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2020-10-27 Weekly News - Episode 76Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/lGXxIZdFg40 Hosts:Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsBrad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsGet live training from the makers of your favorite Box Product.Last Virtual Workshops of the year - Quick in NovemberCFCasts is releasing new Free and Paid content every weekPatreon SupportWe have 33 patreons providing 57% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help News and EventsColdBox 6.1.0 releasedToday we are excited to bring our first minor release of our 6.x series: 6.1.0; with a nice collection of fixes and improvements. Enjoy!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-610-released CommandBox 5.2.0-RC build has been updatedAfter some good security feedback, the CommandBox 5.2.0-RC build has been updated to include* server setting to block flash remoting* static files are served via whitelist only nowRead more here if you missed the RC announcement: https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-520-release-candidate-ready-for-testing Lucee Spreadsheet library 2.12.0 releasedLucee Spreadsheet library 2.12.0 released: adds a new option for setting common formatting styles more efficiently, and improved handling of tab delimited data in csvToQuery()https://github.com/cfsimplicity/lucee-spreadsheet Ortus October Webinar Announced - From Mura to ContentBox - Staying on the Open Source Upgrade TrackFriday, October 30th - 11:00 AM CDT (GMT -5:00)In this session, we will walk you through some of the differences between Mura CMS and Contentbox - from administration to design and development. During the session we will demonstrate a full conversion of a Mura CMS site to Contentbox.Hosted by Jon ClausenRegister today: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinarsICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "CF AMA: Ask Me Anything", with Charlie Arehart and Dan WilsonThursday, October 22, 202011:00 AM to 12:00 PM CDTJoin us for our first “Ask Me Anything” session, with your host Charlie Arehart and recent co-organizer Dan Wilson. We'll open the floor to any sort of CF-related questions you may have, whether about coding challenges or using CF features, configuration or tuning, deployment, security, the upcoming new CF version, recent CF versions, the future and state of CF, whatever.Event: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274044740/Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBC4UPikoXk Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.Wednesday, November 11, 20206:00 PM to 7:30 PM PSTHosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'DanielThis meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API. https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/ICYMI - Seattle CFUG - Leon O'Daniel on Integrating Your ColdFusion App with the Thinkific Platform.Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PDTOnline via ZoomThinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. Learn how to integrate your ColdFusion application with Thinkific's API.https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/273472016/Recording: https://www.seattlecfug.org/presentations/ HacktoberFest 2020 - Last weekSupport open source and pick a limited edition T-shirt or plant a tree.Hacktoberfest® is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.Hacktoberfest is a celebration open to everyone in our global community.Pull requests can be made in participating GitHub-hosted repositories/projects, classified with the Hacktoberfest topic.You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/hacktoberfest-updateCFCasts Content UpdatesCFCasts just debuted bite-sized Spanish language videos! - Bases de la programación      - Introducción       - Conceptualización Parte 1Send your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/supportConferences and TrainingGroupBy ConferenceOctober 27-28GroupBy was started by Brent Ozar. In February 2019 GroupBy announced that it will remain a free, volunteer-run event, staffed with SQL Community volunteers. Price: Freehttps://groupby.org/ Ortus Workshops - Virtual Live training2 day Workshop - November 5-6, 2020 - Quick Workshop lead by Eric Petersonhttps://www.ortussolutions.com/eventsPodcast Code:PODCAST10 - 10% offDeploy - by Digital Ocean DigitalOcean’s first virtual global 24‑hour community conference.Starts November 10 at 10am ESTWhat to expect: - Over 80 tech-focused sessions - New product announcements - Developer-focused breakout rooms - Special keynotes - Hourly goody giveaways - Fun virtual rooms - Free and easy to RSVPhttps://www.digitalocean.com/deploy/Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit WestDate: November 17-19Location: Onlinehttps://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/Admission: FreeSpeakers now listed: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/speakers/Adobe ColdFusion Certification now available OnlineAdobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion is an industry-leading certification program from Adobe, for ColdFusion developers. The course consists of 50+ online videos and is designed for professionals who have basic to advanced level proficiency in any computer language and basic understanding of how web pages work. Successfully passing an assessment test at the end of the program will reward participants with a badge and