CFCamp has been created as a grassroots initiative to provide training and networking opportunities for beginner and advanced-level CFML, web and mobile software engineers. The conference was launched in 2008 as a single-day event with less than 100 attendees and 9 sessions.

Since then, the event has continued to grow year-by-year in attendees and a number of sessions. In the mid-2010s, a pre-conference workshop day was added to the event, which has been adopted for successfully providing half- or full-day commercial training offerings.

The conference now comprises two full days of the main conference on Thursday and Friday and with the preceding days used for commercial workshops and training. Don't forget the events…

Growth milestones 

• 2008: single-day – 80 attendees and 9 sessions
• 2011: single-day – 120 attendees and 10+ sessions
• 2017: two days – 160 attendees and 20+ sessions and workshop day
• 2018: two days – 180 attendees and 25 sessions and multiple workshop day
• 2019: two days – 200+ attendees and 25+ sessions and multiple workshop day
• (covid break)
• 2023: two days – 200+ attendees and 25+ sessions and multiple workshop day

The location

CF Camp is held at the Atomis Hotel Munich. It’s a very convenient location with its proximity to the airport and hotel rooms for attendees on-site.

CF Camp 2025

• CFCamp 2025 – May 22-23th
• Get your tickets now.

Pre-Conference

Do you want to meet other attendees or some of the speakers?

We'll meet at the Atomis Hotel bar at around 19:00 on Wednesday, May 21^th for an informal meet & greet with some food.

Come and join us.

Everybody is welcome and as always this will be a great evening with the speakers and friends. It is possible to get some food at the bar.

This is probably the best way to warm up for the conference.

Please note that the dinner is not conference-provided and at each own's expense.

Speakers

Charlie Arehart

Independent consultant

A veteran server troubleshooter who’s worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart (@carehart) is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides remote, short-term, and even on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting).

 Web: https://carehart.org/
 Twitter: @carehart

Charvi Dhoot

Senior Product Manager ColdFusion, Adobe Systems

Charvi Dhoot has over 12 years of professional experience as a software engineer for Qualcomm, and as a product manager for Speech AI & ML and Social technology products.She holds an Under Graduate degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering, with a minor in Computer Science from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. She also holds Post Graduate Degree in Computational Signal Processing with 2 conference papers and 1 journal publication.Charvi 2023 joined the Adobe ColdFusion team as a Senior Product Manager, where she applies her experiences and skills to solve new challenges & identify opportunities for the continued growth of ColdFusion.

Nolan Erck

Nolan Erck has been developing software for 19 years. Starting in the video game industry working on titles for Maxis and LucasArts, then advancing to web development in 1999, his list of credits includes Grim Fandango, StarWars Rogue Squadron, SimPark, SimSafari as well as high-traffic websites for clients.
Nolan manages the SacInteractive User Group, teaches classes on aspects of software development, and regularly gives presentations at conferences and user groups across the country.
When he’s not consulting or talking about himself in the third person, Nolan can usually be found working on one of several music projects.

Web: https://southofshasta.com
Twitter: @southofshasta

Gert Franz

Michael Hnat

Michael is developing CFML application for more than 20 years and installed his first ColdFusion Server (4.0) from floppy discs (can be seen in several museums). He developed applications for several customers using different Framworks and techniques.
He has been organizing the CFCamp for 12 years meanwhile.
In his free time he's playing ice hockey and golf.

Saravanamuthu J

ColdFusion developer, Official Adobe Bangalore ColdFusion user group manager & CTO of MitrahSoft

Web: https://www.mitrahsoft.com

Twitter: @ @cfmitrah

Kai Koenig

Software Architect, Ventego Creative

Kai is one of the co-founders of and works as Software Solutions Architect for Ventego Creative Ltd in Wellington, New Zealand.
Kai got his first computer in 1985 and hasn’t stopped building things with technology since then.
As a software architect he works with a variety of clients to help them leverage technology to achieve their business visions and goals. He specialises in JVM-based technologies (like Java, Kotlin, Adobe ColdFusion, Railo and Lucee) and mobile application development with Android and Flutter.
Other areas of Kai’s interest are delivering education online, improving development teams’ performance through continuous integration and build processes, data science and machine learning technologies.
Kai regularly speaks at international conferences like Droidcon Berlin, Mobile Refresh Wellington, CF Camp in Germany, Android Makers in France and many others.

