Rakshith Naresh talks about “ColdFusion 2021 Revealing Details on How it was Created” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.



Show notes

Today we talk about some of the challenges the Adobe CF team overcomed with corona virus lockdowns In India and the complexities of implementing multi-cloud and containers which are totally new features for ColdFusion. 

CF 2021 new features

Game-changing release for the next decade

Cloud

Easy cloud coding - even less lines of code than Node.js cloud

Multi-cloud support

Microservices

Why?

More efficient scaling apps

Easier REST

CF Image size and load 80%+ better

Huge engineering task achieved 

New master runtime to do this

Command-line installer (GUI optional)

Custom runtimes

New Language features

IIFE (Immediately Invokable Function Expressions)

Lambda

Rest and spread operators

Parallelism

Destructing assignment

Identity operator

Dynamic switchcase

Iterator support

Java integration

Performance

Way faster than CF 11 or CF 2016

End of Life:  CF11 already in 2019, CF 2016 in April 2021

Security

Separate security team inside Adobe

3rd party vendor security certification

All team devs certified in security coding best practices

SSO SAML 

Backward compatible 

Old CFML code runs fine

CF still works great on dedicated servers (not just cloud)

CF admin

All settings are scriptable

Why the change from CF 2020 to CF 2021 name

Because released at end of year

Next release code name announced

Testing it out

Free development version 

CommandBox is the fastest way to download and install 

When will the first hot fixes come out?

This was release last week

Questions from CFers

From thread https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10157911453630036/ 

IDE support

- had used it for many years and migrated to other languages and frameworks due to IDE support (one of the major factors.)

I believe that a new version of CF Builder was announced at CF Summit last week - due to release in the first half of 2021. I will clarify in the interview. Thanks for the question!

PS have you checked out the free VSCode - it has EXCELLENT CFML support extensions.

New version of CF Builder built on VSCode

Front End tools

What are improvements is Adobe doing in competition with Angular, React and Vue.js?

how does CF 2021 work better with these front end technologies than CF 2018 did?

These are front-end frameworks and CF is server side. Both are independent of each other and can not be each other's competition. You can easily connect any front end framework with server side CF with rest calls which CF already supports.

JavaScript better data type preservation

Easier REST coding

Possible future auto generation of REST services

Licensing

SaaS

I'm good with the license price but for 2020 they attempted to collect a license for EACH site (application) we hosted on a single server and we moved to Lucee. We would love to use ACF (as we had since v 3.5) but their license change nearly bankrupted us.

Pay for EACH SITE??? where does it say that in the licensing?

See detailed response and discussion at https://community.adobe.com/t5/coldfusion/adobe-coldfusion-license-bait-and-switch-for-saas-companies/td-p/10614494?page=1 

“Yesterday we had a call with the Coldfusion Technical Marketing Manager who sincerely apologized for the experience we have had the past several months.  By the end of the conversation, our position that we are not a service bureau and should not be subject to a custom agreement was accepted by Adobe, and we are able to continue to use the perpetual licenses we currently have.  If others experience something similar to what we did, you may contact [email protected] to escalate the issue.”

huge debate over this when they altered the license for 2020. It's how they classify a business as a Software As A Service. Essentially if you develop a website for a client and host it you are a SaaS.

Thanks on the details. I think the SaaS pricing was in CF 2018 and maybe 2016 too. But perhaps they did not notice your site until now.

I agree it is unfair and crazy. I think the Adobe legal folks overstretched on this item.

So you are saying that if you are using CF and businesses pay you for your application/service, Adobe is trying to push you to a custom agreement claiming that you should pay per business customers you have? How is that possible? They have to move almost every CF customer (unless they are using it for a hobby) to a custom agreement. How is that custom agreement structured? What if I have 10,000 customers each paying $100 vs 100 customers each paying $10,000?

Exactly. How is it structured? For us, it was very close to their standard Enterprise agreement. I've been approached by a couple people lately saying that Adobe is trying to base the price on a percentage of the product/service income - a royalty like structure. I have not seen this myself, that is what I was told.

I've been told that they have backed off somewhat and that you would need to secure an explicit exemption from them to make sure you don't get a surprise bill or legal issue. It just upsets me that we've used CF since 3.5 and then suddenly we get told there is a large penalty for our loyalty and success.

 CommandBox

Is it possible run ColdFusion Standard Edition on production server with CommandBox or we need Enterprise Edition?

Few month ago I read "running any version of Adobe Coldfusion through Commandbox will cause CF to detect a J2EE/WAR deployment which is only supported in the Enterprise edition".

I hope the License of 2021 fix this expensive issue

you sadly need enterprise. This is because CommandBox is a j2e install. Adobe said they would change their licensing to accommodate CommandBox, but they never followed through

It prevents a lot of people from being able to use CommandBox to easily manage their installations.

RN: I had indicated that we will evaluate it. There were not more associated pieces that had to be enabled even if the goal was just to enable the WAR deployment on standard. So the decision was not to support this.

Lambda Pricing

A lot of us would like to know what the Lambda pricing for ColdFusion 2021 on AWS will be. I haven't seen it announced.

Where can I download the cf2021 lambda packages there not on the download section of the website!!

RN: The answer to this is that we are working with Amazon and the idea is to make the lambda package directly available via AWS and not via the server installation. This is taking some time but we will get there.

