Modernize or Die® - CFML News for April 13th, 2021 - Episode 99
2021-04-13 Weekly News - Episode 99Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/wmBusQHhs0w Hosts:Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsEric Peterson - 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 GumRoadPatreon SupportWe have 36 patreons providing 79% 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 EventsNew Release Candidate for Lucee 5.3.8There is a new Release Candidate ( 5.3.8.167-RC ) available to download from our download page https://download.lucee.org or via the Lucee Admin.https://dev.lucee.org/t/new-release-candidate-5-3-8-167-rc-rc2/8197 Adobe CF 2021 Lockdown Guide is availableThis may not be “news” for everyone but somehow it had slipped by me: the ColdFusion 2021 Lockdown Guide has been available since December 2020 (and was updated slightly in Jan 2021). I find no mention of it here, so I thought it a good post to share.The 2021 guide is about 9 pages longer than the 2018 version. The new version covers security-related aspects of new features in CF2021, such as CF package management (cfpm), as well as security-related aspects of new features in the CF Administrator, and some modest additions to coverage of security-related aspects in the Performance Monitoring Toolset (PMT) and the CF Api Manager.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/04/coldfusion-2021-lockdown-guide-available/ Mid-Michigan CFUG - Embracing the Jamstack with Ray CamdenTuesday, April 13 at 7:00 pmWe are going virtualMeeting URL: https://bit.ly/3dGHjgE http://www.mmcfug.org/ VS Code Live Stream - VS Code Notebooks: A Deep DiveThursday 15th at 8am PSTVS Code is adding Notebooks as a core concept in the API, on top of which extensions like the Jupyter Notebook are being built. Join Tanha to explore the capabilities of Notebooks in VS Code. We'll also look under-the-hood at the new APIs to build custom notebooks and visualizers, and how you can use them to build new extensions.https://code.visualstudio.com/livestream?WT.mc_id=devcloud-18509-cxa ICYMI - VS Code 1.55 Release PartyThursday, April 8VS Code teamLive event and QaA with the VS Code team to discuss highlights from the March 2021, 1.55 release.https://youtu.be/-YQ8UnjNQ1M Adobe Webinar Series - API Creation and ManagementNext Webinar: 4/28/21ColdFusion 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/ Registration: https://coldfusion-api-management-solution.meetus.adobeevents.com/?fbclid=IwAR2q7aEI9u1ibBKrneeDvAhKWWW7V78bB_P1rTzWAh8x4e20q68gXLeMVrMRecordings: https://t.co/ZQc637BSkv ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "CSS Crash Course for CSS Haters or Novices", with Jessica KeenerThursday, April 8, 202111:00 AM to 12:00 PM CDTThis class is intended for a complete novice to CSS, or those who know enough to get by but hate everything about it. We will be covering the basics of CSS (including specificity), using preprocessors, as well as several practical best practices to keep you out of CSS hell.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/277252125 Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx7OqcqAw3Y Online CF Meetup - "To the future with cbFutures!", with Luis MajanoThursday, April 15, 20215:00 PM to 6:00 PM CDTIn this session we will explore the asynchronous and parallel programming constructs built into the ColdBox 6 Async Package. Java has supported a robust and functional approach to asynchronous programming since JDK8 and now it is available to us all in the Coldfusion (CFML) ⚡ World! To the future!https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/277112459/Ortus Webinar - Building modern web apps with ContentBox Modular CMS with Luis MajanoApril 23, 2021 Time: 11:00 AM CTContentBox is a professional open source modular content management system powered by ColdBox HMVC and ColdFusion. In this session, led by Luis Majano, we will get an overview of this CMS platform and how you can leverage it to not only deliver content based applications, but any modern web application thanks to its powerful headless API and ColdBox services.https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Reminder: New Book from Luis Majano 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and TricksNow Available on Gumroad - $29http://gum.co/coldbox-tips CFCasts Content Updateswww.cfcasts.com CFCasts site updates!Just Released - CommandBox Zero to Hero (https://cfcasts.com/series/commandbox-zero-to-hero) - Server start and other Commands - Host, Port and Server.json - Artifacts - What’s new with ColdBox 6 (https://cfcasts.com/series/whats-new-with-coldbox6) - Debugging