CF Alive full resources cheatsheet
In case you have the print version of the book “CF Alive: Making ColdFusion Modern, Vibrant and Secure” or just want a convenient page with all the 700+ tools and sites given in the book then here they are in one place.
Contents
Introduction
The CF Alive Roadmap
- Charlie Arehart, Veteran server troubleshooter CArehart.org
- CF Alive episode, “013 Are spiders eating your servers? The impact of their unexpected load and how to counter it with Charlie Arehart
- ColdFusion
- John Farrar, CEO, SOSensible Group
- CF Alive episode, 018 VUE More With Less, with John Farrar
- Nathaniel Francis, Works at Computer Know How
- CF Alive episode, “008 The Best REST You’ve ever Had: ColdBox REST with Nathaniel Francis
The State of the ColdFusion Ecosystem
- Results and Analysis report of the State of CF Union Survey 2018 State of CF Union Survey 2018 (Amazing Final Results & Analysis)
- Eric Peterson, CFML and Javascript developer at O.C. Tanner
- CF Alive episode, “023 Modules Make Your Projects Have Superpowers, with Eric Peterson“
Chapter 1 – Legacy ColdFusion
Is ColdFusion dead? Not!
- Tridib Roy Chowdhury, General Manager and Senior Director of Products at Adobe Systems
- From CF Alive episode, “065 The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright) with Tridib Roy Chowdhury“
- Kishore Balakrishnan, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe
- CF Alive episode, “058 All about the Adobe CF Summit East 2018 ColdFusion with Kishore Balakrishnan“
- Into The Box Conference
- Jorge Reyes, Project Manager at Ortus Solutions
- Teddie Tapawan interview video, answering why he is sure that CF is coming back and very much alive.
- TeraTech article, “Developers and CIOs often ask: is ColdFusion dead?”
Common legacy ColdFusion project problems
- TeraTecg blog, “Easily Moving from Legacy Code Hell to Modern CFML Heaven”
The issue with legacy CF versions
- Adobe Lifecycle table, for finding out the end of life dates of all CF versions
- Luis Majano President of Ortus Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “044 CommandBox + ForgeBox: ColdFusion Code, Package, Share, Go! with Luis Majano“
The rise in popularity of Lucee CFML
- Gert Franz, CTO Rasia Switzerland & Senior Solutions Architect at Helsana Versicherungen AG and Lucee evangelist
- CF Alive episode, “024 CFML Debugging Jedi Tricks and Templates, with Gert Franz“
- New features of CF tags
How does ColdFusion stack up against its competitors?
- Grant Shepert, UK Branch Manager at Blue River Interactive Group
Rapid Application Development
- Luis Majano, @ IntoTheBox Conference chat, President of Ortus Solutions
- TeraTech article “ColdFusion Developers and CIOs Often Ask: Is Adobe ColdFusion Dead?”
- New features of ColdFusion by Adobe
- List of websites that still uses ColdFusion, “Pepsico, BMW, Apple and other Fortune 500 companies”
Third-party ColdFusion support
- FusionReactor for CF server monitoring
- Foundeo’s security tools HackMyCF and FuseGuard
- Ortus Solutions suite of Box products such as the ColdBox framework, CommandBox, TestBox, MockBox and LogBox.
- ColdFusion related conferences:
- Excellent ROI that CF offers
Chapter 2 – Modernization
- John Farrar, CEO, SOSensible Group
- CF Alive episode, “018 VUE More With Less, with John Farrar“
Use Modern Technologies
- Brad Wood, Software Architect and Platform Evangelist Ortus Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “029 Design Patterns for amazing app architecture (16 patterns), with Brad Wood“
Use the Current Version
- Mike Collins, Senior ColdFusion consultant at SupportObjective
- CF Alive episode, “062 Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips) with Mike Collins“
- Results to the State of the CF Union 2018
- Guust Nieuwenhuis, Managing Partner & Full Stack Web Wizard at Orange Lark
- CF Alive episode, “048 CF Continuous Integration Plumbing with Bitbucket Pipelines with Guust Nieuwenhuis“
- Mark Drew, Director at CMD
- CF Alive episode, “035 Getting started fast with Docker, with Mark Drew“
- CFML slack channel, a free and location independent way to share questions and experiences to CF conferences
- Ed Bartram, Senior Web Developer at Senior Market Sales
- CF Alive episode, “080 Assert Control Over Your Legacy Applications (TestBox Quick Start) with Ed Bartram“
- TeraTech article, Comprehensive list of ColdFusion Conferences 2017, and What Can We expect in 2018
Adapt and Integrate
- Luis Majano President of Ortus Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “044 CommandBox + ForgeBox: ColdFusion Code, Package, Share, Go! with Luis Majano“
- Vue.js Progressive JavaScript Framework, used by CF support guru Mike Collins in his ColdFusion apps
- Mike Collins, Senior ColdFusion consultant at SupportObjective
- CF Alive episode, “062 Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips) with Mike Collins“
- CF Alive episode, VUE More With Less, with John Farrar
Invest in CF
- Patrick Quinn, CoFounder, CEO and CTO of Webapper
- CF Alive episode, “039 CFML Secrets with Patrick Quinn (AWS, Lucee and SeeFusion)“
- CFScript syntax, CF Script
- Programming language model organized around objects rather than “actions” and data rather than logic, Object-Oriented programming.
