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 to be a ColdFusion Developer in one week.

Online Course

PDF

E-book

Sample files

Started by Simon Free and many contributors for CF10, now updated for CF 2018

Adobe and others have helped

How much does it cost?

Free. Open source.

Why did you create it?

To bridge the gap between reading online docs and learning the language

Who contributed http://www.learncfinaweek.com

When was it first released?

Approx 2010

What versions of ACF and Lucee is it for?

All versions since CF 11  because CF is backward compatible

Examples for ACF, but mostly works ok in Lucee

What are the cool features of it?

Walks through features

Subsections

Hands-on exercises with solutions

Modern CF code - cfscript, commandbox

Written by developers for developers

Sections

Database access

Applicaton.cfc

Logic

Setup

Installing ColdFusion 10

Installing MySQL

Installing Sample Files

Basics

Decision Making and Scopes

Looping

Data Handling

Code Reuse

Application.cfc

OOP

ORM

Mail

Document Handling

Caching

Security

Error Handling and Debugging

I18n

What to do Next - learning resources

Is it realistic for a non-CF programmer to learn CF in a week and be productive?

Yes. Without human help!

What about a non-programmer (eg an HTML graphic designer)?

Yes if you spend more time on the Basics chapter

What other ways are there to learn CF?

Trial and error

CF docs - but just documents individual tags - not the why

Books

CF Web Application Construction Kit - now out of date

Learn CF in 100 minutes Ortus book

Training

Linda

Adobe college curriculum

Conferences

CFUG

CF certification

CF Slack channel

What plans do you have for the future of Learn CF in a Week?

Gotchas coming from specific languages

Advanced sections

Containers

Performance

API manager

Cloud

Frameworks

Package Management ForgeBox

More resources

Statistics

Learn CF a Week meetup at CF Summit

How can listeners help out with Learn CF in a Week?

Google group for contributors and help

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit West?

Listen to the Audio

 

Bios

Carl Von Stetten

Carl is in his 19th year working as a Geographic Information System (GIS) Analyst with a San Francisco Bay Area municipal wastewater agency.  He develops and maintains multiple internal ColdFusion-based GIS applications for use by agency staff, and is well-versed in Microsoft SQL Server and Esri ArcGIS technologies.  He can often be found hanging out in the ColdFusion Slack team, on the Adobe ColdFusion forums, or on Twitter (@cfvonner).

Links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cfvonner

Daniel Fredericks

A ColdFusion Developer for over 15 years specializing in Government Contracts. Continuing to learn more modern techniques all the time such as OOP, API development and more. In my spare time I spend time with my wife and 2 kids, coaching and playing sports with them, and watching a lot of sports.

Links:

You can find me on FB, Twitter (@fmdano74), Slack and other CFML based sites.

Dave Ferguson

 

Dave has spent the majority of his life living in sunny Southern California. Over the past almost 20 years has worked in information technology after his attempt at being a career restaurant manager failed miserably. He has spent the majority of that time specializing in large enterprise-class systems. When not writing code,