You can read the show notes and download the podcast here Michaela Light 0:01 Hey, welcome back to the show here we have a special episode. And it's a panel of cold fusion user group experts. We've got Leon, Nolan and Daniel. So and we might have drew as well joining us, he isn't here […]

Raymond Camden talks about “Vue.JS FusionReactor and Therapy” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

"...There could have been tools to make that a little bit easier to make the scaffolding quicker. It's, but like, it's, you know, it's like when I go anywhere now with my children, right? I don't like casually go anywhere, but my kids are coming. I'm bringing snacks and bringing diaper bag and all that. And I like them being with me. But it's a process. And that's kind of how I felt about Angular. You know, view, you know, view definitely has a process to it has a command line as a scaffolding tool. And you can build big applications. But then, but it also supports simple progressive enhancement..."

Show notes

Vue.JS

Why and what excites you about Vue

Simple progress web apps enhancements - easier than jQuery

Eg progressive search and filtering

Simple to get started with than Angular

Vue has two way binding between your DOM and JS data

jQuery this is manual

Easier with dynamic HTML with tokens that are replaced by JS data by Vue

Compare to Handlebars, mustache, Jade and Pug

Excited about its simplicity and power

Find other Vue logic from other similar sites

CodePen online code edit

Compare to Angular.JS

Angular hard to use on smaller scale use on a single page of an app - it expects to run the whole app

Needs more handholding, conventions

Major Angular update - leaders were not helpful to people upgrading

Even needing to explain the version numbering change

What Vue is especially good for

Apps

Single page enhancement

For micro apps (4 lines) just uses JavaScript

Example of Vue.JS on Plex media server

API Fetch - does  AJAX type calls super easy

Axeos library

Vue Challenges

More documentation for people new to JavaScript apps

What folders can you ignore when starting

Learning

Get started in an hour

Sarah Drasner CSS tricks site

FR first impressions for new CFers

Therapy with his wife dying a year ago

Neutral party listening to all the emotions and experiences

Good for any mental health issues - anxiety and depression

Mentioned in this episode

Progressive Web Apps- CF Alive episode

Why Programming in Node.JS is so powerful- CF Alive episode

John Farrar: Vue- more is less

CodePen

Sarah Drasner CSS tricks Vue articles 

Getting started with FusionReactor

Finding and fixing your slow ColdFusion pages with FusionReactor

Ray’s Wife died blog posts

Building a plex server duration search with Vue.JS

CF Suicide and depression- CF Alive episode

Oh my GAD- CF ALive episode

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Bio

Raymond Camden

Raymond Camden works as a Developer Experience engineer for American Express. He works on serverless, JavaScript, web standards, and enterprise cat demos. He is the author of multiple books on web development and has been actively blogging and presenting for almost twenty years. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.raymondcamden.com), @raymondcamden on Twitter, or via email at [email protected].

Links

Raymond's Blog

Twitter

LinkedIn

GitHub

Interview transcript

Michaela Light 0:00

Hey, welcome back to the podcast. I'm here today with Ray Camden. And we're going to be talking about Vue.JS, FusionReactor and also Therapy. So if you don't know Ray, he is sometimes known as the Jedi Jedi Master. And he was for a long time in the ColdFusion community. He kind of went off in other directions, but now he's playing around with FusionReactor and doing some other cool stuff with Vue.JS. So he works as developer experience engineer for American Express now, and he works on server lyst, JavaScript web standards, enterprise cat demos, that sounds very enterprise cat demos. Yes. And he's also the author of lots of books on web development. And he's got a very prolific Brock blog. And he's done a lot of presentations. So welcome, Ray.

Raymond Camden 0:55

Thank you for having me. Thank you for inviting me.

Michaela Light 0:58

Yeah. So you're welcome. A lot of it's nice to have you back on the show. I'll link in the to other episodes you had on the CF Alive podcast and the show notes on progressive web apps and using Node JS. But today, we're going to look at Vue.JS, which is a front end framework that a fair number of ColdFusion developers use, in fact, I interviewed john Farrar a couple of years ago, and he was kind of excited about it. And I'll put that episode in the show notes too. But I'm sure you have a totally different take on it from John's, even though you both do have beards. So

Raymond Camden 1:32

yeah, I went to one of his presentations on view. And that was my first introduction to the topic. I don't know if I have a different take on it. But I have been using well before ups, I've been using Angular JS for a while. And I liked it. You know, I've been I'm potential I saying I liked it with a little bit of pain. Yeah, I could get things done. I liked it in comparison to everything else I looked at. But I wasn't necessarily thrilled to start a new project with it. You know, if I had some, like random, weird, stupid idea, which are even most of my ideas are like that. Just a thought of starting a new Angular project was a bit of a impediment in terms of all the stuff that you had to kind of set up and get working. And that could absolutely have been my fault. There could have been tools to make that a little bit easier to make the scaffolding quicker. It's, but like, it's, you know, it's like when I go anywhere now with my children, right? I don't like casually go anywhere, but my kids are coming. I'm bringing snacks and bringing diaper bag and all that. And I like them being with me. But it's a process. And that's kind of how I felt about Angular. You know, view, you know, view definitely has a process to it has a command line as a scaffolding tool. And you can build big applications. But then, but it also supports simple progressive enhancement. So I have one page site, that's totally fine. on that one page, I want to add a little bit of interactivity. And the past I would have use jQuery for that. And now I'll use the view because view works great at that smaller scale. And it also works great with for applications as well. And I want to apologize if I'm a bit my soapbox here now, but it seems like most people talking about JavaScript have the assumption that you're always building applications with routing and state management and all that fancy stuff, you know, enterprise JavaScript apps. Whereas like, a lot of my JS work over the years has been a much smaller scale, still important to the client, still, you know, adding good things for end users, but at a scale that I don't see talked about, and a lot of conferences and blog posts now and to me view supporting the full range of what people can bill makes it a huge win for me off the soapbox.

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I was a guest speaker in an episode of Chicago CFUG, with host Daniel Garcia.



Show notes

CF Alive Making ColdFusion Modern, Vibrant and Secure By Michaela Light

Who is Michaela

Overview

Legacy ColdFusion

Modern ColdFusion

CF Tools

Outreach

Marketing

Vibrant ColdFusion

CF dying?

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

Modern CF

Secure

Scalable

CF and Docker

Virtual machine

Share same config with others, staging and production

orchestration layer tools

Better testing

Free CF

CF Docker tools

Source control

IDEs

Frameworks

Server monitoring

REST APIs and microservices

CommandBox

CMS

Easy front end integration

Dependency Injection Frameworks

ORM

Package Management

Outreach

WWIT to have a happy, healthy ColdFusion developers community?

Education

Network

Teach

Hiring

Better CF Community

Marketing

The CF Alive Revolution

Mentioned in this episode

Lucee CFML

HackMyCF

Fuseguard

Fixinator

FusionReactor

Kubernetes

Heroku

Dokku

TestBox

MockBox

Portainer

CommandBox

Git

BitBucket

GitHub

Sublime

Dreamweaver

Preside

jQuery

WireBox

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Bio

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.

Links

CF Alive book

CF Alive podcast

CF Alive Inner Circle

TeraTech blog

TeraTech YouTube channel

Regular Social media posts (TW, LI, FB)

Interview transcript

Daniel Garcia  0:01

Okay, I like to thank everyone for coming this evening. We've got quite the treat. We've got Michaela light is going to talk to us about CF Alive. She's been doing some fantastic. evangelism, I guess is a great word for this and why ColdFusion is just awesome still, and it's always been awesome. And we're going to let her tell us why. So thank you very much.

Michaela  0:23

Yeah, thanks for inviting me to the Chicago CFUG. And, yeah, I'm going to talk about CF Alive, which is the title of a book I published last fall. It was actually released at the CF Summit West in Las Vegas. And the subtitle is making ColdFusion modern, vibrant and secure and we'll talk about all those aspects of it. So fabulous. And we go so the roadmap for CF Alive is that confusion is modern and alive. And it's great for doing complex data-driven applications. And while some companies have abandoned ColdFusion as dying, you know, more visionary developers like ourselves, have embraced CF and learn how to make it more modern. So more modern, secure. And also, I think if you look at how ColdFusion is used in the most modern web development, departments and shops is the most state of the art web development ecosystem. So we'll look at why that is.

So who am I? As I said, I wrote the book CF Alive. I'm also host of the CF life podcast. I just out of interest. How many people here have ever listened to any CF Live podcast episode? Maybe you can tell me how many people raise their hands if any four of us and one of our move on you with the podcast at Bertram? Oh yeah, he was a guest.

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Contribute to the CF Alive revolution

Connect with other CF developers and managers

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

"... every year, we are seeing an increase in the number of developers that are coming to the events like you would have seen, and even Las Vegas event last year was bigger than the year before. And hopefully this year, the Summit East is going to be bigger than what it was the last year."



Show notes

What exactly is CF Summit East?

Started in the second year of CF Summit in Las Vegas

For people who can’t travel to the West coast

Expecting 250-300 people, 400 registrations already two months out

How many years has CF Summit been running?

4th year

Also CF Summit India

Plans for an event in Europe

DevWeek in SF

Why is it so important to the CF Community?

Learn CF new features

Future roadmap of CF (through 2028)

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

Why all CFer should go?

To learn about Adobe’s commitment to CF

New features in CF

Direction of CF

CF Roadmap through 2028

Revealing the Speakers and topics that you are excited about

11 speakers

Keynote

Ashish Garg - Engineering Director, responsible for CF and other ELearning tools at Adobe and Adobe Connect

Ashish will be talking about CF 2018 and how CFers are using it.

Geek Out With The Smart Language Additions In Coldfusion 2018

Rakshith Naresh Product Manager for ColdFusion, Adobe

Adobe ColdFusion 2018 brings numerous nifty improvements to the language. The goal of this session is to not just show you the new improvements in action but also to inspire you to incorporate some of these powerful features in your existing applications. In this session, we will see firsthand on how the changes can be applied to a popular existing application. It goes without saying that new applications with new code can also take advantage of the new feature set. See a lot of code. Have fun. And hey, if you can apply what you learn, then you can also win at answering some of the interactive programming questions that might be thrown at you. More power to all you developers!

Rakshith is the Senior Product Manager for Adobe at ColdFusion. This is the man who literally decides the future direction of ColdFusion. He is very passionate about ColdFusion and greatly appreciates the useful input from the CF Community.

Making Your Applications Fast And Furious With The New Performance Monitoring Toolset In CF 2018!

Elishia Dvorak ColdFusion Solution Consultant & Evangelist, Adobe

The all-new Performance Monitoring Toolset in Adobe ColdFusion 2018 is geared towards today's development needs, providing a full-spectrum solution to not only self-diagnose and heal, but also a profiling capability for the developer who needs something more to tune existing applications for performance. In this session, attendees will learn how to easily diagnose bottlenecks in your current applications, be the first to know about production problems, and take your troubleshooting to the next level with the new self-healing connector tuning capabilities.

Elishia was once a CF developer, she quickly moved her way up the ranks to become Adobe’s Technical Marketing Manager for ColdFusion and eLearning.

Adobe Coldfusion 2018 Hidden Gems

Charlie Arehart ColdFusion Troubleshooting Consultant, CArehart.org

It's that time again-another new version of ColdFusion (CF) has come out: Adobe ColdFusion 2018. Now is the time for veteran CF troubleshooter and presenter Charlie Arehart to continue his tradition of identifying "hidden gems" within the new release, as he's been doing since CF4. Sure, most people can name a few of the big, new features in each release, while others will lament that "there's not much new," when in fact there is! Just as in every release of CF, there are always lots of things that go unheralded, which may be just what you've been waiting for, whether you're solving a long-standing problem or providing a new technique related to coding, troubleshooting, administration, enterprise integration, or more. Charlie will also help identify edition differences, pricing, migration issues, and more.