- Luis Majano, President of Ortus Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “012 Extreme Testing and Slaying the Dragons of ORM with Luis Majano“
Security
- Auto lockdown feature, one of the new wave of of security improvements from ColdFusion 2018
- Official ColdFusion Lockdown guides, for manual lockdowns
- Security Code Analyzer, a top-of-the-line security update from Adobe
- TeraTech article, “11 Best Practices for a new Adobe ColdFusion Project”
- Pete Freitag’s tools HackMyCF and FuseGuard
Reliability
- Elishia Dvorak, Technical Marketing Manager at Adobe
- CF Alive episode, “030 Everything CF Summit That You Need to Know, with Elishia Dvorak”
Scalability
- Java Virtual Machine Configuration, JVM configuration
- Free load testing software tool, Apache JMeter
- Paid load testing software tool, Micro Focus (formerly HP and Mercury) LoadRunner
Containerize
- Docker, runs your applications in virtual containers
- CommandBox, a standalone, native tool for Windows, Mac, and Linux that will provide you with a Command Line Interface (CLI) for developer productivity, tool interaction, package management, embedded CFML server, application scaffolding, and some sweet ASCII art.
- Vagrant, open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual software development environments
- Cloud providers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean
- The official Adobe Docker image for CF 2018
- Orchestration layer tools:
- CF Alive podcast, “Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips) with Mike Collins”
- Results to the 2018 State of the CF Union
- Continuous Integration (CI) Development Tools
- CFA episode “Better Bug Squashing (New Issue Tracking Tool) with Kirk Deis”
- TeraTech Article, “11 Best Practices for a new Adobe ColdFusion Project”
Improve CMFL
- Mike Brunt, Senior Server Engineer at Go2RIA
- CF Alive episode, “009 Tuning & Troubleshooting ColdFusion Using Native Tools with Mike Brunt“
- Development languages:
- Ruby, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity
- Dominic Watson, Technical Director at Pixl8 Interactive
- CF Alive episode, “007 Marketing Automation using the Preside Platform with Dominic Watson“
- Brian Klaas, Senior Technology Officer at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Teaching and Learning
- CF Alive episode, “037 Level Up Your ColdFusion Web Apps With Amazon Web Services, with Brian Klaas“
- Adobe Dreamweaver, a proprietary web development tool from Adobe Systems
- Pete Freitag, President at Foundeo, Inc
- CF Alive episode, “020 Secrets of High-Security ColdFusion Code, With Pete Freitag“
- Saravanamuthu J, Founder & CTO at MitrahSoft
- Node is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
- Brian Klaas, Senior Technology Officer at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Teaching and Learning
- CF Alive episode, “037 Level Up Your ColdFusion Web Apps With Amazon Web Services, with Brian Klaas“
- Lucee, an open-source version of CFML. It is popular among the CF community due to its ease of use and it being free
- Dominic Watson, Technical Director at Pixl8 Interactive
- CF Alive episode, “007 Marketing Automation using the Preside Platform with Dominic Watson“
- Patrick Quinn, CoFounder, CEO and CTO of Webapper
- CF Alive episode, “039 CFML Secrets with Patrick Quinn (AWS, Lucee and SeeFusion)“
- ColdFusion Enterprise edition, currently $2499 for Standard and $9499
- ForgeBox, one of the best places to find open-source CF code
Chapter 3 – State-of-the-Art Tools
- Lucee CFML, open source software that implements a lightweight dynamically-typed scripting language for the Java virtual machine, facilitating the rapid development of web applications that compile directly to Java bytecode.
- Samuel Knowlton, Founder of inLeague
- CF Alive episode, “061 The Great ColdFusion Entrepreneurial Adventure (from side jobs to freelancing to your own biz) with Samuel Knowlton“
Containerization Tools
- Docker, is driving the modern container movement
- Portainer.io, an open source Docker management UI
- CommandBox, has developed Docker container images for Adobe ColdFusion or Lucee CFML from ACF 9 and up and Lucee 4 and up
Source Control Tools
- Git, best open source source control tool
- Other Git tools that can be used with ColdFusion
- GitHub, offers all the source control and version control features of Git. It even has its own added features such as social networking functions.
- Tower, is a Git client designed to help you master the source control of Git. With Tower, you are able to access all of the functions of Git easily with its own array of performance boosting processes.
- BitBucket, offers support for distributed version control to allow easy collaboration of code for your team. It gives teams a one stop shop to plan projects, code, test and deploy. A key benefit to using BitBucket over Git is the privacy that you will receive.
- TortoiseGit, is a Windows shell interface to Git. It is fully open-sourced and can be rebuilt with free software if you want to customize it. Main interactions with TortoiseGit are used with the context menu of internet explorer.
- SourceTree, is a free Git client for Windows and Mac that simplifies how you interact with your Git repositories. SourceTree is very simple for beginners to use because it eliminates the Git command line. It is also very powerful for advanced users with many features to allow them to be more productive.
