks, more structured but slower to adapt ColdFusion isn’t tied to rigid frameworks or heavy methodologies. It allows faster pivots when business priorities shift. Developer Friendliness and Ease of Use Language Developer Experience ColdFusion (CFML) Tag-based syntax for quick starts, cfscript and OO power for scaling up PHP Flexible open source, less consistency Java / .NET Verbose, require deep CS background ColdFusion developers can onboard in 1–2 weeks, even from other languages. Hiring and Training Developers It’s easier to train PHP or Java devs to ColdFusion than the other way around. Simple, forgiving syntax Low learning curve Strong community documentation ColdFusion’s learning curve is kind to newcomers while remaining powerful for experts. Technology Roadmap and Maintenance Each language has a different lifecycle: .NET: Controlled by Microsoft; large shifts per version Java: Licensing and framework volatility under Oracle PHP: Rapid evolution through open-source releases ColdFusion: Backed by Adobe with a stable roadmap and strong backward compatibility Clean CFML code saves time later with built-in tools like cfqueryparam and reusable components. Security, Legacy, and Backward Compatibility ColdFusion’s backward compatibility may look old-fashioned, but it keeps legacy apps stable without rewrites. Further reading: Which Web Programming Language Is the Most Secure? Object Reuse and Maintainability Feature ColdFusion PHP Java .NET Object Reuse ✅ Yes ❌ Limited ✅ Yes ✅ Yes PDF Generation ✅ Built-in Add-on Add-on Add-on Education and Community Support Adobe actively supports ColdFusion education through: Free ColdFusion Curriculum CF Licenses for Learning Learn CF in a Week course Events like CF Summit Developers who think ahead about maintainability become the backbone of any serious tech stack. Third-Party Add-ons and Integrations ColdFusion includes built-in support for: PDF generation REST APIs Scheduler and task automation Secure sessions Less dependency chaos. More productivity. Why Developers Still Choose ColdFusion ColdFusion continues to thrive in 2025 because it: Delivers faster project turnaround Reduces total cost of ownership Simplifies hiring and onboarding Integrates easily with Java libraries Offers robust cloud and security support It’s not just about speed—it’s about developer happiness. WWIT (What Would It Take) to Make CF More Alive This Year? Publicity matters. Even NASA uses ColdFusion—the same tech that helped humanity reach Mars. The community just needs to talk louder about its wins. What Did You Enjoy at CF Summit? Networking, new tech insights, and rediscovering the strong ColdFusion ecosystem. Mentioned in This Episode Learn CF in a Week Free Adobe ColdFusion Curriculum and Licenses for Learning Contact: Kishore Balakrishnan (kishore@adobe.com) Modernization of Adobe ColdFusion – More Secure Than Ever Listen to the audio below: About the Guest: Brian Cain Brian Cain has 20 years of development experience, with 16 focused on ColdFusion. He’s the Development Team Manager for the Careers Division at Farms.com, managing enterprise CF applications at scale. Connect with Brian on LinkedIn. Interview Transcript (Excerpt) Michaela Light: Welcome back to the show! I'm here with Brian Cain, and we’re talking about ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .NET—a four-way developer showdown. Topics include speed of development, object orientation, add-ons, and that dreaded L-word: legacy. Brian Cain: ColdFusion has always been the fastest and easiest. One keynote speaker described it as “time of thought to launch”—how quickly an idea turns into a live feature. One project went from idea to release in just 10–12 hours. Compare that to a .NET MVC project that took weeks and still needed restarts. ColdFusion just worked. Frequently Asked Questions Is ColdFusion faster than PHP or .NET? Yes. ColdFusion allows shorter “time of thought to launch” cycles compared to PHP or .NET. Is ColdFusion still relevant in 2025? Absolutely. It’s widely used in government, finance, and enterprise systems, supported by Adobe’s active roadmap. Which language is most developer-friendly? ColdFusion and PHP are easier for newcomers. Java and .NET demand more specialized knowledge. Listen on Your Favorite Platform: Find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or the CF Alive Podcast Archive. 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.

