Below are the results to date for the 2022 State of the CF Union survey. This is the fourth part of the Survey, about Tools to speed up your CF development and make better apps.
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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
4. Tools
17. What do you use for source code control? (Check all that apply)
Others
| VersionRecall |
| selfhosted git repositories through ssh |
| Vault |
| PVCS |
| Gitea |
| Visual SourceSafe |
| Beanstalk |
| SmartGit |
| Dropbox |
| Gitea |
| aws source code |
| OneDrive, Apple TimeMachine |
| Beanstalk |
| Git |
| Kiln |
| Gitea |
| Virtual imaging |
| WinCVS |
18. What tools/IDEs do you use? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Coda |
| Coda |
| Cold Fusion Report Builder |
| Textastic (for the Mac and iOS) |
| Android Studio |
| Editplus for FTP on occasion |
| Gedit |
| VIM |
| I do a lot of coding in BeyondCompare, where I can look at a similar file, function, snippet, or portion of same or different file, using the Align With feature, in the other side for reference or to assist in refactoring. |
| have used majority of list, selected current use |
| VSCodium |
| VS Codium |
| I still LOVE Homesite and use it daily. I refuse to let it go. There's nothing better (IMHO) for hand-coding CF. |
| Coda |
19. What browser Dev Tools do you use? (Check all that apply)
Others
| assorted plugins/addons |
| browserstack |
| Vue Dev Tools (chrome plugin) |
| Brave |
20. What do you use to build REST APIs? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Unknown |
| Output JSON with CFOUTPUT |
| Contract with other programmers |
| Masa CMS build-in |
| .net based webapi |
| Spring Boot |
21. What caching solutions are you using? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Varnish |
| DB Cache |
| Farcry cache |
| MongoDB Cache Extension for Lucee |
| Homegrown |
| ScopeCache |
| IIS, Coldfusion's built in caching |
| Akamai |
| Custom-built solution |
| Cfquery built-in cachewithin |
| cfwheels built in |
| Akamai |
| Just caching stuff in the Application / Server scope. |
| Cloudfront |
| Homegrown |
| Plans for Redis, not currently using though |
| CFWheels Cache |
| Clojure libraries |
| dont understand the question |
| custom |
| Custom built |
22. Do you use Message Queues (MQ) in your CF apps? If so which one(s)? (Check all that apply)
Others
| Somewhat of a homegrown one to learn the basics |
| selfhosted MTA |
| plan to use one this year, trying to decide |
| Homegrown |
| HiveMQ (MQTT) |
| Early stages of Kafka |
| dont understand the question |
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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.
