Eric Peterson talks about “CFCasts Behind the Scenes” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

What is CFCasts

Netflix for ColdFusion

Free and paid levels

Why should every CFer check out CFCasts

CFML-based tutorials

Full-stack content (CFML, JavaScript, Databases, etc.)

Free! (and Paid)

Why we built CFCasts

“Netflix for CFML Developers”

Screencasts for CF

History

LaraCasts.com - PHP / Laravel

CFCasts domain registered in 2014

Why has it not got Box in the name, like all the other Ortus products?

We already had the domain. ;-)

When was it launched?

2020 - Record all ITB videos and wanted to sell them (virtual conference)

Part Virtual event due to covid

Whole Ortus team helps created the content, along with other CF experts

 Stats

343 Videos

23 Series

500+ accounts plus more viewers not logged

English and Spanish Localization

Content

Box vs other CF

ITB Videos

Object-Oriented Programming course by Nolan Erck

ColdBox Workshop

Code samples for workshops in Git repos

How we built CFCasts

ColdBox

Lucee

InertiaJS

VueJS

MySQL

Vimeo

Stripe

Responsible design - works on phone, tablet, desktop

Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI

Future features

Video page redesign better UX

Refactoring to ElasticSearch, more filters and search results

From MySQL text search

Why are you proud to use CF?

Lots of innovations in the CF space

Lots of the world runs on CF

More sites in CF than BuiltWith etc shows due to intranets and modern coding practices

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

Learn new CF features and tools

BuiltWithCFBox Git repo

What are you looking forward to at Into The Box?

In Person

Workshops

September 27-30

New Location?

Mentioned in this episode

ForgeBox.io

CFCasts

MySQL

InertiaJS

TailwindUI

Into The Box

Listen to the Audio

Bio

Eric Peterson

Eric Peterson is a CFML and Javascript developer at Ortus Solutions (ColdBox, CommandBox, etc.). He attended the University of Utah and received a degree in Information Systems thinking he would hate programming as a career. He started programming in CFML (and in general) in 2012 and has never been more happy to be proved wrong.

He is the current maintainer of qb, Quick, and ColdBox Elixir as well as a prolific module author on ForgeBox.io. He loves creating tools to help bring CFML up to date with other modern languages and communities.

In his free time, Eric loves to participate in theater, musicals, and to spend time with his wife, three children, and one dog. He can be found on Twitter at @_elpete.

Links

Twitter

GitHub @elpete

Interview Transcript

Michaela Light 0:00

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Eric Peterson. And we're talking about CF casts behind the scenes. We're going to learn what is in CF casts all the cool ColdFusion stuff in there, why He created it, and some other interesting stuff in ColdFusion land and CF casts. Welcome, Eric.

Eric Peterson 0:20

Hey, thanks for having me.

Michaela Light 0:22

You're welcome. And for those of you don't know, Eric is a CFML, and JavaScript developer, he works at audit solutions. And you know, the guys who make all those box products, among many other things, and they also make CF costs, which is probably why we're talking. And I'm surprised to learn Eric, though you did an Information Systems degree, thinking you thought you would hate programming.

Eric Peterson 0:48

Yeah, I did. Especially after my first programming course, in college. I just, it was, I don't know, it just wasn't, it didn't click. I remember, it was a Java course. And all I was doing was sticking things out in the console. And I thought, well, this is kind of boring. And I remember jumping forward to like, we made the game,