Mike Chytráček talks about “Lucee Migration (8 CFML code moving tips)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.

“...but we had migrated everything over and all new clients went to Lucy all new applications went to Lucy. And within I'd say maybe two years, we had probably 95% of our clients might get it off, some clients still required it”.

https://youtu.be/DsSjRD68H70

Show notes

What is Lucee?

Why did you migrate to Lucee?

2018 switch from ACF  to Lucee

Adobe Licensing fishing call and new licensing model per application with $10ks extra cost.

“SaaS” due to Mura

Per core licensing beyond 2.

Easy trial migration. 

Faster too!

Worked great with both MS-SQL and MySQL

95% clints moved to Lucee

5% don’t understand open source or the support model

Challenges with the migration

Unsupported tags

CFfileupload

CFPDF

Websockets

CFspreadsheet

Arrays and structs passed by reference in Lucee (vs by value)

Scope overwriting for URL scope

ORM

Fixed by removing the ORM and replacing with straight SQL

How Java classes are handled and created

OSGI

EHcache

Requires setup

PDFs

Using wkHTML2PDF and JPG pixel perfect

Via CFexecute

Json keys - Linux and Windows - case issue - ACF uppercases the keys, Lucee keps original case

Results of the migration

CF Admin per site

Mura and Masa CMS built on Lucee

Themes and page builder

Preside CMS

Ortus Box tools

Cost

Esp with more cores

Cloud easy - no licensing issue

Faster to “buy” - no wait on licensing portal of ACF

Runs faster

Smaller install / load profile

Support - via Slack or Lucee forums

Less server issues with Lucee than ACF recently

Regular (monthly) Lucee point update, easy rollback

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

CF and AI

CF Camp

CF IDE ideas. AI thoughts. 

 

Mentioned in this episode

Lucee migration guide

Calling Java from Lucee

Masa episode

Preside CMS episode

Copilot episode

Unity pay per download

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Bio

Mike Chytráček

Owner

Mike first taught himself how to program on the Commodore 64 he received as a Christmas present in 1984.  He was soon fascinated by the concept that you could plug your computer into a phone line and have the computer connect to other computers where you could meet new people and share ideas.

 It only seemed like a natural progression when he first discovered the internet in 1994.  While simultaneously nurturing an IT career, he learned how to develop applications for the internet While working for a Chicago area dealership, he launched one of the first car dealership websites in the area (for 1998) and the only dealership that had it's inventory listed and updated daily.  In 2000 he went to work for a small development company, SGSNet, in the Chicago area where he met future partner, Jeff Meister, and worked with clients like Ty, Gatorade, Carr Futures and Wilton Industries.  In 2003 that small company was bought by Whittman-Hart, and by 2005 Mike and Jeff left Whittman-Hart to form Ignite Solutions and many clients followed them; Wilton Industries, Quaker/Gatorade, Dehnco to name a few.

Mike is married with two children and in his spare time enjoys music, reading and spending as much time fishing the surf in the outer banks of North Carolina.

Links

Website: http://www.ignitesolutions.com

Mike Chytráček | LinkedIn

Interview transcript

Michaela Light 0:01

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Mike Chaya tech are gonna total balls up your name there. So how do you pronounce it? It's a Triassic. SCI Triassic. It's like a silent that sounds so sci fi and modern.

Yeah, that's how you pronounce it here wouldn't be how do you pronounce it or my grandparents pronounced it?