Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2016: April 24-29

We’re excited to bring you ColdFusion Developer Week this year with some great topics for all levels of developers.  All of these sessions will be held remotely and we will release links to the recordings after the event in case you miss any. Please try to attend the live sessions for a more engaging experience as you’ll be able to ask questions and interact.  We will have 5 days of sessions and 2 sessions per day, with a total of 10 sessions on the following topics:

 

What:    Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week

When:   April 24th through 29th

Times:  9:00 AM and 12:00 PM Pacific Time, Monday through Friday

Schedule and Topics:

 

Monday, April 25, 2016

9:00 – 10:00 am

ColdFusion 2016 Overview

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Security Enhancements in ColdFusion 2016

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

9:00 – 10:00 am

Mobile Applications Made Easy with ColdFusion

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Exploring PDF Capabilities in ColdFusion

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

9:00 – 10:00 am

Protecting APIs using CF 2016 API Manager

12:00 – 1:00 pm

MVC With and Without a Framework

Thursday, April 28, 2016

9:00 – 10:00 am

Realtime with WebSockets

12:00 – 1:00 pm

ColdFusion Performance Tuning and Caching

Friday, April 29, 2016

9:00 – 10:00 am

Extending PDF capabilities using DDX

12:00 – 1:00 pm

CFML Features for More Modern Coding

 

New ColdFusion Training Videos Available!

We’re pleased to announce the first set of ColdFusion training videos are now available!

Getting Started with ColdFusion 2016

Altogether, 9 hours of training content is now available. 

Chapter 1:   Introduction
Chapter 2:   Configuring your work environment
Chapter 3:   Variables and data types
Chapter 4:   Publishing database content
Chapter 5:   Creating a drill down interface
Chapter 6:   Inserting new data in the database
Chapter 7:   Updating data
Chapter 8:   Reusing Code
Chapter 9:   The application framework
Chapter 10: Session management
Chapter 11: More security
Chapter 12: Building the site administration

You can find all of the videos here on Adobe KnowHow:
https://www.adobeknowhow.com/courselanding/getting-started-coldfusion-2016

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2016 October 10th & 11th – Registration is Open!

Registration is now open for Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2016!

https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

 

This year we’ll be at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada

 

When:

October 10th and 11th, 2016

** Preconference hands on labs October 9th **

 

Where:

Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas, NV

 

Cost:

Super Early Bird Rate: $289 for conference and preconference workshop, $!99 for conference pass

Other passes available: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/register/

 

Call for speakers will be open very soon as well, so please think about submitting a topic. 

 

Adobe ColdFusion Backward Licensing

With the recent ColdFusion 2016 release we’ve had a few inquiries as to our backward licensing policies.  We can license one version back for certain types of volume licenses.  Below are the relevant links and contact information to help you navigate the licensing for ColdFusion 11 if needed.

 

FAQ for ColdFusion:

https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/standard/faq.html

 

Backward License Policy:

http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/volume-licensing/pdfs/pv_esd_customer_faq.pdf

 

We will update our sales contact information on the web site and update this blog, but for now feel free to contact Kishore@adobe.com if you want to be directed to a ColdFusion sales resource to assist with further information.

Adobe ColdFusion 2016 eSeminar Thursday, March 3rd 9am PST

Join us tomorrow for a feature discussion on the newly released Adobe ColdFusion 2016 version!

As you may know, February 16th we released ColdFusion 2016.  Please join ColdFusion’s Product Manager, Rakshith Naresh, in a one hour online seminar to review all of the new and improved features of this release.

ColdFusion 2016 includes an all new API Management Platform, CLI, PDF, security improvements, and much more.

 

Thursday, March 3rd @ 9AM PST

Register Here: https://cfinternal03032016.meetus.adobeevents.com/?sdid=9RQM49ZW&mv=other

 

Further information on the ColdFusion 2016 version:

What’s New in ColdFusion 2016 Developer Network Article:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/whats-new-cf-2016.html

 

ColdFusion 2016 Documentation:

https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/home.html

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Adobe ColdFusion Government Summit Washington, D.C. March 9th

We’re excited to bring you Adobe ColdFusion Government Summit, a one-day conference happening in Washington, D.C. on March 9th.

The conference is FREE to attend, just register at the link provided below.  I need to warn that space is very limited at 50 attendees, so please register now and pass the information along to anyone in the D.C. area.

We will have the product team available, including executive leadership, to bring you information on Adobe ColdFusion 2016 – the newest version which will be released in the first half of this year.  We’ll also have a few sessions from experts in the community on security and development topics.

 

Register Here:  http://events.carahsoft.com/event-detail/4658/adobe/register/

 

Details

Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Registration: Begins at 8:00am

Event Time: 8:30am – 4:00pm

Location: Washington Hilton
                  1919 Connecticut Ave. NW
                   Washington, DC 20009

Cost:
 Complimentary

*Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Agenda

 

8:30am – 9:00am

 

Breakfast

 

9:00am – 9:50am

 

Adobe ColdFusion Welcome Keynote

 

10:00am – 10:50am

 

New Features in ColdFusion 2016

 

11:00am – 11:50am

 

Security Enhancements in ColdFusion 2016

 

12:00pm – 1:00pm

 

Lunch

 

1:00pm – 1:50pm

 

ColdFusion PDF Capabilities

 

2:00pm – 2:50pm

 

Caching and Performance Enhancements

 

3:00pm – 3:50pm

 

ColdFusion Features for Modern Coding

 

3:50pm – 4:00pm 

 

Closing Remarks

 

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Though you would have got same network within your organization same as earlier, your OS version also would have changed.

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