Here's 2020 in a nutshell…

 

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Home conference. This is one of my new prints! Link to buy from my shop is in my bio. This was in the guardian last week, maybe last month, who knows what time is anymore. #lockdown #homeschool #coronavirus #comedy #covid_19 #satire #cartoons #comics #parenting #stephencollins #theguardian

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That's pretty much what happened with conferences in 2020, too. CF community however didn't wait too long and we adapted to the situation.

What can we expect in 2021?

Adobe, Ortus Solutions, CF Camp, and everyone else seem to be pretty quiet for now. Maybe they're like me, hoping that things will settle down and we'll be able to travel and hang out again like we used to… (cry)

Anyhow, I am really looking forward to that time again.

ColdFusion Conferences and Webinars 2021

Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2021

Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2021 was held from Tuesday 6/22/21 through Thursday 6/24/21. It was an online event, and all sessions were recorded for attendees (more on that further in the text). So even if you did not attend the event, you should register for it and be able to download the recordings.

About the event
Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week consists of 23 sessions that cover ColdFusion 2021’s brand-new features and updates. Plus info on the next release of CF. And CF security, database optimization, and more. More details on topics and speakers below.

CF Dev Week is free and speakers include 20 top CF experts.

BTW This is the 6th year of CF Dev Week.

If you are a new developer, someone with little or no experience with Adobe ColdFusion, or even if you have been using it all your life, these sessions are just what you need. Don’t miss out!

Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2021 full info

Adobe ColdFusion Webinar Series

Combining the feature-rich Adobe API Manager with RESTful ColdFusion Web Services for a complete API Management Solution.

Combining the feature-rich Adobe API Manager with RESTful ColdFusion Web Services for a complete API Management Solution.
In this series, you will learn how to use the ColdFusion API Manager, along with RESTful ColdFusion Web services. You will get a firsthand look at how to publish APIs securely and at an incredible scale, for developers, partners, and subscribers.
In the seven-part series, you will be provided a detailed view of several important features of the API Manager and offerings of ColdFusion when building RESTful APIs.
Everything from writing, publishing, securing, and monitoring APIs will be covered with hands-on examples and easy-to-follow discussions. To increase your API capabilities, security and lifecycle management will be discussed and easily broken down into small segments to give a 360-degree view in springboarding your development efforts with all things related to APIs.
By the conclusion of this series, you will have a solid foundation of knowledge for managing a modern API Gateway and easily being able to maintain your existing back services no matter where they are hosted, or what language they are developed in, with a special emphasis on all things ColdFusion.

Register here

ColdFusion API Manager: Versioning and Lifecycle Management

April 28, 2021| 12 PM EST

Versioning APIs and the various Lifecycles that an API can experience are crucial to maintaining a professional set of APIs that will scale and perform when published. Understanding your underlying blueprints for services and the usage will be a critical item for knowing how to version, manage, and catalog API changes in your organization. Notifications and communicating with subscribers and publishers will allow for seamless growth and maintenance of your API ecosystem.

Learn more here

ColdFusion API Manager: Rate Limiting and Throttling

April 29, 2021| 12 PM EST

Protecting your API environment is a vital step in ensuring your API health. Controlling incoming requests and throttling unwanted traffic can easily be monitored and maintained using the API Manager. In this session we will cover SLAs, how to rate limit by subscriber request, and how to manage alerts and thresholds. This is a crucial session that will give you the knowledge to provide stability for your platform and could even be used to capitalize on your organization’s data.

Learn more here

ColdFusion API Manager: Security and How to Protect Your Organization

May 13, 2021| 12 PM EST
This session will provide the most detailed look at security with respect to your APIs and the Manager. OAuth will be covered in detail along with the configurations of user stores to secure your organization's services. With some crafty JavaScript controls and Database connectors, the API Manager makes seamless security an easy-to-do task with native controls built into the API Manager. This is a must for anyone publishing data via APIs.

