2020-12-08 Weekly News - Episode 82

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/7AFUizKXnZk

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

CFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every week, now including the ColdBox Zero to Hero training series

Patreon Support

We have 33 patreons providing 57% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

Hotfix released for CF2021 date-mask compatibility issue

Good news to share: if you're concerned about being impacted by a pressing compatibility issue in ColdFusion 2021 (regarding using "D" in a dateformat mask), Adobe released a fix for the problem last week. There are 3 simple steps to implementing that hotfix.
For more on the problem, see see my recent post on the issue. For more on the fix, see that Adobe technote or read on for some additional details.
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/12/7/cf2021_hotfix_datemask_compatibility_issue   

Scott Steinbeck: Here is the regex ((?<=l?s?(dateformat|dateformat|datetimeformat)).+[DY]+[^\#]+)
You have to use java pattern matcher with the regex above ☝it uses a lookbehind

Adobe ColdFusion 2021 Deprecated Features

Thanks to James Moberg for sharing the link to this valuable information via Twitter
https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/user-guide.html/coldfusion/deprecated-features.ug.html

Sad News - Wil Genovese lost his battle with Cancer

It's a sad moment, we lost a well known member of the CFML Community this week. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family.
We have a Blog post below remembering Wil.

Preside Christmas Release - V10.13.0

The 10.13.0 release brings another treasure trove of new features and improvements to Preside. Highlights include a new form builder data model, UX improvements to the filter system and a solution to "Widgetception"! Special thanks to Brayden Tan, Guust Nieuwenhuis, Jan Jannek, Jasmin Tsai, Johnson Cheng, Kar Hong, Russel Cole, Seb Duggan, Teon Ooi and Vivien Wong for code contributions (+ anyone else I may have missed). Also to Jan Jannek, Marcus Egger and Sacha Moufarrege for translations.
https://www.preside.org/release-notes/release-notes-for-10-13-0.html

Conference - GitHub Universe this Week!!!!

Dec 8 - 10th - 830AM PST - 200PM PST
Join GitHub team leaders, industry icons, and artists inspired by code for three days of live interactive sessions as we explore the future of software for enterprises, developers, and students.
With 70 talks across the 3 days, 4 Channels, lots of great content
No registration required and free to watch
https://githubuniverse.com/

RESCHEDULED - Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
RESCHEDULED FROM Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Hosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'Daniel
This meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/

Coldfusion Online Meetup - "Using CommandBox CLI to manage all your servers", with Brad Wood

Thursday, December 10, 2020
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST
CommandBox is a CLI tool designed for CFML developers to be easy to use. If you are not a fan of CLI tools, please don't pass over CommandBox until you've given it a try. It is capable of starting any version of Lucee Server or Adobe ColdFusion with no installation. Learn how to easily get started with a local development environment today, get tips to dial in your server settings, and discover how to automate your server setups. CommandBox is used across the CF space for local dev, production, and Docker. We'll cover what you need to know to get started and answer any questions you have about how it works.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274974315/

ICYMI - Coldfusion Online Meetup - "How to build Progressive Web Apps", with John Wargo
Thursday Dec 3 at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-5
Progressive Web Apps leverage modern browser capabilities to deliver additional capabilities for developers and app users. These web apps deliver capabilities that make a web app 'feel' more like traditional and mobile apps, providing offline capabilities (like the ability to run when offline or to perform background synchronization), receive push notifications, and installation on the system. In this session, John M. Wargo, the author of Pearson's Learning Progressive Web Apps (https://learningpwa.com) will introduce you to PWAs and show you how to build them.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBVozXmp3oQ
Meeting: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274867028/

Advent of Code 2020

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as a speed contest, interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, or to challenge each other.
You don't need a computer science background to participate - just a little programming knowledge and some problem solving skills will get you pretty far. Nor do you need a fancy computer; every problem has a solution that completes in at most 15 seconds on ten-year-old hardware.
https://adventofcode.com/2020

Help us get CFML listed on Sentry.io

Giancarlo Gomez started a thread on Sentry.io to get CFML on the Create Project view. As he mentions in the thread, we have a couple of Sentry plugins available, one he created, and one by Brad.
Let’s get behind this thread, like, reply, and make a little noise for CFML.
https://forum.sentry.io/t/adding-coldfusion-as-a-platform/11875

CFCasts Content Updates

ColdBox Zero to Hero Workshop - 13 videos live already - https://cfcasts.com/series/cb-zero-to-hero

Send your suggestions at ...

