San Francisco nerds! Who wants to learn jQuery? I’m teaching an “Intro to jQuery” class May 20 and 21 at the Bay Area Video Coalition. There are a few spots left in the class; I may be able to get you a discount on the cost (if you're not already a member at BAVC). Drop me a message for more info.

The calendar has been posted, I guess that makes it official. I’m speaking at CF.Objective 2017!  

I’ll be giving two talks: “Dependency Injection, Why Is It Awesome and Why Should I Care?” and “Best Practices Are Best, Except When They're Not”.   I’ve made some updates to both talks recently; if you’ve seen them at previous conferences, there will be at least some new (to you) content in each talk.  Card is subject to change, some restrictions apply. ;)

Into The Box 2017 wrapped up last night, I’m currently on a flight home (coincidentally on the same flight as Gavin, Bill and Esme from the Ortus team).  Hands down, Into The Box 2017 was the best, most advanced, ColdFusion conference I’ve attended in a while. 

#1 - modeling is key
ORM relationship modeling is key
UML will be your best friend
stop thinking about the DATA
start thinking about object orientation: data AND behavior
 

People are writing “new apps” in CF but the reality is, a lot of them are legacy apps
when you have a language that’s 20 years old, statistically a lot of the code will not be “fresh, new” code. a lot of time we have to work with an older codebase.

We want to get off of “legacy hell” but don’t know how to do it?

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

API is the big buzzword these days

can use ContentBox API to get data in/out of your site
internally in your content box app
externally
mobile app
web hooks,
etc

(John did a lot of walking thru code during his preso. I eventually stopped taking notes and just watched his code. I believe the sample files will be available for download from him somewhere.)

Dont replace jquery w/ vue
they solve different problems
keep using jquery if you want

The Past —

got its start as a static web server and a proxy
Igor Sysoev
apache had a problem where it’d fall over after 10K requests
Igor wrote NGINX to handle proxy connections and do things in a new way.

Why use modules?

We can reuse modules, improve each other’s work

versioning
can pin to 1 version if you’re worried about a future version breaking something in your app

(Much of this talk was watching live processes run on Corby’s machine, hence not many notes.)

Development Cycle:
requirements > code > build > deploy/operate > feedback > requirements…

when we talk to high perf software dev companies
the diff is not in the talent of the people
it’s how fast can they get around the dev cycle loop

Luis Majano —

Ortus has grown. From ColdBox to “Many Boxes”.

“You’re still coding in that?!” story

This week is the Into The Box conference in Houston. Like previous years, it’s run by the fine folks at Ortus Solutions.  Unlike previous years, the conference is now in Texas, and has expanded to 2 days, plus an additional day of pre-conference training.  

Tomorrow morning I jump on a plane (that thankfully isn’t United, ha!) and head to the Adobe ColdFusion Government Summit. Here’s my best guess as to where you’ll be able to find me:

This Wednesday (April 19) at SacInteractive, Jon Nutting will be giving an Intro To React.  The description is below; as always our meeting is FREE and open to everyone. It starts at 6:30 at HackerLab -- hope to see you there! --nolan

This Wednesday (April 19) I’ll be speaking at the Adobe ColdFusion Government Summit in Washington DC. I’m not actually giving a ColdFusion specific talk, but rather I’ll be presenting “Crash Course in jQuery”.

CF is 21 years young
double-digit growth
between 2014 (cf11) and 2016 (cf2016), we saw “double digit growth” in CF
adding new customers year over year (consistent over the last few years)
these are customers who have NEVER bought CF before

doing a lot of going to different cities, having conversations w/ CF folks
feedback taken to product/engineering team

next month (May) CF 10 goes out of core support - no more security/hot fixes
ONE more for CF 10 and 11 in the next few weeks, but that’s it for 10

Wednesday was the ColdFusion Roadshow in San Francisco. Essentially this was 2 1-hour sessions by Elishia Dvorak and Rakshith Naresh about the current state of ColdFusion, and future plans. Much of the info was similar to what we’d been told at CF Summit and CF Camp last year, but there were some new details as well. (I’ll post my notes from both sessions shortly.)  Overall it looks like Adobe has some great ideas planned for the next 2 ColdFusion releases (tentatively scheduled for 2018 and 2020).