2020-10-06 Weekly News - Episode 73

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ba8NvTEMCmc

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

Celebrating 25 years of Adobe ColdFusion with our customers!

As Adobe ColdFusion completes 25 years of making hard things easy, we’re thrilled to reflect on a journey that changed the norms of coding forever. Over the last two decades, we’ve strived to make Adobe ColdFusion easier, faster and better to use, helping coders create applications that are beyond the ordinary. 25 years later, the legacy we’ve built continues to be the undisputed choice for over 70% of Fortune 100 companies and 60% of Fortune 500 companies!
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/10/celebrating-25-years-adobe-coldfusion-customers/

HacktoberFest 2020

Support open source and pick a limited edition T-shirt or plant a tree.
Hacktoberfest® is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.
Hacktoberfest is a celebration open to everyone in our global community.
Pull requests can be made in participating GitHub-hosted repositories/projects, classified with the Hacktoberfest topic.
You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update

Is Adobe ColdFusion 2020 actually going to be Adobe ColdFusion 2021?

OK, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, at least for those who looked forward to a new release of Adobe ColdFusion this year, 2020. As much as many have been referring to the new release (known for now as "Project Stratus") as "CF2020", it's looking like it may be instead "CF2021", if I am reading the tea leaves right. Let me explain (Hey, the bright side is that 2020 is a year many want to forget, anyway.)
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/10/5/looks_like_cf2020_will_be_cf2021

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/

Released qb 8.1 and 8.2
https://qb.ortusbooks.com/

CFCasts Content Updates

CFConfig
- CFConfig Episode 5 - Exporting JSON
- CFConfig Episode 6 - Import JSON

What’s new in qb 8
- Dump Helper
- Order by Raw with Bindings
- Strict Date Detection

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Conferences and Training

Ortus Workshops - Virtual Live training

October
- 2 day Workshop - October 8 - 9, 2020 - ColdBox Zero to Hero - lead by Gavin Pickin
- 2 day Workshop - October 22 - 23, 2020 - ColdBox 6 - Hero to Superhero - lead by Luis Majano

November
- 2 day Workshop - November 5-6, 2020 - Quick Workshop lead by Eric Peterson

https://www.ortussolutions.com/events

Podcast Code:
PODCAST10 - 10% off

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit West

Date: November 17-19
Location: Online
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
Admission: Free
Some Speakers now listed: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/speakers/

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

ITB Latam
Early december
Information Coming Soon

CF Camp - Not happening in 2020 :(
https://www.cfcamp.org/

More conferences: https://confs.tech/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Charlie Arehart - It's looking like cf2020 will be cf2021, if I'm reading things right
OK, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, at least for those who looked forward to a new release of Adobe ColdFusion this year, 2020. As much as many have been referring the new release (known for now as "Project Stratus") as "CF2020", it's looking like it may be instead "CF2021", if I am reading the tea leaves right. Let me explain (Hey, the bright side is that 2020 is a year many want to forget, anyway.)
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/10/5/looks_like_cf2020_will_be_cf2021

Blog - Ben Nadel - Calling Into A Timed-Out Parent Page Context From A CFThread Tag In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61
Yesterday, I looked at how you can eagerly show report-generation results from a CFThread tag in Lucee CFML. However, after I was done with that experiment, it got me thinking about what would happen if a long-running CFThread tag called back into a parent page context after the parent page had timed-out. This is just a quick sanity check to make sure that this will work as one might hope in Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61.
https://www.bennadel.co...