“…There could have been tools to make that a little bit easier to make the scaffolding quicker. It’s, but like, it’s, you know, it’s like when I go anywhere now with my children, right? I don’t like casually go anywhere, but my kids are coming. I’m bringing snacks and bringing diaper bag and all that. […]

 I was a guest speaker in an episode of Chicago CFUG, with host Daniel Garcia. Here are some of the topics discussed in the podcast: CF Alive Making ColdFusion Modern, Vibrant and Secure By Michaela Light Who is Michaela Overview Legacy ColdFusion Modern ColdFusion CF Tools Outreach Marketing Vibrant ColdFusion CF dying? What aspects […]

 “… every year, we are seeing an increase in the number of developers that are coming to the events like you would have seen and even Las Vegas event last year was bigger than the year before. And hopefully this year, the Summit East is going to be bigger than what it was the […]

“… So, if you had to compare these four frameworks to personalities of animals you know what would you say to them kind of roughly felt like to you?”   David Belanger and Tom King talk about “CFWheels (A ColdFusion Framework for the REST of us)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela […]

Whoo. What a year! 2018 has been huge for ColdFusion. From the amazing conferences to the major advancements in CFML to the release of ColdFusion 2018, this past year has been incredible. And it’s been an incredible year for the CF Alive podcast as well. I’ve been lucky to have had the ability to interview […]

Brian Cain talks about “ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .Net (which is a better friend)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes Speed of development Different from other languages Not constrained to a particular framework or dev methodology (eg what Microsoft or Java) RAD “Time of thought […]

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe ColdFusion 2018 (All that is new)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Here are some of the topics discussed in this podcast: Performance improvements Performance tuning Server Monitor (NEW) Flag performance issues and isolate problem areas so that you can initiate corrective action much […]

Dee Sadler talks about “Design Thinking for CFers (10 tips for better apps)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights Design thinking Hands-on UX problem solving, human-centered, iterating loop Ideating, prototyping, development, usability testing Goes well with Agile MVP (Minimum Viable Product) vs perfect So get user feedback Design […]