Securing Mature CFML Codebases

Pete Freitag Software Engineer & Web Consultant, Foundeo Inc.

Large and mature ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) code bases have unique challenges when it comes to ensuring that they are secure. This session will go over some techniques for finding vulnerabilities, and improving the security of your CFML application over time.

 Step Into Serverless With AWSAnd Adobe Coldfusion

Brian Klaas Senior Technology Officer, Johns Hopkins University

Adobe ColdFusion is a great tool for web applications, even if it's not the right tool for every job. For examples, it's not easy to do machine learning, video compression, and computer vision from within ColdFusion. Who wants to set up servers or Docker Clusters for those tasks when ColdFusion isn't the best fit? In this session, we will take a look at getting started in a serverless environment with Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Step Functions-a powerful, visual way to orchestrate functions and services within the AWS Cloud. Along the way, you'll learn about AWS services, such as Lambda, S3, Rekognition, Translate, and Transcribe. Join us to see how you can invoke and track serverless workflows from within your ColdFusion applications, and how to harness the vast array of AI and computational power that AWS provides with a simple "embrace and extend with ColdFusion" approach.

Faster Queries In Coldfusion & SQL Server

Eric Cobb Database Development Manager, Centauri Health Solutions, Inc

Adobe ColdFusion makes it easy to retrieve data from SQL Servers, however, sometimes, your queries may not be performing as well as they could be. In this session, we will take a look at ways to speed up your queries in both CFML and SQL Servers, as well as discuss things you may be doing that are slowing your queries down. With a detailed look at SELECT statements, Stored Procedures, indexes, and learning to read query execution plans, this session will have you well on your way to turbocharging your queries in CF & SQL Servers alike!

Refreshing Your UI: Modern Uses For Websockets

Giancarlo Gomez Owner of CrossTrackr, Inc. and Fuse Developments, Inc. & Senior Web Application Developer, Duty Free Americas

Is your application suffering from stale UIs? Is your server begging you to limit the amount of useless calls just to see if there is something new to display to your users? Do your users suffer from finger clicking pain due to refresh button abuse? Well, look no further my friend, we have the solution that is right for you- welcome to the world of WebSockets! In this presentation, attendees will learn how easy it is to implement WebSockets into your applications as of Adobe ColdFusion 10. Our speaker will review some real-world uses of this technology, and discuss some tips and tricks to help keep them up and running through several failure points. Attendees of this session should have some knowledge of JavaScript, as it is needed to work with WebSockets.

CF + ReactJS

Minh Vo Advantage Data Inc., Lead Engineer at Draft Studios, Head of Development and Security at Advantage Data

Today, it is still uncommon to find an Adobe ColdFusion developer with a high JavaScript skill that has had to deal with interactivity programming to a high degree. In this session, attendees will learn how to rig the following functionalities: parallax, scroll handling, simple animations, ColdFusion web sockets for real-time interactivity, fetching JSON from a ColdFusion CFC, and extreme reusability and modularity. Join us as our speaker conveys the essence of a ReactJS + CF project buildout in 45 minutes. You'll want to go straight home to build out the funky stuff we made!

The Many Hidden Benefits Of The Adobe API Manager To Unlock The Power Of API's

Brian Sappey Applications Architect at Market America and Manager of Engineering, SHOP.com

In this session, attendees will learn how to utilize the many hidden features of the Adobe API Manager, with a provided look and examples to get you started. Furthermore, attendees will gain a full understanding of the many benefits of using the native API's which power the API Manager. Whether you are migrating from an existing platform, automating your workflows, or integrating with third-party sites, this session will give you the ability to enhance your development experience. As an added benefit, our speaker will be providing a real-world example of a custom WordPress Plugin, which was built to integrate with our internal and external API's utilizing the Native Adobe Manager API's.

Revamp Your Monolith With Hierarchical MVC

Luis Majano President, Ortus Solutions

Come learn about building your applications using a hierarchical modular approach. Leave the age of monoliths behind with HMVC. In this session, we will explore the architecture behind HMVC and create a RESTFul application that is modular, versioned and scalable. We will then containerize the application and deploy it into a Docker swarm.

Keynote - Ashish Garg - Engineering Director, responsible for CF and other ELearning tools at Adobe, Adobe Connect

CF Summit 2019 Agenda

Date

Wednesday April 10th 2019, 8am - 5pm

Includes breakfast, lunch and breaks

Cost

Main conference Free

Pre-conference workshop $99 full day training

Location

Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel

999 Ninth Street NW

Washington, DC 20001

Near to the metro

(Same hotel as last year)

Other things you can in DC?

National mall

Museums

White House

What is new this year?

Recording sessions is planned

David Belanger and Tom King talk about “CFWheels (A ColdFusion Framework for the REST of us)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

"... So, if you had to compare these four frameworks to personalities of animals you know what would you say to them kind of roughly felt like to you?"

Show notes

What is CFWheels?

MVC framework inspired by the Ruby on Rails (RoR) framework

CFWheels is an open source CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) framework inspired by Ruby on Rails that provides fast application development, a great organization system for your code, and is just plain fun to use.

Team

4 wheels - Andy Bellenie, Adam Chapman, Tom King, David Belanger

Why is it a framework for the REST of us?

Hybrid development style - pop on legacy code into a View module and it will just work (then refactor later)

Convention over configuration

No XML config file - but do have config files with cfscript that set CFWheels variables

Streamlined ORM, but can add in SQL queries when you want to

Inspired by RoR with over 10 years of development (first commit 2006!)

