I was a guest speaker in an episode of Chicago CFUG, with host Daniel Garcia.

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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 from embracing CF?

72% CF is seen as dying/legacy.

Annual State of CF Union survey, 2018

Modern CF

Secure

Scalable

CF and Docker

Virtual machine

Share same config with others, staging and production

orchestration layer tools

Better testing

Free CF

CF Docker tools

Source control

IDEs

Frameworks

Server monitoring

REST APIs and microservices

CommandBox

CMS

Easy front end integration

Dependency Injection Frameworks

ORM

Package Management

Outreach

WWIT to have a happy, healthy ColdFusion developers community?

Education

Network

Teach

Hiring

Better CF Community

Marketing

The CF Alive Revolution

Mentioned in this episode

Lucee CFML

HackMyCF

Fuseguard

Fixinator

FusionReactor

Kubernetes

Heroku

Dokku

TestBox

MockBox

Portainer

CommandBox

Git

BitBucket

GitHub

Sublime

Dreamweaver

Preside

jQuery

WireBox

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Bio

Michaela Light

Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for over 20 years. She founded TeraTech which focuses on ColdFusion development and optimization. She founded the CFUnited conference and ran MDCFUG. She is the current host of the CF Alive podcast and has interviewed over 60 ColdFusion experts about What It Would Take to make CF more alive this year.

Links

CF Alive book

CF Alive podcast

CF Alive Inner Circle

TeraTech blog

TeraTech YouTube channel

Regular Social media posts (TW, LI, FB)

Interview transcript

Daniel Garcia  0:01

Okay, I like to thank everyone for coming this evening. We've got quite the treat. We've got Michaela light is going to talk to us about CF Alive. She's been doing some fantastic. evangelism, I guess is a great word for this and why ColdFusion is just awesome still, and it's always been awesome. And we're going to let her tell us why. So thank you very much.

Michaela  0:23

Yeah, thanks for inviting me to the Chicago CFUG. And, yeah, I'm going to talk about CF Alive, which is the title of a book I published last fall. It was actually released at the CF Summit West in Las Vegas. And the subtitle is making ColdFusion modern, vibrant and secure and we'll talk about all those aspects of it. So fabulous. And we go so the roadmap for CF Alive is that confusion is modern and alive. And it's great for doing complex data-driven applications. And while some companies have abandoned ColdFusion as dying, you know, more visionary developers like ourselves, have embraced CF and learn how to make it more modern. So more modern, secure. And also, I think if you look at how ColdFusion is used in the most modern web development, departments and shops is the most state of the art web development ecosystem. So we'll look at why that is.

So who am I? As I said, I wrote the book CF Alive. I'm also host of the CF life podcast. I just out of interest. How many people here have ever listened to any CF Live podcast episode? Maybe you can tell me how many people raise their hands if any four of us and one of our move on you with the podcast at Bertram? Oh yeah, he was a guest.

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