2022-02-08 Weekly News - Episode 134

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

Hosts:
Gavin Pickin  - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions
Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

ColdBox v6.6.0 released

Today we are incredibly excited to release ColdBox v6.6.0 and its standalone companion libraries: CacheBox, LogBox and WireBox. This release has taken quite a few months and tons of years of research to complete. We have finally made WireBox a Hierarchical Dependency Injection framework. This is our first huge step into allowing multi-dependency management in ColdBox Modules. This means that you will be able to have modules of different versions running within the same ColdBox app and each module will be able to get the right dependency that it needs. With that said, let's explore this release.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-660-released

State of the CF Union 2022 Survey Preliminary Results

Help us find out the state of the CF Union – what versions of CFML Engine do people use, what frameworks, tools etc.
Results so far: https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2022-results

If you complete the survey, you go into a raffle for some cool prizes, including a few from Ortus

• A digital copy of the "Learn Modern #CFML in 100 minutes" book
• A digital copy of the 102 Tips and Tricks book
• 1-month access to #CFCasts premium
• A ForgeBox Pro Subscription
• A ForgeBox Business subscription
• An access pass to #ITB 2022

https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2022-survey

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

Michigan group CFUG with John Farrar TONIGHT!

At the next Mid-Michigan CFUG meeting tonight at 7 pm eastern:
ColdBox has become the leading ColdFusion (CFML) framework. John Farrar, an Application Architect, will share what positioned this technology to achieve the lead and how it can position you as a developer and businesses using the technology for the future.
https://bit.ly/3urVwbb

CBWire getting lots of love from Grant Copley lately

In cbwire 2.x, components now extend ColdBox's FrameworkSuperType, which means you have access to WireBox, LogBox, CacheBox, application helper UDFs, and more. Early preview! box install cbwire@be
We’ve been seeing lots of tweets from Grant, teasing all the new features, like Template Directives now - https://cbwire.ortusbooks.com/template-features/directives

commandbox-migrations v4 is in beta.

Please test it out if you can and give Eric Peterson your feedback.
https://www.forgebox.io/view/cfmigrations

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/

ICYMI - CommandBox Workflow Magic (modules to speed up CF development), with Brad Wood

Brad Wood talks about “CommandBox Workflow magic (modules to speed up CF development)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.
https://teratech.com/podcast/commandbox-workflow-magic-modules-to-speed-up-cf-development-with-brad-wood/

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

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