ColdFusion Alive

David Tattersall talks about "Into the CLOUD with FusionReactor (ColdFusion Application Performance Monitor)"  in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

What is FusionReactor CLOUD?

CLOUD version of FusionReactor with extra features over the on-premises version

What is FusionReactor

FR is on premise tool

Server Monitor and alert

Crash protection

Low overhead CF and Java application performance monitor

Less than 1% overhead compared to 2-5% on other monitors

Low overhead includes lots of tools such as debugging, JDBC, Database

It can measure 100’s of different metrics + alert you to potential issues

Agents

CF

Java

Node.js

Why go to the CLOUD?

Keep more data

More AI in the app

More analysis of the data

See patterns in billions of transactions

Is this secure?

Yes, your data is kept separate from others

Can obfuscate some data such as credit cards

Can use Fusion Analytics if you prefer not to use the CLOUD

When was FR CLOUD launched?

August  2017

Daily deployment and improvements (no version numbers) - it is a SaaS!

FR CLOUD demo

CLOUD license

It includes a copy of FR regular

CLOUD $99/mo/server Ent, $149/mo/server Ultimate

Upto 5 instances per server

Docker containers on demand licenses vs reservations for permanent servers

On demand is 10% more cost but is only billed by the minute of use

FR CLOUD works with Java too

Data retention (not just memory) from a week to 30-90 days (depending on the CLOUD version Ent or Ultra)

Capturing only interesting transactions (ITs) - not all of them

Powerful alerting engine on any of the metrics in FusionReactor CLOUD, with integration to many common Alerting Channels - such as

Hipchat

Slack

PageDuty

Email

HTTP hooks

Why did you add FR to the CLOUD?

Save server monitoring data to the CLOUD so it doesn’t clog up your server

Combining metrics from multiple servers (instances), say across a cluster, to provide a combined application view

FusionAnalytics for on premise, in-depth analysis

Two way link from FR CLOUD to the local FR so can run a stack trace or GC from the CLOUD

Webinar on this at https://www.fusion-reactor.com/webinar/fusionreactor-CLOUD/

They use use FR to monitor FR CLOUD

What versions of ACF and Lucee does FR work with?

ACF 6.1, 7 MX (FusionReactor 4.5)

ACF 8,9,10, 11, 2016 (latest version of FR)

Railo 3.x, 4.x

Lucee 4.5, 5.x

Also supports Java containers e.g. Tomcat, JBoss, GLassfish, Websphere + many Java frameworks e.g. Spring and Struts

How was CFCAMP this year?

Next conference

DevNexus Feb 23-25 2018

Why are you proud to support CF?

WWIT for CF to be more alive this year?

Mentioned in this episode

Jetty - Eclipse Jetty provides a Web server and javax.servlet container, plus support for HTTP/2, WebSocket, OSGi, JMX, JNDI, JAAS and many other integrations.

Using FR with Docker Swarm Brad Wood video

ColdFusion on Docker

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Bio

David Tattersall

David Tattersall has been in working in IT for over 30 years. Since co-founding Intergral in 1998, he focused on company management, business development and sales & marketing. Intergral has become a leader in server monitoring and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions in the ColdFusion / Java segment. His flagship product - FusionReactor - www.fusion-reactor.com is used on over 25,000 production servers and has been purchased by over 5,000 customers.

Links

www.fusion-reactor.com

Interview Transcript

Michaela 0:00

So welcome back to the show. I'm here with David Hansel and he's the CEO of integral in Germany and from their worldwide headquarters, he's gonna be demoing to us my home office home office,

he's gonna be telling us all about fusion reactor cloud, which is their new version. And it has a lot of interesting new features that lets you keep a lot more data. And it's even I I'm almost thinking it's almost an AI. But I know it's not really an AI. But it actually only kind of keeps track of intelligent stuff as to potential problems, what we're going to whatever it does, that's new, I know, it can also tie into some other tools like Slack, and other things, too, with the alerts. So welcome, David. Thank you. Welcome to you soon. So what exactly is future from reactive cloud just in a sentence or two, just in a sentence or two? Okay, well, fusion reactor cloud

Unknown 1:07

is a new software as a service that we're offering,

Unknown 1:12

it's been available now,

David Tattersal 1:15

since August of this year, we've actually been running it for about one and a half years, actually, we had a closed beta, where we had a number of customers that showed interest in the cloud, they were participating in the pizza. But we've been we've pushed it officially, officially, along with fusion reactor seven, which was in August of this year, what does cloud do so basically, even think of cloud as extending a fusion reactor on premise. So if you take a cloud licensee, if you purchase the cloud license, then you get fusion reactor on premise, just like you had before. And you also get a fusion reactor Cloud account.

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Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.

Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.

 

And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.

I am talking with Matthew Clemente about "send.Better() - Giving ColdFusion Email a REST" in this episode of CF Alive Podcast. 

Your application sends emails; they might be alerts, confirmations, reports, surveys, newsletters, support-related, or invoices. The process of setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting these emails generally alternates between boring and frustrating; developers are happy to move on to richer, more modern portions of their applications.

It really doesn't have to be like this. AWS SES might be the best known of the transactional email services, but that doesn't mean it's the best. Mailgun, Sendgrid, Postmark, and Sparkpost all provide compelling email-as-a-service offerings, built around developer-focused REST APIs.

