2023-01-17 Weekly News - Episode 180

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/eHXm3DA9Jzk

Hosts: 

• Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Dan Card - 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. 
A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. 
• Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos
  • Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github 
• Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Books
  • 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)
  • Learn Modern ColdFusion (CFML) in 100+ Minutes - Free online https://modern-cfml.ortusbooks.com/ or buy an EBook or Paper copy https://www.ortussolutions.com/learn/books/coldfusion-in-100-minutes

 
Patreon Support ( distinguished )
Goal 1 - We have 42 patreons providing 100% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions.
Goal 2 - We are 37% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

New Releases and Updates

qb 9.0.0-beta.1 Released

Lots of great features and bug fixes

• SQLite Grammar (Thanks to Jason Steinshouer)
• SQLCommenter Support (https://google.github.io/sqlcommenter/)
• Many bug fixes and performance improvements

The docs are currently being updated: https://qb.ortusbooks.com/v/9.0.0/whats-new

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Event Calendar for Google
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y181NjJhMWVmNjFjNGIxZTJlNmQ4OGVkNzg0NTcyOGQ1Njg5N2RkNGJiNjhjMTQwZjc3Mzc2ODk1MmIyOTQyMWVkQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20

Ortus Fridays are back in Full Effect in 2023

• ICYMI - Ortus Office Hours - Jan 6th, 2023 - 11 AM CST
• Ortus Webinar - Jan 20th 2023 - CBWIRE Coding Session - Let’s build an app with CBWIRE with Grant Copley - 11 AM CST
• Koding with the Kiwi - Jan 27th, 2023 - 2 PM CST
• Ortus Office Hours - Feb 3rd, 2023 - 11 AM CST
• Software Craftsmanship Book Club - Feb 10th, 2023 - 2 PM CST (Patreon exclusive)

ICYMI - Mid Michigan CFUG - Adobe’s Ray Camden will be presenting Intro to Alpine.js
Alpine calls itself the jQuery for the modern web. So if you’re not ready to move to React or Vue you many want to give it a serious look. They’ve also done the behind the scenes work to integrate it with charting programs, online rich text editors and online calendars.

If you’re unable to make the livestream we will make Ray’s presentation available on our YouTube channel at a later date. https://youtube.com/@CFML

View Recording on Youtube: https://youtu.be/cW6CyxxRAzQ

CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

Recent Releases

• ITB 2022 - All videos released to subscribers - 30+!!!!
• 2022 ForgeBox Module of the Week Series - 1 new Video https://cfcasts.com/series/2022-forgebox-modules-of-the-week
• 2022 VS Code Hint tip and Trick of the Week Series - 1 new Video https://cfcasts.com/series/2022-vs-code-hint-tip-and-trick-of-the-week 

Coming Soon

• Brad with more CommandBox Videos
• More ForgeBox and VS Code Podcast snippet videos
• ColdBox Elixir from Eric
• Getting Started with ContentBox from Daniel
• Box-ifying a 3rd Party Library from Gavin

 

Conferences and Training

CF Summit Online

All the webinars, all the speakers from Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2022 – brought right to your screen. All sessions will soon be streamed online, for your convenience. Stay tuned for more!

ICYMI - MODERNIZING THROUGH EVOLUTION NOT REVOLUTION
Guust Nieuwenhuis
January 10, 2023 | 15:00 - 16:00 EST (1 hour)
Our company has grown over a quarter of a century, and across those years we have matured as developers and IT companies, refining both our tools and practices to a degree that the past seems hardly recognizable. Counter to this are the inevitable compromises, products of constrained timeframes, limited client budgets or strained resources. Projects inevitably lean more towards growth and depth than general modernization, to the point that they become difficult to maintain. So, what happens when the bugs add up and the monster emerges? Refactor? Rewrite from scratch? We’ve been involved in many such projects, internally and inherited both, and have learned there is no simple answer to the question “how do we move forward?” Through case studies and anecdotes I will explain what to look out for, from both a technical and business perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIZ0S-4WxDU

ICYMI - EASIER API DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING - USE POSTMAN, WEBHOOK.SITE, AND NGROK TO ENHANCE YOUR WORKFLOW
Daniel Garcia
January 12, 2023 | 12:00 - 13:00 EST (1 hour)
Postman, Webhook.site, and ngrok are great tools that can really enhance your API development and testing workflow. PostMan is a cross-platform API Testing Tool with lots of awesome features, Webhook.site allows you to easily inspect, test, and automate any incoming HTTP request or e-mails, and ngrok enables you to expose a web server running on your local machine to the internet. These are must-have tools for any API developer (either creating or consuming). In short, these tools solve problems and best of all, they all have free versions which allow you to be very productive. My goal is that after this conference, you will start using at least one, if not all three, tools when you get home. I'm not saying using these tools will be life-changing, but I am also not not saying that either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBgYHzPxDCs

ICYMI - LEVERAGING AI / COGNITIVE SERVICES VIA COLDFUSION
Michael Hayes
January 17 | 12:00 - 13:00 pm EST (1 hour)
Azure Cognitive Services is API that leverages AI and Machine Learning to provide capability such as Sentiment Analysis, Entity Recognition, Auto Translator, Text to Speech, speech translation, and many more. All this would be written in ColdFusion 2021 of course and a GIT repo of the code will be shared wit...