Future roadmap

What is the Future roadmap since to have a reason to stay, have to look at the future too. Many choices arise.

Here is an interview and show notes on CF roadmap with Ashish Garg, VP of CF development at Adobe https://teratech.com/podcast/adobe-coldfusion-2020-roadmap-multi-cloud-micro-services-and-more-with-ashish-garg/ 

also here is the CF 2018 roadmap https://teratech.com/podcast/revealing-coldfusion-2018-roadmap-details/

Ask why new CF realising. In 2012 it was told 2020 is last release.

that is false news or has changed - they are already working on CF 2023 release. They have roadmap through about 2030

I've never in my life heard Adobe announce an "end" to CF releases. Do you have a link to back up this claim? Adobe has always had a 10 year road map, which is very important for govt and large corporations who don't want to invest in short term tech.

World was supposed to end in 2012 as per some claim made in some year 🤣

5 years full support + 2 years extended support

Date format issue

1) Adobe please fix this date format issue https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/11/24/breaking_change_in_cf2021_dateformat_D_vs_d 

Suresh Jayaraman: Technically it’s not but we do are in line if though that it breaks backward compatibility and are exploring ways to address it , we may end up providing a flag for this

Update: this has now been fixed in the first hotfix.

Marketing

I'm curious if they have a plan to improve marketing. Although a great product, it seems ACF has an image problem. Many public agencies and universities are moving away from ACF to more open source solutions or third party systems. New developers look at it like cobol- it's still around but why invest the time learning?

When I say “coldfusion” thay whoooooo I know your age!

 I have been asking about this for some time and part of my CF Alive book is on this topic!

related is getting more students in high school and college to learn CF

Wrap up

Rakshith, you look so amazingly happy? What is the secret to such amazing positive vibes man?!

RN: Thank you 🙂 Well, I guess it has got to do with working with the passionate CF community. I am just reflecting back all the positivity.

Why are you proud to use CF?

He has been on the CF team for 13 years (during CF 8 build as engineer)

CF is critical to 76% of our customers in their tech

70% of Fortune 100 companies use CF

50% of Fortune 500 companies use CF

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

New features in CF 2021

CF Summit support

Large customer and analyst (Gartner and Forrester) conversations

Changing the perception of CF as being a modern and alive technology

What did you enjoy about CF Summit?

5000+ attendees

Mentioned in this episode

CF Summit 2020

Adobe ColdFusion 2021 released (more details revealed)

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Bio

Rakshith Naresh 

Rakshith Naresh senior product manager for ColdFusion at Adobe.

Listen to the podcast and read the show notes here Michaela Light 0:01 Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Kishore balakrishna, from Adobe all the way from India. And we're gonna be talking about CF summit 2020. And there's lots of new things happening this year. So very excited about that. But before […]

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit 2020 (What to Expect)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light

"This situation is not right for having physical events this year. So we are going to make it online. And we are very excited to that this is going to be one of the biggest conferences for CF this year..."

Show notes

What exactly is CF Summit?

One place where all CF devs, designers, decision-makers and thought leaders come together

Meet the CF engineers in person

How many years has CF Summit been running?

8 years

This year goes online

CF Summit virtual event stats and interesting facts

No cost. It is FREE 

No visa needed

No hotel room booking 

Other advantages as well

Dev Week for CF Summit East 

10x bigger than physical event last year 

This year will be the biggest CF Summit event

Anyone in the world can attend 

Most of the sessions in the US time zone

Some will be in European and Asian time zones

Expecting 5000 attendees 

There will be a way to get a copy of the code

Up to speakers to share or not

Should be available immediately after the session is finished

OK to raise hands and ask questions

Anything could happen

Home office new rules apply 

How can I attend it?

The new platform for attending an online webinar (to be announced)

No waiting for recordings to come out

Will be available immediately 

Best practices for attending online events

Watch in your time zone

No back to back talks scheduled

Enough time to move at your own pace

Why is it so important to the CF community?

Shows Adobe is fully backing CF

Show new features in new CF releases

65% of attendees are new to CF Summit

Seeing who is using CF and cool ways they are using

Community building

Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about

35 speakers already selected

Once they confirm it will be announced on website

Some names are already on the list

Charlie Arehart

Matthew Clemente

Elishia Dworak

Dave Ferguson

Pete Freitag

Brian Claas

George Murphy

Rakshith Naresh

Brian Sappey

Dan Skaggs

Mark Takata

Dan Wilson

Topics

CF 2020

CF Lambda 

Modernizing CF Apps 

API manager

PDF functionalities 

Security of CF Apps 

SQL

CommandBox

And many more...

Dates

November 17-19, 2020.

Week before Thanksgiving

Usually in October

Had to push to November because of the priorities in Adobe crew on CF 2020 release

Two days, but prolongs to three because of the different time zones 

Cost

Free! 

It is online!

Location

Usually in Las Vegas, but online this year

What is new this year?

ColdFusion 2020 should be launched and widely discussed 

Other CF Summits

TBA

Why should CFers go to CF Summit?

Learn about a lot of changes in ColdFusion in recent years

Especially now 

CF goes to cloud 

Talk to CF experts and developers

Also with Adobe CF crew 

Drop by Adobe booth anytime during the conference

Contribute to the future of ColdFusion (2022)

Raffles during the event

When is ColdFusion 2020 going to be released?

