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October 13, 202647 min
144 Anxious about AI writing CF code (and how to overcome your fears) with Ray Camden
Show notes Anxious about AI writing code? Vibe-coded horror stories Skills Your coding style, steps and guardrails Alternative AI tasks if you don't want to let AI code Plan Test Review writing and code Ideation to overcome writers block Use your own judgment and sense Confidence in AI-generated code Hallucinations Unit tests Human read (some) of the AI-gen code, eye Critique this code prompt - ideally with a different AI Blog as a static site Hugo, to Jerkel, to Eleventy Astro Learning new languages Learning Typescript Does this code make sense Coming from other languages to CF Webawesome web library - similar idea to Bootstrap CSS AI sanity checking of my code Better syntax checking Break down my line(s) of code Stackoverflow developer vs AI assisted developer Entry-level jobs Software development new career paths AI IDEs and vibe coding VS Code Agentic agent dev tools Less typing of code Autocomplete on steroids SDLC and PRs Create or update skill from what it learned Ask AI agent - how can I utilize you better? Can you improve AI coding as a super compiler Higher level view Beyond frameworks Does the target language matter any more? Adobe CF MCP docs server What have you been doing lately? Customer education AI for marketing his blog ideas Mentioned in this episode Eleventy Astro Webawesome Adobe CF MCP docs Blog The MCP
September 29, 2026Episode 1411 hr 28 min
143 Semantic CF code search with JARVIS (No Arc Reactor Budget required) with Monte Chan
Show notes What if you could ask questions about your codebase and get answers instantly? Motivated by CodeQL by GitHub (Paid tool) "What if a new developer (or a CTO) could just ask the codebase 'where is the session timeout set?' and get a real answer instead of grepping for three hours?" "You called this a poor man's J.A.R.V.I.S. Ben Nadel said 'with great power comes… great self-indulgence.' Are we about to be very self-indulgent today? What is J.A.R.V.I.S.? J.A.R.V.I.S. is the fictional artificial intelligence assistant created by Tony Stark in Marvel's Iron Man and Avengers comics and films. J.A.R.V.I.S stands for "Just A Rather Very Intelligent System". Codebase ingestion using vector databases Walk the repo, split files into chunks (functions, classes, docs), turn each chunk into an embedding (a numeric vector that captures meaning), and store those vectors with metadata (path, line range, language). That index is what makes "where is session timeout set?" searchable by meaning, not just IDE search. A vector database is a store optimized for "find the N most similar vectors." Examples: Pinecone, Qdrant, Milvus, Chroma, LanceDB, plus CF's built-in / in-memory store for demos. Code search is usually hybrid: vectors for meaning + keyword/BM25 for exact symbols. How you chunk CFM/CFC/JS/SQL differently Why you store a summary + metadata and embed that The current gap: CF's built-in document ingestion doesn't yet understand CFC/CFML structure, so custom scripts are required PDFs can be ingessed directly Updating the vector store when your codebase changes Prompt-driven code exploration Prompt-driven code exploration: You ask in English. The system retrieves the relevant chunks, stuffs them into the prompt, and the model answers from that context. That pattern is RAG (retrieval-augmented generation): retrieve first, then generate, so the model is grounded in your code instead of guessing What you need" slide with practical commentary: Piece Why it matters CIO translation CF 2025 Update 8 Native AI, vector stores, agents, MCP No new language or Python sidecar tax Vector store (Qdrant / Milvus / Pinecone / Chroma) In-memory is too small for real apps Persistent, scalable "memory" for the AI LLM (Anthropic, OpenAI, or Ollama local) The brain Cloud vs on-prem / air-gapped choice Ingestion script CF can ingest docs today; CFC/CFML still need custom work One-time + ongoing cost of keeping the index fresh MCP (optional but powerful) File-system or other tools the agent can call Controlled agency—AI can look without unrestricted access Key terms Vector store / embeddings - numbers that capture the meaning of code so similarity search works Chunking by logical entity (whole function, not random 500-token slices) - this is the quality differentiator Summary-first embeddings - embed a rich description (purpose, path, callers, callees) rather than raw code only MCP (Model Context Protocol) - open standard so the agent can safely call tools (filesystem, DB, etc.) Ongoing ingestion - full re-index vs git-diff / pipeline-after-merge Adobe folded LLM, embedding, vector-store, RAG, agent, and MCP APIs into the CF engine (commonly described as CF 2025 Update 8 / the "CF 2026" AI wave). You call models from CFML (ChatModel(), agent(), simpleRAG(), VectorStore(), etc.) instead of wiring every provider by hand. MCP (Model Context Protocol) An open standard so tools/resources are exposed the same way to Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT, etc. CF can host MCP servers or call MCP tools. Community projects like MCPCFC wrap existing CF functions as MCP tools. Similar commercial tools Sourcegraph Cody, Continue.dev, custom LanceDB/Qdrant indexers A fascinating look at how AI can help developers understand and navigate complex applications. CIO / risk / value questions Time-to-answer for audits, compliance questions, or new-hire onboarding Reducing "bus factor" / key-person risk Security posture: Local Ollama option (data never leaves the building) Guardrails and "excessive agency" concerns (echo Pete Freitag's CF Summit security talk) Prompt injection surface when the AI can call tools Cost model: vector DB + LLM tokens + ongoing ingestion vs. developer hours spent hunting code Build vs buy: this is a capability you can own inside the CF platform rather than another SaaS Practical next steps & gotchas (5- 6 min) Minimum viable version a team could stand up in a sprint Biggest surprise or pain point he hit while building it What CF 2026 still needs (better CFC/CFML-aware ingestion is the obvious one) Where the slides and sample code live: github.com/knittingguy (JARVIS repo + the earlier mongoDB-langchain / aiagent_cf work) Close & resources One sentence each for the CF developer and the CIO listening Ben Nadel quote callback Point people to the GitHub, MCP servers list (mcpservers.org), and Monte's Facebook/Geek Talk channel Invite questions from the live or later audience Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at the Adobe CF Summit East? Mentioned in this episode 133 GitHub Copilot & AI-Assisted Coding (Unlocking ColdFusion's AI Potential) with Monte Chan Qdrant vector database CF 2026 features (TT blog) MCP servers CF Summit East Monte's GitHub
September 14, 2026Episode 1421 hr 21 min
142 Moving to ColdFusion 2025: Cheers and Challenges with Charlie Arehart
Show notes Charlie, you always open Hidden Gems by saying there's more new stuff in a release than people ever realize. Looking back at CF2025, what's the one gem that surprised even you? Does this include hidden gems in CF 2026 (aka CF 2025 update 8)? ACF 2026 introduces native artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model (LLM) integration, Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, new ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) features, security enhancements, developer tooling, monitoring capabilities, and performance improvements. The installer now lets you set an allowed IP for the admin on any profile, and it reminds people about wsconfig. You pushed for both of these. Thanks! For shops that only touch a CF installer once every few years, how much does a small usability win like this actually move the needle? Enabling HTTPS for the built-in CF Admin is basically trivial now, and you can force HTTPS only. On port 8500. Here's the thing that should scare people. In your consulting work, how many admins were you finding like that before CF2025? What's the worst thing you've seen happen because of it? Since ACF 2016 admin not visible publicly by default Containers got a real upgrade. 60 to 70 percent faster startup, secrets support, CCS inside containers, better docs. CF has had container support since ACF 2018! For teams already on Docker or moving toward Kubernetes, what's the day one win they should expect? Subscription licensing With pure subscription licensing now the only path, how are procurement and finance teams reacting compared to the old perpetual model? What should a mid-sized shop be building into their multi-year budget forecast, and where's the true up risk hiding? Subscription budget is same as upgrading every 2 years Dev license 2 concurrent requests limit CF2025 is subscription only now. You've got the public pricing numbers and you point out a lot of people were already on subscription through cloud AMIs or ETLAs. This is the number every budget owner actually wants before they'll sign off on anything. Purely on total cost of ownership, how does this compare to the old perpetual plus upgrade discount model for a mid-sized shop, over say a five year run? API Manager doesn't need a CF license key anymore. That feels like a quiet one but it's huge. Who should be looking at this now that it's free, and what are people actually using it for? Came out with ACF 2016 Useful for API monitoring, throttling, versioning and security The new null coalescing operator, multi-exception catch, trailing commas, createObject loadPaths, these all feel overdue. Which of these do you think will actually change how people write CFML day to day, versus just being nice to have? CSP and nonce support are built in now. For teams that have been fighting with Content-Security-Policy headers, how much of that pain does CF2025 actually solve, and what still has to be handled outside CF? For better app security Beware CFDump needs fixing if you use CSP - alt CSP header for this Click Dump to expand or contract sections The removals list is longer than any release I can remember! Prior depreciented functions were now removed. YUI based UI tags, cfencode, Axis1, COM, parameterExists, tags as CFCs, ThreadTerminate. HTMLEditFormat() → EncodeforHTML() This is the part where every CIO I talk to gets nervous, because somewhere in their app is one ancient tag holding the whole thing together, and nobody left on staff remembers why, kind of like nobody remembers who actually planted the tree that's now blocking the road. Of everything you've helped migrate so far, which removal is causing the most real pain? Key terms defined Deprecated = still works, but developers are warned not to use it. Replacement is normally available. Removed/obsolete = no longer supported; code using it may fail to