2022-06-14 Weekly News - Episode 152

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/MeHqJm2w3Pk

Hosts:
 

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

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News and Announcements

INTO THE BOX - Updates

Into the Box Super Early Bird ticket pricing is over, but you can still get the Early Bird. Last week we had the first couple of episodes of the Modernize or Die Podcast - Conference Edition for ITB 2022.

To read all of our blog posts from ITB, visit the site or subscribe to RSS https://intothebox.org/blog

This week we're going to be announcing the some more of the podcast episodes, like some workshop information, and a special announcement about more speakers and more sessions... but you'll have to wait and see.

Into the Box 2022 Podcast Series: About the Conference with Gavin Pickin

Into the Box 2022 is coming up in September, 2022, hosted in Houston Texas. In this episode, Gavin Pickin answers a few questions about the conference, how it began, what's the format, who will be speaking there, and much more.

http://www.intothebox.org/blog/into-the-box-2022-podcast-series-about-the-conference-with-gavin-pickin

ITB 2022 Podcast Series - Workshop - Legacy Code Conversion To The Modern World! with Dan Card

This podcast is a special podcast for attendees or undecided attendees, to get a view of what the workshop has to offer. This workshop Legacy Code Conversion To The Modern World! with Dan Card, will start with an app that has been created as a single .cfm page. During the day we’ll look at why the idea of refactoring is even worth considering if the code we have is working. What makes a site “traditional” vs “modern”? We’ll start off looking at the issues that usually drive working on your code and how refactoring is definitely a process and the accumulation of many small changes rather than an single massive event.

http://www.intothebox.org/blog/itb-2022-podcast-series-workshop-legacy-code-conversion-to-the-modern-world-with-dan-card.

ITB 2022 Podcast Series - Workshop - TestBox - Getting started with BDD-TDD with Brad Wood

This podcast is a special podcast for attendees or undecided attendees, to get a view of what the workshop has to offer. Brad Wood talks about his upcoming workshop at Into the Box, he talks about who the ideal audience is, and why they should attend. He talks about what will the workshop cover, the requirements for the workshop, and what he hopes the attendees will leave the workshop with.

https://www.intothebox.org/blog/itb-2022-podcast-series-workshop-testbox-getting-started-with-bdd-tdd-with-brad-wood

ITB - Top Secret - Big Announcement - Special Pre-Conference Track

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.

After much discussion and debate, we eventually decided, in the efforts to maximize content, and ensuring we have speakers in front of attendees, the best option was to host a third track for the conference, and we’re calling it the pre-conference track.

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.
• Speakers will be announced next week

New Releases and Updates

A MEW feature has rolled out to the CommandBox Service Manager - Task Services

A mew feature has rolled out to the CommandBox Service Manager module. In addition to servers, you can make a Task Runner daemon into a Windows, Mac, or Linux service as well. Great for MQ consumers, file system watchers, or scheduled tasks!

https://commandbox-service-manager.ortusbooks.com/task-services

Webinars / Meetups and Workshops

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "When Should I Use 3rd Party Libraries vs Roll My Own?", with Gavin Pickin

There is always a trade-off between using a 3rd party library and rolling your version in software development. I often hear many of these points in discussions, but I wonder how many people know and consider them, so I wanted to share my pros and cons.

This presentation will help convince you that libraries are not EVIL like so many haters believe. Choosing the right libraries will make you more productive and efficient, not lazy. We'll look at how to identify solid use-cases for using a 3rd party library in your application. It gives you a checklist of questions to help you identify the red flags of unsafe, unreliable, poorly supported, or ill-suited libraries.

We’ll look at some CF Landscape examples
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/286262739/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP-_U41zW9Q

Online CF Meetup - “How to find, install and implement 3rd party libraries in CFML” with Gavin Pickin

Thursday, June 23, 2022
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDT
In this meetup, Gavin will show you how to find, insta...