2021-02-16 Weekly News - Episode 91

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/99oJ3kAZcXc

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

New Blogs Aggregator to replace CF Bloggers
 
www.cfblogs.org is meant to replace the popular 'ColdFusion Bloggers' blog aggregator that was so popular in the ColdFusion community in the last ten years. Unfortunately, the ColdFusion Bloggers platform is no longer active at this time due to the unfortunate demise of Wil Genovese, who maintained Cfbloggers after Raymond Camden provided Wil with the keys.
https://gregoryalexander.com/blog/2021/2/13/CfBlog-Feeds--A-New-ColdFusion-Blog-Aggregator

Ortus Webinar - Take Control of Logging and Error handling with Stachebox with Jon Clausen

Friday, February 26th - 11:00 AM CDT (GMT -6:00)
Tracking, handling, and resolving bugs between different tiers can be challenging, especially in containerized or cloud environments. In this webinar, Jon Clausen will introduce you to capturing your back end and front-end error messages, and consolidating them in to one single, aggregated platform - backed by the power of Elasticsearch.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqdO2qpjgjH9Y9FCGbn2dkx-ARjlpenKMm

Mid Michigan CFUG - Docker with John Farrar

Feb 16th @ 7pm
I will be doing a Docker meeting for the Mid Michigan CFUG this month. It is Rick Mason’s user group and details will follow. I am going to put a special emphasis on Traefik if anyone is interested. I am a user now, not an expert but find it a better experience than Apache, HAProxxy, IIS or Nginx so far. Your experience may vary. https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/docker-cfug-meeting/8755?u=john_farrar
CFUG Website: http://www.mmcfug.org/
Teams Link: https://bit.ly/3didqEQ

Adobe Webinar - SQL, I know enough to break everything - Dave Ferguson

February 24th 2021 @ 8 AM PT
If you are reading this you have probably written SQL in one form or another.  I would also bet that you have written SQL that looked great but didn't act great.  Looking back at it was more like a little puppy that tilts its head at strange sounds.  We all have, even the "experts" among, us have written SQL that had intentional consequences.  On the other hand, maybe you support a system that has SQL that you just don't quite understand.  If some of this is true, this session is for you.
This session will take a look at why SQL may not run the way it was intended.  We will look well beyond just the select statement and look deeper into how SQL runs.  We will go over what the DBA's keep to themselves as well as other metrics.  We will also look at some well-intended SQL and why the results were less than ideal. 
https://cfwebinar-sql.meetus.adobeevents.com/

New Book from Luis Majano in the next week or so - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks

Reminder about the new Ortus Community

Ortus has rolled out our new Ortus Community site to help consolidate all of our community support and interaction.  As part of that effort, all our Google Group threads have been imported to the new Ortus Community and effective immediately, our Google Groups are closed for further posting.
If you're a member of our Google groups, don't worry-- your user has already been imported into the community forum and as soon as you sign up, you will be automatically associated with all of your old posts so you can pick up your conversations right where you left off!  We've even added single sign on options for Github, Facebook, Google, and Twitter (coming soon).  If your new account is under a different E-mail address, let us know and we can merge your accounts together.
https://community.ortussolutions.com/

CFCasts Content Updates

Just Released

 - CommandBox Zero to Hero
    - Running Commands
    - Shell Features, REPL and CFML Commands
    - Special Commands

Coming up
- More CommandBox Hero to Zero

Conferences and Training

Devnexus

Join the VIRTUAL olution
Feb 17 2021 - Online
https://devnexus.com/

RedisConf 2021

Virtual: Apr 20-21
Call for speakers ended Feb 14 - https://sessionize.com/redisconf2021/
https://redislabs.com/redisconf/

DockerCon

May 27th 2021
https://www.docker.com/dockercon/

Ortus Workshops - Dates coming soon

Quick Workshop
March 11-12
Lead by the creator of Quick himself, Eric Peterson.
Information: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events
Register now https://www.eventbrite.com/e/up-and-running-with-quick-tickets-124157021995

More dates to come
- CommandBox Zero to Hero
- ColdBox Zero to Hero
- ColdBox Hero to SuperHero

Ortus’s Possible Conferences for 2021

Dates subject to change
Due to Online conference overload, we are thinking about not expanding the number of events, but more content in more timezones with a different format.

ITB - Developer Week Style
With some European Timezone Friendly slots from our European Community Members
September 2021
Call for speakers coming soon

ITB Latam
December 2021

More conferences
Need more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.
https://confs.tech/

CFML Is now on the list - https://confs.tech/conferences/new

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Ben Nadel - Using ColdFusion Custom Tags To Create An HTML Email DSL In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47, Part II
Last week, I shared a proof-of-concept (POC) that I had been working in which I used ColdFusion Custom Tags as a DSL for HTML emails. Well, I've been continuing to work on it and I'm actual...