LinkedIn: kaikoenig

Twitter: @AgentK

Maximilian Kwapil

Hey there, my name is Max.
I've been a full stack Web Developer for a few years now. Although I've been enjoying working with CFML in my day job, I also try to stay curious about other topics. My wife and I live in good old Bavaria with our two cute doggos. Ask me about them when you meet me and I'll show you waaaay too many pictures of them on my phone.

Web: https://www.gamestar.de

Srikanth Madishetti

Software Engineer

With 20 years of Lucee and CFML expertise, including tenure at Adobe and as an Adobe-certified ColdFusion developer, I’ve contributed significantly to the community. My contributions span from open-source libraries like CbValidate to crafting essential tools like the CF Code Compliance Tool. I earned Guru and Masters certificates on Experts Exchange for my contributions to Lucee and CFML, awarded based on my articles and solutions shared on the platform.
I’ve also delved into areas like CF-Jedis integration and authored an ebook on personal productivity, “Manage Your Energy, Not Time,” available on Amazon. My extensive experience spans multiple countries, including India, Malaysia, the UK, the US, Cyprus, and Australia, where I’ve tackled diverse CF projects. I’ve shared insights through tech talks on topics ranging from OWASP security in CF, CF best practices, ColdFusion 2016 features, and best coding standards in CF.
At CFCAMP 2024, I presented on seamlessly integrating ChatGPT for content completion and chat assistance using the CF-ChatGPT-Bridge, an open-source library I developed.

Web: https://www.experts-exchange.com/members/srikanthmadishetti.html?cid=2035

Luis Majano

CEO

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer, published author, and founder and CEO of Ortus Solutions, Corp (www.ortussolutions.com), a consulting firm specializing in open-source tooling, web development, architecture, and professional open-source.
Since 2000, he has designed and worked with software architecture and technologies. He is passionate about learning and mentoring developers so they can succeed with sustainable software practices and the usage and development of open-source software.
He is the creator of ColdBox HMVC, ContentBox Modular CMS, TestBox BDD, CommandBox CLI, and over 200 open-source projects. He speaks regularly at several international conferences and blogs at www.luismajano.com.

Web: https://www.ortussolutions.com

Twitter: @lmajano

Andrew Mercer

Andrew has been developing web applications with CFML since 2000 across Finance, Real Estate, Accounting, and Music/Video Distribution business sectors as an employee and contractor.
As a huge fan of CFML, he has been a User Group Manager and Presenter at webDU and cf.Objective(ANZ) in Australian. Presenting at cfCamp continues his commitment of giving back to a community that he loves.

Web: https://webonix.net

Twitter: @Webonix

Marin Niehues

Marin Niehues (29) is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Business Consulting at PLOIN GmbH, a German boutique consultancy specializing in management and technology. With eight years of consulting experience – plus two startups of his own – he advises a broad portfolio from VC-backed scaleups to DAX40 corporations, focusing on organizational structures, organizational performance and vertical management practices. In the past three years, Marin has spoken at conferences in over ten countries and three continents, including events hosted by Google Canada and Microsoft USA.

Guust Nieuwenhuis

Guust Nieuwenhuis is a Full Stack Web Wizard with experience in a wide range of technologies. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in projects for various clients like the European Commission, NSHQ (NATO), Adobe, AS Adventure Group, NS (Dutch railways), CZ Groep, Proximus, Avery Dennison, ZilliZ and Mediagenix.
Through We Are North, he does ‘Customization-As-A-Service’. They don’t build from scratch, but find the best solutions out there and tailor them to their customers’ business needs. In doing so, they never lose sight of the goal of the client.
In his free time, Guust play the double bass and drums, cross the forest on his mountain bike and coaches the youth at his local football club (where he’s a board member as well). He likes spending time with his wife and two kids or meeting friends for a chat, game or drink.
When Guust still have some time left, he mainly spends it behind his computer to fulfil his hunger for the latest trends in IT.

Web: http://www.guustnieuwenhuis.be

Twitter: @lagaffe

CF Camp 2024

• CFCamp 2024 – June 13-14th
• Early bird tickets for CFCamp 2024 are available now! Get your tickets now. (Early bird until April, 21st)
• FYI the call for speakers ended March 18th

CF Camp 2023: Unveiling the Future of ColdFusion and Lucee CFML

This year we are expecting 200+ attendees due to a heightened demand for community meetings after multiple years of hibernation and a widened focus of the conference and expanded content coverage to CFML-related topics like cloud infrastructure and mobile development in the context of CFML as a technology stack.

It is also considered to be the Lucee and Adobe ColdFusion CF conference in Europe. Lucee seems to be bigger in Europe than US.

Pre-Conference Dinner

Do you want to meet other attendees or some of the speakers? The meet is at the Marriott Hotel bar at about 19:00 on Wednesday, June 21, for an informal meet & greet.

Networking and Community

CF Camp 2023 provides a unique opportunity to network with industry leaders, fellow CFML developers, and Lucee enthusiasts from across the globe. Engage in meaningful conversations, exchange ideas, and foster collaborations that can propel your career and professional growth. The conference will host networking events, social gatherings, and informal meetups, creating an environment that encourages knowledge sharing and camaraderie.

Registration and Tickets

The ticket price includes access to all sessions, access to the after-show event on Thursday, access to the sponsor/fair area, food and drinks during both days and a conference goodie bag with several swag items and vouchers! Also, you get access to the recordings of the sessions of CFCamp 2023 and the recordings of CFCamp 2019!

You may notice the increase in the ticket price, but let's be fair…  less than 135€ (net) per conference day is a really good deal, isn't it?

CFCamp is still a non-profit conference and we should support it and the team making the effort of organizing it.

So, book your tickets here

Preconference classes

In 2023, there's a number of training sessions, workshop and specialty mini-conferences before the actual main conference. The Pre-Conference events are held at the CFCamp venue at the Marriott Hotel Munich Airport in Freising.

All Pre-Conference events will take place on Wednesday, June 21 and can be booked alongside your CFCamp ticket or as a separate, independent booking.

You can book here.

All chargeable pre-conference events include food and drinks during the day, including a delicious lunch.

Below is the training we’re offering this year:

PresideCon

Four years have passed since the last PresideCon back in 2019 when we heard about the release of Preside 10.11. With over 10 releases since then, there is a lot to talk about! Come and meet with the Preside team and community to hear about all the latest Preside platform awesomeness.

Ticket: 75€ (89,25€ incl. 19% tax)

TestBox: Getting started with BDD-TDD Oh My!

This course will enhance your application toolbox and development skills: Understand the theory and principles behind software testing. Understand all types of testing and know when to apply them.

Ticket: 349€ (415,31€ incl. 19% tax)

Coldbox 7 – from zero to hero

In this 1-day training, we will introduce you to ColdBox 7. The latest release of this conventions-based HMVC framework.

Ticket: 349€ (415,31€ incl. 19% tax)

Legacy Code Conversion To The Modern World

This one-day workshop will focus on converting legacy .cfm-based sites into a more modern coding design that has less overall code, is easier to maintain and manage, mistakes and errors can be more readily and speedily identified and fixed, and is easier to read.

Ticket: 349€ (415,31€ incl. 19% tax)

CommandBox Server Deployment for the Modern Age

This course will show you how to deploy applications for local development or production servers using CommandBox and its ecosystem of tools.

Ticket: 349€ (415,31€ incl. 19% tax)

Schedule and the Speakers

The conference agenda is designed to cater to a diverse range of interests and skill levels, covering various aspects of CFML and Lucee development. Attendees can expect a rich mix of informative sessions, hands-on workshops, and engaging discussions.

Please note that this agenda is subject to change. For the most up-to-date and detailed session information, please refer to the CF Camp 2023 website.

Day 1 – Thursday, 22nd

Welcome to CFCamp 2023 by Michael Hnat

8:45 – 9:00

Tech Keynote Lucee by Gert Franz

9:00 – 10:00

Get your Front End Rolling with Vue and InertiaJS by Eric Peterson

Room 1

10:20 – 11:05

The JavaScript frontend scene is exciting, but maybe you don’t want to write an API just to use the new shiny. Enter InertiaJS, a new framework that allows you to use Vue as your view layer while keeping your existing backend. Come see how to take advantage of this using ColdBox, Vue, and InertiaJS.