The offerings and features varying slightly from one provider to the next; which is the best for you? As usual, the answer is that it depends, but I'll help you find out. We're going to cover:

The benefits provided by using a transactional email service

A pragmatic, use-driven comparison of the major players in the space

Pitfalls, considerations, and tips when configuring your DNS records and integrating a transactional email service with your application

Interacting with the actual APIs, and showing how easy they are to use with ColdFusion

So let's dive in and see easy it is to send better emails, get detailed reporting, access logging that doesn't make you want to pull your hair out, and take advantage of advanced features, such as webhooks, transactional templates, and inbound email rules.

Show notes

But isn’t email dead?

Open, accessible, resilient

Slack, messaging

Email as in interface for your application (it’s neglected)

Transactional emails

Use cases

Purchase confirm

Mini surveys with links for options

Account creation

Email verification

Password reset

Receipts

Requested updates

Comment notifications

Weekly digests or report

Where Speed and deliverability matter

CFMAIL + SMTP settings

TLS on encrypted send

Set in your Application.cfc rather than hardcoding in each CFMAIL tag

Dev → stage → live

Mailtrap.io ← fake smtp server for mocking

Why emails on Dev servers matter and how to do them right

Send Plain text and HTML emails

Why transactional email services?

Separate from your marketing and other emails → better deliverability and speed

Lots more data on your emails is available

Which email services do you like?

Which is best (trick question, they all have specific use cases that make sense)

AWS SES - low cost, less features, harder to set up $5/50k emails

Postmark - pure transactional emails, highest deliverability, speed, great features, more expensive $50/50k emails

Spartpost - developer friendly, free tier to 10k/mo, more marketing focused $9/50k emails

Sendgrid - does both transactional and marketing emails $20/50k emails

mailGun - developer friendly, free tier to 15k/mo, detailed developer features and logging, good inbound email handling, $20/50k emails

Who NOT to use and why?

MailChimp

GetResponse

ConstantContact

Deliverability

SPF

DKIM

DMARC

Dmarc.postmarkapp.com - friendly reporting

How to test your deliverability (Mail-tester.com)

How to set a transactional email service

Use a subdomain for config but can send from your main domain

REST API or SMTP

Start with SMTP

If you need more features move to REST

Also faster

CFML wrappers exist for these

Using Web hooks in email processing

Inbound

Bounce processing

Link processing and verification

Email open processing

Zapier integration

The future of ColdFusion email

Why are you proud to use CF?

Easy to create

Community that helps out esp slack channel

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

CF slack channel

CF Alive podcast

Help with Github projects

Forgebox

Go to CF conferences

Blog about CF and problems you have solved and successes you have had

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

Mentioned in the episode:

Mailtrap.io ← fake smtp server for mocking

Mail-tester.com

https://senderscore.org/

CF slack channel

Matthew’s slide from CFSummit 2017

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Bio

Matthew Clemente

I'm a Founding Partner with Season 4, LLC, a team of designers, programmers, and writers working in the legal industry. After studying English, I took the road less traveled and one day realized, much to my surprise, that I had become a developer. I've been building with ColdFusion since MX 7, and the community has been amazing from the start.

I'm a husband, father, and always trying to be better..

Links

You can find me on Twitter (@mjclemente84), Github (@mjclemente) and I blog, time permitting, at the cleverly named blog.mattclemente.com

Interview Transcript

Michael:          Welcome back to the show. Today we're gonna be looking at how you can send data giving ColdFusion email a rest and there is a pun intended there with Matthew Clemente. And we're gonna look at why is an e-mail dead already? But it really isn't and how you can use e-mail as an interface for your application. And we’ll look at some CF mail settings you may not been using. But then we're going to look at some transactional mail services that are really exciting that can give you high performance and better deliverability than you may be used to. And speaking of deliverability, you may wanna check out your own e-mails deliverability however you're sending e-mail, and we'll have some tips on that. So welcome Matthew.

Matthew:         Thank you, happy to be here.

Michael:          And do you wanna go by Matthew or Matt? I noticed your blog has Matt in it, but like you put Matthew in the…

Matthew:         The blog is Matt because someone else got Matthew.

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Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.

Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.

And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.

Brian Sappey talks about "How to implement Adobe's API Manager with Swagger, ColdFusion, and API's" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast.

In this session, you will be provided a look, with examples, about a successful implementation of the Adobe API Manager into a large scale Enterprise environment. You will learn how to configure the API Manager, migrate your existing API's, and create new ones utilizing Swagger. As an added bonus you will learn how to accelerate your SDLC by utilizing API's to automate the API creation process along with the on-boarding of subscribers. Lastly, you will see first hand how to wrap the entire API Manager into a developer portal using, you got it, API's!

Show notes

What is the Adobe API Manager?

Built using Java and Angular

Comes with CF Entreprise

SOAP to REST WSDL

Analytics

End point level and resource level

Realtime

Debugging APIs

Drill down to problems and solve

Replay

Sandbox and failover server

Versioning

Security

Metering and Throttling, SLA

Clustering

API key management

Why should CFers be using it?

Productivity and Debugging API

Simplify API creation and consumption

More control over your API, who uses them and how much they can call them

What is Swagger?

How did you migrate to it from Layer 7?

Cost saving $400k

Automation and SDLC

Microservices

Auto documentation

Programmatic building of APIs

Why are you proud to use CF?

Performance

Improvements at Adobe with conference, roadmap

30 CF developers at MarketAmerica

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

Stronger CF community

Modern CFML use and use of REST

Forrester whitepaper

Be ok asking and talking with Adobe

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

Mentioned in this episode

Adobe API Manager 

CA API manager (formerly Layer 7)

Rakshith Naresh, Adobe Product Manager for ColdFusion

Swagger- the world’s largest framework of API developer tools for the OpenAPI Specification(OAS)

REST

SOAP

WSDL = Web Services Description Language

Elastic search

PCI security

API endpoint

SLA = Service Level Agreement

API Contract

API keys

microservices

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Bio

Brian Sappey

Brian Sappey is an Applications Architect and Manager of Engineering. His most recent focus has been redesigning the E-commerce infrastructure at Market America/SHOP.com. He is an avid supporter and user of the Adobe API Manager.

Links

CF Summit Adobe Events

 

Interview transcript

Michael:          Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Brian Sappey. I hope I’m saying your name that right there Brian. It looks kind of vaguely foreign even though I know you're American.

Brian:              yes Sappey

Michael:          Sappey, all right. And we're gonna be talking about how he's implemented Adobe's A.P.I. manager with swagger ColdFusion A.P.I. And we'll look at what the A.P.I. manager is and why you should be using it. And what swagger is and how you might use that. And how they migrated from using Layer seven for all these stuff, and some of the big cost savings they had and a whole bunch of automation they're doing in that ColdFusion development using this. So welcome Brian.

Brian:              Thank you, appreciate it. Thank you giving me the time.

Michael:          Oh! You're so welcome. Thanks for staying up late to do this. I know it's after hours for you. And I know you're off to CF Summit in a few days. So glad you were able to fit this interview in. So tell us what is the… not everyone's use the A.P.I. manager in ColdFusion. Tell us what that is and why we should be using it.

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Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.

Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.

Bouton Jones talks about “ColdFusion Practical Digital Accessibility (revealing 3 you didn’t know)”, in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. This will address the compelling reasons -- including legal -- for applying Accessibility to digital documentation: Word, PDF, PowerPoint, and Web.  Examples of poor Accessibility will be presented with illustrations of the resulting effects for users with disabilities.   Finally, it will cover strategies and solutions.

Show notes

What does Accessibility mean?

Part of usability for people with disabilities

Blind

Dead

Color blind

Mouse

Epileptic

Autistic

ESL (English as Second Language)

Delexic  

A11y =

How did you get interested in Accessibility?

How is your talk at CF Summit going to be different from all the other Accessibility presos we might have seen?

Why is Accessibility so important today?

20% of Americans have disabilities of one kind or another

508 compliance ← US govt websites

Moral requirement

Legal requirement

It is just Practical

W3C guidelines

What can you do to make your ColdFusion apps Accessible?

HTML

Semantic HTML

Text choice

Navigation

Without a mouse

Graphics

Image Alt tag tips

Skip links

Pop ups

JAWS, NVDA and ChromeVox testing

Flash

RIAs

Captcha

What about other files in your app?

Word and PDF documentation, Presentations, Email, Social media

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

Bouton’s full notes and slides 

Complete Video Playlist

Mentioned in this episode

W3C guidelines

JAWS, NDVA and ChromeVox  screen readers

Semantic HTML

Google Recaptcha

1. "ColdFusion and Section 508" by Jon Brundage and Michaela Light

2. "Generating Speech with ColdFusion and Java" by Raymond Camden

3. "Everyone’s invited! Meet Accessibility Requirements with ColdFusion" by Steve Shinney at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2016

Nielsen Norman article on simple language is better

Selling ColdFusion ROI episode

Videos

How ARIA landmark roles help screen reader users by Léonie Watson with Nomensa

Think Accessibility: SXSW 2017 Capital One Event with Mike Paciello, Founder and CEO of The Paciello Group, and Sarah Goelitz, UX Content Strategist at Capital One. Produced by AccessibleMedia. Published on Mar 14, 2017.

Make Technology Work for Everyone: introducing digital accessibility (UK) - 4:41

Making a PDF accessible with Acrobat Pro DC - 3:12

What is Accessibility? [CC] - 5:46

Web Accessibility for people with Disabilities - 1:59

Keeping Web Accessibility In Mind - 11:34

A Personal Look at Accessibility in Higher Education - 5:58

Fiverr cartoon images

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Bio

Bouton Jones

Business Systems Analyst with over ten years’ experience as a ColdFusion contractor and consultant.  Currently living in Austin, Texas after over a decade on the road.

Links

www.BoutonJones.com

Interview transcript

Michael:          Welcome back to the show. We're going to be talking about ColdFusion practical digital accessibility with Bouton Jones. I think I just made a meal of your name there. Not the Jones.

Bouton:           Bouton

Michael:          Bouton, yes. I practiced it three times before we hit record, but still much screwed up.

Bouton:           [Crosstalk] [00:18] variation.

Michael:          Well that's good. So we're going to be looking at what accessibility actually means, and a lot of those things you may not have thought of before. And also, we're going to look at how this presentation you're giving at C.F. Summit on practical digital accessibility is different from other accessibility talks people may have seen before. And there’s some interesting stuff there I just been talking with you about it, and there’s some stuff I've already learned that I gave a talk of topic 15 years ago. So just goes to show you can always learn new stuff. And we'll look at why it's so important and what you can do to make your ColdFusion apps even more accessible, and some of those are things you definitely have not thought of. So, stay tuned, and welcome Bouton.

Bouton:           Thank you, thank you.

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And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.

