2021-01-26 Weekly News - Episode 88

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/pTzk0Mdshqk

Hosts:

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

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

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Patreon Support

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https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

Jan 2021 Updates for Java 11 and Java 8

From Charlie Arehart’s blog post
Folks using ColdFusion will want to be aware that last week (Jan 19, 2021) Oracle has released updates to Java 11 and Java 8, the current “Long-Term Support” versions of the Java JVM/JDK, which are supported by the various current and recent versions of CF. The downloads are available on the Adobe page where Adobe offers JVM updates. More about how to proceed to implement the update, in a moment.
As is typical, the JVM update adds some modest features and addresses bug fixes and security issues. For more, see the release notes for Java 11.0.10 and for Java 8 update 281.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/01/coldfusion-users-note-apply-new-updates-java-11-java-8/

New Lucee Release Candidate 5.3.8.139-RC

There is a new Release Candidate ( 5.3.8.139-RC ) available to download from our download page https://download.lucee.org or via the Lucee Admin.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/new-release-candidate-5-3-8-139-rc/7861

New Book from Luis Majano in the next 2-3 weeks - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks

Coming soon

Elixir v3 Security Update

On January 12, 2021 we became aware of a security vulnerability in ColdBox Elixir. Read the details of what happened, how it may affect you, and how to mitigate the vulnerability.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-elixir-v3-security-update

New Lucee Spreadsheet Release v2.14.0

Spreadsheet Library 2.14.0 released. Big changes: POI 5.0 and auto OSGi bundle loading for Lucee (no need for JavaLoader!)
https://github.com/cfsimplicity/lucee-spreadsheet

Introducing the new Ortus Community

Hi everyone, great news!  Ortus is rolling 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/

ICYMI - 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
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars
Recording coming to CFCasts tomorrow 1/27/21

Online CF Meetup - "Securing a ColdFusion Application with Fixinator & FuseGuard", w/ Pete Freitag

Thursday, January 28, 2021
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST
In this session we'll take a look at a ColdFusion application that is vulnerable to several security issues. We'll look at some of the security holes in the application, how they can be exploited. Finally we'll use FuseGuard to protect the application, and Fixinator to find and fix some of the vulnerabilities in the application.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/275825925/

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "Communication Skills for Technical Engineers & Developers", with Mark Takata

Thursday, January 21, 2021
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM CST
No matter what language, framework or technical skillset you employ in your day-to-day work, the biggest differentiator among engineers, designers & developers is the ability to communicate and engage with end users, stakeholders and business analysts. In this talk, Mark Takata will cover how to improve your ability to communicate with those folks, become an asset for your team & company, and widen the available paths for your future career.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/275712862/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGoDejn8QM

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

- Quick - March?
- CommandBox Zero to Hero
- ColdBox Zero to Hero
- ColdBox Hero to SuperHero

Ortus’ 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
May or 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/

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

PR - https://github.com/tech-conferences/conf...