2021-06-15 Weekly News - Episode 108

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Rj_11izO9f8

Hosts:
 
Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - Software Consultant 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:

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Patreon Support

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

News and Events

Adobe CF added support for Azul JDK

Effective July 21st 2021, ColdFusion customers can develop and operate their CF applications with distributions of the Azul Zulu builds of OpenJDK, standards compliant with Java SE. Support for the Azul Zulu JDKs will be provided by Adobe to our CF customers.
On July 21st, ColdFusion installers for ColdFusion (2018 release) and ColdFusion (2021 release) with the Azul JDKs will be available for download from https://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html.
In the interim, we’ve set up a pre-release, where ColdFusion customers can try out the Azul based installers.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/06/support-azul-jdk/

Into the Box 2021 will be an Live In Person Conference

After much deliberation, and lots of survey responses, we have decided to host this years Into the Box, live in person in Houston Texas in September.
Call for speakers will be sent out this week, giving you 2 weeks to get your submissions in.
There will be no workshops this year, just 2 days full of great CFML content.

Server troubles - Hibernate missing from Lucee

For one of our clients, we started to get some strange errors. We finally tracked it down to Hibernate not being installed in Lucee. The fix was to add the Extension ID to our CommandBox args to ensure it was installed.
We’re looking into it, but if you get some weird TreeWalker error, it might be the same thing.
UPDATE: Looked like the extension was installed, but the lucee-server.xml was missing the extension, so it must have not completely finished the install process and that caused the issue.

Online CF Meetup - CF Modernization Challenges - Improving Legacy Code, with David Byers

Thursday, June 17, 2021
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CDT
Every ColdFusion developer is a builder and an artist. We want to create and craft beautiful, elegant solutions with CFML that are powerful and dynamic… but sometimes, we still need to deal with the legacy code that was built a decade ago by a developer who has long since left the organization and didn’t know what they were doing to begin with. Or, maybe the company direction has shifted (again) and what was a priority in the past is no longer relevant. Maybe the approach you originally took to a problem can be done cleaner, and more efficiently. Maybe there’s new functionality in ColdFusion that renders old approaches obsolete. At some point, modernization of your approach becomes necessary to retain your sanity!
In this group therapy session, I will discuss legacy code, why it’s difficult to manage, how to take incremental approaches to improving it and some techniques on how to modernize your development approach.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/278773692/

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
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsd-2qrzMiG9DIROF-hQGy8Qj2TUkGHGth

ICYMI - CommandBox Docker v3.4.0 Images Released

Today we are pleased to announce the release of version 3.4.0 of our CommandBox Docker images, which bumps the CommandBox binary version to v5.3.1. This release primarily contains optimizations and updates to leverage the new environmental support options available in CommandBox 5.3.0 and above.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-docker-v340-images-released
https://hub.docker.com/r/ortussolutions/commandbox/

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

http://www.cfcasts.com

Just Released

• Object-Oriented Programming with Nolan Erck (https://cfcasts.com/series/oop-series)
  • Why Composition over Inheritance
  • Diamond-design Problem
  • Interfaces with Ducks
  • Don't forget - the first 4 videos in this series are FREE

Coming this week

• Object-Oriented Programming with Nolan Erck (https://cfcasts.com/series/oop-series)
  • Combining Inheritance Composition Interfaces
  • Intro to Design Patterns
  • Creational Patterns : Intro + Showcase Singleton / Transient, Factory
• Up and Running with Quick - Quick Workshop 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

Adobe ColdFusion Developers Week

June 22-24, 2021 - Online
Agenda now on the website - 2 tracks - Some sessions now have descriptions
4 times 7am 9am 12pm 2pm - more sessions might be coming
No podcast on the 22nd due to the Developer Week

Coders, mark your calendars for Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2021!
Coders, Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2021 is edging closer! This year, we’ve lined up a series of sessions and webinars that will give you a 360-degree view of ColdFusio...