Learn more here

ColdFusion API Manager: API Monitoring and Alerting

May 24, 2021 | 12 PM EST

Using Elastic Search, the API Manager provides an easy-to-use analytics tool to get informative details about all API calls entering your organizations API environment. With the ability to get real time reports on traffic and usage, you have total control over your APIs and incoming requests. We will cover, in detail, how to use the analytics features, writing Elastic queries, setting up reports, and creating rich dashboards. As a bonus, we will look at some simple ways to build out an alerting system for problematic APIs along with real time monitoring of errors. This is a vast offering of the API Manager and we will heavily focus on the business intelligence it provides for publishers using the API Manager.

Learn more here

ColdFusion API Manager: Policy Management and Access Controls

May 25, 2021| 12 PM EST
Each subscriber may have different needs. Constantly making changes will increase inconsistencies and one-off technical debt situations that will eventually not scale. What if a system could manage policies and access controls based on the request and maintain consistency in your back end services? Look no further, the ColdFusion API manager will allow you to easily change the behavior of the API through configurations. Learn how to utilize policy management, execute sequentially organized rules, and change the request or response without impacting your back end services. This is a fantastic feature of the API Manager and will provide excellent foundational principles for securing the health of your API ecosystem.

Learn more here

Building modern web apps with ContentBox Modular CMS Webinar by Luis Majano, May 5, 2021 12 PM ET

ContentBox is a professional open-source modular content management system powered by ColdBox HMVC and ColdFusion. In this session, we will get an overview of this CMS platform and how you can leverage to not only deliver content-based applications but any modern web application thanks to its powerful headless API and ColdBox services.

Register here

Comprehensive list of ColdFusion Conferences 2020

“… 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 last year.” – Kishore Balakrishnan

Into The Box 2020

This year brings new kind of “normal” and Into The Box conference was no different. Covid 19 world pandemic has forced us to distance ourselves from all sorts of things. Conferences were canceled and so many businesses (and lives) changed.

ITB adapted. It has shown that they can successfully do a virtual conference. On May 7. and 8. 2020. Into The Box was held in your home. Bedroom. Dorm room. Home office.

While many say that this is not something they got used to, to us, the programmers can easily say that working from home has been normal for a few years now. Yes, maybe equally cool parts such as hanging out in the venue and in the after- parties is missing out this year, still there’s plenty of awesome things to learn at the conference. And that’s what this article is about. The next one might be, on the options of how we can hang around at the virtual conference and have fun. ?

Into The Box 2020 Conference Full Review (Slides and Presentations)

Adobe CF Summit East 2020

CF Summit East started in the second year of CF Summit in Las Vegas and it’s mainly for people who can’t travel to the West coast. The 2020 was canceled due to Covid-19 crisis. We were happy to follow Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2020 webinar instead. 

Why is CF Summit East important to the CF Community?

1. 1. Learn CF new features
   2. Future roadmap of CF (through 2028)
   3. Networking with other CF developers, CF speakers and Adobe CF senior staff

Related: All about the Adobe CF Summit East

Adobe ColdFusion Summit West 2020

A recap of last year's Summit in Las Vegas:

• 28 speakers ColdFusion experts from around the globe
• 40 sessions Showcasing new features and Roadmap for 2020
• 500 attendees Representing 11 countries from four corners of the world

This year’s conference is planned to be on November 17-19. 2020. Online. 

I am sure that you already know most of them. In case you don’t, or want to learn more, I will be talking with them and about their topics for this year’s CF Summit West.

1. Charlie Arehart
2. Matthew Clemente
3. Elishia Dworak
4. Dave Ferguson
5. Pete Freitag
6. Brian Claas
7. George Murphy
8. Rakshith Naresh
9. Brian Sappey
10. Dan Skaggs
11. Mark Takata
12. Dan Wilson

We will know soon if this list is final.

Here’s the official registration page link

CF Camp 2020

Known as the only CF conference in Europe, CF Camp has quickly become the conference. With over 200 attendees, and always interesting speakers, it is interesting and very informative for both speakers and attendees. 

The latest conference was in the small town of Freising, near Munich, Germany, and this is where 2020 will be held as well. There's still no official announcement because of the Covid 19 situation, but we're hoping this won't stop Michi (Michael Hnat) and the rest of the crew. 