certificate from Adobe. Introductory Offer: $499Blog: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/07/coldfusion-certification-online-now/Register: https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.htmlITB LatamDecember 3-4thLive Virtual Conference in Spanish and English!!!Price: $7.00https://latam.intothebox.org/https://www.ortussolutions.com/events More conferences: https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the WeekBlog - Ben Nadel - Considering Data Workflows Within A MongoDB Data-Access Layer In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61At InVision, I've consumed MongoDB databases. But, I've never actually created a MongoDB data-access layer on my own - I've only ever consumed one that was created by another team. That is, until last week. I've been working on a project to fold a "microservice" back into the "monolith" for easier maintenance; and, as part of that migration, I had to create a data-access layer in ColdFusion to read-from and write-to the subsumed service's MongoDB collections. This was a very interesting exercise; and, made me think about the differences between data workflows in a relational database (ex, MySQL) and those in a document database (ex, MongoDB). This gave me an opportunity to think deeply about how I might want to organize data workflows within a data-access layer that communicates with MongoDB in Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3914-considering-data-workflows-within-a-mongodb-data-access-layer-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-6-61.htm Blog - Ben Nadel - Experiment: Modeling Complex Data Structures As Nested Query Objects In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61One of the most exciting aspects of working with a Relational Database is the fact that you get you work with the ColdFusion Query object in your application code. The Query is just a wonderfully well-thought-out data-type with very pleasing developer ergonomics. But, once you start using a Document Database, with complex data structures, the Query object doesn't make much sense. Or does it? As a fun experiment, I wanted to see if I could take complex data structures, like the ones you might read from a Document Database, and model them using nested Query objects in Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3913-experiment-modeling-complex-data-structures-as-nested-query-objects-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-6-61.htm Blog - Ben Nadel - Using Closures To Encapsulate FileReadLine() Operations In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61In Episode 75 of the Modernize-or-Die podcast, Brad Wood talked about the fact that the fileReadLine() function in Lucee CFML was thread-safe; but, that you must remember to call fileClose() once you are done otherwise the files can remain locked. These days, whenever I hear "you have to remember" in a programming context, I think to myself, let's wrap that in a ColdFusion Closure so that I don't have to remember anything. This is a pattern that I've been using - and loving - more and more in my ColdFusion code. As such, I thought it would be fun to take a quick look at wrapping fileReadLine() operations in a ColdFusion Closure so that the file management is completely encapsulated in Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3912-using-closures-to-encapsulate-filereadline-operations-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-6-61.htm Blog - Ben Nadel - A Closer Look At Error Handling During Parallel Array Iteration In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61I've looked at using parallel array iteration in Lucee CFML before; I've even mentioned that the errors during parallel array iteration bubble-up to the parent page request. But, my mental model for error handling during parallel array iteration hasn't yet been fully formed. At least, not in a way that I can immediately summon it to the forefront of my mind. As such, I wanted to take a moment and look specifically at what happens when an error is thrown during parallel array iteration in Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3911-a-closer-look-at-error-handling-during-parallel-array-iteration-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-6-61.htm https://coldbox.ortusbooks.com/digging-deeper/promises-async-programmingBlog - Adam Cameron - Quickly running ColdFusion via DockerFirstly, don't take this as some sort of informed tutorial as to how things should be done. I am completely new to Docker, and don't yet know my arse from my elbow with it. Today I decided to look at an issue my mate was having with ColdFusion (see "ColdFusion: looking at an issue Mingo had with ehcache and cachePut and cacheGet"). These days I do not have CF installed anywhere, so to look into this issue, I needed to run it somehow. I was not gonna do an actual full install just for this. Also I've been trying - slowly -  to get up to speed with Docker, and this seemed to be a sitter for doing something newish with it. Also note that this is not the sort of issue I could just use trycf.com to run some code, as it required looking at some server config.All I'm gonna do here is document what I had to do today to solve the problem in that other article.http://blog.adamcameron.me/2020/10/quickly-running-coldfusion-via-docker.htmlBlog - Adam Cameron - ColdFusion: looking at an issue Mingo had with ehcache and cachePut and cacheGetBloody Coldfusion. OK so