Other Tools
- IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) are software applications that provide developers with the ability for comprehensive software development in one program
- These are some of the most popular IDEs used by CFers according to the State of the CF Union 2018 survey:
- Sublime
- CF Builder, is Adobe’s flagship IDE for ColdFusion. Released for CF 2016, it was designed to help you develop, debug, test, and deploy applications faster and 20% of all CFers in
- Dreamweaver
- Visual Studio Code
- More suggestions on how to use VSC for ColdFusion development at commandbox.ortusbooks.com/ide-integrations/visual-studio-code
- MVC frameworks: FW/1, ColdBox or FuseBox for making code reuse and code organization easy.
- TeraTech Article, “Best Practices Are Best, Except When They’re Not with Nolan Erck”
- FusionReactor, the number one monitoring tool to use for CF
- EHCache, number one caching solution for ColdFusion users
- A REST (Representational State Transfer) API defines a set of functions where requests can be performed and responses received via HTTP protocol
- ColdBox, allow for a great leap forward when it comes to REST APIs
- Scott Coldwell, Developer and Sysadmin at Computer Know How
- CF Alive episode, “017 Managing an international team, Git, CFML, Node, Joomla, Headaches and Heartaches, with Scott Coldwell“
- CFA Podcast episode, The Best REST You’ve ever Had: ColdBox REST with Nathaniel Francis
CommandBox
- Mark Drew, Director at Charlie Mike Delta
- CF Alive episode, “035 Getting started fast with Docker, with Mark Drew“
- Results to the State of the CF Union 2018
- REPL (Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop) tool interaction console for immediate CFML
- George Murphy, Software Design Engineer Manager, Alion Science and Technology
- CF Alive episode, “026 Gitlab Server Deep Dive with Continuous Integration, with George Murphy“
- A neat development to see, Twig support
- Nathaniel Francis, Works at Computer Know How
- CF Alive episode, “008 The Best REST You’ve ever Had: ColdBox REST with Nathaniel Francis“
- John Farrar, CEO, SOSensible Group
- CF Alive episode, “018 VUE More With Less, with John Farrar“
Frameworks and Methodology
- Eric Peterson, CFML and Javascript developer at O.C. Tanner in Salt Lake City, Utah
- CF Alive episode, “023 Modules Make Your Projects Have Superpowers, with Eric Peterson“
- Nolan Erck, Owner and Chief Consultant at South of Shasta Consulting
- CF Alive episode, “059 Migrating legacy CFML to MVC (Model View Controller) with Nolan Erck“
- Results to State of the ColdFusion Union 2018
- Nolan Erck, Owner and Chief Consultant at South of Shasta Consulting
- CF Alive episode, “059 Migrating legacy CFML to MVC (Model View Controller) with Nolan Erck“
- Nathaniel Francis, ColdBox Alliance Partner
- CF Alive episode, “008 The Best REST You’ve ever Had: ColdBox REST with Nathaniel Francis“
- Coldbox, ColdBox is a convention-based HMVC (Hierarchical Model View Controller) framework used specifically for CFML.
- Jon Clausen, President, Silo Web
- CF Alive episode, “011 Portable CFML with Cloud deployments, Microservices and REST with Jon Clausen“
- CMS (Content Management System), a software application that helps to manage your digital content.
- Seth Engen, Co-owner of Computer Know How
- CF Alive episode, “016 Adventures with ColdFusion and ContentBox in the Wild, with Seth Engen“
- ContentBox is an open-source modular CMS engine from Ortus Solutions that allows you to create websites, blogs, wikis, web apps, and RESTful web services.
- Third-party ContentBox libraries:
- Mura CMS, one of the most mature ColdFusion CMS
- Preside, an open source Enterprise class CMS application
- JavaScript Libraries, a great way to enhance your CFML experience, they provide frameworks that can be used to help develop frontend code
- CSS Frameworks, are prepared frameworks designed to allow for easier web design through the use of the CSS language
- Dependency Injection (DI) frameworks help you create your CFC instances
- Dependency injection frameworks:
- WireBox
- DI/1
- ColdSpring
- ORM (Object Relational Mapping) frameworks, a programming technique for converting data between incompatible type systems using object-oriented programming languages
- TestBox, most popular testing framework
- Testing and Mocking frameworks used by CFers
- MockBox is a good mocking framework with TestBox
- PhoneGap, mobile development framework
- HackMyCF scans all your CF servers regularly and emails you a report on any out of date CF or JVM versions
- FuseGuard is a ColdFusion specific Web Application Firewall (WAF) that protects against common hacker hacker exploits
- LogBox is a miscellaneous tool, part of the Ortus Box family, but it is a standalone program
- Uma Ghotikar, Web application developer at ICF
