2020-08-25 Weekly News - Episode 67

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/dJ8ok2IEA-E

Hosts:

Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions
Get live training from the makers of your favorite Box Product.
2 day workshop - Brad Wood leading CommandBox - Zero to Hero
CFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every week

Patreon Support
We are at the 59% mark for fully funding all of our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

ColdBox 6.0.0 Final Released!

We are tremendously excited to finally bring you the final release for the ColdBox Platform including all of it's standalone libraries: WireBox, CacheBox and LogBox. This has been a year long process in order to bring you one of our biggest and most stable releases to date. We continue to innovate in this release and pushing the boundaries of our ColdFusion/CFML/Java languages. All the docs and application templates have been updated and we are working on a What's New With ColdBox 6 cfcasts series that will be coming next week. Welcome to ModernLand!
In the next couple of weeks we will be blogging and adding videos to showcase the major features of this release.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-600-final-released

Adobe ColdFusion - CF2020 Beta is now available on ForgeBox

Start up the new Adobe ColdFusion Next ( Project Stratus / CF2020 ) with:
box server start [email protected]
https://www.forgebox.io/view/adobe#versions

ContentBox CMS - Ortus is announcing it will be Free Forever!

Ortus making a bold statement after the sudden news of Mura CMS going closed source and commercial, ContentBox CMS is open source, and will always be so.
Blog coming soon.
Tweet from Luis: ContentBox CMS Multi-Site Support for v5 is underway officially!! #coldfusion #cfml #opensoource #free4ever
Tweet from Luis: Happy Friday! ContentBox Modular CMS upgraded to leverage ColdBox6 + CBSecurity2. The performance on it is about 5x faster than before annnnd it's OPEN SOURCE and FREE FOREVER for #coldfusion #cfml
https://twitter.com/lmajano/status/1296947375009935362?s=20

ContentBox CMS - Multi-site support underway

Ok Folks! ContentBox CMS Multi-Site Support for v5 is underway officially!! #coldfusion #cfml #opensoource #free4ever
https://twitter.com/lmajano/status/1298021166137978881?s=20

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "Public Beta walkthrough of ColdFusion Next--Project Stratus", with Rakshith Naresh

Recorded Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CDT
Whether you have been a part of the pre-release program or want to try out the public beta, this session is for you.
Meeting: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/272560491/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiGDngjmga4&list=PLG2EHzEbhy0-QirMKgSxhjkUyTSSTvHjL&index=2&t=0s

Online CF Meetup - "How to use the ColdFusion API Manager to modernize your App", with Dan Wilson

Thursday, August 27, 2020
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CDT
In this presentation we’ll discuss how to modernize existing applications to work in the modern API-first world. We’ll look at how you can prepare your applications for the next major technology shift. We’ll go through how to programmatically add to your existing applications without disruption. We’ll also look at the ColdFusion API manager and see how it can instantly improve your architecture without even having to write code.
Event: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/272749638/

ICYMI - Ortus Webinar - BDD tests with Testbox - Friday August 21st 2020

Friday, August 21st, 2020 at 11:00 AM CDT (GMT -5:00)
with Javier Quintero
Recording: https://cfcasts.com/series/webinars/videos/javier-on-bdd-tests

CFCasts Content Updates

Ortus Webinar - BDD tests with Testbox
ColdBox Master Class
8.3 Model Testing
8.4 Integration Testing

Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/support

Conferences

Into the Box 2020 - Workshops - Virtual Live training

August:
2 day Workshop - CommandBox Zero to Hero - lead by Brad Wood
Thu, Aug 27 & 28, 2020,
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM PDT
Price: $899
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/commandbox-zero-to-hero-tickets-115511490979?aff=erelpanelorg
We'll be offering a free license of the CommandBox Service Manager module to our CommandBox Zero to Hero attendees.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/events

Podcast Code:
PODCAST10 - 10% off
There is a code for ITB attendees to save 15% - If you didn’t get the email contact us.

JConf.dev

September 30th, 9am - 4pm CST
Register by August 15, and you'll get an awesome SWAG BOX full of goodies! (US only, first 500)
https://jconf.dev/

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit West
Date: November 17-19
Location: Online
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
Admission: Free

Speaker sign up for Adobe - supposed to be closed but the form is still there
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/speaker-application/

Adobe ColdFusion Certification now available Online

Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion is an industry-leading certification program from Adobe, for ColdFusion developers. The course consists of 50+ online videos and is designed for professionals who have basic to advanced level proficiency in any computer language and basic understanding of how web pages work. Successfully passing an assessment test at the end of the program will reward participants with a badge and certificate from Adobe.

Blog: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/07/coldfusion-certification-online-now/
Register: https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html

CF Camp
TBA

More conferences: https://confs.tech/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week