Business Rule Visualisation using CFML and HTML – or “What we really need is a flowchart” by Michael Horne

Room 2

10:20 – 11:05

When your business rules overwhelm you with complexity and you need your business users to be able to change them, what do you do? A solution is a software that presents business rules as a flow chart. Sophisticated enough to represent the rules but simple enough for users to modify them.

Here's the presentation by Michael Horne

Please pass the salt: Serve up passwords with a side of entropy by Brad Wood

Room 1

11:20 – 12:05

He’ll look at what you’re doing right… and wrong when storing your user passwords. He’ll look at the most basic forms of password storage and move to more secure methods, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each method, including covering high-visibility hacks that have hit real companies.

Here's the presentation by Brad

Scaling our Lucee-powered product business by Alex Skinner and Dom Watson

Room 2

11:20 – 12:05

In this talk, Alex and Dominic discuss the problems and solutions they have used to efficiently run and scale their vast CFML estate across different regions in Kubernetes using Preside, Gitlab, ELK, Grafana and more!

Why Testing Is Important And Where Do I Start? By Nolan Erck

Room 1

13:00 – 13:45

Apps are getting more complex, clients have big expectations, and the world is growing quickly. But the idea of using a full blown testing framework feels daunting, so instead, we do…nothing.

React and CFML : A Natural Fit by Dan Card

Room 2

13:00 – 13:45

React is a “View” framework and makes powerful JavaScript based applications for the browser. CFML is a server side “Controller” language and can rapidly create powerful and secure APIs to be used by outside applications. Here, he’ll create a React app and a CFML API for a working local ecosystem.

Beyond <cferror>: Keeping on top of your crashes by Kai Koenig

Room 1

14:00 – 14:45

It doesn’t matter if you’re working on a website, an app or on a complex back end enterprise system. We all know that software is usually not free of bugs. Monitoring your back end systems in some way is reasonably common nowadays. But is there more to it than just dumping errors into a DB table?

This talk will provide insights into various approaches available to CFML developers.

Exploring the Dark Side of Agile Software Development and Software Architecture by Jafar Shayan

Room 2

14:00 – 14:45

This talk will uncover the brutal truth about Agile software development and software architecture! Jafar will share real-world examples about ugly truths and harsh realities of these practices. Through raw and unfiltered insights and case studies learn how to turn the pitfalls into opportunities.

Frontend Testing with cypress.io by Maximilian Kwapil

Room 1

15:10 – 15:55

Cypress.io is an awesome frontend testing tool that can run automated tests with the help of embedded browsers and their APIs. Check if your website does what it says with scripts in an easy-to-learn JS syntax and watch cypress open a browser and magically check your site as if it were a user.

cbSecurity – Secure all Things! by Luis Majano 

Room 2

15:10 – 15:55

The ColdBox cbSecurity module is a collection of modules to help secure your ColdBox applications. From security contexts, rules, annotations, headers and even password generation. cbSecurity will help you secure all things.

cbPlaywright — End-to-End Tests with Playwright and TestBox by Eric Peterson

Room 1

16:10 – 16:55

Test your application in the same way your users interact with it while still writing your tests in TestBox and CFML. Learn tips and techniques for writing good end-to-end tests, and discover the power of Playwright.

Taming the Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses with CFML by Pete Freitag

Room 2

16:10 – 16:55

It doesn’t matter what language you use, security weaknesses will find a way to show up. In this talk, Pete will look at 25 types of software weaknesses that cause the most security vulnerabilities. For each weakness, he’ll look at how CFML might be impacted and, most importantly, avoid it.

Massive Task Scaling with Lucee's Task Event Gateways and Kubernetes by Mark Drew

Room 2

17:10 – 17:55

In this presentation, the speaker discusses the process of scaling tasks using Lucee’s Task Event Gateways and Kubernetes. The presentation highlights the challenges of quickly scaling to meet demand and the benefits of using Lucee’s Task Event Gateways for task management.

Day 2 – Friday, 23rd

Don't Quit Your Day Job (Unleashing Creativity: The Inspiring Synergy between Software Developers and Emerging Technologies) by Kevin Goldsmith

Room 1

9:00 – 10:00

Join this session for an enlightening keynote presentation that will demonstrate how software developers and emerging technologies have a rich history of collaboration, even when it initially appeared that new advancements might threaten the profession.

