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115 ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 2) with Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel

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Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 2)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

“So this is part two of our panel discussion on Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee ColdFusion, or CFML, as they like to say. And if you haven't checked out last time, I'll put it in the show notes. But part one, we covered the ease of programming modern IDE, and open source versus closed source licensing differences. Some of the cool features in Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee, are ease of installation community in third-party tools and engine speed, scalability, and performance. So all of those topics, check out the first part. But this time, we're going to be talking about other things in Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee all the way cool places you can get documentation from how you can get help and support some of the podcasts out there. And engine updates. And we'll probably talk about some other things too because Gert gave us an extensive list of extra topics that we will work on fitting into the episode along with any other topics that Charlie, Ben, and Mark provided.”

Show notes

Docs (links below): much more than just CFML Reference, for both

Where do I get help (free & paid)

  • Paid Tech support
    • Adobe CF support programs
    • Lucee support by individual companies like Rasia, Ortus etc.
      • LAS donations for new features
    • Third parties eg Charlie Arehart, Mike Collins
  • Community support (free)
    • ACF
      • Adobe CF Forums community.coldfusion.com 
      • Adobe CF Portal
      • [email protected] (Free install support)
    • Lucee
    • Both
      • CFML slack
        • Limited retention of posts due to free version (paid would be many thousands of dollars due to per seat cost)
        • Mixed up topics as many folks don’t use threads
        • Linen exposes Slack content
          • https://cfml.linen.dev
      • Twitter
      • Facebook CF programmers group
      • Ortus Discord
    • SlackOverflow
      • Google searchable
      • Used by Ganter analysts in programming language reports
    • Tiobe index (supposedly rates “popularity” of languages)

Conferences

  • IntoTheBox (in-person and remote, in Sept)
  • CF Summit (in-person and remote, in Oct)
  • CFCamp (postponed again for 2022)
  • Meta listing of them, with dates, locations, links
    • https://www.cf411.com/cfconf

How to find ACF and Lucee developers?

  • Drive for new CF developers
    • Bringing in other modern languages

CFML training

Podcasts

  • CF Alive
  • Modernize or Die
  • Working Code, with Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, and Tim Cunningham
  • Meta resource of podcasts

CF Engine compatibility

  • New features created by ACF and Lucee 
  • Backward compatibility to prior versions

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Bio

Charlie Arehart

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 short-term, remote, on-demand troubleshooting/tuning assistance for organizations of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting).

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Gert Franz

Gert was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1997. He is one of the key people behind Lucee. 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. Gert spoke a lot at all major conferences in the past and will for sure in the future. He is now a fellow at DistroKid.

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Mark Drew

Mark Drew 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. 

He has been a strong advocate for open source, having worked on CFEclipse, Railo and now Lucee as well as a number of other projects. He tries to create a pull request a day, to keep the bugs at bay.

By day he helps other developers as the lead DevOps engineer at DistroKid, ensuring that the carefully crafted artisanal code goes from laptop to server in the shortest time while keeping all its flavor. By night he develops games with CMD: Studio. 

He has been known to do a podcast too! called the Localhost Podcast in which we talk all about the web. He also talks about the process of making games on the Level Design Podcast

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Ben Nadel

Ben Nadel is the technical co-founder of InVision App, Inc – a digital product design platform used to make the world's best customer experiences. As the original CTO, Ben now spends his days as a Principal Engineer, leading maintenance and development efforts on InVision's legacy platform. This includes systems monitoring, database optimization, instrumentation, back-end work, front-end work, product ideation, and research-and-development. He envisions himself as a champion of the User Experience; and, often advocates for the User even in the face of internal opposition.

Outside of work hours, Ben wakes up at 5 am, seven days a week, so that he can attempt to stay on top of the rapidly changing world of web development. He uses these early-morning hours to read, conduct experiments, and write articles for his blog, BenNadel.com, which he has been running since 2006.

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Interview Transcript

Michaela Light 0:00
Welcome back to the show. I'm here with these amazing ColdFusion experts got Charlie Earhart, good friends, Ben Adele and Mark drew from all over the world got Charlie is in the middle of the United States in Kentucky Ben is in New

Charlie Arehart 0:20
flyover country.

Michaela Light 0:22
flyover country. Yeah, Ben is in the edge country on the East Coast in New York. Mark is joining us I think from London in the United Kingdom. He's probably got the queen in the background celebrating a jubilee with her cold fusion apps. Yeah, there she is. She can't come on camera right now. We'll bring him on. Come on. One of the corgis behind you.

Mark Drew 0:45
They've eaten a little bit too much right now.

Michaela Light 0:48
Yes. And good is joining us from the center of Europe. Which part of Europe are you in Switzerland or some other? The neutral one? The neutral one? Yes. That must be

Gert Franz 0:58
allegedly neutral.

Michaela Light 1:00
Yes. Allegedly. Yes.

Mark Drew 1:02
Queen had tea with one of your compatriots this weekend. Paddington Bear from deepest, darkest Peru, which is Oh,

Michaela Light 1:11
yes. Hope she served marmalade sandwiches. So

Mark Drew 1:15
they did. The exactly did. He brought his own and she had one in her handbag, which I never knew about.

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Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 100 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks "What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?" The answers still inspire her to continue to write and interview new speakers.

Michaela has been programming in ColdFusion for more than 20 years. She founded TeraTech in 1989. The company specializes in ColdFusion application development, security and optimization. She has also founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union Survey.

 

 

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