2022-11-15 Weekly News - Episode 172

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/aeWRQKi3tN0
 
Hosts: 

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Kai Koenig - Software Architect at Ventego Creative - CFML Community Member, Conference Speaker

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 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.
 
Our Product team consists of over 20 individuals across the UK working remotely to expand and improve our offering with regular expansion in teams year on year. We work with both Coldfuson 2021 and Node.js/React in the Azure cloud, while also using both MSSQL and MongoDB databases. Currently we are looking for Senior Coldfusion developers and Automation Testers with training paths to node.js available as well.
 
We offer a wide variety of perks from our company wide £4k bonus scheme, and quarterly nights out with the whole company and the Product team to a 6% company pension contribution.
 
Current Roles in detail
 
All roles: https://www.tomorrows.co.uk/jobs.cfm
 
Senior Cf Developer – UK Only | Remote | Permanent | Circa £60k -  https://app.occupop.com/shared/job/senior-coldfusion-developer-5925b/
-  Minimum three years’ experience with ColdFusion
-  Database design, normalisation and ability to write/understand complex queries using MSSQL Server 2019
-  Familiarity with Git
-  Flexible skillset covering a wide range of development

Automation Test Engineer – UK Only | Remote | Permanent | Crica £40k - https://app.occupop.com/shared/job/automation-test-engineer-a6545/
-  Minimum three years experience with automated testing
-  Experience with automated testing tools such as selenium
-  Experience with API test tools such as Postman/Fiddler etc


Benefits of both roles:
-  £4,000 per annum discretionary company bonus scheme
-  25 days annual leave + bank holidays
-  6% employer pension contribution
-  Access to free perks and discounts through Perkbox
-  Long Service Awards
-  Cycle to Work Scheme
-   Company and Team nights out

News and Announcements

CFCamp is back in 2023
Given we’ve been taunting everyone with cancellations and postponements and dangling carrots in front of people since 2020 now, both Michi Hnat and I felt it’d be great to give you an exclusive! Breaking news kind of thing.

So: without further ado! CF Camp will be back in June 2023.

We have a date - 22 and 23rd of June 2023 for the main conference event. That is gonna be a Thursday and Friday and as in the past there will be additional pre events on the Tuesday and Wednesday. I would expect the Ortus team to run some training workshops for instance, I heard that the Preside CMS team is looking at doing a mini Preside-con day as well and we’ll see what else might be happening.

Venue is unchanged, we’ll be again in the Marriott Munich Airport, which is NOT at the airport but in the lovely little ancient town of Freising. Michi has booked the hotel, so it’s as official as it gets at this stage.

If you go to cfcamp.org now, you’ll find there is a “Save the date” and more will be coming soon. We’re currently working on the Sponsorship documents, and have started to think about the Call for Papers and what we want to be looking for from a session and topic point of view. It’ll be an open and transparent process again via Papercall or Sessionize and we'll again try to do our best to increase diversity and help to get underrepresented groups in the tech industry out there.

At this stage I’d expect the call for Papers to open in early Jan, not sure if we’ll manage to squeeze it onto this side of the end of year holidays.

CF Camp 2023

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

Adobe ColdFusion Fortuna (Codename for CF2023) Alpha
I am opening up the Alpha testing group for Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Codename: Fortuna). Please sign up here to be set up for access to the alpha testing site on Adobe Prerelease:
https://www.adobeprerelease.com/beta/C0A219A0-A127-417A-D0D3-A7B5B3C5A0AE/participate/C3B4F4DC-8662-4610-D2B1-EE8FAD396648

Related - Adobe Bug Tracker Went MAD
As they released the Alpha, all of the tickets were moved to beta. People got a lot of emails, some people (ADAM CAMERON) got millions as every bug got moved from Alpha to Beta. The weird part was all the links to the issues were broken, I assume because of the Internal vs External Jira connection.
At least we know they use the bug tracker - right :)

Into the Box 2023 Call for Speakers is now Open
We are pleased to announce the call for speakers for the Into The Box Conference for 2023 is now officially open. The conference will be held in The Woodlands (Houston), Texas on May 17-19, 2023 . This year we will continue the tradition of training and offering a pre-conference hands-on training day on May 17th and our live Mariachi Band Party! However, we are back to our Spring schedule and beautiful weather in The Woodlands! Also, this 2023 will mark our 10 year anniversary. So we might have two live bands and much more!!!

https://www.intothebox.org/blog/into-the-box-2023-call-for-speakers

ICYMI - OpenSSL Vulnerabilities
Pete has had several people asking me about the openssl vulnerabilities that were patched this week: CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 aka Spooky SSL.

https://www.petefreitag.com/item/1000.cfm

ICYMI - ColdBox Master Class - Completely Free until the end of th...

2022-11-08 Weekly News - Episode 171

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/teJ4cpNvYOY
 
Hosts: 

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Brad Wood - 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 Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

Patreon Support
 
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 38% 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.

Our Product team consists of over 20 individuals across the UK working remotely to expand and improve our offering with regular expansion in teams year on year. We work with both Coldfuson 2021 and Node.js/React in the Azure cloud, while also using both MSSQL and MongoDB databases. Currently we are looking for Senior Coldfusion developers and Automation Testers with training paths to node.js available as well.