2020-12-01 Weekly News - Episode 81

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/8aq0OW_C2TA

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

Into the Box Latam Dec 3rd and 4th - English and Spanish
CFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every week

Patreon Support

We have 33 patreons providing 57% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

ITB Latam is this week and is now FREE

December 3-4th
Live Virtual Conference in Spanish and English!!!
Price: FREE- in the spirit of the holidays
https://latam.intothebox.org/
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events   

Short Videos about the Conference with Jorge from Ortus and Michela from TeraTech
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Kt89ggAek
Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rEIZysqIMo

Advent of Code 2020

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as a speed contest, interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, or to challenge each other.
You don't need a computer science background to participate - just a little programming knowledge and some problem solving skills will get you pretty far. Nor do you need a fancy computer; every problem has a solution that completes in at most 15 seconds on ten-year-old hardware.

https://adventofcode.com/2020

Coldfusion Online Meetup - "How to build Progressive Web Apps", with John Wargo

Thursday Dec 3 at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-5
Progressive Web Apps leverage modern browser capabilities to deliver additional capabilities for developers and app users. These web apps deliver capabilities that make a web app 'feel' more like traditional and mobile apps, providing offline capabilities (like the ability to run when offline or to perform background synchronization), receive push notifications, and installation on the system. In this session, John M. Wargo, the author of Pearson's Learning Progressive Web Apps (https://learningpwa.com) will introduce you to PWAs and show you how to build them.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274867028/

RESCHEDULED - Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
RESCHEDULED FROM Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Hosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'Daniel
This meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/

ICYMI - Mid Michigan CFUG Meeting - Going Serverless with Nicholas Kwiatkowski

Presented November 18th, 2020 on Microsoft Teams
Recording: http://www.mmcfug.org/index.cfm/presentations/mmcfug-goes-serverless/?fbclid=IwAR1JJcDt_Q7gsn17x3b6nmgEC6M-eCSSXyCiIgZEt1YgDaqJzufRFTM1jvM

ICYMI - Security Vulnerability Alert - Lucee

We are aware of a potential security vulnerability related to the Lucee Admin. Details of how to exploit this vulnerability will be made public on December 5th, 2020 by a third party, so we are alerting Lucee users to address this potential issue now.
If your Lucee Admin is already locked down, this is not an issue. To lock down your admin, follow the recommendations in the Lucee Lockdown Guide
In addition, we strongly recommend updating to one of the following stable releases which have been patched to address the vulnerability
https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-vulnerability-alert-november-2020/7643

ICYMI TestBox v4.2 Released! - SECURITY UPDATE

We are excited to announce a new minor version release of TestBox version 4.2.x. To install just use CommandBox: install testbox --saveDev or to update your TestBox installation update testbox.
This release includes two important security updates just in case you have deployed TestBox or your tests to production (TESTBOX-294 and TESTBOX-293). Please note, that you should NEVER deploy TestBox and your tests to production. It is a library for development purposes and it has no purpose in being deployed to production servers.
In addition to updating your Testbox installation, you need to update any test browser files that may be in your tests folder. The current version of the Testbox test browser can be found here: https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/TestBox/blob/development/test-browser/index.cfm
You can avoid installing testbox in production by using the install --production CommandBox command.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/testbox-v42-released

Help us get CFML listed on Sentry.io

Giancarlo Gomez started a thread on Sentry.io to get CFML on the Create Project view. As he mentions in the thread, we have a couple of Sentry plugins available, one he created, and one by Brad.
Let’s get behind this thread, like, reply, and make a little noise for CFML.
Upate: We are now listed on the Community List - no icon yet.
https://forum.sentry.io/t/adding-coldfusion-as-a-platform/11875

CFCasts Content Updates

Our ColdBox Zero to Hero workshop videos were uploaded, just waiting on Gavin’s Intro video and they’ll be released - Workshop is broken down into 25+ videos

What’s New in qb8
- Custom Inferred Numeric SQL Types
- Simple Paginate
Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/support

Conferences and Training

AWS re:Invent

NOV. 30 – DEC. 18, 2020
Free
Amazon’s Premium Conference is also virtual, and a free 3-week event:
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

ITB Latam

December 3-4th
Live Virtual Conference in Spanish and English!!! ( an...

2020-11-24 Weekly News - Episode 80

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/FdGFGx8Ht7c

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

Into the Box Latam Dec 3rd and 4th - English and Spanish
CFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every week

Patreon Support

We have 34 patreons providing 58% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

Security Vulnerability Alert - Lucee

We are aware of a potential security vulnerability related to the Lucee Admin. Details of how to exploit this vulnerability will be made public on December 5th, 2020 by a third party, so we are alerting Lucee users to address this potential issue now.
If your Lucee Admin is already locked down, this is not an issue. To lock down your admin, follow the recommendations in the Lucee Lockdown Guide
In addition, we strongly recommend updating to one of the following stable releases which have been patched to address the vulnerability
https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-vulnerability-alert-november-2020/7643

TestBox v4.2 Released! - SECURITY UPDATE

We are excited to announce a new minor version release of TestBox version 4.2.x. To install just use CommandBox: install testbox --saveDev or to update your TestBox installation update testbox.
This release includes two important security updates just in case you have deployed TestBox or your tests to production (TESTBOX-294 and TESTBOX-293). Please note, that you should NEVER deploy TestBox and your tests to production. It is a library for development purposes and it has no purpose in being deployed to production servers.
In addition to updating your Testbox installation, you need to update any test browser files that may be in your tests folder. The current version of the Testbox test browser can be found here: https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/TestBox/blob/development/test-browser/index.cfm

You can avoid installing testbox in production by using the install --production CommandBox command.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/testbox-v42-released

Breaking change in Adobe ColdFusion 2021

Breaking change in CF2021, new dateformat mask of D may be serious problem for old code
Wow. Beware of this subtle breaking change in CF2021, something discovered since its release (was not documented as one of the "new" things, nor was it documented at all in the beta).
Consider this fragment, which could exist in similar form in millions of CFML templates:
dateformat("11-24-20","MM-DD-YY")
See anything wrong? Probably not. It will indeed "work fine" in CF2018 and before, producing 11-24-2020, as most would expect.
But that same code in CF2021 will produces instead 11-329-2020., which virtually no one would expect!
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/11/24/breaking_change_in_cf2021_dateformat_D_vs_d

ColdFusion Builder 2016/2018 is NOT compatible with Big Sur

#coldfusion #coldfusionbuilder #bigsur #macos ColdFusion Builder is NOT compatible with Big Sur. Before upgrading, check the support matrix. Refer to https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-builder-big-sur.html  We're working on this.

