2020-10-20 Weekly News - Episode 75

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/BouaFVQ75Yo

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

Lucee 5.3.7.43 STABLE has been released

Official release notes will be posted soon at dev.lucee.org #lucee #cfml

CommandBox 5.2.0-RC.1 Release Candidate ready for testing

It's been 4 months since we've had a CommandBox release, but we've actually been quite busy on a number of large improvements that took a while to settle down. Today we are pleased to announce a Release Candidate 5.2.0-RC.1 for you to help test. There's not usually a release candidate for "minor" CommandBox releases, but we've updated a lot of libraries and introduced some pretty big new features so we wanted to have a round of testing and feedback before we cut the final release.  There are 46 completed tickets for the 5.2.0 release.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-520-release-candidate-ready-for-testing

What to expect from CF Summit 2020 - CFAlive with Kishore

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit 2020 (What to Expect)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.
“...this situation is not right for having physical events this year. So we are going to make it online. And we are very excited to that this is going to be one of the biggest conferences for CF this year…”
https://teratech.com/podcast/adobe-cf-summit-2020-what-to-expect-with-kishore-balakrishnan/

Last chance to Sign up for the ColdBox 6 Hero to SuperHero API Edition with BDD testing Workshop

Luis has completely updated this talk to work with ColdBox 6, and has a few spots left for this Thursday and Friday.
Find out more and register today https://www.ortussolutions.com/events
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Ortus October Webinar Announced - From Mura to ContentBox - Staying on the Open Source Upgrade Track

Friday, October 30th - 11:00 AM CDT (GMT -5:00)
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
Register today: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

Conference Announcement - 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/

Online CF Meetup - "CF AMA: Ask Me Anything", with Charlie Arehart and Dan Wilson

Thursday, October 22, 2020
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CDT
Join us for our first “Ask Me Anything” session, with your host Charlie Arehart and recent co-organizer Dan Wilson. We'll open the floor to any sort of CF-related questions you may have, whether about coding challenges or using CF features, configuration or tuning, deployment, security, the upcoming new CF version, recent CF versions, the future and state of CF, whatever.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274044740/

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "Building APIs with ColdFusion, Part 1: Start coding APIs today" w/ Gavin Pickin

Thursday Oct 15th at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4.
As in recent weeks, this session will be held via a Youtube livestream (and streamed to it via Streamyard
ColdFusion, the powerful language we love, is still relevant in the world of single page apps and mobile apps, because we can power them with ColdFusion APIs.
In this session ( Part 1 ) we'll look at how you can easily add some API goodness into your existing app, even if it is legacy. We'll look at different approaches, and give you a way to start building your API today.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdgRt8HIKD0
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/273813364/

ICYMI - Mid-Michigan CFUG is going virtual - Nick Kwiatkowski will be speaking on Code Workflow

Tuesday, Oct 13th at 7 pm eastern
Learn about building dev, test and production environments.  He will show using this workflow to deploy an app to AWS container services.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10157815289600036/
Recording: Waiting to see if they will post the recordings

ICYMI - Seattle CFUG - Leon O'Daniel on Integrating Your ColdFusion App with the Thinkific Platform.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PDT
Online via Zoom
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. Learn how to integrate your ColdFusion application with Thinkific's API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/273472016/
Recording: https://www.seattlecfug.org/presentations/

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/

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