Incident Management – Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk by Hila Fish

Room 1

10:20 – 11:05

Incident management can be challenging and throw you curveballs with unexpected issues, resulting in data loss, downtimes, and overall money & hours of sleep going to waste, BUT! There are practical things you could do & prepare you to make it a smoother process and handle it better.

What's new in CSS? by Sebastian Zartner

Room 2

10:20 – 11:05

A breakdown of all CSS features that made it into browsers lately and a peak into upcoming features from someone involved in the CSS standardization.

Hidden Gems in ColdFusion 2023 by Charlie Arehart

Room 1

11:20 – 12:05

What’s new in CF2023–that you may not hear so much about? With each release, certain “key” features get lots of attention, but there are always little “hidden gems” that may excite you even more.

Hosting Multi-context Lucee with CommandBox and ModCFML by Richard Herbert

Room 2

11:20 – 12:05

Hosting multiple Lucee websites on a single computer can be complex and frustrating. Using CommandBox and ModCFML, this talk will help smooth out those complexities and relieve you of those frustrations.

How to Hack on the Lucee Server code base by Zac Spitzer

Room 1

13:00 – 14:45

You love Lucee and know a bit of Java and would like to get involved with making Lucee even better?

Masa CMS in a modern ecosystem by Grant Shepert

Room 2

13:00 – 13:45

Pity the developer whose stack dictates their solutions. Masa CMS has an assortment of tools and methodologies for integrating into the modern ecosystem. From headless renders to JS SPA’s, Masa’s flexibility will free your solution from the underlying stack.

Technical Documentation – How Can I Write Them Better and Why Should I Care? By Hila Fish

Room 2

14:00 – 15:45

Data collection done by people is a wasteful act and could result in duplicated work. Gathering info for tasks, for code readability or for infrastructure maintenance – Documentation plays a crucial part in that. How to write technical docs in an easy way & why should you care? Find out in this session!

Configuring CFML Docker containers through environment variables by Guust Nieuwenhuis

Room 1

15:10 – 15:55

Containers have become the cornerstone of modern development, but hardcoded configurations can complicate deployment and limit their usefulness. Discover how can you create flexible configurations and distribute your projects reliably and securely among a myriad of environments and throughout our application’s lifecycle.

ETL in Lucee, does it make sense and how to tune it? by Gert Franz and Mark Drew

Room 2

15:10 – 15:55

Currently, the presenter is using custom created ETL to load data from different sources into the database. Does it work?

Web Components in Your CFML Application by Nolan Erck

Room 1

16:10 – 16:55

Web Components provide a modular way to build a consistent design system and user experience across your entire application. Instead of copy/pasting chunks of coded into various places, you can have a JavaScript/HTML expert focus on the UX, without them needing to worry about anything else!

Unleash the Power of FusionReactor and OpsPilot AI: Accelerate Troubleshooting and Optimize ColdFusion Performance by David Tattersall

Room 2

16:10 – 16:55

Join this session for an exclusive presentation on FusionReactor and OpsPilot AI, where David will demonstrate how these powerful tools can revolutionize troubleshooting and optimize the performance of your ColdFusion applications.

 

Who are the CF camp sponsors

1. Lucee – Platinum
2. Distrokid – Platinum
3. Pixl8 – Gold
4. Adobe – Gold
5. Rasia Switzerland – Gold
6. FusionReactor – Silver
7. Ortus Solutions – Silver
8. MASA CMS – Silver
9. Toomba – Silver
10. Foundeo – Bronze

 

See you at CF Camp 2023!

CF Camp 2019 Full Report (Slides, Interviews, Everything CFML and Lucee)

What is CF Camp

CF Camp 2019 Slides and Presentations

Day one, morning in the Freising, near Munich Germany. Lots of familiar faces, and lots of new ones. That's why CF Camp is so great. (among other reasons…) As Matt Gifford said,

 

Michi Hnat gave the introductory talk about CF Camp and it's 8th year. Lots of cools stuff has happened and more is expected.

  

A very cool thing organizers did this year is speakers booth.

Lucee 5.4 & 6 by Gert Franz and Michael Offner-Streit

Gert was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. Back in the late eighties he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched to later IT as a profession and programmed for several companies in the past as a database administrator and system analyst.