CFWheels 2.2 released

It’s been a while coming. Can I blame the pandemic? Lots of nice little tweaks and fixes in this version. Please see the changelog for all details. It should be an easy upgrade if you’re on 2.0 or 2.1, just swap out the wheels folder.
https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-2-2-released/

TryCF.com now supports Adobe ColdFusion 2021
https://trycf.com/

Reminder: Updates to ColdFusion 2016 will end Feb 2021

As Charlie Arehart states in his blog: Are you still running ColdFusion 2016? Did you know that its "core" support (meaning, public updates from Adobe) will end in just a couple of months, Feb 21 2021? Same for CFBuilder 2016.
The recent release of CF2021 is a great sign for the continued vitality of CF, but this looming deadline is a reminder that as the years roll on, we not only get new versions but we say good-bye to old ones.
Wondering what you can do? or when CF2018 or CF2021 support ends? And what's the difference between "core" and paid Adobe support plans? For more on these, as well as official Adobe documentation that discusses such things, read on.
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/11/23/cf2016_support_ends_feb_2021 

Help us get CFML listed on Sentry.io

Giancarlo Gomez started a thread on Sentry.io to get CFML on the Create Project view. As he mentions in the thread, we have a couple of Sentry plugins available, one he created, and one by Brad.
Let’s get behind this thread, like, reply, and make a little noise for CFML.
https://forum.sentry.io/t/adding-coldfusion-as-a-platform/11875

RESCHEDULED - Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
RESCHEDULED FROM Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Hosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'Daniel
This meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/

CFCasts Content Updates

We just got major updates!

1) Videos can now be filtered by language
2) A user's language preference is saved in their profile
3) We added a level field to series to specify the difficulty, and much more!
We value your feedback so don't hesitate to contact us

Before the month comes to an end, we have a surprise for you my friends. Our Zero to Hero workshop videos will  be published THIS month! Be on the lookout for our updates.

Configure your CFML Servers with CFConfig
 - Service Layer
 - Practical Uses and Wrap-up

Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/support

2020-11-19 Weekly News - Episode 79

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/2W8mLPpAu-4

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

Into the Box Latam Dec 3rd and 4th - English and Spanish
CFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every week

Patreon Support

We have 34 patreons providing 58% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

Adobe ColdFusion (2021 release) is finally here!

The completely reimagined Adobe ColdFusion (2021 release) offers a modular, secure, and containerized approach to building applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premises. You can now switch between cloud service providers without having to rewrite your application.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/coldfusion/introducing-adobe-coldfusion-2021-release/m-p/11585468?page=1#M186888

Blog from Charlie: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/11/coldfusion-2021-has-been-released/
Important Blog Post about using with CommandBox  https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-forgebox-adobe-coldfusion-2021-and-cfpm

CommandBox 5.2.0 Released

Today we are pleased to announce the final release of CommandBox 5.2.0.  This release has been 5 months in the making and covers nearly 50 tickets.  We've already covered the full list of new features and enhancements in our release candidate announcement which you can read here:
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-520-release-candidate-ready-for-testing
After a month of RC testing, we've made several additional improvements and are ready to release.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-520-released

FusionReactor 8.6.0 released

Following the recent Adobe release, we are pleased to announce that FusionReactor has been updated and fully supports ColdFusion 2021.  We also support CF 2021 in our instance manager and if you use the Adobe Perfmon module you will see all of the CF metrics in FR. Download FusionReactor 8.6 here
If you are a SeeFusion user then you can now use both Seefusion and FR on the same server.
We have had a lot of requests for Elasticsearch support and we are happy to say that we now support the Jest-Elasticsearch Java Client and the official Elasticsearch-Java REST Client.
FYI - CommandBox-FusionReactor already supports 8.6.0
http://www.fusion-reactor.com/blog/fusionreactor-8-6-0-released/

Lucee Spreadsheet Library 2.12.2 released

Lucee Spreadsheet library 2.12.2 released fixing a couple of issues with the new Adobe ColdFusion 2021 release (yes, you can use the library with ACF2016+) #cfml
https://github.com/cfsimplicity/lucee-spreadsheet

RESCHEDULED - Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
RESCHEDULED FROM Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Hosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'Daniel
This meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "Using Taffy: API Live Coding & Fireside Chat", with Adam Tuttle

Thursday, November 12, 2020
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM CST
Adam will demonstrate building a REST API using his library Taffy to illustrate many of the foundational principles of REST and the ease of accomplishing them with Taffy. Then we'll open the floor for Q&A and discussion.
Meeting: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274413376/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8he7Yyn6eBk

CFCasts Content Updates

We just got major updates!

