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 application framework built on top of ColdBox and Lucee

Why it is more than a CMS

Why they moved from ACF to other CFML engines in 2005

The journey via BlueDragon, Railo to Lucee

100% Lucee CFML shop now

Back porting issues with Elvis operator with Adobe ColdFusion 2016

All open source stack

Preside

ColdBox

Lucee CFML

Tomcat

MySQL with MariaDB Galera

Linux

Why they shifted Preside to an open source model in 2012

Formal bidding process competing with open source CMSs Django, Rails, CodeIgniter etc

So, in theory, you can take your app to another agency in the future in case of problems

Typical work is 30% CMS and 70% custom code

Still have maintenance deals and SLAs on the back end so it was revenue neutral overall

Building partnerships with other CF consulting shops

The Longevity of Preside and Lucee

Migrating from an expensive proprietary CMS to open source Preside/Lucee

Building complex business systems on top of Preside application

5x faster custom build time

Certification systems

Online learning add-ons (like Moodle)

Membership associations

Join, renew, minutes, attending meetings

Data-driven applications

The Daredevil risk of live coding during your preso

The advantages of non-throwaway scaffolding

The “Quake key” to access the Preside console

How it accelerates your custom code development on top of Preside

Injecting custom functionality into the framework using full cascading inheritance

Blending your extension into the framework vs loose coupling of customizations

ColdBox Interception points

Better developer experience

Tagging into the data layer vs a rigid API

Funky stuff using the CF_Preside_Parm tag

No need for a middle service layer

Derivative eg auto image manipulation

Preside Extensions and Mashups

Elastic search

Search documents and data

Star wars mash up

Closed source extensions too

CRM

Task manager

Data tenancy in your ORM

Slicing the database between users so they only set their segment of the data

Supporting a SaaS business model

Versioning of data

Multilingual data

Multiple site hierarchy you only see the news data for your site

Easy document management portals for magazines and editorial processes

Versioning, rollback, tagging

Hierarchical model or content model (like Allaire Spectra)

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at Into The Box?

Join the Preside team in a deep exploration of what this powerful, Coldbox-based platform gives to the CFML development community. Witness how the platform can be used to rapidly develop custom web applications with seamlessly managed content tools and much more...

 

Mentioned in this episode

CF Alive episode 007 Marketing Automation using the Preside Platform with Dominic Watson

Member of LAS (Lucee Association Switzerland) http://lucee.org/

Popularity is self-perpetuating (may not be the best)

ColdBox

CommandBox

Twig support

MariaDB Galera

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Bio

Alex Skinner

Alex Skinner is the managing director and co-founder of global digital agency Pixl8. Started with CF 4.  Providing strategic direction and consulting on the more advanced projects undertaken. In addition, he works with our platform team to deliver our Open Source CMS and MVC Framework Preside CMS.

Links

Preside