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

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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 Bio Jeffrey Kunkel Jeffrey Kunkel is an in house web developer for www.lightingnewyork.com. He has been developing for six years, and is excited to start contributing to the ColdFusion community at large. Jeff has been living with anxiety, depression, and OCD for his entire career. He wants to take the lessons he's learned working around and with these conditions to better the workflow and productivity of his colleagues. Links Twitter Interview transcript Michaela 0:01 Welcome back to the show today we're going to be looking at G ad general anxiety disorder and I am here with Jeffrey Kunkel rhymes with Uncle and we're going to look at why this matters to all cold fusion developers. You may be surprised by how many people this kind of thing effects and we'll talk about anxiety fo mo imposter syndrome. analysis paralysis, being overwhelmed. OCD, perfectionism. And is anxiety all bad if you're a CF developer. And we'll also look at some solutions. But dealing with this, particularly if you're going to conferences this year, because it's a lot of cold fusion events happening. And that can bring out the worst in the anxiety. So welcome, Jeffrey. Unknown 0:46 Oh, Michaela 0:48 hey. And if you don't know him, he's a co founder and developer. He's been one for quite a few years now. And he's just getting more active in the coffee here. community. And this is the first time he's speaking. Yep. Publicly at a conference. So probably your little anxious about the whole talk thing that you're giving on anxiety? It's a bit of a self referential Yep, they're Jeffrey Kunkel 1:13 living the experience I'm talking about. Absolutely. 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.

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

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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 Amazon AWS Google cloud platform CDN Using Portainer.io (Docker Container Management) with Neil Cresswell episode Floating IP Couchbase Redis Extension Elastic Search GitLab Continuous Integration Gulp functions DevNexus conference Listen to the Audio Bio 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. 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 Twitter Website CFML slack Interview transcript Michaela 0:01 Welcome back to the show. Today we're going to be looking at using content box in the cloud. And we're going to do some Docker magic with it. And I'm here with Gavin picking. And he is the software consultant for all the solutions. And he's also the guy behind a lot of the content box. Cool stuff. And I think he's been working away on a new release. But we'll ask him about that later in the episode. But first of all, we're going to talk about what content boxes and why you'd want to use it with Docker. And we'll talk about some of the cool new stuff that he's been putting out with the content box Docker image, and using a file mount in order to share media files between multiple instances and how clustering sessions can give you a lot more speed and reliability. We also touch on us support painter and couch based and Elastic Search. So lots of cool stuff in today's episode. So welcome, Gavin. Thank you appreciate having me. So for those people who don't know what is content box, Gavin Pickin 1:02 so content box is order solutions, very own CMS. So it's a content management system. And we built it on top of CO box. So it's a whole box app and does a lot of the great things you expect from content management systems. And we try to make it bigger and better all the time. The beauty of it is, is that it's modular. And if you've used man box, forge box, and everything else, just like have a co box apps, you can install modules and extending your app, and seconds, you want it to us, you know, be crib free passwords or what not just install the modular if you want to use you know, any other modules, install them in a way you go. They're up and running. And you can use them in seconds. So it builds on top of all the great building blocks that call box and forge box and command box gives you 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.

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

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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

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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 Michaela: Today, we’re looking at Font Awesome and ColdFusion and how you can never have to build icons for your apps again and we're here with Nolan Erck. And he is the founder of. South of Shasta productions. Nolan: South of Shasta Consulting. Michaela: South of Shasta Consulting? Nolan: yes Michaela: Consulting! He's like an expert ColdFusion consultant and he's always speaking at different conferences. In fact, he’s gonna be speaking I think in like five or six conferences this year including ‘Into the Box’ which we’ll talk about a bit more later. 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.

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

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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 strategist, he believes in the power of digital marketing to transform companies in terms of marketing ROI, sales, and customer service. Based in Sacramento, CA, Logan enjoys various mountain-related activities when he’s not helping grow businesses. Links www.southwesternconsulting.com LinkedIn Twitter Interview transcript Michaela: Welcome back to the show. Today, we're going to go deep into the marketing dark arts for ColdFusion developers with Facebook advanced audience creation and tracking and I'm here with Logan Mayville. And he is speaking at Muracon in the digital experience tracked. (I think remember that right.) And we're gonna look at how Facebook strategy is different from Google Ad Words; totally different way of doing things. And what the keys to that are. And also, we’ll look at some creative tips and tricks you can use in advertising your products and services and how lead generation for enterprising B2B can be done using this as well. And we'll also look at privacy and some of the Facebook data breaches that have being in the news recently. And some of the creepy advertising that goes on and how that works and what you could do about it. So welcome Logan. Logan: Yeah, thank you for having me. Pleasure to be here. Michaela: And just in case you don't know Logan, he is a digital marketing consultant for Southwestern consulting and he specializes in direct response niche tips for lead generation and e-commerce. And he has done work together with Shawn at Mura. So Blue River Mura. So let's just come back to that. How is Facebook so different from Google Ad Words? Because a lot of people are familiar with using Google Ad Words and using that to generate traffic to their site or maybe they had to work together with a marketing team in their company to do this. But Facebook is quite a different animal. Logan: Yes and so the strategy you use is quite different. So the basic differences is that Google ad result we call poll marketing. You already know what the person wants because you've established their intent to their search. So basically, you're in the middle of what they're looking for and you can just slide your product, your service in front of them with a well-placed ad. Facebook is totally different. It's push marketing which is like interruption marketing as familiar with like radio and T.V., right. We don't necessarily know… The persons are looking for us, we just kind of jam an ad in front of them and hope for the best. Now of course the better you are with targeting, the more relevant your ad will be hopefully. So that's a key distinction. 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.