In 2020 :)

3 more months in 2020 left, so not long 

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

Mentioned in this episode

ColdFusion 2020 - ColdFusion 2020 release date poll 

ColdFusion 2022

Fixinator

CF Lambda

MAX 

Adobe products 

API manager

PDF functionalities 

Security of CF Apps 

SQL

CommandBox

CF Summit website 

Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Roadmap with Ashish Garg

State of the CF Union 2020 Survey Final Results

CF Summit 2019

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Bio

Kishore Balakrishnan is a Principal Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems with a Master Degree in Computer Applications. At Adobe he has held roles of a Quality Manager, Program Manager before becoming the Product Marketing Manager. He enjoys being the ‘voice of the customer' within the organization, liaises with the sales team to facilitate the selling process and clearly communicates the why, what and when to the marketplace for CF. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and kid. Kishore loves his long runs and cooking.

Links

Twitter https://twitter.com/kishore31 

FB https://www.facebook.com/kishoreb 

Email kishore (at) adobe.com

adobecoldfusion (at) adobe.com

 

Interview transcript

Michaela Light 0:01

Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Kishore Balakrishna, from Adobe all the way from India. And we're gonna be talking about CF summit 2020. And there's lots of new things happening this year. So very excited about that. But before we go on if you don't know who he is, he is the principal Product Marketing Manager at Adobe full cold fusion. And now as well as taking care of marketing and organizing CF summit, he also does some cold fusion sales help as well. And just in case you think he's just some kind of marketing genius alone, he actually did a degree in computer applications. So he actually understands was programming stuff as well. So welcome Kishore.

Kishore Balakrishnan 0:42

Thanks for it all. It's always great to be back talking to you.

Michaela Light 0:46

Yes. And good to hear from you. So what exactly is CF summit? 2020? Because I'm assuming it's not going to be happening in Las Vegas this year?

Kishore Balakrishnan 0:57

Unfortunately, no, we would not be having it in Las Vegas this year. Next year, definitely not the Unfortunately, this situation is not right for having physical events this year. So we are going to make it online. And we are very excited to that this is going to be one of the biggest conferences for CF this year.

Michaela Light 1:21

Wow. When you say the biggest How big do you think it will be?

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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.

 

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John Farrar talks about “CFML Open Source Learning” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light

Show notes

OLS (Open Learning Server), why another learning solution?

Why coding in ColdFusion?

CFML

Lucee and ACF

Containers let you host CF apps on any cloud ISP (Google, AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean etc)

Micro-services architecture 

Server encapsulation

Vs Monolithic server architecture  

ColdBox

Version 6

cbPromises

cbStreams

cbElasticSearch

Vue.js

SPA = Single Page App

PWA = Progressive Web App

Quick = OO database built on top of your RDBMS

QB = Query Builder

Why OLS

Who will use

Education

Corporate learning

Why

Can port and deploy anywhere

Adaptive instruction - Individual student customized learning paths

Easier course creation because of no need to decide what parts to focus on the most - system gives feedback 

Gamification

RFR - Repetition for retention. Spaced testing. 

Agile learning + Agile instruction

How can listeners help?

CF Open Source in corporate land

jQuery, Angular, React, Vue, Node, and the list goes on. Some corporate types say they don’t like using open source but I have heard of few that do. It’s like saying you would not use VSCode because it is open source but you would use Visual Studio. Perhaps they won’t use Chrome, but they would use Edge? If that makes sense to them, they should do what makes sense. It just doesn’t make sense to me.

Now, Ortus produces solutions like ColdBox, and many other solutions. Their work is open source but they are a commercial company. In fact most open source solutions come from commercially motivated creators. Crowd sourced efforts are a challenge to build momentum but as these solutions break through we find commercial creations can often be a great source of social goodness. It’s amazing how many commercial solutions are free. Over half the internet runs on free open source technologies.

A solution to a problem by definition includes trade-offs - as decisions were made on what to prioritize in this particular solution. 

Why are you proud to use CF?

Investing in server languages is about impact. ColdFusion has been a faithful return on investment technology. I would not say that I am proud of my tools, but rather that the tools have helped me create solutions that serve the end users well.

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

CF is alive and well, but it has to keep earning it’s place in the market. How can CFML influence it’s future today? Perhaps by being the platform where disruptive technology is built. Results people notice.

What did you enjoy at Into The Box this year?

I have wanted to attend a multi-track virtual conference for years. Who knew this is how it would happen? They used Sococo and it was a learning experience. It was the best virtual conference I have attended by a broad margin. It was also worth the time on it’s own and better than some conferences that I attended in person. Don’t get me wrong because this conference is still better in person. Looking forward to going to Texas for Into The Box 2021.

Resources and Bio

Mentioned in this episode

Progressive Web App CFA episode with Ray Camden 

Microsoft PWA (Progressive Web App) 

ColdBox

cbPromises

cbStreams

cbElasticSearch

Vue.js

Ortus Quick

Online learning resources:

The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy by Charles Hugh Smith  

Arbinger:

Leadership and Self Deception

The Anatomy of Peace

Outward Mindset

Nine Lies About Work

Mindset ( The new psychology of success )

What Motivates Me

Story Wars ( CF dead perpetuates the debate )

Fundamentals of Software Architecture book

Sococo 

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Bio

John Farrar

John has a passion for understanding which tradeoffs are the right choice vs following what is typical or trendy. He enjoys the benefits that come from over three decades of marriage and over four decades of technical pursuits. He has written three books for Packt, served in the Navy as a flight simulator technician. John also has a passion for the organic side of life like bread making, gardening and growing fruit.