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

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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 restart your application. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/rest-playground-ion-2018-release/ CLI and Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) (NEW) Work with files, databases, and email, or invoke web services, by executing CFM via the command line. Now execute the admin API from the CLI to script your ColdFusion server settings. Test-drive or learn CFML with REPL support in CLI. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/repl-coldfusion-2018-release/ Command-line interface (New) Work faster by using CFML for your scripting needs. Execute CFM files via the command line to work with files, databases and email or invoke web services. Pass named or positional parameters to the CFM files for dynamic customization. Comment exchange across files (New) Make your review workflows more efficient. Easily export comments from PDF documents to XFDF files or vice versa. Comment positioning in the destination file matches the file from which the comments were imported. Standardized PDF metadata (New) Ensure consistency of PDF metadata across the organization. Easily create, share and apply metadata, including copyright notice, authoring data and keywords, by transferring metadata between PDF and XMP files. Audience questions Updates on educational books, training Learn CF in a week YouTube course getting started with CF Complete web dev curriculum can licenses for HS and college professors to help onboard the future of developers Free education teaching license Email channel@youtube.com Adobe CF certifications CF 2018 March Why are you proud to use CF? Easy to learn CF 2028 Raksith email and slack WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? More community participation Share cool apps outside CF Community too - to colleges and CIOs CF Summit East April 9 CF Summit West What did you enjoy at CF Summit West? What are you looking forward to at CF Summit India? Mentioned in this episode CF 2018 features https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-standard/features.html Charlie Arehart Hidden Gems in CF 2018 https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2018/7/19/whats_new_in_CF2018 https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2018/7/19/whats_new_in_CF2018_part_2 CF training resources https://teratech.com/comprehensive-coldfusion-training-list-16-resources/ Listen to the Audio Bio 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 the 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. Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:00 Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Kishore Bella Krishna from Adobe. He's the product marketing manager for cold fusion and we're going to be talking about cold fusion 2018 and we're going to cover everything that is new in cold fusion 2018. And it is a lot of things. If you haven't looked at what's new, you may be surprised by all the stuff that's in there. So we're going to look at both things on the server side that are new with the new server monitor and profiler database monitor and also the security improvements on the server and with the automated lockdown and other security tools and then we're going to look at a whole bunch of new features in cold fusion 2018. So that's what's coming up and if you have any questions let us know in the chat if you watching this live and we'll see if we can fit those In so welcome occasional Kishore 1:03 thanks for for having me. Michaela Light 1:06 And just in case you haven't met him before he he actually started out doing computer science degree get a master's degree in Computer Applications and he's been all you know Quality Manager Program Manager but now he's the product marketing manager for cold fusion so if you're a customer called fusion you may well have met him at CF summit or other cold fusion conferences and he's always happy to talk with cold fusion developers and managers. So one So tell us about you know, cold fusion 2018 it just came out a few months ago was is that right? Yes, it came out in August and it's been a fantastic ride but corporation to MBA what we had been called called vision 28 or 2018 was Kishore 1:56 we looked at the three pillars of ColdFusion, of performance language and security, since it's an application. So platform performance was been very critical for customers. And then most of the surveys that we run, and we do run quite a bit of number of surveys performance and security, where the top concerns of our customers. So this release, what we did was we double down on performance and said, like, how do we, you know, make the server faster as well as how do we make customer's applications faster? So from how do we make the server faster, what we did was the server runs 30% faster than 2016 delays. So if you have an application, which is running on 2016, just by upgrading to 2018, your applications will run 30% faster. And obviously, then, then what we thought was, what about our customers applications, obviously, we can't do much tweaking around that. So we came up with the application performance monitoring to using which the customer could easily identify and fix any performance bottlenecks that they have on the server. And we are taking the first step towards, you know, self monitoring of the server with the help of auto connected to meaning. So there's any issues with your connector, if you turn on the auto connected tuning, it'll automatically fix the connector issues as

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

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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 UX Design for Developers The Designer-Developer workflow conference (no longer running, site closed) Her podcast D2WC CFUnited Bio Dee has been in the UX world for 20+ years doing all aspects of User Experience from front-end, visual, interaction, and research. She recently was at IBM Watson Health where she was responsible for the Designers in Cambridge, the Consumer Health pillar and Watson for Genomics. She loves mentoring new UX’ers and is involved with the greater UX community and on the Board of Directors for UXPA LA. Currently a UX Director for Cox Automotive in New York. Design links My personal portfolio Twitter Interview transcript Michaela 0:00 Welcome back to the show. I'm here today with Dee Sadler, and you may know from CF united where she spoke many times all about design things, which Guess what, that's what I'm going to do about today. Design Thinking for ColdFusion developers. And we're going to learn 10 tips to make your apps totally amazing. And if you don't know Dee, she used to run a whole conference on design, as well as speaking at ColdFusion conferences. She's been doing UX work for 20 plus years. And from the front end visual interactive research. And she's now in charge of herding cats. I mean, now she's in charge of a whole UX team of designers who are very easy to work with. And she is in based in now in New York City, though she did a little stint in in Boston recently. So she's currently UX director for Cox automotive, and she's also on the board of directors for UX PA, whatever. What is UX PA, Dee? Dee Sadler 1:04 It's a UX organization national. I mean, it's an international organization. Michaela 1:09 Oh, alright. You're the Big Cheese, then? Dee Sadler 1:12 No, oh, no, no, no, no, I just, I'm on the board. I'm on board of directors, or the LA chapter. Michaela 1:21 Great. So we're looking at how to use design thinking for ColdFusion developers. And maybe we ought to just start off with what the heck is design thinking, because not everyone may have come across that and and then we'll look at why CFers should be using this. Read more

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

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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 Michaela: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Jorge Reyes from Ortus solutions, and we're gonna be talking about high performance cold fusion teams. We've got 15 tips and techniques that can make your competition teams really blossom. So we'll look at why you might want to have a high performance team. You don't have one already, and what exactly who he means by that. And we'll also look at how you can support your people over the process. And agile teams when everyone knows that we're all and you can help the T team and the team members evolve and look at some different ways you can improve the skills of your teams, and also some tool for work with distributed teams. So welcome. Whoa. Hey, Jorge Reyes: Michael. Thanks for having me again. Michaela: know, so yeah, you're so welcome. So maybe we should just start out with, you know, why should someone have a high-performance team? I know, that seems to seem we have a silly question, but not everyone has them. 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! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.

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