2020-11-19 Weekly News - Episode 79

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/2W8mLPpAu-4

Hosts:

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

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

Adobe ColdFusion (2021 release) is finally here!

The completely reimagined Adobe ColdFusion (2021 release) offers a modular, secure, and containerized approach to building applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premises. You can now switch between cloud service providers without having to rewrite your application.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/coldfusion/introducing-adobe-coldfusion-2021-release/m-p/11585468?page=1#M186888

Blog from Charlie: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/11/coldfusion-2021-has-been-released/
Important Blog Post about using with CommandBox  https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-forgebox-adobe-coldfusion-2021-and-cfpm

CommandBox 5.2.0 Released

Today we are pleased to announce the final release of CommandBox 5.2.0.  This release has been 5 months in the making and covers nearly 50 tickets.  We've already covered the full list of new features and enhancements in our release candidate announcement which you can read here:
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-520-release-candidate-ready-for-testing
After a month of RC testing, we've made several additional improvements and are ready to release.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-520-released

FusionReactor 8.6.0 released

Following the recent Adobe release, we are pleased to announce that FusionReactor has been updated and fully supports ColdFusion 2021.  We also support CF 2021 in our instance manager and if you use the Adobe Perfmon module you will see all of the CF metrics in FR. Download FusionReactor 8.6 here
If you are a SeeFusion user then you can now use both Seefusion and FR on the same server.
We have had a lot of requests for Elasticsearch support and we are happy to say that we now support the Jest-Elasticsearch Java Client and the official Elasticsearch-Java REST Client.
FYI - CommandBox-FusionReactor already supports 8.6.0
http://www.fusion-reactor.com/blog/fusionreactor-8-6-0-released/

Lucee Spreadsheet Library 2.12.2 released

Lucee Spreadsheet library 2.12.2 released fixing a couple of issues with the new Adobe ColdFusion 2021 release (yes, you can use the library with ACF2016+) #cfml
https://github.com/cfsimplicity/lucee-spreadsheet

RESCHEDULED - Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
RESCHEDULED FROM Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Hosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'Daniel
This meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "Using Taffy: API Live Coding & Fireside Chat", with Adam Tuttle

Thursday, November 12, 2020
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM CST
Adam will demonstrate building a REST API using his library Taffy to illustrate many of the foundational principles of REST and the ease of accomplishing them with Taffy. Then we'll open the floor for Q&A and discussion.
Meeting: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274413376/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8he7Yyn6eBk

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Before the month comes to an end, we have a surprise for you my friends. Our Zero to Hero workshop videos will  be published THIS month! Be on the lookout for our updates.

 - Configure your CFML Servers with CFConfig
      - Service Layer
     - Practical Uses and Wrap-up

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Conferences and Training

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit West

Date: November 17-18
Location: Online
Admission: Free
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

Report:
- Total Attendees : 3036
- They used VConfex software - looked nice. A few complications
- Recordings coming next week

Adobe ColdFusion Certification now available Online

Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion is an industry-leading certification program from Adobe, for ColdFusion developers. The course consists of 50+ online videos and is designed for professionals who have basic to advanced level proficiency in any computer language and basic understanding of how web pages work. Successfully passing an assessment test at the end of the program will reward participants with a badge and certificate from Adobe.

Introductory Offer: $499

Blog: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/07/coldfusion-certification-online-now/
Register: https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html

AWS re:Invent

NOV. 30 – DEC. 18, 2020
Free
Amazon’s Premium Conference is also virtual, and a free 3-week event: