Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 – future CFML)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “We’re gonna be talking about Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee and how they compare and contrast and all cool new features coming in the next […]
Is Lucee CFML now better than Adobe ColdFusion?
Is Lucee CFML now better than Adobe ColdFusion? Adobe ColdFusion’s success has produced several open-source competitors. Lucee is the most prominent one, aiming to move past ColdFusion programming language CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) into a more open source-like future, delivering a more streamlined platform for applications. But can it compete with CF? Let’s look at […]
Is Adobe ColdFusion Dead? Programmers and CIOs Often Ask This Question
“Is Adobe ColdFusion dead?” Start typing ColdFusion into a search bar and you’ll likely get an autocomplete suggestion claiming the platform is dead. But is it? Let’s settle it now. Developers who prefer ColdFusion, and programmers in general, are subjective when comparing different programming languages. Young programmers like to compare it with PHP in open […]
What are CFers learning in 2022?
I ran a poll on Facebook last week about this topic. It seems to me that the community (ColdFusion community) is interested in investing in learning even more now. Various topics have emerged, and interesting results have come about. Some results were expected, but some others have been surprising, and that’s what I like most […]
Google Down – An Unprecedented Event (Save Your Data Fast!)
How many times did you hit “refresh” on Monday? The #GoogleDown, a massive outage among the search giant’s many services, affected many IT systems and websites. Was your company able to navigate the outage easily? Or did you all freak out? Google Down… What Exactly Happened? There’s a way to cover your ass, so to […]
ColdFusion Expert’s Guide to Different Skills for Getting Things Done
Your to-do list has become unmanageable. You might have trouble focusing or you have unfinished tasks, books, etc. In the long run, things pile up for even the most organized among us. Thankfully, a laundry list of different techniques and hacks helps me get through the tough stretches. Poor productivity and the lack of energy […]
105 CFML Open Source Learning with John Farrar
John Farrar talks about “CFML Open Source Learning” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light Show notes OLS (Open Learning Server), why another learning solution? Why coding in ColdFusion? CFML Lucee and ACF Containers let you host CF apps on any cloud ISP (Google, AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean etc) Micro-services […]
103 Cool Lucee CFML (GigaBytes file parsing and more) with Gert Franz
Gert Franz talks about “Cool Lucee CFML (GigaBytes file parsing and more)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Why are you using Lucee at DistroKid Fast, Secure, Scalable with cloud Node → Lucee Bitbucket pipelines CommandBox TDD AWS autoscaling Tell us something about DistroKid CF performance tuning […]
ColdFusion Alive Revolution
If you want ColdFusion to be more alive, then *you* have to commit to taking some small personal action today. Waiting for megacorps, the IT press, or the “programming fashion” to change toward CFML doesn’t cut it in 2020. Here are 7 small steps that we, as improving CFer developers, could do today. Some only […]
ColdFusion Community Guidelines
ColdFusion is alive. That’s obvious to anyone. A huge component of what keeps ColdFusion alive is what happens inside the CF developers and CF experts circle, in what we call the ColdFusion community. Year 2019 seems like a turning point to me. Conferences are becoming bigger and bigger Adobe announced Coldfusion 2020 Adobe announced CF […]