We offer a wide variety of perks from our company wide £4k bonus scheme, and quarterly nights out with the whole company and the Product team to a 6% company pension contribution.

Current Roles in detail

All roles: https://www.tomorrows.co.uk/jobs.cfm

Senior Cf Developer – UK Only | Remote | Permanent | Circa £60k -
https://app.occupop.com/shared/job/senior-coldfusion-developer-5925b/
-  Minimum three years’ experience with ColdFusion
-  Database design, normalisation and ability to write/understand complex queries using MSSQL Server 2019
-  Familiarity with Git
-  Flexible skillset covering a wide range of development

Automation Test Engineer – UK Only | Remote | Permanent | Crica £40k -
https://app.occupop.com/shared/job/automation-test-engineer-a6545/
-  Minimum three years experience with automated testing
-  Experience with automated testing tools such as selenium
-  Experience with API test tools such as Postman/Fiddler etc


Benefits of both roles:
-  £4,000 per annum discretionary company bonus scheme
-  25 days annual leave + bank holidays
-  6% employer pension contribution
-  Access to free perks and discounts through Perkbox
-  Long Service Awards
-  Cycle to Work Scheme
-   Company and Team nights out

News and Announcements

OpenSSL Vulnerabilities
Pete has had a several people asking me about the openssl vulnerabilities that were patched this week: CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 aka Spooky SSL.
https://www.petefreitag.com/item/1000.cfm

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

Wirebox Delegates
WireBox supports the concept of object delegation in a simple expressive DSL.  In object-oriented programming, delegation refers to the evaluating a member (property or method) of one object (the receiver) to the context of another object (the sender).  Basically a way to proxy calls from one object to the other and avoid the overuse of inheritance, avoid runtime mixins or traits.  WireBox provides a set of rules for method lookup and method dispatching that will allow you to provide delegation easily in your CFML applications.
https://ortussolutions.notion.site/WireBox-Delegators-8608752a03d345ad80f8c1a1b441a428

CommandBox vNext supports providing SSL certs in PFX format
CommandBox vNext finally supports providing SSL certs in PFX format, which is a single file containing the public and private key as opposed to needing those in two separate files.
https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/COMMANDBOX-1499

New Releases and Updates

Lucee released 5.3.9.166 Stable
This a minor bug fix release, which addresses a few bugs listed below, mainly relating to concurrency or errors under heavy load.
Anyone running 5.3.9.160 is encouraged to update to this release.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-5-3-9-166-stable-release/11319

Restoring the CF Admin logviewer removed in Oct 2022 CF updates, at your own risk
As of the Oct 2022 CF updates (CF2021 update 5 and CF2018 update 15), Adobe has chosen to remove the CF Admin feature to view, search, download, and delete CF logs, due to asserted (but as-yet undocumented) security concerns.
What if you want it back? In this post, I explain what changed, why, and how to get the functionality back--albeit at your own risk. For more, read on.
https://www.carehart.org/blog/2022/11/3/restoring_admin_logviewer

ICYMI - CBWIRE v2.1 Released

CBWIRE, our ColdBox module that makes building reactive, modern CFML apps delightfully easy, just dropped its 2.1 release. This release contains mostly bug fixes and also the ability to create your UI templates directly within your CBWIRE component using the onRender() method.
We've added an example of using onRender() to our ever growing CBWIRE-Examples Repo that you can run on your machine locally. https://github.com/grantcopley/cbwire-examples

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbwire-2-1-released

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

2022-11-01 Weekly News - Episode 170

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/kvjYGC9Obf0

Hosts: 

• Gavin Pickin - 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:

• 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 ( amazing )
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 32% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

ICYMI - Hacktoberfest 2022
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE AND COMPLETE HACKTOBERFEST:
Register anytime between September 26 and October 31
Pull requests can be made in any GITHUB or GITLAB hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic)
Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total
Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest
The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.
https://hacktoberfest.com/
Ortus Blog about Hacktoberfest - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/october-is-here-and-that-means-hacktoberfest

Gavin and Daniel both ordered their T-Shirts!!!

New Releases and Updates

CBWIRE v2.1 Released

CBWIRE, our ColdBox module that makes building reactive, modern CFML apps delightfully easy, just dropped its 2.1 release. This release contains mostly bug fixes and also the ability to create your UI templates directly within your CBWIRE component using the onRender() method.
We've added an example of using onRender() to our ever growing CBWIRE-Examples Repo that you can run on your machine locally. https://github.com/grantcopley/cbwire-examples

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbwire-2-1-released

ICYMI - MasaCMS v7.3.9 released

• Update filebrowser.cfc by @jimblesphere in #128
• fix empty admin minified JS files
• replace We Are Orange with We Are North

https://github.com/MasaCMS/MasaCMS/releases/tag/7.3.9

Other Masa Links
https://github.com/MasaCMS/MasaCMS/discussions/135 
https://github.com/MasaCMS/MasaCMS/discussions/136
https://github.com/MasaCMS/MasaCMS/discussions/137 