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

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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 missed in C.F. 10, 11, and 2016 with Charlie Arehart. And if you don't know Charlie which I find hard to believe because everyone knows Charlie in the C.F. world. He is a veteran ColdFusion trouble shooter. He's been doing it since like the first version came out and he's been an I.T. wizard for like more than three decades now I think. But right now, he helps out people with their ColdFusion servers. So when they're sick or not doing what they should be doing. And what we’ll look at today is something you may not have considered. There may be bunch of features in older versions of ColdFusion that are still in the version of ColdFusion used today that you don't even know about. So we’ll talk about that. And we'll also talk about C.F. Summit East where Charlie will be speaking. And if we had a chance, we'll reminisce about some of the other conferences in Washington D.C. So welcome Charlie. Charlie: Hey there! Thanks for doing this as always. It's great that you do that for the community. Michaela: You’re so welcome. So isn't ColdFusion 10 gone end of life? Why would anyone care what features were in C.F. 10? Charlie: Sure, sure, so you know and that's reasonable question. The point of the presentation is that as I've been helping people over the past several years ten years, 20 years now. And I'm sure you can attest to this yourself that people don't migrate up as quickly as the new releases come out. So there are people that today are still running on C.F. 9 or, and here's the bigger point. They say, “Well I'm on nine anymore. I've moved up to 11 or 2016.” Well often they will have skipped let's say ten. And so ten was such a watershed release compared to nine or earlier ten and later are quite different because nine on earlier ran on JRun and ten and later on Tomcat. So I just use that as a marking point to say for anybody that maybe jumped from nine or earlier to ten or later, these are things to be aware of. 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.

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

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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 Bret and Eddie will take you through many of the factors that will help you be successful in creating a production-ready Docker server cluster, including Docker best practices and Docker Swarm infrastructure templates. They'll show off some example configurations specific to Mura, as well as complementary solutions that will be necessary for production. You'll take away some key benefits for choosing to deploy Mura on the Docker toolset. Listen to the Audio Bio Bret Fisher For 25 years Bret has built and operated distributed systems as a Sysadmin and helped over 30,000 people learn dev and ops topics. He is a Docker Captain, the author of the wildly popular Docker Mastery series on Udemy, and also provides DevOps style consulting and live workshops with a focus on immutable infrastructures, containers, and orchestration. Bret's an occasional shell and web, and JavaScript developer. He spends his free time in Virginia's local, thriving tech scene helping lead local Code for America and Docker Meetups. Bret basically spends his days helping people, and giving high fives. He lives at the beach, writes at bretfisher.com, prefers dogs over cats, and tweets at @bretfisher Links Bretfisher.com Twitter GitHub Interview Transcript Michaela: Welcome back to the show. And today, we're going to look at the Docker revolution for faster ColdFusion and easier devops with Bret Fisher. And we're going to look at the revolution in how we build ship and run software using Docker containerization. And some of the key [inaudible] [00:18] benefits of choosing Docker to deploy your ColdFusion apps. And Bret is going to be speaking at Miracon in a few weeks. So in particular, we’ll focus on the Miracon CMS that's written in ColdFusion. But all that stuff applies to any ColdFusion app. And we'll look at some of the downsides of ColdFusion. We’ll look at the your dev stage of production pipeline, how you might set up your local dev environment with Docker Best, and some of the tools you can use. We’ll mention Docker Compose and we’ll have a talk about some of the basic daily Docker commands that would be really good to know. So lot more things coming up in this episode. We'll see what we can fit in here because if you don't know, Bret is a Docker captain and he is author of one of the most popular Udemy courses on Docker, and has some great YouTube videos on setting yourself up in Docker. So he's a real Docker expert and he loves to give high fives to people. And he's speaking at about 12 conferences including Miracon in the next three months. So welcome Bret. Bret: Thanks for having me. Yes, it is. It should be the Bret world tour I believe at this point. So it's going to be a lot of fun. Michaela: Excellent! So tell us a bit about the Docker revolution in building and deploying and running software? Read more 💡 Pro Tips from Bret Fisher Start small, experiment locally, and gradually bring Docker into your workflow. Use official Docker documentation for the latest setup instructions for your OS. Consider resources like Bret’s Udemy Docker course and YouTube videos for hands-on learning. 🎤 Final Thought: The Modern ColdFusion Stack Is Containerized If your CF project is business-critical, using Docker isn’t just “nice to have” – it’s how you protect your app, your job, and your sanity. For more best practices, don’t forget to grab the CF Alive Best Practices Checklist. Want to go deeper? 👉 Listen to the full episode for Bret’s stories, tips, and Docker war stories. Ready to modernize your ColdFusion workflow? Drop your biggest Docker question below or reach out to the teratech.community! 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.

