ColdFusion Alive

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 togethe...

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...

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 t...

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 d...

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 Accou...

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 problem...

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 Contr...

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...

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...

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...

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 h...

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...

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 resu...

Jorge Reyes talks about “CF Suicide, Depression, and Recovery”, in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Suicide T or F quiz The person with suicidal thoughts will have those thoughts all of his/her life Suicidal Thoughts shouldn't be talked directly. You will make the person kill him/herself faster If a person already tried to kill him/herself. A new attem...

Nolan Erck talks about "051 Git ColdFusion Source Control (Getting Started and Best Practices)" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is "source control" and when / why all CFers need it? Repository = library for your code with versions baked in For Windows, Mac, Linux dev For any kind of code you write: CF, C++, Java, iPhone, Ruby, COBOL, PHP, QBAS...

Kai Koenig talks about "Improve your CFML Code Quality (with some Cool Tools)" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why does code quality matter? Long code lifetime Reduce maintenance cost Easier to read Reduce bugs without testing What does code quality mean in practice? Bad Code smell (see below for article) Complexity Bad variable or function naming...

Matt Gifford talks about “OAuth 2 for Me and You (Social Login Lowdown)” in this episode of CF Alive podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why use OAuth 2? Saves complex login code Easier for user - no more forgotten passwords Single Sign On Less PCI security issues - not storing emails and password What is OAuth 2 Social login using FB, TW, Google, GitHub, BitBucket, Link, Microsoft Live,...

Guust Nieuwenhuis talks about “CF Continuous Integration Plumbing with Bitbucket Pipelines” in this episode of CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is Bitbucket Pipelines? What is Bitbucket? What is Git? What is a code repository? Built on top of AWS Why CFers should use Bitbucket Pipelines? Easier setup Integrated with Bitbucket Why Continuous Integration and Continuous Dep...

Nolan Erck talks about "ColdFusion Best Practices, Except When They Are Not", in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What really is a best practice? May evolve over time Day job vs college best practice What is Technical Debt and why you don’t want it Quick fixes that cost you later Good, cheap and quick - pick 2 When CFForm tags can be cool Best practice...

David Tattersall talks about “What is new in Fusion Reactor 7 (20 new features)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is Fusion Reactor Monitor and Alert for server problems Highlights of Fusion Reactor Crash Protection Memory, CPU Multiple JVMs supported Debugger Code profiler Less than 1% of CPU used What is new in Fusion Reactor 7 20 new major fe...

Geoff Bowers talks about “Secrets from the folks who make the official Lucee CFML Docker images” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes Secrets from the folks who make the official Lucee Docker images Treat your servers like cattle and not pets - throw old server away and instantiate a new clean one Much faster server spin up (seconds) Much easier server s...

Luis Majano talks about “CommandBox + ForgeBox: ColdFusion Code, Package, Share, Go!” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why he created CommandBox three years ago Then there were better tools with other languages and other CFers were moving He took the lead in creating better CF tooling Tired of CF language shaming Created at an Ortus company retreat W...

Mark Drew talks about “Let’s get GraphQL! (Smart API access from CFML) ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes History of API use: SOAP, REST, GraphQL, oh my! Why GraphQL? Why Facebook invented it 2012 Open source version released in 2015 + spec released What exactly is GraphQL A query language for APIs For example, if you look at a single tweet, obtained...

Rakshith Naresh talks about “Revealing the ColdFusion 2018 Roadmap details ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes How has CF changed over the last few versions   API management platform Docker container - official images will be available by end of Q3 2017 + Redhat openshift platform What features are you focusing on CF 2018 Performance New Performance M...

Thomas Grobicki talks about “The true ROI of ColdFusion (how to sell CF to your boss or client) ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. We re discussing the ROI of using Coldfusion. I strongly believe that the case to use CF has to be made for business reasons. All "I strongly believe that the case to use CF has to be made for business reasons. All to often the disc...