why am I writing about a ColdFusion issue? Well about 80% of it is "not having a great deal else to do today", about 10% of being interested in this issue Mingo found. And 10% it being an excuse to mess around with Docker a bit. I am currently - and slowly - teaching myself about Docker, so there's some practise for me getting a ColdFusion instance up and running on this PC (which I no-longer have any type of CFML engine installed on).OK so what's the issue….It looks like ColdFusion is like only putting a reference to the struct into cache. So any code changing the data in the struct is changing it in CFML as well as changing it in cache. This does not seem right.http://blog.adamcameron.me/2020/10/coldfusion-looking-at-issue-mingo-had.htmlTweet - James Moberg - CF2016 Tomcat out of dateCould you please investigate as to why Tomcat for #ColdFusion 2016 hasn't been updated? Since Oct 2019, CF2016 uses 8.5.42, but Tomcat (currently 8.5.58) has issued 7 security updates since then.https://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html#Apache_Tomcat_8.x_vulnerabilities   Thanks. #cfmlhttps://twitter.com/gamesover/status/1319336076377374721 https://twitter.com/gamesover Live stream - Matthew Clemente - Writing a CFML SDK for the Eversign API (Learning by Trial and Error)Impromptu live coding session here, working a CFML wrapper for the Eversign, e-signature API.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqtsxt-c4vUafeature=youtu.be Blog - Steve Bryant - Return a list of related records in SQL ServerI absolutely love SQL (especially SQL Server) and I love how I continually find new ways to solve problems with it. I wish I could remember where I first found this tip to give proper credit, but I really love it.Have you ever wanted to return a comma-delimited list of records in SQL Server? It turns out, that it is actually pretty easy to do.http://www.bryantwebconsulting.com/blog/index.cfm/2020/10/21/SQL-Server-Lists Blog - Ortus Solutions - Ending the Year on a High NoteAnd just like that it's almost the end of the year!  As such, we decided to make the most out of these last few months by scheduling exciting events.  Take a look at what's to comehttps://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/ending-the-year-on-a-high-note Blog - Pete Freitag - One liner to download a Browser with PowerShell on Windows ServerIt would be nice if Windows Server 2019 came with Microsoft Edge Browser, but it still comes with good old IE 11, and on a Windows Server, you have to jump through hoops to let IE download anything due to its default security settings.https://www.petefreitag.com/item/909.cfm Blog - Charlie Arehart - New updates released for Java 8 and 11, Oct 2020For those using the Long-term support (LTS) versions of Oracle Java, 8 and 11, please note that there were new updates released last week (Oct 20), specifically Java 11.0.9 and 8.0_271. For more on each, see the:release notes for java 11.0.9release notes for java 8.0_271https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/10/27/new_java_updates_for_Java_8_and_11_as_of_Oct_2020 CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 35 ColdFusion positions from 22 companies across 18 locations in 5 Countries, since July 1st3 new jobs this week.Full-Time - Senior ColdFusion developer at San Diego, CA - United States Posted Oct 23https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Senior-ColdFusionDev-at-SanDiego-CA/11126 Full-Time - ColdFusion Development Team Lead at Halifax, NS - Canada Posted Oct 21https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/canada/ColdFusion-Development-Team-Lead-at-Halifax-NS/11125 Full-Time - ColdFusion Development Team Lead at Halifax, NS - Canada Posted Oct 21https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/canada/ColdFusion-Development-Team-Lead-at-Halifax-NS/11127 Ortus is hiring:Senior ColdFusion CFML DeveloperAt Ortus you will be: - Modernizing web applications and helping companies move out of legacy hell - Teaming up with ColdFusion Experts in order to solve complex web development problems. - Testing and integrating new web technologies in order to create custom business implementations - Pushed to innovate constantly and create new solutions to web development problems - Leading project teams that deliver software that matters - US Timezone availability is a must - US Citizen or Resident or Work Visa is a musthttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careersForgeBox Module of the WeekJSoup by Don BellamyJust drop into your modules folder or use CommandBox to installhttps://www.forgebox.io/view/cbjsoupVS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekCopy Relative PathSimple little extension that gives you the relative path to a file.https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=alexdima.copy-relative-pathThank 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/ortussolutionsBen NadelBrett DeLineCarl Von StettenCharlie ArehartDa LiDan CardDaniel GarciaDavid BelangerDidier LesnickiDon BellamyEdgardo CabezasErick HoffmanGary KnightGiancarlo GomezJan JannekJason DaigerJeff McClainJeremy AdamsJonas EricksonJordan ClarkJoseph LamoreeKai Koenig Laksma TirtohadiMario Rodrigues Matthew DarbyMatthew Clemente Mingo HagenRoss PhillipsRyan HughesScott SteinbeckShawn Oden Steven KlotzSynaptrix Yogesh MathurYou can see an up to date list of all sponsors on Ortus Solutions' Websitehttps://ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★