Rails is an inspiration and not a rule of law, but a useful reference: i.e, routing

Friendly framework

Great for those who might have tried other frameworks and found them overwhelming

Convention over Configuration

Good for beginners

Lots of user-friendly documentation

How different is CFWheels from ColdBox or FW/1 or Fusebox? (They are all MVC frameworks)

What animal does each framework remind you of?

ColdBox = Friendly Tiger who does everything

FW/1  = Fast bird, who gets in an out fast, lightweight

Fusebox = Neglected dinosaur, powerful but has not been maintained recently

CFWheels = Horse - just get on and ride

Why use a framework at all?

See the first page of the CFWheels docs https://guides.cfwheels.org/

Team and maintenance faster

Why not use a homegrown framework?

Easier to pass code base on to other developers

Especially for open source projects

You benefit from other people fixing bugs in the framework

RESTful routing

https://guides.cfwheels.org/cfwheels-guides/handling-requests-with-controllers/routing

Resource-based routing

Can easily just turn your app into an API eg to an Angular front end

Microservices? Not so much

Single framework with plugins

Fads in IT

Own ORM (Active Record Style)

Dynamic Finders, i.e findOneByEmail

Model Validation

Own ORM so independent of CF engine ORM changes

Lots of stuff Built-in

Database Migrations / MySQL MSSQL Postgres

Documentation / automatic developer documentation

Test Suite based on RocketUnit

Commandbox based CLI

CORS handling (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)

CFWheels 2.1 feature

Protect from CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Flash handling

The Flash is just a struct in the session or cookie scope with some added functionality. It is cleared at the end of the next page that the user views. This means that it's a good fit for storing messages or variables temporarily from one request to the next.

Nothing to do with Adobe Flash player!

Plugins - ForgeBox

Future - next release 2.1

Bug fixes

Faster startup

CORS functionality

2.x Moved code to cfscript (from CF tags)

Form helpers

Small but Friendly community

Google mailing list for help

CFML slack channel #CFWheels room

Blog

Github

Twitter

You

Outreach? Mostly word of mouth currently

Why are you proud to use CF?

It always works!

Fast to develop

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

Support Lucee

PHP beater

And in the cloud

More blogs and education

Talk it up in your proposals

Education - talk to teachers who are teaching the classes

Or teach CF at schools or universities yourself

More open source apps

What are you looking forward to at Into The Box?

Passionate

Fun

Mentioned in this episode

CFWheels

ColdBox

FW/1

Fusebox

State of the CF Union survey 

Into The Box conference

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Bios

Tom King

Tom is a freelance full-stack web developer and has been working with CFML since 2001, and with CFWheels since version 1.1.3. He joined the core team in 2014 and spoke on CFWheels 2.0 at CFCamp 2016. He has created everything from custom CMS systems to eLearning platforms with CFWheels, mainly for the Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford Martin School, both at the University of Oxford. Alongside his freelance work, he's also CTO of a new startup, Kinherit LTD, which works in the area of end-of-life planning (wills and probate etc). When not coding, Tom will usually be found behind a set of drums, or hidden deep in a wine cellar.

Links

Website

CFWheels

Twitter

David Belanger

David is a Canadian ColdFusion developer who lives in Argentina with his wife and 4 extremely active children. He's been with CF since version 4.5 and was briefly the only reseller of CF in Argentina before Adobe acquired Macromedia. He's dedicated full-time to CF development on several new and legacy projects as well as a strong CF advocate and a current member of the CFWheels Core Team.

He currently works full-time “creating things that matter” at Intoria Internet Architects, a web development company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Links

Twitter

Website

Main site 

GitHub 

Google Groups 

Slack Channel 

Facebook 

Twitter 

LinkedIn 

Episode transcript

Michaela Light 0:01

Welcome back to the show I'm here with David Ballenger and Tom King and we're going to be talking about CF wheels a cold fusion framework for the rest of us and we'll look at what CF wheels is and what's coming up in the new release of CF wheels and some really cool things you can do with restful routing and the CRM that's built into it and lots of other cool stuff so welcome Tom and David and if case you don't know them that two of the four wheels on the CF wheels team I guess you could call it a CF wheels bus so to speak and Tom has been doing cold fusion since 2001 and he he joined see if we'll switch from one what a while ago

and he even spoke on it and see if camp few years back so three years ago now so

and then.

David He is our Canadian ColdFusion connection

currently living in Argentina so he's very international and he's been doing cold fusion since version four or five which is a long while ago so and helps get cold fusion more exciting in Argentina and Latin America. So

welcome David and Tom

Both 1:29

Thank you having us

Michaela Light 1:30

yeah so I guess the the elephant in the room is for those people who haven't UCF wheels and I know from our cold fusion developer survey the State of the Union survey not everyone uses CF wheels the maybe people wondering what what is CF wheels I obviously has something to do with ColdFusion but but what is i

Both 1:54

was just you can just go ahead

Tom King 1:56

Well...

Tom King 2:00

In short,

it's an MVC based framework. And it was inspired somewhat by Ruby on Rails. And it's got about let's go over 10 years worth of development in it. And

the idea was to have a really successful framework where we got inspired by the Ruby on Rails concepts and translated them as Seth, I think, David, you know, a bit more about some of the sort of history side of it, don't you?

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

In this CF Alive Podcast episode, Brian Cain joins host Michaela Light to compare ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .NET—four of the most popular web-development languages. They explore which platform delivers faster development, simpler maintenance, and a friendlier developer experience. If you’re choosing a stack for enterprise or rapid-application development (RAD), this episode will save you some pain and arguments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlxeFjG5LDM&rel=0

Speed of Development in ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .NET

ColdFusion’s greatest strength is time of thought to launch—how quickly an idea becomes a live feature.

