2020-05-19 Weekly News - Episode 54

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Tv7-X2WVfjA

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week This Week

Some good sessions, register to get the link and watch upcoming sessions, and see the ones you missed when recorded are released.
https://cf-devweek.meetus.adobeevents.com/?mv=email&trackingid=1FJDDK11

Microsoft Build this Week

May 19-20.
Free: Join us for the 48-hour digital experience
https://mybuild.microsoft.com/

Into the Box Videos - CFCasts

https://cfcasts.com/ is live!!!!
Emails are on the way out for ITB attendees to get access to ITB videos. More content on the way
New twitter account: https://twitter.com/cfcasts

ColdBox 6 RC Released

We are so excited to bring you the first public release candidate of the next generation of ColdBox HMVC , version 6.0. Enjoy as we are almost ready for final release.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-6-rc-released

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Conferences

Into the Box 2020 - Workshops

Gavin Zero to Hero, June 4,5 (edited)
ERIC , Quick, June 11,12
LUIS Hero to Superhero June 18,19
2 x 6 hour days
2 sessions, 9-12 Central , 1 hour lunch, 1pm to 4pm central

Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week

May 18th - 22nd - Online
2 Sessions per day - 10 sessions through the week.
Free - Register Online
https://cf-devweek.meetus.adobeevents.com/

Microsoft Build

May 19-20.
Free: Join us for the 48-hour digital experience
https://mybuild.microsoft.com/

DockerCon - Live

May 28, 2020 : 9:00 - 5:00 PM GMT-7 (PDT)
DockerCon is going digital with theCUBE! We’ve designed a 1-day conference that’s free and completely online. You’ll hear from speakers in live interviews with theCUBE, hang out with Docker experts in the live hallway track, and watch recorded sessions while chatting live with the speakers.
Choose from 3 simultaneously streaming channels or jump between them all to experience DockerCon your way.
https://www.docker.com/dockercon/

CF Summit West

October 28-29
Mirage Hotel
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

CF Camp
TBA

More conferences: https://confs.tech/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Ben Nadel - Application Setting "useJavaAsRegexEngine" Tells CFML To Use Java's RegEx Engine For Built-In Re-Functions In Adobe ColdFusion 2018
So, yesterday, when I was looking something up in the Adobe ColdFusion RegEx documentation, I saw something that blew my mind! Apparently, as of Update 5, there is now a ColdFusion 2018 Application setting - useJavaAsRegexEngine - that tells the CFML runtime to use Java's Regular Expression engine when executing built-in functions like reFind(), reMatch(), and reReplace(). While the default POSIX pattern matching engine is pretty great, it's less robust and less powerful than the Java pattern matching engine. As such, this will be a much welcome change to the Adobe ColdFusion community.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3829-application-setting-usejavaasregexengine-tells-cfml-to-use-javas-regex-engine-for-built-in-re-functions-in-adobe-coldfusion-2018.htm

Blog - Luis Majano - Ortus Solutions - ColdBox 6 RC Released!
We are so excited to bring you the first public Release Candidate of the next generation of ColdBox HMVC , version 6.0.0-RC. We have gotten tons of input since our beta release and we feel we have almost reached a final candidate. Please test it out as much as possible and give us feedback! Enjoy!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-6-rc-released

Blog - Ben Nadel - The canonicalize() Function Will Decode Strings That "Loosely Match" HTML Entities In Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92
Yesterday, I started running into an interesting issue when using the canonicalize() function in Lucee CFML to normalize the encoding of a given URL. The result of the canonicalize() call was leaving some URL search-parameters intact while corrupting others. At first, it seemed completely random. But, after digging into it for a bit, I realized that the canonicalize() call was decoding substrings within the URL that looked like HTML entities. To demonstrate, I was able to isolate the issue in Lucee CFML 5.3.5.92.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3827-the-canonicalize-function-will-decode-strings-that-loosely-match-html-entities-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-5-92.htm

Video - Matthew Clemente - Customizing the CommandBox CLI Startup Banner (Learning by Trial and Error)
I'll be hacking on a CommandBox module that allows for more targeted customization of the CommandBox CLI startup banner. It's not of much practical use, but it's a fun learning experience.
https://www.yohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3NVuTxRV0Q&feature=youtu.beutube.com/watch?v=w3NVuTxRV0Q&feature=youtu.be

Blog - Pete Freitag - Writing a GitHub Actions Workflow that Uses ...