2019-12-31 Weekly News - Episode 34

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/D6uVYM4Ox1o

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

News and Events

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

Blog - https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/12/adobe-2019-coldfusion-summit-sessions/
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

Playlist - 14 Videos so far!!!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3iywAijqFoUpNIUCPEoqZb6c6ZeUahIG

qB v7.1.0 hot off the press

Lambdas (arrow functions) are now allowed wherever closures are allowed.
Add an orderByRaw method.
Allow for fully-qualified column names (table_name.column.name) in the value and values methods.
https://qb.ortusbooks.com/whats-new#7-1-0

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/

Pivotal bought by VM
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Pivotal Software, Inc. (“Pivotal”), a leading cloud-native platform provider. As a result of the completion of the acquisition, Pivotal’s Class A common stock was removed from listing on the New York Stock Exchange with trading suspended prior to the open of the market today, and Pivotal will now operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of VMware. The transaction represented an enterprise value for Pivotal of approximately $2.7 billion.
https://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-newsfeed.VMware-Completes-Acquisition-of-Pivotal.1964966.html

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 - James Moberg - ColdFusion isDomain() UDF
Since Apility.io introduced a new "free" tier on 12/1/2019 that provides 40k API hits per month, I've decided to revisit and add support to my ColdFusion web application framework in order to better combat feedback form spam. I recently wrote a CFC, CFTag & API endpoint for CleanTalk, so adding support for Apility shouldn't be too difficult. Apility uses multiple sources and can test IP, email and domain names as well as return other data like WHOIS & geolocation.
https://dev.to/gamesover/coldfusion-isdomain-udf-1k32

Blog - James Moberg - Migrating My ColdFusion Blog to DEV.to
I’ve decided to migrate my blog and dev-related posts to Dev.to.  My new home is https://dev.to/gamesover.
I currently plan on leaving existing posts here, but adding a message & link to the new dev.to entries. All new blog entries will be on the dev.to platform.
https://gamesover2600.tumblr.com/post/189965774834/migrating-my-coldfusion-blog-to-devto

Blog - Charlie Arehart - Should you convert all your CFQUERY sql to stored procedures? A different perspective
If you have legacy code, you likely have lots (if not all) of your SQL in CFQUERY tags. Perhaps you have wondered if (or been told) you should convert all that SQL into stored procedures (called via CFTOREDPROC). There are certainly pros and cons to considering the task–and indeed a LOT of reasons why it’s a GOOD idea to consider it.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/12/should-you-convert-cfqueries-to-sps/

Blog - Ben Nadel - Considering HTTP Methods PUT And PATCH Indicators Of An Anemic Domain Model And A Leaky Abstraction
A few years ago, I wrote about how I don't like "Update" methods in my API design. In that post, I talked about my "feelings" on the matter because I couldn't really articulate the red flags that were going off in the back of my mind. Over the weekend, however, I was reading through Implementing Domain-Driven Design by Vaughn Vernon when it suddenly occurred to me that everything he was saying about the anemic domain model applied to the way that I think about HTTP API design. Finally, I think I have the right words needed to codify my feelings. I think the PUT and PATCH HTTP methods indicate an anemic domain model and a leaky abstraction. Which, in most cases, is not a good thing.