ColdFusion: Around 10 hours for similar features

.NET: Takes weeks, especially when changes arise

PHP: Days, flexible but less object-oriented

Java: Weeks, more structured but slower to adapt

ColdFusion isn’t tied to rigid frameworks or heavy methodologies. It allows faster pivots when business priorities shift.

Developer Friendliness and Ease of Use

Language

Developer Experience

ColdFusion (CFML)

Tag-based syntax for quick starts, cfscript and OO power for scaling up

PHP

Flexible open source, less consistency

Java / .NET

Verbose, require deep CS background

ColdFusion developers can onboard in 1–2 weeks, even from other languages.

Hiring and Training Developers

It’s easier to train PHP or Java devs to ColdFusion than the other way around.

Simple, forgiving syntax

Low learning curve

Strong community documentation

ColdFusion’s learning curve is kind to newcomers while remaining powerful for experts.

Technology Roadmap and Maintenance

Each language has a different lifecycle:

.NET: Controlled by Microsoft; large shifts per version

Java: Licensing and framework volatility under Oracle

PHP: Rapid evolution through open-source releases

ColdFusion: Backed by Adobe with a stable roadmap and strong backward compatibility

Clean CFML code saves time later with built-in tools like cfqueryparam and reusable components.

Security, Legacy, and Backward Compatibility

ColdFusion’s backward compatibility may look old-fashioned, but it keeps legacy apps stable without rewrites.

Further reading: Which Web Programming Language Is the Most Secure?

Object Reuse and Maintainability

Feature

ColdFusion

PHP

Java

.NET

Object Reuse

✅ Yes

❌ Limited

✅ Yes

✅ Yes

PDF Generation

✅ Built-in

Add-on

Add-on

Add-on

Education and Community Support

Adobe actively supports ColdFusion education through:

Free ColdFusion Curriculum

CF Licenses for Learning

Learn CF in a Week course

Events like CF Summit

Developers who think ahead about maintainability become the backbone of any serious tech stack.

Third-Party Add-ons and Integrations

ColdFusion includes built-in support for:

PDF generation

REST APIs

Scheduler and task automation

Secure sessions

Less dependency chaos. More productivity.

Why Developers Still Choose ColdFusion

ColdFusion continues to thrive in 2025 because it:

Delivers faster project turnaround

Reduces total cost of ownership

Simplifies hiring and onboarding

Integrates easily with Java libraries

Offers robust cloud and security support

It’s not just about speed—it’s about developer happiness.

WWIT (What Would It Take) to Make CF More Alive This Year?

Publicity matters. Even NASA uses ColdFusion—the same tech that helped humanity reach Mars. The community just needs to talk louder about its wins.

What Did You Enjoy at CF Summit?

Networking, new tech insights, and rediscovering the strong ColdFusion ecosystem.

Mentioned in This Episode

Learn CF in a Week

Free Adobe ColdFusion Curriculum and Licenses for Learning

Contact: Kishore Balakrishnan ([email protected])

Modernization of Adobe ColdFusion – More Secure Than Ever

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About the Guest: Brian Cain

Brian Cain has 20 years of development experience, with 16 focused on ColdFusion. He’s the Development Team Manager for the Careers Division at Farms.com, managing enterprise CF applications at scale.

Connect with Brian on LinkedIn.

Interview Transcript (Excerpt)

Michaela Light:

Welcome back to the show! I'm here with Brian Cain, and we’re talking about ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .NET—a four-way developer showdown. Topics include speed of development, object orientation, add-ons, and that dreaded L-word: legacy.

Brian Cain:

ColdFusion has always been the fastest and easiest. One keynote speaker described it as “time of thought to launch”—how quickly an idea turns into a live feature. One project went from idea to release in just 10–12 hours. Compare that to a .NET MVC project that took weeks and still needed restarts. ColdFusion just worked.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is ColdFusion faster than PHP or .NET?

Yes. ColdFusion allows shorter “time of thought to launch” cycles compared to PHP or .NET.

Is ColdFusion still relevant in 2025?

Absolutely. It’s widely used in government, finance, and enterprise systems, supported by Adobe’s active roadmap.

Which language is most developer-friendly?

ColdFusion and PHP are easier for newcomers. Java and .NET demand more specialized knowledge.

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Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe ColdFusion 2018 (All that is new)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Performance improvements

Performance tuning

Server Monitor (NEW)

Flag performance issues and isolate problem areas so that you can initiate corrective action much faster. Know the average response time and throughput across the cluster, or specific to a node, application, or page, in real time. The information will also be automatically archived for historical analysis. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/server-monitor/

Code profiler (NEW)

Swiftly identify and resolve complex performance issues buried deep in your code. Get the detailed information required to pinpoint the root cause of bottlenecks, and troubleshoot applications more effectively. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/code-profiler/

Database Monitor (NEW)

Make sure your database does not act as a drag on application performance. Monitor all database queries, transactions, and query cache, visually, and get pre-determined or customized alerts to pro-actively take preventive or corrective action. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/database-discovery/

External Services Monitor (NEW)

Zero in on external factors such as web services, file system, mail server, LDAP, Microsoft SharePoint, or transfer protocols, that could be slowing down application performance. Ensure that all the components of your IT infrastructure are working in sync. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/external-services/

Automatic connector tuning [NEW]

Ensure that your websites are always up and running. Eliminate 503 Service Unavailable errors by allowing the Performance Monitoring Toolset to dynamically adjust connector settings based on incoming traffic. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/connector-tuning/

Distributed cache (NEW)

Improve performance and enhance scalability by leveraging built-in support for three popular industry engines: JCS, Memcached, and Redis. Also plug in your own caching engine by implementing a simple CFML interface. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/distributed-caching-coldfusion-2018-release

Security tools and improvements

Security code analyzer from CF 2016

Auto lockdown (NEW)

