Dee Sadler talks about “Design Thinking for CFers (10 tips for better apps)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights Design thinking Hands-on UX problem solving, human-centered, iterating loop Ideating, prototyping, development, usability testing Goes well with Agile MVP (Minimum Viable Product) vs perfect So get user feedback Design […]

Jorge Reyes talks about “ColdFusion High-Performance Teams (15 tips and technique)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode Highlights Why High-Performance Teams Distrust Fear conflict Lack of commitment Avoid accountability Inattention to results What do you mean by High Performance Efficient Reliable Effective Consistent Predictable – Product expected results […]

Mike Brunt talks about “ColdFusion and the Blockchain Revolution” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode Highlights What is the Blockchain? DLT = Distributed Ledger Technology Transactions and identities 2009 Bitcoin launch – decentralized value exchange, peer to peer Etherium – BLT plus code (DAPs) Easier to use Coins […]

Kirk Deis talks about “Better Bug Squashing (New Issue Tracking Tool)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. Episode Highlights What is the problem with how you find bug issues now? User emails User phone calls Text messages Lack of complete info to reproduce the bug PM tools can track bugs […]

“Unit tests are typically testing the logic within a particular method or group of methods and not anything else that those methods are and that includes external dependencies such as a database. So what we do is we write integration tests which are structured much like unit test to test those external dependencies to make sure that […]

John Farrar talks about “Agile ColdFusion API Development (Amazing Postman, ColdBox and Agile secrets)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Episode Highlights Why build APIs in ColdFusion? Built in Works reliably Why APIs Link to other apps Separate data connector from biz logic Microservices Vue, Angular, React Why Build in APIs […]

Sumit Verma talks about “Slatwall ColdFusion eCommerce Unleashed (Beyond Shopping Carts)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Episode highlighs What is Slatwall Enterprise level eCommerce platform More than just a shopping cart A flexible way to build eCommerce websites that integrates easily with other software for payments, marketing, sales, shipping […]

Igor Ilyinsky talks about “Breaking out of your ColdFusion comfort zone (How to make CF mainstream)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light. Episode highlights CF from a biz perspective When CF makes sense or not makes sense for a biz When works, not work Dev cost Maintenance costs How hard to […]