2022-07-05 Weekly News - Episode 155

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/5qwrXXhBdB8

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. 
A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE - Have a few laughs!
• 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 Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

 
Patreon Support

• Goal 1 - We have 36 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 43% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io 

News and Announcements

ICYMI - Ortus CF Summit Training Workshop

ColdBox Zero to MegaHero : REST APIs + VueJS Mobile App
Oct 5th and 6th - After CF Summit Conference
Lead by Luis Majano & Gavin Pickin
Price: $799 - Early bird pricing
Location: Aria - In the luxurious Executive Hospitality Suite like 2019
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ortus-cf-summit-training-workshop-tickets-375306340367

The Suite practically doubled it’s prices but we’re working hard to keep the costs to the attendees the same
4 days of amazing content, for only $899 - that’s a steal in Vegas

INTO THE BOX - Updates

Into the Box Early Bird ticket pricing is over!
We extended it for the 4th of July, but that is now over.
 

Announcing - Pre-Conference - Second set of Speakers Announced 

Due to Covid and other reasons, some of the CFML Community Speakers will not be able to make this years Into the Box - but we wanted to include them anyways. To do that, last week we announced a Pre-Conference / 3rd Track for ITB. Read more about it here. Today we're happy to announce our second set of speakers for our Pre-Conference Track.
Confirming the final pre-conference speakers in the next week or two and finalizing the schedule.

The format:

• Dev Week format - Mon Aug 29th - Friday Sept 2nd. Each day will have 2 sessions, 11am CDT and 2pm CDT
• Sessions will be live, with Q&A via Zoom for ITB Attendee ticket holders.
• The recorded sessions will be provided to the ITB attendees for download to watch prior to the conference (on the plane for example) in case they cannot attend the live session.
• We will also have a viewing area on site, which will act like a 3rd track at the conference itself.

Confirmed Speakers ( more to come )

• Mark Takata
• Charlie Arehart
• Ray Camden
• Matthew Clemente
• Brian Rinaldi
• Kai Koenig

New Releases and Updates

Adobe ColdFusion Build (VS Code) Beta

Do you want to help us test and improve our upcoming Adobe ColdFusion Builder Extension for VS Code? Well, the time is nearly here. We are collecting emails of interested users.
We are starting with a very small closed beta just to shake any lingering bugs out. This is happening over the weekend.
Once we feel comfortable, users who have signed up for this beta (form link below) will slowly begin getting invites for a pre-release forum dedicated to the full closed beta program. This is likely to occur early to mid next week.
We need people who are fired up, willing to put in time testing and provide us with solid, informative feedback. The full, open launch of the product is coming shortly after Dev Week but this is your opportunity to get a chance to see it early, test it and help us make it as awesome as possible.
Please note: There may be bugs. This should not be used in production during the time of the beta testing. I shouldn't have to tell you that lol. But here we are. I use this tool already in my day to day. But your workflow might be different. We will be adding people slowly, so if you don't get an email early next week, just give it a moment. The earlier you sign up, the more likely you get in.
Sign up here:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Wht7-jR7h0OUrtLBeN7O4VmPZrcheetIstWzdVorFtxURjVKSE5KNFZSSzg4MzdHUzRaOTZBQ1Q3SS4u&fbclid=IwAR3eZ4hD9cSXJKuME2mIeOYp8c4j-LT0mr_iCzPnSU52NkBdBxU-Az5abLg

ICYMI - ColdBox 6.7.0 Released

I am incredibly excited to announce the release of ColdBox v6.7.0 and its standalone companion libraries: CacheBox, LogBox and WireBox. This is an action packed release for all internal libraries with a big focus on performance, async programming, task scheduling and testing.

• ​​Event Caching HTTP Response Codes
• WireBox Performance, Performance and More Performance
• New ColdBox Testing Virtual App
• Scheduled Tasks Exception Handling
• ColdBox Schedulers Automatic Injection
• Scheduled Tasks Start and End Dates
• xTask() - Easy Disabling of Tasks
• Scheduled Tasks Singular Time Units
• Safe Shutdown of Executors and Schedulers
• forAttribute() - Integrate with JS Frameworks Easily
• Async Interceptors Data
• ORM Event Handling

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-670-released

WEBINARS / MEETUPS AND WORKSHOPS

Online CF Meetup - "Planning and Building my Developer Feud Quiz API", with Gavin Pickin

Thursday, July 7, 2022
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDT
In this session, we are going to plan and build our very own Developer Feud Quiz. To do this, we will analyze and plan our app, starting with the User Stories, and then mapping that to Database, Models, and we can start building out our API, using CRUDDY by Design philosophies. We’ll shell out our TDD style Tests, and then create a couple of resources and routes.
Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/286853927/

ICYMI - Live Stream Series - Koding with the Kiwi + Friends

Special Guest - Daniel Garcia - talking about OpenAPI and Swagger Documentation
Daniel and Gavin worked through a lot of content, what is the OpenAPI and Swagger Doc, some tools like editor.swagger.io and Daniel's CBSwaggerUI module. They looked at how to add tags, security, parameters, requestbody, responses and different ways to organize your apidocs after great questions from one of the Patreons, David Bellanger. David prompted them to go down a rabbit hole, but opened an interesting train of thought, with modularized tests and apidocs, where the goal is encapsulation.