Modernize or Die® - CFML News for December 23rd, 2019

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

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Ortus Solutions: https://www.ortussolutions.com/
Gavin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/gpickin

Ben Nadel - Invision App - ColdFusion Blogger Rockstar
InVision App - https://www.invisionapp.com/
Ben's Twitter: https://twitter.com/bennadel

News and Events

CF Summit - Las Vegas 2019 - Videos being released on Youtube/Facebook

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdobeColdFusion/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCUMP7Nr8Oa0_BPpD8MUgAQ

Slides: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/10/coldfusion-summit-2019-presentation-files/?fbclid=IwAR15kCQ_BtHV56Y77gCIC-F6XX7n3_wVaBPvFo4yNKC2bRxUr42HMzm54_k

2019 Adobe ColdFusion Summit Autumn Keynote with Ashish Garg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qQ9M3yG6bw&fbclid=IwAR23la3Z6cxlgAW80FtKbbwpzWEXJU93jkhrVbqzphAqwmgRw79NH5SBSoM

Reinforcement Learning with ColdFusion by Minh Vo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCQRPylYKbI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR193-qnyKrZ6kXNRcDxtP0ipWYfoK0YdFcmocekBIs2HnVld1Eit87Oqhw

qB v7.0.0 released

qb is a fluent query builder for CFML. It is heavily inspired by Eloquent from Laravel.
Completely revamped documentation!
BREAKING CHANGES
Please see the Migration Guide for more information on these changes.
https://qb.ortusbooks.com/whats-new

ICYMI Online #ColdFusion Meetup - "Start Doing `Integrated` Testing", with Gavin Pickin
Recorded 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://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/pages/29672758/Recordings_of_the_Online_ColdFusion_Meetup_-_2019/

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
Feb 19-21 2020 ATLANTA, GA
https://devnexus.com/

VUEConf US
AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER
AUSTIN, USA • MARCH 2-4, 2020
https://us.vuejs.org/

DockerCon 2020
DockerCon 2020 is scheduled for June 15-18 in Austin, Texas. This is one of the largest conferences for developers who focus on software containers.
https://www.docker.com/dockercon/

More conferences: https://confs.tech/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Matt Gifford - CFML content moderation detection component library
Another day, another API.
Yesterday I was working on a client project that needed some form of automated content moderation when uploading image and video files. Ideally, I needed to check for pornographic content and content that included nudity, hateful images, gore and general nastiness. To save having to write complex AI detection features from scratch I searched the web for existing APIs that could handle this. There were a few that handle nudity (through facial recognition and detection of the skin tone) but nothing seemed to cover all categories I wanted to check. And then I found PicPurify.
https://www.monkehworks.com/2019/12/23/cfml-content-moderation-detection-component-library.html

Blog - Michaela and TeraTech - Adobe CF Summit India (Comprehensive Report)
I had the pleasure of attending this conference organized by Adobe ColdFusion team, in the first week of December.
After the CF Summit West 2019 in Las Vegas, which is the biggest ColdFusion conference in the world, which was in October, this event took place in Bengaluru.
https://teratech.com/adobe-cf-summit-india-comprehensive-report/

Blog - Ben Nadel - Getting ColdFusion Date Objects From UTC Milliseconds In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
The fun thing about maintaining a legacy code base is that you're constantly turning over stones to find new and exciting areas of code-rot and technical debt. Just yesterday, I discovered that one of my ColdFusion servers was deadlocked on some Date/Time code that was not thread-safe. The CFML code in question was attempting to get a Date/Time object from a UTC milliseconds offset (since Epoch). This is something that I looked at 7-years ago; but, since Date/Time manipulation in the context of various TimeZones is never something that I feel confident about, I figured it would be good practice to look at creating ColdFusion Date objects from UTC milliseconds in Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62.