compile, load, or execute. Unsupported but present = an intermediate state used by some vendors: it may still work, but bugs may not be fixed. Behavioral breaking change = feature remains, but its semantics change enough that old code may behave differently. Adobe explicitly distinguishes deprecated , deprecated and unsupported , and removed . Deprecated ColdFusion functionality remains eligible for bug/security fixes; deprecated-and-unsupported functionality generally receives only security fixes; removed functionality is unavailable. Adobe updated the Compatibility Code Analyzer and Pete Freitag built a dedicated compatibility scanner into Fixinator. How good are these tools actually at catching the gotchas before they hit production, so people aren't finding out the hard way in front of customers? You spend time on the breaking changes carried over from the March and June 2024 updates, searchimplicitscopes and the encryption algorithm change, plus the old dateformat capital D change from CF2021. This is exactly the kind of thing that makes a CTO put off an upgrade for three more years, one small silent change breaking something nobody tested. For someone jumping straight from CF2018 or CF2021 to CF2025, what's the realistic order of operations, because nobody wants to be Frodo walking into Mordor without Sam and a map? Java 21 and Tomcat 10.1 landed together. Beyond just being current, what real benefits, or new gotchas, are you seeing CF developers run into? Quarterly Java updates Future Java 25 support? Deploy CF as a WAR requires CF Ent Looking at the full support matrix, Windows 2025 server is added. Sybase is gone, Solaris is gone, WebLogic and WebSphere are gone. Few orgs use these so it was an ROI decision to remove. For organizations still stuck on those platforms, it's a bit of a fellowship breaking up, everyone has to pick a path forward. What migration paths are you actually recommending? ZIP install alternative Past this one release, what should a CIO actually watch for as a signal that Adobe is staying committed to the platform, versus the risk of another long quiet stretch? Nobody wants to migrate now and then find themselves waiting at the gates of Moria for the next real update. What are you excited about for CF Summit East? Reston VA near IAD airport Mentioned in this episode Hidden Gems in CF 2025 CFmeetup youtube ACF 2026 features ACF 2026 features (cf2025 update 8) https://guides.adobe.com/coldfusion/en/docs/introduction-to-coldfusion/whats-new.html ACF 2025 features Adobe ACF 2025 features https://guides.adobe.com/coldfusion/en/docs/introduction-to-coldfusion/whats-new-cf-2025.html Adobe CF issue tracker CFMeetup talk on CF 2025 migration Adobe CF Summit East (TT blog) https://teratech.com/adobe-coldfusion-2024-new-features/ Adobe CF Summit East
February 25, 2025Episode 1411 hr 9 min
141 Into The Box 2025 ColdFusion conference (all the details) with Daniel Garcia
Daniel Garcia talks about " Into The Box 2025 ColdFusion conference (all the details) " in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "…box Lang, we first officially announced it last year into the box the first beta of it. It's based, I'm gonna read the official marketing speak. It's a modern, dynamically and loosely typed scripting language for multiple run times". Show notes What is Into The Box conference? CommandBox, ColdBox, BoxLang, all the Box products by Ortus ColdFusion topics too Smaller conf, very easy to talk to speakers and other attendees Speakers and Topics Speaker Brad Wood Brian Klass Curt Gratz Dan Card Daniel Garcia Eric Peterson Esme Acevedo Gavin Pickin George Murphy Giancarlo Gomez Grant Copley Jacob Beers Javier Quintero Jon Clausen Kevin Wright Luis Majano Michael Rigsby Scott Steinbeck Topics highlights Integrating OpenAI API in ColdFusion Applications Reactive Front-Ends with CFML, CBWIRE, and AlpineJS IoT Hardware Integration with BoxLang and MQTT Introduction to CBWIRE 4 Open call for speakers Preconference Workshops Development and Hosting using Docker, CI, CD, and AWS ECS Getting Started with Boxlang with Brad Wood, John Clausen, and Luis Majano Just Enough Workshop Building Modern Apps with CBWire and AlpineJS with Grant Coplin and Esme Acevedo When is it? Wed April 30th - Friday May 2nd, 2025 Where is it this year? Washington, DC Why not send devs to conferences? Dev team too big to send all → send none Solution: Rotate devs each year. Eg send 3 this year, another 3 next year etc No training mentality Solutions Free video training CFCasts Daniel offer for unemployed CFers and students 9-5 Devs "comfortable" who don't want to grow in tech skills Solutions Modernize or Die Be competitive Hiring Attitude and Aptitude Open source Travel 3 airports in Washington DC metro area. Plus Amtrack. Metro in the area Cost Conf only early bird $349.50, 449.50 $499, 699 25% off promo code CFAlive_2025 Deals and early bird pricing 3/31/25 BoxLang+ 1-year license included! Special support for BoxLang Code scanner Extra bonus feature Team Plans are available for businesses - Reach out at Intothebox (at) ortussolutions.com **Get 50% off** your second Into the Box on-site ticket. **Buy 2, Get 1 Free** – Purchase two on-site tickets, and the third one is on us. What are you looking forward to at ITB this year? Mentioned in this episode https://www.intothebox.org/ https://teratech.com/into-the-box-conference-is-coldfusion-modern-or-dead/ 140 