ICYMI - Image Extension 2.0.0.16 BETA

Image Extension 2.0.0.16-BETA is available for testing

• fixes some locking issues on windows
• major refactoring
• optional support for commercial Jdeli and/or Apose Imaging jars when available in the classpath (i.e /lib dir)
• Latest Twelve Monkeys 2 3.9.3 (including lossless WEBP support) previous was 3.8.2

JDeli for example supports HEIC images

Version 2 will bundled with Lucee 6.0, but it also works with Lucee 5.3
We will be backporting the image locking fixes to the 1.0 branch, which is a blocker for the 5.3.10 release
https://dev.lucee.org/t/image-extension-2-0-0-16-beta/11293

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Event Calendar for Google

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

Embeddable Link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_562a1ef61c4b1e2e6d88ed7845728d56897dd4bb68c140f773768952b29421ed%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FLos_Angeles 

Ortus Office Hours

We are starting this 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. For this first one we have Grant, Gavin, and Daniel.

November 4th 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://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvduyvpz8sHNyBiE0ez7Y-49_U-0ivMSUd

Ortus Software Craftsmanship Book Club - Patreon Only

Friday, November 11th at 2pm CDT - 2nd Friday of the Month
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Martin (Uncle Bob)

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

Ortus Webinar - Daniel Garcia - API Testing with PostMan
Friday, November 18th  at 11am CDT - 3rd Friday of the M...

2022-10-25 Weekly News - Episode 169

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/-CdMcz8OGJs 

Hosts: 

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Scott Steinbeck - CoOwner of Agritracking Systems - Patreon and CFML Community Member and has presented at Into the Box, Adobe CF Summit & CFObjective

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 Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

 
Patreon Support ( magnificent )
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 32% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements
AI is taking over the world - What the Diff AI

If you review pull requests, it will blow your mind.
It automatically writes a summary of your code changes as a GitHub comment, in seconds.
https://whatthediff.ai/

Hacktoberfest 2023 - Last week!!!

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE AND COMPLETE HACKTOBERFEST:
Register anytime between September 26 and October 31
Pull requests can be made in any GITHUB or GITLAB hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic)
Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total
Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest
The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.
https://hacktoberfest.com/
Ortus Blog about Hacktoberfest - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/october-is-here-and-that-means-hacktoberfest

Ordered my T-Shirt!!!

New Releases and Updates

MasaCMS v7.3.9 released

Update filebrowser.cfc by @jimblesphere in #128
fix empty admin minified JS files
replace We Are Orange with We Are North
https://github.com/MasaCMS/MasaCMS/releases/tag/7.3.9

Other Masa Links
https://github.com/MasaCMS/MasaCMS/discussions/135 
https://github.com/MasaCMS/MasaCMS/discussions/136 
https://github.com/MasaCMS/MasaCMS/discussions/137

Image Extension 2.0.0.16 BETA

Image Extension 2.0.0.16-BETA is available for testing

• fixes some locking issues on windows
• major refactoring
• optional support for commercial Jdeli and/or Apose Imaging jars when available in the classpath (i.e /lib dir)
• Latest Twelve Monkeys 2 3.9.3 (including lossless WEBP support) previous was 3.8.2

JDeli for example supports HEIC images

Version 2 will bundled with Lucee 6.0, but it also works with Lucee 5.3
We will be backporting the image locking fixes to the 1.0 branch, which is a blocker for the 5.3.10 release
https://dev.lucee.org/t/image-extension-2-0-0-16-beta/11293

ICYMI - ColdFusion 2021 "refreshed" installers available (with update 5)...but only in one place for now
Here's some surprising news: Adobe has released a "refreshed" installer for CF2021, which includes update 5 (which came out last week) built-in.
TLDR: these new "refreshed" CF2021 installers are (for now) available only here: here.
https://www.carehart.org/blog/2022/10/17/cf2021_refreshed_installers_available_but_only_one_place_for_now
Updated: https://www.carehart.org/blog/2022/10/18/java_updates_Oct_2022

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Online ColdFusion Meetup - 300th Episode: A look back and a new direction", with Charlie Arehart
Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 9:00 AM - 10AM
We did it, reaching episode 300! Join us as we celebrate this momentous anniversary. The Online CFMeetup was formed in 2005 and has been hosted since 2007 by Charlie Arehart, with sessions from over 150 speakers on a wide range of topics related to CF. In this session, we'll celebrate the past and look to the future for the group, where I will propose a new direction/format. All still about CF, of course. Here's to 300 more!
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/289332692/

Ortus Webinar - Step up your Testing with Gavin Pickin
Friday October 28th at 11am CDT
We all test manually, let's step up our game with some easy, powerful and valuable automated tests with TestBox - even on your legacy codebases.
Fewer bugs and errors are the primary benefit of the Testing. When the code has fewer bugs, you'll spend less time fixing them than other programming methodologies. Test Driven Developer produces a higher overall test coverage and, therefore to a better quality of the final product.
Register now: https://bit.ly/3EY6SZK

