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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Nolan Erck talks about “Migrating legacy CFML to MVC (Model View Controller)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What exactly is legacy ColdFusion? A broad term Non-framework code Might use CFIncludes or some CFCs to be modular Even giant 10k lines of code Self-posting forms What the MVC design pattern is and what problems it solves MVC = Model View Controller Model = biz logic and SQL View = front end UI - HTML, CSS, JS Controller = the glue that holds the Model and View together and says which part calls which Customer in a restaurant ordering from a Menu (View) from a Waiter (Controller) to make the food in the kitchen (Model) Maintenance easier Whack a mole bugs Biz logic, HTML, JS and SQL all mixed up together Bit rot/Technical debt Hard for designers to edit the code as the HTML is mixed up Merge conflicts Hard to fully test Manually testing Duplicate code, unused code (deadwood) Specialization of labor UI experts CF developer SQL database engineer How the FW/1 and ColdBox frameworks use a convention-based approach to bring consistent structure to an application Both are modern MVC Use folder to separate the three parts, file naming conventions FW/1 is minimalist, one file, easy to get started MuraCMS uses it ColdBox is heavyweight with more features and add-on packs in the Box ecosphere Testing Caching Etc Ortus supports Other MVC frameworks that are not as maintained CFWheels - These are convention based frameworks Fusebox - XML config file framework Mode Glue - XML config file framework Mach-ii - These are convention based frameworks What Dependency Injection (DI) is, how it simplifies the “model” portion of applications, and how they are used in FW/1 and ColdBox Keeps your objects organized Tools DI/1 Wirebox We did a whole interview on this topic in another episode of CF Alive DRY = Don’t Repeat Yourself DI and MVC are independent How to refactor real-world procedural code into MVC-style code What code belongs in the model, the view, and how the controller ties the two together. Cut parts out of giant file to include files Move out the SQL and CF logic Dedup similar code Move out the front end code to View include files Start running with the remaining code in the View Strategies for migrating large applications in phases. ColdBox legacy tool feature Version code such as Git 2 branches Legacy MVC Maintain both AB test each branch All URLs will change Using CommandBox and Git to spin up on-demand instances of ColdFusion and manage our code. CommandBox command line CF Instant server setup or config Any version, Adobe ColdFusion, Railo, Lucee CFML Tool costs FW/1 free ColdBox free, pay or training and support CommandBox - free Git free to paid Source Tree - free Sublime Text - free to shareware paid $35 CF Builder free 30-day trial, $300 Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What did you enjoy at CF Summit? Nolan’s CF Summit workshop description Do you maintain legacy ColdFusion applications, perhaps written with old procedural-style code? Have you been told you should be using a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework but don't really understand how that works? Does the idea of rewriting the entire application seem like an impossible task? What if you could instead revamp your code in phases, without having to do it all at once? Come to this workshop and learn: What the MVC design pattern is and what problems it solves How the FW/1 and ColdBox frameworks use a convention-based approach to bring consistent structure to an application What Dependency Injection (DI) is, how it simplifies the “model” portion of applications, and how they are used in FW/1 and ColdBox How to refactor real-world procedural code into MVC-style code Hands-on portion of the workshop will: Analyze and deconstruct a simple procedural application to see what code belongs in the model, the view, and how the controller ties the two together. Move the code into the appropriate MVC layers and test it. Discuss strategies for migrating large applications in phases. Use CommandBox and Git to spin up on-demand instances of ColdFusion and manage our code. This workshop will help anyone with a moderate skill level in ColdFusion, and at least some familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts. It will be a Bring-Your-Own-Laptop session. Prior to the CF Summit we will provide links and instructions to download and install CommandBox and the sample application code. Mentioned in this episode MVC FW/1 ColdBox Dependency Injection, why is it awesome and why should I care? with Nolan Erck Kishore CF Summit East episode Adobe CF Summit (Las Vegas) OrtusSolutions BlueRiver DI/1 Wirebox CommandBox Git episode Sublime Text CF Builder Convective CF tuning guide Bring Order to the Chaos: Take the MVC Plunge Listen to the Audio Bio Nolan Erck 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. He is also Chief consultant at South of Shasta. Interview transcript Michaela Light 0:01 Welcome back to the show. And today we're going to be looking at migrating legacy cold fusion code to MBC. That's model view controller for those of you haven't come across it yet have been around for quite a while. And we'll look in the episode with Nolan arc, who is the chief genius at south of Sastre does a lot of ColdFusion. And he's been doing software development for like 19 or 20 years now. And we'll look at what MBC is, and what problem it solves. And in particular, we'll dig down into framework one and code box, which are two frameworks which use MBC. And we'll also look at dependency injection and why you should be using that in your MBC apps, and how you can use it in framework one and code box and how you can refactor your real world procedural code. I think that procedural code maybe as a special way of saying it might be a little like spaghetti but maybe not. Maybe Your code is better. And we'll look at some strategies for migrating large apps over to MPC in phases, so you don't have to freak out with this. And if we get time, we'll also mentioned CommandBox and get and how they could help you out do this faster. So welcome, Nolan. Nolan Erck 1:18 Thank you. Thanks for having me. Michaela Light 1:19 Yeah. So I know you did a whole day workshop on this at CF Summit out in Las Vegas. And you had hordes of developers learning how to do it, or a horde is about 40 people, I think, Nolan Erck 1:34 yeah, we had, I think there were about 40 students in the class. Michaela Light 1:38 That's great. So what exactly is legacy ColdFusion because that term gets thrown around a lot. Nolan Erck 1:47 It does. And that's a that's a pretty broad, maybe ambiguous term. My opinion is, it's 2018. Pretty much any ColdFusion code that is not really In a proper framework ColdBox, framework one, Read more Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers. Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey. 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....

