TeraTech

The ColdFusion Experts: Develop | Secure | Optimize

  • Services
  • About
  • CF Alive
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Contact

  • Services
  • About
  • CF Alive
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Contact

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

July 25, 2019 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Elishia Dvorak talks about “Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Contents

    • Show notes
    • What is the CF Specialist Certification?
    • Why Certify
    • How is this different from the old certification program?
    • Requirements
    • Why did you decide to bring it back?
    • What does it cover?
  • Course Outline
  • Introduction to ColdFusion
    • Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder
    • ColdFusion Fundamentals
    • Database Operations
    • Variable and Data Types
    • Shared Scopes and Handling State
    • Application Framework
    • PDF Operations in CF
    • Object-Oriented ColdFusion
    • When
    • Where
    • CF Summit
    • CF cert level
    • Learn CF in a Week
    • WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
    • Mentioned in this episode
    • Bio
    • Links

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 be completed prior to the hands on class
      • You can ask questions of the Adobe experts during this time
    • 2. a full-day hands on class taught by top Adobe ColdFusion experts. 
      • Instructor plus TAs
    • 3. Multiple-choice assessment 
    • 4. Adobe ColdFusion Specialist certificate.
      • And LinkedIn badge to help you stand out from the crowd
    • Cost
      • $399 including the video training, hands-on class and assessment
  • Why Certify

    • See where your skills are compared to other CFers
    • Learn new features that you might have missed
    • Improve chances of promotion or being hired
  • How is this different from the old certification program?

    • The old one was CF 9
      • Only a test – did not include any training
    • The new one is video training and 1-day training with Q&A plus a test
  • 1-day training

    • Small classroom format
    • 1 instructor + 2 TAs
  • Requirements

    • Bring a modern laptop with CF 2018 and CF Builder 2018 already installed on it
      • Install help provided
  • Why did you decide to bring it back?

    • It has been 10 years
    • Developers, managers and organization for both certification and training from Adobe
    • Future – other topics such as CF Security (by Pete Freitag)
  • What does it cover?

    • All versions of CF
    • CF 2018 is best
    • Fundaments
    • Modern CFML coding best practices
    • It includes all the major features in the latest release of Adobe ColdFusion – to use CFML to develop, test, debug and deploy web apps. 
    • It also shows how CF acts as a glue between different systems.
    • Does not be cover non-language features such as the API Manager or Clustering..
  • Course Outline

  • Introduction to ColdFusion

  • Basics of HTML (Static Vs Dynamic sites)
  • What is ColdFusion and CF Builder?
  • ColdFusion Installation
  • Dynamic generation of Pages using CFML (Hello World)
  • ColdFusion Administrator
  • ColdFusion Datasources
  • Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder

  • ColdFusion Builder Primer
  • Debugging applications
  • Advanced features
  • ColdFusion Fundamentals

  • Commenting code 
  • Conditional statements 
  • Reusing code with <cfinclude> 
  • Reusing code with Custom Tags and CFModule
  • Writing and Using CFFunctions
  • Working with forms
  • Working with forms – best practices
  • Database Operations

  • Displaying database data – cfoutput and cfloop
  • Introducing CurrentRow
  • Using the Resultset data – current row, record count, cache, column list, valuelist()
  • Using URL data in dynamic queries
  • Creating dynamic SQL for multiple search criteria
  • Query parameters and caching
  • Variable and Data Types

  • Working with lists
  • Working with arrays
  • Working with structures 
  • Looping over data
  • Shared Scopes and Handling State

    • Addressing the web’s statelessness
    • Session and Application Variables 
    • Locking shared scope variables
  • Application Framework

    • Using the application framework
    • Configuring application settings 
    • Handling application events
    • Handling request events 
    • Handling session events
    • OnServerStart()
    • applicationStop()
  • PDF Operations in CF

  • Installing HTML to PDF Engine
  • Creating PDFs with <cfdocument> 
  • HTML to PDF Conversion with <cfhtmltopdf>
  • Introduction to DDX support 
  • Object-Oriented ColdFusion

  • Instance-based components 
  • Caching instances
  • Adding methods to a component
  • Public and Private
  • Property getters and setters
  • Constructors
  • Inheritance
  • Composition
  • Interfaces
  • Models
  • When

    • Sign up now
    • Video release mid-Sept
    • On site class Monday Sept 30th
  • Availability
    • 120 seats
  • Where

    • Mirage Las Vegas
    • Why Las Vegas?
      • Easy travel
      • Cheap flights to LAS airport
      • Airport in right in town only a few miles from the conference hotel
  • CF Summit

    • West
    • East
    • India
  • CF cert level

    • beginner/intermediate level
  • Learn CF in a Week

  • Why are you proud to use CF?
  • WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

    • Engage
    • Blog
    • Social post
    • Share your CF app story with Adobe
      • SaaS app
  • What are you looking forward to at CF Summit West?