- CF Alive episode, “077 Fundamentals of Unit Testing, BDD and Mocking (using TestBox and MockBox) with Uma Ghotikar“
- Elishia Dvorak, Technical Marketing Manager at Adobe
- CF Alive episode, “063 Adobe API Manager (the business case) + CF Summit sneak peak with Elishia Dvorak“
- ColdFusion 2016 Enterprise Edition
- Release of ColdFusion 2018
- Taffy, alternative to Adobe’s API Manager
- CF Alive podcast episode, “What’s New In CF 10, 11, And 2016 That You May Have Missed? with Charlie Arehart”
Package Management Tools
- Matthew Clemente, Founding Partner at Season 4
- CF Alive episode, “055 send.Better() – Giving ColdFusion Email a REST with Matthew Clemente“
- ForgeBox packages:
- Eric Peterson, CFML and Javascript developer at O.C. Tanner in Salt Lake City, Utah
- CF Alive episode, “023 Modules Make Your Projects Have Superpowers, with Eric Peterson“
- Mark Drew, Director at Charlie Mike Delta
- CF Alive episode, “035 Getting started fast with Docker, with Mark Drew“
- CF Alive episode, “029 Design Patterns for amazing app architecture (16 patterns), with Brad Wood“
- CF Alive episode, “CommandBox + ForgeBox: ColdFusion Code, Package, Share, Go! with Luis Majano”
Chapter 4 – Outreach
- List of CF training resources
- Adobe ColdFusion Developer Center
- Adobe ColdFusion Blog
- Adobe YouTube
- CF Alive Podcast
- Learn CF In A Week
- Lynda
- Ortus Solutions
- Ortus Solutions YouTube
- TeraTech YouTube
- Charlie Arehart
- FigLeaf Software
- Accelebrate
- Roundpeg
- TeraTech article, “Comprehensive ColdFusion training list (17 resources)”
- Gavin Pickin, Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions, Corp
- CF Alive episode, “010 All things ContentBox (new API, ContentStore, Themes and more) with Gavin Pickin“
- CF Community:
- Eric Peterson, CFML and Javascript developer at O.C. Tanner in Salt Lake City, Utah
- CF Alive episode, “023 Modules Make Your Projects Have Superpowers, with Eric Peterson“
- Giancarlo Gomez, Owner of CrossTrackr, Inc and Fuse Developments, Inc. and Senior Web Application Developer at Duty Free Americas
- CF Alive episode, “001 Amazing Adventures with CF WebSockets with Giancarlo Gomez“
- Gavin Pickin, Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions, Corp
- CF Alive episode, “010 All things ContentBox (new API, ContentStore, Themes and more) with Gavin Pickin”
- Jon Clausen, President, Silo Web
- CF Alive episode, “011 Portable CFML with Cloud deployments, Microservices and REST with Jon Clausen“
- Brad Wood, Software Architect and Platform Evangelist Ortus Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “028 Design Patterns for amazing app architecture (16 patterns), with Brad Wood“
- Gert Franz, CTO Rasia Switzerland & Senior Solutions Architect at Helsana Versicherungen AG
- CF Alive episode, “024 CFML Debugging Jedi Tricks and Templates, with Gert Franz“
- Brad Wood, Software Architect and Platform Evangelist Ortus Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “028 Design Patterns for amazing app architecture (16 patterns), with Brad Wood”
- Uma Ghotikar, Web application developer at ICF
- CF Alive episode, “077 Fundamentals of Unit Testing, BDD and Mocking (using TestBox and MockBox) with Uma Ghotikar“
- David Tattersall, Co-founder, Integral
- CF Alive episode, “022 FusionReactor Application Performance Monitor – Why It’s Different Than Other APM Tools and What’s New in Version 7 & the CLOUD, with David Tattersall”
- TeraTech Article, “Comprehensive ColdFusion training list (16 resources)”
- SaravanaMuthu J, Founder & CTO at MitrahSoft
- SaravanaMuthu J, Founder & CTO at MitrahSoft
- Tridib Roy Chowdhury, General Manager and Senior Director of Products at Adobe Systems
- CF Alive episode, “065 The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright) with Tridib Roy Chowdhury“
- Jon Clausen, President, Silo Web
- CF Alive episode, “011 Portable CFML with Cloud deployments, Microservices and REST with Jon Clausen“
- Results to State of CF Union Survey
- Alex Skinner, Founder Pixl8
- CF Alive episode, “019 A Whirlwind Tour of Preside Application Framework in the Wild, with Alex Skinner“
- Thomas Grobicki, CEO of Avilar Technologies, Inc
- CF Alive episode, “The true ROI of ColdFusion (How to Sell CF to your Boss or Client) with Thomas Grobicki“
- Esmeralda Acevedo, Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions, Corp
- CF Alive episode, “015 Better ContentBox Themes and Easily Creating an Amazing UI, with Esmeralda Acevedo“
- John Farrar, CEO, SOSensible Group
- CF Alive episode, “018 VUE More With Less, with John Farrar“
- Luis Majano President of Ortus Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “012 Extreme Testing and Slaying the Dragons of ORM with Luis Majano“
- Brian Klaas, Senior Technology Officer at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Teaching and Learning
- CF Alive episode, “037 Level Up Your ColdFusion Web Apps With Amazon Web Services, with Brian Klaas“
- Mike Collins, Senior ColdFusion Consultant at SupportObjective
- CF Alive episode, “062 Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips) with Mike Collins“
- Tridib Roy Chowdhury, General Manager and Senior Director of Products at Adobe Systems
- CF Alive episode, “065 The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright) with Tridib Roy Chowdhury“
Community Engagement
- Peter Ivanov, Founder of Virtual Power Teams
- CF Alive episode, “060 Virtual Power Teams for ColdFusion Development (3 mistakes to avoid) with Peter Ivanov“
- Elishia Dvorak, Technical Marketing Manager at Adobe
- CF Alive episode, “030 Everything CF Summit That You Need to Know, with Elishia Dvorak”
- Matt Gifford, Consultant Developer, Monkeh Works
- CF Alive episode, “049 OAuth 2 for Me and You (Social Login Lowdown) with Matt Gifford“
- Charlie Arehart, Veteran server troubleshooter CArehart.org
- CF Alive episode, “013 Are spiders eating your servers? The impact of their unexpected load and how to counter it with Charlie Arehart”
- Geoff Bowers, Founder of Daemon Internet Consultants
- CF Alive episode, “045 Secrets From the Folks Who Make the Official Lucee CFML Docker Images, with Geoff Bowers“
- Scott Coldwell, Developer and Sysadmin at Computer Know How
- CF Alive episode, “017 Managing an international team, Git, CFML, Node, Joomla, Headaches and Heartaches, with Scott Coldwell”
- Gavin Pickin, Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions, Corp
- CF Alive episode, “010 All things ContentBox (new API, ContentStore, Themes and more) with Gavin Pickin“
- Gavin Pickin, Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions, Corp
- CF Alive episode, “010 All things ContentBox (new API, ContentStore, Themes and more) with Gavin Pickin”
- Mary Jo Sminkey, Senior Web Developer at CF WebTools
- CF Alive episode, “027 Advanced Error Handling Strategies for ColdFusion, Javascript and SQL with Mary Jo Sminkey“
- Gavin Pickin, Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions, Corp
- CF Alive episode, “010 All things ContentBox (new API, ContentStore, Themes and more) with Gavin Pickin“
- Brad Wood, Software Architect and Platform Evangelist Ortus Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “028 Design Patterns for amazing app architecture (16 patterns), with Brad Wood”
- Matt Gifford, Consultant Developer, Monkeh Works
- CF Alive episode, “049 OAuth 2 for Me and You (Social Login Lowdown) with Matt Gifford“
- Charlie Arehart, Veteran server troubleshooter CArehart.org
- CF Alive episode, “013 Are spiders eating your servers? The impact of their unexpected load and how to counter it with Charlie Arehart”
- Elishia Dvorak, Technical Marketing Manager at Adobe
- CF Alive episode, “030 Everything CF Summit That You Need to Know, with Elishia Dvorak”
- Matt Gifford, Consultant Developer, Monkeh Works
- CF Alive episode, “049 OAuth 2 for Me and You (Social Login Lowdown) with Matt Gifford“
- Brad Wood, Software Architect and Platform Evangelist Ortus Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “028 Design Patterns for amazing app architecture (16 patterns), with Brad Wood”
- Elishia Dvorak, Technical Marketing Manager at Adobe
- CF Alive episode, “030 Everything CF Summit That You Need to Know, with Elishia Dvorak”
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- Muracon
- Adobe ColdFusion Government Summit
- IntoTheBox
- cf.Objective
- NCDevCon
- CFCamp
- Adobe ColdFusion Summit
- ColdFusion Summit East 2018
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ColdFusion webinars
- TeraTech Article, “A Comprehensive list of ColdFusion Conferences”
Chapter 5 – Marketing
- Kirk Deis, CEO at Treehouse 51
- CF Alive episode, “081 Better Bug Squashing (New Issue Tracking Tool) with Kirk Deis“
Improve PR
- Steven Neiland, Senior web developer at SiteVision Inc
- CF Alive episode, “031 Going Modular With Fw/1 Subsystems 2.0, with Steven Neiland“
- Advancements made in CF 2018
- Partners that actively promote Lucee CFML, including the prolific third-party CF company Ortus Solutions
- Adobe currently has a program for student outreach with Adobe Education Exchange
- TeraTech Article, “Comprehensive list of Adobe ColdFusion learning resources”
- Nathaniel Francis, Works at Computer Know How
- CF Alive episode, “008 The Best REST You’ve ever Had: ColdBox REST with Nathaniel Francis“
- Charlie Arehart, Veteran server troubleshooter CArehart.org
- CF Alive episode, “013 Are spiders eating your servers? The impact of their unexpected load and how to counter it with Charlie Arehart“
- Kishore Balakrishnan, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe
- CF Alive episode, “058 All about the Adobe CF Summit East 2018 ColdFusion with Kishore Balakrishnan“
