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4 Reasons WHY You Need a ColdFusion Consultant

February 2, 2022 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

4 Reasons WHY You Need a ColdFusion Consultant

  I remember consulting for a company — let’s call them Waldo’s Widgets. We’d been working on modernizing WW’s ColdFusion infrastructure. Easy enough, for almost every measure. The CIO called me to check our progress. I told him things were going great. “My team should be able to do this themselves,” he said, sounding annoyed. […]

Filed Under: Adobe ColdFusion 2021, ColdFusion Consulting

Secure ColdFusion (17 Tools + Best Practices)

October 25, 2021 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Overview of CF Security ColdFusion leads the web dev language pack when it comes to security.  It has the lowest number of security issues of any web language (according to CVE security data). Adobe even has a full time security czar in charge of making the language even more secure.  All the developers on Adobe’s […]

Filed Under: CFML, ColdFusion Consulting, ColdFusion Security, Fixinator

Google Down – An Unprecedented Event (Save Your Data Fast!)

December 21, 2020 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: CFML, CFML Open- Source, ColdFusion Community, ColdFusion Consulting, ColdFusion Development, ColdFusion Maintenance, ColdFusion Security, Server Software

4 Ways to Recognize a Good ColdFusion Consultant

November 6, 2020 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

State of the CF Union 2020

Learn about Four Ways to Recognize a Good ColdFusion Consultant Before Hiring Them!   Looking for the right consultant can be a demanding task. But done right, it could save your company money in the long term.   You’re about to dive into the confounding, cut-throat world of ColdFusion consultants, looking for someone to help […]

Filed Under: Adobe ColdFusion 2018, CF Alive, CFML, ColdFusion Consulting, ColdFusion Developer, ColdFusion Development, ColdFusion Maintenance, ColdFusion Performance Tuning, ColdFusion Security, Modernize ColdFusion Tagged With: Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe ColdFusion 2018, ColdFusion, Coldfusion 2020, ColdFusion Consulting

11 Best Practices for a new Adobe ColdFusion Project

June 9, 2018 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Spring is here! Spring signifies the start of new beginnings. Why not a new Adobe ColdFusion Project? The powerful and hopeful feeling you get when starting a new CFML project is like the early days of spring. Just like spring, however, your project can quickly turn to rain showers if you don’t follow some basic […]

Filed Under: Adobe ColdFusion Project Stratus, ColdFusion Consulting

Secrets to the good ColdFusion project planning and it’s methods

February 3, 2017 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Poor Planning Have you ever started a project when you felt that it’s not planned carefully and you were just waiting for something to go wrong? Key analyst gets sick, lead ColdFusion developer has to work on another project, everyone needs to wait one week for the server to get set up. Or maybe the […]

Filed Under: ColdFusion Consulting Tagged With: ColdFusion, software development, software development tips, web developing

4 Best strategies to avoid mistakes in your CFML projects

February 3, 2017 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

When you start every software project hopes are high. You would meet all deadlines and exceed go beyond expectations. Users would get involved and be excited about the project, executives would be on board and see it fit into the company strategic plan. Communication would go smoothly and it would be clear what the real needs […]

Filed Under: ColdFusion Consulting Tagged With: ColdFusion, software development, web development

4 Best strategies to avoid mistakes in your ColdFusion projects pt. 2

February 3, 2017 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Welcome! This is the second part of 4 Best strategies to avoid mistakes in your ColdFusion projects  In case you missed the first part, you can read it here.   Project champion- your second most valuable advocate The IT department is often perceived by other departments as not being on the same side, not “one of […]

Filed Under: ColdFusion Consulting Tagged With: ColdFusion, decision making, web developer, web development

3 keys to Avoiding Scope Creep

August 20, 2013 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Have you been on a project with scope creep recently? The scope increases, that leads to late delivery of the project, budget overruns, stress, late nights spent coding when you’d rather be doing other things.  Plus all those endless changes have made to the code base decline in quality from all the work done under […]

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Halt Software Scope Creep (3 secrets to project success)

August 20, 2013 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Have you been on a project with scope creep recently? The scope increases, that leads to late delivery of the project, budget overruns, stress, late nights spent coding when you’d rather be doing other things.  Plus all those endless changes have made to the code base decline in quality from all the work done under […]

Filed Under: ColdFusion Consulting, ColdFusion Development

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