1) Videos can now be filtered by language
2) A user's language preference is saved in their profile
3) We added a level field to series to specify the difficulty, and much more!
We value your feedback so don't hesitate to contact us

Before the month comes to an end, we have a surprise for you my friends. Our Zero to Hero workshop videos will  be published THIS month! Be on the lookout for our updates.

 - Configure your CFML Servers with CFConfig
      - Service Layer
     - Practical Uses and Wrap-up

Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/support

Conferences and Training

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit West

Date: November 17-18
Location: Online
Admission: Free
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

Report:
- Total Attendees : 3036
- They used VConfex software - looked nice. A few complications
- Recordings coming next week

Adobe ColdFusion Certification now available Online

Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion is an industry-leading certification program from Adobe, for ColdFusion developers. The course consists of 50+ online videos and is designed for professionals who have basic to advanced level proficiency in any computer language and basic understanding of how web pages work. Successfully passing an assessment test at the end of the program will reward participants with a badge and certificate from Adobe.

Introductory Offer: $499

Blog: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/07/coldfusion-certification-online-now/
Register: https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html

AWS re:Invent

NOV. 30 – DEC. 18, 2020
Free
Amazon’s Premium Conference is also virtual, and a free 3-week event:

2020-11-10 Weekly News - Episode 78

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Pizbup6JphM

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

Into the Box Latam Dec 3rd and 4th - English and Spanish
CFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every week

Patreon Support

We have 33 patreons providing 57% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

New ColdBox Site

https://www.coldbox.org/

Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
Hosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'Daniel
This meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/

Online CF Meetup - "Using Taffy: API Live Coding & Fireside Chat", with Adam Tuttle

Thursday, November 12, 2020
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM CST
Adam will demonstrate building a REST API using his library Taffy to illustrate many of the foundational principles of REST and the ease of accomplishing them with Taffy. Then we'll open the floor for Q&A and discussion.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274413376/

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "Building great user interfaces fast with Kendo UI", with TJ VanToll

Thursday, November 5th, 2020
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST
Kendo UI is a suite of UI components that let you to build front-end apps fast. In this session, TJ VanToll will introduce you to Kendo UI by building a series of apps that solve some of the trickier modern web development problems, like forms, data grids, charts and graphs, and more. Come learn about Kendo UI, and how you can speed up your web development workflows.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKgfARETRbA
Event: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274271713/

ICYMI - Ortus October Webinar - ContentBox AMA with Luis Majano and Gavin Pickin

Friday, November 6th - 2pm CST (GMT -5:00)
We had to change the Webinar after recording the podcast, so we're doing a ContentBox AMA with Luis Majano and Gavin Pickin
Recording: https://www.cfcasts.com/series/webinars/videos/contentbox-modular-cms-office-hours

CFCasts Content Updates

CFCasts just debuted bite-sized Spanish language videos!

Configure your CFML Servers with CFConfig
  - Environment Variables (https://cfcasts.com/series/cf-config/videos/environment-variables)

Ortus Webinars
- ContentBox Modular CMS Office Hours (https://cfcasts.com/series/webinars/videos/contentbox-modular-cms-office-hours)

Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/support

Conferences and Training

Deploy - by Digital Ocean - TODAY!!!

DigitalOcean’s first virtual global 24‑hour community conference.
Starts November 10 at 10am EST
What to expect:
- Over 80 tech-focused sessions
- New product announcements
- Developer-focused breakout rooms
- Special keynotes
- Hourly goody giveaways
- Fun virtual rooms
- Free and easy to RSVP
https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/

DotNetConf

Nov 10-12, 2020
Mainly .net content but some other content relevant to CFers, Docker, Azure, K8s, Github Actions etc
https://www.dotnetconf.net/

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit West

Date: November 17-18 ( not 17-19 as first announced or on the coldfusion.adobe.com site)
Location: Online
Admission: Free
Speakers and Schedule now on the website
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

Adobe ColdFusion Certification now available Online

Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion is an industry-leading certification program from Adobe, for ColdFusion developers. The course consists of 50+ online videos and is designed for professionals who have basic to advanced level proficiency in any computer language and basic understanding of how web pages work. Successfully passing an assessment test at the end of the program will reward participants with a badge and certificate from Adobe.

Introductory Offer: $499

Blog: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/07/coldfusion-certification-online-now/
Register: https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html

Developer Week - Austin

November 17-18, 2020
This year at DeveloperWeek Austin, we’ve added new tracks and topics about the Dev Roadmap. No matter the industry, technology, or role, all dev teams share similar best practices. The Dev Roadmap is the 3 components that go into a successful developer project: DevTeam Practices, Dev Manager Practices, Developer Technologies.
Free with Code FREE2020
Pro and Premium Passes available
https://www.developerweek.com/Austin/

KubeCon / CloudNativeCon

November 17-20, 2020
Keynote: Free
Conference: $100
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/

AWS re:Invent
NOV. 30 – DEC. 18, 2020
Free
Amazon’s Premium Conference is also virtual, and a free 3-week event:
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

ITB Latam

December 3-4th
Live Virtual Conference in Spanish and English!!!
Price: $7.00
https://latam.intothebox.org/
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events

More conferences: https://confs.tech/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Ben Nadel - Using Pusher WebSockets To Show Progress During Page Unload / Red...

