ColdFusion Alive

Brad Wood talks about “CommandBox Workflow magic (modules to speed up CF development)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Why use Workflows in your CF coding?

You probably already do use workflows if you don’t call them that

Eg 

source control steps

Bitbucket Pipelines

Local dev → staging → production

Ticketing system

Shared tools for code formatting

Scripts to automate common tasks

Teams and Individual developers

What is CommandBox?

CLI = Command Line Interface for CFML

Lots of addons written in CFML

Built in help

Very colorful ASCII art too

REPL

Integrated shell

Run multiple CF virtual server on one machine, different versions of ACF and Lucee

Auto install

Fast test of different versions

Command line automation

Task runners

Batch Scripting in CFML!  - more powerful than BASH

Package management

Libraries used in your app install and correct versioning

ForgeBox integration

Modern CFML more powerful ecosystem than Node, Pyphon etc

Written in CFML, runs on top of JVM

Open source

CommandBox Modules to improve workflow

Bullet Train 

Saves time knowing what you are doing the CLI

Fun too!

Dotenv 

Makes personalizing passwords, databases, SMTP server etc for each dev easy

Keeps passwords out of your CF code and source control - more secure

Cfconfig 

Back up and restore CF Admin settings - even between different CF versions or ACF and Lucee

CommandBox and Docker instances create settings automatically 

Disaster Recovery - easy restore of settings

Save settings to source control (though careful about passwords for datasources)

Dev vs production settings quick for locking down a server

Diff of settings between two servers - diagnosis settings bugs

Host updater  

Easy management of local host names vs IP addresses - a local DNS override in effect

Keeps hosts file clean when you stop using that virtual server.

FusionReactor  

Adds easy support to enable FusionReactor on the servers you start inside CommandBox.

FR licensing covers multiple ComandBox CF servers on the same machine

FR Cloud license counts the time used in containers dynamically

Other cool modules we didn’t cover in the episode that Brad loves

CFFormat

Cfdocs

service manager (paid)

$49 per server (lifetime license)

Ngrok

What do CommandBox and these tools cost?

Free. Professional Open source (with optional paid support and training)

Mentioned in this episode

Bullet Train 

Dotenv 

Cfconfig 

Host updater

FusionReactor  

ITB conference

Modernize or Die podcast

CommandBox 

All CommandBox modules on ForgeBox

CommandBox 4 Deep Dive (new version revealed) with Brad Wood

Box Patreon levels

CFCasts

Lucee Discourse Forum

ColdFusion Programmers Facebook Group

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Bio

Brad Wood

Brad grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors. Brad has been programming ColdFusion since around 2002 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He first fell in love with ColdFusion as a way to easily connect a database to his website for dynamic pages. He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server. Teacher of the CommandBox Deep Dive full workshop at IntoTheBox ColdFusion conference. 

Links

CFML Slack Box Channel

Box Team Slack Channel

Twitter

Brad's Website

Interview Transcript

Michaela Light 0:03

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Brad wood. And we're going to be talking about command box workflow magic and how you can speed up your ColdFusion development. And those of you don't know, Brad is I think he's the senior application architect or autists, or somesuch. fancy title. But he's an expert on command boxes. He actually wrote it

is an open source tool. We'll tell you more about that later in the show. He's from the Midwest. He's currently in Kansas City, grew up in Southern Missouri, and

as well as cold fusion programming for 20 years. He's also got three. I was gonna say three wives and one girl, but he's got three girls and one wife. Yes. Lexia. Reading.

Brad Wood 0:51

And it's really four girls total if you add them all up,

Michaela Light 0:54

but four girls complete? Yeah. My wife is yes. And he's a big contributor. The coefficient community has a very active blog, which I'll put in the show notes, and it's called coding revolution or code, coding. Coders revolute? Yes. With an S CODAs.

Brad Wood 1:16

Yes. It's our revolution. We own it.

Michaela Light 1:18

Yes, absolutely. And he's also a well known speaker at various ColdFusion conferences. Hopefully this year, there'll be some in person conferences. He can present tense but last year fully online, except for into the box. Oh, into the box was the brave conference.

Brad Wood 1:40

Yes. Crazy Ones who tried 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.

