ColdFusion Alive

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 […]

Guust Nieuwenhuis talks about “MASA ColdFusion CMS (new open source Content Manager)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “he's joining us to talk about MASA CMS, a new CMS launched about a year and a half ago. It's a fork out of the famous Muira CMS. And we'll talk […]

Peter Amiri talks about “CFWheels ColdFusion Framework (new structure and features)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…CFwheels is another ColdFusion framework. And it was originally modeled after Ruby on Rails. So if you remember back in the early 2000s, when Ruby on Rails came out, it was a complete […]

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 […]

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. […]

Mike Brunt talks about “Stopping API security hacks cold (using ColdFusion API Manager)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “We're going to be talking about API security and ColdFusion, which you may not have considered. This is a whole other attack service surface that your apps can be hacked […]

Guust Nieuwenhuis talks about “Modernizing ColdFusion apps (through evolution, not revolution)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “We're going to be talking about modernizing your legacy ColdFusion apps through evolution and not revolution. And we'll explain what that means.” Show notes Why not rewrite legacy apps? A feeling (to […]

David Tattersall talks about “Revealing FusionReactor 9 (ColdFusion Monitoring New Tools)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “We'll be talking about the amazing new features in fusion reactor nine, for making your ColdFusion apps run fast and not have crashes. Or if they do have slowdowns or crashes, you […]

Gavin Pickin talks about “State CF Union survey analysis (part 3: Community, Deployment and Wrapup)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…Last time, we got to question 27. Now we're in the whole section around ColdFusion community, which I know it's important to a lot of listeners. So let's […]

Luke Kilpatrick talks about “gitStream (Way Faster ColdFusion Git Merging)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “We'll talk about cool things you can do with Git to speed up your whole merge process using a new tool called Git stream.” Show notes What is Git? Why should all CFers […]

Gavin Pickin talks about “State of CF Union Survey Analysis (part 2)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “we're going to be doing our second part on the state of the ColdFusion survey results. And we've got some very interesting data that we found we've done Gavin put together some […]

Peter Amiri talks about “CFWheels ColdFusion Framework (new structure and features)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…CFwheels is another ColdFusion framework. And it was originally modeled after Ruby on Rails. So if you remember back in the early 2000s, when Ruby on Rails came out, it was a complete […]

Doug McCaughan talks about “How to Get Your Next Ideal CF Job (using LinkedIn, Resume, GitHub)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…the company pivoted away from ColdFusion. And suddenly, after 12 years, you're like, Oh, dear, I need to get a job…” Show notes A sudden need for a […]

Brad Wood talks about “How is CFML speed vs other languages? (Hint: really fast!)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…It is freaking awesome to see CFML (both Lucee and Adobe) blowing the pants off other popular web frameworks. I think this sort of head-to-head comparison is great information to […]

Gavin Pickin talks about “State of CF Union Survey 2022 Results In-Depth Analysis Part 1 (14 cool ColdFusion, Database and Frameworks insights)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…so far right now, you know, we see 60% of people are using a supported ColdFusion licensed product…” Show notes What is […]

Gavin Pickin talks about “Into The Box ColdFusion Conference 2022 (new details revealed) ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. Your community 20% discount code is: TERAITB20  You can use it either for just the conference, or  the full access pass (Conference+Workshop) “…with the [ITB] conference, it's a great way […]

Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 – future CFML)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “We're gonna be talking about Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee and how they compare and contrast and all cool new features coming in the next […]

Zac Spitzer talks about “Lucee 6 Release Features, Behind-the-Scenes ” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. “I'm here with Zac Spitzer from the Lucee Association Switzerland along with some other organizations that I'll tell you about later. And we're going to be talking about some exciting breaking news about […]

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 […] Source

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 which […]

“…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 of the biggest conferences for CF this year…” Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit 2020 (What to Expect)” in this episode of […]

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 […] The post 105 CFML Open Source Learning with John Farrar appeared first on TeraTech.

Read the show notes and download the episode here Michaela Light 0:01 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Jeff Kunkel and we are going to talk about cold fusion mental helpers, or how to stay sane during crises, which, when we're recording this, there's a major lockdown crona economic depression, wacko crisis going […] The post 104 CFer Mental Helpers (Stay Sane during Crises) with Jeff Kunkel- Transcript appeared first on TeraTech.

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 […] The post 104 CFer Mental Helpers (Stay Sane during Crises) with Jeff Kunkel appeared first on TeraTech.

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 […] The post 103 Cool Lucee CFML (GigaBytes file parsing and more) with Gert Franz appeared first on TeraTech.

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. Episode Highlights 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 […] The post 102 ColdFusion in Biz (the Latest Trends in CF consulting)with Joby John appeared first on TeraTech.

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 […] The post 101 CF Summit India 2019 Revealed with Adobe’s Kishore Balakrishnan appeared first on TeraTech.

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 […] The post 100 CF Alive (Revolution Retrospective) with Nolan Erck and Michaela Light appeared first on TeraTech.

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 […] The post 099 CF Camp 2019 (Everything CFML) with Kai Koenig and Mitchi Hnat appeared first on TeraTech.

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 post 098 Adobe CF Summit West 2019 (All that is new) with Kishore Balakrishnan appeared first on TeraTech.

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 […] The post 097 State of the CF Union 2019 Survey, with Brad Wood (in-depth analysis) appeared first on TeraTech.

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. Episode Highlights ColdFusion Future PM → VM → Cloud → Containers → Serverless What will make CF take off more CF 2020 Vision – To be the modernized […] The post 096 Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Roadmap (Multi-cloud, micro-services and more), with Ashish Garg appeared first on TeraTech.

Nolan Erck talks about “ColdFusion CommandBox vs Node.js (Dev Feature shootout)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode Highlights  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, […] The post 095 ColdFusion CommandBox vs Node.js (Dev Feature shootout), with Nolan Erck appeared first on TeraTech.

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 […] The post 094 Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit), with Elishia Dvorak appeared first on TeraTech.

 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 […] The post 093 Learn ColdFusion in a Week with Carl Von Stetten, Daniel Fredericks and Dave Ferguson appeared first on TeraTech.

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 […] The post 092 How to start and run a CFUG (experts panel) with Daniel Garcia, Leon O’Daniel, Michaela Light and Nolan Erck appeared first on TeraTech.

You can read the show notes and download the podcast here Michaela Light 0:01 Hey, welcome back to the show here we have a special episode. And it's a panel of cold fusion user group experts. We've got Leon, Nolan and Daniel. So and we might have drew as well joining us, he isn't here […] The post How to start and run a CFUG (experts panel) with Daniel Garcia, Leon O’Daniel, Michaela Light and Nolan Erck- Transcript appeared first on TeraTech.

“…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 don't like casually go anywhere, but my kids are coming. I'm bringing snacks and bringing diaper bag and all that. […] The post 091 Vue.JS FusionReactor and Therapy, with Raymond Camden appeared first on TeraTech.

 I was a guest speaker in an episode of Chicago CFUG, with host Daniel Garcia. Here are some of the topics discussed in the podcast: 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 […] The post 090 CF Alive at Chicago CFUG with Michaela Light appeared first on TeraTech.

 “… 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 than the year before. And hopefully this year, the Summit East is going to be bigger than what it was the […] The post 089 All about the Adobe CF Summit East 2019 ColdFusion with Kishore Balakrishnan appeared first on TeraTech.

“… 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?”   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 […] The post 088 CFWheels (A ColdFusion Framework for the REST of us) with Tom King and David Belanger appeared first on TeraTech.

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 […] The post 087 ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .Net (which is a better friend) with Brian Cain appeared first on TeraTech.