2020-11-03 Weekly News - Episode 77

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/bId0VvpWAYU

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

 - Into the Box Latam Dec 3rd and 4th - English and Spanish
 - CFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every week

Patreon Support

We have 33 patreons providing 57% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

CF Summit announcements

CF Summit Website now includes more speakers and the schedule.
Also looks like they have reduced the conference from 3 days, to 2 days.
I heard a birdie that more announcements to come
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

Fixes in for Lucee Network Drop Issues

Brad posted a few days ago about networking drops causing hanging threads in Lucee using Azure's managed MSSQL & Microsoft's JDBC driver.  These two tickets have been put into 5.3.8 to help mitigate those issues:
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3124
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3126

Ben Nadel’s blog has approx 845 photos!!!

Yes, 845 Photos, you can click through, and the highest index is 845.
https://www.bennadel.com/?site-photo=1

Online CF Meetup - "Building great user interfaces fast with Kendo UI", with TJ VanToll

Thursday, November 5th, 2020
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST
Kendo UI is a suite of UI components that let you to build front-end apps fast. In this session, TJ VanToll will introduce you to Kendo UI by building a series of apps that solve some of the trickier modern web development problems, like forms, data grids, charts and graphs, and more. Come learn about Kendo UI, and how you can speed up your web development workflows.
Event: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274271713/

POST PODCAST CHANGE - DOES NOT MATCH AUDIO

RESCHEDULED - Ortus October Webinar - ContentBox AMA with Luis Majano and Gavin Pickin

Friday, November 6th - 2pm CST
We had to change the Webinar after recording the podcast, so we're doing a ContentBox AMA with Luis Majano and Gavin Pickin
Register today: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE - Ortus October Webinar - From Mura to ContentBox - Staying on the Open Source Upgrade Track

In this session, we will walk you through some of the differences between Mura CMS and Contentbox - from administration to design and development. During the session we will demonstrate a full conversion of a Mura CMS site to Contentbox.
Hosted by Jon Clausen
 
 
 
 
Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
Hosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'Daniel
This meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/

ICYMI - Mid Michigan CFUG October Meetup - DevOps Evolution and ColdFusion by Nick Kwiatkowski
Recording is now live: https://youtu.be/51TaxqW5SM8

CFCasts Content Updates

CFCasts has now launched bite-sized Spanish language videos!

Configure your CFML Servers with CFConfig
  - Managing Mail Server Properties

Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/support

Conferences and Training

Ortus Workshops - Virtual Live training - Quick Cancelled
Workshop cancelled, we will be running this in 2021.

Modern Applications Online Event

Wednesday - Thursday, November 4-5, 2020
Wed is focused on “Organizational Level Operations” and Thurs is focused on “Application Level Design”.
Cost: Free
https://pages.awscloud.com/GLOBAL-field-OE-Modern-Applications-Online-Event-2020-reg-event.html

Deploy - by Digital Ocean

DigitalOcean’s first virtual global 24‑hour community conference.
Starts November 10 at 10am EST
What to expect:
 - Over 80 tech-focused sessions
 - New product announcements
 - Developer-focused breakout rooms
 - Special keynotes
 - Hourly goody giveaways
 - Fun virtual rooms
 - Free and easy to RSVP
https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit West

Date: November 17-18 (previously 17-19)
Location: Online
Admission: Free
Speakers and Schedule now on the website
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

Adobe ColdFusion Certification now available Online

Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion is an industry-leading certification program from Adobe, for ColdFusion developers. The course consists of 50+ online videos and is designed for professionals who have basic to advanced level proficiency in any computer language and basic understanding of how web pages work. Successfully passing an assessment test at the end of the program will reward participants with a badge and certificate from Adobe.
Introductory Offer: $499
Blog: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/07/coldfusion-certification-online-now/
Register: https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html

AWS re:Invent

NOV. 30 – DEC. 18, 2020
Amazon’s Premium Conference is also virtual, and a free 3-week event:
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

ITB Latam

December 3-4th
Live Virtual Conference in Spanish and English!!!
Price: $7.00
https://latam.intothebox.org/
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events

More conferences: https://confs.tech/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of t...

2020-10-27 Weekly News - Episode 76

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/lGXxIZdFg40

Hosts:

Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

Get live training from the makers of your favorite Box Product.
Last Virtual Workshops of the year - Quick in November
CFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every week

Patreon Support

We have 33 patreons providing 57% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

ColdBox 6.1.0 released

Today we are excited to bring our first minor release of our 6.x series: 6.1.0; with a nice collection of fixes and improvements. Enjoy!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-610-released

CommandBox 5.2.0-RC build has been updated

After some good security feedback, the CommandBox 5.2.0-RC build has been updated to include
* server setting to block flash remoting
* static files are served via whitelist only now
Read more here if you missed the RC announcement: https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-520-release-candidate-ready-for-testing

Lucee Spreadsheet library 2.12.0 released

Lucee Spreadsheet library 2.12.0 released: adds a new option for setting common formatting styles more efficiently, and improved handling of tab delimited data in csvToQuery()
https://github.com/cfsimplicity/lucee-spreadsheet