Mentioned in this episode

  • https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/adobe-coldfusion-specialist/
  • https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/07/adobe-coldfusion-specialist-certificate-program/
  • https://teratech.com/comprehensive-coldfusion-training-list-16-resources/
  • https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
  • Learn CF in a Week site and episode
https://traffic.libsyn.com/coldfusionalive/Adobe_ColdFusion_Specialist_Certification_new_at_CF_Summit.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: RSS

Interview transcript

Michaela Light 0:02
Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Alicia the divorce. God, am I saying your name wrong? That sounds like you're in the that grade that crazy keyboard that people use. But I know that's not you could have been though.

Elishia Dworak 0:16
No, but it's the same name. And actually, it's pronounced Dworzhack. But I don't do that because I'm from California, we make up our own names for everything.

Michaela Light 0:25
Oh, how do you pronounce it? Okay, same name different pronunciation. And if you don't know us, she is the Adobe e Technical Marketing Manager and knows all kinds of details about ColdFusion, and E learning products that come out of Adobe. And she actually started as a ColdFusion developer many years ago. So you may have seen her at CF summit on stage talking about the API manager or the the performance tuning monitor that just came out in ColdFusion 2018. So very famous person well in the ColdFusion world. But today, we're going to be talking about something new, which is the ColdFusion Specialist certification that is releasing at CF summit in October this year in Las Vegas. So maybe we better start off by asking what exactly is this certification?

Elishia Dworak 1:23
Thank you for asking. So the specialist certificate, it's a certificate program that will hopefully be the first of more to come. But this will be basically combined training with about I would say somewhere around 22 to 25 hours of video content, training you on the basics of ColdFusion development practices. So we'll follow best practices will ensure that we're giving you security hints and tips along the way. But you the courses actually designed for you to consume the video content ahead of time. And then come on site with us for a whole day of review and questions and answers and additional training on site. And the instructor will go over all of these different concepts and ensure that you have thorough knowledge of all of them. Before you take about I would say a quiz that's at the end, I would say it would be about an like 45 minute quiz at the end to get your certificate. And that will be a certificate of completion from Adobe, which will have badges associated with it that you can put on linked in for job searching and things like that. And of course, will print up a certificate for you as well. So it's really exciting, because it's the first of its kind actually.

Read more

Bio

Elishia Dvorak Technical marketing manager for ColdFusion and e-learning products. She started out as a CF developer.

Links

  • CF Summit
  • Questions cfsummit (at) adobe.com
  • Linked In
  • Twitter  @elishdvorak/
  • Adobe blogs
  • Elishia (at) adobe.com

Related Posts

  • Restarting Server by ColdFusionRestarting Server by ColdFusion
  • CFUnited Preview Recording: "Multilingual (i18N) Applications in CF, Theory & Practice"CFUnited Preview Recording: "Multilingual (i18N) Applications in CF, Theory & Practice"
  • 081 Better Bug Squashing (New Issue Tracking Tool) with Kirk Deis081 Better Bug Squashing (New Issue Tracking Tool) with Kirk Deis
  • "A Snapshot of Entrepreneurs""A Snapshot of Entrepreneurs"
  • Modernization of Adobe ColdFusion (More Secure Than Ever)Modernization of Adobe ColdFusion (More Secure Than Ever)
  • TeraTech Development Approach – Web Services and TestingTeraTech Development Approach – Web Services and Testing
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Filed Under: Adobe CF Summit, Announcement, Certification, CF Alive, CF Alive Podcast

← Previous Post 094 Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit), with Elishia Dvorak- Transcript
Next Post → Better Time and Number Formats with ColdFusion

Subscribe on iTunes

Popular podcast episodes

  • Revealing ColdFusion 2021 – Rakshith Naresh
  • CF and Angular – Nolan Erck
  • Migrating legacy CFML – Nolan Erck
  • Adobe API manager – Brian Sappey
  • Improve your CFML code – Kai Koenig

CF Alive Best Practices Checklist

 

Modern ColdFusion development best practices that reduce stress, inefficiency, project lifecycle costs while simultaneously increasing project velocity and innovation.