BoxLang modern JVM language that runs CFML code (new CFML engine and much more) with Luis Majano and Brad Wood 121 How to Get Your Next Ideal CF Job (using LinkedIn, Resume, GitHub), with Doug McCaughan Bio Daniel Garcia Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Daniel Garcia lives in Plainfield, IL, has been working with web technologies since 1997, and is passionate about what he does. He is a husband, father, "Dad"-ager for his aspiring musician son, cinephile, regaler of useless knowledge, smoker of meats, aspiring podcaster, part-time radio DJ, and has an irreverent sense of humor. His mantras are "Work smarter, not harder" and "KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid). Links Daniel Garcia | LinkedIn Ortus Solutions GitHub Garciadev https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/daniel-garcia
November 25, 2024Episode 1401 hr 1 min
140 BoxLang modern JVM language that runs CFML code (new CFML engine and much more) with Luis Majano and Brad Wood
Luis Majano and Brad Wood talk about "BoxLang modern JVM language that runs CFML code (new CFML engine and much more) " in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "…BX is the acronym we use a lot like our file extensions are analogous to the cold fusion file extensions. So a CFM file, we call that bxm For box Lang markup, CMS, which Lucy six had his support for, which is cold fusion script". Show notes What is BoxLang? A new language for the JVM that includes CFML Inspired by cool CF, Groovy, Rust, Go, PHP etc Compiles into Java byte code, just like CF A new language for 2024 and beyond Not just targeting web server - see below for all runtime targets 7 MB core Tidy and lightweight core Super fast start up time in 100-200ms ACF core 120 to 300 MB Lucee core 20 to 120 - 300 MB Node 80 MB Add on modules for different target runtimes Similar in ideas to ACF and Lucee packages Target runtimes Web Server Miniserver Serverless Jakarta Android Web assembly Command line use Modules are designed from the start vs separated out as in ACF or Lucee Using tight Java libraries that are different from ACF or Lucee libraries Drastic architecture differences No OSGi copies See below for what OSGi is MVP for this language Created to be extensive in the core from the start Not a monolith Super strict on 3rd party JARs added to the core due to features in the modern JDK Oracle improvements in Java language and JVM Java 21 or higher only Other JVM that are based on Oracle JVM 21 or higher Fixes old syntax and function naming inconsistencies from CFML backwards compatible Has two parsers Antler parser library for BoxLang code 100% legacy CFML code via transpiler AST = Abstract Syntax Tree This is what compiles to Java byte code Linting and code quality metric tool and VS-code extension IntelliSense and semantics of the language. Open source AST so easy to extend and hook into it. In-line debugger is built in with scope introspection Can innovate in BoxLang language without breaking legacy CFML Transpiling Dynamic and can continue to edit legacy CFML code Or one-time translate to BoxLang language (BX) Can you translate back from BoxLang to CMFL? Not currently and technically it can be done - it is open source The syntax is very close to CFML script and tags Why Not tag first language - it is script first then adds components / class (aka tag) What is it really? JVM 100% interoperable with Java No bridge like ACF or Lucee Extend from Java classes Import Java classes Framework capabilities built into BoxLang Event-driven programming Event listeners and extension is built-in Cache engine built-in vs added on Can talk to Redis and Couchbase Async and parallel programming Built into the core from Java vs adding in Quartz Java library to do this Easy unit testing of tasks Keep the CFML productivities of RAD coding BoxLang templating language Like Groovy GSP Most modern JVM language More modern than ACF, Lucee OR all other JVM languages such as Groovy, Clojure, Kotlin, Rust etc Super dynamic language with built-in dynamic concepts from the modern Java engine vs a 3rd party library Comparison chart to other languages? Coming in future Why are most modern languages similar in appearance? Common programming metaphors over time are used with similar syntax. But under the hood, they are different engines Tooling IDE Community Is ACF or Lucee embedded in BoxLang? No ACF is closed source Lucee - separate development. Chinese wall separation of BoxLang development. Can see the full source code edit history in GitHub which shows it is not a fork from Lucee What about QA on the language? 6000 automated tests in GitHub Why did you create it? A lot of work to make a new compiler etc Alternatives not taken Suggest features to ACF Tried. Too radical a change Have done for years. They have their own limitations. Tickets exist for these feature requests Pull requests to Lucee for a fork Looked at this for several months Lack of docs from the lead of the Lucee open-source project Major architecture differences with a fresh start Tickets exist for these features for years New JVM language without the emotional baggage of taggy CF Fast release cycles Weekly release cycles Lucee monthly releases ACF annual release plus as needed hotfixes CI process to immediate deployment CommandBox can run different versions of BoxLang, just like it does for ACF and Lucee What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? Seeing other CFer Teaching REST class Ok to ask questions on the side and let's respect Adobe CF conference is focused on ACF. Addendum - What is OSGi OSGi, or Open Service Gateway Initiative, is a Java framework that allows developers to create and deploy modular software programs and libraries. It's based on a set of specifications that define a component system for Java, and includes a standard for building modular components called bundles. Here are some benefits of OSGi: Loose coupling OSGi focuses on loose coupling of functions, which allows for modular functionalities that can be easily moved between source codes. Dynamic component model OSGi implements a dynamic component model that allows applications to be remotely installed, started, stopped, updated, and uninstalled without requiring a restart. Microkernel architecture OSGi utilizes the concepts of a microkernel architecture, also known as a plug-in architecture. Reusable components OSGi allows developers to create applications from smaller, reusable, and collaborative components. The OSGi Alliance was originally responsible for managing the OSGi framework, but in early 2021 the Eclipse Foundation took over the OSGi specification. Mentioned in this episode TeraTech's BoxLang overview article BoxLang Download - free download and paid options, plus lots of language info BoxLang Full source code repo on GitHub plus docs and 1000s of test cases Try BoxLang - similar to TryCF site to try out BoxLang code without having to install it first BoxLang book - full docs and examples to get you going fast. Bio Luis Majano Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer who has been developing and designing software systems since 2000. During economic instability and civil war, he was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, in the late 70s. He lived in El Salvador until 1995 and then moved to Miami, Florida, where he completed his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at Florida International University . He is the CEO of Ortus Solutions , a consulting firm specializing in web development, BoxLang, Java development, and open-source professional services. He is the creator of ColdBox, ContentBox, CommandBox, WireBox, TestBox, LogBox, and anything "Box," and he contributes to over 250 open-source projects. He has a passion for learning and mentoring developers so they can succeed with sustainable software practices and the usage and development of open-source software. You can read his blog at www.luismajano.com Luis is passionate about Jesus, tennis, golf, volleyball, and anything electronic. Random Author Facts: He played volleyball in the Salvadorean National Team at the tender age of 17 His favorite books are The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit (Geek!) His first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99 that his parents gave him in 1986. After some time digesting his very first BASIC book, he had written his own tic-tac-toe game at the age of 9. (Extra geek!) He has a geek love for circuits, microcontrollers, and overall embedded systems. He has, as of late, become a fan of organic gardening. Links Luis Majano | LinkedIn Twitter Ortus Solutions Brad Wood Brad grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors. Brad has been programming ColdFusion since around 2002 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He is a software engineer at Ortus Solutions, lead developer of CommandBox CLI, and open source contributor. Links CFML Slack Box Channel Box Team Slack Channel Brad's Website Brad Wood | LinkedIn Twitter Ortus Community Forum Techempower Nightly Builds
August 25, 2024Episode 1391 hr 3 min
139 All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 2: PDF, CCS, SSO, perf, security) with Mark Takata
Mark Takata talks about "All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 2: PDF, CCS, SSO, perf, security) " in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "…So we decided to build this thing called CCS central configuration server. And it runs at the command line, basically, and allows you to control your servers from a central location. ". Show notes Enhanced HTML-to-PDF Conversion New HTML-to-PDF conversion engine Supports new CSS features for pixel perfect PDFs Imbed audio, video and SVG Old tags features for manipulation of PDFs and forms etc still work Increased file size limit by x100 Optional future features eg DBX merge / header engine New PDF Engine and Library Updates Updates several libraries, including Java, Solr, and Hibernate More secure Runs faster Central Configuration Server (CCS) Simpler management of multiple ColdFusion instances Undo changes "Young" feature, UX a bit hard to set up, easy to use once set up. SSO CF Admin Integration (SAML/LDAP) Users can log in using their corporate credentials with SSO (Single Sign On) Pin point access to parts of CF Admin Groups support Performance optimizations to the ColdFusion engine. ACF 2023 came with Java 17 update which broke some security issues Cause initial slower in first release Was speed up with hotfixes. Future improvements in ACF 2024 Enhanced security features and protocols. SSO Java 17 Protect logs Integration with new technologies and frameworks. Updated libraries used by CF Improved support for cloud platforms and services. Developer tools and IDE enhancements. Accessibility improvements. Security, Stability, RAD and performance Bug fixes and stability enhancements. 200+ bug fixes 500+ for ACF 2024 Christmas holidays bug bash in JIRA https://tracker.adobe.com/ for public bug reporting Annual release cycle and ACF 2024 beta Features fully defined and beta for show at CF Summit West (Las Vegas) in October 2024 Better keep up with changing tech eg AI Why are you proud to use CF? He built his entire career on CF Has professional used 13 other languages too and always comes back to CF Can explain why CF compared to other programming languages RAD - fast prototyping CF is growing More CF jobs Hack and code in CFML 40 lessons Junior devs now asking about CF Easier to learn esp for anyone knows JavaScript Modern ecosystem WWIT to make CF more alive this year? TryCF Mark's learning resources - ask him CF Community Talk about CF a local dev meetup Education CF Summit East announcements coming up What are you looking forward to at CF Summit East? https://www.carahsoft.com/learn/event/50994-adobe-coldfusion-summit-east-2024 April 24th, 2024 Reston VA, on the metro, near Dulles airport CF product manager Charvi Dhoot will be ther Free and free breakfast and lunch CF certification training April 23rd $99 Mark's CF Summit talk on PDF all features CF Summit Online too https://adobe-coldfusion-online-summit-2024.attendease.com/ Happing now Smaller and more intimate event where you can talk with more other CFers and Adobe dev team. Dedicated conference space. Mentioned in this episode 063 Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications (Clusters, Containers and Load Tips) with Mike Collins 110 CommandBox Workflow Magic (modules to speed up CF development), with Brad Wood 044 Let's get GraphQL! (Smart API access from CFML), with Mark Drew 120 How is CFML Speed vs Other Languages? (Hint: really fast!), with Brad Wood Bio Mark Takata Senior ColdFusion Technical Evangelist Mark Takata is Adobe's Senior Technical Evangelist for ColdFusion. With more than 25 years of experience in the tech industry, Mark brings a deep knowledge of programming, design, and his love for mentorship to this role, where he is the main touchpoint for the CF community. Links Mark Takata | LinkedIn CFML slack channel, esp the Adobe channel and DMs takata@adobe.com
July 10, 2024Episode 1381 hr 2 min
138 All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 1: containers, GCP, GraphQL, JWT) with Mark Takata
Mark Takata talks about "All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 1: containers, GCP, GraphQL, JWT) " in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "… So we support Google's version of Pub Sub. And it's fairly simple. You know, you've got a you've got someone creating a message. You've got a subscriber that you can create to listen to that message, messages of contact message that I gaze at It just have, you know, timestamps and things like that ". Show notes In this episode, we look at all the Adobe ColdFusion 2023 new features with the Adobe CF evangelist, Mark Takata. Modular, Secure, and Containerized Approach Adobe ColdFusion 2023 offers a modular and containerized way to build applications run across multiple cloud providers or on-premises without the need to rewrite your application. Future proofing your apps to future cloud tech changes. CF compiles to Java Even can run CF on Steam Deck (Linux game box) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Services Integration The new version enhances project efficiency through seamless integration with GCP services like Cloud Storage buckets (all levels) Doc versioning, aging / retention PubSub. - MQ - app messaging Firestore A NoSQL database Like AWS Dynamo but easier to use Access rights definable in CF admin or via code. Great docs Can use any other GCP features as APIs using CFHTTP Authentication is easy Including Google AI models such as Bard and Gemini Databases: MS-SQL, MySQL BigQuery VS Code extensions to help write this code Cool for more scaleable and modern CF apps! (Multi-Cloud support was added in ACF 2018 ACF 2021 already covers Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS cloud features. For doc storage and MQ features one tag Authentication is handled the same For NoSQL separate tags as features so different syntax GraphQL Support What is GraphQL? GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools. It is Open source (The GraphQL Foundation) Ahead of the curve More efficient data retrieval and manipulation. Make complex data queries and updates with fewer requests Improved the performance and code flexibility. ACF 2023 provides native GraphQL Query Support Direct consuming of GraphQL endpoints Future - serving GraphQL too JSON Web Tokens (JWT) JSON is Structured Text data - more compact than XML. JWP secures your JSON that you are passing around or saving to prevent man in the middle or injection hacker attacks. ACF 2023 has built-in support for JWTs enhanced the security of your CF app
April 17, 2024Episode 1371 hr 22 min
137 ColdFusion Oracle Cloud Migration with MySQL (from VPS) with Scott Stroz