Ortus October Webinar Announced - From Mura to ContentBox - Staying on the Open Source Upgrade Track
Friday, October 30th - 11:00 AM CDT (GMT -5:00)
In this session, we will walk you through some of the differences between Mura CMS and Contentbox - from administration to design and development. During the session we will demonstrate a full conversion of a Mura CMS site to Contentbox.
Hosted by Jon Clausen
Register today: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "CF AMA: Ask Me Anything", with Charlie Arehart and Dan Wilson

Thursday, October 22, 2020
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CDT
Join us for our first “Ask Me Anything” session, with your host Charlie Arehart and recent co-organizer Dan Wilson. We'll open the floor to any sort of CF-related questions you may have, whether about coding challenges or using CF features, configuration or tuning, deployment, security, the upcoming new CF version, recent CF versions, the future and state of CF, whatever.
Event: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274044740/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBC4UPikoXk

Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
Hosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'Daniel
This meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/

ICYMI - Seattle CFUG - Leon O'Daniel on Integrating Your ColdFusion App with the Thinkific Platform.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PDT
Online via Zoom
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. Learn how to integrate your ColdFusion application with Thinkific's API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/273472016/
Recording: https://www.seattlecfug.org/presentations/

HacktoberFest 2020 - Last week

Support open source and pick a limited edition T-shirt or plant a tree.
Hacktoberfest® is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.
Hacktoberfest is a celebration open to everyone in our global community.
Pull requests can be made in participating GitHub-hosted repositories/projects, classified with the Hacktoberfest topic.
You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update

CFCasts Content Updates

CFCasts just debuted bite-sized Spanish language videos!

- Bases de la programación
      - Introducción
      - Conceptualización Parte 1

Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/support

Conferences and Training

GroupBy Conference

October 27-28
GroupBy was started by Brent Ozar. In February 2019 GroupBy announced that it will remain a free, volunteer-run event, staffed with SQL Community volunteers.
Price: Free
https://groupby.org/

Ortus Workshops - Virtual Live training

2 day Workshop - November 5-6, 2020 - Quick Workshop lead by Eric Peterson

https://www.ortussolutions.com/events

Podcast Code:
PODCAST10 - 10% off

Deploy - by Digital Ocean

DigitalOcean’s first virtual global 24‑hour community conference.
Starts November 10 at 10am EST
What to expect:
 - Over 80 tech-focused sessions
 - New product announcements
 - Developer-focused breakout rooms
 - Special keynotes
 - Hourly goody giveaways
 - Fun virtual rooms
 - Free and easy to RSVP
https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit West

Date: November 17-19
Location: Online
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
Admission: Free
Speakers now listed: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/speakers/

Adobe ColdFusion Certification now available Online

Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion is an industry-leading certification progra...

2020-10-20 Weekly News - Episode 75

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/BouaFVQ75Yo

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

Get live training from the makers of your favorite Box Product.
2 ColdBox Virtual Workshops coming in October and November
CFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every week

Patreon Support

We are at the 57% mark for fully funding all of our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

Lucee 5.3.7.43 STABLE has been released

Official release notes will be posted soon at dev.lucee.org #lucee #cfml

CommandBox 5.2.0-RC.1 Release Candidate ready for testing

It's been 4 months since we've had a CommandBox release, but we've actually been quite busy on a number of large improvements that took a while to settle down. Today we are pleased to announce a Release Candidate 5.2.0-RC.1 for you to help test. There's not usually a release candidate for "minor" CommandBox releases, but we've updated a lot of libraries and introduced some pretty big new features so we wanted to have a round of testing and feedback before we cut the final release.  There are 46 completed tickets for the 5.2.0 release.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-520-release-candidate-ready-for-testing

What to expect from CF Summit 2020 - CFAlive with Kishore

Kishore Balakrishnan talks about “Adobe CF Summit 2020 (What to Expect)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.
“...this situation is not right for having physical events this year. So we are going to make it online. And we are very excited to that this is going to be one of the biggest conferences for CF this year…”
https://teratech.com/podcast/adobe-cf-summit-2020-what-to-expect-with-kishore-balakrishnan/

Last chance to Sign up for the ColdBox 6 Hero to SuperHero API Edition with BDD testing Workshop

Luis has completely updated this talk to work with ColdBox 6, and has a few spots left for this Thursday and Friday.
Find out more and register today https://www.ortussolutions.com/events
Use Podcast10 to save 10% off the cost of the workshop.

Ortus October Webinar Announced - From Mura to ContentBox - Staying on the Open Source Upgrade Track

Friday, October 30th - 11:00 AM CDT (GMT -5:00)
In this session, we will walk you through some of the differences between Mura CMS and Contentbox - from administration to design and development. During the session we will demonstrate a full conversion of a Mura CMS site to Contentbox.
Hosted by Jon Clausen
Register today: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

Conference Announcement - Deploy - by Digital Ocean

DigitalOcean’s first virtual global 24‑hour community conference.
Starts November 10 at 10am EST
What to expect:
 - Over 80 tech-focused sessions
 - New product announcements
 - Developer-focused breakout rooms
 - Special keynotes
 - Hourly goody giveaways
 - Fun virtual rooms
 - Free and easy to RSVP
https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/

