2021-03-02 Weekly News - Episode 93

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

Hosts:

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

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

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Patreon Support

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

News and Events

Visual Studio Code for Brackets users - After Adobe plans to EOL Brackets

 - VSCode Team have worked with Adobe to bundle an Extension Pack for VS Code to ease the migration for Brackets users. It includes:
 - Brackets Keymap: Applies popular Brackets keybindings to VS Code.
 - Live Server: Similar to "Live Preview" in Brackets.
 - CSS Peek: Similar to "Quick Edit" in Brackets.
 - IntelliSense for CSS class names in HTML: Similar to CSS classname autocomplete in Brackets.
https://code.visualstudio.com/migrate-from-brackets

FR Webinar - What Are The 5 Things You Should ALWAYS Check Before You Release Your Application?

Join Mikey on March 25 at 09:30 PDT
Releasing a new app or website can be stressful. Whilst most dev teams have a QA process, the team often needs to go a little deeper in order to spot performance issues errors buried deep within the code.  The 5 things you should always check before you release your application are
https://www.fusion-reactor.com/blog/what-are-the-5-things-you-should-always-check-before-you-release-your-application/
Register: https://bit.ly/3bD4WWr

Online CF Meetup - "ColdFusion 101: Intro for Beginner Devs, Decision Makers, & CEO’s", David Byers
 
Thursday, March 11, 2021
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST
Every developer's journey has to start somewhere. This session is designed to give new developers and business owners an overview of ColdFusion, and why it's one of the most amazing development languages available. You will learn, from a very broad perspective, the basics of how ColdFusion works, some simple ColdFusion syntax, an overview of the major ColdFusion frameworks, an overview of the developer community and various ColdFusion resources, and some facts and misconceptions.
This presentation is specifically targeted towards new developers or business owners who have little to no knowledge of ColdFusion.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/276609685/

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "The Golden Hammer: Confessions of a Recovering Database Abuser", w/ Shawn Oden

Thursday, February 25, 2021
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST
Early in my dev career, I often (unwittingly) abused my systems. My code didn't care about things like databases or networks, as long as the results were right. I had a cfHammer, and I needed to pound out a solution. I never knew I was an anti-pattern.
Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/276405673/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq2t6ulM4hY

ICYMI - Ortus Webinar - Take Control of Logging and Error handling with Stachebox with Jon Clausen

Friday, February 26th - 11:00 AM CDT (GMT -6:00)
Tracking, handling, and resolving bugs between different tiers can be challenging, especially in containerized or cloud environments. In this webinar, Jon Clausen will introduce you to capturing your back end and front-end error messages, and consolidating them in to one single, aggregated platform - backed by the power of Elasticsearch.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars
Recording: https://cfcasts.com/series/webinars-2021/videos/jon-clausen-on-taking-control-of-logging-and-error-handling-with-stachebox

Query of Query Lucee - Submit some Complex examples for testing

I have been working on allowing Reserved Words for column and table names in Queries of Queries (QoQ) [LDEV-3311] QoQ should allow reserved words as column names - Lucee for Lucee 6.0
Currently Lucee’s QoQ engine blows up and we’d like to make this more developer friendly and flexible, coz QoQ rocks!
https://dev.lucee.org/t/complex-qoq-examples-needed-for-testing/8019
FYI - Brad’s QoQ changes coming out soon in 5.3.8

Reminder about the new Ortus Community

Ortus has rolled out our new Ortus Community site to help consolidate all of our community support and interaction.  As part of that effort, all our Google Group threads have been imported to the new Ortus Community and effective immediately, our Google Groups are closed for further posting.
If you're a member of our Google groups, don't worry-- your user has already been imported into the community forum and as soon as you sign up, you will be automatically associated with all of your old posts so you can pick up your conversations right where you left off!  We've even added single sign on options for Github, Facebook, Google, and Twitter (coming soon).  If your new account is under a different E-mail address, let us know and we can merge your accounts together.
https://community.ortussolutions.com/

CFCasts Content Updates

Just Released
- Jon Clausen’s Webinar on StacheBox
- CommandBox Zero to Hero
    - Useful Commands
    - Useful Modules
    - Environment Variables

Coming up
- More CommandBox Hero to Zero

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

Conferences and Training

VueConf - Virtual Vue Love

April 14th - Online - Free and there’s swag (first 500 registrations)
Hosted by Evan You
Live Video with Chat Q&A with speakers
Attendee Lightning Talks
Live DJ
Virtual Party
Workshops TBA
http://vueconf.us/

RedisConf 2021

Virtual: Apr 20-21
Stay tuned for Details
https://redislabs.com/redisconf/

DockerCon

May 27th 2021
https://www.docker.com/dockercon/

Quick Workshop

March 11-12
Lead by the creator of Quick himself, Eric Peterson.
Information: