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2021-05-25 Weekly News - Episode 105Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/cwD6BFdhR0M Hosts: Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsBrad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box out there. A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions: Like and subscribe to our videos on youtube.  Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus’s new Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 36 patreons providing 83% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help News and EventsTestBox v4.3 Released!We are excited to announce a new minor version release of TestBox version 4.3.x. To install just use CommandBox: install testbox --saveDev or to update your TestBox installation update testbox.This update includes several cool new features and improvements that will delight your testing life! For example, we have integrated your favorite code editors to the simple reporter so you can now open the line of code that failed your test or created and exception!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/testbox-v43-released  Java 16 is out - It doesn’t play nice with ColdFusion (ACF and LUCEE)PSA: Java 16 is out, but DO NOT try to run it as it has broken both Lucee Server and Adobe ColdFusionhttps://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3526 https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/CF-4211844 Oracle has started making good on their deprecation threats regarding illegal reflective access. #CFML #ColdFusionhttps://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1395432704846536711Online CF Meetup - Getting Started with FusionReactor, with Brad WoodThursday Jun 3rd at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4.New to FusionReactor? Perhaps you have a license but aren't sure how to tap into the features? We'll cover the basics of using FR to profile code, view your running and recent requests, and how to tell what is making a request slow. We'll cover tracking JDBC requests, HTTPS calls, and using the Profiler feature. There are many more features in FR, but we'll cover enough to get you started.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/278404050/ ICYMI - Adobe Webinar Series - API Creation and ManagementNext Webinar:  5/24/21ColdFusion Developers, do you want a first hand look at publishing APIs securely and at scale? Then mark your calendars for Brian Sappey’s upcoming webinars! This seven-part series will give you a 360 degree view of the API Manager and teach you how to build RESTful APIs with Adobe ColdFusion. Everything from securing, publishing and monitoring APIs, will be covered with hands-on examples, and easy discussions.Dates: 3/24/21, 3/25/21, 4/28/21, 4/29/31, 5/12/21, 5/13/21, 5/24/21Information: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/03/webinar-series-api-creation-management/ Recordings: https://t.co/ZQc637BSkv (2 videos posted)ICYMI - Ortus Webinar for May - What's new in CommandBox 5.3 with Brad WoodFriday, May 21st at 11:00 AM CTCome learn with Brad Wood about all the new features and tricks in the newest CommandBox releases, including versions 5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0.Recording: https://cfcasts.com/series/webinars-2021/videos/brad-wood-on-what's-new-with-commandbox-5.3 Webinar Page: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars CFCasts Content Updateshttp://www.cfcasts.com New features alert????: Now you can see when our OOP videos will be dropping! Also, this series will have closed captions ????Just Released Ortus WebinarBrad Wood on What's New with CommandBox 5.3 - https://cfcasts.com/series/webinars-2021/videos/brad-wood-on-what's-new-with-commandbox-5.3  Object-Oriented Programming with Nolan Erck - https://cfcasts.com/series/oop-series Abstractions Single Responsibility Features of Good Design: Code Reuse, Extensibility, Testability UML Don't forget - the first 4 videos in this series are FREE Coming this weekObject-Oriented Programming with Nolan Erck (https://cfcasts.com/series/oop-series) Inheritance Public vs Private Between Components What is Multiple Inheritance Using Super() Coming up soon More What’s new with ColdBox 6 Up and Running with Quick LogBox 101 Using DocBox Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/supportConferences and TrainingAdobe ColdFusion Developers WeekJune 22-24, 2021 - OnlineCoders, mark your calendars for Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2021!Coders, Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week 2021 is edging closer! This year, we’ve lined up a series of sessions and webinars that will give you a 360-degree view of ColdFusion 2021’s brand new features and updates. Right from developing cloud-native applications to reducing downtime, these webinars will let you in on the best tips to deploy applications rapidly and seamlessly.This is your chance to meet coders from across the globe and exchange ideas with some of the best minds in the industry. And that’s not all! Your presence at the conference will earn you points that can help you win exciting prizes and vouchers. Our scoreboard will keep track of active participation!Whether you’re a new developer, someone with little or no experience with Adobe ColdFusion, or even if you have been using it all your life, Adobe ColdFusion Developers Week 2021 is where you need to be. Don’t miss out!https://adobe.vconfex.com/site/adobe-coldfusion-developer-week/977ICYMI - Google I/OMay 18-20 - Online and Free for