Description

I was a guest speaker in an episode of Chicago CFUG, with host Daniel Garcia.

Show notes

CF Alive Making ColdFusion Modern, Vibrant and Secure By Michaela Light

• Who is Michaela

• Overview
• • Legacy ColdFusion
  • Modern ColdFusion
  • CF Tools
  • Outreach
  • Marketing

• Vibrant ColdFusion

• CF dying?

What aspects of CF are preventing you or your company from embracing CF?

72% CF is seen as dying/legacy.

- Annual State of CF Union survey, 2018

• Modern CF
• Secure

• Scalable

• CF and Docker
• • Virtual machine
  • Share same config with others, staging and production
  • orchestration layer tools

• Better testing

• Free CF

• CF Docker tools
• Source control

• IDEs
• Frameworks

• Server monitoring

• REST APIs and microservices
• CommandBox

• CMS

• Easy front end integration

• Dependency Injection Frameworks

• ORM
• Package Management

• Outreach
• • WWIT to have a happy, healthy ColdFusion developers community?
  • Education
  • Network

• Teach
• Hiring
• Better CF Community
• Marketing

• The CF Alive Revolution

We are confidently coding easy to maintain apps in CF. Enlivened by using a tried

and trusted language. Unleashing the full efficiency of using ColdFusion in our

work. We inspire other developers and young programmers to explore the power

of CF.

Mentioned in this episode

• Lucee CFML
• HackMyCF
• Fuseguard
• Fixinator
• FusionReactor
• Kubernetes
• Heroku
• Dokku
• TestBox
• MockBox
• Portainer
• CommandBox
• Git
• BitBucket
• GitHub
• Sublime
• Dreamweaver
• Preside
• jQuery
• WireBox

Links

• CF Alive book
• CF Alive podcast
• CF Alive Inner Circle
• TeraTech blog
• TeraTech YouTube channel
• Regular Social media posts (TW, LI, FB)