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Adobe ColdFusion Summit Online (It’s FREE)

January 5, 2023 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

It is an online stream of all the sessions and seminars that happened at the Summit, and now Adobe has made it available for CFers everywhere.

Another thing, registration is free!

Do not waste this chance to learn from the CFers there are and join the group.

What is it?

Adobe's CF Summit conference is something that marks the year ending for CFers. After all the deliciousness around the ColdFusion conferences during the year, this was the last one.

And yes, it was in-person, again.

Conferences ColdFusion

CF Summit is a conference organized by Adobe. It happens in Las Vegas, Nevada, at The Mirage Hotel. Over the last two years, we were able to attend it online, as it was happening in the virtual world. Which was awesome, considering the circumstances. But, nothing beats the “real” conference, and this is how it was this year.

I have written in more details in my previous blog post about CF Summit 2022, but here are the main parts.

SCHEDULE

HOW THE ADOBE CF DOCKER IMAGES HAVE EVOLVED

Charlie Arehart

November 16, 2022 | 12:00 – 13:00 EST (1 hour)

Since Adobe's original 2018 release of Docker images for CF (initially for cf2018 and cf2016), the configurability features built into them have improved in significant ways, especially with cf2021, which is much smaller, faster, and whose admin settings can be configured via json. In this talk, veteran CF consultant Charlie Arehart will review and demonstrate those feature changes for the CF images, as well as the images for the CF Performance Monitoring Toolkit (PMT) and the CF Enterprise API Manager–all available at Dockerhub since 2021.

A SNEAK PEEK INTO COLDFUSION BUILDER ON VSCODE

Nikhil Dubey

November 18, 2022 | 12:00 – 13:00 EST (1 hour)

“In the session, I will be talking about the newly released VSCode Extension for CFML and how it makes CFML developers' life easier. Starting briefly with some usage statistics and overview of plugin architecture, the talk will be throwing light on the value-adding features like code assist, code completion, formatting, navigation, etc. that the plugin offers. Unique features exclusive with Adobe plugin like RDS, Security Analyzer, Server Manager, Project Manager along with their utilities will be discussed in some details. A small demo will follow. Takeaways – Developers will be aware of various features available to make development effort smooth. They will also have an overall picture of how the extension is working internally.”

HOW TO IDENTIFY PERFORMANCE AND STABILITY PROBLEMS USING THE MAGICAL POWERS OF FUSIONREACTOR APM

David Tattersall

November 22, 2022 | 12:00 – 13:00 EST (1 hour)

Despite the best testing efforts & due diligence of programmers, we still find that applications break, systems are slow and businesses are impacted, costing loss of revenue and unhappy customer experiences. The challenge is to minimize application downtime and accelerate time to resolution. The answer is FusionReactor APM. This session will demonstrate how FR combines metrics, logs and trace information to instantly highlight problems.

MESSAGE QUEUES WITH RABBITMQ

Brad Wood

November 30, 2022 | 12:00 – 13:00 EST (1 hour)

Message Queues are a fantastic design pattern for decoupling your processes across multiple servers or even technologies with an asynchronous, durable queuing system. Stop thinking about API calls and start thinking about sending messages. We'll cover one of the most popular and robust queues, called RabbitMQ, which can be used for worker queues, topic distribution, synch RPC invocations, and even web socket pushes to your web app! Using the RabbitSDK for ColdFusion, you can get started today with queues and bring your apps to the next level.

ONE-HOUR WORKSHOP: BUILD A COMPLETE DEVELOPMENT, DEPLOYMENT PIPELINE, AND PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT FOR YOUR CODE!

David Byers

December 1, 2022 | 15:00 – 16:00 EST (1 hour)

“Many developers have development and production servers where code is manually pushed or FTP'ed… and we're going to improve that. We're going to have a race. In under one hour, we're going to spin up a local development environment in Docker using the ColdFusion Docker images. Next, we're going to create a code repository in BitBucket with a deployment pipeline. Finally we're going to spin up an AWS EC2 server and install AWS Code Deploy. The end result will be a local development and testing environment that can automatically push code to a production server on AWS when you merge to master. Step up your development and deployment game with this workshop!”

GOOGLE CLOUD FOR THE COLDFUSION COMMUNITY

Terrence Ryan

December 2, 2022 | 12:00 to 13:00 EST (1 hour)

Google Cloud is Google's entry in the cloud space, providing resources comparable to other public clouds. Google Cloud can provide you with the tools and technologies you've come to expect in the cloud, but it also has tools and resources uniquely produced by Google. This session will go through the common tools like storage, networking, container systems and virtual machines that you are familiar with from other clouds. It will also highlight key tools and technologies that are unique to Google Cloud.

TAMING THE TOP 25 MOST DANGEROUS SOFTWARE WEAKNESSES

Pete Freitrag

December 6, 2022 | 13:00 to 14:00 EST (1 hour)

Chances are you've probably heard of the OWASP top 10 list, but you may not be as familiar with the Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses list. In this session we'll go through the 2022 list, and look at how a ColdFusion application might be impacted by these weaknesses which often lead to security vulnerabilities. But perhaps more importantly we'll also look at ways you can prevent these issues in your ColdFusion applications.