Now implement lockdown of your production server with a single click. All steps in the lockdown guide will be systematically followed, ensuring that the security measures are fail-safe and in compliance. Post-lockdown, the system will continue to be monitored for potential breaches. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/server-auto-lockdown/

New Language features:

Asynchronous programming (NEW)

Boost the performance of your principal application by offloading resource-intensive code segments to a secondary thread. Simply use the RUNASYNC function to execute code without the overhead of managing multiple threads. Once the result is ready to be consumed, you will receive a notification. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/asynchronous-programming-in-coldfusion-2018-release/

Modern admin UI (NEW)

Enjoy a sleek, new responsive UI built on single web page architecture. Carry out all admin tasks faster with easier access to all the ColdFusion settings—just search for what you need. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/new-administrator-ui-coldfusion/

External storage for session scope (New)

Eliminate concerns about memory constraints to store session data because you can now configure an external distributed store to retain session data outside memory. Get rid of sticky session configuration, and enjoy complete load balancing across all cluster nodes.

REST playground (NEW)

Create and manage all your REST services from a single application. The simple, intuitive UI makes it a breeze to validate the accuracy of your APIs. Make changes to your REST APIs without having to restart your application. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/rest-playground-ion-2018-release/

CLI and Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) (NEW)

Work with files, databases, and email, or invoke web services, by executing CFM via the command line. Now execute the admin API from the CLI to script your ColdFusion server settings. Test-drive or learn CFML with REPL support in CLI. More at https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2018/07/repl-coldfusion-2018-release/

Command-line interface (New)

Work faster by using CFML for your scripting needs. Execute CFM files via the command line to work with files, databases and email or invoke web services. Pass named or positional parameters to the CFM files for dynamic customization.

Comment exchange across files (New)

Make your review workflows more efficient. Easily export comments from PDF documents to XFDF files or vice versa. Comment positioning in the destination file matches the file from which the comments were imported.

Standardized PDF metadata (New)

Ensure consistency of PDF metadata across the organization. Easily create, share and apply metadata, including copyright notice, authoring data and keywords, by transferring metadata between PDF and XMP files.

Audience questions

Updates on educational books, training

Learn CF in a week

YouTube course getting started with CF

Complete web dev curriculum can

licenses for HS and college professors to help onboard the future of developers

Free education teaching license

Email [email protected]

Adobe CF certifications

CF 2018 March

Why are you proud to use CF?

Easy to learn

CF 2028

Raksith email and slack

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

More community participation

Share cool apps outside CF Community too - to colleges and CIOs

CF Summit East April 9

CF Summit West 

What did you enjoy at CF Summit West?

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit India?

Mentioned in this episode

CF 2018 features https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-standard/features.html

Charlie Arehart Hidden Gems in CF 2018

https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2018/7/19/whats_new_in_CF2018

https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2018/7/19/whats_new_in_CF2018_part_2

CF training resources https://teratech.com/comprehensive-coldfusion-training-list-16-resources/

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Bio

Kishore Balakrishnan is a Senior 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 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.

 

Interview transcript

Michaela Light 0:00

Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Kishore Bella Krishna from Adobe. He's the product marketing manager for cold fusion and we're going to be talking about cold fusion 2018 and we're going to cover everything that is new in cold fusion 2018. And it is a lot of things. If you haven't looked at what's new, you may be surprised by all the stuff that's in there. So

we're going to look at both things on the server side that are new with the new server monitor and profiler database monitor

and also the security improvements on the server and with the automated lockdown and other security tools and then we're going to look at a whole bunch of new features in cold fusion 2018. So that's what's coming up and if you have any questions

let us know in the chat if you watching this live and we'll see if we can fit those

In so welcome occasional

Kishore 1:03

thanks for for having me.

Michaela Light 1:06

And just in case you haven't met him before he he actually started out

doing computer science degree get a master's degree in Computer Applications and he's been all you know Quality Manager Program Manager but now he's the product marketing manager for cold fusion so if you're a customer called fusion you may well have met him at CF summit or other cold fusion conferences and he's always happy to talk with cold fusion developers and managers. So one So tell us about you know, cold fusion 2018 it just came out a few months ago was is that right? Yes, it came out in August and it's been a fantastic ride but corporation to MBA what we had been called called vision 28 or 2018 was

Kishore 1:56

we looked at the three pillars of ColdFusion,

of performance language and security,

since it's an application. So platform performance was been very critical for customers. And then most of the surveys that we run, and we do run quite a bit of number of surveys performance and security, where the top concerns of our customers. So this release, what we did was we double down on performance and said, like, how do we, you know, make the server faster as well as how do we make customer's applications faster? So from

how do we make the server faster, what we did was the server runs 30% faster than 2016 delays. So if you have an application, which is running on 2016, just by upgrading to 2018, your applications will run 30% faster. And obviously, then, then what we thought was, what about our customers applications, obviously, we can't do much tweaking around that. So we came up with the application performance monitoring to using which the customer could easily identify and fix any performance bottlenecks that they have on the server. And we are taking the first step towards, you know, self monitoring of the server with the help of auto connected to meaning. So there's any issues with your connector, if you turn on the auto connected tuning,

https://youtu.be/rBUa6HbL48c

Dee Sadler talks about “Design Thinking for CFers (10 tips for better apps)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Episode highlights

Design thinking

Hands-on UX problem solving, human-centered,

iterating loop

Ideating, prototyping, development, usability testing

Goes well with Agile

MVP (Minimum Viable Product) vs perfect

So get user feedback

Design for future vision and plan vs Frankenstein piecemeal design

Solving user problems/workflow vs adding features

User stories

Business needs + user needs - pain points

User interviews

UX > UI

Keys

1. Empathetic

User avatar(s)/persona(s) and demographics and motivations

80/20 focus

Always be observing (users) in the wild

2. Contextual

You want the user to be aware of where they are in their journey.

