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!

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ColdFusion is a vibrant and modern language for complex, data-driven enterprise apps. While some companies have abandoned ColdFusion as dying, more visionary dev teams have embraced CF. Learn how they are making it the most modern, secure and state-of-the-art web development ecosystem.

Why was it started?

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

Language shame, depression, Burnout → excited and learning again

Make CF Cool again

Hiring issues

More Young CFers

9-5 programmers

Contant “Homeplay” and learning

30 mins per day method

Lunch and learn

When did it start

001 Amazing Adventures with CF WebSockets with Giancarlo Gomez

March 29, 2017

What has changed in ColdFusion since it started

CF Alive podcast

Modernize or Die podcast

CF Alive book released

CommandBox and ForgeBox

Non-ColdBox Box products

Soft Skills and open to mental health issues more openly discussed

Conference inclusivity and diversity including speakers - anonymous topic selection

CF conferences

CF Summit East growing

CF Summit India

Improved CF Camp in Europe

ITB Latin America

Improved code of conduct

Separate Q&A in CF Camp

Office Hours area for 1 on 1 questions

Shy questioners

Showboaters

New speakers

Learned Modern CFML in 100 minutes released

CF Angular book new edition

LearnCFInAWeek revamp

CF Certification released

New CF tools

Framework updates for ColdBox, CFWheels, FW/1

Foundeo new products Fixinator and FuseGuard (on top of HackMyCF)

CFScript.me

FusionReactor new release and cloud version

Adobe PMT Security Auto Lock

Adobe API Manager

Ortus CF box products 4 year roadmaps released

WireBox

TestBox

Adobe at non-CF conferences such as DevWeek and NAGW promoting CF

And Brad Wood at DevNexis 

CF 2018 release

Auto lock down

Mega performance increase

CF containerization revolution

Lucee 5

Modern CF, cfscript

CF 2020 multi cloud and containerization

CF top in web Security

Performance, Productivity and Security

More positive atmosphere in CF Community

CF Slack channel more positive

What are you looking forward to in 2020 for CF Alive?

CF 2020

Lucee 6

Adobe and Ortus roadshows and webinars

CF Rocks book

New CF conferences

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

Be the change you want to see in the world - Gadhi

StackOverflow public and searchable

Friendly and professional answers

Being visible about using CF

Made with CF logo

Blog

Social share on Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn etc

CF Pride

Mentioned in this episode

CommandBox

ForgeBox 

Jeffrey Kunkel, Oh My GAD  episode

CF Suicide, Depression and Recovery episode with Jorge Reyes

https://teratech.com/podcast/cf-alive-at-chicago-cfug-michaela-light/

https://teratech.com/podcast/cf-camp-2019-everything-cfml-with-kai-koenig-and-mitchi-hnat/

https://www.amazon.com/Learn-ColdFusion-Enterprise-Application-Development-ebook/dp/B07K4X9BF5

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The Opportunities of Being a Woman in Tech Today with Elliotte Bowerman

Learn ColdFusion in a Week with Carl Von Stetten, Daniel Fredericks and Dave Ferguson 

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