Online CF Meetup - "CF AMA: Ask Me Anything", with Charlie Arehart and Dan Wilson

Thursday, October 22, 2020
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CDT
Join us for our first “Ask Me Anything” session, with your host Charlie Arehart and recent co-organizer Dan Wilson. We'll open the floor to any sort of CF-related questions you may have, whether about coding challenges or using CF features, configuration or tuning, deployment, security, the upcoming new CF version, recent CF versions, the future and state of CF, whatever.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274044740/

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "Building APIs with ColdFusion, Part 1: Start coding APIs today" w/ Gavin Pickin

Thursday Oct 15th at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4.
As in recent weeks, this session will be held via a Youtube livestream (and streamed to it via Streamyard
ColdFusion, the powerful language we love, is still relevant in the world of single page apps and mobile apps, because we can power them with ColdFusion APIs.
In this session ( Part 1 ) we'll look at how you can easily add some API goodness into your existing app, even if it is legacy. We'll look at different approaches, and give you a way to start building your API today.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdgRt8HIKD0
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/273813364/

ICYMI - Mid-Michigan CFUG is going virtual - Nick Kwiatkowski will be speaking on Code Workflow

Tuesday, Oct 13th at 7 pm eastern
Learn about building dev, test and production environments.  He will show using this workflow to deploy an app to AWS container services.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10157815289600036/
Recording: Waiting to see if they will post the recordings

ICYMI - Seattle CFUG - Leon O'Daniel on Integrating Your ColdFusion App with the Thinkific Platform.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PDT
Online via Zoom
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. Learn how to integrate your ColdFusion application with Thinkific's API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/273472016/
Recording: https://www.seattlecfug.org/presentations/

Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
Hosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'Daniel
This meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/

HacktoberFest 2020

Support open source and pick a limited edition T-shirt or plant a tree.
Hacktoberfest® is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or c...

2020-10-13 Weekly News - Episode 74

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1q3akEgHAA

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

Get live training from the makers of your favorite Box Product.
2 ColdBox Virtual Workshops coming in October and November
CFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every week

Patreon Support

We are at the 57% mark for fully funding all of our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

LATAM Dates announced

December 3-4th
Live Virtual Conference in Spanish
Price: $7.00
https://latam.intothebox.org/

CouchBase - Adds Third Day

October 14-16, 2020
Couchbase has virtualized our annual developer conference, Couchbase Connect. For Connect.ONLINE, we’ve designed three intensive days of Couchbase content for developers and fans. We’ll announce new product capabilities, showcase best practices, and offer countless opportunities to learn Couchbase. We have over 100 sessions planned that cover topics such as Couchbase Server, mobile, Kubernetes, query and indexing, analytics, development tips, and cloud deployment. It will also be interactive, allowing attendees to engage with presenters, Couchbase engineers and technical staff, and fellow attendees.
https://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/couchbase-adds-third-day-to-connect.online-developer-conference
Register for Free: https://connect.couchbase.com/

Getting started with Adobe CF Next - Project Stratus - Beta - Comprehensive Guide

My focus here is not on "what's new" (I'll offer a brief list here, and more in a later post), but really just "how to get started", especially during the beta (or "prerelease") as some things are not as obvious as they perhaps should be. In fact, I make some pointed suggestions that I hope Adobe will consider, as well as share tips for you in the meantime.
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/10/12/getting_started_with_CF2021_public_beta

HacktoberFest 2020

Support open source and pick a limited edition T-shirt or plant a tree.
Hacktoberfest® is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.
Hacktoberfest is a celebration open to everyone in our global community.
Pull requests can be made in participating GitHub-hosted repositories/projects, classified with the Hacktoberfest topic.
You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update

Mid-Michigan CFUG is going virtual - Nick Kwiatkowski will be speaking on Code Workflow

Tuesday, Oct 13th at 7 pm eastern
Learn about building dev, test and production environments.  He will show using this workflow to deploy an app to AWS container services.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CFprogrammers/permalink/10157815289600036/

Seattle CFUG - Leon O'Daniel on Integrating Your ColdFusion App with the Thinkific Platform.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PDT
Online via Zoom
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. Learn how to integrate your ColdFusion application with Thinkific's API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/273472016/

Online CF Meetup - "Building APIs with ColdFusion, Part 1: Start coding APIs today" w/ Gavin Pickin

Thursday Oct 15th at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4.
As in recent weeks, this session will be held via a Youtube livestream (and streamed to it via Streamyard
ColdFusion, the powerful language we love, is still relevant in the world of single page apps and mobile apps, because we can power them with ColdFusion APIs.
In this session ( Part 1 ) we'll look at how you can easily add some API goodness into your existing app, even if it is legacy. We'll look at different approaches, and give you a way to start building your API today.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/273813364/

CFCasts Content Updates

Configure your CFML Servers with CFConfig
    - DIFF Command

Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/support

Conferences and Training

CouchBase - Connect

October 14-16, 2020
Couchbase has virtualized our annual developer conference, Couchbase Connect. For Connect.ONLINE, we’ve designed three intensive days of Couchbase content for developers and fans. We’ll announce new product capabilities, showcase best practices, and offer countless opportunities to learn Couchbase. We have over 100 sessions planned that cover topics such as Couchbase Server, mobile, Kubernetes, query and indexing, analytics, development tips, and cloud deployment. It will also be interactive, allowing attendees to engage with presenters, Couchbase engineers and technical staff, and fellow attendees.
https://www.couchbase.com/press-releases/couchbase-adds-third-day-to-connect.online-developer-conference
Register for Free: https://connect.couchbase.com/