and Profiling ColdBox Apps with the ColdBox DebuggerComing up soon- More CommandBox Zero to Hero- More What’s new with ColdBox 6- Up and Running with Quick- LogBox 101- Using DocBoxSend your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/supportConferences and TrainingVueConf - Virtual Vue LoveApril 14th - TOMORROW - Online - Free and there’s swag (first 500 registrations)Hosted by Evan YouLive Video with Chat QaA with speakersAttendee Lightning TalksLive DJVirtual PartyWorkshops TBAhttp://vueconf.us/ RedisConf 2021Virtual: Apr 20-21Rediscover the power of real-time data. Join us at RedisConf 2021 to hear from the Redis community, customers, and industry experts. Dive into the latest product experiences, get hands-on training, network with other Redis pros, and show off your skills by participating in a $100,000 hackathon.https://redislabs.com/redisconf/ Atlassian Teams 21Apr 28-30 Better teams starts with being better teammates. Check out Atlassian’s vision for Team 2021, formerly Summit.https://events.atlassian.com/team21 AWS Summit Online - AmericasMay 12-13Online and Free AWS Summit Online is designed for developers and IT professionals looking to learn how to build and innovate at scale using AWS Cloud. Hear the very latest from AWS executives, attend breakout sessions featuring customer stories, and engage with AWS experts to get your questions answered. Enhance your skills with hands-on labs and workshops, learn from inspiring demos, and discover what AWS and our Partner Solutions can do for your business.This free online conference is designed to educate you about AWS services; and help you design, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications.https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/online/americas/ DockerConMay 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 Ortus Workshops - Dates coming soonMore Workshops dates to come- CommandBox Zero to Hero- ColdBox Zero to Hero- ColdBox Hero to SuperHeroOrtus’s Possible Conferences for 2021Dates subject to changeDue to Online conference overload, we are thinking about not expanding the number of events, but more content in more timezones with a different format.ITB - Developer Week Style?? - (please be in-person!!!)With some European Timezone Friendly slots from our European Community MembersSeptember 2021Call for speakers coming soonITB LatamDecember 2021More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/CFML Is now on the list - https://confs.tech/conferences/new Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the WeekBlog - Charlie Arehart - ColdFusion 2021 Lockdown Guide availableThis may not be “news” for everyone but somehow it had slipped by me: the ColdFusion 2021 Lockdown Guide has been available since December 2020 (and was updated slightly in Jan 2021). I find no mention of it here, so I thought it a good post to share.The 2021 guide is about 9 pages longer than the 2018 version. The new version covers security-related aspects of new features in CF2021, such as CF package management (cfpm), as well as security-related aspects of new features in the CF Administrator, and some modest additions to coverage of security-related aspects in the Performance Monitoring Toolset (PMT) and the CF Api Manager.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/04/coldfusion-2021-lockdown-guide-available/Tweet - James Moberg - Migrating Versions and using Lucee’s Unit TestsWhile migrating #ColdFusion 2016 apps to CF2021 a Lucee #cfml, I've found the Lucee unit tests to be extremely beneficial. https://github.com/lucee/Lucee/tree/6.0/testFor example, Lucee has a null coalescing elvis operator, but adobe throws an error. #crossCFMLCodinghttps://twitter.com/gamesover/status/1381661107228663818https://twitter.com/gamesoverBlog - Ben Nadel - Experimenting With Try / Catch / Retry Semantics In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47The other day, when I was looking something up in the Lucee CFML documentation, I came across a page that outlined the CFRetry tag. This tag will jump the control flow back up to the CFTry ingress, re-running the volatile execution pathway. I'm not sure I've seen this tag before. And, I don't actually "retry" much code in my ColdFusion applications. But, every now and then, I'll have some "exponential" back-off logic around a remote system call. As such, I wanted to see how my traditional approach to this would compare and contrast with the retry semantics in Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4025-experimenting-with-try-catch-retry-semantics-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-7-47.htm