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

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Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “All about the Adobe CF Summit East 2018 ColdFusion” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What exactly is CF Summit East? Started in second year of CF Summit in Las Vegas For people who can’t travel to West coast Expecting 200 people, 160 registrations already two month out How many years has CF Summit been running? 3rd year Why is it so important to the CF Community? Networking with other CF developers, CF speakers and Adobe CF senior staff Why all CFer should go? To learn about Adobe’s commitment to CF New features in CF Direction of CF Roadmap through 2025 Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about 10 speakers Rakshith Naresh - new features of CF 2018 (second half of 2018 release date) Elishia Dvorak - CF API manager Tridib Roy Chowdhury - Keynote State of CF with customers, Adobe’s plans, customer experiences with CF Charlie Arehart - new in CF 10, 11, 2016 that you may have missed Pete Freitag - Securing mature CFML codebases Masha Edelen - Power of Simplicity in FW/1 Framework Eric Cobb - Building Better SQL Server Databases Kevin Schmidt - PDF Trip Ward - Angular.js and CF Mike Collins - Distributed caching Dave Watts and Theonic Way - Upgrading legacy CF servers Date Wednesday April 25th 2018, 8am - 5pm Includes breakfast, lunch and breaks Cost Free Location Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel 999 Ninth Street NW Washington, DC 20001 Close to last’s year’s location at Marriott Near to the metro Other things you can do in DC? National Mall Museums White House What is new this year? Last year 110 attendees - CF govt focused Recording session is planned CF growing over last year Dollar sales Number customer Why are you proud to use CF? Started as Java dev → QA → CF dev → marketing manager WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? CF community paritation Spread the CF Alive message For every 1 public site there are 4 private/intranets 30% of CF installed base is government What are you looking forward to at CF Summit East? Mentioned in this episode Conference event Roadmap episode Educational free Community Portal blog about CF Summit Listen to the Audio Bio Kishore Balakrishnan Kishore Balakrishnan is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems with a Master Degree in Computer Applications. At Adobe he has held roles of a Quality Manager, Program Manager before becoming the Product Marketing Manager. He enjoys being the 'voice of the customer' within the organization, liaise with sales team to facilitate the selling process and clearly communicate the why, what and when to the marketplace for CF. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and kid. Kishore loves his long runs and cooking. Interview transcript Michaela: Welcome back to the show. Today, we're looking to talk about the Adobe C.F. Summit East. And I'm here with Kishore Balakrishnan. And we're gonna learn all about this band it's in its fourth year as a lot of exciting changes. So if you haven't heard of the CF Summit East, we're gonna learn what that is, and why all ColdFusion developers on the East Coast see if they can get there. And we also will reveal who the speakers and topics are this year, and the location, and also what is new with the event. And we'll also talk about Kishore’s background. You may not know this; he's the senior marketing manager for ColdFusion Adobe. But he also programs in ColdFusion. So we'll talk about his background later in the show. So welcome Kishore. Kishore: Thanks Michael for having me on the show, have a lot of good things. Michael: So… oh great! Yeah I mean we did over 50 episodes last year, and planning to do a similar number this year. So people may not have being, or heard of C.F. Summit East. What exactly is it? Kishore: So this started couple of three years back when the ColdFusion Summit that we have was in Vegas was in it's second day of… that's been we came to know that lot of people from the East Coast, they're not able to travel to our main event in Vegas. One because some of them are not able to travel down south other things were like they were not allowed to travel to Vegas. So what we did was we started having this event in D.C. This is a third year that we’re having this event in. D.C. Last year we had around 100 attendees coming for the event, and the attendance kept on increasing. Read more Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers. Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey. 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.