MINING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS FOR FUN AND PROFIT (AND OTHER BUSINESS CRITICAL NEEDS)

Raymond Camden 

December 7, 2022 | 12:00 to 13:00 EST (1 hour)

Some estimates put the number of PDFs in the world at nearly three trillion. While having information in a digital format makes them much safer and easier to store, it still represents a challenge. How do we know what's in a PDF? How can we organize and process our documents in an efficient manner? How can we check for potentially problematic text that should be updated? In this talk, I'll talk about how the Adobe PDF Extract API can be used to mine information from your documents and how this can be combined with NLP and AI services to provide context about what those documents contain.

BELOW THE SURFACE: WEB VULNERABILITIES HIDING IN YOUR APPLICATIONS

Brian Reilly

December 9, 2022 | 12:00 – 13:00 EST (1 hour)

Congratulations! You’ve patched your servers, fixed all of your XSS, cfqueryparam’d away your SQL injections, federated your authentication, and all of your forms check CSRF tokens. But after you’ve covered the basics, what may still be lurking out there in your applications? This talk will look at a few vulnerability classes that are sometimes missed and how they relate to ColdFusion applications. Examples will include Server Side Request Forgery, cryptographic attacks, and more. My goal for this talk is to raise awareness about what may be some application security blindspots for some ColdFusion developers.

EXPLORING AWS JAVA SDK DEVELOPER FEATURES USING CFJAVA

Brian Bockhold

December 12, 2022 | 12:00 – 13:00 EST (1 hour)

In this session, we will go over some examples of useful AWS developer tools and how we can use them with the CFJava/Java Integration that is now available in ColdFusion 2021.

NATIVE MOBILE APPS WITH MONACA.IO & ADOBE COLDFUSION 2021

Mark Takata

December 22, 2022 | 12:00 – 13:00 EST (1 hour)

Have you always wanted to build native mobile apps, but didn’t want to learn Swift or ObjectiveC? Monaca.io uses the power of Apache Cordova and a richly featured online cloud IDE to help you build out native applications quickly and easily, with just basic JavaScript knowledge. In this talk Mark will build an Adobe ColdFusion 2021 powered back end using mySQL, exposed as an API, which will be consumed by a native mobile app written and built inside of the Monaca.io ecosystem.

MODERNIZING THROUGH EVOLUTION NOT REVOLUTION

Guust Nieuwenhuis

January 10, 2023 | 15:00 – 16:00 EST (1 hour)

Our company has grown over a quarter of a century, and across those years we have matured as developers and IT companies, refining both our tools and practices to a degree that the past seems hardly recognizable. Counter to this are the inevitable compromises, products of constrained timeframes, limited client budgets or strained resources. Projects inevitably lean more towards growth and depth than general modernization, to the point that they become difficult to maintain. So, what happens when the bugs add up and the monster emerges? Refactor? Rewrite from scratch? We’ve been involved in many such projects, internally and inherited both, and have learned there is no simple answer to the question “how do we move forward?” Through case studies and anecdotes I will explain what to look out for, from both a technical and business perspective.

EASIER API DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING – USE POSTMAN, WEBHOOK.SITE, AND NGROK TO ENHANCE YOUR WORKFLOW

Daniel Garcia

January 12, 2023 | 12:00 – 13:00 EST (1 hour)

Postman, Webhook.site, and ngrok are great tools that can really enhance your API development and testing workflow. PostMan is a cross-platform API Testing Tool with lots of awesome features, Webhook.site allows you to easily inspect, test, and automate any incoming HTTP request or e-mails, and ngrok enables you to expose a web server running on your local machine to the internet. These are must-have tools for any API developer (either creating or consuming). In short, these tools solve problems and best of all, they all have free versions which allow you to be very productive. My goal is that after this conference, you will start using at least one, if not all three, tools when you get home. I'm not saying using these tools will be life-changing, but I am also not not saying that either

LEVERAGING AI / COGNITIVE SERVICES VIA COLDFUSION

Michael Hayes

January 17 | 12:00 – 13:00pm EST (1 hour)

Azure Cognitive Services is API that leverages AI and Machine Learning to provide capability such as Sentiment Analysis, Entity Recognition, Auto Translator, Text to Speach, speech translation, and many more. All this would be written in ColdFusion 2021 of course and a GIT repo of the code will be shared with the community. There may be a secondary package that will be shared that would convert PostMan / Swagger collections to ColdFusion for rapid development via API's.

SPREADSHEET MAGIC

Kevin Wright

January 19 | 12:00 – 13:00pm EST (1 hour)

Microsoft Office is the ‘de facto' standard in most business environments. In this session we will look at different ways of integrating with one of the most used applications of the MS office suite, Excel. Come learn how to create, access and manipulate spreadsheets programmatically with the CFSPREADSHEET tag in ColdFusion. We will go beyond basic read and write features, and will delve into more advanced techniques like working with formulas and formatting, and creating multiple sheets. We will also look at examples of more complex types of spreadsheets by using lookups and even creating and embedding dynamic charts. FORMAT: Presentation with slides / live code review

OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY AND NFTS IN THE REAL WORLD

Masha Edelen and Nick Juntilla

January 24 | 14:00 – 15:00pm EST (1 hour)

Understanding the value and practical use cases of Non-Fungible Tokens in modern business applications. Learn how to get started using the blockchain and building your Web 3 strategy.

How to register?

Here's the link to register for this online event

 

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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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