Michael found his way into the information technology during the dot-com hype. He started Railo as a diploma project where he was supposed to write a compiler for translating CFML into CFXD. In late 2014 Michael left the Railo project. A few months later he started the Lucee project as a fork of the Railo LGPL code.

The presentation isn't available yet.

Automated Database Migrations with CFMigrations by Eric Peterson

cfmigrations is a tool to describe database changes and version them with your application code.

Find out how cfmigrations can help you tame your database.

Eric Peterson is a CFML and javascript developer at Ortus Solutions (ColdBox, CommandBox, etc.). He is a prolific module developer and the creator of projects like qb, Quick, and ColdBox Elixir.

You can find the presentation here

Flutter for Web: Beautiful Apps and Websites with a Single Codebase by Miguel Beltran and Lara Martín

Flutter is a portable UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively-compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.

Find out  how you can use Flutter to build mobile applications and websites with a single codebase.

Miguel Beltran is a Freelance Consultant specialized in mobile development for Android and Flutter. He has been working in tech for more than a decade developing products for remote international teams.

Lara is a self-made Android developer based in Berlin. Her passion for Android made her transition from her background in science to software development. Her dream is to make apps more accessible for everyone.

You can find the presentation here

Preside in the wild, 2019 by Alex Skinner

Preside, the Open Source CFML application development platform, is a growing platform and community powering a wide array of applications; from large CMS driven membership website, to intranets, mailing list software and stand alone APIs.

In this talk, Alex Skinner, CEO of the Pixl8 Group from London, gave us a tour of what is possible to build with this exciting platform.

Alex is the co-founder of Pixl8 Group – a London-based creative technical consultancy and digital products business with a wide reach into the membership sector.

The presentation aren't available yet.

An in-depth introduction to Vue.js by Matt Gifford

Vue.js has proven itself to be an incredibly easy to learn yet powerful front-end reactive JavaScript framework.

Explore how to iterate over data, how to build a component, how to nest components (and why you would want to), using the Vue router to navigate around your application, and using Vuex for data persistence.

Matt Gifford is owner and primary primate at his own development consultancy company, monkehWorks Ltd. His work primarily focuses on building mobile apps and ColdFusion development.

You can find the presentation here

Practical Lessons Learned from 250+ Legacy CFML Projects by Jorge Reyes

Legacy Land is not a nice place to be and moving away from it requires courage, commitment and shear willpower.

However, in this session, you could learn valuable practical lessons around Legacy Projects, practical lessons, when put into practice, can help increase the chances of project success.

Jorge is a passionate Industrial Engineer born in El Salvador with 9 years of experience managing projects. He currently manages web development projects for Ortus Solutions, Corp.

The presentation isn't available yet.

Deploying and Testing your sites with Bitbucket by Mark Drew

In this talk, Mark Drew was talking about how we have been using Bitbucket pipelines, Docker, CodeceptJS, TestBox and other tools to get our full suite of tests and assurances that our sites are up after each deployment.

Mark has been programming CFML since 1996, and even though he has had forays into Perl, ASP and PHP he is still loving every line of code he has crafted with CFML.

The presentation aren't available yet.

Testing My Non-ColdBox Site With TestBox by Nolan Erck

Ever had this thought? “Sure, TestBox looks great, but I built a bunch of web apps that aren’t based on ColdBox. How do I test those?”

Answer: The same way! TestBox is an entirely stand-alone product! It in no way requires that your apps be ColdBox based — TestBox really is a tool available for all CFML developers!

In this talk, Nolan showed how easy it is to install and configure TestBox.

Nolan Erck has been developing software for 21 years. Starting in the video game industry working on titles for Maxis and LucasArts, then advancing to web development in 1999, his list of credits includes Grim Fandango, StarWars Rogue Squadron, SimPark, SimSafari as well as high-traffic websites for a variety of clients.

The presentation isn't available yet.

CFConfig – a new way to manage your CF Engine config by Brad Wood

In this talk, Brad was talking about a new library that’s the answer you’ve been looking for if you’ve ever wanted to script out the complete setup of a server without manually copying XML files around.

CFConfig is a command line library that is built on top of CommandBox so it can be run anywhere by hand or as part of an automated script.

Brad has been programming ColdFusion for 12 years and has used every version of CF since 4.5.

