Below are the results to date for the 2022 State of the CF Union survey. This is the sixth part of the Survey, about the ColdFusion Community (all the places you learn and share about CF).
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1. Server Environment | 2. Your Environment | 3. Frameworks and Methodology | 4. Tools | 5. Your Programming Background | 6. ColdFusion Community | 7. Deployment | 8. Wrap up
6. ColdFusion Community
28. How often do you attend ColdFusion User Group meetings? (Check one)
29. What CF related topics are you interested in learning this year? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Migration to .net and Kotlin |
| competent linter for cfscript. Cflint is bad |
| leveraging existing 3rd-party Java libraries |
| Mobile App Development in Coldfusion |
| Don't know |
| would love to see better mobile app dev documentation and tools for building and deploying mobile apps. |
| Undecided |
| A JavaScript framework such as Angular, React, or Vue. And Design Patterns |
| ColdBox, TestBox |
| don't know enough to know WHAT i should be 🙂 |
30. What CF blogs do you read (Check all that apply)
Others
| I only use google and hope to find a blog 😉 |
| blog.adamcameron.me |
| Cfdocs |
| Cfdocs |
| Various. I don't read regularly, but google topics and end up at CF blogs. |
| Ray Camden, of course |
| Wil De Bruin |
| Matthew Clemente |
| https://blog.adamcameron.me/ |
| Lucee newsletter/ news |
| shiftinsert.nl |
| ones mentioned on modernize or die podcast |
| Not a regular reader of any blog, but read many of these on occasional basis while Googling for information. |
| Raymond Camden |
| Ben Forta, Ray Camden |
| Ben Nadel has saved me hundreds of times! Wish he'd still blog more about CF. Old post from Ben Forta and Ray Camden still help on occasion. Charlie Arehart is guiding me through a migration from CF 11 to 2021 at the moment, although he does not know it. 🙂 |
31. Which CF conferences will/did you attend this year? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Adobe ColdFusion Summit Online |
| not sure yet |
| Not sure. |
| CF online summit |
| ^ If it happens. I can't justify any of the non EU ones and not interested in virtual conferences, after trying Adobe's one last year. |
| Not sure, Covid, etc. |
| Depending on what's virtual, not going to a live event at this stage |
| Online itb online Adobe |
| (virtual only) |
| Likely only attend remote conferences again this year |
| Unknown. Am leaving current employment partly because I want to learn new things, both CF-related (OO, ColdBox, TestBox) and other languages including Ruby, Rails, React and/or other JS, and modern testing and dev practices. I hope to start out with a period of exploration and to end up where the inspiration takes me! |
| I can't afford to |
| I'm in LA, I'd love to attend something relatively close this year! |
| Not sure yet |
| I always want to go, but never find the time. |
32. What online CF communities do you participate in? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Not anymore; the CF community forced me out for daring to ask a question. |
| preside slack |
| Coldfusion CFML Brasil |
| discord |
| Online CF Meetup |
| We have pretty active CF discussions within our work groups |
| Preside Slack |
| only when i have a problem |
| working code podcast discord |
| Masa |
33. CF Open Source (Check all that apply)
Others
| We are thinking of launching a CF open source project |
| N/A |
| No option |
| Not sure if my org will allow |
| None |
| Really just exploring the modern CF world right now… |
| Don't use open source |
| no experience |
| we don't use open source - not permitted to publish work publicly |
| n/a |
| Not sure |
| Wish there was more recent open source out there, but I've used some in the past. |
34. I listen to the CF-related channels (Check all that apply)
Others
| .NET Rocks |
| Maybe once a year I'll have time to listen to podcast or watch cf video |
| I need to listen to some of these! |
| I haven’t listened to them yet. |
| how have I not, for so long? adding to list |
| I don't have time, wish I did. |
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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.