Jorge Reyes talks about “CF Suicide, Depression, and Recovery”, in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Suicide T or F quiz

The person with suicidal thoughts will have those thoughts all of his/her life

Suicidal Thoughts shouldn't be talked directly. You will make the person kill him/herself faster

If a person already tried to kill him/herself. A new attempt is less likely.

Suicide happens without warning

Someone bragging about killing him/herself just wants to draw attention to themselves.

People with suicidal thoughts - they absolutely want to die.

Developer thinking about suicide

Disclaimer: we are not doctors and don’t play one on TV either

How a developer he had trained then a month later he killed himself

But he seemed engaged and happy

The tip of the iceberg - small talk and big talk

How he helped a developer friend who wanted to kill himself

Developer depression

Not talking about this

The history of depression and mental illness - fear of talking about it

Rather die than talk about it

Fear of being judged

Stress and anxiety

Tools for releasing anxiety and depression

Exercise

Meditation

Time in nature

Sleep

Relaxation

Massage

Digital detox day

Friend time

Understanding and listening

Human touch

Laughter - silly movie or laughter yoga

Shame = not deserve to exist

“Coward”, “easy way out”

PTSD

Friends of those who are suicide

Be aware of other people

Take some action

Resources

Call Suicide prevention lifeline

its free

Confidential

And available 24/7

1800 273 8255

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Addictions don’t help, they cover up

Alcohol

Drugs

Food

TV and media

Shopping

Overwork

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

Moving out of CF legacy hell

Mentioned in this episode

Dissociative moment

PTSD and TRE

Pigs in the Parlor: A handbook for deliverance from demons and spiritual oppression. by Frank Hammond 

I Jumped Off The Golden Gate Bridge and Survived

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Bio

Jorge Reyes

Jorge is a passionate Industrial Engineer born in El Salvador with 7 years of experience managing projects. Business manager at Ortus Solutions, Corp.

Links

Jreyes (at) ortussolutions.com

Twitter

Ortus Solutions

Interview transcript

Michael:          Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Jorge Reyes, and we're talking about a very interesting subject. And it's very serious for some developers out there in ColdFusion which is ColdFusion suicide, depression, and recovery. And Jorge here has a very interesting story to tell of a couple of experiences he's had with this. But we're gonna start off the show with a quick true or false quiz for everyone listening. And we're also gonna look at if you have any friends who’ve either thought about suicide, or committed suicide, how you can deal with that. And we'll have some resources in case anyone's feeling suicidal, or knows someone who is. So, very important topic. Welcome Jorge.

Jorge:               Thank you Michael.

Michael:          So, you mentioned you put together a little quiz for me and the listeners; true or false.

Jorge:               true or false

Michael:          What are those questions?

Jorge:               Yeah, because it is important that we kind of set in check some of the assumptions that people have about suicide, or people considering to commit suicide. So, I wanted to kind of access you and the audience with those.

Michael:          I'm ready.

Jorge:               yeah

Michael:          I hope everyone listening has sharpened their pencils, or their fingertips on their keyboard.

Jorge:               So the first one…

Michael:          We’ll put it on the show notes too.

Jorge:               Cool! The person with suicidal thoughts will have those thoughts all of his or her life. True or false, Michael.

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And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.

Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.

Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.

Nolan Erck talks about "051 Git ColdFusion Source Control (Getting Started and Best Practices)" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

What is "source control" and when / why all CFers need it?

Repository = library for your code with versions baked in

For Windows, Mac, Linux dev

For any kind of code you write: CF, C++, Java, iPhone, Ruby, COBOL, PHP, QBASIC, InstallShield

Docker config info or CommandBox scripts

Database creation scripts

Even documentation or graphics fields

Though best with text files

Your desk or brain? (just kidding)

The problems of home made source control

Copying files to Bak or zip

Future Confusion and Deadwood code

Security issue

Team changes

Revert to an earlier version across multiple files

Why not just have everyone work directly on the production server? (bad idea)

Even a shared dev server is a bad idea

What is Git?

Server

GitHub, Bitbucket, Unfuddle, BeanStalk, host your own

Client

OSX: Tower, GitBox, SourceTree, SmartGit

Windows: TortoiseGit, SmartGit

Can mix/match among team members.

Free to $50

Why Git and Costs

Free options for server and client

Command line or GUI

Modern industry standard

Alternatives to Git

Subversion, CVS, Team Foundation Server, Visual SourceSafe, PerfForce, Mercurial.

How to use Git from a GUI

Allow 1-2 h to get started if you have never used Git

The difference between Git and GitHub

Git is the protocol

GitHub is one brand of Git server

Common Git commands

Add

Just because you make a file, that doesn't mean Git

watches it for changes.

Commit

The “committed” version of the file is stored locally.

Only file delta are stored by Git (not a copy of every version)

Push

Do this whenever the file(s) is ready to be

shared with your team, or ready for inclusion in

the latest build

Branching

Do this: Always when you are changing the site

Git Flow Technique

Versioning

Branches or tagging

Different customer customizations

Hot fixes

Reverting

Merging

Automatic merges if only different line have been changed

Merge conflicts if two people/branches have changed the same code lines

“Commit early, commit often”

Git Best practices

Make a branch called “Master” for what the Production server should look like.

Don't actually write code in this branch.

Write in other branches, then merge them into Master.

Anytime you “pull from Master”, you get an exact copy of what's on the Live server.

Make a branch called “QA”. As bugs are fixed, merge them into QA.

When everything in QA has been tested and debugged, merge it into “master”.

Don't be afraid to make “temporary branches” to try out new ideas. No harm in making and deleting new branches.