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

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Miles Rausch talks about “Progressive Web Apps Building - Amazing Lucee CFML and ColdBox Tricks” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What a Progressive Web App? (PWA) Eg google docs A web app that gives you a native app experience (including offline use) Content cache Background working so UI stays as single page Install icon to your homepage Why the heck should make your web apps Progressive? Better user engagement More responsive UI and better user experience Why should your trust your users’ network connectivity 100% of the time? Emerging markets in China, India and Africa What support is there for Progressive Web Apps? Who is leading the charge and Google Creators of Chrome browser Creators of many Progressive web apps Android browser support Firefox browser Microsoft Windows 10 support IE Standards groups for Progressive APIs Lucee Adobe Who is left behind Apple Safari browser How the the Offline First movement related to this What if the client device crashes while they are editing offline? How to easily implement Progressive Web apps using ColdBox and Lucee (and a bit of CommandBox too!) Demo where he pulls his network connection live Your move to Lucee CFML Why are you proud to use CFML? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CFObjective? Progressive Web Apps are more than just a UI fad, like parallax or scroll-triggered animations. PWAs are quickly becoming the best practice for creating reliable, fast and engaging user experiences. Like progressive enhancement, which treated JavaScript as an optional enhancement for a website, progressive web apps treat the network itself as an optional enhancement. By treating the network as untrustworthy, developers are forced to create better web apps that capitalize on modern browser features when they exist and fallback to traditional client-server communication when they don't. This talk builds the most cutting-edge client technologies upon the solid foundations of ColdBox, giving CFML developers a helpful path into the future. Google has been a strong supporter and proponent of PWAs and the Offline First movement, but their examples and toolkits make too many or too few assumptions about the reader's server technology. This talk will use ColdBox and Lucee (through CommandBox) as the server language, allowing CFML developers to wrap their heads about this new movement and hopefully incorporate its philosophy and techniques into their existing and upcoming projects. Mentioned in this episode Progressive Web Apps Offline First Forbes case study of a Progressive App Twitter light - mobile progressive web app Google Progressive case studies site The “Progressive” in Progressive Web Apps (Chrome Dev Summit 2016) Patrick Kettner, Product Manager for Microsoft Edge, talks about the "progressive" in PWAs, service workers, AppCache, and more! Service worker Index.db Slides.com CommandBox open source command line CFML and package manager Similar in idea npm and Yarn for Node.js Progressive Web App Dev Summit Google I/O event annual developer festival Listen to the Audio Bio Miles Rausch Miles Rausch is a web developer from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is a writer for people, and a writer for computers. He believes that he is destined to spend his time at a keyboard. During his work time, he develops for both server (in CFML using the Lucee engine) and client (where he tries to be unobtrusive, semantic and responsibly future-facing). At the same time, Miles have been having a flirty affair with Node.js and React. In his personal time, he writes short stories and novels. Fiction is as strong a passion for Miles as programming, and he has published in some online publications and some print magazines. Miles is self-motivated and self-disciplined. His goal with every project is producing the best product for the end user. He tries to achieve this by writing his own code, adhering to HTML standards and best practices, and constantly and tirelessly learning and growing my craft. Links Website Twitter LinkedIn Interview Transcript Michaela: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Miles Rausch and that name is somewhat dramatic or Luxembourg and we'll talk about that in the moment but Miles is talking of CF objective on Progressive Web App building and he's doing it using Lucee, CFML, and Coal box and a bit of Command box and we'll talk about that in the episode. But we'll look at what a Progressive Web app is and why you want to be doing that with your apps. And why you shouldn't be trust in your client's network connection to be always on. And who's leading the charge in this Progressive Web App Movement. And who's a bit left behind and how it relates the offline burst and he said online there is offline burst movement that Google has championed over the years. So welcome Miles. Miles: Thank you Michael. Thanks for having me. Michael: So I think the question here for people who haven't created a Progressive Web App is what on earth is a Progressive Web App and have they ever used one without knowing it? Miles: Well if you are a fan or user of Google products chances are you come across at least one or more of their Progressive Web Apps. What a Progressive Web App loosely is, is a set of web technologies designed to give users more of a Native Application Experience. You know we get this promise when the iPhone came out from Steve Jobs who said that they would need an app store because your websites would be your apps and Apple kind of failed to deliver on that promise at that moment. But now others and especially Google have taken up the mantle of how do we give users the experience that they've really come to expect and enjoy using native apps but do it in open way by getting Developers, Browser manufacturers and Standards bodies to kind of agree on some technologies that can be created out in the open to deliver on those promises. So it kind of combines things like, caching an offline first experience that caches content for you. Read more Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers. Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey. 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.