CFHawaii - ColdFusion Builder for VS Code
Friday, October 28, 2022 at 3:00 PM to Friday, October 28, 2022 at 4:00 PM PDT
Mark Takata, the Adobe CF Technical Evangelist for ColdFusion will give a presentation on the new ColdFusion Builder extension for VS Code. During his talk he will discuss:
Access built-in support for IntelliSense code completion, better semantic code understanding, and code refactoring.
Identify security vulnerabilities and maintain the integrity of your code.
Manage your work with extensions, remote project support, integrated server management, a log viewer, and more!
Customize every feature to your liking by creating shortcuts, easily formatting and reusing code, and using powerful extensions to better your best.
https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group/events/288977258/

Ortus Office Hours
November 4th at 11am CDT - 1st Friday of the Month
Daniel Garcia will host a variety of Ortus people
Office Hours questions & requests form available
Signup link is coming soon.

2022-10-18 Weekly News - Episode 168

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/SgTjYDH0N6M
 
Hosts: 

• Brad Wood - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Gavin Pickin - 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 Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

 
Patreon Support ( effervescent )

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 33% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

Update - Trying out Github Co-Pilot
I know Adam Tuttle, Carol Hamilton, Adam Cameron are using Co-Pilot, so I thought I would try it out. It’s interesting, it’s not very CF Smart yet, but it does give you some great pseudo code, especially with our testing.
https://github.com/features/copilot

Hacktoberfest 2023
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE AND COMPLETE HACKTOBERFEST:
Register anytime between September 26 and October 31
Pull requests can be made in any GITHUB or GITLAB hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic)
Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total
Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest
The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.
https://hacktoberfest.com/
Ortus Blog about Hacktoberfest - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/october-is-here-and-that-means-hacktoberfest

New Releases and Updates

ColdFusion 2021 "refreshed" installers available (with update 5)...but only in one place for now
Here's some surprising news: Adobe has released a "refreshed" installer for CF2021, which includes update 5 (which came out last week) built-in.
TLDR: these new "refreshed" CF2021 installers are (for now) available only here: here.
https://www.carehart.org/blog/2022/10/17/cf2021_refreshed_installers_available_but_only_one_place_for_now

Spreadsheet-CFML v3.6.1
Spreadsheet-CFML v3.6.0 released with new support for adding data validation drop-downs #cfml
https://github.com/cfsimplicity/spreadsheet-cfml

ICYMI - Adobe ColdFusion 2021 and 2018 October Security Updates

CommandBox images are out as well

We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions:

• ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 5
• ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 15

In these updates, we’ve fixed a few security and feature-specific bugs, along with other libraries. We’ve also introduced support for M1 macOS.
For more information, see the tech notes below:

• ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 5
• ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 15

https://community.adobe.com/t5/coldfusion-discussions/released-coldfusion-2021-and-2018-october-security-updates/m-p/13259746

ICYMI - cbElasticsearch 2.3.3 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of cbElasticsearch version 2.3.3. cbElasticsearch is the Elasticsearch module for the Coldbox platform, and provides a fluent CFML API for interacting with, searching, and serializing to Elasticsearch servers.
This release adds full compatibility for Elasticsearch v8.x as well as maintaining support for Elasticsearch versions 6 and 7.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbelasticsearch-233-released

ICYMI - Fusion Reactor 9.1.0
Not long after FR 9 was released, 9.1.0 has been released with 2 bug fixes and 5 improvements.
https://docs.fusion-reactor.com/release-notes/#910

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

New Ortus Friday Webinars - Every Friday at 11am CDT

Ortus Webinar
October 28th - 11am CDT
Step up your Testing with Gavin Pickin

Ortus - Office Hours
November 4th - 11am CDT
Daniel Garcia will host a variety of Ortus people
Office Hours questions & requests form available

Ortus Book Club - Patreon Only
November 11th - 11am CDT
Robert Martin
Clean Code

Ortus Webinar
November 18th - 11am CDT

CFUG Tech Talk - Document Services APIs and You by Raymond Camden
Thursday, October 20th, 2022 8:00pm-9:00pm IST (9:30 AM CDT)
Most organizations have to deal with documents, from PDFs to various Office formats, managing and processing documents can be overwhelming. In this talk, Raymond will discuss the various Adobe Document Services APIs and how they can help developers manage their document stores.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/document-services-apis-and-you-tickets-428587234957
Presentation URL: https://meet67421977.adobeconnect.com/document-services-apis/

CFHawaii - ColdFusion Builder for VS Code
Friday, October 28, 2022 at 3:00 PM to Friday, October 28, 2022 at 4:00 PM PDT
Mark Takata, the Adobe CF Technical Evangelist for ColdFusion will give a presentation on the new ColdFusion Builder extension for VS Code. During his talk he will discuss:
Access built-in support for IntelliSense code completion, better semantic code understanding, and code refactoring.
Identify security vulnerabilities and maintain the integrity of your code.
Manage your work with extensions, remote project support, integrated server management, a log viewer, and more!
Customize every feature to your liking by creating shortcuts, easily formatting and reusing code, and using powerful extensions to better your best.
https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group...

2022-10-11 Weekly News - Episode 167

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/90VaqrYeVG8

Hosts: 

• Gavin Pickin - 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 Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

 
Patreon Support ( effervescent )
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 33% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

CF Summit - Best one yet?

Nolans Recap - https://t.co/K0kdlSiOaO
Tweet from Ortus - https://twitter.com/ortussolutions/status/1578475362287120384
Tweet from Luis - https://twitter.com/lmajano/status/1578290619490918400

Gavin is now Certified as well as being Certifiable

While in Vegas for CF Summit, Gavin, Daniel Garcia, and several patreons and other CFML Community members took the brand new, harder than every Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion!

Good news is, Gavin passed, Daniel passed, and most of the devs they spoke with after the test (including some Patreons) all passed too. It did include more OO concepts, so for a lot of developers this would be harder.

It was open book, open internet, great for those tricky ACF settings you don’t use, but they definitely make it tricky.

The 1 day lecture was great too, Brian did a great job covering as much information as he could in one day, in addition to all of the online content, Brian’s tips for items on the test, and pre-test “practice” questions really helped.

According to Slack re Adobe Certified Professional
The Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion cert is a totally different, MUCH more difficult and comprehensive certification than the CF Specialist previously offered.
Mark Takata, Nolan and Dave F + the CF engineering team, Elishia and Kishore all spent a week together building the new one and it is HARD.
I highly recommend it as a test of your skills, I guarantee everyone will learn something new.

Yes, but there's also over 100 hours of video to go over before the 1 day lecture + cert. So you watch videos, sit in class, then take the exam there. It is no joke, definitely challenging, but super satisfying to pass.
Plus you get access to those videos for a year, which is nice for going back and reviewing things down the line.
https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html

Trying out Github Co-Pilot

I know Adam Tuttle, Carol Hamilton, Adam Cameron are using Co-Pilot, so I thought I would try it out. It’s interesting, it’s not very CF Smart yet, but it does give you some great pseudo code, especially with our testing.
https://github.com/features/copilot

Hacktoberfest 2023

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE AND COMPLETE HACKTOBERFEST:
Register anytime between September 26 and October 31
Pull requests can be made in any GITHUB or GITLAB hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic)
Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total
Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest
The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.
https://hacktoberfest.com/

New Releases and Updates

Adobe ColdFusion 2021 and 2018 October Security Updates

We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions:

• ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 5
• ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 15

In these updates, we’ve fixed a few security and feature-specific bugs, along with other libraries. We’ve also introduced support for M1 macOS.
For more information, see the tech notes below:

• ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 5
• ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 15

https://community.adobe.com/t5/coldfusion-discussions/released-coldfusion-2021-and-2018-october-security-updates/m-p/13259746

cbElasticsearch 2.3.3 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of cbElasticsearch version 2.3.3. cbElasticsearch is the Elasticsearch module for the Coldbox platform, and provides a fluent CFML API for interacting with, searching, and serializing to Elasticsearch servers.
This release adds full compatibility for Elasticsearch v8.x as well as maintaining support for Elasticsearch versions 6 and 7.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbelasticsearch-233-released

Fusion Reactor 9.1.0
 
Not long after FR 9 was released, 9.1.0 has been released with 2 bug fixes and 5 improvements.
https://docs.fusion-reactor.com/release-notes/#910

ICYMI - Lucee Announcing Lucee 5.3.10 RC

The first release Candidate for 5.3.10 is available, mostly bug fixes, there are some additional improvements relating to CFconfig.json importing which we will be publishing docs about this week
Available as usual via your local Lucee Admin, Commandbox and Docker
Java 17 is still not supported, Java 11 recommended
Java 19 is not supported either :P
https://dev.lucee.org/t/announcing-lucee-5-3-10-79-rc/11147

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Webinar
October 28th -

Ortus - Office Hours
November 4th

Ortus Book Club - Patreon Only
November 11th

Ortus Webinar
November 18th

CFHawaii - ColdFusion Builder for VS Code

Friday, October 28, 2022 at 3:00 PM to Friday, October 28, 2022 at 4:00 PM PDT
Mark Takata, the Adobe CF Technical Evangelist for ColdFusion will give a presentation on the new ColdFusion Builder extension for VS Code. D...

2022-10-04 Weekly News - Episode 166

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

Hosts:

• Luis Majano - CEO - Ortus Solutions
• Brad Wood - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Gavin Pickin - 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:

• 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 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 32% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

Live from CF Summit

Highlights of the Conference
Good to see everyone back in person
Great to see some of our Patreons - including a new Patreon signed up on their phone at the booth - thanks John.

Ortus Sessions

• Daniel - Rocked the big room, and someone said he was fantastic and needs a raise, Luis HINT HINT
• Gavin - Full Room - Only 2 people used ColdBox, the rest might use ColdBox now
• Brad - Feedback from an attendee said it was one of the clearest and most organized presentation they had seen in a long time
• Luis - Another packed room, AlpineJS is getting a lot of attention - maybe it will be the Javascript framework for CF going forward.

Ortus Booth

• Lots of traffic at the booth
• Lots of old friends
• Lots of new contacts
• Lots of praise from many devs, they were very thankful for what we were doing for CFML. The very cool part, a lot of those devs were using none or just a few of our products, but they were thankful because they knew it was helping the community at large!

News and Announcements

Hacktoberfest 2023
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE AND COMPLETE HACKTOBERFEST:
Register anytime between September 26 and October 31
Pull requests can be made in any GITHUB or GITLAB hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic)
Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total
Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest
The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.
https://hacktoberfest.com/
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/october-is-here-and-that-means-hacktoberfest

Conferences and Training

CF Summit - Official - This Week!
At the Mirage in Las Vegas, NV
Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit Conference
Oct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Tests
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html

AWSome Day Online Conference
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022
9AM – 12PM PT | 12PM – 3PM ET
We're bringing the cloud down to Earth
Join us for a free virtual 3-hour AWS Cloud training event delivered by our skilled in-house instructors.
https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/americas/

Into the Box Latam 2022
Dec 7th
More information is coming very soon.

Dev Nexus
April 4-6th in Altanta
Super Early Bird will be on sale until October 9, 2022 (Approx 50% off)
If you are planning to speak, please submit often and early. The CALL FOR PAPERS is open until November 15
WORKSHOPS WILL BE ON JAVA, JAVA SECURITY, SOFTWARE DESIGN, AGILE, DEVOPS, KUBERNETES, MICROSERVICES, SPRING ETC. SIGN UP NOW, AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CHOOSE A WORKSHOP, LATER ON,
https://devnexus.com/

Into the Box 2023 - 10th Edition
May 17-19, 2023
Final dates will be released as soon as the hotel confirms availability.

CFCamp
No CFCAMP 2022, we're trying again for summer 2023
TLDR is that it's just too hard and there's too much uncertainty right now.

More conferences
Need more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.
https://confs.tech/

Thank you to all of our Patreon Supporters

These individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox,  ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need, and funds the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox.

You can support us on Patreon here  https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions

Don’t forget, we have Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses.

• Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription.
• All Patreon supporters have a Profile badge on the Community Website
• All Patreon supporters have their own Private Forum access on the Community Website
• All Patreon supporters have their own Private Channel access BoxTeam Slack
• Live Stream Access to streams like “Koding with the Kiwi + Friends”

https://community.ortussolutions.com/

New Patreon: John Nessim

Patreons

• John Wilson - Synaptrix
• Jordan Clark
• Gary Knight
• Mario Rodrigues
• Giancarlo Gomez
• David Belanger
• Dan Card
• Jonathan Perret
• Jeffry McGee - Sunstar Media
• Dean Maunder
• Nolan Erck 
• Abdul Raheen
• Wil De Bruin
• Joseph Lamoree
• Don Bellamy
• Jan Jannek
• Laksma Tirtohadi
• Brian Ghidinelli - Hagerty MotorsportReg
• Carl Von Stetten
• Jeremy Adams
• Didier Lesnicki
• Matthew Clemente
• Daniel Garcia
• Scott Steinbeck - Agri Tracking Systems
• Ben Nadel 
• Richard Herbet
• Brett DeLine
• Kai Koenig
• Charlie Arehart
• Jason Daiger
• Shawn Oden
• Matthew Darby
• Ross Phillips
• Edgardo Cabezas
• Patrick Flynn

2022-09-27 Weekly News - Episode 165

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Lhdpv7y_LPI

Hosts:
Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - 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 Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

 
Patreon Support (IMPECCABLE)
Goal 1 - We have 40 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 33% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

CF Summit AMA Session
Ask Dave Ferguson and Matt Gifford anything, literally!
Post your questions here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRgS7UKySpVyf8Q5SAd6_gM3xKgh-D14_TjnZnkpyzo2qYeg/viewform?usp=send_form  and select questions will be answered live on stage by the experts. Only at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2022.
Register now: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

Hacktoberfest 2023
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE AND COMPLETE HACKTOBERFEST:
Register anytime between September 26 and October 31
Pull requests can be made in any GITHUB or GITLAB hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic)
Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total
Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest
The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.
https://hacktoberfest.com/

New Releases and Updates

Lucee Announcing Lucee 5.3.10 RC
The first release Candidate for 5.3.10 is available, mostly bug fixes, there are some additional improvements relating to CFconfig.json importing which we will be publishing docs about this week
Available as usual via your local Lucee Admin, Commandbox and Docker
Java 17 is still not supported, Java 11 recommended
https://dev.lucee.org/t/announcing-lucee-5-3-10-79-rc/11147

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

The Online ColdFusion Meetup - "Using Adobe's CFSetup tool: manage CFAdmin settings for ANY version", C Arehart
Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
You may (or may not) have heard that CF2021 added (in 2020) a new command-line tool called CFSetup--but first, did you know that it could be used with ANY CF version, not just CF2021? And perhaps you heard its main value is to export/import CF Admin settings via JSON: it can indeed do that, and while that may excite some, others may yawn if they've "seen that elsewhere". (To be clear, it can export/import either ALL settings or selected ones.)
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/288734963/

Adobe Workshops & Webinars
Join the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premise

ICYMI - WORKSHOP - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
9:00 AM CEST
Adobe ColdFusion Workshop
Damien Bruyndonckx
https://adobe-coldfusion-workshop-1day.meetus.adobeevents.com/

ICYMI - WEBINAR - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
10:00 AM PDT
Building Custom Adobe Connect Pods with CF2021
Mark Takata
https://building-custom-adobe-connect-pods-cf2021.meetus.adobeevents.com/

WEBINAR - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2022
10:00 AM PST
Building Native Mobile Applications with Adobe ColdFusion & Monaco.io
Mark Takata
https://building-native-mobile-apps-with-cf-monaco-io.meetus.adobeevents.com/

WEBINAR - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2022
10:00 AM PST
Winter Holiday Special: A preview of ColdFusion 2023
Mark Takata
https://winter-special-preview-of-cf2023.meetus.adobeevents.com/

FREE :)
Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/

CFCasts Content Updates
https://www.cfcasts.com

Just Released

• Every video from ITB - For ITB Ticket Holders Only - Will be released for Subscribed in December
• Ortus Webinars - Into the Box Recap https://cfcasts.com/series/ortus-webinars-2022/videos/into-the-box-2022-recap 
• 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 - Now that ITB is over we can get back to our Video Series

• More ForgeBox and VS Code Podcast snippet videos
• Box-ifying a 3rd Party Library from Gavin
• ColdBox Elixir from Eric
• Getting Started with ContentBox from Daniel
• ITB Videos will be released Dec for those who are not ITB Ticket Holders

Conferences and Training

CF Summit - Official
At the Mirage in Las Vegas, NV
Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit Conference
Oct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Tests
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html
Registrations are now open.
Schedule has been announced!!!!

AWSome Day Online Conference
THURSDAY, OC...

2022-09-20 Weekly News - Episode 164

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/qIpbpe852XQ

Hosts:

• Gavin Pickin - 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 A WORKSHOP TICKET for After CF Summit - Learn ColdBox APIs, VueJS and Quasar for exporting to mobile, desktop and the web!!!
• 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 (IMPECCABLE)

Goal 1 - We have 40 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 33% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

ITB Session Survey Raffle

• Ali Awan - Amazon Gift Card - $25
• Shawn Oden - Modern CFML Book
• Ryan Hinto - Modern CFML Book

2 more weeks for more survey results - giving away more Modern CFML Books, and a Shirt from the Box Life Store!
Ortus hiring another USA Developer
Although we’re always looking, we’re actively looking to hire that USA developer now. So check the criteria on the Careers page, and email us [email protected] today to start the process.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careers

CF Summit AMA Session
Ask Dave Ferguson and Matt Gifford anything, literally!
Post your questions here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRgS7UKySpVyf8Q5SAd6_gM3xKgh-D14_TjnZnkpyzo2qYeg/viewform?usp=send_form  and select questions will be answered live on stage by the experts. Only at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2022.
Register now: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

State of the CF Union Survey - Results - Part 1 - Podcast
Gavin Pickin talks about “State of CF Union Survey 2022 Results In-Depth Analysis Part 1 (14 cool ColdFusion, Database and Frameworks insights)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.

“…so far right now, you know, we see 60% of people are using a supported ColdFusion licensed product…”

https://teratech.com/podcast/state-of-cf-union-survey-2022-results-in-depth-analysis-part-1-14-cool-coldfusion-database-and-frameworks-insights-with-gavin-pickin

Hacktoberfest 2023
Registrations begin Sept 26th 2023.
https://hacktoberfest.com/

New Releases and Updates

Lucee now has Mail Listeners
Mail Listeners can be configured to be triggered before and after sending email (only for email sending as async).
These follow the same pattern as Query Listeners.
This is available as an experimental feature in Lucee 5.3 and is officially supported in Lucee 6.0.
https://docs.lucee.org/guides/cookbooks/mail_listeners.html

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

ICYMI - Ortus Webinar - September - Into the Box - Recap
Friday, September 16th, 2022: Time 12:30AM Central Time ( US and Canada )
Join members of the Ortus team as they discuss Into the Box 2022, with a recap on all the new releases, product updates, happy box, the hallway track, the food, and what’s coming for Into the Box 2023 in less than 9 months time!
What live on Youtube: https://youtu.be/l4S-UEF8XIw

Adobe Workshops & Webinars
Join the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premise

WORKSHOP - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
9:00 AM CEST
Adobe ColdFusion Workshop
Damien Bruyndonckx
https://adobe-coldfusion-workshop-1day.meetus.adobeevents.com/

WEBINAR - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
10:00 AM PDT
Building Custom Adobe Connect Pods with CF2021
Mark Takata
https://building-custom-adobe-connect-pods-cf2021.meetus.adobeevents.com/

WEBINAR - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2022
10:00 AM PST
Building Native Mobile Applications with Adobe ColdFusion & Monaco.io
Mark Takata
https://building-native-mobile-apps-with-cf-monaco-io.meetus.adobeevents.com/

WEBINAR - THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2022
10:00 AM PST
Winter Holiday Special: A preview of ColdFusion 2023
Mark Takata
https://winter-special-preview-of-cf2023.meetus.adobeevents.com/

FREE :)
Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/

CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

Just Released

• Every video from ITB - For ITB Ticket Holders Only - Will be released for Subscribed in December
• 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 - Now that ITB is over we can get back to our Video Series

• More ForgeBox and VS Code Podcast snippet videos
• Box-ifying a 3rd Party Library from Gavin
• ColdBox Elixir from Eric
• Getting Started with ContentBox from Daniel
• ITB Videos will be released Dec for those who are not ITB Ticket Holders

Conferences and Training

CF Summit - Official
At the Mirage in Las Vegas, NV
Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit Conference
Oct 5th - Adobe Certifie...