Ortus Workshops - Virtual Live training

October
- 2 day Workshop - October 22 - 23, 2020 - ColdBox 6 - Hero to Superhero - lead by Luis Majano
November
- 2 day Workshop - November 5-6, 2020 - Quick Workshop lead by Eric Peterson
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/up-and-running-with-quick-tickets-124157021995?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

https://www.ortussolutions.com/events

Podcast Code:
PODCAST10 - 10% off
There is a code for ITB attendees to save 15% - If you didn’t get the email contact us.

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit West

Date: November 17-19
Location: Online
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
Admission: Free
Some Speakers now li...

2020-10-06 Weekly News - Episode 73

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ba8NvTEMCmc

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

Get live training from the makers of your favorite Box Product.
3 ColdBox Virtual Workshops coming in October and November
CFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every week

Patreon Support
We are at the 56% mark for fully funding all of our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help

News and Events

Celebrating 25 years of Adobe ColdFusion with our customers!

As Adobe ColdFusion completes 25 years of making hard things easy, we’re thrilled to reflect on a journey that changed the norms of coding forever. Over the last two decades, we’ve strived to make Adobe ColdFusion easier, faster and better to use, helping coders create applications that are beyond the ordinary. 25 years later, the legacy we’ve built continues to be the undisputed choice for over 70% of Fortune 100 companies and 60% of Fortune 500 companies!
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/10/celebrating-25-years-adobe-coldfusion-customers/

HacktoberFest 2020

Support open source and pick a limited edition T-shirt or plant a tree.
Hacktoberfest® is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.
Hacktoberfest is a celebration open to everyone in our global community.
Pull requests can be made in participating GitHub-hosted repositories/projects, classified with the Hacktoberfest topic.
You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-update

Is Adobe ColdFusion 2020 actually going to be Adobe ColdFusion 2021?

OK, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, at least for those who looked forward to a new release of Adobe ColdFusion this year, 2020. As much as many have been referring to the new release (known for now as "Project Stratus") as "CF2020", it's looking like it may be instead "CF2021", if I am reading the tea leaves right. Let me explain (Hey, the bright side is that 2020 is a year many want to forget, anyway.)
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/10/5/looks_like_cf2020_will_be_cf2021

Seattle CFUG - Leon O'Daniel on Integrating Your ColdFusion App with the Thinkific Platform.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PDT
Online via Zoom
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. Learn how to integrate your ColdFusion application with Thinkific's API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/273472016/

Released qb 8.1 and 8.2
https://qb.ortusbooks.com/

CFCasts Content Updates

CFConfig
- CFConfig Episode 5 - Exporting JSON
- CFConfig Episode 6 - Import JSON

What’s new in qb 8
- Dump Helper
- Order by Raw with Bindings
- Strict Date Detection

Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/support

Conferences and Training

Ortus Workshops - Virtual Live training

October
- 2 day Workshop - October 8 - 9, 2020 - ColdBox Zero to Hero - lead by Gavin Pickin
- 2 day Workshop - October 22 - 23, 2020 - ColdBox 6 - Hero to Superhero - lead by Luis Majano

November
- 2 day Workshop - November 5-6, 2020 - Quick Workshop lead by Eric Peterson

https://www.ortussolutions.com/events

Podcast Code:
PODCAST10 - 10% off

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit West

Date: November 17-19
Location: Online
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
Admission: Free
Some Speakers now listed: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/speakers/

Adobe ColdFusion Certification now available Online

Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion is an industry-leading certification program from Adobe, for ColdFusion developers. The course consists of 50+ online videos and is designed for professionals who have basic to advanced level proficiency in any computer language and basic understanding of how web pages work. Successfully passing an assessment test at the end of the program will reward participants with a badge and certificate from Adobe.

Introductory Offer: $499

Blog: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/07/coldfusion-certification-online-now/
Register: https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html

ITB Latam
Early december
Information Coming Soon

CF Camp - Not happening in 2020 :(
https://www.cfcamp.org/

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Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Charlie Arehart - It's looking like cf2020 will be cf2021, if I'm reading things right
OK, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, at least for those who looked forward to a new release of Adobe ColdFusion this year, 2020. As much as many have been referring the new release (known for now as "Project Stratus") as "CF2020", it's looking like it may be instead "CF2021", if I am reading the tea leaves right. Let me explain (Hey, the bright side is that 2020 is a year many want to forget, anyway.)
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/10/5/looks_like_cf2020_will_be_cf2021

Blog - Ben Nadel - Calling Into A Timed-Out Parent Page Context From A CFThread Tag In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61
Yesterday, I looked at how you can eagerly show report-generation results from a CFThread tag in Lucee CFML. However, after I was done with that experiment, it got me thinking about what would happen if a long-running CFThread tag called back into a parent page context after the parent page had timed-out. This is just a quick sanity check to make sure that this will work as one might hope in Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61.
https://www.bennadel.co...