We’ve all seen the hell of old legacy code in our ColdFusion applications. Non-framework code, spaghetti code, duplicate code, or unused code (Deadwood)… it’s all the same. Maintenance efficiency is a thing of the past and code usefulness is gone. How do you move from that legacy hell to a heaven of modern CFML with […]
Into The Box LatAm 2020 Virtual Conference – Free to Register!
IntoTheBox/LatAm is for all ColdFusion developers and while it focuses on the Box CF products and tools it does cover other topics too. It is December 3rd and 4th 2020. As you would expect for a conference targeting CFers in Latin America, most of the talks are in Spanish, but there are 2 in English […]
4 Ways to Recognize a Good ColdFusion Consultant
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 […]
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 […]
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. Episode Highlights 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 […]
3 Steps to Establish a Reliable Recovery Plan for Your Next ColdFusion Project
You, me and everyone else hated seeing this thing! By Original uploader was Praseodymium at en.wikipedia – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Reader781 using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4335321 Want to instill fear into any tech nerd or guru? Mention the Blue Screen of Death. During Windows’s heyday, having your screen turn the color of […]
097 State of the CF Union 2019 Survey, with Brad Wood (in-depth analysis)
The final results for the 2019 State of the CF Union survey are out. Thanks to all the CFers who filled it out this year. Discover what most developers use for tools, languages, database and development methods. Before we begin with the results, we’d like to thank everyone who participated and responded to this year’s […]
Upgrade Your ColdFusion (Security, Performance & Cost)
Think upgrading ColdFusion is a waste of money? That’s what one of my clients is thinking and he’s making a big mistake. He could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. This client’s company was stubbornly sticking to ColdFusion 8. It kept piling new lines of code onto its existing apps. After a while, the company’s […]
096 Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Roadmap (Multi-cloud, micro-services and more), with Ashish Garg
Ashish Garg talks about “Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Roadmap (Multi-cloud, micro-services and more), with Ashish Garg” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode Highlights ColdFusion Future PM → VM → Cloud → Containers → Serverless What will make CF take off more CF 2020 Vision – To be the modernized […]