Gavin Pickin talks about “State of CF Union Survey Analysis (part 2)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.
"we're going to be doing our second part on the state of the ColdFusion survey results. And we've got some very interesting data that we found we've done Gavin put together some really cool graphs show it so if you're watching on video, be able to see those if you're not on video, you can go to the show notes page on teratech.com to have a look at the graphs when we get to those."
Show notes
1. What is the State of the CF Union survey
When did it start? 2007 as part of CFUnited conference
2. Why do you run it every year?
Trends
Making CF more Alive - best practices and tools all CFer could be using!
3. Frameworks and Methodology
15. What miscellaneous frameworks/tools are you using?
16. What CF features do you use for code reuse?
4. Tools
17. What do you use for source code control?
18. What tools/IDEs do you use?
19. What browser Dev Tools do you use?
20. What do you use to build REST APIs?
API Manager
21. What caching solutions are you using?
22. Do you use Message Queues (MQ) in your CF apps? If so which one(s)?
5. Your Programming Background
23. How many years have you used CFML?
24. How many years have you used OO?
25. Other languages/environments you use?
26. How many CF developers at your organization?
27. How many total employees at your organization?
Mentioned in this episode
Gavin and Ortus code reuse podcasts
Brad CF speed episode
Matt Gifford OO book
Design Patterns book
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Bio
Gavin Pickin
Software Consultant passionate about Building Better Businesses using CFML, JavaScript, VueJS, Docker, Training, Podcasts and sharing all my lessons learned
Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Gavin started using ColdFusion in 1999 when working for the University of Auckland in New Zealand before moving to California. He has led teams, trained new developers and worked the full stack from graphic design, HTML and CSS JavaScript through ColdFusion MySQL and server administration.
Gavin has a passion for learning and cannot understand why the 9-5ers aren’t listening to podcasts while changing diapers, watching video tutorials while cleaning baby bottles and folding clothes, or putting the kids to sleep with soothing phone gap mobile application cookbook recipes.
Links
Gavin Pickin (@gpickin) / Twitter
George “Gavin” Pickin | LinkedIn
Gavin Pickin - Web and Business Developer
Interview transcript
Michaela Light 0:01
Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Gavin pickin from audit solutions. And we're going to be doing our second part on the state of the ColdFusion survey results. And we've got some very interesting data that we found we've done Gavin put together some really cool graphs show it so if you're watching on video, be able to see those if you're not on video, you can go to the show notes page on tourtech.com. To have a look at the graphs when we get to those. If you don't know Gavin, he's originally from Down Under in New Zealand. And he's been doing cold fusion for ever, I want to say 1999 or something like that. Yeah. And he used to be at working at the University of Auckland, but now he moved to California is working for autists solutions where he does amazing things. And in particular, he you don't say this new bio, but don't you? Aren't you the force behind content box isn't that you
Gavin Pickin 0:59
did spend a lot of time doing a lot of work the content box, but it got to a point was pretty stable. And we're using it and using it. And so we focus more on?