Adobe ColdFusion Devweek 2025 starts June 23, 2025. While it has been announced in other places, I noticed there was no blog post here which is where some might seek it out (and how search engines/AI bots might find it more readily than in social media posts).
If you register at that site, you should get notified by email with a link to attend the sessions live. As for recordings, you should also get emails about them. [As an update since I first posted this, it turns out the recordings are available on Youtube, so I am offering the links below as they are released by Adobe. And for more about challenges some have had receiving those emails and my sharing these links here, see the last couple of paragraphs here.]
First up on June 23 is a free day-long online workshop, “ColdFusion: From Fundamentals to Advanced DevelopmentColdFusion: From Fundamentals to Advanced Development” offered by Brian Sappey. This is the CF certification training that has been offered by Adobe a few times in recent years, especially at CF Summits as a pre- or post-conference workshop.
Then the rest of the week offers a series of several free hour-long live sessions with various presenters, some who work for Adobe and others who do not. While some of the topics cover aspects new to CF2025, many apply across recent versions. Note they also range from more advanced topics to ones that would benefit newer developers, or long-time developers interested in expanding their knowledge.
Finally, note that Adobe has indicated the session timeframes as PDT–which is US Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7), and I am maintaining that timing here for the sake of consistency:
- Monday, June 23:
- 0600-1300 PDT: “Full day training: Mastering ColdFusion: From Fundamentals to Advanced Development“, with Brian Sappey [Youtube recording]
- Tuesday, June 24:
- 0930-1030 PDT: “Debugging & Error Handling in ColdFusion”, with Charlie Arehart [Youtube recording]
- 11:00-12:00 PDT: “Modernizing Authentication: Secure OAuth 2.0 Integration with ColdFusion”, with Michael Hayes [Youtube recording]
- 12:15-13:15 PDT: “Top Ten Language Tricks – Leveraging Language Improvements in Adobe ColdFusion”, with Mark Takata [Youtube recording]
- Wednesday, June 25:
- 07:00-08:00 PDT: “Leveraging ColdFusion for Next-Gen Applications”, with Vikas Yadav [Youtube recording]
- 10:00-11:00 PDT: “Security 101: Protecting Your ColdFusion Applications”, with Pete Freitag [Youtube recording]
- 11:30-12:30 PDT: “Deploying Your First ColdFusion App on the Cloud”, with Brian Bockhold [Youtube recording]
14:00-15:00 PDT: “Cloud Database Basics – Connecting to and Using Cloud Databases on AWS, Azure, and GCP”, with Dave Ferguson (rescheduled to next day)
- Thursday, June 26:
- 07:00-08:00 PDT: “DocuNinja: Slice, Merge, and Master Docs with ColdFusion”, with Kaushik L V [Youtube recording]
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09:00-10:00 PDT: “From Concepts to Code: Leveraging AI through ColdFusion”, with Ashudeep Sharma [Youtube recording]
- 10:30-11:30 PDT: “Cloud Database Basics – Connecting to and Using Cloud Databases on AWS, Azure, and GCP”, with Dave Ferguson [Youtube recording]
- Friday, June 27:
- 07:00-08:00 PDT: “Elevate Your CF Apps: Unleashing Cloud Power with ColdFusion”, with Mukesh Kumar [Youtube recording]
The description for each talk is offered at that CF DevWeek 2025 site, which also offers a form to register for the event (you will be emailed the link for joining the sessions).
As an update since posting this, many people are complaining that even once they register, they are never getting the email with the link to join. That’s a bummer–and it could be because they previously clicked Adobe’s “unsubscribe” link which would prevent them ever getting email from Adobe, but that’s just a guess. FWIW there WERE several dozen attendees at Brian Sappey’s daylong workshop, so the process IS indeed working for some.
Anyway, while Adobe may have preferred people register to get this link, I just feel a civic duty to help out. The link is https://my.adobeconnect.com/coldfusionroom/ .
Similarly, the DevWeek site linked to at the top here indicates that “Recordings will be shared exclusively with registered participants within 24 hours” (emphasis mine), which is another motivation to register. (But as another update since I first posted this, I have since gotten those emails and the links offered are indeed on Youtube, so I feel ok offering the recording links, and so I have started adding them here as they are released. As always, just trying to help.)
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Charlie, I registered for the developer week, but I can’t seem to login to that site you have linked. There is nowhere for me to login. So I can’t add any sessions to my schedule.
