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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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Michaela Light
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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 […]

097 State of the CF Union 2019 Survey, with Brad Wood (in-depth analysis)

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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 […]

096 Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Roadmap (Multi-cloud, micro-services and more), with Ashish Garg

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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 […]

095 ColdFusion CommandBox vs Node.js (Dev Feature shootout), with Nolan Erck

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Nolan Erck talks about “ColdFusion CommandBox vs Node.js (Dev Feature shootout)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode Highlights  The myth that JS has all the cool tools and CF is dying Node.js has lots of cool dev tools CommandBox What is Node.js JavaScript based webserver and dev tools, […]

094 Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit), with Elishia Dvorak

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Elishia Dvorak talks about “Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Show notes What is the CF Specialist Certification? 1. + 22 hours video training (get access to the videos and demo files 2 weeks before the hands on training).  This must […]