EveryoneConnect with developers from around the world at this year's virtual Google I/O for thoughtful discussions, hands-on learning with Google experts, and a first look at our latest developer products.https://events.google.com/io/ MS Build - this weekMay 25-27Learn. Connect. Code. Explore what’s next in tech and the future of hybrid work. Find solutions, sharpen skills, and find what you can add to your toolbox at this year’s event.https://mybuild.microsoft.com/homeDockerCon - this weekMay 27th 2021DockerCon 2021 is a free, one-day virtual event that is a unique experience for developers and development teams who are building the next generation of modern applications. If you want to learn about how to go from code to cloud fast and how to solve your development challenges, DockerCon 2021 offers engaging live content to help you build, share and run your applications.https://www.docker.com/dockercon-live/2021 Apple WWDC21 - Glow and beholdJune 7-11The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is coming to a screen near you, June 7 to 11. Join the worldwide developer community for an all-online program with exciting announcements, sessions, and labs at no cost. You’ll get a first look at the latest Apple platforms, tools, and technologies — so you can create your most innovative apps and games yet.Learn about this year’s Swift Student Challenge, and stay tuned for additional details.https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/ Ortus’s Conferences for 2021ITB Online or In Person - Survey went out to ask would you be willing to attend in personSeptember 2021Call for speakers coming soon (once we decide online or in person)Survey for onsite or nothttps://us1.list-manage.com/survey?u=09b13d89e6ce4c287f4c1f1b0aid=936054da77ae=44c477cc32aITB LatamDecember 2021More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the WeekBlog - Adam Tuttle - Testing Untestable CFMLI spoke at some length about my frustrations testing CFML on the "Testing" episode of my podcast, Working Code (in February), and I've had some realizations since then, so I wanted to share what I've learned.Without a doubt, it was me that failed. It is 100% possible to write clean, testable CFML code, and performant tests.https://adamtuttle.codes/blog/2021/testing-untestable-cfml/ Blog - Luis Majano - Ortus Solutions - TestBox v4.3 Released!We are excited to announce a new minor version release of TestBox version 4.3.x. To install just use CommandBox: install testbox --saveDev or to update your TestBox installation update testbox.This update includes several cool new features and improvements that will delight your testing life! For example, we have integrated your favorite code editors to the simple reporter so you can now open the line of code that failed your test or created and exception!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/testbox-v43-released Blog - Adam Cameron - Code smells: a look at a switch statementThere was a section in last week's Working Code Podcast: Book Club #1 Clean Code by "Uncle Bob" Martin (pt2) where the team were discussing switch statements being a code smell to avoid in OOP (this is at about the 28min mark; I can't find an audio stream of it that I can deep-link to though). I didn't think they quite nailed their understanding of it (sorry team, I don't mean that to sound patronising), so afterwards I asked Namesake if it might be useful if I wrote an article on switch as a code smell. He confirmed that it might've been more a case of mis-articulation than not getting it, but I ought to go ahead anyhow. So I decided to give it some thought.https://blog.adamcameron.me/2021/05/code-smells-look-at-switch-statement.html Blog - Ben Nadel - Using ColdFusion Custom Tags To Create An HTML Email DSL In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47, Part XVRolling my ColdFusion custom tag DSL (Domain Specific Language) for HTML emails out at InVision for transactional emails has been fairly straightforward. The content of those emails are mostly static; and, the dynamic bits are highly predictable (just names and URLs). However, now that I want to try applying this DSL approach to my blog, I'm suddenly faced with User-Generated Content (UGC). When interacting with my blog, readers can use Markdown to format their comments, which then get published - via email - to subscribers. As such, if I use my DSL for those comment emails, I now need to figure out how to merge that user-generated content alongside my static transactional content.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4052-using-coldfusion-custom-tags-to-create-an-html-email-dsl-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-7-47-part-xv.htm Tweet - Brad Wood - Java 16 is out - It doesn’t play nice with ColdFusion (ACF and LUCEE)PSA: Java 16 is out, but DO NOT try to run it as it has broken both Lucee Server and Adobe ColdFusionhttps://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3526  https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/CF-4211844  Oracle has started making good on their deprecation threats regarding illegal reflective access. #CFML #ColdFusionhttps://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1395432704846536711 https://twitter.com/bdw429s Blog - Adam Cameron - I play the game "how long will it take me to find a new bug in ColdFusion" again, after a few yearsAnswer: about two minutes to guess what would likely be broken, and I think I had an initial repro created in another minute after that.Last time I tried this it took 44min: "ColdFusion bug