- Sumit Verma, Partner and Vice President at ten24 Digital Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “076 Slatwall ColdFusion eCommerce Unleashed (Beyond Shopping Carts) with Sumit Verma“
- Bouton Jones, IT Business Systems Analyst Senior at Anonymous
- CF Alive episode, “053 ColdFusion Practical Digital Accessibility (revealing 3 you didn’t know) with Bouton Jones“
- Thomas Grobicki, CEO of Avilar Technologies, Inc
- CF Alive episode, “041 The true ROI of ColdFusion (How to Sell CF to your Boss or Client) with Thomas Grobicki“
Evangelize CF
- Steven Hauer, International Business Manager for Bridges for Peace
- CF Alive episode, “021 Behind the Scenes at CFObjective, with Steven Hauer“
#coldfusion
- ColdFusion Facebook pages
- ColdFusion’s twitter
- ColdFusion Reddit
- Hacker News
- CFML Slack Channel
Talk with CFers
- Rakshith Naresh, Senior product manager for ColdFusion at Adobe
- CF Alive episode, “042 Revealing the ColdFusion 2018 Roadmap details, with Rakshith Naresh“
- John Farrar, CEO, SOSensible Group
- CF Alive episode, “018 VUE More With Less, with John Farrar“
- Charlie Arehart, Veteran server troubleshooter CArehart.org
- CF Alive episode, “013 Are spiders eating your servers? The impact of their unexpected load and how to counter it with Charlie Arehart“
Rebrand
- Companies that rebranded
- Luis Majano, President of Ortus Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “012 Extreme Testing and Slaying the Dragons of ORM with Luis Majano“
Promoting new versions of CF
- TeraTech Article, “Adobe ColdFusion 2018; Step Into the Aether”
- Gavin Pickin, Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions, Corp
- CF Alive episode, “010 All things ContentBox (new API, ContentStore, Themes and more) with Gavin Pickin”
- Nolan Erck, Owner and Chief Consultant at South of Shasta Consulting
- CF Alive episode, “005 Dependency Injection, why is it awesome and why should I care? with Nolan Erck“
Chapter 6 – CF Alive Podcast Behind the Scenes
Background
- Brad Wood, Software Architect and Platform Evangelist Ortus Solutions
- CF Alive episode, “028 Design Patterns for amazing app architecture (16 patterns), with Brad Wood“
How the CF Alice Podcast started
- CFBugHunt.org website created by TeraTech, and started a public tracking system for bugs within CF MX
- TeraTech started the The State of the CF Union
- Into The Box conference
- Mini-series Michaela Light did, “The Women of Tech”, inspired by #MeToo social media movement
- Sophie Eng manifesto, “Hear Us Roar”
- Sophia Eng, Senior Manager, Online Marketing at InVision App
- CF Alive episode, “034 Hear Us Roar: A Manifesto for Women and Minorities in Startup, Tech, and Business Communities with Sophia Eng“
- Teratech Article, “2018 CF roadmap”
- CF Alive episode, “The Future of CF is Bright with Tridib Roy Chowdhury”
- CF Alive episode, “CF Spiders with Charlie Arehart”
- CF Alive episode with Luis Majano, on making ColdFusion Modern
- Brad Wood’s insightful analysis on the State of the CF Union survey results
- Thomas Grobicki interview about the ROI (Return on Investment) of ColdFusion
- Seth Engen, Co-owner of Computer Know How
- CF Alive episode, “016 Adventures with ColdFusion and ContentBox in the Wild, with Seth Engen“
- CF conferences: CFCamp, CFSummit
- Jeffrey Kunkel, Web Developer at Lighting New York
- CF Alive episode, “072 Oh my GAD (General Anxiety Disorder) with Jeffrey Kunkel“
The CF Alive Revolution
- Matt Gifford, Consultant Developer, Monkeh Works
- CF Alive episode, “049 OAuth 2 for Me and You (Social Login Lowdown) with Matt Gifford“
Chapter 7 – CF Alive Reward
Language shame
- CF Alive episode, “041 The true ROI of ColdFusion (How to Sell CF to your Boss or Client) with Thomas Grobicki“
Appendix A – The Interviewees
- Alex Skinner
- Preside www.preside.org/
- Preside CMS www.presidecms-slack.herokuapp.com/
- Twitter PresideCMS www.twitter.com/@presidecms
- Twitter Alex www.twitter.com/@meta_alex
- Twitter Pixl8 www.twitter.com/@pixl8
- Pix8l www.pixl8.co.uk/
- Episode: 019 A Whirlwind Tour of Preside Application Framework in the Wild, with Alex Skinner
- April Graves
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/aprilegraves/
- Episode: 036 Getting Real with Women in Tech with April Graves
- Bouton Jones
- Brad Wood
- CFML Slack Box Channel cfml.slack.com/
- Twitter twitter.com/bdw429s
- Brad www.codersrevolution.com/
- Episodes:
002 First Look into the IntoTheBox Conference with Brad, Luis & Gavin
029 Design Patterns for amazing app architecture (16 patterns), with Brad Wood
070 CommandBox 4 Deep Dive (new version revealed) with Brad Wood
- Bret Fisher
- Bretfisher.com www.bretfisher.com/
- Twitter twitter.com/BretFisher
- GitHub github.com/BretFisher
- Episode: 066 The Docker Revolution for Faster ColdFusion Development (and Easier DevOps) with Bret Fisher
- Brian Klaas
- Website www.iterateme.com/
- Twitter twitter.com/brian_klaas
- GitHub github.com/brianklaas
- Episode: 037 Level Up Your ColdFusion Web Apps With Amazon Web Services, with Brian Klaas
- Brian Sappey
- CF Summit Adobe Events cfsummit.adobeevents.com/agenda/
- Episode: 054 How to implement Adobe’s API Manager (with Swagger, ColdFusion, and API’s) with Brian Sappey
- Carol Hamilton
- Twitter twitter.com/k_roll242
- Episode: 028 Behind the Scenes at cfObjective, with Carol Hamilton
- Charlie Arehart
- Twitter twitter.com/carehart
- Facebook www.facebook.com/carehart
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/carehart
- Web carehart.org/
- Consulting carehart.org/consulting
- Episodes:
013 Are Spiders Eating Your Servers? The Impact of Their Unexpected Load and How to Counter It, with Charlie Arehart
032 The Impact Of Unexpected Load and How To Counter It with Charlie Arehart
033 What’s New In CF 10, 11, And 2016 That You May Have Missed? with Charlie Arehart
067 More you missed from Adobe ColdFusion 10, 11, And 2016 with Charlie Arehart
- Christine Ballisty
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/christineballisty/
- Twitter twitter.com/cballisty
- Instagram www.instagram.com/christineballisty/
- Personal Travel Blog christineballisty.com/
- Episode: 079 Help Your ColdFusion Team Find Flow (7 keys to PM success) with Christine Ballisty
- David Tattersall
- FusionReactor www.fusion-reactor.com/
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/davidtattersall/
- Intergral www.intergral.com/
- Episodes:
006 CF State of Union Survey 2017 with David Tattersall
022 FusionReactor Application Performance Monitor – Why It’s Different Than Other APM Tools and What’s New in Version 7 & the CLOUD, with David Tattersall
046 What is new in Fusion Reactor 7 (20 new features), with David Tattersall
- Dominic Watson
- Preside preside.org/
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-watson-50770718/
- Episode: 007 Marketing Automation using the Preside Platform with Dominic Watson
- Ed Bartram
- Twitter twitter.com/@edbartram
- Ed Bartam website edbartram.com/
- Episode: 080 Assert Control Over Your Legacy Applications (TestBox Quick Start) with Ed Bartram
- Elishia Dvorak
- CFSummit cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/elishdvorak/
- Twitter twitter.com/elishdvorak
- Adobe blogs blogs.coldfusion.com/
- Episode: 030 Everything CF Summit That You Need to Know, with Elishia Dvorak
- Elliotte Bowerman
- Unicorn Scouts www.unicornscouts.com/
- Facebook www.facebook.com/UnicornScouts
- Instagram www.instagram.com/unicornmuse/
- Twitter twitter.com/UnicornScouts
- Medium medium.com/@UnicornScouts
- Episode: 040 The Opportunities of Being a Woman in Tech Today with Elliotte Bowerman
- Eric Peterson
- Website dev.elpete.com/
- Twitter twitter.com/_elpete
- Episode: 023 Modules Make Your Projects Have Superpowers, with Eric Peterson
- Esmeralda Acevedo
- Ortus Solutions www.ortussolutions.com/
- Episode: 015 Better ContentBox Themes and Easily Creating an Amazing UI, with Esmeralda Acevedo
- Gavin Pickin
- Geoff Bowers
- George Murphy
- Twitter twitter.com/murpg
- Website www.websbygeorge.com/
- Episode: 026 Gitlab Server Deep Dive with Continuous Integration, with George Murphy
- Gert Franz
- Rasia rasia.ch/
- Twitter twitter.com/gert_rasia
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/gert-franz-4056807/
- Helsana www.helsana.ch/en/individuals
- Episodes:
004 Performance Tuning and the Future of Lucee with Gert Franz
024 CFML Debugging Jedi Tricks and Templates, with Gert Franz
- Giancarlo Gomez
- Website giancarlogomez.com
- CrossTrackr crosstrackr.com/
- Fuse Developments www.fusedevelopments.com/
- Episode: 001 Amazing Adventures with CF WebSockets with Giancarlo Gomez
- Grant Shepert
- Mura Digital Experience Platform www.getmura.com/
- Blue River www.blueriver.com/
- Guust Nieuwenhuis
- Website guustnieuwenhuis.be/
- Twitter www.twitter.com/lagaffe
- LinkedIn be.linkedin.com/in/guustnieuwenhuis
- Stackoverflow stackoverflow.com/users/1654074/guust-nieuwenhuis
- SlideShare www.slideshare.net/guustnieuwenhuis
- Episode: 048 CF Continuous Integration Plumbing with Bitbucket Pipelines with Guust Nieuwenhuis
- Igor Ilyinsky
- Jeffrey Kunkel
- Twitter www.twitter.com/nerdtastic91686
- Episode: 072 Oh my GAD (General Anxiety Disorder) with Jeffrey Kunkel
- John Farrar
- Jon Clausen
- Jorge Reyes
- Twitter twitter.com/@jreyben
- Ortus Solutions www.ortussolutions.com/
- Episode: 052 CF Suicide, Depression, and Recovery with Jorge Reyes
- Kai Koenig
- Kevin Jones
- Kirk Deis
- The Bug Squasher thebugsquasher.com/
- Treehouse 51 www.treehouse51.com/
- Episode: 081 Better Bug Squashing (New Issue Tracking Tool) with Kirk Deis
- Kishore Balakrishnan
- Logan Mayville
- Southwest Consulting www.southwesternconsulting.com/
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/lmayville/
- Twitter twitter.com/Mayvillain
