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July 06, 2022

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Adobe Developer Week is returning this July 2022, bigger and better than previous years. The developer week will be multiple sessions per day, for 5 days from July 18th to July 22nd. Ortus Solutions is proud to announce not one, but two speakers, Luis Majano and Gavin Pickin are presenting on APIs, back to back on Monday July 18th.

Register for Adobe Developer Week for Free and watch these 2 great sessions, and 16 other top speakers.

Modern Functional & Fluent CFML REST APIs with Luis Majano

July 18th - 10:00 AM CDT

In this exploratory session you will learn how to create and publish a ColdFusion component or any functions in a component as REST resource. Lets review different ways to refactor and build upon a RESTFul service to make it modern, fluent, and more functional.

Building apps with VueJS x ColdFusion APIs with Gavin Pickin

July 18th - 12:00 PM CDT

Learn how to build a front-end interface for “Developer Feud” using VueJS and ColdFusion APIs and deploy the same code on SPA, Android, and Windows online. Let's decide once and for all if we should use tabs or spaces, and discuss other hotly debated developer topics.

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