This will kick off my "mostly" stream-of-consciousness recap of Day 1 of Adobe's ColdFusion Summit 2020 online conference.
Adobe used vcofex.com for the conference. It looks nice. It looks well-organized. The PIP when leaving an Auditorium is pretty cool. It's nice to be able to watch your presentation while still being able to look at the schedule or around the exhibit hall, and especially while being able to access the Help Desk.
My initial opinion is that this platform is nice, but this event is very poorly put together. The Schedule is confusing: Times are displayed in IST, and since India is almost 12 hours ahead of me, it shows start times for me many hours off. There doesn't seem to be a way to fix this for whatever reason, and initially, the presentations weren't allowing me to join because my time was still way off. It appears that they did something to open up sessions when they go live, but it's still confusing. I did find out that, since it's only two "Auditoriums" running each track, I can just open both up in two different tabs, and then just see when the other starts or stops.
Day 1
Total Attendees : 1459 Now Attending : 945
1. Keynote:
There were some tech issues. Because of the schedule, I wasn't able to open the Auditorium presentation, so I missed the beginning, and with continued "lagginess" after I was able to open the preso, I also missed large chunks of it. I'll watch the video later.
2. Managing deployments for your government clients - George Murphy
George talked about how to set up a CI/CD pipeline for an employer who is very locked down and without internet access. This is very applicable to me, since the Army if extremely locked down on what can be run and how we can run it. I'd love to set up some sort of Source Repo and CI/CD for our workgroup. I mostly do database stuff, but I also do some coding and some reporting development. I'd love to be able to get something set up to help keep history of what we have and what we do.
2b. I switched over to the end of Brian Klaas' talk Building Serverless ColdFusion Applications with cflambda. Brian is always incredibly energetic in his talks and is extremely knowledgeable. I got to have dinner with him last year in Las Vegas at CF Summit 2019, and he was just a great, fun and enjoyable person. And he's very smart. He makes me want to know much more about AWS.
3. CFCrimes: Top Ten Issues Migrating to a Modern CF Stack - Mark Takata
Unfortunately had to leave about 10 minutes into this preso. The first few minutes were pretty interesting, so I'll be watching this one on video.
4. Do It with ColdFusion: Building Your Own Tools with CommandBox - Matthew Clemente
Also missed the first few minutes of this one. His presos are always very informative, and I really want to learn more about CommandBox. So I'll be catching up on this one. So far, some of the CommandBox tools are pretty cool. Print Helper looks very impressive. (Can find what colors your terminal has available).
There were some tech issues, and Matt's preso ran long. Sucks because it had to be cut off early and I'll have to watch the replay for the end. Otherwise, it was a pretty interesting preso.
5. This sessions has two presos that I'm very interested in. Charlie Arehart's "Hidden Gems" recaps are always pretty awesome, and I imagine with the recent release of CF 2021, he'll have some good info. But I know that he'll be posting about this and/or presenting this one again, so I may end up watching Dan Wilson talking about modernizing apps with APIs (especially since I can just rewatch these again later).
5a. How to modernize your application with APIs - Dan Wilson
-- Don't know if this is more tech issues, but it appears that the previous session ran long, and I joined this one several minutes into it.
One word. "Spaghetti". Dan is reminding me that it's lunch time.
- Low Encapsulation - Low code reuse.
CopyPasteMania (c) :-)
Taco Based Encapsulation - Medium - Just a little bit of code reuse.
Fried Chicken Encapsulation - High - Lots of code reuse.
He mentioned Adam Tuttle's REST Assured book. I bought this when Adam first wrote it, and he's apparently getting back into more Taffy again. Great stuff. DISCOUNT CODE: CFSUMMIT
5b. Hidden Gems in Adobe ColdFusion 2021 - Charlie Arehart
--- See my note on the other session. Scheduling got a little wonky here.
Caught the tail end. Lots of monitoring info available. More cool stuff.
NOTE: As of right now, there are 1812 Total Attendees with 830 currently online. It's great to see this many CF Devs interested in CF Summit.
6. Have a career, Expert status not required - Dave Ferguson
Dave is always a good speaker, which shouldn't really be surprising considering his background.
"What is an expert?" Good answers.
So...... apparently Dave and I have a very similar Geek Origin Story. BASIC, Commodore 64s and MUDs. Best way to start.
7. Panel Discussion - ColdFusion Application Modernization Challenges
Kishore Balakrishnan
Nolan Erck
Brian Klaas
Charlie Arehart
Gavin Pickin
David Byers
Last session of the day. Good panel discussion of the issues facing CF devs. Lots of good info, especially the recommendations about learning resources.
There are some very interesting sessions happening overnight, but I can't stick around to watch them. I'll catch the videos later.
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DAY 2 Coming Next ....
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