More Git Resources

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at CFCAMP?

Git Source Control: for the Rest of Us

What about those designers/JS/CSS folks that WEREN'T using Subversion, and don't CARE about how under the hood Git uses a different type of pointer file storage thing, blah blah blah? There's a whole new wave of developers/designers that could stand to have an intro to Git that matches their workflow more concisely.

Target Audience: People that want to learn a) what source control is, and when/why I should use it, b) people that don't drop down to a command-line interface for such tasks, c) everyone that's been snickered at when asking how to use a GUI tool to start learning Git, instead of those strange command-line instructions.

Assumed knowledge: A familiarity with asset files and the idea that "I need to make backups of these and share them with my team in an organized way". For this presentation, I'm making no assumptions about any prior knowledge or use of a source control system.

Objective of the topic: So far all the "Intro to Git" presentations I've seen have covered the same points, and all assumed the user does source control management via the command line. For a lot of people, that's simply not the case. For example, front-end developers that came from a Photoshop background and are now doing more HTML/CSS work. Let's get these people up to speed on how to use source control in way that makes sense to them!

Mentioned in this episode

Git 

Git was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for development of the Linux kernel

Git is a distributed version control systems, and unlike most client–server systems, every Git directory on every computer is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full version tracking abilities, independent of network access or a central server.

Git servers

GitHub

Bitbucket

Unfuddle

BeanStalk

Git clients

Tower

GitBox

SourceTree

SmartGit

TortoiseGit

Git Flow Technique

Alternatives to Git

Subversion

CVS

Team Foundation Server

Visual SourceSafe

PerfForce

Mercurial

Git Resources

Pro Git Book (free) 

Tim Cunningham's Git presos and blog entries

And on YouTube

CF Hour Podcast, episode 118

Peter Bell's Git courses

Podcast CF Continuous Integration Plumbing with Bitbucket Pipelines with Guust Nieuwenhuis

Podcast Gitlab server Deep Dive with Continuous Integration with George Murphy

Sublime text editor

Stack Overflow

The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your way):

random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.

stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.

"global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.

"g*dd*mn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks

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Bio

Nolan Erck

Nolan Erck is the Chief consultant at South of Shasta. Nolan has been developing software for 19 years. Starting in the video game industry working on titles for Maxis and LucasArts, then advancing to web development in 1999, his list of credits includes Grim Fandango, StarWars Rogue Squadron, SimPark, SimSafari as well as high-traffic websites for clients. Nolan manages the SacInteractive User Group, teaches classes on aspects of software development, and regularly gives presentations at conferences and user groups across the country.

Links

Git Source Control for the Rest of Us Presentation

Slide Deck

Interview transcript:

Michael:          Welcome back to the show, I'm here with Nolan Erick and we're going to be looking at Git, and why every ColdFusion developer should be using it, and we'll look at how you can get started and some best practices. So we'll look at what source control is? Because Git is source control and why you shouldn't be using homemade source control. We know the people who make back files and zipped their files and all kinds of other things like that. Am going to explaining why that is a bad idea for security and other issues. Then we're going to have a look at what Git is? And what will different Server client options and some of the commands and some best practices you can use with Git source control for cold fusion? So welcome Nolan.

Nolan:             Hi Mike. Thank you for having me.

Michael:          And for those of you who don't know Nolan he is the chief ColdFusion guru of [unintelligible, 00:53] productions and he is also the world's biggest music collector in the ColdFusion community, I saw a picture of his album collection, it was like wow! To hear with albums must be thousands of CD's and even [unintelligible, 01:10]. Pretty amazing just in case you were a music collector as well. So why don't we just start off with these three people in the room, or listening to this who don't know what source control is? What is it and why should everyone be using it?

Nolan: So source control is… it's sort of like a librarian for the source code in your app. When you check a book out of the library, the library marks down who has the book?

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And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency,...

Kai Koenig talks about "Improve your CFML Code Quality (with some Cool Tools)" in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Why does code quality matter?

Long code lifetime

Reduce maintenance cost

Easier to read

Reduce bugs without testing

What does code quality mean in practice?

Bad Code smell (see below for article)

Complexity

Bad variable or function naming

Poor var

What tools are there for managing and measuring code quality?

Code review tools

Code of conduct for code reviews

Egoless programming

Rhodecode repository

Upsource from Jetbrains

Static analysis

Lint

Runtime analysis

Code coverage / execution paths

Duplicate code

Code Correctness

Does the code fulfil its spec

Behavior Driven Development

Complexity

McCabe index

# Lines of code per class/component/function

Cyclic dependency trackers

Dependency graph generation

Why is there a lack of tools for CFML in this field?

CF less formal than some other languages

RAD focus

Historically CF attracts a lot of cross-training developers, less of a formal Computer Science background

Allaire, Macromedia and Adobe have not been interested in this aspect of a language ecosystem

What cool tools exist for other languages?

List of tools for static code analysis 

Linters

What tools do exist for CF?

Varscoper

A bit stale - no good support for cfscript

CFQueryParam checker

CFLint

Based on CFparser (using ANTLR compiler generator)

Outputs HTML, XML or JSON for Findbugs

2.0 will have API

CFLint code of conduct

Various doc tools

ColdDoc

Stale

DocBox

Home-brew stuff for specific use cases

Why are you proud to use CF?

Can be released rapidly and is maintainable and works well with Java

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

Better CF developer tools

Market position of paid server product - open source version

More publicity for Lucee as open source language

Shift perception

Ortus tools

Ortus buy ColdFusion

What are you looking forward to at CFCAMP?

