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Welcome to CF Alive, the only ColdFusion podcast dedicated to helping CFers thrive in their jobs and growing the CF programmer community. Discover practices, tools, techniques, tips, trends and what is new in the world of ColdFusion today.

ColdFusion Podcast is More Alive Than Ever

Interviews with 60+ top CF experts such as Charlie Arehart, Nolan Erck, Luis Majano, Kishore Balakrishnan and other top Adobe and Lucee executives who are setting the future direction of CFML.

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106 Adobe CF Summit 2020 (What to Expect) with Kishore Balakrishnan

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“…this situation is not right for having physical events this year. So we are going to make it online. And we are very excited to that this is going to be one of the biggest conferences for CF this year…” Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit 2020 (What to Expect)” in this episode of […]

105 CFML Open Source Learning with John Farrar

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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 […]

104 CFer Mental Helpers (Stay Sane during Crises) with Jeff Kunkel

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Jeff Kunkel talks about “CFer Mental Helpers (Stay Sane during Crises)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.   Show notes Why now In normal times, 20% of Americans have mental illness every year (APA) Now in lockdown and economic depression, it is >60% ill 30% clinical depressed 30% PTSD […]

103 Cool Lucee CFML (GigaBytes file parsing and more) with Gert Franz

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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

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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 […]

102 ColdFusion in Biz (the Latest Trends in CF consulting)with Joby John

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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 […]

101 CF Summit India 2019 Revealed with Adobe’s Kishore Balakrishnan

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Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “CF Summit India 2019 Revealed” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What exactly is CF Summit India? Started in 2018 For people who can’t travel to the US or Europe from Asia CF Summit West in Las Vegas 8th year Expecting 250-300, 200 […]

100 CF Alive (Revolution Retrospective) with Nolan Erck and Michaela Light

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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 […]

099 CF Camp 2019 (Everything CFML) with Kai Koenig and Mitchi Hnat

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Kai Koenig and Mitchi Hnat talk about “CF Camp 2019 (Everything CFML)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “…So there’s an interesting German saying basically that is basically in German it’s called like, Ooh, in telecom shown, so literally means efficient later. It means something like you have to […]

098 Adobe CF Summit West 2019 (All that is new) with Kishore Balakrishnan

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Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit West 2019 (All that is new) with Kishore Balakrishnan” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. “…all the ColdFusion developers, that’s one place where you get to meet the actual ColdFusion developers who develop the product and interact with them as well. And […]