075 Breaking out of your ColdFusion comfort zone (How to make CF mainstream) with Igor Ilyinsky

Igor Ilyinsky talks about “Breaking out of your ColdFusion comfort zone (How to make CF mainstream)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.
https://teratech.com/podcast/breaking-out-of-coldfusion-comfort-zone-make-cf-mainstream-igor-ilyinsky/
Episode highlights
CF from a biz perspective
When CF makes sense or not makes sense for a biz
When works, not work
Dev cost
Maintenance costs
How hard to hire good CF devs
When pick CF
How big the project is
How much fits our existing CF code base
Client preference
When pick WP
If just CMS and blog
When other languages
If have existing package in that language
CF Obstacles
CF was the lowest barrier to learn
Blessing and curse
Blessing – easy to create new apps
Curse – some bad developers have written bad quality code
Now some languages you don’t have to set up a server to use it
Cloud spin up instant in
cPanel setup
Node.js
CF setup improvements
Dockerization
CommandBox
Silent CF traditional installs
CF Benefits
Rapid Application Development
Esp for occasional coders or new coders
Strong CF community
New innovation
Docker
Cloud
“Future proof”
Modules (Forgebox)
Plug in risk that the developer wrote good code
Cost of license is small compared to cost of the code
Plenty of high quality CF devs
Closed platform is more security than open source
State of CF Union survey
Most CF devs have done for a long time
Need more young CFers
Adobe CF education version
Adobe free college training materials
How get kids and younger people into it
Entrepreneurs putting up a simple app
Adobe priority on CF?
Compare to Google and Node.js
Engage community more to develop language features that they want
Collaborative with community
Tag line – for everything you want to build on the web
Politics of why technolicals CF connects with
Stumbling blocks for CF gaining mainstream status
CF community to provide sample code to services and APIs that work with multiple languages
Maybe a central list or repository of these!
Just in time component incorporation of parts of the CF server
Pay for support subscription vs the platform up front
Lightweight platform footprint
Engage programmers of other languages such as JavaScript
CF devs largely operate in a bubble
Exposed to other languages and techniques
Stepping out of your CF comfort zone
Engage other technologies
Docker
AWS
Make these more turnkey for CFers to use
Getting more news and PR for CF scaling and security
How Igor got started with CF
What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

Mentioned in this episode
WannaCry ransomware 
State of CF Union survey results 2018 blog post
The Future of ColdFusion (it is Bright) with Tridib Roy Chowdhury
Episode Thomas Grobicki 041 The true ROI of ColdFusion (how to sell CF to your boss or client)
Bio
Igor is the founder of FirmWise, and has helped redesign over a hundred law firm websites. He is a Marketing Technologist, Entrepreneur and entertaining presenter focused on advancing Law Firms to the highest level of marketing technology automation… Igor’s gift is knowing how to translate techy jargon into common sense English that anyone can understand; even battle hardened attorneys. His experience in web development for nearly the past two decades and his popularity as a speaker make him the quintessential authority on what trends to pursue and what fads to avoid. As the Founder of FirmWise, the only web hosting platform developed specifically for law firms, Igor has helped define the web presence for over 200 law firms, and continues to pioneer strategy for the industry.

Specialties: Expertise in Law Firm Marketing, Web Content Management, ColdFusion, Web Hosting, Web Design, Database Architecture, IT Management and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Worked with numerous programming languages (including: Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Modula3, C/C++, Visual Basic, Active Server Pages, Java, Java Server Pages, Enterprise Java Beans, JavaScript, Livewire [Server Side JavaScript], Perl, Php, SQL, TSQL, PL/SQL, ColdFusion, ActionScript, WML, WMLS, XML and WSDL) on multiple OS platforms.