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

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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 CF Alive episode on CF Summit East CF Alive episodes on API manager David Tattersall talks about “Into the CLOUD with FusionReactor (ColdFusion Application Performance Monitor)” Elishia Dvorak talks about “ Adobe API Manager (the business case) + CF Summit sneak peak” CF community portal CF Docker containerization official version The official version will be released in April CF Docker metered licensing cost The cost details will be released in April "Security Czar" for the Adobe ColdFusion Team Adobe ColdFusion education edition Adobe ColdFusion Video training Adobe program to sponsor colleges to teach web development using CFML “We have a course curriculum for colleges which are interested in teaching CF. Also we are offering free licenses for students and teachers under the Education program for teaching purposes.” the Education initiative can be found at this link CF Summit East CF Summit West Listen to the Audio Bio Tridib Roy Chowdhury Tridib Roy Chowdhury is the G.M. and Sr. Director of Products at Adobe Systems and is responsible for ColdFusion. Over the last 10 years at Adobe, he has built a global team consisting of engineers, product and data architects, product managers, product marketers, experience designers and sales. Tridib has been driving data-driven decision making much before it was fashionable. Interview Transcript Michaela: Welcome back to the show. And today, I've got Tridib Roy Chowdhury. He's the general manager and senior director of product Adobe systems. He's the ultimate man responsible for ColdFusion. Got an enormous team working for him. And we're gonna talk today about the state of ColdFusion, what we can look forward to with ColdFusion 2018 that's coming out this year. And also his take on the future of ColdFusion and things that Adobe's doing there. So welcome Tridib. Tridib: Thanks, how are you? Michaela: Doing great. So I know that you've been Adobe for over ten years. You've built a team of engineers, and architects, project managers, sales, designers. You've got a whole team there. And I know also that you've been moving to having more data driven decisions at Adobe. So exciting stuff. So I am very interested to ask you about what your take is on the current state of ColdFusion. Tridib: So you know like that's going to start a little bit with how I see the business as it stands right now. So now like we are a 22-year old product. And it continues to amaze me how well we continue to do on the business site. 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.

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

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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, a Public Cloud provider based in Jakarta. At that time, he foresaw the transformative effect that Docker would bring and the impact it would have on traditional IaaS and Infrastructure providers. Through 6 months of "migraines" Neil retrained himself in Docker, obtaining vast exposure through enduring the early pain of Docker versions 1.6. Neil spent considerable time understanding how to productionise and operationalise Docker, which is what initiated Portainer.io, as a way for "every day IT folk" to deploy and manage Docker. Interview transcript Michaela: Welcome back to the show. And today, we're gonna be looking at using Portainer doc IO for Docker container management and I'm here with Neil Cresswell. He's the co-founder of Portainer IO. And he also founded a Docker consulting company in New Zealand and he's got a cloud Docker fantastic company in Indonesia. Hope I’m [inaudible] [00:23]. Neil: Yeah, that’s right. Michaela: And Portainer is the leading way of managing all your Docker instances. So if you've got ColdFusion apps running in Docker. This lets you manage all the containers, the images, you’ve got logs, consuls, how you create containers, look at the images you're creating them from. Basically everything to do with Docker you can do it from within here and it is open source. So it's free to get and it's been downloaded 240 million times ten million downloads a week of Portainer IO are happening. So it's a very popular thing. Well we'll check in out. We’ve gonna drill into some of the details this. And Neil is talking at into the box in April, so you can see him in full detail there. So welcome Neil. Neil: thank you Michaela: So just to help us understand what exactly is Portainer IO and do I need just keep the IO on the end of the name? I know there’s IO in your website. 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.

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

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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.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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