Stewart, first, Adobe is indeed aware of that problem. It came up at the end of the first daylong session today, when someone else pointed it out. It was not SOLVED, but the suggestion was that folks should “clear their browser cache” (don’t you love it when that’s suggested?)
…or I would propose more simply: try visiting the URL you’re using in another browser, or in an incognito/private window. Does that work?
Even if not, while you can’t login and “schedule sessions”, were you at least provided an email when you FIRST registered, and did that email offered a link for joining the online sessions? I got one, and that’s all you need, really–at least to VIEW the sessions. The link seems generic to all the devweek sessions.
Perhaps you (or others) are thinking, “yeah, but if I’m not registered for a GIVEN session I may not be sent the recording for that session”. Maybe, but I suspect that instead Adobe will provide to all registrants to the devweek the recordings for all sessions–whether each day or at the end.
But since I can’t know that, I didn’t propose it above. I also don’t know whether a) the URL for the sessions and b) the URL for any recordings will be made public by Adobe, which is why I have not proposed (in the post) to offer that.
But I hope something in my reply here helps get you going….again, at least to attend. Let us know how it goes, if you think to.
The registration confirmation email does NOT have a link to the live sessions. It only confirmed my attendee details. I had already tried a different browser (Edge instead of Chrome) and I tried it on a different laptop as well (personal laptop instead of work laptop). I just tried Incognito mode and same result. No ability to login and get a link to the sessions. I also tried on Firefox and got the same result.
I give up. I don’t work for Adobe, so can’t solve the problem. And while I don’t want to share the link publicly without Adobe’s permission, there’s only 90 minutes until the first session (which happens to be mine), so I will share it here: https://my.adobeconnect.com/coldfusionroom/
Let us know if you see the “Adobe ColdFusion Room” there, once you get through whatever steps Connect has you do (as you may know, Adobe Connect is their presentation platform, predating Zoom and others).
Thanks for sharing Charlie! Will these be recorded and shared afterwards as well?
Please see the last paragraph…especially the bolded content. 🙂
I should’ve made a bet how long it would be before someone still asked. No offense intended, of course! I know, too many words. What’s a writer to do? … 🙂
OK, I just added a sentence to the first paragraph, addressing that…by pointing folks to that last one. This way, if somehow things change (like if Adobe makes the URL public), I can add that there and cover both references to the topic. I guess THAT’s the least “a writer can do”. 🙂
Thanks Charlie! I got caught up in reading the schedule and never finished reading the rest. My bad! I signed up, added a few sessions (particularly yours and the rest of the sessions today). I expected that they’d email me a link to join the session (per the confirmation notification I received when signing up), but that never came. And there doesn’t seem to be any link within the “My Schedule” section either. So, I’m not sure how to join. I know your session is nearly over with only 10 minutes remaining (sad about that). I would have loved to have attended, but at this point…I’ve no idea how I could. Nor do I see anyway to join the rest of the sessions I’ve signed up for today. Ugh!
Sorry, I wasn’t able to see this when you posted it (since it was in the midst of my session).
But I CAN offer that about an hour before the event, in another comment thread here above yours, someone else shared the same lament. And I offered there the link, though again Adobe didn’t intend that it be sahred publicly. As I started that comment there, “I give up” (on avoiding sharing that). The link is https://my.adobeconnect.com/coldfusionroom/
It’s indeed sad that this is causing trouble. We’ll see how things go with respect to the recordings. At least if everyone can see those, they can get the value o fthe talks (if not the direct interaction during the talks).
Thanks again, Charlie! I’ve caught this with enough time to catch the last 15m of the last talk I wanted to see today. Ugh! Oh well, I hope I’ll get a hold of the recordings.
BTW — I’m not receiving any email notifications whatsoever, so I’m only getting your responses because I’m being proactive at checking this page.
Hmm: if you are saying you get no emails from Adobe, then maybe you clicked (intentionally or inadvertantly) their “unsubscribe” link. In that case they would no longer email you.
I’ll confirm that yes, I get an email from this blog whenever anyone posts a comment in a thread I’ve participated in–including yours today. This is done based on whatever is registered as the email address for your Adobe account (which you must log in with to comment).
If nothing else, if you have ANY other email address, try registering at the devweek site using that (it does NOT use your Adobe login). If you get THAT email, then it would seem this is your issue–and perhaps what others are suffering. Of course, if one ubsubscribes, it’s a hard problem for Adobe to know about unless you can reach someone that can confirm, “yes, you chose to unubscribe to our emails”.
Maybe someone will offer more.
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