2022-08-23 Weekly News - Episode 162

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/6WjOa0dpp-Q

Hosts: 

• Eric Peterson - 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:

• BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE - Have a few laughs!
• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. 
• Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos
  • Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github 
• Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

Patreon Support (suave)

Goal 1 - We have 38 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 44% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

ICYMI - ContentBox v5.3.0 Released
We are so excited to bring you the release of ContentBox Hybrid CMS version 5.3.0. This might be the last release in this major series as we are beginning the push of the next major release of ContentBox v6. Here is our what's new guide with our full release notes.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/contentbox-v53-released/

ICYMI - CBWire Updated Example App
Now with updated example app - clone the repo and start it up.
Building modern CFML apps is a pain. ColdBox makes creating server-side apps easy, but what about the client-side? Front-end JavaScript frameworks like Vue and React are powerful, yet they also introduce complexity and a significant learning curve when creating our apps.
What if you could create apps that look and feel like your Vue and React web apps but are written with CFML. Impossible, you say? Nay, we say!
Introducing CBWIRE: Power-up your CFML!
https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbwire

INTO THE BOX - Updates
2 weeks left until the start of the Pre-Conf, the Workshop and 2 days of 2 track content.
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT - Virtual Tickets Announced

Due to Covid and other reasons, we understand a lot of you won’t be able to make it to this years on-site conference; We don’t want you to miss any of the amazing topics our speakers have prepared to keep you up to date with the latest tools, features and methodologies in the web development industry.
What are you waiting for? Get you tickets now and join us online!
https://www.intothebox.org/blog/itb-online-tickets-available

CF Alive - 118 Into The Box ColdFusion Conference 2022 (new details revealed) with Gavin Pickin
Gavin Pickin talks about “Into The Box ColdFusion Conference 2022 (new details revealed) ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.
https://teratech.com/podcast/into-the-box-coldfusion-conference-2022-new-details-revealed-with-gavin-pickin/
 
ITB Pre-Conference Schedule Finalized on the Website - Starts Next Week!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Last 4 Speakers

• Zac Spitzer - Lucee - Behind the Scenes
• Michael Born - Meilisearch: A Search Platform for the Rest of Us
• Javier Quintero - cbValidation: Validate all things!
• Dan Card - CFScribe - Rules and Filtering for your Logging

New Sponsors

• Silver - TeraTech - Creator of CFAlive Podcast and State of the CF Union Survey
• Silver - WRIS - WRIS Web Services develops process improving web-based software and applications for businesses looking to expedite workflow and eliminate legacy, paper-based, manual systems.

 
Workshops are starting to fill up - don’t miss your chance.
https://intothebox.org/

New Releases and Updates

FORGEBOX v7.0 Released
We are so happy to announce a major release for our package management system. FORGEBOX 7 is a major update which has a bunch of performance updates, and more activity logs to keep track of all the actions you perform via CommandBox and the ForgeBox UI. We have made a big change to our search engine and introduced Elastic Search as the default search engine which provides better and more accurate results when searching on the site or using our search endpoint.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/forgebox-v70-released

CFWheels v2.4.0 Released
This version is the accumulation of bug fixes and minor enhancements over the last quarter. This release welcomes John Bampton and Coleman Sperando, two first time contributors to the project
https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-v2-4-0-released/

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Webinar - August - Ortus Team - Into the Box Preview and Q&A
August 26th, 2022: Time 11:00AM Central Time ( US and Canada )
Join some of the Ortus HARD Core Team as they discuss all the great things coming to you from Into the Box, with the Pre Conference Online Sessions, Full Day Workshops and then the 2 day 2 track in Person Conference.
The session will be informal, with Q&A from the chat, with maybe a couple of last minute surprise announcements.
Register now: https://bit.ly/3cW6LlM

Hawaii CFUG - OOP & ColdFusion
Friday, August 26, 2022 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Object-Oriented Programming is a common term in programming languages. It’s a vast concept but to sum it up in a single line, it is a set of concepts and techniques that make use of the “object” construct, to write more reusable, maintainable, and organized code. Objects are implemented differently in every language. In ColdFusion, we have ColdFusion Components (CFCs) that can be instantiated to create objects.
Anyone who has ever studied OOP must know that there are four main concepts, which are:

• Abstraction
• Encapsulation
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism

https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group/events/287606572/

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 - WEBINAR - THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2022 - LAST WEEK
10:00 AM PDT
Making Game...

2022-08-16 Weekly News - Episode 161

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/tsx07USLyPI

Hosts: 

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Dan Card - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. 
A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE - Have a few laughs!
• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. 
• Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos
  • Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github 
• Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

Patreon Support

Goal 1 - We have 38 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 44% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

ContentBox v5.3.0 Released

We are so excited to bring you the release of ContentBox Hybrid CMS version 5.3.0. This might be the last release in this major series as we are beginning the push of the next major release of ContentBox v6. Here is our what's new guide with our full release notes.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/contentbox-v53-released/

CBWire Updated Example App

Now with updated example app - clone the repo and start it up.
Building modern CFML apps is a pain. ColdBox makes creating server-side apps easy, but what about the client-side? Front-end JavaScript frameworks like Vue and React are powerful, yet they also introduce complexity and a significant learning curve when creating our apps.
What if you could create apps that look and feel like your Vue and React web apps but are written with CFML. Impossible, you say? Nay, we say!
Introducing CBWIRE: Power-up your CFML!
https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbwire

ICYMI - Lucee Release Roadmap, 6.0, 5.3.9 and 5.3.10
5.3.9 - Firstly, we have been working on the open regressions 11 with 5.3.9 and hope to release a quick RC this Friday.
6.0.0-BETA - There are still a number of blockers which we still need to address, but we are getting very close.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-release-roadmap-6-0-5-3-9-and-5-3-10/10810

ICYMI - WireBox Object Delegators are now born!
 
WireBox Object Delegators are now born!  It's been committed with tests and hopefully this new design pattern will help you create beautiful object DSLs and just allow for less boilerplate in your code.
https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/WIREBOX-131?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiMGY4OTQwZGE2YTU5NGVkNGI2MDk5YzI1ZDM0MDA0ZGQiLCJwIjoiamlyYS1zbGFjay1pbnQifQ

INTO THE BOX - Updates

2 weeks left until the start of the Pre-Conf, the Workshop and 2 days of 2 track content. 
ITB Pre-Conference Schedule Finalized on the Website 
Last 3 sessions TBA

• Zac Spitzer - Lucee 5, 6 and beyond
• Javier Quintero - CBValidation
• Dan Card  - New Product - CFScribe

New Sponsors

• Silver - TeraTech - Creator of CFAlive Podcast and State of the CF Union Survey
• Silver - WRIS - WRIS Web Services develops process improving web-based software and applications for businesses looking to expedite workflow and eliminate legacy, paper-based, manual systems.

 
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT COMING WEDNESDAY AUGUST 17th at 8AM
 
Workshops are starting to fill up - don’t miss your chance.
https://intothebox.org/

New Releases and Updates

ICYMI - Lucee - Image Extension 1.2.0.1 and 1.0.0.44, isImageFile() invalid file locking fixed
Bugfix: locked temp image files - isImageFile()

https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3931
When using isImageFile() for certain formats, if the file wasn’t an image, Lucee was leaving the file locked.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/image-extension-1-2-0-1-and-1-0-0-44-isimagefile-invalid-file-locking-fixed/10808

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Webinar - August - Ortus Team - Into the Box Preview and Q&A

August 26th, 2022: Time 11:00AM Central Time ( US and Canada )
Join some of the Ortus HARD Core Team as they discuss all the great things coming to you from Into the Box, with the Pre Conference Online Sessions, Full Day Workshops and then the 2 day 2 track in Person Conference.
The session will be informal, with Q&A from the chat, with maybe a couple of last minute surprise announcements.
Register now: https://bit.ly/3cW6LlM

Hawaii CFUG - OOP & ColdFusion
 
Friday, August 26, 2022 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Object-Oriented Programming is common term in programming languages. It’s a vast concept but to sum it up in a single line, it is a set of concepts and techniques that make use of the “object” construct, to write more reusable, maintainable, and organized code. Objects are implemented differently in every language. In ColdFusion, we have ColdFusion Components (CFCs) that can be instantiated to create objects.
Anyone who has ever studied OOP must know that there are four main concepts, which are:

• Abstraction
• Encapsulation
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism

https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group/events/287606572/

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

WEBINAR - THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2022 - THIS WEEK

10:00 AM PDT
Making Games with Adobe ColdFusion
Mark Takata
https://making-games-with-adobe-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/

WEBINAR - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

10:00 AM PDT
Building Custom Adobe Connect Pods with CF2021
Mark Takata

2022-08-09 Weekly News - Episode 160

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/LZtoUnLPU38

Hosts: 

• Eric Peterson - 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:

• BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE - Have a few laughs!
• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. 
• Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos
  • Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github 
• Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

 
Patreon Support

Goal 1 - We have 37 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 44% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

Lucee Release Roadmap, 6.0, 5.3.9 and 5.3.10

5.3.9 - Firstly, we have been working on the open regressions 11 with 5.3.9 and hope to release a quick RC this Friday.
6.0.0-BETA - There are still a number of blockers which we still need to address, but we are getting very close.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-release-roadmap-6-0-5-3-9-and-5-3-10/10810

WireBox Object Delegators are now born!

