2020-06-09 Weekly News - Episode 57

Watch the video version on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/eWKDT4gcF0s

Hosts:
Brad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

ColdFusion Meetup - "Low-Code for the ColdFusion Developer – What is it, and Why you should care" with G. Andrew Duthie

June 11 - 12pm EDT
We're happy to announce another session of the Online ColdFusion Meetup, "Low-Code for the ColdFusion Developer – What is it, and Why you should care" with G. Andrew Duthie, to be held Thursday June 11 at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-5
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/271110445/

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Conferences

Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week Recordings and Slides Now Available

Thank you all for joining us last week for the Developer Week! We would like to thank our speakers for their time to share their knowledge with the community.
ColdFusion Developer Week saw over 2800 registrations representing more than 1700 accounts from around 74 countries. What was more awesome was that 90% of the registrants attended more than 2 sessions. Also the active participants would receive one CPE credit for each session. We are happy that the attendees have had earned more than 5000 CPE credits during the developer week.
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Into the Box 2020 - Workshops - Virtual Live training

Gavin's ColdBox Zero to Hero training on June 4,5  went great.

Luis Majano is leading ColdBox Hero to Superhero API Editon - June 18,19

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CF Camp
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Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Kishore - Adobe - ColdFusion Developer Week recordings now available
Thank you all for joining us last week for the Developer Week! We would like to thank our speakers for their time to share their knowledge with the community.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/06/coldfusion-developer-week-recordings-now-available/

Blog - Ben Nadel - Showing The Affects Of Database Index Structure On Membership Table JOIN Performance In MySQL 5.6.37
At InVision, a couple of the engineers on my team are building a new feature that will entail a "membership" pattern of data organization. Meaning, there will be "containers"; and then, "items" within those "containers". Yesterday, we began to noodle on the index design of those database tables; and, while I discussed this type of relationship in my Not-So-Dark Art of Designing Database Indexes article, I did leave the low-level details a bit hand-wavy. As such, I thought it would be fun to take a closer look at how a "membership" style table can be indexed; and, what the EXPLAIN output of the table is along the way in MySQL 5.6.37.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3843-showing-the-affects-of-database-index-structure-on-membership-table-join-performance-in-mysql-5-6-37.htm


Blog - Fusion Reactor - Object-Oriented Programming; what is Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction & Encapsulation?
Object-oriented programming refers to the concept in high-level languages such as Java and Python that uses Objects and classes in their implementations. OOP has four major building blocks which are, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, Abstraction, and Inheritance.  There are other programming paradigms such as Procedural programming in which codes are written in sequentially. Python and Java are multi-paradigm high-level programming languages that means they support both OOP and procedural programming. A programmer decides on the paradigm to use based on his expertise and the problems his trying to solve. However, there is no controversy that OOP makes programming easier, faster, more dynamic, and secured. This is a major reason Java and Python are the top most popular programming languages in the world today
http://www.fusion-reactor.com/blog/technical-blogs/polymorphism-encapsulation-data-abstraction-and-inheritance-in-object-oriented-programming/


Blog - James Moberg - Convert Unicode Symbols & Punctuation to ASCII using ColdFusion/Java
symbolsToASCII is a ColdFusion UDF (user-defined function) to convert Unicode symbols and punctuation to ASCII7. I was previously using ConvertSpecialChars from CFLib, but it didn't include enough mapped characters.
https://dev.to/gamesover/convert-symbols-punctuation-to-ascii-using-coldfusion-java-3l6a

Blog - Ben Nadel - deserializeJson() Silently Fails On High-Precision Numbers In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.77
Yesterday, Nicholas Mackey - from our Inspect team - stumbled upon an interesting behavior in which a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) payload coming out of the Craft plug-in was including a Float value with something like 20-digits of precision. I have no idea how that value was being calculated on the Craft side; but, the interesting...