ColdFusion Alive

Elliotte Bowerman talks about "The Opportunities of Being a Woman in Tech Today" in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. "I have actually spent the last dozen years in the tech industry. And it has been so incredibly fulfilling to be a part of technologies that are really changing the world. And I think that anyone who's called to this industry is, in fact, a unicorn. We...

Patrick Quinn talks about “CFML Secrets (AWS, Lucee and SeeFusion” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. He is the CoFounder, CEO and CTO of Webapper and  Global Product manager at LAS. "We think doing more of what we’ve been doing would be the best way to make CFML a more “alive” community. For Webapper’s part, we’ve updated our offerings to include Amazon cloud ho...

Sami Gardner talks about "Smart Developer Career Strategies and How Women Can Get Ahead in Tech" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. "It is a bare minimum to be hardworking, competent, and skilled, and have a degree. That's like saying a car has wheels. Nobody's going to buy a car just because it has wheels. Nowadays, you have to really position yourself. So, when...

Brian Klaas talks about “Level Up Your ColdFusion Web Apps With Amazon Web Services” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is well known to developers for providing a vast army of on-demand servers on which you can run anything, including CFML or Node.js. AWS offers a whole lot more than servers in the cloud, though. AWS is comprised of ove...

April Graves talks about "Getting Real with Women in Tech" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. April is a senior software engineer working on projects for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "It's interesting I started the ColdFusion user group in Orlando because I was so excited. I was new in the field. It was 1998 and it was my first programming job. I...

Mark Drew talks about “Getting started fast with Docker” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. In this presentation, Mark Drew will go through the fundamentals of the Query Language, structure, use cases and how we can get started with GraphQL endpoints. In a world where APIs and REST are the way that we can communicate with services, it can become an arduous task t...

Sophia Eng talks about “Hear Us Roar: A Manifesto for Women and Minorities in Startup, Tech, and Business Communities with Sophia Eng” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. She has a passion for closing the minority and gender gap in business leadership and ownership. Recently, she founded a community group called Women in Growth, open to all women in startup, tech,...

Charlie Arehart talks about “What's New In CF 10, 11, and 2016 That You May Have Missed?” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. In this presentation, veteran CFer Charlie Arehart will help fill these gaps for you, highlighting the top features of 10, 11, and 2016, along with some hidden gems. (Whereas his classic "hidden gems" talks have gone deep to uncover a few d...

Charlie Arehart talks about “The Impact Of Unexpected Load and How To Counter It” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. He was one of the speakers at the CF.Objective Conference. In this session, veteran server troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will guide a more detailed review of the issues above, including how to identify such traffic, more on these specific impacts,...

Steven Neiland talks about “Going Modular With Fw/1 Subsystems 2.0” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. He was one of the speakers at the CF.Objective Conference,  and currently works remotely out of Tampa Florida as a senior web developer at SiteVision Inc. Show notes What is FW/1? What is a framework? Why you should be using a framework? Why use an open source C...

Elishia Dvorak talks about “Everything CF Summit That You Need to Know” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. She was one of the speakers at the CFObjective Conference,  and she is the Technical marketing manager for ColdFusion. Show notes What exactly is CF Summit? The largest developer focused Adobe conference Largest conference focused on ColdFusion and related t...

Brad Wood talks about “Design Patterns for amazing app architecture (16 patterns)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. He is one of the speakers at the CFObjective Conference, a system architect for Ortus Solution and lead developer of the CommandBox CLI. Show notes What is a design pattern? Why should you be using them in your projects? Commons solutions to commo...

Carol Hamilton talks about “Behind the scenes at cfObjective” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. She is one of the speakers at the CFObjective Conference and the cf. Objective Co-chairperson content advisory board and steering committee. Show notes Hot Speakers this year New topic this year New Location Discounted govt rate and one day option Her role in the conf...

Mary Jo Sminkey talks about “Advanced Error Handling Strategies for ColdFusion, Javascript and SQL” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. She is one of the speakers at the CFObjective Conference and a long-time ColdFusion developer, having worked with CF since the Allaire days, and for many years she authored and sold one of the most popular eCommerce platforms for...

Welcome back to the part 2 of the State of the ColdFusion Union 2017 Survey analysis. In case you missed it, follow this link to read the  State of The CF Union 2017 Analysis part 1. Filling out CF surveys Usually, there are more respondents once the results are out. When we put out, we say, "Okay, this is the final survey results," another flurry of people say, "Oh yeah, I forgot to do it," and t...

George Murphy talks about “Gitlab Server Deep Dive with Continuous Integration” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. John was one of the speakers at the Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he talked about Gitlab server with Continuous Integration. Are you ready to do a deep dive into setting up a Gitlab Repository on your localhost and doing Continuous Integr...

Ray Camden talks about “Why Programming in Node is so Powerful (how CFers can learn)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. He is also one of the speakers at CFObjective Conference. In this talk, Raymond will introduce ColdFusion developers to Node.js development. This will be a high-level talk more focused on the "mechanics" of working with Node versus a deep dive...

Gert Franz talks about “CFML Debugging Jedi Tricks and Templates” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. He is also one of the speakers at CFObjective Conference. In this session, we will have a closer look at the debugging templates Lucee and Adobe ColdFusion have aboard. Especially in Lucee, there is a lot of hidden information buried in the depths of the data. You...

Eric Peterson talks about “Modules Make Your Projects Have Superpowers” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. He is a CFML and Javascript developer at O.C. Tanner in Salt Lake City, Utah and more recently with Ortus Solutions (ColdBox, CommandBox, etc.). Eric is also one of the speakers at CFObjective Conference. Show notes What exactly is a Module? A self contained...

David Tattersall talks about “FusionReactor Application Performance Monitor - Why It’s Different Than Other APM Tools and What’s New in Version 7 & the CLOUD” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. His flagship product - FusionReactor  is used on over 25,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers. Show notes What exactly is FusionReactor? L...

Steven Hauer talks about “Behind the Scenes at CFObjective” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. He is currently the International Business Manager for Bridges for Peace. Show notes What CFObjective is Where CFObjective is being held this year? When is CFObjective Wed night opening event Thurs and Friday 4 tracks Who should come Advanced CFers Government CFers Spea...

Pete Freitag talks about “Secrets of High-Security ColdFusion Code” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. Pete is the founder of Foundeo, creator of FuseGuard and HackMyCF and he is a ColdFusion security expert.  Show notes Why should you care about security in your CF code What is the most common misconception about website security How long does it typically take...

Alex Skinner talks about “A whirlwind tour of Preside application framework in the Wild” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. Alex is one of the speakers of the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Preside Platform Deep Dive and Marketing Automation using the Preside Platform. Show notes What the heck is Preside? An open source appl...

John Farrar talks about “VUE more with less” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. John is one of the speakers of the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about VUE more with less. In his ITB talk, John shares how to learn to move beyond jQuery with super friendly JavaScript with VueJS 2. Show notes Here are some of the topics talked about...

Scott Coldwell talks about “Managing an international team, Git, CFML, Node, Joomla, Headaches and Heartaches” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Scott is one of the speakers of the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Managing an international team, Git, CFML, Node, Joomla, headaches and heartaches. In his ITB talk, Scott shares...