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

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David Tattersall talks about "Into the CLOUD with FusionReactor (ColdFusion Application Performance Monitor)" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is FusionReactor CLOUD? CLOUD version of FusionReactor with extra features over the on-premises version What is FusionReactor FR is on premise tool Server Monitor and alert Crash protection Low overhead CF and Java application performance monitor Less than 1% overhead compared to 2-5% on other monitors Low overhead includes lots of tools such as debugging, JDBC, Database It can measure 100’s of different metrics + alert you to potential issues Agents CF Java Node.js Why go to the CLOUD? Keep more data More AI in the app More analysis of the data See patterns in billions of transactions Is this secure? Yes, your data is kept separate from others Can obfuscate some data such as credit cards Can use Fusion Analytics if you prefer not to use the CLOUD When was FR CLOUD launched? August 2017 Daily deployment and improvements (no version numbers) - it is a SaaS! FR CLOUD demo CLOUD license It includes a copy of FR regular CLOUD $99/mo/server Ent, $149/mo/server Ultimate Upto 5 instances per server Docker containers on demand licenses vs reservations for permanent servers On demand is 10% more cost but is only billed by the minute of use FR CLOUD works with Java too Data retention (not just memory) from a week to 30-90 days (depending on the CLOUD version Ent or Ultra) Capturing only interesting transactions (ITs) - not all of them Powerful alerting engine on any of the metrics in FusionReactor CLOUD, with integration to many common Alerting Channels - such as Hipchat Slack PageDuty Email HTTP hooks Why did you add FR to the CLOUD? Save server monitoring data to the CLOUD so it doesn’t clog up your server Combining metrics from multiple servers (instances), say across a cluster, to provide a combined application view FusionAnalytics for on premise, in-depth analysis Two way link from FR CLOUD to the local FR so can run a stack trace or GC from the CLOUD Webinar on this at https://www.fusion-reactor.com/webinar/fusionreactor-CLOUD/ They use use FR to monitor FR CLOUD What versions of ACF and Lucee does FR work with? ACF 6.1, 7 MX (FusionReactor 4.5) ACF 8,9,10, 11, 2016 (latest version of FR) Railo 3.x, 4.x Lucee 4.5, 5.x Also supports Java containers e.g. Tomcat, JBoss, GLassfish, Websphere + many Java frameworks e.g. Spring and Struts How was CFCAMP this year? Next conference DevNexus Feb 23-25 2018 Why are you proud to support CF? WWIT for CF to be more alive this year? Mentioned in this episode Jetty - Eclipse Jetty provides a Web server and javax.servlet container, plus support for HTTP/2, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS and many other integrations. Using FR with Docker Swarm Brad Wood video ColdFusion on Docker Listen to the Audio Bio David Tattersall David Tattersall has been in working in IT for over 30 years. Since co-founding Intergral in 1998, he focused on company management, business development and sales & marketing. Intergral has become a leader in server monitoring and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions in the ColdFusion / Java segment. His flagship product - FusionReactor - www.fusion-reactor.com is used on over 25,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers. Links www.fusion-reactor.com Interview Transcript Michaela 0:00 So welcome back to the show. I'm here with David Hansel and he's the CEO of integral in Germany and from their worldwide headquarters, he's gonna be demoing to us my home office home office, he's gonna be telling us all about fusion reactor cloud, which is their new version. And it has a lot of interesting new features that lets you keep a lot more data. And it's even I I'm almost thinking it's almost an AI. But I know it's not really an AI. But it actually only kind of keeps track of intelligent stuff as to potential problems, what we're going to whatever it does, that's new, I know, it can also tie into some other tools like Slack, and other things, too, with the alerts. So welcome, David. Thank you. Welcome to you soon. So what exactly is future from reactive cloud just in a sentence or two, just in a sentence or two? Okay, well, fusion reactor cloud Unknown 1:07 is a new software as a service that we're offering, Unknown 1:12 it's been available now, David Tattersal 1:15 since August of this year, we've actually been running it for about one and a half years, actually, we had a closed beta, where we had a number of customers that showed interest in the cloud, they were participating in the pizza. But we've been we've pushed it officially, officially, along with fusion reactor seven, which was in August of this year, what does cloud do so basically, even think of cloud as extending a fusion reactor on premise. So if you take a cloud licensee, if you purchase the cloud license, then you get fusion reactor on premise, just like you had before. And you also get a fusion reactor Cloud account. Read more Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers. Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey. 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.

