2019-12-17 Weekly News - Episode 32

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/QutzVOFWVg8

Hosts:
Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - Lead Developer for CommandBox for Ortus Solutions

News and Events

Ortus Solutions - ForgeBox v.4.9.0 Released
Today we are pleased to announce a minor release for our FORGEBOX suite of products to version 4.9.0. This release includes lots of fixes and some great additions for your development needs for all Editions: Community and Enterprise.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/forgebox-v490-released

QB 7.0 ending Beta
Contact Eric Peterson if you have any last minute feedback before he closes the Beta and cuts the 7.0 release.

Adobe ColdFusion 2018 Update 7 available on ForgeBox
CommandBox can now spin up the latest updated version.
https://www.forgebox.io/view/adobe

Online #ColdFusion Meetup - "Start Doing `Integrated` Testing", with Gavin Pickin
Thursday Dec 19 at 12pm EST
Sadly, most Developers don’t test their code like they should because testing can be hard, and it time consuming and the customer doesn’t want to pay for it. In this session, I’ll show you how easy testing can be, how quick it can be, and better yet, it's FUN!
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/12/online-coldfusion-meetup-meeting-dec-19-11a-central-welcome/
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/267142342/

In case you missed it: "Please pass the salt: Serve up passwords w/ a side of entropy", with Brad Wood - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsPCpOq7Glg&feature=youtu.be

Webinar - ColdFusion for the Next Decade – All about the Buzzworthy ColdFusion 2020
January 16th, 2020 - Presented by Rakshith Naresh - Product Manager for ColdFusion and Captivate Prime Content Catalog
One of the reasons for ColdFusion’s success right from its inception is that the platform has been able to pivot at regular intervals to remain relevant for the future. There are very few technologies that have managed to stay in the game for so long and that is something all of us in the community are proud of. ColdFusion 2020, slated to be released next year, is going one such pivotal release in the history of ColdFusion. The vision for ColdFusion 2020 goes like this:
“To be the modernized platform of choice for building cloud-native microservice applications with absolute focus on ease of use without getting locked to a particular cloud vendor (multi-cloud).”
Attend this session as the Product Manager for ColdFusion unravels every piece of ColdFusion 2020 that leads to the overarching vision.
Register online: https://cfwebinar-cf2020.meetus.adobeevents.com/

Conferences

Into the Box 2020
May 6-8, 2020 | Texas
Hyatt Place The Woodlands
1909 Research Forest Dr., The Woodlands, TX 77380
Call for Speakers is now open. We are always looking for lots of different content from different speakers, don’t be shy, submit something. Does not have to be related to BOX products.
Early bird tickets will be available close to the end of the year.
Call for Speakers: https://www.papercall.io/itb2020
Buy 2019 Videos: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/itb2019/

Devnexus
https://devnexus.com/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Tweet - James Moberg - Game Over
When researching #ColdFusion issues, I refer to #CFDocs to identify params, opt/req flags, data types & view examples. @OpenBlueDragon has good examples. EX: The WriteDump example illustrates passing multiple named params openbd.org/manual/?/funct… #cfml #ArgumentCollection
https://twitter.com/gamesover/status/1206976303666212865
https://twitter.com/gamesover

Blog - Charlie Arehart - Adobe ColdFusion Blog - Online ColdFusion Meetup meeting, Dec 19, 11a Central. All welcome
We will have the 258th meeting of the Online ColdFusion Meetup this week, Thursday Dec 19 at 11a US Central time. The presentation will be:
“Start Doing `Integrated` Testing”, with Gavin Pickin
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/12/online-coldfusion-meetup-meeting-dec-19-11a-central-welcome/

Blog - Matthew Clemente - Contributing to CommandBox - Steps for Building and Developing Locally
One of the appeals of open source software is that anyone can contribute. When you encounter a problem with an open source project, beyond simply reporting the bug, you have the means of resolving it - anyone can send a PR. Having recently gone through this process with CommandBox, I thought it might be helpful to share the steps for contributing.
What follows is a brief guide to running your own fork of CommandBox, so that you can develop locally, before submitting a pull request to merge your changes back into the main project.
Credit where it’s due, this primarily consists of me recounting the instructions and insights that Brad Wood provided while I put together a PR for a bug that I had reported.
https://blog.mattclemente.com/2019/12/12/contributing-to-commandbox.html

Blog - Ortus Solutions - ForgeBox v.4.9.0 Released
Today we are pleased to announce a minor release for our FORGEBOX suite of products to version 4.9.0. This release includes lots of fixes and some great additions for your development needs for all Editions: Community and Enterprise.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/forgebox-v490-released

Blog - Fusion Reactor - Ephemeral Dockers as Tool Containers
Developing tools to automate what you do often is common sense. But what if you want to share your tools with other developers? As soon as you have something that relies on more than a simple script, you’re going to be faced with dependencies and distribution headaches. Docker can solve that.
https://www.fusion-reactor.com/blog/technical-blogs/ephemeral-dockers-as-tool-containers/

Blog - Fusion Reactor - Debug Your Applications from Development to Production
FusionReactor’s Java and ColdFusion Debugger is a game changing “production-ready” tool to give you INSTANT insight into your development & production environments to MINIMIZE issue identification time
Includes a video
https://www.fusion-reactor.com/production-debugger-3/

Tweet - Zac Spitzer - Lucee Docs Update - Unimplemented
Just updated the Lucee docs to reflect when a tag/function's argument/attribute has a status which isn't implemented