 

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An Adobe ColdFusion Technical Evangelist acts as the primary bridge between the developer community and Adobe’s engineering and sales teams to improve product experience. Mark Takata, a veteran full-stack developer, serves in this role by focusing on developer relations, technical support, and community advocacy rather than traditional sales. This position involves gathering community pain points regarding licensing and performance to provide the Adobe leadership team with data-driven insights for future CF releases.

In this CF Alive Podcast episode, Mark Takata is here to do a Reddit-style AMA and answer all your questions!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK1evnA24eE

Key Takeaways from Mark Takata’s ColdFusion AMA

• Role Definition: Unlike previous sales-focused roles, Mark provides a technical perspective rooted in 20+ years of development experience to assist with real-world coding issues.

• Licensing Evolution: Adobe is actively exploring "blue-green" licensing and simplified cloud models to better support Docker, AWS, and modern containerized workflows.

• Modern Tooling: The introduction of a dedicated VS Code extension for ColdFusion aims to modernize the development environment and replace older IDEs.

• Community Engagement: Adobe relies on community-provided data and examples to prioritize language features and fix legacy migration barriers.

Show notes

What is a "CF evangelist"?

What do you do

Tech evangelist vs support/sales evangelist

Mark from tech background → tech evangelist

Dev experiences

Dev relations

Support

Route issues to the CF engineering team or CF sales team

Speaking

Webinar

Training

Social Media  

listening, engage, comment

Promoting other related trainings and CF job posts

CF Pain points → CF product manager Aditya 

CF management team loves data and examples

Who is Mark

Sacramento CA

UC Davis CF dev, high volume apps

ColdFusion conferences and training

CF Summit East → online CF Dev Week

What are you looking forward to at ColdFusion Dev Week?

CF Summit West 

In person event Adobe Factors: location, corporate risk and perception, safety first

ColdFusion certification 

Training videos improved with outside help including Dave Ferguson of Learn CF in a Week

Professional test

New  lower price $149

Video will be free in future - only pay for the cert test

Gamification of training

Eval of modern CF skills in diff areas

AI/ML Git code evaluator

Licencing

We brainstormed on licensing problems from CFers and potential solutions.

Note: Mark is not an attorney, does not play an attorney on TV and does not make official Adobe licensing policy. Here he what he wrote on this:

a clarification regarding Licensing: Any and all commentary regarding licensing during this podcast represents my personal opinion and experiences as a multi-decade ColdFusion developer. Any ideas or concepts floated do not represent Adobe's plans, goals or roadmaps for licensing. In short, I am not qualified nor even authorized to speak officially for Adobe regarding licensing terms or plans. Everything we spoke of here regarding licensing was "just Mark" chatting. Thank you for understanding.:-) " - Mark

He does however have a big influence inside the Adobe ColdFusion team. So I imagine the ideas will get back to them. :-) - Michaela

Cloud

AWS marketplace

300k+ downloads

Corales licenses images 

Enterprise-level

High-level virtual machine required 

30 days free trial on free AWS machine

Docker anywhere

Other cloud vendors such as Google, Azure, Digital Ocean

Sales licensing worksheet → interactive licensing tool

Blue-green licensing

Live server updates

Blue server going away

Green is new one

Only count the Green servers

Legal legacy licensing

Physical servers vs VPS vs containers vs Llamda 

Vision

Fair

Simple

Pay us

Cores clause

Cores x containers 

SaaS licensing costs extra

Why does Adobe care what our programs do?

Hosting licensing

Usage of features

New package manager - much smaller install 138 MB vs 1 GB

Auto code scan

CF Report Builder

Was last in CF 2016

More users of it than Adobe realized

VS Code Adobe ColdFusion IDE

Estimated release date Q2 2022

Replacement for CF Builder?

Mentioned in this episode

CF Summit

CF Dev Week

ITB

Channels

Adobe ColdFusion YouTube channel 

TeraTech 

Ortus 

CFCasts

CF training resources 

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Mark Takata 

Mark Takata has been a full-stack application developer, graphic artist, UI/UX expert & technical writer for more than 20 years. He has extensive professional experience in ColdFusion, C#, JavaScript, VB.net, SQL and several other languages. He is currently the Technical Evangelist for ColdFusion at Adobe and has served in that role for the past 9 months. In his limited spare time, Mark enjoys mountain biking, overlanding in his Jeep, and playing Destiny 2 (horribly).

Links

Email: Takata (at) adobe.com

CF Slack Mark Takata

LinkedIn

FB group ColdFusion programmers

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Interview Transcript

Michaela Light 0:02

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Mark Takata. And he's the Adobe ColdFusion. Evangelist. And we're going to do an Ask Me Anything episode. So I've been asking questions from listeners, got a lot of tough questions, he's agreed to take them. He does have a few boundaries. But you know, he's the very open and transparent guy. So welcome, Mark.

Mark Takata 0:27

Thank you. Thank you. I'm really glad to be here. Thank you for having me.

Michaela Light 0:31

And for those of you who don't know him, he's been doing full-stack application development for more than 20 years. He's been doing it a long time in cold fusion, but he's also done a bunch of other languages. So he comes with an interesting perspective on, you know, arguments about the role of cold fusion and how wonderful it is. And he also lives in California, does lots of outdoor stuff, and even plays wacky computer games. So poorly welcome.

Mark Takata 1:01

I play them poorly, unfortunately. Thank you. Okay.

Michaela Light 1:03

Yeah. So I guess the first thing maybe some people are wondering is what the heck is an Adobe, Adobe ColdFusion technical evangelist?

Mark Takata 1:13

That's a really good question. And it's maybe not an easy question to answer. And I did want to, I did want to kind of clarify that in previous iterations of evangelists that Adobe has had a technical evangelist is a little bit different than the role, for example, that Alicia Devorah, who was the previous ColdFusion evangelist, her role really was more centered on the support and sales side of things versus the technical side, which comes from her background, she was in sales, she was in marketing, she was in support, I come from a technical background, I was deaf, I'm in the trenches with all of you. And so when they hired me on my role, really focused more on developer experience, Developer Relations, the technical side of things alongside of course support, because that gets rolled into it as well. But it helps to have that technical background to know, alright, these are the things that these are the issues, for example, that a client might have, maybe it's something I can guide them on myself. Or, more importantly, I can tell, okay, this is the group that they need to go to, to actually get a solution. These are the engineers I need to connect them with, or maybe just the support, or in some cases, it's the sales team. Sometimes it's actually a sales issue. They don't recognize it as such, but it is. So that's kind of so all of those things encompass what I do, I do talks, I am on social media, and I'm here to listen to the community and engage the community and help the community. I'm not necessarily there to do high-level training, but I do, you know, conferences, conference talks on subjects, I do webinars on subjects, which do fall under training, in some ways. And I also tell people about other training that we have, right. So some of the things like this year, we're really going to focus on education of the developer community, we're going to be having a lot of training out there. And so if you're not following me on the various social media, please jump on there, Mark Takata, that's where I am, you know, all over Twitter, LinkedIn, I'm going to be sharing opportunities for you to learn, the vast majority will be free. So it's a really great opportunity to go in and take these classes. So that's kind of my role. And it changes from day to day, which is why it's a hard thing to answer. Because some days, I'm an ear, I'm like a bartender. I'm here to listen to you. And other days, I got to roll up my sleeves and fix something. You know, there was a client that came to me that needed a solution for their code, and I actually programmed it for them. I wrote a bit of code, I don't do that very often. It's not really my job. But in this particular case, it was a high enough priority that I just went in, and I did it and now my code is in production with that, which is kind of terrifying, but also awesome.

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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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Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe ColdFusion Dev Week 2021 Revealed” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

What exactly is CF Dev Week 

3 days of online CF goodness

8 sessions per day over several timezone, with breaks during the day to keep up with home or work

Not just webinars - interact with other CFers, CF engineering team, sponsors

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

Meet the CF engineering team

Network with other CFers

Replaces the in-person event CF Summit East (due to the pandemic)

Recording too

Why all CFer should go?

23 sessions from top CFers

How many years has CF Dev Week been running?

6 years

Why is it so important to the CF community?

