2021-06-29 Weekly News - Episode 109

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/wllYx_nx3EA

Hosts:

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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News and Events

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

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

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)
  • NOW WITH CAPTIONS!
  • Intro to DI : Persistence, object creation, object communications, object relations
  • Behavioral Patterns : Intro + Showcase Memento, Observer, Strategy
  • Structural Patterns : Intro + Showcase Adapter, proxy, Decorator
  • 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)
  • Clean Code
  • Code Smells
  • Intro to Refactoring
• 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

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Conferences and Training

ICYMI: Adobe ColdFusion Developers Week

June 22-24, 2021 - Online
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 ColdFusion 2021’s brand new features and updates. Right from developing cloud-native applications to reducing downtime, these webinars will let you in on the best tips to deploy applications rapidly and seamlessly.
This is your chance to meet coders from across the globe and exchange ideas with some of the best minds in the industry. And that’s not all! Your presence at the conference will earn you points that can help you win exciting prizes and vouchers. Our scoreboard will keep track of active participation!
Whether you’re a new developer, someone with little or no experience with Adobe ColdFusion, or even if you have been using it all your life, Adobe ColdFusion Developers Week 2021 is where you need to be. Don’t miss out!
https://adobe.vconfex.com/site/adobe-coldfusion-developer-week/977

Ortus’s Conferences for 2021

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/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Ben Nadel - Generating Color Swatches With GraphicsMagick And Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47
The idea here is rather simple: I want to take the HEX value and generate a blank canvas using said HEX value as the background color. Then, I want to add a text-label for the HEX value and position in the bottom-left corner of the canvas.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4070-generating-color-swatches-with-graphicsmagick-and-lucee-cfml-5-3-7-47.htm

Tweet - Terry Beard
#CFML #CF2018 deserializeJSON seems to be converting foo: true to foo: "YES". Anyone have any experience with this? #Coldfusion
https://twitter.com/snackboy/status/1408459384053768198

Blog - Ben Nadel - Using The OWASP Java HTML Sanitizer In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.48 To Sanitize HTML Input And Prevent XSS Attacks
Earlier this week, at the Adobe Co...