WireBox Object Delegators are now born!  It's been committed with tests and hopefully this new design pattern will help you create beautiful object DSLs and just allow for less boilerplate in your code.
https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/WIREBOX-131?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiMGY4OTQwZGE2YTU5NGVkNGI2MDk5YzI1ZDM0MDA0ZGQiLCJwIjoiamlyYS1zbGFjay1pbnQifQ

Lucee - Allow reducing the Priority of Concurrent Requests

Micha has been working on a new feature which will help to make uncoordinated DDOS attacks less effective against Lucee, by amongst other things reducing the thread priority
It’s been added to the 5.3.9.151-SNAPSHOT and 5.3.10.39-SNAPSHOTs
https://dev.lucee.org/t/allow-reducing-the-priority-of-concurrent-requests/10807/3

ICYMI - 117 ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 – future CFML) with Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel

Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 – future CFML)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

“We're gonna be talking about Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee and how they compare and contrast and all cool new features coming in the next five years that we prognosticate future performance. Improvements might be coming CFML engine updates and how you can best approach those confusion security. And we'll wrap up with some other questions about being a good CFML developer and conferences this year.”
https://teratech.com/podcast/acf-and-lucee-roundtable-part-3-future-cfml-with-charlie-arehart-gert-franz-mark-drew-and-ben-nadel/

INTO THE BOX - Updates

1 month left until the start of the Pre-Conf, the Workshop and 2 days of 2 track content.
ITB Pre-Conference Schedule Finalized on the Website (3 sessions TBA)
Workshops are starting to fill up - don’t miss your chance.
https://intothebox.org/

New Releases and Updates

Lucee - Image Extension 1.2.0.1 and 1.0.0.44, isImageFile() invalid file locking fixed

Bugfix: locked temp image files - isImageFile()
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3931
When using isImageFile() for certain formats, if the file wasn’t an image, Lucee was leaving the file locked.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/image-extension-1-2-0-1-and-1-0-0-44-isimagefile-invalid-file-locking-fixed/10808

ICYMI - CFConfig - Now supports Scheduled Tasks in Lucee

Thanks to a sponsor, CFConfig now supports importing/exporting scheduled tasks for #Lucee Server (Adobe already had support)!  Please give it a test with the latest version and remember, tasks need imported into the web context of Lucee! #CommandBox #CFML #ColdFusion

https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-cfconfig

ICYMI - ColdBox 6.8.0 Released!

I am incredibly excited to announce the release of ColdBox v6.8.0 and its standalone companion libraries: CacheBox, LogBox and WireBox. This update includes some important fixes and we managed to squeeze some nice improvements!

Bug

• COLDBOX-1134 Router closure responses not marshaling complex content to JSON
• COLDBOX-1132 New virtual app was always starting up the virtual coldbox app instead of checking if it was running already

Improvement

• COLDBOX-1131 Updated Missing Action Response Code to 404 instead of 405
• COLDBOX-1127 All core async proxies should send exceptions to the error log

New Feature

• COLDBOX-1130 New config/ColdBox.cfc global injections: webMapping, coldboxVersion
• COLDBOX-1126 Funnel all out and err logging on a ColdBox Scheduled Task to LogBox

Task

• COLDBOX-1135 Remove HandlerTestCase as it is no longer in usage.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-680-released/

ICYMI - Adobe CFML VS Code Extension released (in Public Beta)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=com-adobe-coldfusion.adobe-cfml-lsp

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Webinar - August - Ortus Team - Into the Box Preview and Q&A

August 26th, 2022: Time 11:00AM Central Time ( US and Canada )
Join some of the Ortus Core Team as they discuss all the great things coming to you from Into the Box, with the Pre Conference Online Sessions, Full Day Workshops and then the 2 day 2 track in Person Conference.
The session will be informal, with Q&A from the chat, with maybe a couple of last minute surprise announcements.
Register now: https://bit.ly/3cW6LlM

2022-08-02 Weekly News - Episode 159

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

Hosts:
 

• Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. 

A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE - Have a few laughs!
• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. 
• Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos
  • Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github 
• Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

Patreon Support

Goal 1 - We have 37 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 44% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

ICYMI - Adobe Developer Week was two weeks ago! July 18-22nd

The Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.

Gavin and Luis presented Monday - more great content to come

What are you waiting for? Register now!

Site Link: https://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form
Recordings: Most recent videos https://www.youtube.com/c/adobecoldfusion/videos
Blog - https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/07/all-devweek-2022-videos-now-posted-on-youtube/

ICYMI - How does CFML really perform compared to other languages?

I’ve talked about the TechEmpower performance benchmarks before, but I wanted to highlight them again. They are the closest thing the internet has to a giant cage match between nearly every language and framework out there. The benchmarks have a suite of tests, such as run 20 queries on a page and output some data, and every language and framework implements the same logic in their syntax and style. The tests literally take days to run in full and spin up each combination of language and framework in docker containers where they are hammered with oodles of traffic and then the juicy stats are recorded for sweet graphical comparisons.

https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/how-does-cfml-really-perform-compared-to-other-languages/9325

117 ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 – future CFML) with Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel

Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable (Part 3 – future CFML)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

“We're gonna be talking about Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee and how they compare and contrast and all cool new features coming in the next five years that we prognosticate future performance. Improvements might be coming CFML engine updates and how you can best approach those confusion security. And we'll wrap up with some other questions about being a good CFML developer and conferences this year.”

https://teratech.com/podcast/acf-and-lucee-roundtable-part-3-future-cfml-with-charlie-arehart-gert-franz-mark-drew-and-ben-nadel/

INTO THE BOX - Updates

1 month left until the start of the Pre-Conf, the Workshop and 2 days of 2 track content.
ITB In Person Schedule Finalized on the Website
Workshops are starting to fill up - don’t miss your chance.

https://intothebox.org/

New Releases and Updates

CFConfig - Now supports Scheduled Tasks in Lucee

Thanks to a sponsor, CFConfig now supports importing/exporting scheduled tasks for #Lucee Server (Adobe already had support)!  Please give it a test with the latest version and remember, tasks need imported into the web context of Lucee! #CommandBox #CFML #ColdFusion

https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-cfconfig

ColdBox 6.8.0 Released!

I am incredibly excited to announce the release of ColdBox v6.8.0 and its standalone companion libraries: CacheBox, LogBox and WireBox. This update includes some important fixes and we managed to squeeze some nice improvements!

Bug

• COLDBOX-1134 Router closure responses not marshaling complex content to JSON
• COLDBOX-1132 New virtual app was always starting up the virtual coldbox app instead of checking if it was running already 

Improvement

• COLDBOX-1131 Updated Missing Action Response Code to 404 instead of 405
• COLDBOX-1127 All core async proxies should send exceptions to the error log

New Feature

• COLDBOX-1130 New config/ColdBox.cfc global injections: webMapping, coldboxVersion
• COLDBOX-1126 Funnel all out and err logging on a ColdBox Scheduled Task to LogBox

Task

• COLDBOX-1135 Remove HandlerTestCase as it is no longer in usage.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-680-released/

Adobe CFML VS Code Extension released (in Public Beta)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=com-adobe-coldfusion.adobe-cfml-lsp

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

ICYMI - Ortus Webinar - July - Legacy Migration Follow Up: Using Coldbox with an Existing Code Base

July 29th 2022: Time 11:00 AM Central Time ( US and Canada )

Dan Card will be presenting a follow up to his June webinar: Getting started with the Legacy Migration. Dan received some good questions, so July's Webinar: Legacy Migration Follow Up: Using Coldbox with an Existing Code Base with Dan Card. If you have a more traditional / legacy codebase, and are wanting to modernize with ColdBox, but don't know where to start, this webinar is just for you!
with Dan Card

Recording on CFCasts -

2022-07-26 Weekly News - Episode 158

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/M8V2rQEwl6s

Hosts: 

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Dan Card - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. 
A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE - Have a few laughs!
• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. 
• Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos
  • Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github 
• Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

 
Patreon Support

Goal 1 - We have 37 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 44% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

ICYMI - Adobe Developer Week was last week! July 18-22nd

The Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.

Gavin and Luis presented Monday - more great content to come

What are you waiting for? Register now!
Site Link: https://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form
Recordings: Most recent videos https://www.youtube.com/c/adobecoldfusion/videos
Blog - https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/07/all-devweek-2022-videos-now-posted-on-youtube/

ICYMI - How does CFML really perform compared to other languages?

I’ve talked about the TechEmpower performance benchmarks before, but I wanted to highlight them again. They are the closest thing the internet has to a giant cage match between nearly every language and framework out there. The benchmarks have a suite of tests, such as run 20 queries on a page and output some data, and every language and framework implements the same logic in their syntax and style. The tests literally take days to run in full and spin up each combination of language and framework in docker containers where they are hammered with oodles of traffic and then the juicy stats are recorded for sweet graphical comparisons.

https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/how-does-cfml-really-perform-compared-to-other-languages/9325

INTO THE BOX - Updates

1 month left to the start of the Pre-Conf, the Workshop and 2 days of 2 track content.
 