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

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I am talking with Matthew Clemente about "send.Better() - Giving ColdFusion Email a REST" in this episode of CF Alive Podcast. Your application sends emails; they might be alerts, confirmations, reports, surveys, newsletters, support-related, or invoices. The process of setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting these emails generally alternates between boring and frustrating; developers are happy to move on to richer, more modern portions of their applications. It really doesn't have to be like this. AWS SES might be the best known of the transactional email services, but that doesn't mean it's the best. Mailgun, Sendgrid, Postmark, and Sparkpost all provide compelling email-as-a-service offerings, built around developer-focused REST APIs. The offerings and features varying slightly from one provider to the next; which is the best for you? As usual, the answer is that it depends, but I'll help you find out. We're going to cover: The benefits provided by using a transactional email service A pragmatic, use-driven comparison of the major players in the space Pitfalls, considerations, and tips when configuring your DNS records and integrating a transactional email service with your application Interacting with the actual APIs, and showing how easy they are to use with ColdFusion So let's dive in and see easy it is to send better emails, get detailed reporting, access logging that doesn't make you want to pull your hair out, and take advantage of advanced features, such as webhooks, transactional templates, and inbound email rules. Show notes But isn’t email dead? Open, accessible, resilient Slack, messaging Email as in interface for your application (it’s neglected) Transactional emails Use cases Purchase confirm Mini surveys with links for options Account creation Email verification Password reset Receipts Requested updates Comment notifications Weekly digests or report Where Speed and deliverability matter CFMAIL + SMTP settings TLS on encrypted send Set in your Application.cfc rather than hardcoding in each CFMAIL tag Dev → stage → live Mailtrap.io ← fake smtp server for mocking Why emails on Dev servers matter and how to do them right Send Plain text and HTML emails Why transactional email services? Separate from your marketing and other emails → better deliverability and speed Lots more data on your emails is available Which email services do you like? Which is best (trick question, they all have specific use cases that make sense) AWS SES - low cost, less features, harder to set up $5/50k emails Postmark - pure transactional emails, highest deliverability, speed, great features, more expensive $50/50k emails Spartpost - developer friendly, free tier to 10k/mo, more marketing focused $9/50k emails Sendgrid - does both transactional and marketing emails $20/50k emails mailGun - developer friendly, free tier to 15k/mo, detailed developer features and logging, good inbound email handling, $20/50k emails Who NOT to use and why? MailChimp GetResponse ConstantContact Deliverability SPF DKIM DMARC Dmarc.postmarkapp.com - friendly reporting How to test your deliverability (Mail-tester.com) How to set a transactional email service Use a subdomain for config but can send from your main domain REST API or SMTP Start with SMTP If you need more features move to REST Also faster CFML wrappers exist for these Using Web hooks in email processing Inbound Bounce processing Link processing and verification Email open processing Zapier integration The future of ColdFusion email Why are you proud to use CF? Easy to create Community that helps out esp slack channel WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? CF slack channel CF Alive podcast Help with Github projects Forgebox Go to CF conferences Blog about CF and problems you have solved and successes you have had What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? Mentioned in the episode: Mailtrap.io ← fake smtp server for mocking Mail-tester.com https://senderscore.org/ CF slack channel Matthew’s slide from CFSummit 2017 Listen to the Audio Bio Matthew Clemente I'm a Founding Partner with Season 4, LLC, a team of designers, programmers, and writers working in the legal industry. After studying English, I took the road less traveled and one day realized, much to my surprise, that I had become a developer. I've been building with ColdFusion since MX 7, and the community has been amazing from the start. I'm a husband, father, and always trying to be better.. Links You can find me on Twitter (@mjclemente84), Github (@mjclemente) and I blog, time permitting, at the cleverly named blog.mattclemente.com Interview Transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. Today we're gonna be looking at how you can send data giving ColdFusion email a rest and there is a pun intended there with Matthew Clemente. And we're gonna look at why is an e-mail dead already? But it really isn't and how you can use e-mail as an interface for your application. And we’ll look at some CF mail settings you may not been using. But then we're going to look at some transactional mail services that are really exciting that can give you high performance and better deliverability than you may be used to. And speaking of deliverability, you may wanna check out your own e-mails deliverability however you're sending e-mail, and we'll have some tips on that. So welcome Matthew. Matthew: Thank you, happy to be here. Michael: And do you wanna go by Matthew or Matt? I noticed your blog has Matt in it, but like you put Matthew in the… Matthew: The blog is Matt because someone else got Matthew. Read more Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers. Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey. 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.

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

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Brian Sappey talks about "How to implement Adobe's API Manager with Swagger, ColdFusion, and API's" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast. In this session, you will be provided a look, with examples, about a successful implementation of the Adobe API Manager into a large scale Enterprise environment. You will learn how to configure the API Manager, migrate your existing API's, and create new ones utilizing Swagger. As an added bonus you will learn how to accelerate your SDLC by utilizing API's to automate the API creation process along with the on-boarding of subscribers. Lastly, you will see first hand how to wrap the entire API Manager into a developer portal using, you got it, API's! Show notes What is the Adobe API Manager? Built using Java and Angular Comes with CF Entreprise SOAP to REST WSDL Analytics End point level and resource level Realtime Debugging APIs Drill down to problems and solve Replay Sandbox and failover server Versioning Security Metering and Throttling, SLA Clustering API key management Why should CFers be using it? Productivity and Debugging API Simplify API creation and consumption More control over your API, who uses them and how much they can call them What is Swagger? How did you migrate to it from Layer 7? Cost saving $400k Automation and SDLC Microservices Auto documentation Programmatic building of APIs Why are you proud to use CF? Performance Improvements at Adobe with conference, roadmap 30 CF developers at MarketAmerica WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? Stronger CF community Modern CFML use and use of REST Forrester whitepaper Be ok asking and talking with Adobe What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? Mentioned in this episode Adobe API Manager CA API manager (formerly Layer 7) Rakshith Naresh, Adobe Product Manager for ColdFusion Swagger- the world’s largest framework of API developer tools for the OpenAPI Specification(OAS) REST SOAP WSDL = Web Services Description Language Elastic search PCI security API endpoint SLA = Service Level Agreement API Contract API keys microservices Listen to the Audio Bio Brian Sappey Brian Sappey is an Applications Architect and Manager of Engineering. His most recent focus has been redesigning the E-commerce infrastructure at Market America/SHOP.com. He is an avid supporter and user of the Adobe API Manager. Links CF Summit Adobe Events Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Brian Sappey. I hope I’m saying your name that right there Brian. It looks kind of vaguely foreign even though I know you're American. Brian: yes Sappey Michael: Sappey, all right. And we're gonna be talking about how he's implemented Adobe's A.P.I. manager with swagger ColdFusion A.P.I. And we'll look at what the A.P.I. manager is and why you should be using it. And what swagger is and how you might use that. And how they migrated from using Layer seven for all these stuff, and some of the big cost savings they had and a whole bunch of automation they're doing in that ColdFusion development using this. So welcome Brian. Brian: Thank you, appreciate it. Thank you giving me the time. Michael: Oh! You're so welcome. Thanks for staying up late to do this. I know it's after hours for you. And I know you're off to CF Summit in a few days. So glad you were able to fit this interview in. So tell us what is the… not everyone's use the A.P.I. manager in ColdFusion. Tell us what that is and why we should be using it. Read more Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers. Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.

