2020-12-01 Weekly News - Episode 81

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/8aq0OW_C2TA

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

Into the Box Latam Dec 3rd and 4th - English and Spanish
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Patreon Support

We have 33 patreons providing 57% of the funding for 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

ITB Latam is this week and is now FREE

December 3-4th
Live Virtual Conference in Spanish and English!!!
Price: FREE- in the spirit of the holidays
https://latam.intothebox.org/
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events   

Short Videos about the Conference with Jorge from Ortus and Michela from TeraTech
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Kt89ggAek
Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rEIZysqIMo

Advent of Code 2020

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as a speed contest, interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, or to challenge each other.
You don't need a computer science background to participate - just a little programming knowledge and some problem solving skills will get you pretty far. Nor do you need a fancy computer; every problem has a solution that completes in at most 15 seconds on ten-year-old hardware.

https://adventofcode.com/2020

Coldfusion Online Meetup - "How to build Progressive Web Apps", with John Wargo

Thursday Dec 3 at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-5
Progressive Web Apps leverage modern browser capabilities to deliver additional capabilities for developers and app users. These web apps deliver capabilities that make a web app 'feel' more like traditional and mobile apps, providing offline capabilities (like the ability to run when offline or to perform background synchronization), receive push notifications, and installation on the system. In this session, John M. Wargo, the author of Pearson's Learning Progressive Web Apps (https://learningpwa.com) will introduce you to PWAs and show you how to build them.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274867028/

RESCHEDULED - Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
RESCHEDULED FROM Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Hosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'Daniel
This meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/

ICYMI - Mid Michigan CFUG Meeting - Going Serverless with Nicholas Kwiatkowski

Presented November 18th, 2020 on Microsoft Teams
Recording: http://www.mmcfug.org/index.cfm/presentations/mmcfug-goes-serverless/?fbclid=IwAR1JJcDt_Q7gsn17x3b6nmgEC6M-eCSSXyCiIgZEt1YgDaqJzufRFTM1jvM

ICYMI - Security Vulnerability Alert - Lucee

We are aware of a potential security vulnerability related to the Lucee Admin. Details of how to exploit this vulnerability will be made public on December 5th, 2020 by a third party, so we are alerting Lucee users to address this potential issue now.
If your Lucee Admin is already locked down, this is not an issue. To lock down your admin, follow the recommendations in the Lucee Lockdown Guide
In addition, we strongly recommend updating to one of the following stable releases which have been patched to address the vulnerability
https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-vulnerability-alert-november-2020/7643

ICYMI TestBox v4.2 Released! - SECURITY UPDATE

We are excited to announce a new minor version release of TestBox version 4.2.x. To install just use CommandBox: install testbox --saveDev or to update your TestBox installation update testbox.
This release includes two important security updates just in case you have deployed TestBox or your tests to production (TESTBOX-294 and TESTBOX-293). Please note, that you should NEVER deploy TestBox and your tests to production. It is a library for development purposes and it has no purpose in being deployed to production servers.
In addition to updating your Testbox installation, you need to update any test browser files that may be in your tests folder. The current version of the Testbox test browser can be found here: https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/TestBox/blob/development/test-browser/index.cfm
You can avoid installing testbox in production by using the install --production CommandBox command.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/testbox-v42-released

Help us get CFML listed on Sentry.io

Giancarlo Gomez started a thread on Sentry.io to get CFML on the Create Project view. As he mentions in the thread, we have a couple of Sentry plugins available, one he created, and one by Brad.
Let’s get behind this thread, like, reply, and make a little noise for CFML.
Upate: We are now listed on the Community List - no icon yet.
https://forum.sentry.io/t/adding-coldfusion-as-a-platform/11875

CFCasts Content Updates

Our ColdBox Zero to Hero workshop videos were uploaded, just waiting on Gavin’s Intro video and they’ll be released - Workshop is broken down into 25+ videos

What’s New in qb8
- Custom Inferred Numeric SQL Types
- Simple Paginate
Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/support

Conferences and Training

AWS re:Invent

NOV. 30 – DEC. 18, 2020
Free
Amazon’s Premium Conference is also virtual, and a free 3-week event:
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

ITB Latam

December 3-4th
Live Virtual Conference in Spanish and English!!! ( an...