ITB In Person Schedule Finalized on the Website

Workshops are starting to fill up - don’t miss your chance.
https://intothebox.org/

New Releases and Updates

CFConfig - Now supports Scheduled Tasks in Lucee

Thanks to a sponsor, CFConfig now supports importing/exporting scheduled tasks for #Lucee Server (Adobe already had support)!  Please give it a test with the latest version and remember, tasks need imported into the web context of Lucee! #CommandBox #CFML #ColdFusion

https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-cfconfig

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

ICYMI - July 2022 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting - Hello ColdFusion! by Leon O'Daniel - Cancelled
https://www.meetup.com/seattle-coldfusion-user-group/events/286888783/

Ortus Webinar - July - Legacy Migration Follow Up: Using Coldbox with an Existing Code Base

July 29th 2022: Time 11:00 AM Central Time ( US and Canada )
Dan Card will be presenting a follow up to his June webinar: Getting started with the Legacy Migration. Dan received some good questions, so July's Webinar: Legacy Migration Follow Up: Using Coldbox with an Existing Code Base with Dan Card. If you have a more traditional / legacy codebase, and are wanting to modernize with ColdBox, but don't know where to start, this webinar is just for you!
with Dan Card
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArde-srjgiGtUVIWhhVRmMpSgang6yqCzA

Adobe Workshops

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

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2022
9.00 AM - 4.30 PM AEST
ColdFusion Workshop
Brian Sappey
https://coldfusion-1-day-training.meetus.adobeevents.com/

WEBINAR - THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2022
10:00 AM PDT
Making Games with Adobe ColdFusion
Mark Takata
https://making-games-with-adobe-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/

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

CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

Just Released

• LogBox 101 - 1 new videos - https://cfcasts.com/series/logbox-101 
  • Episode 9 - Tracer Appender - https://www.cfcasts.com/series/logbox-101/videos/tracerappender 
• Koding with the Kiwi + Friends
  • 2022-07-15 - Koding with the Kiwi + Friends - Wil De Bruin - Talking about Validation - https://cfcasts.com/series/koding-with-the-kiwi-+-friends/videos/20220719-koding-with-the-kiwi-+-friends-wil-de-bruin-validation
• 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 -

2022-07-19 Weekly News - Episode 157

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/UGyXU0RzMxQ

Hosts:
 

• Gavin Pickin- Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there.  

A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE - Have a few laughs!
• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. 
• Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos
• Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github 
• Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

Patreon Support

Goal 1 - We have 37 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 44% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

How does CFML really perform compared to other languages?

I’ve talked about the TechEmpower performance benchmarks before, but I wanted to highlight them again. They are the closest thing the internet has to a giant cage match between nearly every language and framework out there. The benchmarks have a suite of tests, such as run 20 queries on a page and output some data, and every language and framework implements the same logic in their syntax and style. The tests literally take days to run in full and spin up each combination of language and framework in docker containers where they are hammered with oodles of traffic and then the juicy stats are recorded for sweet graphical comparisons.

https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/how-does-cfml-really-perform-compared-to-other-languages/9325

Adobe Developer Week is this week! July 18-22nd

The Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.

Gavin and Luis presented Monday - more great content to come

What are you waiting for? Register now!
https://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form

Java 10 added a var keyword that is quite different from that in CFML

Did you know that Java 10 (and above) has added use of a "var" keyword in variable declaration? Note that it's quite different from CFML's var keyword.

This is NOT something that CF developers NEED to know, and it WILL NOT affect anyone's CFML code.
I just thought I'd share news of it as I happened to learn of it today (though Java 10 came out nearly 5 years ago). More than anything, I thought it worth mentioning for the sake of either CF folks or Java folks who may come to work with CFML, to help each group understand how that Java var keyword is so very different from the one used in ColdFusion, for better or worse.
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2022/7/15/java_10_var_keyword_differs_from_CFMLs

New Releases and Updates

Lucee 6 beta coming soon?

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

ICYMI - Live Stream Series - Koding with the Kiwi + Friends - Special Guest - Wil De Bruin - Talking about CBValidation

Last Friday July 15th, at 1pm PDT
In this last session, Gavin was joined by Wil De Bruin. Wil De Bruin works a lot with CBValidation, contributed to the project, blogged a lot, and even presented at Into the Box in the past. They looked at different ways to validate your api input, your models, where to store your constraints, and helper methods to cut down on your API handler boilerplate. They discussed using validate() vs validateOrFail() and how you can make your own helper to make your api’s even more fluent. Join them as they validate the API Endpoints for Developer Feud Quiz API which Gavin presented at Adobe Developer Week!