Scott Stroz talks about "ColdFusion Oracle Cloud Migration with MySQL (from VPS) " in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. "…And the difference between Oracle clouds version of the manage the managed MySQL database is that in Oracle Cloud, it's Enterprise Edition. So if you are using MySQL heatwave in Oracle Cloud, you're actually using Enterprise Edition". Show notes What is Oracle Cloud? Oracle cloud services like AWS, GCP, Azure etc Servers, Storage, MySQL, AI etc OCI = Oracle Cloud Infrastructure How does it differ from AWS, GCP, Azure etc? Robust always free tier, not CC required Startups, open source or personal projects Oracle is the steward behind MySQL community edition MySQL Heatwave is cloud version of MySQL Compare AzureSQL etc Managed db Enterprise edition performance boosts and more security The latest MySQL New features - Ben Nadel posts Open Source version and closed source versions Caught up with MS-SQL Server MariaDB fork Original MySQL dev lead developer/CTO is Michael "Monty" Widenius SQL Server is a 'fork' of Sybase Docker images Auto Tuning and DBA AI and ML Oracle The Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) provides a holistic tuning solution. Why cloud hosting? Ease - no server management, no hardware management Fast upscale of memory, disk, CPU Fast scaling of extra servers and spin down too Ditto failover CapEx vs OpEx Small and Enterprise good, Medium less 37 signals posts on cloud vs inhouse Regions - data centers Patching and security Very hard to hack MySQL cloud Point in time recovery Easier Disaster Recovery Pre-problem detection Why use Oracle Cloud? Always free tier - 4 VMs, ARM CPU Lucee issue on ARM? Fixed with CommandBox https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ Two Oracle Autonomous Databases with powerful tools like Oracle APEX and Oracle SQL Developer Two AMD Compute VMs Up to 4 instances of ARM Ampere A1 Compute with 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month Block, Object, and Archive Storage; Load Balancer and data egress; Monitoring and Notifications Moved from VPS at HostMedia in Europe Lucee on MySQL Issues with migration that you solved Set up MySQL instance (VM) Now would just use HeatWave MySQL Update Datasource in CF Admin Use CommandBox to launch Lucee Paramedic experience and development skills Transferring skills from other careers to developing Deal with high stress - stay calm, calm others in chaos Troubleshooting skills - differential diagnosis - keep checking for evidence is true Intuition on what to do or not to do Layers of bugs New keynote Learning from your mistakes or other people's mistake Code reviews Opportunity to learn Rotate reviewers Think bigger picture Code reuse Open source Time to go, time to stay Why are you proud to use CF? Ortus tools and packages Node packages CF community WWIT to make CF more alive this year? Mentioned in this episode Oracle Cloud Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks - new podcast, link coming soon CF Hour Dave Ferguson, Scott Stroz and Matt Gifford CF Suicide, Depression, and Recovery with Jorge Reyes From near death to better biz leader with Brie Moreau Forgebox ITB article CF Summit article Bio Scott Stroz Developer Advocate for MySQL 20+ Years as Software Developer/Architect 2 Years as Assistant Network Administrator 2 Years as Operations Manager for large Mobile Health System 14 years as a Paramedic. Specialties: Web application development with Groovy/Grails, Angular, Vue.js, Micronaut. Links Scott Stroz | LinkedIn scott.stroz@oracle.com http://www.oracle.com
March 8, 2024Episode 13658 min
136 Into The Box 2024 (all the details and speakers) with Jorge Reyes
Jorge Reyes talks about "Into The Box 2024 (all the details and speakers) " in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. " ...But it's just those aha moments where, Hey, I didn't know you could do that. So you can actually, when you go back home and do your job, then you can actually worry about looking more into it and implementing it. So that's kind of the idea behind all the sessions, actually. " . Show notes What is Into The Box conference? Is it only for Box products topics? No - lots of CF topics, not just Box products Do not have to use ColdBox framework to use other Box products Website https://www.intothebox.org/ TeraTech is Silver sponsor Speakers and Topics 1 day pre-conf workshops The pre-conference day is dedicated to hands-on workshops designed to enhance your skills and knowledge in modern web development. These workshops include: Reactive Front-Ends with CFML, CBWIRE, and AlpineJS: Led by Grant Copley, this workshop will guide participants through building a modern web application using CFML and the ColdBox module CBWIRE. Bare Metal to the Cloud: Migrating Legacy Applications to Amazon Web Services: Daniel Garcia and Jon Clausen will provide live, hands-on examples of migrating traditional CFML applications to AWS, covering both "lift and shift" and distributed approaches. ColdBox 7 Unleashed: Luis Majano invites attendees to explore the advanced features of ColdBox 7, focusing on building a dynamic Headless CMS. Day 1 - May 16th Principles and Techniques to Write More Durable Code by Jacob Beers Build a Complex Web Form with RuleBox and TestBox by Annette Liskey User Rights Management Dashboard using cbSecurity by Irvin Wilson Reactive CFML with cbWIRE v4 by Grant Copley Taming the Data Sprawl: Strategies for Managing and Controlling Data Proliferation by Curt Gratz Demonstrating Monitoring Solutions for CF and Lucee by Charlie Arehart cbq — Jobs and Tasks in the Background by Eric Peterson VS Code powered up for modern CFML Development Day 2 - May 17th Schrödinger's Backup: Is Your Backup Really a Backup? by Shawn Oden How to debug ColdFusion