Shows Adobe is fully backing CF

Show new features in new CF 2021 release

Seeing who is using CF and cool ways they are using

Community building

Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about

How - open call for speakers - committee led by Kishore, Elishia, Dan Wilson, Brian Klaas, Mark Takata

Topics

Giancarlo Gomez - WebSockets 101: An Introduction to WebSockets on ColdFusion 

Mike Collins - ColdFusion Scaling 

Corbin Crutchley - Using ColdFusion APIs in Expo Mobile Apps

Luis Majano - Building modern web apps with ContentBox Modular CMS

Brian Sappey - API MP

Pete Freitag - Securing ColdFusion Applications

Cloud Features in CF 2021 - CF engine

Dave Ferguson - NoSQL, solving your relationship problems one model at a time

Brian Sappey - CI/CD Framework

Charlie Arehart - ColdFusion at 25: not the kid most have stuck in their minds

Rey Bango - Security Session

Sami Hoda - What’s New at AWS in 2021

Burke Holland - I was wrong about Azure

Mike Brunt - Java - Write Once Run Anywhere - JVM - Not "Out Of The Box Ready"!

Ben Nadel - Feature Flags Change Everything About Product Development

Ray Camden - Extending PDF Capabilities with Adobe Document Services

Brian Klaas - Developing apps with Queues and Pub/Sub Mechanisms (SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ, etc)

David Byers - ColdFusion Modernization Challenges - Improving Legacy Code while Retaining Your Sanity

Mark Takata - The CIO’s Perspective: ColdFusion 2021 By the Numbers

Mark Takata - RAD SPAs w/ CF & JS

David Tattersall - Become an Application SUPERHERO - Reduce technical debt impact and keep applications performing as they should

Keynote - CF 2021 and the next version - Asish Garg

Sponsors

TeraTech

Mitrah Soft

Techversant

Mura

Lucid Outsourcing Solutions

Hostek

Foundeo

Fusion Reactor

Mark Takata - the new CF developer Evangelist 

CF Certification online

$149

https://coldfusion.adobe.com/certificate/ 

Take any time

Dates

Tue 22 - Thu 24 June, 2021

US time zones

Immediate recordings

Cost

Completely free

Register at https://adobe.vconfex.com/ 

Location

online

Other CF Events

CF Summit online December

How is CF as a business doing?

New customers

20% over target 

What are the other things that we could expect this year?

Mentioned in this episode

CF Dev Week website  

CF Certification 

CF 2021 new features (CF Alive pod)

State of Union survey 

Adobe ColdFusion Dev Week 

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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

Twitter https://twitter.com/kishore31 

FB https://www.facebook.com/kishoreb 

Email kishore (at) adobe.com

adobeconfusion (at) adobe.com

Interview Transcript

Michaela Light 0:03

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Kishore Balakrishna from Adobe. And we're gonna be talking about ColdFusion development week 2021. She's coming up in 19 days as we're doing this recording probably less days when you actually listen to this episode. And we're going to be revealing all the speakers and topics are new and talking about why all ColdFusion developers worldwide go to this event. Welcome Kishore

here we got a script.

How you doing? Doing great, so fabulous. The sun has come out now. So fabulous day. For those of you don't know, Kishore, he's the principal Product Marketing Manager for ColdFusion Adobe. And he also you know, he's the voice of the customer his forte, you know, if you have concerns or questions, you can always direct them to him. And he talks to a lot of organizations who use cold fusion to find out you know, what they're doing with it.

All kinds of things there and he's coming to us live from Bangla through India. So

welcome, Kishore.

Kishore Balakrishnan 1:15

Thanks.

yes, stay, stay, stay, stay healthy. Keep, you know, keep doing good things we call fusion, by the way that those who don't know it just in case you think Kishore is like a marketing propellerhead. Really, he did a computer science degree. So he actually understands all this cold fusion stuff. I started working with cold fusion way back in 98, or sorry, around 2000. And I

didn't get a chance to get into it. But yes, I knew about cold fusion at that time. So

Michaela Light 1:51

that's great. Alright. So what exactly is cold fusion developer week?

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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.

 

Join the CF Alive revolution

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

Be part of a new movement for improving CF's perception in the world.

Contribute to the CF Alive revolution

Connect with other CF developers and managers

There is no cost to membership.

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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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 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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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

Michaela Light 2:25

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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

There is no cost to membership.