2021-11-02 Weekly News - Episode 124

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

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

CFML Spreadsheet 3.1 released

Spreadsheet CFML v3.1.0 just released. Supports the latest POI 5.1.0 out today, plus minor fixes/updates.
https://github.com/cfsimplicity/spreadsheet-cfml/commit/f5698850f7691a0bf5578d77f4f3635a47b28b1c

Adobe 1 Day Workshop - Adobe ColdFusion Workshop with Damien Bruyndonckx

Wed, November 10, 2021
09:00 - 17:00 CEST EUROPEAN
Join the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premise.
https://coldfusion-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/

Online CF Meetup - "Migrating apps to ColdFusion 2021 from earlier versions", with Charlie Arehart
Thursday, November 4, 2021
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDT
While CF2021 has been out now for a year (released in Nov 2020), many orgs may only now be considering moving to it, whether from CF2018 or perhaps CF2016, CF11, CF10, or even earlier. How have the versions changed, in ways that some older code may not run on CF2021? And if you're skipping some CF version/s, what might have tripped you up in those, though not really "new" in CF2021 itself? And what can you do to mitigate such challenges?
In this session, CF troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will share from his experience helping folks make such migrations the past year (and for years with previous CF versions), whether in his role as an independent consultant or providing assistance to the CF community. He'll cover things you can consider in advance of the migration as well as things that might help during or after the migration. Most importantly, this talk will focus on the differences between CF2021 and various earlier CF versions. (Note that he has previously given a talk on migrating CF admin settings, and he plans a future talk on some other aspects of migration.)
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/281800384/

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - Using LaunchDarkly for feature flag management in CF applications, w/ Brad Wood
Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDT
Feature flags are a system of enabling certain functionality in your app based on test groups, cross-cutting segments of users, and your internal release processes. Feature flags can be updated on the fly at any time by any user and don't require deploying new code to your servers. LaunchDarkly is a system that helps you manage your feature flags and how they respond to the users of your site. It offers detailed tracking of each user, each flag, and a robust set of rules for determining which users see which features. In this session, we'll see an overview of how to use the new LaunchDarkly SDK which can be used in ColdFusion applications. Demos will include both ColdBox apps and non-ColdBox legacy apps.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/281577538/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjboLKvbGDc

Ortus Webinar for November - Javier Quintero on ForgeBox Business
Details coming soon

CBWire is ALIVE!!!
Grant Copley is knocking out some great new features and documentation on CBWire, follow him or the #cbwire hashtag to keep up on everything. This session at ITB was great if you want to learn more about CBWire.
A couple of links from his tweets.
https://cbwire.ortusbooks.com/templates/loading-states#toggling-attributes
https://cbwire.ortusbooks.com/component-features/logging

CFCasts Content Updates

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Just Released

• Up and Running with Quick
  • Step 11 Exercise
  • Step 12 Exercise
• Gavin Pickin on Building Quick APIs - Extended Version (FREE)

Coming this week

• Recordings in Spanish - University classes, Zero to Hero and more

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Conferences and Training

Microsoft Ignite - THIS WEEK

November 2–4, 2021
Opportunity awaits, with dedicated content spotlighting Microsoft Business Applications and Microsoft Security.
https://myignite.microsoft.com/home

Deploy by Digital Ocean

THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT TEAMS
November 16-17, 2021
https://deploy.digitalocean.com/home

AWS re:Invent

NOV. 29 – DEC. 3, 2021 | LAS VEGAS, NV
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF RE:INVENT
Virtual: Free
In Person: $1799
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

Postgres Build

Online - Free
Nov 30-Dev 1 2021
https://www.postgresbuild.com/

ITB Latam 2021

December 2-3, 2021
Into the Box LATAM is back and better than ever! Our virtual conference will include speakers from El Salvador and all over the world, who'll present on the latest web and mobile technologies in Latin America.
Registration is completely free so don't miss out!
https://latam.intothebox.org/

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2021

December 7th and 8th - Virtual
Speakers are finalized and some Speakers and some session descriptions are now on the site
Register for Free - https://cfsummit.vconfex.com/site/adobe-cold-fusion-summit-2021/1290
Blog - https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/09/adobe-coldfusion-summit-2021-registrations-open/

Tweet from Mark Takata -
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