Let's talk about code quality.

We all agree that our code needs to be functional so that it meets business requirements. We also should aim for code that is well written and maintainable for future changes. There are a lot of elements playing into that. A well thought system architecture is an important foundation. The selection of an appropriate framework could be the next step. In the end you might look at how to format and write your code on a line-by-line basis.

This talk will provide an introduction into code quality. We will look at various aspects around this term first. From there we can investigate different ways how you can perform code analysis. This will help you measure and understand code quality. There is a range of categories of tools available, some of which also support CFML.

In the second part of the talk we'll look at the details and usage of CFLint. CFLint is a static code analyser for CFML that is based on the CFParser project.

Mentioned in this episode

CFCAMP

Bad code smell 

CFML Complexity Metric Tool

DocBox 

Code coverage

Lucee

Fusion Reactor

DocBox wiki

ColdDoc

CFlint

Intellij CF lint plugin

Adobe CF Builder

Agile eXtreme programming - peer programming

Rhodecode

Upsource from Jetbrains

Smartbear Collaborator

McCabe index - Cyclomatic complexity 

Cyclic dependency 

Decoupling

Varscoper

CFQueryParam checker

CFLint

CFParser

Antlr parser generator 

TeamCity CI 

CFLint code of conduct 

CFMobile

DroidCon UK conference

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Bio

Kai Koenig

Kai Koenig works as a Software Solutions Architect for Ventego Creative in Wellington, New Zealand. He co-founded the company with two partners and also the CTO of Zen Ex Machina, a startup in the fields of digital & user experience consultancy based out of Canberra in Australia.

Kai’s work really comprises a mix of consulting, training, mentoring and actual development work using a range of technologies, common themes being Java, CFML, JavaScript, Android etc. He is well versed in Java and some other JVM-based languages like Clojure or Groovy and recently (re-)discovered the pleasure of writing software in Python and Go. Kotlin is his new language love though.

Back in the day, Kai  was doing a lot of front end development work around Adobe Flex, too - that has now pretty much all changed and it's very much Javascript only. He finds a lot of pleasure in using JS with frameworks such as jQueryMobile, KendoUI, Require.js or Angular and in building apps using those technologies.

Other stuff he occasionally does: Write for magazines (currently mainly Heise's iX) or in my Blog, publish a podcast (2 Developers Down Under) with my friend Mark Mandel from Melbourne and since 2007 he flies small, single-engine airplanes around New Zealand and sometimes Australia, currently working on his Commercial Pilot License.

Interview transcript

Michael:          Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Kai Koenig, and he’s joining us from New Zealand where it's just after 6:00 a.m. which is very dedicated of him to the ColdFusion community. And we're going to be talking about some tools for improving your ColdFusion code quality, and we'll look at why this code quality matter, and what it means in practice. And we'll look at some different things you can do to measure your code quality without running the code.

And also, we’ll examine why there are more tools in other languages than CFML in this field, and what Kai is doing to remedy this with the C.F. Lindt project and we’ll dig into that in a bit more detail. And if you haven't met Kai, he's been in the ColdFusion community for nearly 20 years now. I think I met him out a C.F. Europe event many years ago. And he works for [inaudible] [00:53] in Wellington, New Zealand. And he doesn't whole a bunch of things from ColdFusion, to Flex, to Java, all kinds of stuff; maybe we'll talk about that a bit later. So welcome Kai.

Kai:                 Welcome Michael, thanks for having me, good morning.

Michael:          Yes, good… well evening for me, but morning for you. So, let's just start off because people may not have thought about this at all. Why does code quality matter?

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Matt Gifford talks about “OAuth 2 for Me and You (Social Login Lowdown)” in this episode of CF Alive podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Why use OAuth 2?

Saves complex login code

Easier for user - no more forgotten passwords

Single Sign On

Less PCI security issues - not storing emails and password

What is OAuth 2

Social login using FB, TW, Google, GitHub, BitBucket, Link, Microsoft Live, Instagram, Yahoo

OAuth 2 is totally different protocol from OAuth 1

Much simpler now

More secure

Adds scope - what permissions does it want from your FB (name, email, can post etc)

How does it work?

Header based

Signature = Token + key

JSON or URL

What are the the alternatives?

OpenID

SAML

How to use OAuth 2 from ColdFusion

Use a wrapper

What is your favor wrapper?

MonkehTweets

How to register your app with FB and other providers

Local dev, staging and production URLs

Call back URL

Scope

Client ID + token secret value

Save locally (not in the cloud)

Later option to revoke or regenerate these if you are hacked

What does OAuth 2 Cost?

Open source - free

Time to set up code and registration

CF in Cyprus

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

Modern

CommandBox REPL

ForgeBox package management

Open source contributions

What are you looking forward to at CFCAMP?

Authentication is key when dealing with the web, certainly when calling, liaising with and using external API services. You may even need to implement ( or may already have ) your own authentication service for your apps or for others to use.

In this session, Matt will discuss the OAuth 2 protocol, what it means to be a consumer or provider, and how to navigate the handshake communications between the service. At the end of this session, you will walk taller, safe in the fact that you are filled with knowledge of OAuth 2, how to use it and how to build your own service.

Mentioned in this episode

His Book  "Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion"

His book "PhoneGap Mobile Application Development Cookbook"

OAuth 2

Wiki

Single Sign On

Scotch on the Rocks conference

MonkehTweets

Twitter Social Login by Jeremy DeYoung

OpenID

SAML

Lucee CFML

CommandBox

ForgeBox

CFCAMP

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Bio

Matt Gifford

Matt Gifford is owner and primary primate at his own development consultancy company, monkehWorks Ltd. His work primarily focuses on building mobile apps and ColdFusion development, although he's such a geek he enjoys writing in a variety of languages.

He's a published author and presents at conferences and user groups on a variety of topics. As an Adobe Community Professional and Adobe User Group manager, Matt is a keen proponent for community resources and sharing knowledge.

He is the author of "Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion" and "PhoneGap Mobile Application Development Cookbook" and also contributes articles and tutorials to international industry magazines. Visit Matt at www.monkehworks.com or @coldfumonkeh on Twitter.

Interview transcript

Michael:          Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Matt Gifford, and he's joining me from Cyprus which is hot and sunny as opposed to England where I am right now which is kind of a little dreary actually. I think I was a good move you made there Matt. And we're going to be talking about OAuth 2, and how you can use that do really amazing logins on your ColdFusion apps. And we'll look at how it works, what it is, how you can use it in ColdFusion. And we’ll ask him what his favorite rapper is; and I mean code rapper, not music rapper there.

And we’ll also look at some of the intricacies of registering your app with Facebook, and Twitter, and Google and some of the other providers you can use OAuth with. And so, if you haven't met Matt before, he is a cool guy. He used to run the user group for ColdFusion in England, and he's also presented a lot of different conferences. And his company ‘Monkey Works’ does mobile apps in ColdFusion development. And he's also written a book. What's your book Matt?

Matt:               I've written a few books. The first one, I was object oriented programming in ColdFusion. I’ve written ‘Find Out Application Development’, and very quickly updated ‘Find Out For Application Development’. And a lot of magazine tutorials, and articles for UK, and [inaudible] [01:28] magazine as well.

Michael:          Well, great! Was wonderful to have you on the show today.

Matt:               Thank you very much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.

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And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.

Guust Nieuwenhuis talks about “CF Continuous Integration Plumbing with Bitbucket Pipelines” in this episode of CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

What is Bitbucket Pipelines?

What is Bitbucket?

What is Git?

What is a code repository?

Built on top of AWS

Why CFers should use Bitbucket Pipelines?

Easier setup

Integrated with Bitbucket

Why Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Micro releases

What he likes about the Bitbucket repository

Github is good for open source projects, but is more limited for private repositories

Bitbucket allows unlimited private repositories

Can config based on different branches

Dev branch

Production / Master branch

Feature branches

Docker containers integration

Docker Hub

CommandBox as basis for Docker

Using it with Teams

Queue and concurrent builds

Slack integration

Email on test fail

Costs

Free to start

With 50 minutes build time / month for free

Various Packages  with more build minutes or buy 1000 extra build minutes for $10

https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing

How to get started with Bitbucket Pipelines

Why are you proud to use CF?

Easy to use

Flexible

Productive

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

Using modern techniques

Growth in Box products

Docker containers

What are you looking forward to at CFCamp?

Meeting CF developers from across Europe

Sold out

Bitbucket Pipelines brings continuous integration and delivery to you GIT repository, empowering you to build, test, and deploy your code with a simple push. Guust will get will tell you all about it and show you several scenarios in which Bitbucket Pipelines will accelerate your releases.

You'll learn how to configure your Bitbucket repository, define your pipelines, use your own docker containers and deploy directly to your environments. Bitbucket Pipelines will have no more secrets for you!

Mentioned in this episode:

CFCAMP

Github

Bitbucket 

Bitbucket Pipelines 

Jenkins

Bamboo

Docker Containers Ortus Roadshow webinars

Continuous Integration

Trello

JIRA issue tracker

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Node.js

Npm

CommandBox

TestBox

Lucee

Slack

Yaml config file

AWS CLI

Amazon S3

His social media name Lagaffe

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Bio

Guust Nieuwenhuis

Guust Nieuwenhuis is a freelance Senior Full Stack Web Developer with experience in a wide range of technologies. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in projects for various clients like: European Commission, NSHQ (NATO), Adobe, AS Adventure Group, NS (Dutch railways), Proximus.

Recently Guust started developing his own product: Pedrillo. It's a SAAS solution for music orchestra's to manage their musicians, events, library, etc.

In his free time, Guust plays the double bass and drums/percussion, both in small ensembles as in symphony orchestra's. He likes spending as much time as possible with his family and meeting friends for a chat, game or drink. When he still has some time left, he mainly spends it behind his computer to fulfil his hunger for the latest trends in IT.

Links

Website

Twitter 

LinkedIn 

Stackoverflow

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Interview Transcript

Michael:          Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Guust Nieuwenhuis. I hope I'm saying name right there. It sounds pretty Belgium to me. And we're going to be talking about continuous integration in ColdFusion with a bit bucket pipelines. And Guust is doing a talk at C.F. camp on plumbing with bit bucket pipelines. So, we're going to look at what those are, and why all ColdFusion developers might want to have a look at those. And why doing continuous integration in continuous development are a good thing. What he likes about the bit bucket repository. And we'll also look at how integrates with Docker containers, and how you can use it on your team. So welcome Guust.

Guust:             Thank you, thank you for having me.

Michael:          And if you don't know Guust, he has been a ColdFusion developer for a while. He's a full stack developer and he's currently developing his own part product Pedrilo [01:01] which is a Lucian solution for music. And that's one of his hobbies he plays the double bass so. And the drums, so very talented man.