Links

LinkedIn 

CFWheels

If you want to help out 

Beta learner

Beta instructor

Coders

Interview transcript

Michaela Light 0:01

Hey, welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with John Farrar. And we're gonna be talking about cold fusion and open source learning, and an amazing new project he's working on that we're gonna dig into and the technologies using to create that. And also, coming up, we'll talk a bit about using open source in the corporate environment, which I know that's frightening for some people, but we're going to dig into there anyway, cuz we have to brave ColdFusion developers. So welcome, john.

John Farrar 0:30

Hello.

Michaela Light 0:32

And for those of you don't know, John, he has been doing technology for decades now, I believe. And not only that, he isn't how he copes. He even has, he's going to prove to us the decades we'll see disappear from his virtual background. Now. Here's the proof of the decades.

John Farrar 0:53

That's that was.

Michaela Light 0:56

Oh, okay. I thought you were going to get a certificate saying you've been doing ColdFusion since 1907. Yeah.

John Farrar 1:02

Well, I started in 1990s.

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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.

 

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Read the show notes and download the episode here Michaela Light 0:01 Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Jeff Kunkel and we are going to talk about cold fusion mental helpers, or how to stay sane during crises, which, when we're recording this, there's a major lockdown crona economic depression, wacko crisis going […]

Jeff Kunkel talks about “CFer Mental Helpers (Stay Sane during Crises)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Why now

In normal times, 20% of Americans have mental illness every year (APA)

Now in lockdown and economic depression, it is >60% ill

30% clinical depressed

30% PTSD

(and remaining 40%...)

Who is this episode for

CFers with mental illness

Even if they don’t realize it yet

CFers with teammates with mental illness

CIOs, PMs, Team Leaders and manager concerned about their staff

What is mental illness?

Significant changes in thinking, emotion and/or behavior

Distress and/or problems functioning in social, work or family activities

But can be hidden as it is in the mind

Types

Depression

Hopelessness - negative self-talk, self-hate

Numbness

Apathy

Anxiety

Obsessive Worry, beyond reality

OCD

Paranoia

Not dealing well with uncertainty

Bipolar Affective Disorder

Schizophrenia

Dementia 

Causes

Stress

Distress - bad

Eustress - good

Trauma

Isolation

Oxytocin

Lack of support

Poor nutrition

Chemical imbalances

Lack of sunlight

Vitamin- D

Serotonin

Lack of sleep

Lack of exercise

Overindulgence

Chemical effects

Addictions

(Mind-body connection

The stereotypical ColdFusion developer!

What to look for

Withdrawn

Outbursts

Anger, crying, jokes

Cries for help

Dark humor

Denial 

Poor attendance/performance

Physical sickness eg backache, exhaustion 

Sudden changes

Eating

Sex

Drug

How can we help?

Good boundaries

Be a resource

Open door policy

1 on 1 check-in

Daily stand up brief check-in of feelings

Relate personal experience 

Show you care

Go to groups and churches. Team building activities/outings 

Make reasonable accommodations 

Recommend professional help

Getting professional help

Your primary care physician

Your insurance company may have a list of covered providers

The website for the board of licensed professionals in your state

Ask someone how they found theirs 

See the end of the presentation for some additional links

How not to help

Tough it through

Blame

Panic

Diagnose

Excuse poor performance

Make light of their situation

Shaming

Potential pitfalls

Some people do not want help

Denial

All ready dealing with it

It can be very uncomfortable 

To be ill

To be around the ill

To discuss

EQ

Shame

Forcing the issue can make it worse

Suicide

Time to talk about the elephant in the room

Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US

Is 2nd leading cause in 30-year-olds

On average, there are 129 suicides per day.

Approx 40k per year

1.4M suicide attempts per year (2018)

An estimated 9.3 million adults (3.9% of the adult U.S. population) reported having suicidal thoughts in the past year. 

Suicide and self-injury cost the US $69B per year (2015)

The annual U.S. suicide rate increased by 24% between 1999 and 2014

After suicide

It is not your fault 

Be supportive

Support survivors

(let’s take a breath!)

Prevention - Self-Care

Practice what you preach

Eat right

Get some sleep

Blue blocker glasses

Go out in the sun

Go in nature

Accept help from others

Working From Home

Get dressed

Keep a schedule

Have a separate work area

Limit distractions

Have regular proactive breaks away from the computer

Get “face time” with colleagues via Zoom etc

Allow yourself to be bad at WFH

WFH as a skills

Good boss for staff WFH

Practice

Rat race rant

We are not looking at these incredible mental illnesses and suicide statistics as being indicative of deep unlying problems with our society’s programming and the rat race. 

If society was a CF server then it was misconfigured from the start, has not been tuned, is running a legacy CF version and OS and the programming was crappy.  Don't even look at the database queries being run unless you have a strong stomach. 

It needs a good tuning and re-write and upgrades from many years applied.