challenge: how quickly can one find a bug in ColdFusion 11?".This time I figured "ah what's a language feature in CF2021? I reckon anything more than superficial use of one of those will break. Um… the rest operator. I bet it can't handle type-checking properly". Actually that didn't even take two minutes to type, but it was about how long I thought about it. So: given I was actually right about that guess, it took me - what - 20seconds? I'm not claiming to be smart or anything here. It's just so frickin easy to find things wrong with CFML that that is as long as it might take.https://blog.adamcameron.me/2021/05/i-play-game-how-long-will-it-take-me-to.html Podcast - Working Code - Clean Code Episode 1 and 2This week, the crew talks about Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Martin (aka, "Uncle Bob"). Recommended to us by friend-of-the-show Adam Cameron, this book outlines a series of "best practices" that programmers can use in order to create applications that are easy to understand and easy to maintain. Just imagine if applications became easier to understand over time - not harder; that is the goal of this book.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4046-working-code-podcast-episode-022-clean-code-by-robert-martin.htmhttps://www.bennadel.com/blog/4051-working-code-podcast-episode-023-clean-code-by-robert-martin-part-2.htm Blog - Brad Wood - Ortus Solutions - CommandBox 5.3.1 ReleasedWe've released a small update to our recent CommandBox 5.3.0 release.  This contains fixes for a handful of regressions as well as a couple new features.  You can access the new version on our Download page, our deb/rpm repos, or Homebrew.  And of course, you can find the latest docs  and release notes here:https://commandbox.ortusbooks.com/ https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-531-release Tweet - Brad Wood - Lucee Microsoft JDBC driver extension issuesIf you're a Lucee user on the Microsoft JDBC driver, beware Lucee dropped a ton of new versions of that extension on April 30th and it looks like they are all broken!  If you need to, pin an older version of the JDBC driver.  Here's the ticket: https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3492 https://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1395018607999037445https://twitter.com/bdw429sTweet - Zac Spitzer - Brainstorming a performance issueSo @bdw429s and I brainstormed thru a performance issue last night, the result is a potential roughly 8-10% performance improvement when running the lucee test cases (as an example) https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3520 https://twitter.com/zackster/status/1394742164807159808https://twitter.com/zacksterGetting Started with FusionReactor, with Brad WoodThursday Jun 3rd at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4.New to FusionReactor? Perhaps you have a license but aren't sure how to tap into the features? We'll cover the basics of using FR to profile code, view your running and recent requests, and how to tell what is making a request slow. We'll cover tracking JDBC requests, HTTPS calls, and using the Profiler feature. There are many more features in FR, but we'll cover enough to get you started.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/278404050/ CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 130 ColdFusion positions from 57 companies across 96 locations in 5 Countries since Dec 1st.Full-Time - Coldfusion Developer at Fort Washington, PA - United States Posted May 21https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Coldfusion-Developer-at-Fort-Washington-PA/11276 Full-Time - Coldfusion Developer at Creve Coeur, MO - United States Posted May 21https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Coldfusion-Developer-at-Creve-Coeur-MO/11277Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at Bengaluru, Karnataka - India Posted May 20https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/india/ColdFusion-Developer-at-Bengaluru-Karnataka/11275Full-Time - ColdFusion Application Developer at Mumbai, Maharashtra - India Posted May 20https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/india/ColdFusion-Application-Developer-at-Mumbai-Maharashtra/11273 Ortus - Senior Developerhttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careersForgeBox Module of the WeekSemaphore by Adam TuttleA minimalist Feature Flag engine for CFML appsWhy? I created this because I got fed up trying to implement FlagSmith and Split.io in my app. They both assume that if you're using Java then you're willing/comfortable using Maven (strike 1), both of their docs barely cover SDK instantiation and I couldn't get either of them even simply on its feet let alone doing something useful (strike 2), and it's (mostly) just "if-statements", right? Why can't we host that ourselves? (strike 3)I have only just begun working on this project and it's not really useful yet. Contributions are welcome, though!https://www.forgebox.io/view/semaphore VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekGithub Actions by Christopher SchleidenSimple, unofficial extension to interact with GitHub Actions from within VS Code.GitHub Actions workflows and runs for github.com hosted repositories in VS Codehttps://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=cschleiden.vscode-github-actionsThank you to all of our Patreon SupportersThese 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 Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription. 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