Recording: https://cfcasts.com/series/koding-with-the-kiwi-+-friends/videos/20220719-koding-with-the-kiwi-+-friends-wil-de-bruin-validation

Code: https://github.com/gpickin/koding-kiwi-developer-feud/releases/tag/2022-07-15
https://github.com/gpickin/2022-acf-dw-dev-feud-presentation

July 2022 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting - Hello ColdFusion! by Leon O'Daniel

Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 5:00 PM
This introduction to ColdFusion answers the what and why for using ColdFusion, plus includes some demos that you can incorporate into your web site right away.

• How do I output today's date and today's year onto a web page?
• How do I output data onto my web page from a database?
• How can I display content from an RSS feed on my web page?

https://www.meetup.com/seattle-coldfusion-user-group/events/286888783/

Ortus Webinar - July - Legacy Migration Follow Up: Using Coldbox with an Existing Code Base

July 29th 2022: Time 11:00 AM Central Time ( US and Canada )
Dan Card will be presenting a follow up to his June webinar: Getting started with the Legacy Migration. Dan received some good questions, so July's Webinar: Legacy Migration Follow Up: Using Coldbox with an Existing Code Base with Dan Card. If you have a more traditional / legacy codebase, and are wanting to modernize with ColdBox, but don't know where to start, this webinar is just for you!
with Dan Card

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArde-srjgiGtUVIWhhVRmMpSgang6yqCzA

Adobe Workshops

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

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2022

9.00 AM - 4.30 PM AEST
ColdFusion Workshop
Brian Sappey
https://col...

2022-07-12 Weekly News - Episode 156

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Lon8ghRKRvQ

Hosts:
 

• Gavin Pickin- Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Dan Card - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. 
A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE - Have a few laughs!
• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. 
• Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos
  Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github 
• Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

 
Patreon Support

Goal 1 - We have 36 patreons providing 100% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions.
Goal 2 - We are 43% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

Github Co-Pilot works with CFML

We specifically designed GitHub Copilot as an editor extension to make sure nothing gets in the way of what you’re doing. GitHub Copilot distills the collective knowledge of the world’s developers into an editor extension that suggests code in real time, to help you stay focused on what matters most: building great software.

Adam Tuttle confirmed in this Twitter thread https://twitter.com/gamesover/status/1545098071041724416

https://github.blog/2022-06-21-github-copilot-is-generally-available-to-all-developers/#:~:text=We're%20making%20GitHub%20Copilot,of%20popular%20open%20source%20projects.

Working Code Podcast discussed Github Co-pilot: https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4295-working-code-podcast-episode-82-github-charging-for-copilot.htm

CommandBox vNext supports enabling basic auth only for certain folders

#CommandBox vNext supports enabling basic auth only for certain folders, making it easier to wrap additional security around your administrators and other sensitive folders in production. ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/COMMAND… #CFML #ColdFusion

https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/COMMANDBOX-1419

AWS Identity and Access Management introduces Roles Anywhere for workloads outside of AWS

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now enables workloads that run outside of AWS to access AWS resources using IAM Roles Anywhere. IAM Roles Anywhere allows your workloads such as servers, containers, and applications to use X.509 digital certificates to obtain temporary AWS credentials and use the same IAM roles and policies that you have configured for your AWS workloads to access AWS resources.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/07/aws-identity-access-management-iam-roles-anywhere-workloads-outside-aws/

INTO THE BOX - Updates

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

• ITB In Person Schedule Finalized on the Website
• New Speaker Added - John Farrar
• New sessions from Speakers

Workshops are starting to fill up - don’t miss your chance.
https://intothebox.org/

New Releases and Updates

New Monitoring Solution? - Monika

Mentioned by James Moberg on Twitter

A #ColdFusion Taffy API was timing out due to 3rdparty MSSQL table locks. I started using @hyperjump_tech Monika to log performance every 60 seconds to expose impact. monika.hyperjump.tech #CFML Metrics are logged to SQLite DB. #opensource #portable #yaml #notifications

Monika is an open source synthetic monitoring command line application. It is actively developed and completely free!

Loads of integrations.

https://monika.hyperjump.tech/

ICYMI - Adobe ColdFusion Builder (VS Code) Beta

Do you want to help us test and improve our upcoming Adobe ColdFusion Builder Extension for VS Code? Well, the time is nearly here. We are collecting emails of interested users.

We are starting with a very small closed beta just to shake any lingering bugs out. This is happening over the weekend.
Once we feel comfortable, users who have signed up for this beta (form link below) will slowly begin getting invites for a pre-release forum dedicated to the full closed beta program. This is likely to occur early to mid next week.