Blog - Ben Nadel - Using Array-Like Structs As Arrays In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47The other day, when I was working on unifying type casting errors in Lucee CFML, I spent some time digging around in the Lucee source code on GitHub looking for examples of casting error messages. As I was doing this, I came across a Java class called StructAsArray. This wrapper class appears to allow array-like Structs to be treated as Arrays in some scenarios. I don't recall ever seeing this discussed; so, I wanted to perform a quick experiment in Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4026-using-array-like-structs-as-arrays-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-7-47.htm Blog - Ben Nadel - Unifying Type Casting Exceptions For Cleaner Log Aggregation In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47At InVision, we use Loggly as our centralized log aggregation service. And, when I go to consume said logs, I am generally breaking them down by "Error Message". Most of the time, this is great. However, when a script kiddie starts barfing malicious data into my pages, it creates a lot of noise in Loggly since Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47 creates unique error messages for each type casting exception. In order to cut down on this noise, and to help the security team fine-tune the WAF (Web Application Firewall) rules, I wanted to unify all type casting errors under a single error message.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4024-unifying-type-casting-exceptions-for-cleaner-log-aggregation-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-7-47.htm Blog - Matthew Clemente - Use the PostgreSQL JDBC Driver Directly with ColdFusionFor reasons irrelevant to this post, I wanted to run a query directly via the PostgreSQL JDBC Driver, bypassing cfquery. To be clear, up front, I do not recommend doing this and I don’t know of any practical use case for it. But, because I couldn’t find much online, I thought it worth documenting.https://blog.mattclemente.com/2021/04/07/postgresql-jdbc-driver-coldfusion.html Blog - Terra Tech - Funny ColdFusion Custom Tag Competition (CFML Programmer’s Jokes)Recently I decided to run a little competition.The goal was to write your best ColdFusion custom tag joke, and post it. No big reason for that, I just wanted to shake everyone up and see how creative CF'ers can be. Although, I already know they are very funny and creative.You can check out all the answers and jokes directlyhttps://teratech.com/funny-coldfusion-custom-tag-cfml-programmer/ Blog - Ben Nadel - Task Switching, Sensory Specific Satiety, And Staying Productive At WorkAs a software engineer, one thing that I've never connected with is the idea that engineers only have "N" number of hours per day in which they can be productive. I believe this concept stems from a lack of strategy, not a lack of capacity. I am not going to argue that every hour of every day has equal potential; but, I do think that we can employ strategies to maximize every hour if we learn to lean into the constraints of our day instead of fighting them.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4023-task-switching-sensory-specific-satiety-and-staying-productive-at-work.htm Blog - Luis Majano - Ortus Solutions - ColdBox Debugger Mini-APM v3 Launched!We are so excited to bring about a major release for the ColdBox Debugger project: v3.0.0. However, what in the world is the ColdBox Debugger module? I am glad you asked:https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-debugger-mini-apm-v3-launched Blog - Toomba - Adding CacheBox to your CFML ApplicationCacheBox is a tool that adds caching to your application to speed things up. It is not dependent on a single cache which makes it very powerful when your application needs frequent change.https://toomba.com/en/blogs/adding-cachebox-to-your-cfml-application/ CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 70 ColdFusion positions from 44 companies across 47 locations in 5 Countries since Dec 1st.1 new job this weekFull-Time - Software Developer at Houston - United States Posted Apr 12https://www.getcfmljobs.com/viewjob.cfm?jobid=11217 ForgeBox Module of the WeekCFMigrationsDatabase migrations are a way of providing version control for your application's database. Changes to database schema are kept in timestamped files that are ran in order up and down.In the up function, you describe the changes to apply your migration. 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