Disclaimer

We are not doctors. This is personal advice that has worked for me

Seek further information from sources like the American Psychiatric Association and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Wrap up

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

What did you enjoy at ITB 2020?

Mentioned in this episode

Oh my GAD (General Anxiety Disorder) with Jeffrey Kunkel

CF Suicide episode with Jorge Reyes  

Into The Box  

Trauma Healing   

Psychology Today

MHA National, finding a therapy   

Leading causes of death by age group 

AFSP Suicide statistics 

Violence prevention 

ColdFusion User Groups on Meetup

LearnCFInAWeek

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Bio

Jeffrey Kunkel

Jeffrey Kunkel is an in house web developer for www.lightingnewyork.com. He has been developing for six years, and is excited to start contributing to the ColdFusion community at large.

Jeff has been living with anxiety, depression, and OCD for his entire career. He wants to take the lessons he's learned working around and with these conditions to better the workflow and productivity of his colleagues.

Links

Twitter 

His ITB slides 

Interview transcript

Michaela Light 0:01

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Jeff Kunkel and we are going to talk about cold fusion mental helpers, or how to stay sane during crises, which, when we're recording this, there's a major lockdown crona economic depression, wacko crisis going on on there's definitely a lot of people who are having some issues. So we wanted to help out with that. So welcome, Jeff. Hello.

And nice background you have there for those watching on video into the box 2020. And you know, we'll talk a bit more about that, because I know you gave a talk there. And But meanwhile, why don't we just remind listeners who you are? Who are you in a nutshell.

Jeff Kunkel 0:51

I'm Jeff conkel. I'm a 33 year old ColdFusion developer I've been developing for about six years.

I work on a small ecommerce company a in house team.

One thing I I'd like to contribute to the ColdFusion community and I feel like

my expertise is higher in having mental like dealing with mental health, and it is in cold fusion at the moment. So that's kind of where I've been focusing.

Michaela Light 1:24

So you've experienced some of these issues yourself in the past?

Jeff Kunkel 1:28

Yes, absolutely. I've been diagnosed with anxiety and depression and with a mild case of obsessive compulsive disorder. So it's

Michaela Light 1:38

a mild case of access to to organize your shoe closet once a year.

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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.

 

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Discover how we can all make CF more alive, modern and secure this year. Join other ColdFusion developers and managers in the CF Alive Inner Circle today.

Get early access to the CF Alive book and videos

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Contribute to the CF Alive revolution

Connect with other CF developers and managers

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Gert Franz talks about “Cool Lucee CFML (GigaBytes file parsing and more)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Why are you using Lucee at DistroKid

Fast, Secure, Scalable with cloud

Node → Lucee 

Bitbucket pipelines

CommandBox

TDD

AWS autoscaling

Tell us something about DistroKid

CF performance tuning

Know your data

Keep common lookups in memory (structure)

One background file parsing process went from 330 hours to 2 hours!

What is the advantage of Lucee over other languages

CFLoop File=fileName

20 GB text files

Index, Item 

Array of values from separators (eg comma-separated data etc)

Uses much less memory than CFFILE Read which sucks the whole file into memory

Lucee tasks 

Can continue automatically if server crashes

ParseCSV

OnBody

OnHeader

OnFooter

Asynchronous Queries to database (for Logging etc)

Loggin analytics to

Elk

Logly

Log events are added to a queue then batch added to the database in the background

Query Listeners

Checks for async query errors

SQL manipulation pre-running query

Mail Listeners

Email pre-send events

On error event

Update headers in email for test server

Future listeners

CFHTTP calls

Lucee LEX extensions

Minimum install is 21 MB - add extensions for optional features such as PDF processing, image processing etc

→ Fast load time

25-30 extensions

Extensions can be written in CFML or Java

Lucee 6 faster load time

Goal < 0.5 second

Blue-Green deployment strategy to cloud cluster

Allowing CFTag in CFScript

All CF tags have script equivalents - just remove the part and add {s 

Add trip ticks (‘’’) for code

Why cfscript

less code

less output of whitespace 

Other developers who know JavaScript can code CFscript

Avoid EnableCFOutOnly and other whitespace workarounds in CFML

Strict mode - require scoping

Lucee hidden features

Programming language choice

.Net “free” or expensive

Language Religion or Drug addiction

What are the key features you use?

How did the usage of Lucee change during your time at DK

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

Show up and share your passion and love of CFML

CF dark matter x100 verbose

Mentioned in this episode

Lucee 

Redis

MemCache

Data Grid

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Bio

Gert Franz

Gert was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. He is one of the key people behind Lucee. Back in the late eighties he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched to later IT as a profession and programmed for several companies in the past as a database administrator and system analyst. Gert spoke a lot at all major conferences in the past and will for sure in the future. He now leads the Dev department at DistroKid.

Links

Gert (at) rasia.ch

Website

Twitter  

LinkedIn

Interview transcript

Michaela Light 0:01

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with good friends, all the way from Switzerland. And when we talk about cool new stuff in Lucee cfml, including gigabyte file parsing and asynchronous logging to the database and mail listeners, query listeners, all kinds of cool things you can do in Lucy these days and catch up with what he's been up to. So welcome, Gert.