Related: CF Camp 2019 Full Report (Slides, Interviews, Everything CFML and Lucee)

Adobe CF Summit India 2020

We are still waiting for the official announcement, but we hear that it’s going to be very big this year. Last year's conference in India had more than 200 attendees, so we hope to see a 2-day conference, perhaps?

ColdFusion Webinars 2020

ColdFusion for the Next Decade – All about the Buzzworthy ColdFusion 2020 (Webinar by Adobe)

One of the reasons for ColdFusion’s success right from its inception is that the platform has been able to pivot at regular intervals to remain relevant for the future. There are very few technologies that have managed to stay in the game for so long and that is something all of us in the community are proud of. ColdFusion 2020, slated to be released next year, is going one such pivotal release in the history of ColdFusion. The vision for ColdFusion 2020 goes like this:

“To be the modernized platform of choice for building cloud-native microservice applications with absolute focus on ease of use without getting locked to a particular cloud vendor (multi-cloud).”

Attend this session as the Product Manager for ColdFusion unravels every piece of ColdFusion 2020 that leads to the overarching vision.

Read more about the session and watch the full video here

Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2020.

Since Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2020 was canceled due to Covid 19 pandemia, all is not lost. CF Developer week webinar by Adobe will be held May 18, 2020 to May 22, 2020. 

Adobe ColdFusion 2018 has proven itself to users and developers already. The topics that will be covered at this webinar include:

• Optimization of your applications as the server with an all-new toolset,
• Performance Management Suite 
• Shrink development time with the highly productive programming language, 
• CFML general talk

Adobe ColdFusion developer week is a series of free, live webinars where the audience would be able to hear from the best CF experts and developers in the ColdFusion world.

If you are a new developer, someone with little or no ColdFusion experience, or even if you have been using ColdFusion all your life, these sessions are ideal for you. The ColdFusion Developer Week provides something for everyone so sign up now.

Learn more at Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2020.

ColdFusion Roadshows  2020

Every year we have a number of webinars and roadshows.

Ortus Roadshow and Virtual Events

Ortus Solutions is very active in this field and we’re expecting some great events from their kitchen this year. 

Ortus Training & Events. 

Comprehensive list of ColdFusion Conferences 2019

Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2019

The 4th Annual Adobe ColdFusion Summit East was held on April 10th in Washington, D.C. At the interactive summit, attendees joined Adobe ColdFusion experts to learn how agencies across the U.S. are leveraging ColdFusion to rapidly build and deploy web and mobile applications.

The day was filled with engaging sessions and concurrent breakout tracks that:

1. Discussed how Adobe is committed to ColdFusion, both now and in the future
2. Provided insight into ColdFusion improvements and its surrounding ecosystems
3. Explored product improvements Adobe has in store for the future roadmap of ColdFusion

Related: Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2019 Full Report 

Into The Box 2019

After the success at the CF Summit East in Washington DC, the spring conference season is over.

Into the Box 2019 was awesome!

The conference was held in just inside the Houston, TX region at The Woodlands. It went for three exciting days starting on May 1st with pre-conference workshops and culminating on May 3rd with Closing remarks and a raffle. It had 50% (!) more attendees than last year! Wow!

Related: Into the Box 2019 Full Review (+ Complete List of Slides and Presentations)

Adobe ColdFusion Summit West 2019

Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certificate Program

The Adobe ColdFusion Specialist is a full-day certificate classroom program, delivered by top Adobe ColdFusion experts. You will be enrolled in the course as soon as you register and will receive course instructions and prep materials two weeks prior to the on-site program date. Once you have completed the training, you will partake in an online assessment. And only upon successful completion will you be awarded your Adobe ColdFusion Specialist certificate. By the end of this program, participants will have mastered all the major features in the latest release of Adobe ColdFusion – to use CFML to develop, test, debug, and deploy web apps. It also shows how CF acts as glue between different systems.

ColdFusion Webinars 2019

Continuous Security for Your CFML Code With Fixinator Webinar With Pete Freitag, 2019

In this webinar, Pete explained how to scan a code base, produce reports, and let Fixinator fix some of the issues it finds. Another takeaway was on how to setup Fixinator in a continuous integration workflow, so it runs every time you commit code to the repository, giving you instant, automatic, continuous feedback.