He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server.

You can find the presentation here

Testing – How Vital and How Easy to use by Uma Ghotikar

She showed us the basics of writing unit tests using TestBox and MockBox framework. We were looking into the demo examples that cover xUnit and BDD style of testing in TestBox.

Uma enjoys coding especially the back-end application development and learning new technical skills.

You can find the presentation here

A Comedy of Errors … in Web App Security by Rob Dudley

A lighthearted look at the serious business of modern web application security, with life lessons those who got it really wrong!

Rob is a software developer, CTO, company co-founder and has spent his professional life growing applications beyond their initial designs often with limited resources and budget

You can find the presentation here

Multi-language / multi-OS communication using RabbitMQ by Wil de Bruin

He was explaining how they tried to automate the various workflows by using a messaging system such as RabbitMQ for communication between our cfml based customer control panel and these services.

In 1994 he founded Site4U BV, at that time a company specializing in software development and web design. One of his first application was to find Dutch ISPs at local area rates written in PHP/Mini SQL, but soon he discovered this kind of interactive websites could easier be built with DBML using Cold Fusion by Allaire.

Download the presentation here

Asynchronous and synchronous code. There and back again. by Maciej Treder

This session covered in-depth the asynchronous JavaScript code execution (with the event loop explanation) and its drawbacks.

Maciej is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Akamai Technologies.

You can find the presentation here

Distributing Teams: No Kid-ing! By Gert Franz and Mark Drew

The session covered the journey of how to take successful and well running one-man show into an equally successful remote team spread across the world.

The presentation isn't available yet.

Hardware connectivity on the progressive web by Majid Hajian

In this session, Majid was going through some of the web capabilities to connect devices into a progressive web app and show how the web could go beyond the browsers and take control of our devices around us.

A software developer at heart, Majid is passionate about web platform especially hardware connectivity and performance and in particular Progressive Web Apps.

You can find the presentation here

A REST API in under 5 minutes with Preside by Seb Duggan

In this talk, he demonstrated how, with just a few lines of code, you can expose your Preside data layer to the world via a REST API with the following features out of the box:

• basic authentication
• automatic Swagger documentation
• data queues for users to subscribe to data changes

He built his first website in 1994 and started getting paid for developing for the web soon afterwards. He discovered CFML in 1998, and have never looked back…

You can find the presentation here

But doesn’t everyone on the Internet speak English? by Jen Doherty

In this talk, Jen introduced different localization and internationalization techniques relevant for a CFML-based tech stack.

Jen is the internationalization coordinator for Cupid Media, an international online dating company. en manages a team of 20 freelance localizers and coordinates the translation duties of 7 bilingual customer service staff.

Jen’s team mainly works with CFML, Java, Javascript, and Kotlin.

The presentation is here

Building secure applications by Joel Stobart

Joel introduced how application be attacked to leak information, to destroy the information you do have, or to prevent access to your application, and how can services be affected, and how can we develop software better, to mitigate the risks.

Presentation highlights:

• Intercommunication Encryption

• Auditing, Logging and Monitoring vs. Privacy

• Firewalls

• Access Controls

• Securing dependencies

He is a CFML, Java, Spring Boot, REACT and Angular developer, CTOs and Software Engineer.

The presentation isn't available yet.

End to End Testing of Coldfusion Applications using Test Cafe by Francisco Mancardi

The talk content:

-a Brief refresh of one of well known patterns used on Test Automation: the Page Object Model

-why Test Cafe is the choice vs cypress vs selenium

-design and setup of the test governance process using Open Source solutions

-adding Test Automation to your CI chain using Gitlab and docker

Francisco Mancardi is electronics engineer. +30 years of experience in software development, networking, development languages experiences.

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The trials and tribulations of moving to Linux as a developer by Kai König

In this talk, Kai talked about and explained the pros and cons of a move to Linux. Starting from hardware and distribution choices to very specific development and infrastructure challenges.

Kai is one of the co-founders of and works as Software Solutions Architect for Ventego Creative Ltd, he's also the CTO of Zen Ex Machina, a recently launched startup in the fields of digital & user experience consultancy.

You can find the presentation here

How To Design With Your User’s Needs & Expectations In Mind by Eleftheria Batsou

She presented general rules of thumb and mostly apply any web and mobile application with some exceptions.

