Eric Peterson talks about “CFCasts Behind the Scenes” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.
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Show notes
What is CFCasts
- Netflix for ColdFusion
- Free and paid levels
Why should every CFer check out CFCasts
- CFML-based tutorials
- Full-stack content (CFML, JavaScript, Databases, etc.)
- Free! (and Paid)
Why we built CFCasts
- “Netflix for CFML Developers”
- Screencasts for CF
- History
- LaraCasts.com – PHP / Laravel
- CFCasts domain registered in 2014
- Why has it not got Box in the name, like all the other Ortus products?
- We already had the domain. 😉
- When was it launched?
- 2020 – Record all ITB videos and wanted to sell them (virtual conference)
- Part Virtual event due to covid
- Whole Ortus team helps created the content, along with other CF experts
- 2020 – Record all ITB videos and wanted to sell them (virtual conference)
Stats
- 343 Videos
- 23 Series
- 500+ accounts plus more viewers not logged
- English and Spanish Localization
Content
- Box vs other CF
- ITB Videos
- Object-Oriented Programming course by Nolan Erck
- ColdBox Workshop
- Code samples for workshops in Git repos
How we built CFCasts
- ColdBox
- Lucee
- InertiaJS
- VueJS
- MySQL
- Vimeo
- Stripe
- Responsible design – works on phone, tablet, desktop
- Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI
Future features
- Video page redesign better UX
- Refactoring to ElasticSearch, more filters and search results
- From MySQL text search
Why are you proud to use CF?
- Lots of innovations in the CF space
- Lots of the world runs on CF
- More sites in CF than BuiltWith etc shows due to intranets and modern coding practices
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
- Learn new CF features and tools
- BuiltWithCFBox Git repo
What are you looking forward to at Into The Box?
- In Person
- Workshops
- September 27-30
- New Location?
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Bio
Eric Peterson
Eric Peterson is a CFML and Javascript developer at Ortus Solutions (ColdBox, CommandBox, etc.). He attended the University of Utah and received a degree in Information Systems thinking he would hate programming as a career. He started programming in CFML (and in general) in 2012 and has never been more happy to be proved wrong.
He is the current maintainer of qb, Quick, and ColdBox Elixir as well as a prolific module author on ForgeBox.io. He loves creating tools to help bring CFML up to date with other modern languages and communities.
In his free time, Eric loves to participate in theater, musicals, and to spend time with his wife, three children, and one dog. He can be found on Twitter at @_elpete.
Links
- GitHub @elpete
Interview Transcript
Michaela Light 0:00
Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Eric Peterson. And we're talking about CF casts behind the scenes. We're going to learn what is in CF casts all the cool ColdFusion stuff in there, why He created it, and some other interesting stuff in ColdFusion land and CF casts. Welcome, Eric.
Eric Peterson 0:20
Hey, thanks for having me.
Michaela Light 0:22
You're welcome. And for those of you don't know, Eric is a CFML, and JavaScript developer, he works at audit solutions. And you know, the guys who make all those box products, among many other things, and they also make CF costs, which is probably why we're talking. And I'm surprised to learn Eric, though you did an Information Systems degree, thinking you thought you would hate programming.
Eric Peterson 0:48
Yeah, I did. Especially after my first programming course, in college. I just, it was, I don't know, it just wasn't, it didn't click. I remember, it was a Java course. And all I was doing was sticking things out in the console. And I thought, well, this is kind of boring. And I remember jumping forward to like, we made the game, but I don't remember how any of the code worked. It was just like, edit this one section of the class. And it just didn't click. But uh, but when I graduated and got into a job, there was some web development in it. And I guess having a goal, something to build that people were going to use me that made it much more exciting. So
Michaela Light 1:31
and you were programming in cold fusion in that job? It sounds like,
Eric Peterson 1:34
Yeah, we were a team, we call ourselves shadow IT, because the supply chain that the company had hired myself, along with a few other people to do it projects for them that didn't have to kind of go through the rest of the company prioritization. And so we got to choose our own our own tech and things. And before I got there, actually, they had chosen cold fusion, because they had heard it was easy to get up and running for people who had, let's say, didn't have a formal computer science background.
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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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