2021-07-06 Weekly News - Episode 110

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/DCyA2nSjtrc

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions
Eric Peterson - 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. 
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Patreon Support

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News and Events

FusionReactor 8.7.2 released

Just a quick note to report that FusionReactor 8.7.2 has been released, on July 5 2021. You can see the changes (new features/improvements) and bug fixes (there are just several rather modest ones this release) in the release notes doc for all FR 8 versions.
https://www.fusion-reactor.com/support/kb/frs-456/

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

ICYMI - Ortus Webinar for June - Eric Peterson - Topic - Build a Blog in 30 minutes with Quick

Wednesday, June 30th at 11:00 AM CT
In this webinar, Eric will: give us an overview of ColdBox and Quick, give us reasons why we would use this library, he'll show us an example app to explore how it works and we'll have tons of live coding!
Webinars Page: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars
Recording: https://cfcasts.com/series/webinars-2021/videos/eric-peterson-on-how-to-build-a-blog-in-30-minutes-with-coldbox-and-quick

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

CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

Just Released

• Object-Oriented Programming with Nolan Erck (https://cfcasts.com/series/oop-series)
  • NOW WITH CAPTIONS!
  • Clean Code
  • Code Smells
  • Intro to Refactoring
  • Don't forget - the first 4 videos in this series are FREE
• Up and Running with Quick - Quick Workshop Series

Coming this week

• Object-Oriented Programming with Nolan Erck (https://cfcasts.com/series/oop-series)
  • CFC Docs with DocBox for Documentation
  • Coding Guidelines and CFFormat
  • Last videos of the series.

Coming up soon

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

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.
Call for speakers coming this week now we know we’re in person.
Deadline for Call for Speakers June 30 - so submit ASAP - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXkZe7W-frEV5M4Id28Cz0wSr7meyJQfOnYEXgj7lzhcEA6g/viewform

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

ITB Latam 2021 - live in person

December 2nd or 3rd 2021 (confirming dates asap)

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
Into the Box PR - https://github.com/tech-conferences/conference-data/pull/3617

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Ben Nadel - Using The Directory Attribute To Invoke CFExecute From A Working Directory In Lucee CFML 5.3.8.189
At InVision, I generate a lot of ZIP files using the CFExecute tag and the zip command-line utility. And, in most cases, I need to execute that zip CLI from a "working directory" in order to maintain the input directory's local folder structure. Historically, I've had to execute the zip command through a proxy command in order to use a working directory. However, with the release of Lucee CFML 5.3.8, the CFExecute tag now has a directory attribute! I'm super excited about this; so, I wanted to take a quick look at how it works.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4074-using-the-directory-attribute-to-invoke-cfexecute-from-a-working-directory-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-8-189.htm

Blog - Julian Halliwell - Copying Windows file permissions in Lucee
There is a currently unresolved regression bug in Lucee affecting file uploads, which is worth being aware of.
When you upload a file using Lucee it isn't saved directly to the destination path, but is first stored in the server's GetTempDirectory() location before being moved to where you've specified it should be.
Having this intermediate step is a sensible security measure as it allows the OS to detect viruses before the file is placed anywhere it might do damage.