3. Human

Friendly, trustworthy, transparent

4. Discoverable

Make things obvious, purposeful and discoverable.

Fewer buttons, colors

Clear CTA (Call To Action) on each page

5. Intuitive

Easy to use

Strong visual hierarchy

6. Clear and Concise

Remove irrelevant information or tools before reaching the user objective — get to the point

7. Learnable

No one wants to use a product that is ridiculously difficult to learn — dumb it down!

8. Efficient

Fast to do tasks. Including on different device

9. Delightful

Using your app is fun and has nice surprises

10. Better

Constant improvement

Constant usability testing

Storming a hill method

Who = user

What  = user task

Wow = measurable and time-bound success

→ epics and stories

Why are you proud to be UX director?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

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

Mentioned in this episode

10 UX Design Fundamentals Developers Should Learn

Design Thinking — Not Just For Designers

11 reasons why a developer should learn design

Designing for developers

UX Design for Developers

The Designer-Developer workflow conference (no longer running, site closed)

Her podcast D2WC

CFUnited

Bio

Dee has been in the UX world for 20+ years doing all aspects of User Experience from front-end, visual, interaction, and research. She recently was at IBM Watson Health where she was responsible for the Designers in Cambridge, the Consumer Health pillar and Watson for Genomics. She loves mentoring new UX’ers and is involved with the greater UX community and on the Board of Directors for UXPA LA. Currently a UX Director for Cox Automotive in New York.

Design links

My personal portfolio

Twitter 

Interview transcript

Michaela 0:00

Welcome back to the show. I'm here today with Dee Sadler, and you may know from CF united where she spoke many times all about design things, which Guess what, that's what I'm going to do about today. Design Thinking for ColdFusion developers. And we're going to learn 10 tips to make your apps totally amazing. And if you don't know Dee, she used to run a whole conference on design, as well as speaking at ColdFusion conferences. She's been doing UX work for 20 plus years. And from the front end visual interactive research. And she's now in charge of herding cats. I mean, now she's in charge of a whole UX team of designers who are very easy to work with.

And she is in based in now in New York City, though she did a little stint in in Boston recently. So she's currently UX director for Cox automotive, and she's also on the board of directors for UX PA, whatever. What is UX PA, Dee?

Dee Sadler 1:04

It's a UX organization national. I mean, it's an international organization.

Michaela 1:09

Oh, alright. You're the Big Cheese, then?

Dee Sadler 1:12

No, oh, no, no, no, no, I just, I'm on the board. I'm on board of directors, or the LA chapter.

Michaela 1:21

Great. So we're looking at how to use design thinking for ColdFusion developers. And maybe we ought to just start off with what the heck is design thinking, because not everyone may have come across that and and then we'll look at why CFers should be using this.

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Jorge Reyes talks about ColdFusion High-Performance Teams with some tips in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Why High-Performance Teams

Distrust

Fear conflict

Lack of commitment

Avoid accountability

Inattention to results

What do you mean by High Performance

Efficient

Reliable

Effective

Consistent

Predictable - Product expected results

The Projectized Organization

PM is king

People > Process

Servant Leadership

Team rules and processes

Help team members grow in tech and interpersonal skills

Generalizing specialists

Empower and encourage emerging leaders

Learn team motivators and demotivators

Encourage communication via slack or other collaboration tools

Shield team from distractions

Track performance and forecast

Share project Vision

Agile teams vs hierarchical teams

Self-organizing

Servant Leader-Facilitator

Everyone knows their Roles

Biz representatives - does and don’t

Can

Prioritizes features

Makes change requests

Provides the acceptance criteria

Can not

Change features or priorities

Decide due date

Attend planning meetings or retrospectives

Scrum master

Facilitates team and biz reps

Coaches

Servant leader

Follows up

Project sponsor

Dev team

Front End

Code

Test

DevOps

Team > lone development or talent

Even if Luis the CEO is on the team

Team Evolution

Forming → storming → norming → performing

High-Performance Teams

Performing stage of team evolution

< 12 members

Complementary skills

Generalizing Specialists

Can switch roles and hence resolve bottlenecks

Committed to the common vision

Buy into the company culture

Team members are seen as important to the project

Mutual accountability

Shared ownership of project outcome

Skill learning

Mentors

Shu-Ha-Ri skill mastery

Dreyfus model

Novice → Beginner → Competent → Proficient → Expert

Motivation

Experimenting and Failing safely

Constructive disagreement

Honesty, transparent

Values > tech skills

“Throwing people into the fire”

A hard task a bit above what they already know

with the support of mentors

For growth and motivation

Distributed teams

Team tools

Video conferencing - Zoom

Cameras on to see body language

Focus on meeting

IM - Slack and email

Keban boards - Trello, JIRA

Online calendar - Google, Outlook, iCal

Conf call tips

Keep to time limits (15 min for stand-ups)

Have a timekeeper on the team who pays attention and reminds

Culture of integrity

Start on time and end on time

Agenda

Very clear of expectations - be up front of my role as the meditator for meeting

Document and record

Burndown chart

Burn up chart

Estimating release date

Team velocity

CF summit

Luis, Gavin, Jon from Ortus are speaking

Post-summit training on ColdBox (2 days)

Ortus Roadshow - containers 2?

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit in Las Vegas?

Mentioned in this episode

CF Suicide episode

Slides 

Book Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet  

079 Help Your ColdFusion Team Find Flow (7 keys to PM success) with Christine Ballisty

060 Virtual Power Teams for ColdFusion Development (3 mistakes to avoid) with Peter Ivanov

Stand up = daily stand up meeting = Scrum

Zoom

Slack

Trello

JIRA cloud

Into The Box conference

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Bio

Jorge Reyes

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

Links

Email: Jreyes (at) ortussolutions.com

Twitter

Ortus Solutions, Corp

Interview Transcript

Michaela:

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Jorge Reyes from Ortus solutions, and we're gonna be talking about high performance cold fusion teams. We've got 15 tips and techniques that can make your competition teams really blossom. So we'll look at why you might want to have a high performance team. You don't have one already, and what exactly who he means by that. And we'll also look at how you can support your people over the process. And agile teams when everyone knows that we're all and you can help the T team and the team members evolve and look at some different ways you can improve the skills of your teams, and also some tool for work with distributed teams. So welcome. Whoa. Hey,

Jorge Reyes:

Michael. Thanks for having me again.