Top articles

  • CF Hosting (independent guide)
  • What is Adobe ColdFusion
  • Is Lucee CFML now better than ACF?
  • Is CF dead?
  • Learn CF (comprehensive list of resources)

Recent Posts

  • Funny ColdFusion Custom Tag Competition (CFML Programmer’s Jokes)
  • Protected: State of the CF Union 2021 Survey Results
  • ColdFusion Development: Less Coding for Faster Turnaround
  • Protected: State of the CF Union 2021 Survey Released
  • ColdFusion Server Crashing – First 3 Steps to Fix it Fast

Categories

  • ActionScript
  • Adobe CF Summit
  • Adobe CF Summit East
  • Adobe CF Summit East 2018
  • Adobe ColdFusion 11
  • Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Beta
  • Adobe ColdFusion 2021
  • Adobe ColdFusion Project Stratus
  • Adobe ColdFusion Security
  • AIR
  • Ajax
  • AngularJS
  • Announcement
  • API
  • Apollo
  • Auto Security Lockdown
  • AWS
  • C#
  • Certification
  • CF Alive
  • CF Alive Book
  • CF Alive Podcast
  • CF Camp
  • CF Developer week
  • CF Maintenance
  • CF Summit India
  • CF Tags
  • CF Training
  • CF Vs. Other Languages
  • CFEclipse
  • CFML
  • CFML Open- Source
  • CFObjective
  • cfquery
  • CFSummit
  • CFUnited
  • China Chopper
  • CIO
  • Classes
  • Client Highlights
  • ColdBox
  • ColdFusion
  • ColdFusion 2018
  • ColdFusion 2020
  • ColdFusion 2021
  • ColdFusion 9
  • ColdFusion community
  • ColdFusion Conference
  • ColdFusion Consulting
  • ColdFusion Developer
  • ColdFusion Development
  • ColdFusion Hosting
  • ColdFusion Roadmap
  • ColdFusion Security
  • ColdFusion Webinar
  • CommandBox
  • Conference
  • Cool Stuff
  • Culture
  • Cybercrime
  • Database
  • Development Approach
  • DevOps
  • Docker
  • Fixinator
  • Flex
  • Frameworks
  • Fusebox
  • FusionReactor
  • Futurology
  • Garbage Collector
  • Google Down
  • Into The Box Latam
  • IntoTheBox Conference
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • JVM
  • Learn CFML
  • Learn ColdFusion
  • Legacy Code
  • Load Testing
  • Lucee
  • Management
  • MAX
  • MDCFUG Lunch
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Mindmapping
  • MockBox
  • Modernize ColdFusion
  • Monitoring
  • Muracon
  • NCDevCon
  • New Intern
  • News
  • Node.js
  • Open- Source
  • ORM
  • Ortus Developer Week
  • Ortus Roadshow
  • Performance
  • Performance Tuning
  • PHP
  • Productivity
  • Programming Languages
  • Project planning
  • Query of Queries
  • Scalability
  • Security
  • Server Crash
  • Server Software
  • Server Tuning
  • Social Media
  • Spiral Web
  • SQL
  • Success Story
  • Survey
  • Technology
  • TestBox
  • Tips
  • Transcript
  • Trapeze Development
  • Uncategorized
  • Web 2.0
  • Web Application
  • Web Server
  • Webinar
  • Webmail
  • What is ColdFusion?
  • Whole Brain Development
  • Women in Tech
  • Work From Home
  • Home
  • Services
  • About Us
  • CF Alive
    • CF Alive Book
    • CF Alive Inner Circle
    • CF Alive full resources cheatsheet
  • Blog
  • Podcast
    • Podcast Guest schedule
  • Contact
  • Sitemap

The ColdFusion Experts:
Develop, Secure, Optimize

TeraTech Inc
451 Hungerford Drive Suite 119
Rockville, MD 20850

Tel : +1 (301) 424 3903
Fax: +1 (301) 762 8185

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on LinkedIn Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Pinterest Follow us on YouTube

Copyright © 1998–2021 TeraTech Inc. All rights Reserved.