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 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

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Bio

Elishia Dvorak

Elishia Dvorak is the 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

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.

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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.