This year's State of the CF Union survey is finished! 
Thanks for participating! It will help us all determine what versions of CFML are most popular today, plus the top frameworks, tools, etc. 

The summary results will be available afterward to everyone who completes the survey so that you can compare yourself with other CFers. 

The survey will help you stay up-to-date on the tools that most developers use, top databases and see get to know more about the project issues you encounter and if other developers have them too.

The final results of the survey are here. Thanks for taking the survey today.

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The results for the 2015 State of the CF Union survey are here. See how you compare with other CFML developers. Discover what most developers use for tools, languages, databases, and development methods.

Can you help? If you are on a ColdFusion list, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google group please share the survey so that we can get a more complete picture of the current State of the CF Union. Thanks!
 

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This year's (Better Late than Never) State of the CF Union survey is now finished! 

Thanks for participating! It will help us all determine what versions of CFML are most popular today, plus the top frameworks, tools, etc. 

The summary results will be available afterward to everyone who completes the survey so that you can compare yourself with other CFers. 

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Final results for the 2014 State of the CF Union survey you can find it here. See how you compare with other CFML developers. Discover what most developers use for tools, languages, database and development methods.

Can you help? If you are on a ColdFusion list, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google group please share the survey so that we can get a more complete picture of the current State of the CF Union. Thanks!
 

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Help us find out the State of the CF Union with this survey - what versions of ColdFusion do people use, what frameworks, tools etc. We will share the summary results and a report on the state of the union with everyone who completes the survey so that you can see how you compare with other CFML developers. That way you can stay ahead of what tools top developers are using today, what databases are hot and see if the project issues you have are common or unique.

Hey perhaps acting on the gap between where you are today and what you see in the survey report will get you that next promotion or new job. Or at the least make your next project more successful. Knowledge is power!

Thanks for your time completing this survey.

We will announce the final results on Tuesday Feb 11th 2014.

Survey Q and A

• Q: Where are the results from previous years' surveys?
• A: CF State of the Union 2013 survey results are here.
• CF State of the Union 2010 survey results are here.
• CF State of Hosting 2010 survey results are here.

If you have other suggestions please comment or email me.

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Thank you everyone who voted in the State of the CF Union 2013 survey. Despite some worries ColdFusion is alive and well with a new version released since the last survey 3 years ago, and another in the works. I noticed that many folks are not on the latest version of CF and are yet to adopt a framework. However CFC use is nearly universal. And open source products such as CFEclipse, MySQL and Railo are used by about half of developers. Group learning resources such as user groups and conferences are used by about half of developers (down a bit since last survey).

Here are some of the interesting things I learned from the detailed results:

• Three quarters of developers are using CF9, with about half that number using CF10. This is a similar adoption curve as 3 years ago for CF8/9
• If you are running CF7 or earlier you are behind the curve
• Just over quarter of developers are using the open source Railo ColdFusion, little change from 3 years ago
• More than half are using Enterprise CF (vs Standard). The ratio of Ent/Std is little changed from 3 years ago.
• 80% run on Windows. Same as 3 years ago.
• A 30% use Fusebox with other frameworks FW/1 and ColdBox the second and third most used. Fusebox, Model Glue and Mach-II have declined in use over the past 3 years, ColdBox about the same and FW/1 has increased in use. However the most popular "framework" is No Framework at all.
• While nearly everyone uses CFCs just less than half use ColdSpring or similar to organize their CFC and only one in three do data via CFCs using ORM. These are respectively slight and substantial increases in dependance injection and DAL use over 3 years ago.
• UDFs, Custom tags and CFIncludes are still as popular ways to reuse code as they were 3 years ago but still a little behind CFCs in popularity.
• Most developers have used CF for more than 10 years and 90% use object orientation
• CFers are heavily multi-lingual - using Java, PHP and .Net in large numbers. These languages are in similar use by CFers as 3 years ago, where as Flex and AIR use has declined by about half over this time period.
• SQL Server remains the database of choice, with MySQL closely following. Oracle and Access runners up. All except Access are used by similar percentages as 3 years ago, with a moderate decline in Access use.
• Half of developers use subversion, and Git is now used by a third (up since 3 years ago). But the same 20% as 3 years ago of developers don't do source code control at all.
• CF Builder, Dreamweaver and CFEclipse are the top tools, all used by a similar number of developers. CFEclipse is down in use a bit over 3 years ago.
• Half of developer attend a local user group some of the time, which is down over 3 years ago.
• CF.Objective() is the most attended conference by CF developers, followed by MAX. Overall conference attendence is down as a percentage of respondees.
• The top challenges facing developers today is too much work, followed by maintaining someone else's badly written code and integrating with legacy apps and security issues.

And the winner of the copy of FusionReactor is Paul Ihrig of Columbus OH. If you need to get on top of your backlog of work, learn new CF features, meet ORM gurus then check out our developer webinar series.

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Below are the partial results to date for the State of the CF Union survey. If you missed the survey you can take it here. See how you compare with other CF developers.
 

We will announce the final results on the day of President Obama's State of the Union address (Feb 12th 2013).

Note that the results are batched processed so they may not include your votes immediately. Check back in a few hours if you want to be sure.

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Help us find out the State of the CF Union with this survey - what versions of ColdFusion do people use, what frameworks, tools etc. We will share the summary results with everyone so that you can see how you compare with other CF developers. Thanks for your time completing this survey!

Update: we will draw one person at random from all the survey entrants to win a copy of FusionReactor 1 YR Standard license (a $249 value). (Must provide email to be entered in drawing. You can still take the survey without providing email if you prefer to contribute to the results.

We will announce the final results on the day of President Obama's State of the Union address, Feb 12th

Survey Q and A

I got some questions after posting the survey.

• Q: why is this survey appearing here,of all places.
• A: The previous state of the union surveys were on CFUnited.com so I just copied and edited the blog entry on there. Didn't realize that this might be confusing to some. Also I am planning to post CF developer and upcoming developer webinar related posts on cfunited.com, so made sense to put the survey here.
• Q: The site is still "about" CFunited even though the event has not happened in 3 years, might confuse some folks. Are you giving any thought to revising the site to remove current conference event references (like register, pricing, topics, tracks, schedule, travel)?
• A: Great suggestion, we will remove those (might take a bit of time to redo the graphics). I want to keep all the past presos and other historical CFUnited content. And not have the site be confusing.
• Q: Where are the results from previous years' surveys?
• A: CF State of the Union 2010 survey results are here.
• CF State of Hosting survey results are here.

If you have other suggestions please comment or email me.

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If you went to sessions at CFUnited-10 that were amazing, or ones that sucked or anywhere in between, then let us and the speakers know with this session feedback form. You can use it several times - upto once for each session/speaker you attend. So bookmark this post for use during the rest of the week. It only takes a minute or two to complete and I know both we and our speakers read all your comments in detail to see what is going well and what can be improved.
Thanks

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Thanks everyone who took the hosting survey. The raffle winners are:

• CFUnited ticket - Matthew Warren Ken Cook Co. Milwaukee WI
• iPod - Steve Holland Fusecast LLC Highland UT
• iPod - Kevin Pyles The Hilltop Institute Columbia MD
• Fusion Reactor - Shaun McCran The direct agency England

Thank you everyone who entered the survey - you can see summary results here. And thank you to Edgeweb Hosting and Integral (Fusion Reactor) for donating the additional prizes!

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