2020-11-03 Weekly News - Episode 77

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/bId0VvpWAYU

Hosts:

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

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

 - Into the Box Latam Dec 3rd and 4th - English and Spanish
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News and Events

CF Summit announcements

CF Summit Website now includes more speakers and the schedule.
Also looks like they have reduced the conference from 3 days, to 2 days.
I heard a birdie that more announcements to come
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

Fixes in for Lucee Network Drop Issues

Brad posted a few days ago about networking drops causing hanging threads in Lucee using Azure's managed MSSQL & Microsoft's JDBC driver.  These two tickets have been put into 5.3.8 to help mitigate those issues:
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3124
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3126

Ben Nadel’s blog has approx 845 photos!!!

Yes, 845 Photos, you can click through, and the highest index is 845.
https://www.bennadel.com/?site-photo=1

Online CF Meetup - "Building great user interfaces fast with Kendo UI", with TJ VanToll

Thursday, November 5th, 2020
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST
Kendo UI is a suite of UI components that let you to build front-end apps fast. In this session, TJ VanToll will introduce you to Kendo UI by building a series of apps that solve some of the trickier modern web development problems, like forms, data grids, charts and graphs, and more. Come learn about Kendo UI, and how you can speed up your web development workflows.
Event: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274271713/

POST PODCAST CHANGE - DOES NOT MATCH AUDIO

RESCHEDULED - Ortus October Webinar - ContentBox AMA with Luis Majano and Gavin Pickin

Friday, November 6th - 2pm CST
We had to change the Webinar after recording the podcast, so we're doing a ContentBox AMA with Luis Majano and Gavin Pickin
Register today: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE - Ortus October Webinar - From Mura to ContentBox - Staying on the Open Source Upgrade Track

In this session, we will walk you through some of the differences between Mura CMS and Contentbox - from administration to design and development. During the session we will demonstrate a full conversion of a Mura CMS site to Contentbox.
Hosted by Jon Clausen
 
 
 
 
Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
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 - Mid Michigan CFUG October Meetup - DevOps Evolution and ColdFusion by Nick Kwiatkowski
Recording is now live: https://youtu.be/51TaxqW5SM8

CFCasts Content Updates

CFCasts has now launched bite-sized Spanish language videos!

Configure your CFML Servers with CFConfig
  - Managing Mail Server Properties

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

Conferences and Training

Ortus Workshops - Virtual Live training - Quick Cancelled
Workshop cancelled, we will be running this in 2021.

Modern Applications Online Event

Wednesday - Thursday, November 4-5, 2020
Wed is focused on “Organizational Level Operations” and Thurs is focused on “Application Level Design”.
Cost: Free
https://pages.awscloud.com/GLOBAL-field-OE-Modern-Applications-Online-Event-2020-reg-event.html

Deploy - by Digital Ocean

DigitalOcean’s first virtual global 24‑hour community conference.
Starts November 10 at 10am EST
What to expect:
 - Over 80 tech-focused sessions
 - New product announcements
 - Developer-focused breakout rooms
 - Special keynotes
 - Hourly goody giveaways
 - Fun virtual rooms
 - Free and easy to RSVP
https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit West

Date: November 17-18 (previously 17-19)
Location: Online
Admission: Free
Speakers and Schedule now on the website
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

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
Amazon’s Premium Conference is also virtual, and a free 3-week event:
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

ITB Latam

December 3-4th
Live Virtual Conference in Spanish and English!!!
Price: $7.00
https://latam.intothebox.org/
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events

More conferences: https://confs.tech/

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