CF Alive: Making ColdFusion Modern, Vibrant and Secure

by Michaela Light

ColdFusion is a vibrant and modern language for complex, data-driven enterprise apps. While some companies have abandoned CF as dying, more farsighted dev teams have embraced CF. Learn how they are making it the most modern, secure and state-of-the-art web development ecosystem. Bar none. * Modernize your legacy CF apps with 14 best practices for easy-to-maintain apps * Discover 27 state-of-the-art tools from my hand-picked list that will make you more efficient at CF development * Inspire others developers and young programmers with our proven 21 outreach methods * Learn 8 keys to improve CF Marketing and be proud of using ColdFusion * Contribute to making CF more alive Author Bio Michaela Light is the host of the CF Alive Podcast and has interviewed more than 60 ColdFusion experts. In each interview, she asks “What Would It Take to make CF more alive this year?” The answers inspired this book. 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 founded the CFUnited Conference and runs the annual State of the CF Union survey.

275 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 17, 2018

About the author

Michaela Light (1964- ) was born in Berkshire, England. As a child she was gifted in mathematics and went on to do a degree and masters in it at Cambridge University. She went into software development and has owned TeraTech (a custom software company) for 36 years. Her interest in intuition began in 2001 following a car accident, starting yoga and joining an honest communication group. She has organized conferences for thousands of programmers, written 100 articles and taught 300 workshops around the world.

She came out at work and in public as transgendered and bisexual in 2002, “because living my truth became more important to me that obeying other people's judgments about me”. In 2010 she got strong messages from her intuition that she should go to the Andes. She didn’t know anyone there, was frightened to move and did it anyway. She now lives half the year in Cusco, Peru and travels in Europe and Asia the rest of the year.

She and her team of ColdFusion wizards at TeraTech, help CIOs with legacy Adobe ColdFusion apps to modernize and maintain them.

Reviews

[Aubrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am currently in the middle of getting the ColdFusion Certification, as well as getting really into ColdFusion. Michaela's articles on LinkedIn are what drew me to this book, and if you learn anything, you learn to make the right steps towards building your career in ColdFusion. I plan on helping my college implement new innovations within their ColdFusion applications with the tools she talks about in this book. While not getting down to brass tacks with ColdFusion code, she gives everyone from beginners to seasoned coders a place to be. Totally worth reading again, and following with the podcasts!