Mark Takata talks about “Meet the Adobe ColdFusion Evangelist (CF AMA)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

What is a "CF evangelist"?

What do you do

Tech evangelist vs support/sales evangelist

Mark from tech background → tech evangelist

Dev experiences

Dev relations

Support

Route issues to the CF engineering team or CF sales team

Speaking

Webinar

Training

Social Media  

listening, engage, comment

Promoting other related trainings and CF job posts

CF Pain points → CF product manager Aditya 

CF management team loves data and examples

Who is Mark

Sacramento CA

UC Davis CF dev, high volume apps

ColdFusion conferences and training

CF Summit East → online CF Dev Week

What are you looking forward to at ColdFusion Dev Week?

CF Summit West 

In person event Adobe Factors: location, corporate risk and perception, safety first

ColdFusion certification 

Training videos improved with outside help including Dave Ferguson of Learn CF in a Week

Professional test

New  lower price $149

Video will be free in future - only pay for the cert test

Gamification of training

Eval of modern CF skills in diff areas

AI/ML Git code evaluator

Licencing

We brainstormed on licensing problems from CFers and potential solutions.

Note: Mark is not an attorney, does not play an attorney on TV and does not make official Adobe licensing policy. Here he what he wrote on this:

a clarification regarding Licensing: Any and all commentary regarding licensing during this podcast represents my personal opinion and experiences as a multi-decade ColdFusion developer. Any ideas or concepts floated do not represent Adobe's plans, goals or roadmaps for licensing. In short, I am not qualified nor even authorized to speak officially for Adobe regarding licensing terms or plans. Everything we spoke of here regarding licensing was "just Mark" chatting. Thank you for understanding.:-) " - Mark

He does however have a big influence inside the Adobe ColdFusion team. So I imagine the ideas will get back to them. :-) - Michaela

Cloud

AWS marketplace

300k+ downloads

Corales licenses images 

Enterprise-level

High-level virtual machine required 

30 days free trial on free AWS machine

Docker anywhere

Other cloud vendors such as Google, Azure, Digital Ocean

Sales licensing worksheet → interactive licensing tool

Blue-green licensing

Live server updates

Blue server going away

Green is new one

Only count the Green servers

Legal legacy licensing

Physical servers vs VPS vs containers vs Llamda 

Vision

Fair

Simple

Pay us

Cores clause

Cores x containers 

SaaS licensing costs extra

Why does Adobe care what our programs do?

Hosting licensing

Usage of features

New package manager - much smaller install 138 MB vs 1 GB

Auto code scan

CF Report Builder

Was last in CF 2016

More users of it than Adobe realized

VS Code Adobe ColdFusion IDE

Estimated release date Q2 2022

Replacement for CF Builder?

Mentioned in this episode

CF Summit

CF Dev Week

ITB

Channels

Adobe ColdFusion YouTube channel 

TeraTech 

Ortus 

CFCasts

CF training resources 

Listen to the Audio

Bio

Mark Takata 

Mark Takata has been a full-stack application developer, graphic artist, UI/UX expert & technical writer for more than 20 years. He has extensive professional experience in ColdFusion, C#, JavaScript, VB.net, SQL and several other languages. He is currently the Technical Evangelist for ColdFusion at Adobe and has served in that role for the past 9 months. In his limited spare time, Mark enjoys mountain biking, overlanding in his Jeep, and playing Destiny 2 (horribly).

Links

Email: Takata (at) adobe.com