Join us for another CF "Ask Me Anything" session, with your host Charlie Arehart and recent co-organizer Dan Wilson. We'll open the floor to any sort of CF-related questions you may have, whether about coding challenges or using CF features (on the newest or older versions), configuration or tuning, deployment, security, the future and state of CF, whatever. You can offer questions in advance if you like, using this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenOp4GULwLA6q8UDIvhgXjAymSr2jM3zfSDEfFXu7yUVMhxw/viewform Of course, some topics tend to generate more heat than light, so we hope folks will ask questions that may not be merely points of debate (preferences, disappointments, laments). And since we're not Adobe and don't speak for them, there are some topics where we won't be able to offer information that isn't publicly known. Still, there are many questions asked in the community (in various places) every day, so there are plenty of good questions. Of course, we can even talk about, "where are good places to ask CF questions?"! :-) You bring 'em, we'll wing 'em. We'll even let others hop on to speak/share video/screen, if they feel they have a question or answer that would be better spoken than written in the chat.

Let's automate the boring stuff with ColdFusion! Let's build our own tools to supercharge ColdFusion servers, leverage existing ColdFusion libraries, and streamline daily development. All you need is your current knowledge of ColdFusion to leverage CommandBox's extensible framework for crafting new tools and automations. If you've used CommandBox to spin up ColdFusion servers on your local machine, you already know it's a very powerful tool - but did you know it's capable of far more? In this session we'll explore a completely different use for CommandBox - building custom tooling. That is, we'll use your existing knowledge of ColdFusion, along with CommandBox, to automate, extend, and enhance your development workflows, servers, and environment. We'll begin by examining the code, structure, and functionality of some existing CommandBox custom commands. These are powerful tools that you can begin using right away! You'll see how helper components, convenience methods, and built-in utilities all come together to make CommandBox custom commands and task runners possible. CommandBox makes it trivial to harness all the functionality of ColdFusion (think PDF generation, emails, and more), as well as provide command-line interactivity. This is all put together with an intuitive DSL and conventions that make creating your own shareable, reusable command modules straightforward and accessible. So, we'll build on what we've learned from existing CommandBox modules, and I'll walk you through the process of crafting your own commands and task runners. By the end, you'll be ready to take full advantage of the power of ColdFusion and CommandBox to automate all-the-things, from small day-to-day programming tasks, to larger projects and applications.

CommandBox is a CLI tool designed for CFML developers to be easy to use. If you are not a fan of CLI tools, please don't pass over CommandBox until you've given it a try. It is capable of starting any version of Lucee Server or Adobe ColdFusion with no installation. Learn how to easily get started with a local development environment today, get tips to dial in your server settings, and discover how to automate your server setups. CommandBox is used across the CF space for local dev, production, and Docker. We'll cover what you need to know to get started and answer any questions you have about how it works.

Progressive Web Apps leverage modern browser capabilities to deliver additional capabilities for developers and app users. These web apps deliver capabilities that make a web app 'feel' more like traditional and mobile apps, providing offline capabilities (like the ability to run when offline or to perform background synchronization), receive push notifications, and installation on the system. In this session, John M. Wargo, the author of Pearson's Learning Progressive Web Apps (https://learningpwa.com) will introduce you to PWAs and show you how to build them.

Adam will demonstrate building a REST API using his library Taffy to illustrate many of the foundational principles of REST and the ease of accomplishing them with Taffy. Then we'll open the floor for Q&A and discussion.

Kendo UI is a suite of UI components that let you to build front-end apps fast. In this session, TJ VanToll will introduce you to Kendo UI by building a series of apps that solve some of the trickier modern web development problems, like forms, data grids, charts and graphs, and more. Come learn about Kendo UI, and how you can speed up your web development workflows.

Join us for our first "Ask Me Anything" session, with your host Charlie Arehart and recent co-organizer Dan Wilson. We'll open the floor to any sort of CF-related questions you may have, whether about coding challenges or using CF features, configuration or tuning, deployment, security, the upcoming new CF version, recent CF versions, the future and state of CF, whatever.

Of course, some topics tend to generate more heat than light, so we hope folks will ask questions that may not be merely points of debate (preferences, disappointments, laments). And since we're not Adobe and don't speak for them, there are some topics where we won't be able to offer information that isn't publicly known. Still, there are many questions asked in the community (in various places) every day, so there are plenty of good questions. Of course, we can even talk about, "where are good places to ask CF questions?"! :-)

You bring 'em, we'll wing 'em. We'll even let others hop on to speak/share video/screen, if they feel they have a question or answer that would be better spoken than written in the chat.

ColdFusion, the powerful language we love, is still relevant in the world of single page apps and mobile apps, because we can power them with ColdFusion APIs.

In this session ( Part 1 ) we'll look at how you can easily add some API goodness into your existing app, even if it is legacy. We'll look at different approaches, and give you a way to start building your API today.

Learn how you can use free Docker technology with ColdFusion to keep development environments for different clients or projects separate from one another. No more managing conflicting settings between projects or applications. You can instantly set up other developers with a perfectly configured development environment. You can also archive environment configurations for apps you may need later.

You can use ColdFusion APIs to create fast, secure sites and apps by pre-rendering files and serving them up without web servers. In this session (a live-streamed discussion and demos, rather than a presentation), Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi will discuss the JAM Stack, along with Dan Wilson on how to use ColdFusion to make remote data available for it. They'll take a look at how to create a site and serve it up without needing to manage web servers