2021-01-12 Weekly News - Episode 86

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/R1T-PHr_oY8

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

Online CF Meetup - "CF AMA: Ask Me Anything", with Charlie Arehart and Dan Wilson

Thursday, January 14, 2021
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST
Join us for another CF “Ask Me Anything” session, with your host Charlie Arehart and recent co-organizer Dan Wilson. We'll open the floor to any sort of CF-related questions you may have, whether about coding challenges or using CF features (on the newest or older versions), configuration or tuning, deployment, security, the future and state of CF, whatever.
Meeting: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/275569910/
You can offer questions in advance if you like, using this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenOp4GULwLA6q8UDIvhgXjAymSr2jM3zfSDEfFXu7yUVMhxw/viewform

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "Code and Tell: Building Your Own Tools with CommandBox", with Matthew Clemente

Thursday, January 7, 2021
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST
Let's automate the boring stuff with ColdFusion! Let's build our own tools to supercharge ColdFusion servers, leverage existing ColdFusion libraries, and streamline daily development. All you need is your current knowledge of ColdFusion to leverage CommandBox's extensible framework for crafting new tools and automations.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86RhR7PVNQ
Meeting: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/275448038/

Ortus Webinar - CommandBox Task Runners

Friday, January 22nd - 11:00 AM CDT (GMT -6:00)
Have you ever wished you could create command-line programs using CFML, perhaps to automate a task or handle some long-running process? With CommandBox Task Runners, you easily can! Join Grant Copley for this month's webinar, where we take a close look at this powerful tool within CommandBox and how we can use it alongside our applications.
with Grant Copley
Register Today: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdOGhrzIrG9zfhcnhCwnyJQvtJOne-8K1

50 ForgeBox Modules of the Week from 2020 Modernize or Die® CFML News Podcast

ForgeBox is the NPM of the ColdFusion world, and with CommandBox, CFML's CLI, you can easily add new functionality to your project with a simple `box install packageName`.
We dedicate a portion of our CFML News Podcast to ForgeBox Modules. We had approximately 50 episodes in 2020, each with a ForgeBox Module, so we wanted to give you a way to see all of them in one place, so here they are.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/50-forgebox-modules-of-the-week-from-2020-modernize-or-die-cfml-news-podcast

50 VS Code Hints Tips and Tricks of the Week from 2020 Modernize or Die® CFML News Podcast

VS Code is the hottest IDE out there, and the most asked question I get at every conference I attend is: "What VS Code extensions are you using?". Since I got this question so much, we decided to dedicate a portion of our CFML News Podcast to VS Code Hints, Tips and Tricks. We had 50 episodes in 2020, each with a VS Code hint tip or trick, so we wanted to give you a way to see all of them in one place, so here they are.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/50-vs-code-hints-tips-and-tricks-of-the-week-from-2020-modernize-or-die-cfml-news-podcast

Flash Death day is today - January 12th, 2021.

As for today, Flash will no longer be supported by any Modern Web Browser. This does affect CF Server Monitor for those on CF2016 and earlier.
Until now, you'd get blocked initially but could override it, but sadly no longer.
It looks like it is time to update CF to 2018 (its PMT does not use Flash) or of course to FusionReactor or SeeFusion--no flash for years
FYI - Adobe support for CF2016 ends in Feb (including sec updates).
On CF2016 updates ending, see https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/11/23/cf2016_support_ends_feb_2021

CFCasts Content Updates

What’s new with ColdBox 6 - https://cfcasts.com//series/whats-new-with-coldbox6
 - HTML QuickStart
 - Testing QuickStart
 - Whoops

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Conferences and Training

VS Code Day

Join the VS Code team and community at a live event just for VS Code users. Get a glimpse of things to come and meet the team who works on VS Code every day.
Watch live: January 27, 2021 from 8 AM to 10:30 AM PST
Re-stream (with live Q&A): January 27, 2021 from 8 PM to 10:30 PM PST
https://code.visualstudio.com/vscode-day

Devnexus

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

Ortus Workshops - Dates coming soon

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Ortus’s Possible Conferences for 2021

Dates subject to change

Ortus Developer Week
May 2021

ITB CET - Virtual Live European Summit
August 2021

ITB 2021 - Onsite Event - Houston
September 2021

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/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Ortus - 50 ForgeBox Modules of the Week from 2020 Modernize or Die® CFML News Podcast
ForgeBox is the NPM of the ColdFusion world, and with CommandBox, CFML's CLI, you can easily add new functionality to your project with a...