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CF Summit, Ortus presentations available!

Maria Jose Herrera October 21, 2022

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Maria Jose Herrera

October 21, 2022

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CFSummit was a successful event. Our Ortusians rocked their presentations and we had the chance to meet a lot of amazing people with incredible ideas to continue contributing to the CFML world!

Did you miss our sessions? Don’t worry, we attached the links to their presentations below for you to download and review anytime you want!

Speaker’s presentations!

 

  • Daniel Garcia | “Easier API development and testing  - Use PostMan, Webhook.site & ngrok to enhance your workflow” 

 

Postman, Webhook.site, and ngrok are must-have tools for any API developer that help enhance your development process, test workflow, and provide free versions. This conference aims to inspire attendees to use at least one (if not all) of these tools when they get home.

 

Daniel’s Presentation

 

  • Gavin Pickin | “A step-by-step guide to upgrading procedural code to MVC & Why you should do it” 

 

There are plenty of reasons you should upgrade to an MVC - it is a tried and true, battle-tested design pattern that works. In this session, attendees shall be shown how they can migrate their app from procedural code to an MVC framework, step by step, improving the app as they go, without having to rewrite it from scratch.

 

Gavin’s Presentation

 

  • Brad Wood | "Message Queues with RabbitMQ”

 

Get to know about RabbitMQ – a tool used for worker queues, topic distribution, synch RPC invocations, and even web socket pushes to your web app in this session. Using the RabbitSDK for ColdFusion, you can get started today with queues and bring your apps to the next level. Stop thinking about API calls and start thinking about sending messages, thanks to this popular and robust queue.

 

Brad’s Presentation

 

  • Luis Majano | Alpine.js: Declare and React with Simplicity

 

This session will introduce to you the power of Alpine.js as a modern, lightweight, declarative, and reactive Javascript framework that can be embedded on any webpage without any need for a webpack or complicated build processes.

 

Luis’s Presentation

 

If you have any questions or would like us to post more content about a certain topic, product, tool, or service, please feel free to reach out to us and let us know!

If you weren't able to join us at CF Summit, Join us at ITB 2023, more details are coming soon, Stay tuned! 

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