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2020-03-31 Weekly News - Episode 47Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/NnzwvdWDUsMHosts:Brad Wood - Senior Developer for Ortus SolutionsGavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsGet trained by the actual makers of the ColdBox Platform, CommandBox, TestBox and ContentBox Modular CMS. We offer on-site training, regional training seminars and virtual live training as well. We have several professional training courses to choose from and we can also cater to a-la-carte trainings as well.https://www.ortussolutions.com/services/trainingPatreon SupportWe are at the 41% mark for fully funding all of our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: patreon.com/ortussolutions . If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community consider chipping in, we are almost there!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help News and EventsLucee Announcing Lucee 5.3.5.92 (final) and 5.3.4.80 (hotfix)First, here’s a big picture update about recent development efforts. First, regarding the previous final release of Lucee–5.3.4.77–most folks by now have noticed there was a “silent release,” and in fact the latest final build of 5.3.4 is 5.3.4.80. This was actually a hotfix, which ended up being related to some especially challenging ongoing bugs, which we’d thought we’d fixed by 5.3.4.77, but hadn’t. Thus, working closely with the community, and in particular a couple of member organizations who really help a ton with iterative testing, we decided the fixes were important enough to warrant a hotfix release, which came out very quickly (~ 2 weeks) after the original final build. So quickly, in fact, that we got behind on a formal post about it (that’s on me; apologies!). In parallel, we were working on finalizing the latest 5.3.5 release candidate. We found some regressions during the RC period, and in addition, many of the 5.3.4 hotfixes made it into 5.3.5 as well. Details on both final builds are below.https://dev.lucee.org/t/announcing-lucee-5-3-5-92-final-and-5-3-4-80-hotfix/6801Adobe CF2020 -  No more GUI based installers for ColdFusion next? – Need your feedbackMany of you may have also heard about some of the changes that we are making to the product, such as reducing the overall size of the installer to around 200 MB. We are able to accomplish this because we are breaking the CF runtime into tiny modules that can be installed on demand whenever needed.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/03/no-gui-based-installers-coldfusion-next-need-feedback/cbSecurity 2.3 ReleasedWe are excited to bring you another release for cbSecurity packed with security goodness: version 2.3.0. This version focuses on security contexts from ANY layer of a ColdBox application. It will also enhance your functional skills as well, as it introduces some nice semantics for securing your code.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbsecurity-23-releasedQb v7.6.0 is releasedSmall quality of life improvements. https://qb.ortusbooks.com/whats-new#7-6-0CBGuard v4.1.1 is releasedcbguard now allows you to check for authorization at any point in the request lifecycle using the Guard@cbguard component.https://www.forgebox.io/view/cbguardColdBox 6 Beta is closeLuis has been working on the RestController in ColdBox 6.Beta could be out as early as next week!!!What's New In CommandBox 5  Screencast Series - Library UpdatesLearn about the new libraries in CommandBox and how to determine the current version of Lucee that your CLI is running.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/whats-new-in-commandbox-5-library-updatesMatthew Clementes CommandBox Screencast and Live Stream SeriesMatthew has done 4 live streams, and released 2 other screencasts already. Usually streams Wednesday at 8:30PM ESTSubscribe to keep up to date with his latest videos and streams.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC09HBVzOOyx1bdgRgo2CB4AContentBox CMS Customer Experience SurveyContentBox, our signature professional open-source modular content management system for ColdFusion (CFML),  recently celebrated 8 years in the market. For sure, it has been a solid base for many companies to easily build websites, blogs, wikis, complex web applications, and RESTFul web services. We are ramping up our planning for our next generation of the ContentBox platform and we need your feedback.Please take some time to let us know your opinion, so we can start cooking some CMS goodness!https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScs2sbby0zLu6kJSQA_VqT5-ZGYsLpCI7IRgJMepxPk-BG8gw/viewformUpcoming Adobe Webinar - Journey through the Adobe ColdFusion Performance Monitoring ToolPresenter: Elishia DvorakApril 9th, 11am PDT This session is all about demos, no slides! From start to finish, we’ll take you through the nitty gritty of troubleshooting and setting yourself up in Adobe’s ColdFusion Performance Monitoring Tool to troubleshoot the main issues that keep you awake at night. We’ll run through setting up different types of notifications, threshold settings, auto tuning, and even some simulations to give you a good sense of how the PMT can help you diagnose your craziest ColdFusion issues.https://cfwebinar-journey-pmt.meetus.adobeevents.com/In case you missed it - Adobe Webinar - Microservices Architecture: Trends and ChallengesPresenter: Elishia DvorakMarch 25th, 9am PDT In this session we’ll focus our discussion on microservices trends, architecture, and challenges. The reality for most of us is that our applications have organically grown over the years and exist today in different states. We typically inherit a hybrid of monolith with the addition of services and integrated disparate systems. Much of the time we do not have the opportunity to start from the ground up, rather build from a certain point for modernization and future growth. The ability to completely modernize and decouple the entire architecture is limited by resources and budget constraints among other factors. In this session we’ll review some of the current trends in microservices architecture with a focus on existing application transformation and challenges. Register and view recording: https://cfwebinar-trends.meetus.adobeevents.com/In case you missed it - Fusion Reactor Webinar - Installing FusionReactor in dynamic environments25 March - 3PM EST - 7PM UTCThis session will cover how to automate the installation of FusionReactor via Docker and CommandBox as well as answer any questions you may have related to the install of FusionReactor.With special guest: Brad WoodRecording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPpjVv5E4G4afeature=youtu.beIn