applications using "ColdFusion Builder extension for VS Code / CF Builder" by Vinay Jindal Design System: The basis for a consistent design by Jona Lainez and Esme Acevedo Web Hosting with CommandBox / PRO by Daniel Garcia CommandBox/Pro https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandbox-pro Migrate your Infrastructure to the AWS Cloud by George Murphy Headless Content For The Win! by Luis Majano and Esme Acevedo Passkeys and cbSecurity by Eric Peterson Web accessibility for all by Felicia Sephodi ITB/Latam https://latam.intothebox.org/ When? Wed May 15th to Fri May 17th 2024 Where is it this year? New location Washington DC Optica conference center, 2010 Massachusetts Ave NW, near Dupont Circle metro Travel 3 airports. Best two are WAS and DUL, both metro access to downtown DC Cost Early bird $349 conf only, $449 workshop + conf Early bird ends March 30th Party Box evening event What are you looking forward to at ITB this year? Mentioned in this episode CF Suicide, Depression, and Recovery with Jorge Reyes Bio Jorge Reyes COO Jorge is an Industrial and Systems Engineer born and raised in El Salvador. In 2004 he moved to Mexico to complete his Bachelor's at the Insitute of Technology in Monterrey. In 2009 he returned to El Salvador where he worked as Operations Manager for SIHAM, Industrias Bendek. In 2013 he moved to Switzerland with his beautiful wife Marta and joined Ortus Solutions : a professional open source company focused in web development where he currently serves as the Business Manager. He is passionate about delivering value to customers through the use of Ortus Open Source software solutions. He has been blessed with 3 children: Sofia, Isabella, and Jorgito, and he loves spending time with his family. He enjoys an excellent kickboxing workout session and is a mountain bike weekend warrior. On Sundays, he serves as a Worship Pastor at Iglesia Cristina Hispano-Suiza in Pratteln. Links Jorge Reyes Bendeck | LinkedIn Into the Box www.ortussolutions.com
February 16, 2024Episode 13556 min
135 Lucee Migration (8 CFML code moving tips) with Mike Chytráček
Mike Chytráček talks about "Lucee Migration (8 CFML code moving tips) " in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. " ...but we had migrated everything over and all new clients went to Lucy all new applications went to Lucy. And within I'd say maybe two years, we had probably 95% of our clients might get it off, some clients still required it " . Show notes What is Lucee? Why did you migrate to Lucee? 2018 switch from ACF to Lucee Adobe Licensing fishing call and new licensing model per application with $10ks extra cost. "SaaS" due to Mura Per core licensing beyond 2. Easy trial migration. Faster too! Worked great with both MS-SQL and MySQL 95% clints moved to Lucee 5% don't understand open source or the support model Challenges with the migration Unsupported tags CFfileupload CFPDF Websockets CFspreadsheet Arrays and structs passed by reference in Lucee (vs by value) Scope overwriting for URL scope ORM Fixed by removing the ORM and replacing with straight SQL How Java classes are handled and created OSGI EHcache Requires setup PDFs Using wkHTML2PDF and JPG pixel perfect Via CFexecute Json keys - Linux and Windows - case issue - ACF uppercases the keys, Lucee keps original case Results of the migration CF Admin per site Mura and Masa CMS built on Lucee Themes and page builder Preside CMS Ortus Box tools Cost Esp with more cores Cloud easy - no licensing issue Faster to "buy" - no wait on licensing portal of ACF Runs faster Smaller install / load profile Support - via Slack or Lucee forums Less server issues with Lucee than ACF recently Regular (monthly) Lucee point update, easy rollback Why are you proud to use CF? WWIT to make CF more alive this year? What are you looking forward to at CF Summit? CF and AI CF Camp CF IDE ideas. AI thoughts. Mentioned in this episode Lucee migration guide Calling Java from Lucee Masa episode Preside CMS episode Copilot episode Unity pay per download Bio Mike Chytráček Mike first taught himself how to program on the Commodore 64 he received as a Christmas present in 1984. He was soon fascinated by the concept that you could plug your computer into a phone line and have the computer connect to other computers where you could meet new people and share ideas. It only seemed like a natural progression when he first discovered the internet in 1994. While simultaneously nurturing an IT career, he learned how to develop applications for the internet While working for a Chicago area dealership, he launched one of the first car dealership websites in the area (for 1998) and the only dealership that had it's inventory listed and updated daily. In 2000 he went to work for a small development company, SGSNet, in the Chicago area where he met future partner, Jeff Meister, and worked with clients like Ty, Gatorade, Carr Futures and Wilton Industries. In 2003 that small company was bought by Whittman-Hart, and by 2005 Mike and Jeff left Whittman-Hart to form Ignite Solutions and many clients followed them; Wilton Industries, Quaker/Gatorade, Dehnco to name a few. Mike is married with two children and in his spare time enjoys music, reading and spending as much time fishing the surf in the outer banks of North Carolina. Links Website: http://www.ignitesolutions.com Mike Chytráček | LinkedIn
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