ColdFusion Alive

Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 2)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “So this is part two of our panel discussion on Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee ColdFusion, or CFML, as they like to say. And if you haven't […]

Rakshith Naresh talks about “Revealing the ColdFusion 2018 Roadmap details ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights 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 […]

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 […]

Dave Ferguson talks about “Are your Database Relationships in a Rut?” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “Perhaps we should just talk about, you know how some ColdFusion developers get stuck in a rut with their database or other pieces of CF ecosystem? Dave Ferguson 6:54 Yeah, mostly, I […]

Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “Michaela Light 1:41 So let's start off by looking at how Adobe CF 2021 and Lucee 5.3 and how they compare for ease of programming and  CFML. Mark […]

Luis Majano talks about “4 Cool CF books” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Learn Modern CFML in 100 minutes Why wrote Started by Mike Hanky 100 minutes of CF on GitHub but not completed Inspired by Ruby in 100 mins Luis asked to complete the CF […]

Eric Peterson talks about “CFCasts Behind the Scenes” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is CFCasts Netflix for ColdFusion Free and paid levels Why should every CFer check out CFCasts CFML-based tutorials Full-stack content (CFML, JavaScript, Databases, etc.) Free! (and Paid) Why we built CFCasts “Netflix […]

Brad Wood talks about “CommandBox Workflow magic (modules to speed up CF development)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why use Workflows in your CF coding? You probably already do use workflows if you don’t call them that Eg  source control steps Bitbucket Pipelines Local dev → […]

Mark Takata talks about “Meet the Adobe ColdFusion Evangelist (CF AMA)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is a “CF evangelist”? What do you do Tech evangelist vs support/sales evangelist Mark from tech background → tech evangelist Dev experiences Dev relations Support Route issues to the […]

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe ColdFusion Dev Week 2021 Revealed” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What exactly is CF Dev Week  3 days of online CF goodness 8 sessions per day over several timezone, with breaks during the day to keep up with home or work […]

Rakshith Naresh talks about “ColdFusion 2021 Revealing Details on How it was Created” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light  Show notes Today we talk about some of the challenges the Adobe CF team overcomed with corona virus lockdowns In India and the complexities of implementing multi-cloud and containers […]

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit 2020 (What to Expect)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light “This situation is not right for having physical events this year. So we are going to make it online. And we are very excited to that this is going to be one […]

John Farrar talks about “CFML Open Source Learning” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light Show notes OLS (Open Learning Server), why another learning solution? Why coding in ColdFusion? CFML Lucee and ACF Containers let you host CF apps on any cloud ISP (Google, AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean etc) Micro-services […]

Jeff Kunkel talks about “CFer Mental Helpers (Stay Sane during Crises)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why now In normal times, 20% of Americans have mental illness every year (APA) Now in lockdown and economic depression, it is >60% ill 30% clinical depressed 30% PTSD (and […]

Gert Franz talks about “Cool Lucee CFML (GigaBytes file parsing and more)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why are you using Lucee at DistroKid Fast, Secure, Scalable with cloud Node → Lucee  Bitbucket pipelines CommandBox TDD AWS autoscaling Tell us something about DistroKid CF performance tuning […]

Joby John talks about “ColdFusion in Biz (the Latest Trends in CF consulting)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Biz side of CF Hiring CF developers Attitude is key Skills can be learned Training new people on CF – out of college or from other languages  Versions […]

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “CF Summit India 2019 Revealed” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What exactly is CF Summit India? Started in 2018 For people who can’t travel to the US or Europe from Asia CF Summit West in Las Vegas 8th year Expecting 250-300, 200 […]

Nolan Erck talks about “CF Alive (Revolution Retrospective) ” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is the CF Alive revolution Making ColdFusion Modern, Vibrant and Secure! MCFGA ColdFusion is a vibrant and modern language for complex, data-driven enterprise apps. While some companies have abandoned ColdFusion as […]

Kai Koenig and Mitchi Hnat talk about “CF Camp 2019 (Everything CFML)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “…So there's an interesting German saying basically that is basically in German it's called like, Ooh, in telecom shown, so literally means efficient later. It means something like you have to […]