Michaela:

know, so yeah, you're so welcome. So maybe we should just start out with, you know, why should someone have a high-performance team? I know, that seems to seem we have a silly question, but not everyone has them.

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

Mike Brunt talks about “ColdFusion and the Blockchain Revolution” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

 

Shoe notes

What is the Blockchain?

DLT = Distributed Ledger Technology

Transactions and identities

2009 Bitcoin launch - decentralized value exchange, peer to peer

Etherium - BLT plus code (DAPs)

Easier to use

Coins based on ETH

Ethereum Solidity (like Javascript)

Smart Contract

Other blockchains

Compare Blockchain to a network level protocol

Compare Blockchain to music P2P (distributed) vs Napster (centralized)

Disintermediation

Permissioned vs Permissionless blockchain (self-governing)

Why does it matter to CFers?

Blockchain uses REST API

CF is the easiest way to create apps that use REST API

Calling Blockchain APIs from CF using the API manager

Using CF as the best glue between the blockchain and databases

The data req in a blockchain app is still in databases

CommandBox now officially supported by Adobe

Blockchain projects that Mike is working on

Land Dollar - coin backed by land

Digi FreeLabs - biofuels

AI and Blockchain

JVM tuning and AI?

Blockchain vs GDPR approach to privacy

Ownership of your own data

Self-sovereign identity - control which parts of your data you share

Blockchain evolution vs web evolution and CF

Lack of developers

H1B

Overhyped

CF revolutionized web development

EOS $4 Billion raised

CF and Java for blockchain development

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

CFUGs

Sample apps

ForgeBox

What did you enjoy at CF Summit West last year?

Mentioned in this episode

Ethereum

Bitcoin

Ethereum Solidity

Go-lang (Google)

Blockchain groupings hyperledger Linux foundation (Apache founder)

Visual dev tools

Eugene, OR Blockchain user group

Digi FreeLabs

IDX broker

Industry 4.0 and IoT

Digital Twin

Estonian e-residency

Goldman Sachs 300,000 hours of legal work done by an AI legal system

FusionReactor

SeeFusion

GDPR

Self sovereign identity

Dock.io

Sovrin

Indy hyperledger project for self sovereign identity

Bitcoin News

ForgeBox

ColdBox

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Bio

Mike Brunt

Mike Brunt was born in Northern England in 1948.  It was a time of austerity for the British people who had rationing in place due to the effects of the Second World War.  He pursued a management career in transportation equipment becoming Director of Excess Stock at British Leyland Truck and Bus.  He moved to the USA in 1989 and eventually took up a career path in technology, coinciding with the emergence of the World Wide Web.  Mike then became involved in Teleradiology working alongside Kodak, Lucent Technologies and GTE. Currently Mike is still deeply involved in technology, being a specialist in capacity planning and tuning for Java systems and he is becoming ever more involved with Blockchain and peer-to-peer based infrastructure.

In addition to his career path Mike is a composer and musical having been involved in the creation of 11 electronic music albums, Mike also paints with well over 100 paintings located in Los Angeles, New Zealand and Eugene Oregon.  Lastly Mike is a Permaculture Certified Designer and lives on a 5 acre farm in the Eugene area of Oregon.

Mike Brunt is also known as CF Whisperer.

Links

Twitter

FaceBook

Instagram

CF Whisperer

Java Mem

JVM Services

Interview Transcript:

Michaela 0:00

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Mike Brunt sometimes known as the CF whisperer. And he has been doing cold fusion since version one. And he's an expert at tuning cold fusion web service. And he's done it for many large organizations around the world. And what you may not know about Mike, he's also a music composer, and a musician and a painter, and a permaculture. Gardner, I guess, the right phrases for

Unknown 0:28

that.

Unknown 0:28

So

Michaela 0:31

he's a world traveler. He grew up in England and being in Los Angeles, New Zealand, now he's in Eugene, Oregon. So welcome, Mike. Yes, thank you. And thanks for George family meal. You know, a low in Britain when you say having me all I mean, she's pulling from the lake, but that's another story. No, no, we won't do too much like pulling, I'm sure. Right. We are going to be talking about cold fusion and the blockchain revolution. So I'm sure many people listening have heard about it coin and various other blockchain projects. But how can we interact with them using cold fusion? And you know, what does that why true that matter to call cold fusion developers and why cold fusion is the best language to do this in

and some of the blockchain projects that Mike is currently working on, we'll talk about as well as using the cold fusion API manager to make things easier for all this. And if we get time we will wrap a bit about blockchain versus the GDPR PR, European approach to privacy. I think he might have some controversial views there, Mike

Unknown 1:40

never.

Michaela 1:41

Um, and we'll also if we have time talk about blockchain evolution and how that compares to the web development evolution that cold fusion was part of back around late 90s or 2000. So let's start off with just in case anyone listening doesn't know what the blockchain is. Can you just succinctly tell us what what is the blockchain yeah

Mike Brunt 2:06

so I'll start by saying when I shot it to become involved I've started to become involved when if cereal came out it didn't really feel the second biggest name in the blockchain cryptocurrency world

Bitcoin still out there in front even know people criticize criticized it for me to eternity in one way or another. And I'd like to dispel some of those mix too. But so Bitcoin was the first use of blockchain technology. And another another term for blockchain technology, which is probably more accurate nowadays is distributed ledger technology or the LT

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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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