Gert Franz 0:38

Hello, and thank you for having me back. Because you're so right, yes,

Michaela Light 0:42

it's been nearly a year it's far too long. I mean, so many things. So if you don't know who God is, he's heavily involved in the Lucy open source ColdFusion project. And since he was an astrophysicist he just decided he must do something more complicated and decided to start writing a cold fusion application server.

Gert Franz 1:07

Well, just to correct you. I was never an astrophysicist even though I studied that. But

single day, I never worked a single day as an astrophysicist. Only maybe in my free time when I pull out my telescope. That's okay, maybe go back to those days. But I'm a programmer by heart. And from the bottom of my heart since the last day I was in uni, or even before that since I was five years old, started with basic. Wow. I remember even the day the first day that I saw a computer program that was in 8584. It was an 84. But I didn't remember the day because I was watching over the shoulder of a guy and he was showing me something complex and what it was actually doing and I was flabbergasted. And the first thing that I remember in 84 that I was able to Was I managed our text printer to print out graphics, like graphics not being consistent just to have wild characters, but what you had to do, you had to modulate the characters and kind of plot them there. And we I was able to do some kind of charts with that. And I was very, very proud being 16 or 17 years of age. And wow, coming on. Snyder that was

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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.

 

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Joby John talks about “ColdFusion in Biz (the Latest Trends in CF consulting)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Biz side of CF

Hiring CF developers

Attitude is key

Skills can be learned

Training new people on CF - out of college or from other languages 

Versions used by their customers

Mostly CF 2016, some CF 2018

Some even older versions

Why not the newest version?

Cost of CF

Cost of migration

Why upgrade then?

Way better performance and security in CF 2018

Scaling team

Double team size

Fast to scale down in future too

Knowledge transfer

New trends in frontends on top of CF

jQuery to React or Angular 

Latest trends in tech 

Better UI

CF backend

Fashions in IT

CF growing

From smaller projects to enterprise projects

Migrating away from CF?

No - Too costly to recode in other languages such as Python or Java

CF scales well

Testing

What versions are people migrating to

ACF to Railo or  Lucee 

Only small projects

Bigger customers more focused on the code base investment than server software cost

Cloud licensing issue of ACF vs Lucee

CF 2020 solves this for ACF

Adobe partnership program

Adobe CF certification program

Coming to CF Summit India 2020

Why are you proud to use CF?    

The first customer we worked with was using ColdFusion to develop their web application and from there we worked with many customers who use ColdFusion. We were able to build a strong team of ColdFusion to help our customers from there

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?  

We are planning to hire more college freshmen this year and provide them ColdFusion training. 

Invite more non-Indian partners to the summit

More college classes in CF - support for this. 

What did you enjoy at CF Summit India? 

It was a pleasure to meet a lot of developers and talk to them. It was a pleasure to bring my ColdFusion team and they were so excited to see new trends in Coldfusion and see an active Coldfusion community in India

Mentioned in this episode

LearnCFinAWeek

Why is ColdFusion Better Than Other Programming Languages? 

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Bio

Joby John

Joby John is CEO of Techversant Infotech, a 200 person consulting firm specializing in ColdFusion Technology based in Kerala, India and Alberta, Canada.  He is a young and vibrant leader. He is responsible for corporate vision, strategy, business growth and total customer satisfaction.

Links

https://www.techversantinfotech.com/

https://www.facebook.com/jzz44

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jobyjohn/

Email  joby.john (at) techversantinfotech.com

Interview transcript

Michaela Light (00:01):

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Joby John from tech Versant and we're going to be talking about the business side of cold fusion and new trends in cold fusion. Um, welcome to the show. Joby. Hi Micheala and uh, just in case you don't know him. Um, he is CEO of tech first and Infotech and he, they have 200 people working there. They're a consulting firm that specializes in cold fusion and they're based in Corolla, India and Alberta, Canada. So, um, he's a young vibrant guy. Um, I met him at CF summit, India, um, end of last year and he's got a lot of interesting ideas around cold fusion. So, uh, let's maybe, um, start off by talking about hiring ColdFusion developers cause I know that's a topic of interest to both managers and coffee from developers. You know, what, what have you seen trend wise? Um, you know, hiring ColdFusion developers? Yeah. As you know,

Joby John (01:04):

base is not that great in Confucian even in India. But we, we always run a recruitment program throughout the year, like interviewing more people, always try to find more people because our customers need more cultivation developers. So, and another thing is that we used to have people who are interested to learn confusion, like having them from PHP or not and train them in cognition. Another thing is like we always hire like 10, 15 people, maybe sometimes 20 people from the college and train them in cultivation. So after like one to two years, like in a one year time they will be able to work on cold fusion projects from there. So we started doing it from uh, 2011. We started having people from college and also and now we were able to grow the team from there were very good number of team members in college.

Michaela Light (02:00):

How many ColdFusion developers do you have in the company then?

Joby John (02:04):

Uh, we have like almost 50% age of the team. Science is in cold fusion and the business side of it, like, uh, now we are into some other technologies, but two confusion was the technology that we focused from the start and the first customers was, uh, Wester was in cold fusion. And then from there we use, uh, focus more on the ColdFusion platform. So then we got a lot of customers and we are happy. The customers are still with us and every year we are adding few customers every year in costs.

Michaela Light (02:35):

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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.

 

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Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “CF Summit India 2019 Revealed” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

What exactly is CF Summit India?