- Episode: 068 Marketing Dark Arts for ColdFusion developers (FB Advanced Audience Creation and Tracking) with Logan Mayville
- Luis Majano
- Mark Drew
- Twitter twitter.com/markdrew
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/mdrew
- CFML Slack cfml.slack.com/
- CMDHQ cmdhq.io/
- Episodes:
035 Getting started fast with Docker, with Mark Drew
043 Let’s get GraphQL! (Smart API access from CFML), with Mark Drew
074 Planning for CFML ISP disaster (Commandbox and Docker to the rescue) with Mark Drew
- Mary Jo Sminkey
- CF Web Tools www.cfwebtools.com/
- Twitter twitter.com/mjsminkey
- Facebook www.facebook.com/maryjo.sminkey
- Episode: 027 Advanced Error Handling Strategies for ColdFusion, Javascript and SQL with Mary Jo Sminkey
- Matt Gifford
- monkehWorks Ltd www.monkehworks.com/
- Twitter twitter.com/coldfumonkeh?lang=en
- Episode: 049 OAuth 2 for Me and You (Social Login Lowdown) with Matt Gifford
- Matthew Clemente
- Season 4 season4.io/
- Twitter twitter.com/mjclemente84
- GitHub github.com/mjclemente
- Episode: 055 send.Better() – Giving ColdFusion Email a REST with Matthew Clemente
- Mike Brunt
- Twitter twitter.com/cfwhisperer?lang=en
- FaceBook www.facebook.com/mike.brunt
- Instagram www.instagram.com/eugenepermaculture/
- CF Whisperer www.cfwhisperer.com/
- Java Mem www.javamem.com/
- JVM Services www.jvm.services/
- Episodes:
009 Tuning & Troubleshooting ColdFusion Using Native Tools with Mike Brunt
082 ColdFusion and the Blockchain Revolution with Mike Brunt
- Mike Collins
- Support Objective www.supportobjective.com/
- Episode: 062 Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips) with Mike Collins
- Miles Rausch
- Website milesrausch.com/
- Twitter twitter.com/awayken
- LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/milesrausch
- Episode: 057 Progressive Web Apps Building – Amazing Lucee CFML and ColdBox Tricks with Miles Rausch
- Nathaniel Francis
- Twitter twitter.com/@francainath
- Computer Know How compknowhow.com/
- Episode: 008 The Best REST You’ve ever Had: ColdBox REST with Nathaniel Francis
- Neil Cresswell
- Portainer portainer.io/
- CloudInovasi cloudinovasi.id/
- Episode: 064 Using Portainer.io (Docker Container Management) with Neil Cresswell
- Nolan Erck
- Twitter twitter.com/southofshasta
- GitHub github.com/nolanerck
- Episodes:
005 Dependency Injection, why is it awesome and why should I care? with Nolan Erck
047 Best Practices Are Best, Except When They’re Not with Nolan Erck
051 Git ColdFusion Source Control (Getting Started and Best Practices) with Nolan Erck
059 Migrating legacy CFML to MVC (Model View Controller) with Nolan Erck
069 Font Awesome and ColdFusion (never build icons again) with Nolan Erck
- Patrick Quinn
- Webapper www.webapper.com/
- SeeFusion www.seefusion.com/
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmquinn/
- Episode: 039 CFML Secrets with Patrick Quinn (AWS, Lucee and SeeFusion)
- Pete Freitag
- Foundeo foundeo.com/
- Twitter www.twitter.com/pfreitag/
- Pete Freitag Website www.petefreitag.com/
- Episode: 020 Secrets of High-Security ColdFusion Code, With Pete Freitag
- Peter Ivanov
- Virtual Power Teams www.peter-ivanov.com/
- Episode: 060 Virtual Power Teams for ColdFusion Development (3 mistakes to avoid) with Peter Ivanov
- Rakshith Naresh
- Sami Gardner
- Sami Gardner www.samigardner.com/
- Facebook www.facebook.com/thesamigardner/
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/samigardner/
- Episode: 038 Smart Developer Career Strategies and How Women Can Get Ahead in Tech with Sami Gardner
- Samuel Knowlton
- Saravanamuthu J
- MitrahSoft www.mitrahsoft.com/
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/cfmitrah/
- Scott Coldwell
- Twitter twitter.com/@scottcoldwell
- Computer Know How www.compknowhow.com/blog
- LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/scott-coldwell-0147a612/
- Episode: 017 Managing an international team, Git, CFML, Node, Joomla, Headaches and Heartaches, with Scott Coldwell
- Seth Engen
- Twitter twitter.com/@engens
- Computer Know How compknowhow.com/
- Episode: 016 Adventures with ColdFusion and ContentBox in the Wild, with Seth Engen
- Sophia Eng
- Hear Us Roar Manifesto thinkgrowth.org/hear-us-roar-a-manifesto-for-women-and-minorities-in-startup-tech-and-business-communities-f5b75be7c5b
- Sophia's Website sophiaeng.com/
- FB group women in growth www.facebook.com/groups/womengrow
- Episode: 034 Hear Us Roar: A Manifesto for Women and Minorities in Startup, Tech, and Business Communities with Sophia Eng
- Steven Hauer
- Facebook www.facebook.com/steven.hauer
- Twitter twitter.com/stevenhauer
- Episode: 021 Behind the Scenes at CFObjective, with Steven Hauer
- Steven Neiland
- LinkedIn www.neiland.net/
- Twitter twitter.com/sneiland
- GitHub github.com/sneiland
- Episode: 031 Going Modular With Fw/1 Subsystems 2.0, with Steven Neiland
- Sumit Verma
- Thomas Grobicki
- Tridib Roy Chowdhury
- Uma Ghotikar
