Do you want to run serverless CFML on AWS Lambda?  Of course you do! In this session we'll cover the basics of AWS Lambda, and then dive right in to show you how to package up some CFML and deploy to AWS lambda using the FuseLess (fuseless.org) toolkit.
Target: Developers or Admins/Ops

We will look at how to create a CommandBox image of Lucee 5.X on LightSail. This will allow us to standup an immediate site and do CI using Gitlab.

Interact with your database with ease using Quick, a CFML ORM engine. Create your models, map them to a database table, and create, read, update, or delete data in an Active Record or Virtual Service style. This presentation will talk about what Quick is, why use it over other alternatives, and how to set it up in your application.

Coldbox Elixir v3 represents a major upgrade from v2 in compiling and managing your static and dynamic Javascript assets.  In this session, we'll provide you with:

• An over view of what Coldbox Elixir is and what it can do
• An introduction to WebPack and it's capabilities
• A demonstration of compilation of assets and module namespacing built-in to Elixir
• A demonstration asset compilation for different environmental tiers ( e.g. developing with Elixir )

Our web hosting company is using many different services for managing e-mail, spam-filters, DNS, domain registrations, SSL registrations, ticket systems and more. Some of these services have well defined Web API’s, others can only be managed by simple command line scripts.
In this session we will explain how we tried to automate the various workflows by using a messaging system such as RabbitMQ for communication between our cfml based customer control panel and these services.

The Springboard ecosystem consists of several interacting domains including a web app, custom web sites for customers, a REST API, mobile apps, cloud based tools under development, and a management portal. The files for these are located in multiple bitbucket repos. In order to replicate the working ecosystem locally in development, we use a combination of techniques and tools centered around CommmandBox. These include CommandBox custom commands, CFConfig, CommandBox Host Updater, Testbox and CommandBox’s ability to communicate with external programs, such as git clients. The end result is a working system of several domains, running locally, which communicate and work exactly as they do on public servers while allowing editing and committing/pushing to bitbucket repos.

JavaScript is everywhere, and with that so is Node.js. Developers feel they have to have Node installed for a modern development workflow. Did you know that all the core features of Node now exist in a pure CFML workflow? Everything you’ve heard about from the JavaScript/Node world can be done with CommandBox! Package management, installing dependencies, command line tooling, flipping between run-time environments, automated build and testing processes are often mentioned as tasks made easier with Node. Modern CFML developers can have all of these same benefits without ever installing Node! It all can be done from CommandBox and this preso will show you how!

This session should inspire any level of developer to think about the non-English speaking world when planning a new web application or when working on an existing one. Even though most small projects start out in English, there are many reasons in today’s multicultural world that force the need to add a second or third language to your app.
We’ll start by addressing the business reasons for planning early and then move into things to look for when designing or modifying an existing application.  While we’ll talk briefly about multilingual plugins, tools and Content Management Systems, we’ll really focus on how to take your legacy app and start by adding a second language to it. The key takeaways from this session will be how to estimate the work involved and some best practices when adding a new spoken language to your web application.

Target Audience: All developers, the concepts are non programming language specific (although my examples use CF)

In this 50-minute session, we'll take a fast-paced look at 10 Coldbox modules you owe it to yourself to be using in every application you develop.  These modules run the gamut from security and authenticatiom to data serialization, but they all have one thing in common:  they will save you hours of repetitive coding and make your life easier!

The recent versions of ColdFusion have added many new language features. We’ve now got closures, functional programming constructs, QueryExecute, the safe navigation operator, the Elvis operator, and even more coming in future releases. For people new to functional programming or object oriented programming, it can be hard to see where these features can be beneficial. Let’s fix that! In this talk we’ll discuss many of the new language enhancements in CFML. But rather than stopping with an “x = 1” example, we’ll look at blocks of code that are more real-world in nature. The code demos will all be based on scenarios you’ll run across in your daily development. That's right, we'll run real live code! You'll get to see these language features in action, right before your very eyes! Main takeaways: * Closures and when to use them * Member functions * The Elvis operator vs ternary operator vs safe navigation operator * Functional programming: filter, map, reduce. * QueryExecute instead of CFQuery tags * New language features coming in ColdFusion 2018 * Real world situations when you’ll want to use these * Some best practices * Other resources Target audience: CFML developers that are looking to learn more about the features recently added to the language, and how to apply them in current development projects. Attendees should already be comfortable with the CFML language and concepts such as arrays, queries, variable scoping, and anonymous functions.

In this session we will explore the enterprise edition of ForgeBox so your company can have a private ForgeBox software directory in the cloud. You will learn how to leverage both CommandBox and ForgeBox to secure, store and distribute your binaries within your enterprise. Modernize and scale with ForgeBox Enterprise!

Learn how super simple it can be to create custom "Skills" with ColdFusion to use on Amazon Alexa devices. Walk away with an understanding of how Alexa voice technology works and, most importantly, how you can utilize ColdFusion to easily build your own custom skills. This session will cover everything from using CommandBox to initiate your development using a ForgeBox package to consuming utterances, intents and slots and creating custom voice responses that engage and interact with your user. Learn how to use the Amazon Developer portal in conjunction with ColdFusion to rapidly build your own custom Alexa skills. At the end of the session you will walk away with everything you will need including a ColdFusion framework and template to immediately get started. Voice technology is the future and ColdFusion is the tool that can deliver rapid results. Join this session to see just how super easy it can be.

In this session we will be learning how to start using ContentBox, and from the beginning, setup your site to be containerized and deployed with Continuous Integration to a Cloud Provider on a Docker Swarm. You will learn about Ortus Solution's ( Docker Partner ) docker images for CommandBox and ContentBox, and how to build your site, dockerize, and then deploy (using only free tools), to the cloud of your choice. If the live demo gods are on our side, I will deploy a new site to Digital Ocean at the end of this session.

In this session, we want to share with you lessons learned from Legacy CFML projects that we have lead and implemented so you can learn from both our mistakes and our success.