094 Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit), with Elishia Dvorak
Elishia Dvorak talks about “Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certification (new at CF Summit)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.
https://teratech.com/podcast/adobe-coldfusion-specialist-certification-elishia-dworak
Show notes
What is the CF Specialist Certification?
1. + 22 hours video training (get access to the videos and demo files 2 weeks before the hands on training).
This must be completed prior to the hands on class
You can ask questions of the Adobe experts during this time
2. a full-day hands on class taught by top Adobe ColdFusion experts.
Instructor plus TAs
3. Multiple-choice assessment
4. Adobe ColdFusion Specialist certificate.
And LinkedIn badge to help you stand out from the crowd
Cost
$399 including the video training, hands-on class and assessment
Why Certify
See where your skills are compared to other CFers
Learn new features that you might have missed
Improve chances of promotion or being hired
How is this different from the old certification program?
The old one was CF 9
Only a test – did not include any training
The new one is video training and 1-day training with Q&A plus a test
1-day training
Small classroom format
1 instructor + 2 TAs
Requirements
Bring a modern laptop with CF 2018 and CF Builder 2018 already installed on it
Install help provided
Why did you decide to bring it back?
It has been 10 years
Developers, managers and organization for both certification and training from Adobe
Future – other topics such as CF Security (by Pete Freitag)
What does it cover?
All versions of CF
CF 2018 is best
Fundaments
Modern CFML coding best practices
It includes all the major features in the latest release of Adobe ColdFusion – to use CFML to develop, test, debug and deploy web apps.
It also shows how CF acts as a glue between different systems.
Does not be cover non-language features such as the API Manager or Clustering..
Course Outline
Introduction to ColdFusion
Basics of HTML (Static Vs Dynamic sites)
What is ColdFusion and CF Builder?
ColdFusion Installation
Dynamic generation of Pages using CFML (Hello World)
ColdFusion Administrator
ColdFusion Datasources
Getting Started with ColdFusion Builder
ColdFusion Builder Primer
Debugging applications
Advanced features
ColdFusion Fundamentals
Commenting code
Conditional statements
Reusing code with
Reusing code with Custom Tags and CFModule
Writing and Using CFFunctions
Working with forms
Working with forms – best practices
Database Operations
Displaying database data – cfoutput and cfloop
Introducing CurrentRow
Using the Resultset data – current row, record count, cache, column list, valuelist()
Using URL data in dynamic queries
Creating dynamic SQL for multiple search criteria
Query parameters and caching
Variable and Data Types
Working with lists
Working with arrays
Working with structures
Looping over data
Shared Scopes and Handling State
Addressing the web’s statelessness
Session and Application Variables
Locking shared scope variables
Application Framework
Using the application framework
Configuring application settings
Handling application events
Handling request events
Handling session events
OnServerStart()
applicationStop()
PDF Operations in CF
Installing HTML to PDF Engine
Creating PDFs with
HTML to PDF Conversion with
Introduction to DDX support
Object-Oriented ColdFusion
Instance-based components
Caching instances
Adding methods to a component
Public and Private
Property getters and setters
Constructors
Inheritance
Composition
Interfaces
Models
When
Sign up now
Video release mid-Sept
On site class Monday Sept 30th
Availability
120 seats
Where
Mirage Las Vegas
Why Las Vegas?
Easy travel
Cheap flights to LAS airport
Airport in right in town only a few miles from the conference hotel
CF Summit
West
East
India
CF cert level
beginner/intermediate level
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Why are you proud to use CF?
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
Engage
Blog
Social post
Share your CF app story with Adobe
SaaS app
What are you looking forward to at CF Summit West?
Mentioned in this episode
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/adobe-coldfusion-specialist/
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/07/adobe-coldfusion-specialist-certificate-program/
https://teratech.com/comprehensive-coldfusion-training-list-16-resources/
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
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