Started in 2018

For people who can’t travel to the US or Europe from Asia

CF Summit West in Las Vegas 8th year

Expecting 250-300, 200 registrations already one months out

Last year 210 from 173 companies

Also attendees came from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and other Asian countries

How many years has CF Summit India been running?

2nd year

Also CF Summit West and East in USA, expanding Adobe presence at CF Camp 2020

DevWeek in SF

NAGW (National Association of Government Web developers)

Other conf in the plans too 

Listener suggestions

Why all CFer should go?

Learn CF new features

Future roadmap of CF (through 2028)

Networking with other CF developers, CF speakers and Adobe CF senior staff

See the entire Adobe CF engineering and sales team

Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about

Topic Area

- ColdFusion Roadmap and New Features coming in Next Release

- Top ColdFusion Features and Benefits

- API Development and Management

- Performance Tuning and Management

- PDF Manipulation and Advanced Security

10 speakers

0. Ashish keynote

1. Edwin - CF Security Analyzer

2. Suchika - CF Scheduler

3. Piyush - CF performance

4.  TBA -  CF API Manager

5.  Nimit/Dubey - PMT

6.  Ashudeep – Language features (2018 + u5 (Update 5))

7.  Ajay -  CF Document Management with PDF and Excel 

8.  Ketki - CF UI frameworks 

9. Rakshith CF 2020

Date

Saturday December 7, 2019

8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Evening event

Includes breakfast, lunch and breaks

Cost

Main conference Free

CF Certification in 2020

Location

Adobe Tower, Block A, Prestige Platina Tech Park, - Marathahalli-Sarjapur Outer Ring Rd

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

560087

(Same as last year)

Other things you can do in Bengaluru?

The garden city

What is new this year?

CF 2020

CF 2018 enhancements

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive in 2020?

Talk about what CFers are doing with CF

Banks and Govt especially for security, performance and productivity

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit India 2019?

Mentioned in this episode

Adobe ColdFusion India Summit 2019

DevWeek in SF

NAGW (National Association of Government Web developers) conference

Japan CF Day 

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Bio

Kishore Balakrishnan

Kishore Balakrishnan is a Principal Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems with a Master Degree in Computer Applications. At Adobe he has held roles of a Quality Manager, Program Manager before becoming the Product Marketing Manager. He enjoys being the 'voice of the customer' within the organization, liaise with sales team to facilitate the selling process and clearly communicates the why, what and when to the marketplace for CF. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and kid. Kishore loves his long runs and cooking.

Links

LinkedIn

Twitter 

Facebook

Email kishore (at) adobe.com

Interview transcript

Michaela Light:                  00:01                     Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Kishore Bally Krishna from Adobe and we're going to be talking about CF summit, India 2019 and all the new details on that, some revealing some information that hasn't been out there publicly yet about the speakers and topics and some other cool news about the event. So welcome Kishore.

Kishore :                               00:23                     Thanks for going to, it's always good to be back talking to you about goldfish fishing.

Michaela Light:                  00:27                     Yeah, and we have lots of fans of the podcast in India. There are thousands of developers in cold fusion in India. It's a very big vise. Nicole's Adobe itself has its development headquarters for cold fusion in Bangalore ruin India. We'll talk more about that later, but perhaps four we get going about what's happening in CF. Some India, we should tell people who you are. So your principle product marketing manager for cold fusion, Adobe and you're not just a marketing guy. You actually studied computer science when you were slightly younger than you are now.

Kishore :                               01:05                     Yes, I did. My masters in conveyor does as well.

Michaela Light:                  01:08                     Yeah, and you will live the voice of the ColdFusion customer in Adobe. So when people have things they want to hear about in ColdFusion 20, 20, or 2022, they should, uh, let you know. So when you can pass it on and clearly get the team working on what people want,

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Nolan Erck talks about “CF Alive (Revolution Retrospective) ” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

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What is the CF Alive revolution

Making ColdFusion Modern, Vibrant and Secure!

MCFGA

ColdFusion is a vibrant and modern language for complex, data-driven enterprise apps. While some companies have abandoned ColdFusion as dying, more visionary dev teams have embraced CF. Learn how they are making it the most modern, secure and state-of-the-art web development ecosystem.

Why was it started?

What aspects of CF are preventing you or your company from embracing CF?

72% CF is seen as dying/legacy.

Annual State of CF Union survey, 2018

Language shame, depression, Burnout → excited and learning again

Make CF Cool again

Hiring issues

More Young CFers

9-5 programmers

Contant “Homeplay” and learning

30 mins per day method

Lunch and learn

When did it start

001 Amazing Adventures with CF WebSockets with Giancarlo Gomez

March 29, 2017

What has changed in ColdFusion since it started

CF Alive podcast

Modernize or Die podcast

CF Alive book released

CommandBox and ForgeBox

Non-ColdBox Box products

Soft Skills and open to mental health issues more openly discussed

Conference inclusivity and diversity including speakers - anonymous topic selection

CF conferences

CF Summit East growing

CF Summit India

Improved CF Camp in Europe

ITB Latin America

Improved code of conduct

Separate Q&A in CF Camp

Office Hours area for 1 on 1 questions

Shy questioners

Showboaters

New speakers

Learned Modern CFML in 100 minutes released

CF Angular book new edition

LearnCFInAWeek revamp

CF Certification released

New CF tools

Framework updates for ColdBox, CFWheels, FW/1

Foundeo new products Fixinator and FuseGuard (on top of HackMyCF)

CFScript.me

FusionReactor new release and cloud version

Adobe PMT Security Auto Lock

Adobe API Manager

Ortus CF box products 4 year roadmaps released

WireBox

TestBox

Adobe at non-CF conferences such as DevWeek and NAGW promoting CF

And Brad Wood at DevNexis 

CF 2018 release

Auto lock down

Mega performance increase

CF containerization revolution

Lucee 5

Modern CF, cfscript

CF 2020 multi cloud and containerization

CF top in web Security

Performance, Productivity and Security

More positive atmosphere in CF Community

CF Slack channel more positive

What are you looking forward to in 2020 for CF Alive?

