2022-11-29 Weekly News - Episode 173

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/0AzQBM1qmqo

Hosts: 

• Gavin Pickin - 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. 
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• 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 43 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 39% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

Patreon Sponsored Job Announcement - Tomorrows Guides

Tomorrows Guides is a fast paced leader in the UK care sector, catering for care seekers across three areas: Care Homes, Nurseries and Home Care. We are often called the Trip Advisor of the care sector.
 
Current Roles - More in the job section

Senior Cf Developer – UK Only | Remote | Permanent | Circa £60k -  https://app.occupop.com/shared/job/senior-coldfusion-developer-5925b/

Automation Test Engineer – UK Only | Remote | Permanent | Crica £40k - https://app.occupop.com/shared/job/automation-test-engineer-a6545/


News and Announcements

ICYMI - Kai announced CF Camp 2023 officially on the Podcast

Kai was our special guest on the last episode with the background, and the announcement. So get your Passports ready, CF Camp, in Germany June 2023.

CF Camp 2023

June 22/23, 2023
Freising, Germany
https://www.cfcamp.org/

Adobe ColdFusion Fortuna Alpha

Signup for the pre-release

https://www.adobeprerelease.com/beta/C0A219A0-A127-417A-D0D3-A7B5B3C5A0AE/participate/C3B4F4DC-8662-4610-D2B1-EE8FAD396648

ICYMI - ColdBox Master Class - Completely Free until the end of the Year!
Want to learn about modern web apps in ColdFusion (CFML)? We have our ColdBox Master Class for FREE until the end of the year!  A gift to the community, so we can all build amazing apps together! Watch all the videos!  Binge Coding Anyone? Enjoy!
https://www.cfcasts.com/series/cb-master-class?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=PODCAST&utm_campaign=LM-PODCAST

New Releases and Updates

Lucee released 5.3.10

One of the most exciting features in 5.3.10, which should make should make everyone’s life easier when deploying Lucee servers, is improved, still experimental, native support for CFconfig.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-5-3-10-97-stable-release/11540

ICYMI - Spreadsheet-cfml V3.7.0 released
Spreadsheet CFML 3.7.0 released with new option to read visible/formatted instead of raw values
James filed a bug for the ACF2021 issue. He’s posted 3 bugs in 30 days with Adobe.
https://github.com/cfsimplicity/spreadsheet-cfml

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Event Calendar for Google

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y181NjJhMWVmNjFjNGIxZTJlNmQ4OGVkNzg0NTcyOGQ1Njg5N2RkNGJiNjhjMTQwZjc3Mzc2ODk1MmIyOTQyMWVkQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20

Ortus Office Hours
A new  initiative where some Ortusians will be on a Zoom call and answer whatever questions people have. We are going to start less structured and see how things develop.

December 2nd at 11am CDT - 1st Friday of the Month
Daniel Garcia will host a variety of Ortus people
Office Hours questions & requests form available
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcO-hrz8iHNS0C3o0aw2x3JMtmBrKwzfA

Ortus Software Craftsmanship Book Club - Patreon Only
Friday, December 9th at 2pm CDT - 2nd Friday of the Month
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Martin (Uncle Bob)
Focus - Chapter 2 - Naming Conventions - 1 of the 2 hardest things in programming, along with cache invalidation and off by 1 errors ;)

We will meet monthly on Zoom, and we’ll use the Ortus Community Forum for Patreon to discuss the book.
https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/ortus-software-craftsmanship-book-club-clean-code/9432

We will also be rewriting the code from Java to CFML as we proceed through the book.
The final result will be here https://github.com/gpickin/clean-code-book-cfml-examples

You can get a copy of the book at one of the below links, or your favorite bookstore
https://amzn.to/3TIrmKm or https://www.audible.com/pd/Clean-Code-Audiobook/B08X7KL3TF?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp&shareTest=TestShare

Zoom link will be posted in Patreon Slack Channel and Patreon Community Forum
Signup to Patreon to join live: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions

ICYMI - TONIGHT - Mid Michigan CFUG - Nick Kwiatkowski is presenting on API’s and ColdFusion
November 15th, 7pm ET
Nick is going to show how he builds REST endpoints using the native Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee REST endpoint connector.  He’s also planning on doing a deep dive into Postman showing all its features.
Meeting URL: https://tinyurl.com/2s3mdcrr
A recording will be available on our group’s YouTube channel in a few days at https://youtube.com/@cfml
Recording: https://youtu.be/FUrwMKN9mmU

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