We need people who are fired up, willing to put in time testing and provide us with solid, informative feedback. The full, open launch of the product is coming shortly after Dev Week but this is your opportunity to get a chance to see it early, test it and help us make it as awesome as possible.

Please note: There may be bugs. This should not be used in production during the time of the beta testing. I shouldn't have to tell you that lol. But here we are. I use this tool already in my day to day. But your workflow might be different. We will be adding people slowly, so if you don't get an email early next week, just give it a moment. The earlier you sign up, the more likely you get in.
Sign up here:
 
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Wht7-jR7h0OUrtLBeN7O4VmPZrcheetIstWzdVorFtxURjVKSE5KNFZSSzg4MzdHUzRaOTZBQ1Q3SS4u&fbclid=IwAR3eZ4hD9cSXJKuME2mIeOYp8c4j-LT0mr_iCzPnSU52NkBdBxU-Az5abLg

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Live Stream Series - Koding with the Kiwi + Friends - Special Guest - Wil De Bruin - Talking about CBValidation

Friday July 15th, at 1pm PDT
Patreon’s check your email, there will be an email sent Wednesday with the registration link for the zoom call… or keep an eye out in the Patreon Only BoxTeam Slack channel or the Ortus Community Forum section.
Not a patreon? Sign up today or wait for us to release the recording on CFCasts after the session.

Adobe Developer Week is Next week! July 18-22nd

The Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is y...

2022-07-05 Weekly News - Episode 155

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

Hosts:
 

• Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. 
A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE - Have a few laughs!
• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. 
• Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos
• Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github 
• Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

 
Patreon Support

• Goal 1 - We have 36 patreons providing 100% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions 
• Goal 2 - We are 43% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io 

News and Announcements

ICYMI - Ortus CF Summit Training Workshop

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

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

INTO THE BOX - Updates

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

Announcing - Pre-Conference - Second set of Speakers Announced 

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

The format:

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

Confirmed Speakers ( more to come )

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

New Releases and Updates

Adobe ColdFusion Build (VS Code) Beta

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

ICYMI - ColdBox 6.7.0 Released

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

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

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

WEBINARS / MEETUPS AND WORKSHOPS

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

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

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

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

2022-06-28 Weekly News - Episode 154

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/gxH11vBPuGA

Hosts:
 

• Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Dan Card - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. 
A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE - Have a few laughs!
• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. 
• Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos
• Star all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github 
• Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)

 
Patreon Support

Goal 1 - We have 37 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 44% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

Ortus CF Summit Training Workshop

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

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

INTO THE BOX - Updates

Into the Box Super Early Bird ticket pricing is over, but you can still get the Early Bird. Last week we had more episodes of the Modernize or Die Podcast - Conference Edition for ITB 2022 and announced the first 2 groups of Pre-Conference Track for Into the Box.

This week we're going to be announcing more speakers for the Pre Conference Track as well as the last chance for the Early Bird Tickets

Announcing - Pre-Conference - First set of Speakers Announced

Due to Covid and other reasons, some of the CFML Community Speakers will not be able to make this years Into the Box - but we wanted to include them anyways. To do that, last week we announced a Pre-Conference / 3rd Track for ITB. Read more about it here. Today we're happy to announce our first set of speakers for our Pre-Conference Track.
http://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-pre-conference-first-set-of-speakers-announced

ITB 2022 Podcast Series - Workshop - Async Programming & Scheduling with Luis Majano & Eric Peterson

This podcast is a special podcast for attendees or undecided attendees, to get a view of what the workshop has to offer. Luis Majano and Eric Peterson talk about their upcoming workshop at Into the Box, he talks about who the ideal audience is, and why they should attend. He talks about what will the workshop cover, the requirements for the workshop, and what he hopes the attendees will leave the workshop with. In this workshop, attendees will explore the concepts of asynchronous and parallel programming with the ColdBox Async Manager and Java’s Completable Futures APIs. They will explore the concept of async computations, async pipelines, exception handling, scheduling and so much more. Pain medication is included!

http://www.intothebox.org/blog/itb-2022-podcast-series-workshop-async-programming-scheduling-with-luis-majano-eric-peterson

Announcing - Pre-Conference - Second set of Speakers Announced

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

http://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-pre-conference-second-set-of-speakers-announced

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

The format:

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

Confirmed Speakers ( more to come )

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

New Releases and Updates

ColdBox 6.7.0 Released

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

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

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

ICYMI - Mailgun Support for ColdBox Mail Services

I am very excited to announce the support for the Mailgun email delivery service in our ColdBox Mail Services module (cbmailservices) thanks to Scott Steinbeck. Mailgun is an email delivery service for sending, receiving, and tracking emails.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/mailgun-support-for-coldbox-mail-services

ICYMI - Galaxie Blog 3 is Now Released

I am proud to announce that Galaxie Blog 3 is finally released. It was our goal to bui...