CF 2020

Lucee 6

Adobe and Ortus roadshows and webinars

CF Rocks book

New CF conferences

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

Be the change you want to see in the world - Gadhi

StackOverflow public and searchable

Friendly and professional answers

Being visible about using CF

Made with CF logo

Blog

Social share on Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn etc

CF Pride

Mentioned in this episode

CommandBox

ForgeBox 

Jeffrey Kunkel, Oh My GAD  episode

CF Suicide, Depression and Recovery episode with Jorge Reyes

https://teratech.com/podcast/cf-alive-at-chicago-cfug-michaela-light/

https://teratech.com/podcast/cf-camp-2019-everything-cfml-with-kai-koenig-and-mitchi-hnat/

https://www.amazon.com/Learn-ColdFusion-Enterprise-Application-Development-ebook/dp/B07K4X9BF5

Hear Us Roar: A Manifesto for Women and Minorities in Startup, Tech, and Business Communities with Sophia Eng

Getting Real with Women in Tech with April Graves

Smart Developer Career Strategies and How Women Can Get Ahead in Tech with Sami Gardner

The Opportunities of Being a Woman in Tech Today with Elliotte Bowerman

Learn ColdFusion in a Week with Carl Von Stetten, Daniel Fredericks and Dave Ferguson 

Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit), with Elishia Dvorak 

Adobe CF Summit West 2019 (All that is new) with Kishore Balakrishnan

Into The Box Conference

CF Camp 2019 (Everything CFML) with Kai Koenig and Mitchi Hnat

Foundeo 

FusionReactor 

Adobe PMT 

Adobe Security Auto Lock down

How to Implement Adobe API https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/server-auto-lockdown/

TT YouTube channel

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Bios

Michaela Light

Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for over 20 years. She founded TeraTech which focuses on ColdFusion development and optimization. She founded the CFUnited conference and ran MDCFUG. She is the current host of the CF Alive podcast and has interviewed over 60 ColdFusion experts about What It Would Take to make CF more alive this year.

 

Nolan Erck

Nolan Erck has been developing software for 21 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 a variety of 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.

When he's not consulting or talking about himself in the third person, Nolan can usually be found working on one of several music projects.

Links

https://southofshasta.com/

Twitter: @southofshasta

http://sacinteractive.com/

Twitter: @sacinteractive

TeraTech podcast

TeraTech Facebook

TeraTech LinkedIn

CF Alive Inner Circle (ask to join)

TeraTech Twitter

TeraTech Pinterest

TeraTech YouTube

Interview transcript

Michaela Light:                  00:00:03               Welcome back to the show here we have a special episode of the hundredth episode of BC apply podcast. I have a very special guest with us today, Nolan, who is the person who's appeared on the show the most, I think you've appeared like six or seven times because you just have so much to say about cold fusion. So, um, and you're very generous with your time, uh, which I appreciate. So in today's show, we're gonna turn the view a little bit back, um, and look at the CFLI revolution and how things have changed since the cold fusion. A live podcast has been more and a lot of other things happening in ColdFusion land and also have a peek at what's coming in the future for improving ColdFusion. So, welcome Nolan. Thanks for having me. And just in case you don't know who Nolan is, he's the chief architect president and, uh, I don't know. Well, advertise you have at South sash Shasta productions in Sacramento, California. And he is a very frequent speaker. I hope you [inaudible] conferences, user groups, a rabid blogger about Copia writing. That's the right phrase. Rabid. I don't know. He blocked him off, uh, about cold fusion and he writes these excellent post-conference for that. Um, tell you what happened in case you missed the conference. Very good to have you here. So, um, [inaudible] yeah, I think you should be interviewing me. Shouldn't you should just be chatting and having a good time. I'm not sure.

Michaela Light:                  00:01:39               Um, I think we should do, let's ask the audience audience who should interview you?

Nolan Erck:                         00:01:43               Well, it's just chatting on a good time. Oh, who said that?

Michaela Light:                  00:01:47               It was a, yeah, it was the thousands of CFOs listening [inaudible] AI bots episode. So a hundredth episode. Um, and I think, I guess we should start with what is the CFLI for revolution? Cause like we've got this podcast, I wrote a book, you, Louis and the Adobe folks and many other people are doing great things, uh, to improve ColdFusion, but people may not realize that there is a CF alive revolution going on. Um, making cold fusion, more modern, vibrant, insecure, and to quote, misquote someone who will remain nameless to avoid having nasty tweets. And to me, making ColdFusion great again. Um, you know, w w w what do you think with CF alive revolution is no,

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