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

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Bouton Jones talks about “ColdFusion Practical Digital Accessibility (revealing 3 you didn’t know)”, in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. This will address the compelling reasons -- including legal -- for applying Accessibility to digital documentation: Word, PDF, PowerPoint, and Web. Examples of poor Accessibility will be presented with illustrations of the resulting effects for users with disabilities. Finally, it will cover strategies and solutions. Show notes What does Accessibility mean? Part of usability for people with disabilities Blind Dead Color blind Mouse Epileptic Autistic ESL (English as Second Language) Delexic A11y = How did you get interested in Accessibility? How is your talk at CF Summit going to be different from all the other Accessibility presos we might have seen? Why is Accessibility so important today? 20% of Americans have disabilities of one kind or another 508 compliance ← US govt websites Moral requirement Legal requirement It is just Practical W3C guidelines What can you do to make your ColdFusion apps Accessible? HTML Semantic HTML Text choice Navigation Without a mouse Graphics Image Alt tag tips Skip links Pop ups JAWS, NVDA and ChromeVox testing Flash RIAs Captcha What about other files in your app? Word and PDF documentation, Presentations, Email, Social media Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? Bouton’s full notes and slides Complete Video Playlist Mentioned in this episode W3C guidelines JAWS, NDVA and ChromeVox screen readers Semantic HTML Google Recaptcha 1. "ColdFusion and Section 508" by Jon Brundage and Michaela Light 2. "Generating Speech with ColdFusion and Java" by Raymond Camden 3. "Everyone’s invited! Meet Accessibility Requirements with ColdFusion" by Steve Shinney at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2016 Nielsen Norman article on simple language is better Selling ColdFusion ROI episode Videos How ARIA landmark roles help screen reader users by Léonie Watson with Nomensa Think Accessibility: SXSW 2017 Capital One Event with Mike Paciello, Founder and CEO of The Paciello Group, and Sarah Goelitz, UX Content Strategist at Capital One. Produced by AccessibleMedia. Published on Mar 14, 2017. Make Technology Work for Everyone: introducing digital accessibility (UK) - 4:41 Making a PDF accessible with Acrobat Pro DC - 3:12 What is Accessibility? [CC] - 5:46 Web Accessibility for people with Disabilities - 1:59 Keeping Web Accessibility In Mind - 11:34 A Personal Look at Accessibility in Higher Education - 5:58 Fiverr cartoon images Listen to the Audio Bio Bouton Jones Business Systems Analyst with over ten years’ experience as a ColdFusion contractor and consultant. Currently living in Austin, Texas after over a decade on the road. Links www.BoutonJones.com Interview transcript Michael: Welcome back to the show. We're going to be talking about ColdFusion practical digital accessibility with Bouton Jones. I think I just made a meal of your name there. Not the Jones. Bouton: Bouton Michael: Bouton, yes. I practiced it three times before we hit record, but still much screwed up. Bouton: [Crosstalk] [00:18] variation. Michael: Well that's good. So we're going to be looking at what accessibility actually means, and a lot of those things you may not have thought of before. And also, we're going to look at how this presentation you're giving at C.F. Summit on practical digital accessibility is different from other accessibility talks people may have seen before. And there’s some interesting stuff there I just been talking with you about it, and there’s some stuff I've already learned that I gave a talk of topic 15 years ago. So just goes to show you can always learn new stuff. And we'll look at why it's so important and what you can do to make your ColdFusion apps even more accessible, and some of those are things you definitely have not thought of. So, stay tuned, and welcome Bouton. Bouton: Thank you, thank 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.

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