2021-07-13 Weekly News - Episode 111

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/NzjspE5TDrU

Hosts:
 
Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - 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. 
A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. 
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• Buy Ortus’s new Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

Patreon Support

We have 38 patreons providing 100% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions.

We are now 41% of the way to our next goal, fully funding the ForgeBox.io site.
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News and Events

ColdBox 6.5.0 Released

Today we are excited to release ColdBox v6.5.0 and its standalone companion libraries: CacheBox, LogBox and WireBox. This release has focused on stability and making sure all bugs are addressed especially when using our schedulers and asynchronous processes.
https://coldbox.ortusbooks.com/intro/release-history/whats-new-with-6.5.0
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-650-released

CFConfig 1.4.0 Released

Today we've released a new version of CFConfig-- your friendly neighborhood CLI for configuring Adobe and Lucee servers.  CFConfig sees a lot of little releases that we don't announce, but they are usually very small little releases adding a single setting here or there.  Today's release has a nice collection of brand new features that seemed worth talking about.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cfconfig-140-released

Last chance to get your Into the Box Topic Submissions in
 
Deadline for Call for Speakers JULY 15 - so submit ASAP
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXkZe7W-frEV5M4Id28Cz0wSr7meyJQfOnYEXgj7lzhcEA6g/viewform

SUPER EARLY BIRD TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE
Great to see people taking advantage of this already
https://intothebox.org
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ContentBox CLI Release and 5RC Release

ContentBox 5 development is moving along nicely. 5.0.0-rc.2+34 was released July 6th and ContentBox-CLI was released June 30th.
https://www.forgebox.io/view/contentbox-cli#versions
https://www.forgebox.io/view/contentbox#versions

Ortus Webinar for July - Building API Integrations with Hyper -Michael Born

Wednesday, July 21st Time: 11:00 AM CT
Learn how to connect to a public API using Hyper in this webinar by Michael Born, where he'll cover API integrations from storing secrets to writing unit tests, to publishing the finished, reusable library on ForgeBox.
Register https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rf-GurjMpE9cX63bZoFA-SqC4OXzDw6wK
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

Adobe Developer Week Videos - Coming Soon

Adobe announced the Dev Week videos would be appearing soon on their ColdFusion Portal site, on their video page. No official timeline on when they would be there, but we’ll let you know as soon as we know.
They have also added more of the API series videos there as well, 6 from that series, up from 2 videos last time we mentioned it.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/videos/

ICYMI - Lucee 5.3.8 Released

This has been a very long release cycle, a massive thank you to everyone who has been helping us test and address regressions and performance problems…
We have done a lot of work in 5.3.8 to optimise memory usage, the main two areas being improved was the template cache handling and parallel functionality.
Highlights:

• structValueArray
• Array methods: shift(), unshift(), push(), pop(), splice()
• Reevaluate performance of locking overhead in pc.initApplicationContext() for every request
• Query of Query performance is very bad and single threaded for complex SQL

https://dev.lucee.org/t/new-stable-release-5-3-8-189/8484

Reminder - State of the CF Union Survey

Help us find out the state of the CF Union – what versions of CFML Engine do people use, what frameworks, tools etc. We will share the summary results with everyone who completes the survey so that you can see how you compare with other CF developers.
Spread the news so we can get as many responses as possible.
https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2021-survey
317 Results: https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2021-results

CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

Just Released

• Object-Oriented Programming with Nolan Erck (https://cfcasts.com/series/oop-series)
  • NOW WITH CAPTIONS!
  • CFC Docs with DocBox for Documentation
  • Coding Guidelines and CFFormat
  • Last videos of the series.
  • Don't forget - the first 4 videos in this series are FREE
• Using DocBox
  • Configuring DocBox
  • Writing Great Documentation with DocBox

Coming this week

• Quick Workshop Videos with Eric Peterson

Coming up soon

• More What’s new with ColdBox 6
• More What’s new in qb 8
• More Using DocBox
• LogBox 101
• What’s new in Content 5

Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/support

Conferences and Training

Into the Box 2021 - live in Person in Texas.

September 23rd and 24th.
No workshops this year.
Deadline for Call for Speakers JULY 15 - so submit ASAP - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXkZe7W-frEV5M4Id28Cz0wSr7meyJQfOnYEXgj7lzhcEA6g/viewform

Selection Committee Meeting this week and Next - Speakers and or Schedule coming soon.

SUPER EARLY BIRD TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

https://intothebox.org
https://itb2021.eventbrite.com

ITB Latam 2021 - live in person

December 2nd or 3rd 2021 (c...