Read the full report here

Clean up Your Legacy Code with Codechecker With George Murphy, 2019

Take a look at a free open source tool for checking your ColdFusion code for vulnerabilities. There are several rules that it can check for. Those include missing cfqueryparams and un-var scoped variables. The value of this code checker is that you can build rules for it.

So, if you find something that is not included in the tool it can be added. It can run in a browser or in the CommandBox CLI. We will take a deep dive into some legacy code to look for vulnerabilities and items that make up the best practice list. This application was developed to modernize and update about 300 legacy applications. The tool can also print all of the findings to an Excel spreadsheet with a link to the offending items.

Adobe Evangelizing for ColdFusion at Developer Week 2019

Some people say that Adobe isn't doing enough to support and promote ColdFusion. That's not true.  Adobe's own Kishore Balakrishnan and Elishia Dvorak attended the DeveloperWeek in San Francisco, California.

Read the full report here

Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee CFML News and Updates

ColdFusion has been around for more than 25 years. It had it’s ups and downs as everything does, it seems that lately it shows the signs of vitality and longevity. The always inevitable question (mostly by the nay-sayers) “is CF dead?” is becoming obsolete. Nevertheless, we are not going to talk anymore. 

In it’s third decade, ColdFusion is more alive, secure and more vibrant than ever!

Legacy code is still a big issue for most of the companies. What this means, is that so often companies don't keep their CF regularly updated, which means, less security and more spaghetti code. But, this is easily solved by keeping your CF up to date, modern and secure.

Related:Easily Moving from Legacy Code Hell to Modern CFML Heaven

24 Years of ColdFusion Thriving

Here's an example. Websockets is becoming very popular now. ColdFusion has had it since 2011. In order for CF to be relevant for the next decade, Adobe plans to go to the cloud. Serverless is what the world is aiming now, and for CF to be a relevant player in the game, it is planning to become the most productive platform.

Cloud containerization and serverless is the goal for Adobe.

CF is working on becoming a multi-cloud platform. Which means it won't be dependant on only one cloud.

But, we’ll get there soon.

Related: Some CIO's may ask: is ColdFusion dead?

Adobe ColdFusion 2018: Step into the Aether

After the public beta went live in April 2018, great things were said by the community about some of the new changes made to Adobe ColdFusion. Here are just a few features debuted in the Adobe ColdFusion 2018 family.

• Asynchronous Programming
• REST Playground
• Server Monitor
• Modern Admin U/I
• Comment Exchange across Files
• Standardized PDF Metadata
• Auto Lockdown

And a lot more!

Related: Adobe ColdFusion 2018: Step into the Aether full review

Lucee CFML 6

During the 2018 CFCamp in Munich, a bombshell was dropped- the announcement of Lucee 6.

Lucee 6 in true Lucee fashion is being named after another famous dog who has helped mankind.

Related: Introducing Swansea Jack (Lucee CFML 6 announced)

Comprehensive list of ColdFusion Conferences 2018

Each of the CF conferences had their own specific mark and they were all a big success.

Adobe ColdFusion CF Summit East 2018 was on April 25th, 2018 in Washington DC and it was free to attend.  As Adobe people told us and predicted, more than 200 people attended the conference.

Muracon 2018- some of you (CFers) didn't think it's worth it to attend this conference. This might cost you some valuable knowledge. Although organized by Mura it wasn't just about Mura CMS.

Here's the full list of slides and presentations.

Into the Box 2018 conference was a huge success. And not just for the organizers. Each year attendees can take even more knowledge, new acquaintances and positive vibes back home. Big thanks to the guys from Ortus Solutions and congrats on a job well done!

Here's the full list of slides and presentations.

CF Summit 2018 (an Amazing Time for ColdFusion) was great. The sheer number of different speakers was just amazing. Each speaker gave such wonderful insights into the world of ColdFusion and CFML operations. Whoever said ColdFusion is dead definitely needs to reconsider that statement.

Here's the full report.

CFCamp 2018: Madness in Munich full report is available here

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2019 

Wanted CF Dead or Alive (new book launching at CF Summit)

OK people, I hope you went to at least one of these, and if not, make sure you do in the future. I would love to hear about your experiences at these events. Leave the comments below.