She focused on mobile/web applications rather than on physical products.

Eleftheria is an App Developer and freelancing as a designer and a content creator.

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Go passwordless with FIDO2 by Rob Dudley

Rob is a software developer, CTO, company co-founder and has spent his professional life growing applications beyond their initial designs.

You can find the presentation here

Mouseless Development in vi-mode by Miguel Beltran

In this talk, he introduced Vim and modal editing, basic actions, cursor movements, how to configure Vim for your needs, and some of the tricks that helped learn and fall in love with it.

Miguel Beltran is a Freelance Consultant specialized in mobile development for Android and Flutter.

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Squeezing performance of a Lucee application using FusionReactor by Dom Watson

Dominic introduced how he discovered seemingly minor changes in Pixl8’s core platform stack that made some drastic improvements to performance.

Presentation highlights:

• Micro optimization
• Getting to the bottom of hard to debug problems
• Improving overall problems in your applications

Dominic trained as a Musical Theatre actor before embarking on a career in London's westend. Fortunately, this folly was cut short by an overtaking love of all things programming that led to a decisive career change building web applications.

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Design Patterns: Common Solutions to Common Problems by Brad Wood

This presentation covered some of the most common design patterns along with examples and their pros and cons with examples in CFML.

You can find the presentation here

Comparing Monitoring Solutions for CF and Lucee by Charlie Arehart

In this session, Charlie introduced several monitoring alternatives, and which are available for various releases of CF and Lucee. He identified several goals (problems to be solved or features one may seek) and then identified if and how each different solution meets each goal.

A veteran server troubleshooter who's worked in enterprise IT for more than three decades, Charlie Arehart is a longtime community contributor who as an independent consultant provides short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels.

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Comparing Monitoring Solutions for CF and Lucee by Charlie ArehartWhy the Firefox DevTools are not as bad as you might think (and why Firebug had to die) by Sebastian Zartner

In the talk, Sebastian introduced the history around Firebug and the Firefox DevTools.

Also, he outlined some of the important features the Firefox DevTools have making them unique over Firebug and also the Chrome DevTools including hidden features.

Sebastian was one of the main Firebug contributors. He started web development at the time between PHP 3 and 4.

Though since he learned about ColdFusion back in the time when MX 6 was the latest, he loved to work with it.

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Who are the CF camp sponsors

1. Adobe

2. DistroKid

3. Lucee

4. Pixl8

5. elastic

6. FusionReactor

7. Ortus Solutions

8. TUXEDO Computers

9. U2D

10. Bokowsky + Laymann

11. CONTENS

12. TeraTech

13. Kondoku

 

Beside CFCamp there are also several interesting events, like the CFAcademy, trainings sessions (i.e. Coldbox), product presentations and so on.

Organizers' goal is to reach every level of programmer, starting with 101 sessions on many topics and going right up to pro skills.

Evening event

The Famous Code Masters game show with 2 teams. They  have CFML related questions with Mark Drew and Rob Dudley hosting. It is a lot of fun! You get to enjoy watching CF experts sharing their knowledge with the rest of the attendees and offering a lot of positive energy during the evening. Now, I don't drink beer, but for those of you that do, prepare… It's very good, real German beer.

  

Two teams, EU Vs. US, Guust Nieuwenhuis and Matt Gifford Vs. Charlie Arehart and Nolan Erck. It was a lot of fun. Spice Boys (EU team) was defending their title from the last year.

Every year CF Camp has been a fantastic event, including a pre conference dinner and a party at the first evening of the event and it was great. That's probably why the next day takes a while to get up to full speed… 🙂

 

Related: CF Camp 2018: Madness in Munich full report

Video recordings of the sessions

Each year, all the video recordings of the Sessions are available. Attendees of CFCamp get an individual link and get them for free. If you haven't got your code already, send them an email.

For all the others there's a small fee. It's understandable, and you should invest in your knowledge, don't be shy.

The videos can all be found and purchased here: videos.2018.cfcamp.org

To give you an impression of what you get, here are the two keynotes from Adobe and Lucee:

Adobe keynote:

 

Lucee keynote:

CF Camp 2018: The Only Adobe ColdFusion Conference in Europe

September 6, 2018 By Michaela Light