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State of the CF Union 2023 Survey Results 4. – Tools

June 23, 2023 By Michaela Light Leave a Comment

Below are the results to date for the 2023 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.

For those of you who don’t have time to read it now, here is a link to Download the PDF and read it later.

If you want to see the other 7 parts, just click on the part below.

1. Server Environment | 2. Your Environment | 3. Frameworks and Methodology | 4. Tools | 5. Your Programming Background | 6. ColdFusion Community | 7. Deployment | 8. Wrap up

 

Contents

  • 4. Tools
    • 17. What do you use for source code control? (Check all that apply)
    • 18. What tools/IDEs do you use? (Check all that apply)
    • 19. What browser Dev Tools do you use? (Check all that apply)
    • 20. What do you use to build REST APIs? (Check all that apply)
    • 21. What caching solutions are you using? (Check all that apply)
    • 22. Do you use Message Queues (MQ) in your CF apps? If so which one(s)? (Check all that apply)

4. Tools

17. What do you use for source code control? (Check all that apply)

Others

VersionRecall
AccuRev
Kaleidoscope (Mac version of Beyond Compare)
Visual SourceSafe
Gogs
Helix (formerly Perforce)
Assembla
perforce
Gitea
Custom Folder Compare
Gogs
Fossil
Spanz
Backup file/s manually before editing
ProjectLocker
Git

18. What tools/IDEs do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

CODA
Coda 2
Coda
Aptana
VIM
BBEdit
aptana
Neovim
BBEdit
VIM
VIM
EmEditor
ssms
Homesite+
VSCodium actually
Cold Fusion Report Builder

19. What browser Dev Tools do you use? (Check all that apply)

Others

FireFox Developer Edition
LambdaTest
whatever Brave uses

20. What do you use to build REST APIs? (Check all that apply)

Others

Supabase
CFCs w/o the rest feature
Appegi
SupaBase
Manual REST conventions as part of our workflow
No real point to use REST API other than some fool at the coffee shop read it on linkedin
my team create them in JAVA
Supabase
TeamCFML REST
TeamCFML REST
Jax
Where's Adobe's API Manager?

21. What caching solutions are you using? (Check all that apply)

Others

Homegrown
Custom
CFWheels cache
cfstatic
home grown
Homegrown
Home-grown, ram-based
Homegrown cache based on MongoDB document store
I often just cache things in persisted CFCs (in application scope)
CFWheels, though I guess that leverages Lucee's build-in caching
MongoDB Cache Extension
DiiMES
DiiMES
Built-in CF caching
JCS

22. Do you use Message Queues (MQ) in your CF apps? If so which one(s)? (Check all that apply)

Others

custom
MQTT
none
MSMQ
hazelcast
SupaBase
CBQ
CBQ
Various
Various
Homegrown
GCP
Homegrown

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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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