2022-02-22 Weekly News - Episode 136

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/7zZI-11tR1k

Hosts:
 

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions
• Daniel Garcia  - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box out there. 
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  • https://github.com/ortus-solutions/docker-commandbox
  • https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/testbox/
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News and Events

CBWire is on Fire

Testing your front-end #CBWIRE components is now a piece of cake with our simple testing API. Now available in 2.x. Enjoy!
box install cbwire@be
https://cbwire.ortusbooks.com/testing
You can also follow Grant Copley on Twitter as he has been posting lots of great cbwire goodness lately.
https://twitter.com/GrantCopley/

ContentBox CMS now has Elasticsearch Search Provider available

This contentbox module provides elasticsearch search capabilities for the ContentBox CMS Platform. In addition, with the addition of the Ingest Attachment Plugin for Elasticsearch, it adds capabilities of ingesting PDF, MS Word, and other supported document formats from a directory you specify in the configuration.
https://www.forgebox.io/view/contentbox-elasticsearch

Lucee 5.3.9.80 Release Candidate - This release removes all traces of Log4j1

With the advent of Lucee 5.3.9 -RC, we now have a build of CommandBox (5.5.0-alpha) which is 100% FREE OF LOG4J 1.x!
https://downloads.ortussolutions.com/#/ortussolutions/commandbox/5.5.0-alpha/
Please help us test and use it if you need to get those #infosec monkeys off your back! 🐒 #CFML #ColdFusion
https://dev.lucee.org/t/5-3-9-80-release-candidate-1/9672/4
https://downloads.ortussolutions.com/#/ortussolutions/commandbox/5.5.0-alpha/

This Week Ortus Webinar - What's new in CommandBox 5.x with Brad Wood

February 24th, 2022 at 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
In this webinar, Brad Wood, lead developer of CommandBox will cover all the new features available in CommandBox 5.x. Tune in to make sure you're getting the most out of your CLI.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcOGurjsuHdwVz_UORiipF50qOpxJq6-z

This Week Hawaii CFUG - Using CFCs in your ColdFusion Applications with John Barrett

Friday, February 25, 2022 - 5:00 PM CT - Central Time (US and Canada)
This will be a talk on using CFCs in your ColdFusion applications. Creating and developing applications using CFCs enables you to separate the code logic from the design and presentation. Utilizing CFCs and creating a clear structured format for your code will help reduce the complexity of logic within your pages and improve the application speed. Having a clearly structured, the well-organized code base will make it easier to develop as an individual and share resources within a team. This is the instant benefit of CFC development.
https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group/events/283506895/
https://cfhawaii.net/

This Week Adobe Webinar - Cloud Report Building Using ColdFusion & PDF

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2022
10:00 AM PST
Join Mark Takata as he leverages the power of Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe PDF to build reports using cloud based no-code data-sources. Mark will be connecting to Google Sheets and generating PDF based reports with pagination, charting and data grids using GraphQL, CFML and PDF services.
https://cloud-report-building-using-coldfusion-pdf.meetus.adobeevents.com/

Adobe Workshops

Join the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premise
FREE :)

ICYMI - WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2022
9:00 AM EST
Brian Sappey
https://adobe-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2022
9:00 AM CET
Damien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx)
https://workshop-cf-adobe.meetus.adobeevents.com/

Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/

 
CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

Just Released

• Using DocBox Commands  https://cfcasts.com/series/using-docbox/videos/using-docbox-commands 
  Nice quick video on how to use DocBox Commands to generate documentation using CommandBox

Conferences and Training

DevNexus 2022 - The largest Java conference in...