2021-11-30 Weekly News - Episode 127

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/xjME3K3L1Zk

Hosts:
 
Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions
Daniel Garcia - Software Developer for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box out there. 
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News and Events

New Host - Daniel Garcia
Listen to find out more about him.

Into the Box LATAM - this week!!!

CF Summit next week - No Podcast because we’ll be at the conference!!!

Advent of Code starts Dec 1st

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as a speed contest, interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, or to challenge each other.
You don't need a computer science background to participate - just a little programming knowledge and some problem solving skills will get you pretty far. Nor do you need a fancy computer; every problem has a solution that completes in at most 15 seconds on ten-year-old hardware.
https://adventofcode.com/

Ortus Redis Cache Extension V2.0.0

11 new features, 1 improvement and 3 bug fixes.
Major enhancements focus on Pub Sub capabilities, Docker support, and Cluster Protocol support for RedisCluster, Sentinel, AWS and DigitalOcean.
https://www.forgebox.io/view/5C558CC6-1E67-4776-96A60F9726D580F1/version/2.0.0-snapshot

ICYMI - Mid Michigan CFUG Meeting - Using AI and machine learning along with ColdFusion to build a smarter call center with Nick Kwiatkowski

Tuesday 11/9/21 at 7 pm eastern
Using AI and machine learning along with ColdFusion to build a smarter call center at the next Mid-Michigan CFUG meeting Tuesday 11/9/21 at 7 pm eastern. 
Michigan State University’s, Nick Kwiatkowski, will be showing how to create voice and text-based chat bots that you can deploy to your contact centers (and help desks!) to help automate frequently asked questions.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsX4r2XY-cs

ICYMI - Ortus Webinar for November - Javier Quintero - FORGEBOX Business Plan: Introducing Organizations and Teams

November 19th at 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
In this webinar, Javier Quintero, lead developer of FORGEBOX, will present the new features and the improved UI that is now available on FORGEBOX 6. Moreover, he’ll explore in depth the Business Plan that is directed towards organizations and teams so they can collaborate and support their software building needs. He will show us how to create a new organization, how you can add members to it with specific roles, and how you can control teams, members, packages and publish access.
with Javier Quintero
Recording: https://cfcasts.com/series/webinars-2021/videos/javier-quintero-on-forgebox-business

CFCasts Content Updates

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• Ortus Webinar for November - Javier Quintero - FORGEBOX Business Plan: Introducing Organizations and Teams
• Youth Trainings - Universidad Don Bosco
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• Youth Trainings - Universidad Don Bosco

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Conferences and Training

AWS re:Invent THIS WEEK

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 THIS WEEK

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

ITB Latam 2021 THIS WEEK

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!
ITB Latam Schedule Posted
https://latam.intothebox.org/

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2021 - NEXT WEEK

December 7th and 8th - Virtual
Agenda is out!!!
2 tracks - 1 all CFML - the other a mix of CFML and semi-related topics
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 - https://twitter.com/MarkTakata/status/1463364824637661184
10 days away from @Adobe @coldfusion #CFSummit2021 and we're over 8000 registrations & still going. Can we get this OVER 9000?!?! cfsummit2021.com/?src=twtr #CFML #Conference #ColdFusion

Nginx APAX Sprint 2.1

December 7-8th, 2021
https://www.nginx.com/events/nginx-sprint-apac-2021

jConf.dev

Now a free virtual event
December 9th starting at 8:30 am CDT/2:30 pm UTC.
https://2021.jconf.dev/?mc_cid=b62adc151d&mc_eid=8293d6fdb0

VueJS Nation Conference

Online Live Event
January 26th & 27th 2022
Register for Free
Call for Speakers is open until Dec 31 2021
https://vuejsnation.com/

More conferences

Need more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.
https://confs.tech/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Ben Nadel - Referencing String Characters Using Array-Notation In ColdFusion 2021
A few years ago, I mentioned that you can treat Strings like character arrays in Lucee CFML. It turns out, you can do the same thing in Adobe ColdFusion. I am not sure what version this was added in; but, I'm ...