2022-09-13 Weekly News - Episode 163

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/EjLH_arxa14
 
Hosts:
Gavin Pickin - 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 A WORKSHOP TICKET for After CF Summit - Learn ColdBox APIs, VueJS and Quasar for exporting to mobile, desktop and the web!!! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ortus-cf-summit-training-workshop-tickets-375306340367
• 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
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News and Announcements

INTO THE BOX - Recap
So many Updates - We have a special show this FRIDAY live on Youtube - ITB Recap with Luis, Brad, Eric and Gavin.

All Videos are already on CFCasts for ITB Ticket Holders
Into the Box 2022 Videos are exclusively available on CFCasts for Into the Box 2022 Conference and or Virtual Ticket Holders Only before December 24th, 2022. On December 24th, as an early Christmas Present, we will start releasing the Into the Box 2022 videos (pre-conference and regular conference) for all CFCasts Subscriptions holders to enjoy over the holidays.

Keynotes are free on Youtube

Into the Box 2022 - Pre-Conference - Recap - Links slides and more
https://www.intothebox.org/blog/into-the-box-2022-pre-conference-recap-links-slides-and-more

Into the Box 2022 - Recap - Slides - Links and More
https://www.intothebox.org/blog/into-the-box-2022-recap-slides-links-and-more 

• Announced loads of new modules
  • TryCF partnership with Ortus - Roadmap Announced
  • CBQ
  • CBPlayWright
  • CBCommerce
  • CBFS
  • CommandBox Escher 
• Lots of Updates
  • CBWire
  • ForgeBox v7
  • CommandBox v5.6.0

CFWheels has retired their Google Discussion list and Slack Channel
Back in May 2022 we posted a blog article announcing that CFWheels has moved to GitHub Discussions. At the time this effected the retirement of the Google mailing list and redirecting the links on the home page to the new GitHub Discussions site. Now the time has come to also retire the CFWheels channel on the CFML Slack instance.
https://cfwheels.org/blog/the-cfwheels-channel-on-cfml-slack-has-been-archived/

New Releases and Updates

Fusion Reactor 9 released
https://docs.fusion-reactor.com/release-notes/#900
More information from Charlie Arehart
https://www.carehart.org/blog/2022/9/13/fusionreactor_9_released

CommandBox 5.6.0 Released!
We are pleased to announce the release of CommandBox 5.6.0, a minor release of the CFML CLI and package manager.  This release contains 25 completed tickets including bug fixes, some big new features, and library updates!  Please enjoy the new release, and as always, let us know if you have any issues or questions!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-560-released

CBWIRE v2.0 Released
At Into The Box 2021, I presented CBWIRE v1.0 and was encouraged by the excitement and feedback from the community. I'm even more excited this year to tell you about CBWIRE 2.0 and all of the goodies we've added that you can start using right away.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbwire-v2-released

Query Listeners - Experimental Feature in Lucee 5.3.x and Lucee 6
A query listener is a hook which can be configured to run before and after a query is executed.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/query-listeners/11051

New - Native Lucee ARM docker images (Apple M1/M2 support)
Justin Carter has been working on producing native ARM docker images, for all of you out there with fancy new M1 or M2 laptops
Native meaning, using a ARM rather than x86 JVM
Give them a go!
https://dev.lucee.org/t/native-lucee-arm-docker-images-apple-m1-m2-support/11044

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Webinar - September - Into the Box - Recap
Friday, September 16th, 2022: Time 12:30PM Central Time ( US and Canada )
Join members of the Ortus team as they discuss Into the Box 2022, with a recap on all the new releases, product updates, happy box, the hallway track, the food, and what’s coming for Into the Box 2023 in less than 9 months time!
What live on Youtube: https://youtu.be/l4S-UEF8XIw

Adobe Workshops & Webinars
Join the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premise

WORKSHOP - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
9:00 AM CEST
Adobe ColdFusion Workshop
Damien Bruyndonckx
https://adobe-coldfusion-workshop-1day.meetus.adobeevents.com/

WEBINAR - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
10:00 AM PDT
Building Custom Adobe Connect Pods with CF2021
Mark Takata
https://building-custom-adobe-connect-pods-cf2021.meetus.adobeevents.com/

WEBINAR - WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2022
10:00 AM PST
Building Native Mobile Applications with Adobe ColdFusion & Monaco.io
Mark Takata
https://building-native-mobile-apps-with-cf-monaco-io.meetus.adobeevents.com/

WEBINAR - THURSDAY, DECE...