2022-08-02 Weekly News - Episode 159

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

Hosts:
 

• Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. 

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Goal 2 - We are 44% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

ICYMI - Adobe Developer Week was two weeks ago! July 18-22nd

The Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.

Gavin and Luis presented Monday - more great content to come

What are you waiting for? Register now!

Site Link: https://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form
Recordings: Most recent videos https://www.youtube.com/c/adobecoldfusion/videos
Blog - https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/07/all-devweek-2022-videos-now-posted-on-youtube/

ICYMI - How does CFML really perform compared to other languages?

I’ve talked about the TechEmpower performance benchmarks before, but I wanted to highlight them again. They are the closest thing the internet has to a giant cage match between nearly every language and framework out there. The benchmarks have a suite of tests, such as run 20 queries on a page and output some data, and every language and framework implements the same logic in their syntax and style. The tests literally take days to run in full and spin up each combination of language and framework in docker containers where they are hammered with oodles of traffic and then the juicy stats are recorded for sweet graphical comparisons.

https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/how-does-cfml-really-perform-compared-to-other-languages/9325

117 ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 – future CFML) with Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel

Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 – future CFML)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

“We're gonna be talking about Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee and how they compare and contrast and all cool new features coming in the next five years that we prognosticate future performance. Improvements might be coming CFML engine updates and how you can best approach those confusion security. And we'll wrap up with some other questions about being a good CFML developer and conferences this year.”

https://teratech.com/podcast/acf-and-lucee-roundtable-part-3-future-cfml-with-charlie-arehart-gert-franz-mark-drew-and-ben-nadel/

INTO THE BOX - Updates

1 month left until the start of the Pre-Conf, the Workshop and 2 days of 2 track content.
ITB In Person Schedule Finalized on the Website
Workshops are starting to fill up - don’t miss your chance.

https://intothebox.org/

New Releases and Updates

CFConfig - Now supports Scheduled Tasks in Lucee

Thanks to a sponsor, CFConfig now supports importing/exporting scheduled tasks for #Lucee Server (Adobe already had support)!  Please give it a test with the latest version and remember, tasks need imported into the web context of Lucee! #CommandBox #CFML #ColdFusion

https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-cfconfig

ColdBox 6.8.0 Released!

I am incredibly excited to announce the release of ColdBox v6.8.0 and its standalone companion libraries: CacheBox, LogBox and WireBox. This update includes some important fixes and we managed to squeeze some nice improvements!

Bug

• COLDBOX-1134 Router closure responses not marshaling complex content to JSON
• COLDBOX-1132 New virtual app was always starting up the virtual coldbox app instead of checking if it was running already 

Improvement

• COLDBOX-1131 Updated Missing Action Response Code to 404 instead of 405
• COLDBOX-1127 All core async proxies should send exceptions to the error log

New Feature

• COLDBOX-1130 New config/ColdBox.cfc global injections: webMapping, coldboxVersion
• COLDBOX-1126 Funnel all out and err logging on a ColdBox Scheduled Task to LogBox

Task

• COLDBOX-1135 Remove HandlerTestCase as it is no longer in usage.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-680-released/

Adobe CFML VS Code Extension released (in Public Beta)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=com-adobe-coldfusion.adobe-cfml-lsp

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

ICYMI - Ortus Webinar - July - Legacy Migration Follow Up: Using Coldbox with an Existing Code Base

July 29th 2022: Time 11:00 AM Central Time ( US and Canada )

Dan Card will be presenting a follow up to his June webinar: Getting started with the Legacy Migration. Dan received some good questions, so July's Webinar: Legacy Migration Follow Up: Using Coldbox with an Existing Code Base with Dan Card. If you have a more traditional / legacy codebase, and are wanting to modernize with ColdBox, but don't know where to start, this webinar is just for you!
with Dan Card

Recording on CFCasts -