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit West 2019 (All that is new) with Kishore Balakrishnan” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “…all the ColdFusion developers, that's one place where you get to meet the actual ColdFusion developers who develop the product and interact with them as well. And […]

The final results for the 2019 State of the CF Union survey are out. Thanks to all the CFers who filled it out this year. Discover what most developers use for tools, languages, database and development methods. Before we begin with the results, we’d like to thank everyone who participated and responded to this year’s […]

Ashish Garg talks about “Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Roadmap (Multi-cloud, micro-services and more), with Ashish Garg” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes ColdFusion Future PM → VM → Cloud → Containers → Serverless What will make CF take off more CF 2020 Vision – To be the modernized […]

Nolan Erck talks about “ColdFusion CommandBox vs Node.js (Dev Feature shootout)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes The myth that JS has all the cool tools and CF is dying Node.js has lots of cool dev tools CommandBox What is Node.js JavaScript based webserver and dev tools, […]

Elishia Dvorak talks about “Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is the CF Specialist Certification? 1. + 22 hours video training (get access to the videos and demo files 2 weeks before the hands on training).  This must […]

Carl Von Stetten, Daniel Fredericks and Dave Ferguson talk about “Learn ColdFusion in a Week” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.  Show notes What is Learn CF in a Week? http://www.learncfinaweek.com/ Learn CF in a Week is a community-driven training program that teaches all the basics you need […]

Daniel Garcia, Leon O'Daniel and Nolan Erck talk about “How to start and run a CFUG (experts panel)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is a CFUG? ColdFusion User Group CFers gather to learn and share about CF. May have presentations too. And other related technologies […]

Raymond Camden talks about “Vue.JS FusionReactor and Therapy” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “…There could have been tools to make that a little bit easier to make the scaffolding quicker. It's, but like, it's, you know, it's like when I go anywhere now with my children, right? I […]

I was a guest speaker in an episode of Chicago CFUG, with host Daniel Garcia.  Show notes CF Alive Making ColdFusion Modern, Vibrant and Secure By Michaela Light Who is Michaela Overview Legacy ColdFusion Modern ColdFusion CF Tools Outreach Marketing Vibrant ColdFusion CF dying? What aspects of CF are preventing you or your company […]

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit East 2019 ColdFusion” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “… every year, we are seeing an increase in the number of developers that are coming to the events like you would have seen, and even Las Vegas event last year was bigger […]

David Belanger and Tom King talk about “CFWheels (A ColdFusion Framework for the REST of us)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “… So, if you had to compare these four frameworks to personalities of animals you know what would you say to them kind of roughly felt like to you?” […]

Brian Cain talks about “ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .Net (which is a better friend)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Speed of development Different from other languages Not constrained to a particular framework or dev methodology (eg what Microsoft or Java) RAD “Time of thought […]

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe ColdFusion 2018 (All that is new)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Performance improvements Performance tuning Server Monitor (NEW) Flag performance issues and isolate problem areas so that you can initiate corrective action much faster. Know the average response time and throughput […]

Dee Sadler talks about “Design Thinking for CFers (10 tips for better apps)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights Design thinking Hands-on UX problem solving, human-centered, iterating loop Ideating, prototyping, development, usability testing Goes well with Agile MVP (Minimum Viable Product) vs perfect So get user feedback Design […]

Jorge Reyes talks about ColdFusion High-Performance Teams with some tips in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why High-Performance Teams Distrust Fear conflict Lack of commitment Avoid accountability Inattention to results What do you mean by High Performance Efficient Reliable Effective Consistent Predictable – Product expected results The Projectized Organization […]

Mike Brunt talks about “ColdFusion and the Blockchain Revolution” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.   Shoe notes What is the Blockchain? DLT = Distributed Ledger Technology Transactions and identities 2009 Bitcoin launch – decentralized value exchange, peer to peer Etherium – BLT plus code (DAPs) Easier to use […]

Kirk Deis talks about “Better Bug Squashing (New Issue Tracking Tool)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is the problem with how you find bug issues now? User emails User phone calls Text messages Lack of complete info to reproduce the bug PM tools can track bugs […]

Ed Bartram talks about “Assert Control Over Your Legacy Applications (TestBox Quick Start)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. “Unit tests are typically testing the logic within a particular method or group of methods and not anything else that those methods are and that includes external dependencies such as a database. So […]

Christine Ballisty talks about “Help Your ColdFusion Team Find Flow (7 keys to PM success)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes The role of a digital project manager today beyond managing tasks, schedules and budgets Her background in UI and web designer Hats I wear Account Manager Positive biz […]

John Farrar talks about “Agile ColdFusion API Development (Amazing Postman, ColdBox and Agile secrets)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why build APIs in ColdFusion? Built in Works reliably Why APIs Link to other apps Separate data connector from biz logic Microservices Vue, Angular, React Why Build in APIs […]

Uma Ghotikar talks about “Fundamentals of Unit Testing, BDD and Mocking (using TestBox and MockBox)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is unit testing? Test small piece of functionality Low level, small scope, a method, a function, a clause Why do unit testing To validate every part of […]

Sumit Verma talks about “Slatwall ColdFusion eCommerce Unleashed (Beyond Shopping Carts)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is Slatwall Enterprise level eCommerce platform More than just a shopping cart A flexible way to build eCommerce websites that integrates easily with other software for payments, marketing, sales, shipping […]

Igor Ilyinsky talks about “Breaking out of your ColdFusion comfort zone (How to make CF mainstream)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Show notes CF from a biz perspective When CF makes sense or not makes sense for a biz When works, not work Dev cost Maintenance costs How hard to […]

Mark Drew talks about “Planning for CFML ISP disaster (Commandbox and Docker to the rescue)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. “Challenge, a current client was planning for Disaster Recovery environments but disaster nearly struck due to the requirement of the ISP to move the servers!” Show notes Funtimes in deploying […]

Raymond Camden talks about “Progressive Web Apps (A Gentle Intro for CFers who are scared of PWAs)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. By our nature web developers are prone to anxiety. Show notes What is a Progressive Web App (PWA) from a high level The next level from Web 2.0 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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? […]

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. Episode highlights Marketing best practices How marketing strategy is different from Google AdWords (push vs pull) Ungated value for free (paid FB: Give – give – ask/offer […]

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 […]

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. Episode highlights 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 […]

Tridib Roy Chowdhury talks about “The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights 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 […]

Neil Cresswell talks about “Using Portainer.io (Docker Container Management)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights 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 […]

 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. Episode highlights API Manager REST SOAP Created in CF or any other language What it is Throttling, metering SLA Authorization OLOF Analytics Versioning Lifecycle management Notifications […]

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 […]

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. Episode highlights His journey from side jobs to freelancing to his own biz Moved to NYC to become an actor – did CF side jobs to […]

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. Episode highlights 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 […]

Nolan Erck talks about “Migrating legacy CFML to MVC (Model View Controller)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.   Episode highlights 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 […]

Nolan Erck talks about “Migrating legacy CFML to MVC (Model View Controller)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.   Episode highlights 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 […]

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. Episode Highights 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 […]

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. Episode highlights: 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 […]

David Tattersall talks about “Into the CLOUD with FusionReactor (ColdFusion Application Performance Monitor)”  in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Jorge Reyes talks about “CF Suicide, Depression, and Recovery”, in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights 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 […]

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. Episode highlights: 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 […]

Kai Koenig talks about “Improve your CFML Code Quality (with some Cool Tools)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights: 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 […]

Matt Gifford talks about “OAuth 2 for Me and You (Social Login Lowdown)” in this episode of CF Alive podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights: 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 […]

Guust Nieuwenhuis talks about “CF Continuous Integration Plumbing with Bitbucket Pipelines” in this episode of CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights: 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 […]

Nolan Erck talks about “ColdFusion Best Practices, Except When They Are Not”, in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights 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 […]

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. Episode highlights 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 […]

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. Episode highlights 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 […]

Luis Majano talks about “CommandBox + ForgeBox: ColdFusion Code, Package, Share, Go!” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights 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 […]

Mark Drew talks about “Let’s get GraphQL! (Smart API access from CFML) ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights: 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 […]

Rakshith Naresh talks about “Revealing the ColdFusion 2018 Roadmap details ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Level Up Your ColdFusion Web Apps With Amazon Web Services, with Brian Klaas 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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. Episode highlights What is FW/1? What is a framework? Why you should be […]

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 […]

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. Episode highlights What is a design pattern? Why should you be using them […]

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. Episode highlights  Hot Speakers this year New topic this year New Location Discounted govt rate and one day […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. Episode […]

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 […]

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. Episode topics What CFObjective is Where CFObjective is being held this year? When is CFObjective Wed night opening event Thurs and Friday 4 tracks […]

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.  Episode topics Why should you care about security in your CF code What is the most common misconception […]

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. […]

“VUE More With Less” John Farrar 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 […]

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 […]

Seth Engen talks about “Adventures with ColdFusion and ContentBox in the Wild” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Seth is one of the speakers of the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about ContentBox In The Wild. In his ITB talk, Seth will mention a […]

Esmeralda Acevedo talks about “Better ContentBox Themes and easily creating an Amazing UI” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “I could become more active in the community. But I'm already part of the Box team on Slack and that's how people can reach me. I'm new to this if […]

Kevin Jones talks about “NGINX: a smart middle man between your app and your users” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Kevin is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box  ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Using NGINX as an Effective and Highly Available Content Cache. […]

Charlie Arehart talks about “Are spiders eating your servers? The impact of their unexpected load and how to counter it” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “These days a lot of people are concerned about site security and they'll … Either they or someone in the organization will run […]

Luis Majano talks about “Extreme testing and slaying the dragons of ORM” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Luis is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about the theory of Behavior Driven Development, Slaying the ORM Dragons with CBORM and The […]

Jon Clausen talks about “Portable CFML with Cloud deployments, Microservices and REST” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Jon is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Hall PaaS: Cloud CFML deployments with CommandBox and Bringing Legacy Apps Back To […]

Gavin Pickin talks about “All things ContentBox (new API, ContentStore, Themes and more)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast,with  the host Michaela Light. Gavin is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Bringing Legacy Apps Back To Life with *Box Microservices, Ortus Keynote and […]

  Mike Brunt talks about “Tuning & Troubleshooting ColdFusion Using Native Tools” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Mike is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Tuning & Troubleshooting ColdFusion Using Native Tools. There are various tools and […]

Nathaniel Francis talks about “The best REST you've ever had: ColdBox REST” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Nathaniel is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box Conference where he will talk about The best REST you've ever had: ColdBox REST. “ColdBox has allowed CFML to really […]

Dominic Watson talks about “Marketing Automation using the Preside Platform”, in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with the host Michaela Light. Dominic is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about Preside Platform Deep Dive. “Preside has been around for a lot longer than it […]

David Tattersall talks about “CF State of Union Survey 2017” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. David is the CEO of Integral, and is building FusionReactor, fusion analytics and fusion debug. “I think what the ColdFusion guys want or are looking for with that is provide a platform that enables […]

Nolan Erck talks about “Dependency Injection, why is it awesome and why should I care?” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. Nolan has been developing software professionally for more than 19 years, starting in the video game industry as a Tools Programmer advancing to web development in 1999. He has […]

 Gert Franz talks about “Performance Tuning and the Future of Lucee” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Gert was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. Back in the late eighties he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched to later IT as a profession and programmed for […]

Raymond Camden talks about “Kick Your Server to the Curb and Go Serverless” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Raymond is a developer advocate for IBM. His work focuses on LoopBack, API Connect, serverless, hybrid mobile development, Node.js, HTML5, and web standards in general. He's a published author and presents […]

Brad Wood, Luis Majano, and Gavin Pickin talk about “First Look into the Into The Box Conference” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Brad, Luis and Gavin are all speakers of the Into The Box Conference. In this episode, we are going to find out what exactly is the conference about; […]

 Giancarlo Gomez talks about “Brief Introduction To Websockets” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Giancarlo is one of the speakers for the upcoming Into The Box  ColdFusion Conference, where he will talk about WebSockets in CFML. In his ITB talk, he plans to get into some CF Websockets code. Reviews […]