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 than the year before. And hopefully this year, the Summit East is going to be bigger than what it was the last year."

Show notes

What exactly is CF Summit East?

Started in the second year of CF Summit in Las Vegas

For people who can’t travel to the West coast

Expecting 250-300 people, 400 registrations already two months out

How many years has CF Summit been running?

4th year

Also CF Summit India

Plans for an event in Europe

DevWeek in SF

Why is it so important to the CF Community?

Learn CF new features

Future roadmap of CF (through 2028)

Networking with other CF developers, CF speakers and Adobe CF senior staff

Why all CFer should go?

To learn about Adobe’s commitment to CF

New features in CF

Direction of CF

CF Roadmap through 2028

Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about

11 speakers

Keynote

Ashish Garg - Engineering Director, responsible for CF and other ELearning tools at Adobe and Adobe Connect

Ashish will be talking about CF 2018 and how CFers are using it.

Geek Out With The Smart Language Additions In Coldfusion 2018

Rakshith Naresh Product Manager for ColdFusion, Adobe

Adobe ColdFusion 2018 brings numerous nifty improvements to the language. The goal of this session is to not just show you the new improvements in action but also to inspire you to incorporate some of these powerful features in your existing applications. In this session, we will see firsthand on how the changes can be applied to a popular existing application. It goes without saying that new applications with new code can also take advantage of the new feature set. See a lot of code. Have fun. And hey, if you can apply what you learn, then you can also win at answering some of the interactive programming questions that might be thrown at you. More power to all you developers!

Rakshith is the Senior Product Manager for Adobe at ColdFusion. This is the man who literally decides the future direction of ColdFusion. He is very passionate about ColdFusion and greatly appreciates the useful input from the CF Community.

Making Your Applications Fast And Furious With The New Performance Monitoring Toolset In CF 2018!

Elishia Dvorak ColdFusion Solution Consultant & Evangelist, Adobe

The all-new Performance Monitoring Toolset in Adobe ColdFusion 2018 is geared towards today's development needs, providing a full-spectrum solution to not only self-diagnose and heal, but also a profiling capability for the developer who needs something more to tune existing applications for performance. In this session, attendees will learn how to easily diagnose bottlenecks in your current applications, be the first to know about production problems, and take your troubleshooting to the next level with the new self-healing connector tuning capabilities.

Elishia was once a CF developer, she quickly moved her way up the ranks to become Adobe’s Technical Marketing Manager for ColdFusion and eLearning.

Adobe Coldfusion 2018 Hidden Gems

Charlie Arehart ColdFusion Troubleshooting Consultant, CArehart.org

It's that time again-another new version of ColdFusion (CF) has come out: Adobe ColdFusion 2018. Now is the time for veteran CF troubleshooter and presenter Charlie Arehart to continue his tradition of identifying "hidden gems" within the new release, as he's been doing since CF4. Sure, most people can name a few of the big, new features in each release, while others will lament that "there's not much new," when in fact there is! Just as in every release of CF, there are always lots of things that go unheralded,