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 […]
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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 […]
Introducing Swansea Jack (Lucee CFML 6 announced)
During the 2018 CFCamp in Munich, a bombshell was dropped. That bombshell, of course, is the announcement of Lucee 6. I know this will come as surprise to some, but most Lucee users probably have been excited for the past few weeks. Lucee 6 in true Lucee fashion is being named after another famous dog […]
Switch to Adobe ColdFusion (CIO’s Guide on Risks and Reward)
You want to switch to a newer, more modern version of ColdFusion. But you’re having some doubts. Memories of install wizards turning evil and sabotaging your updates give you nightmares. Don’t back out! Switching to the 2018 update of ColdFusion is painless. Use the outline in this guide and a few clicks to go from […]
ColdFusion for the Next Decade – All about the Buzzworthy ColdFusion 2020 (Webinar by Adobe)
Adobe ColdFusion 2020 release date is close. Rakshith Naresh from Adobe team gave us a sneak and peak into the next decade version at the webinar which we are happy to promote and support. Of course, thanks to the Adobe ColdFusion team for giving us permission to do that. Here it is ColdFusion for the […]
Lucee 5.3 Pulls Ahead of ACF 2016, CF Security Good News and Vue.js > Angular
(Interesting initial CF Survey 2020 results) I am happy to share interesting State of CF survey 2020 partial results (full details in that link) Lucee 5.3+ is the most popular version this year with CF 2016 in second, just ahead of CF 2018. ColdBox was just beaten out by “Homegrown” as the most popular general […]
102 ColdFusion in Biz (the Latest Trends in CF consulting) with Joby John
Joby John talks about “ColdFusion in Biz (the Latest Trends in CF consulting)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Biz side of CF Hiring CF developers Attitude is key Skills can be learned Training new people on CF – out of college or from other languages Versions […]
5 Best Adobe ColdFusion Development Tools: Boost Your Efficiency and Security
Adobe ColdFusion development tools streamline coding workflows by combining built-in CFML language efficiency with robust security utilities, containerization options, and integrated development environments that reduce development time by up to 70%. The five essential tool categories (ColdFusion Markup Language, security tools, ColdFusion Components, containerization solutions, and IDEs) empower development teams to build secure, scalable applications […]
100 CF Alive (Revolution Retrospective) with Nolan Erck and Michaela Light
Nolan Erck talks about “CF Alive (Revolution Retrospective) ” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is the CF Alive revolution Making ColdFusion Modern, Vibrant and Secure! MCFGA ColdFusion is a vibrant and modern language for complex, data-driven enterprise apps. While some companies have abandoned ColdFusion as […]
CF Camp 2019 Full Report (Slides, Interviews, Everything CFML and Lucee)
What is CF Camp CF Camp is in it’s 8th year now, and it shows that it’s bigger than ever. It is famous because it is the only CFML conference in Europe. In its first year CF Camp had 9 sessions and little over 100 attendees. In 2019, that number had almost doubled: over 30 […]