Guust:             thank you

Michael:          So for those who haven't come across it, first of all, what is bit bucket, and then what is bit bucket pipelines?

Guust:             Well, before you answer what is bit bucket, maybe we should even answer what is Git, and what is [inaudible] [01:35] For those who haven't heard about it. The last few years [inaudible] repositories are central place where you can host your teams, or your individual codes for a project. And one of those solutions for doing that is Git. Git's been very popular last couple of years, and a lot of people are using it very actively. There are a couple of cloud based solutions for Git servers, and one of them is a very well-known one is GitHub, but the other one you could say is the clouds Git repository by Atlassian. And so, that's what Git does solution to host your Git repositories, your project actually. And then pipelines I guess what’s Git pipelines?

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And to continue learning how to make your ColdFusion apps more modern and alive, I encourage you to download our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.Because… perhaps you are responsible for a mission-critical or revenue-generating CF application that you don’t trust 100%, where implementing new features is a painful ad-hoc process with slow turnaround even for simple requests.What if you have no contingency plan for a sudden developer departure or a server outage? Perhaps every time a new freelancer works on your site, something breaks. Or your application availability, security, and reliability are poor.And if you are depending on ColdFusion for your job, then you can’t afford to let your CF development methods die on the vine.You’re making a high-stakes bet that everything is going to be OK using the same old app creation ways in that one language — forever.All it would take is for your fellow CF developer to quit or for your CIO to decide to leave the (falsely) perceived sinking ship of CFML and you could lose everything—your project, your hard-won CF skills, and possibly even your job.Luckily, there are a number of simple, logical steps you can take now to protect yourself from these obvious risks.No Brainer ColdFusion Best Practices to Ensure You Thrive No Matter What Happens NextColdFusion Alive Best Practices ChecklistModern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.√ Easily create a consistent server architecture across development, testing, and production√ A modern test environment to prevent bugs from spreading√ Automated continuous integration tools that work well with CF√ A portable development environment baked into your codebase… for free! Learn about these and many more strategies in our free ColdFusion Alive Best Practices Checklist.

Nolan Erck talks about "ColdFusion Best Practices, Except When They Are Not", in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

What really is a best practice?

May evolve over time

Day job vs college best practice

What is Technical Debt and why you don’t want it

Quick fixes that cost you later

Good, cheap and quick - pick 2

When CFForm tags can be cool

Best practice - use HTML form tags + Javascript libraries

But - Non-programmer Dreamweaver editing for intranet with CFFORM

When it is ok to changing code on your production code

VP of marketing editing HTML + CF link to update Git

Using a Non-MVC framework

Best practice FW/1 or ColdBox

Beginner CF team + custom XML framework + tight hard deadlines

Emailing errors to your team vs logging

Best practice CFLOG or LogBox or BugLogHQ + Slack

When the problem is not code

Developer stuck in the middle

Removing “alter” from the code story

Why are you proud to use CF?

Less code to write

No need for 3rd party libraries

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

Modern CFers helping the middle CFers and the 5 tag CFers

What are you looking forward to at NCDevCon, CFCAMP, CF Summit?

Mentioned in this episode

Ext JS javascript library

MVC = Model View Controller

FW/1

ColdBox

CFML Slack channel

Ben Nadel blog

Ray Camden blog

Mura blog

4 ޼*'

CFCAMP

CF Summit

Episode on CF Summit “Best Practices Are Best, Except When They're Not, Nolan Erck”

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Bio

Nolan Erck 

Nolan Erck is the Chief consultant at South of Shasta. He has been developing software for 19 years. Starting in the video game industry working on titles for Maxis and LucasArts, then advancing to web development in 1999, his list of credits includes Grim Fandango, StarWars Rogue Squadron, SimPark, SimSafari as well as high-traffic websites for clients. Nolan manages the SacInteractive User Group, teaches classes on aspects of software development, and regularly gives presentations at conferences and user groups across the country.

Links

Twitter

GitHub

Website

LinkedIn

Interview Transcript

Michael:          Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Nolan Erck from South of Shasta consulting. And we're going to be talking about ColdFusion best practices, but more importantly when the best practices are not the best practice. So we'll look at best practices and what they really are. What is technical debt, and why you don't want too much of it on your project. Picking two of good, cheap, and quick, and how to do that. We’ll look at a very naughty tag called C.F. form, and when they actually could be cool to use. And when it is okay to change code on your production server. We'll also look at some frameworks you may not be using, and what to do with error messages, and the best practice there. So, welcome Nolan.

Nolan:             Thanks for having me.

Michael:          Hey, I'm glad to have you back on the show. And Nolan’s being very popular. He was speaking in C.F. objective. I think you are in four sessions, or something.

Nolan:             Part of four sessions, yeah.

Michael:          Yeah, and he's also speaking N.C. Defcon, C.F. camp, and C.F. summit. So we'll talk more about those towards the end of the episode. But first, let's just clarify what exactly is a best practice? We hear about them all the time. What exactly is a best practice?

Nolan:             So best practice is a technique, or a guideline of some kind that has generally been accepted by whatever community you're part of. In this case ColdFusion or CFML. As that's the at least currently less proper respected way to do whatever the task is you're talking about. The reason I say most current is sometimes, best practices of all over the course of the evolution of the language, or evolution of the technology stack, or whatever. So it might be a best practice today, may not have been a best practice five years ago. And it might not be a best practice five years in the future.

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