2025-05-20 - News - Episode 233

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/qLpNGduUCIY?feature=share

Hosts: 

Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Ortus News

- qb 12 & 12.1

    - Query param shape checking

    - Removing settings that have been defaulted to true for 3 major versions

    - Derby Grammar

    - Queries without a table

    - orderByRandom

    - createAs and truncate in SchemaBuilder

    - FOR clauses in SQL Server

    - convertEmptyStringsToNull setting

    - And more bug fixes and performance improvements

- ITB 2025 videos coming to CFCasts in June

- Passkeys are available as an option to log in on ForgeBox

    - Go secure your account today!

    - You can add this to your ColdBox app as well with cbSecurity Passkeys

SPONSOR — ORTUS SOLUTIONS

Ortus Cloud Servers

- BoxLang and CommandBox servers available on AWS and Azure

- Choose Ubuntu or Windows-based server

- Serverless deployments available for BoxLang

- Website: https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/cloud-servers

If you want to get your product or service in front of our wonderful BoxLang and CFML audience, reach out to us on our website.

BoxLang News

- Parsing Markdown in BoxLang - Take 3 by Raymond Camden

    - https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/05/14/parsing-markdown-in-boxlang-take-3

- BoxLang added to CFDocs

    - Example: https://cfdocs.org/serializejson

- bx-sqlite module

    - Mentioned at the webinar last week - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P631fwZPjBg

    - https://github.com/ortus-boxlang/bx-sqlite

- A Sneak Peek at BoxLang’s Module Feature by Raymond Camden

    - https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/05/07/a-sneak-peek-at-boxlangs-module-feature

- BoxLang 1.1.0 released!

    - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/boxlang-v110-released

- BoxLang FAQs - Is BoxLang a paid engine like Adobe ColdFusion?

    - BoxLang is FREE and OPEN SOURCE

        - There are plans for additional features, but you do not need to pay to use BoxLang.

    - And before you say it’s paid because of the modules:

        - Anyone can build a BoxLang module using the same tooling and extension points we use.  You can create your own version of our premium modules and use that.

    - BoxLang+ and BoxLang++ are optional plans for people who see the value of:

        - Premium modules

            - Redis

            - Couchbase

            - MongoDB

            - ElasticSearch

            - bx-ai+ (more providers and features)

            - PDF Forms

            - Spreadsheet Functionality

        - Business-level SLA

        - Custom patches

        - Priority support

        - And more!

Send us your BoxLang questions at [email protected]

CFML News

- Security updates available for Adobe ColdFusion | APSB25-52

    - https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb25-52.html 

    - https://www.carehart.org/blog/2025/5/14/coldfusion_updates_released_may_13_2025 

    - This hosed remote function calls, even if not calling remotely

- Spring 2025 Galaxie Blog Update and Roadmap (Gregory Alexander)

    - https://www.gregoryalexander.com/blog/2025/5/14/spring-2025-galaxie-blog-update-and-roadmap 

    - Among other things, providing BoxLang compatibility and potentially writing a new BoxLang edition is on the radar.  🙂

Events

- CFCamp - This week!

    - Pre conference Workshop open. Seats are limited: https://CFCamp2025-BoxLang.eventbrite.com 

    - May 22 - 23rd, 2025 - Munich, Germany

    - https://www.cfcamp.org 

    - Luis Majano, Brad Wood will be there!

- Upcoming June Webinar: Building Dynamic AWS Lambda Applications with BoxLang by Luis Majano

    - Wednesday, June 18 at 11:00 AM (CDT)

    - Register for Free on Eventbrite https://BoxLang-AWS-Lambda-2025.eventbrite.com,

- July Webinar is also Scheduled with Ray Camden, more details coming soon!

- Open South Code 2025 - Spain

    - June 20 - 21, 2025

    - La Térmica - Málaga

    - Gold Sponsors - Ortus Solutions

    - https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2025

- Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2025.

    - September 22 - 23rd

    - Certification available September 21 or 24th

    - https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com 

    - Speaker Application - https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/speaker-application 

- Into the Box 2026 is coming soon with Blind Ticket Pricing

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