2022-06-21 Weekly News - Episode 153

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/9D7y9QKUzAg

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 SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE
• 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 37 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 44% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

News and Announcements

INTO THE BOX - Updates

Into the Box Super Early Bird ticket pricing is over, but you can still get the Early Bird. Last week we had the next few episodes of the Modernize or Die Podcast - Conference Edition for ITB 2022… and a big announcement, the Pre-Conference Announcement.

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

This week we're going to be announcing more of the podcast episodes including workshop information, and the first list of speakers for the Pre Conference Track.

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

This podcast is a special podcast for attendees or undecided attendees, to get a view of what the workshop has to offer. Brad Wood talks about his upcoming workshop at Into the Box, he talks about who the ideal audience is, and why they should attend. He talks about what will the workshop cover, the requirements for the workshop, and what he hopes the attendees will leave the workshop with.
http://www.intothebox.org/blog/itb-2022-podcast-series-workshop-testbox-getting-started-with-bdd-tdd-with-brad-wood

Announcing - Pre-Conference + 3rd Track for Into the Box

Due to Covid and other reasons, some of the CFML Community Speakers will not be able to make this years Into the Box - but we wanted to include them anyways. After much discussion and debate, we eventually decided, in the efforts to maximize content, and ensuring we have speakers in front of attendees, the best option was to host a third track for the conference, and we’re calling it the pre-conference track.
http://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-pre-conference-3rd-track-for-into-the-box

ITB 2022 Podcast Series - Workshop - VueJs SPA and Mobile App with Rest APIs with Gavin Pickin

This podcast is a special podcast for attendees or undecided attendees, to get a view of what the workshop has to offer, from the Trainers themselves, Gavin Pickin and Daniel Garcia. This workshop will walk us through creating a Quiz Game app with a ColdBox REST API backend and a VueJS Application, written in the Quasar Framework. We will start with the concept, design our database, plan our API, write some tests, build our API, create our Quasar Framework App, and write some VueJS to hit those API Endpoints. This Quiz game will have a real-world use case, as it brings back to life an old ColdFusion / ColdBox concept, delivered in a fresh new way.
http://www.intothebox.org/blog/itb-2022-podcast-series-workshop-vuejs-spa-and-mobile-app-with-rest-apis-with-gavin-pickin

ITB 2022 Podcast Series - Workshop - Containerizing and Scaling Your Applications with Jon Clausen

This podcast is a special podcast for attendees or undecided attendees, to get a view of what the workshop has to offer. Jon Clausen talks about his upcoming workshop at Into the Box, he talks about who the ideal audience is, and why they should attend. He talks about what will the workshop cover, the requirements for the workshop, and what he hopes the attendees will leave the workshop with. In this workshop, you will gain knowledge and proficiency in utilizing Docker containers to develop, deploy, and scale ColdFusion (CFML) applications. Be it Docker swarms, Kubernetes, or other orchestration services. Get ready to send your applications out into the great wide world of containerization!
https://www.intothebox.org/blog/itb-2022-podcast-series-workshop-testbox-containerizing-and-scaling-your-applications-with-jon-clausen

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

Due to Covid and other reasons, some of the CFML Community Speakers will not be able to make this years Into the Box - but we wanted to include them anyways.
After much discussion and debate, we eventually decided, in the efforts to maximize content, and ensuring we have speakers in front of attendees, the best option was to host a third track for the conference, and we’re calling it the pre-conference track.

The format:

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

Confirmed Speakers ( more to come )

• Mark Takata
• Charlie Arehart
• Ray Camden
• Matthew Clemente
• Brian Rinaldi
• Michael Born

New Releases and Updates

Mailgun Support for ColdBox Mail Services
I am very excited to announce the support for the Mailgun email delivery service in our ColdBox Mail Services module (cbmailservices) thanks to Scott Steinbeck.
What is Mailgun
Mailgun is an email delivery service for sending, receiving, and tracking emails.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/mailgun-support-for-coldbox-mail-services

Galaxie Blog 3 is Now Released

I am proud to announce that Galaxie Blog 3 is finally released. It was our goal to build one of the most comprehensive HTML5-based blogging platforms that meets or exceeds the out-of-the-box core blogging functionality of major platforms like WordPress. Take a look and see- with Galaxie Blog 3, I think that you will also agree that we deliver...