case you missed it - Ortus Webinar - CBElasticSearch with Michael BornMarch 27th at 11:00 AM EST (GMT -5:00)with Michael BornRecording: https://vimeo.com/401389214More Ortus Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinarsReminder: State of the CF Union 2020 SurveyVOTE FOR OUR PODCASTSHelp us find out the state of the CF Union – what versions of CFML Engine do people use, what frameworks, tools etc. We will share the summary results with everyone who completes the survey so that you can see how you compare with other CF developers.Most questions are multiple choice checkboxes that are fast to answer. Thanks for your time completing this survey!https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2020/ConferencesAdobe CF Summit East 2020 - Cancelledhttps://carahevents.carahsoft.com/CFSummit2020/Adobe - ColdFusion Specialist Certification POST Conference - CANCELLEDhttps://carahevents.carahsoft.com/CFSummit2020/Custom?id=3408Ortus Solutions - Build Secure MVC ColdFusion Applications - Pre Conference - Cancelledhttps://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/ortus-solutions-dc-workshop-is-cancelled-due-to-covid-19-concernsInto the Box 2020 - Virtual Online ConferenceThe conference will take place on the same days, with the same schedule, all online.Sessions will be streamed live and recorded so attendees can watch all the sessions, even the sessions they cannot attend.Keynote will be streamed live for free.The conference tickets are $199 ( massive discount from the in person conference )Register now: https://intothebox.org/Previous ITB Videos on SaleCan’t wait for this year’s ITB, you can watch videos from last year and the year before for price of $9.99 each. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/itb2019https://vimeo.com/ondemand/intothebox2018WorkshopsWorkshops are being refunded and will be scheduled at later times to give everyone an opportunity to attend one or more workshops as they are delivered online.DockerCon - LiveMay 28, 2020 : 9:00 - 5:00 PM GMT-7 (PDT)DockerCon is going digital with theCUBE! We’ve designed a 1-day conference that’s free and completely online. You’ll hear from speakers in live interviews with theCUBE, hang out with Docker experts in the live hallway track, and watch recorded sessions while chatting live with the speakers.Choose from 3 simultaneously streaming channels or jump between them all to experience DockerCon your way.https://www.docker.com/dockercon/CF Summit WestTBACF CampTBAMore conferences: https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the WeekBlog - Ben Nadel - Exploring The Power Of Multiple Cursors And Selections In Sublime Text 3For the past few years, I've been using - and loving - the Sublime Text (ST3) editor. In fact, I find it so enjoyable, that I've never even looked at any of the new editors that seem to be gaining popularity. One of the Sublime Text features that I couldn't live without is the ability to use multiple cursors and mutate multiple selections at the same time. I know this isn't a proprietary feature of Sublime Text; but, I find that it gives me a massive productivity boost in my day-to-day software development. As such, I thought it would be fun to explore the multi-cursor / multi-selection features more in-depth.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3798-exploring-the-power-of-multiple-cursors-and-selections-in-sublime-text-3.htmBlog - Fusion Reactor - 5 things you should check every day to ensure your application healthThe notification email address is where FusionReactor will send the daily, weekly and monthly reports to and is also the email used to send crash protection notifications. If you have not done this already, it’s very important to set this up as soon as possible.Configure your mail settings within the FusionReactor settings page. Then do these 5 things everyday.http://www.fusion-reactor.com/news/5-things-you-should-check-every-day-to-ensure-your-application-health/Tweet - @nerdvision - New product from the makers of Fusion-ReactorFind bugs faster in @Adobe @coldfusion  - Free, simple, collaborative debugging nerd.vision #CFMLhttps://twitter.com/NerdVision/status/1243539784775106560https://twitter.com/NerdVisionBlog - Ben Nadel - Putting DEBUG Comments In Your SQL Statements Makes FusionReactor Query Tracing More EffectiveFor years, I've been advocating that people put DEBUG comments in their SQL statements to help identify performance bottlenecks in their applications. I feel so strongly about this that I'm absolutely nonplussed whenever I see a SQL query show-up in the MySQL slow-log or the process-list without a DEBUG statement. Recently, we installed FusionReactor at work; and, I was thrilled to see that my DEBUG statements were showing up in the database profiling that FusionReactor provides.… I'd be surprised if other ORMs don't offer some means to either add comments directly; or, a way to extend the ORM with said functionality.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3797-putting-debug-comments-in-your-sql-statements-makes-fusionreactor-query-tracing-more-effective.htmBlog - Ben Nadel - Deleting Data From A Table Using An INNER JOIN DELETE Query In MySQL 5.6.37Earlier this week, I took a look at using an INNER JOIN within an UPDATE statement in MySQL in order to copy data from one table to another. To complement that post, I wanted to take a quick look at how an INNER JOIN can also be used in a DELETE statement to allow for the deleting of records that are constrained by a cross-table relationship in MySQL 5.6.37.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3796-deleting-data-from-a-table-using-an-inner-join-delete-query-in-mysql-5-6-37.htmBlog - Lucee - Announcing Lucee 5.3.5.92 (final) and 5.3.4.80 (hotfix)First, here’s a big picture update about recent development efforts. First, regarding the previous final release of Lucee–5.3.4.77–most folks by now have noticed there was a “silent release,” and in fact the latest final build of 5.3.4 is 5.3.4.80. This was actually a hotfix, which ended up being related to some especially challenging ongoing bugs, which we’d thought we’d fixed by 5.3.4.77, but hadn’t. Thus, working closely with the community, and in particular a couple of member organizations who really help a ton with iterative testing, we decided the fixes were important enough to warrant a hotfix release, which came out very quickly (~ 2 weeks) after the original final build. So quickly, in fact, that we got behind on a formal post about it (that’s on me; apologies!). In parallel, we were working on finalizing the latest 5.3.5 release candidate. We found some regressions during the RC period, and in addition, many of the 5.3.4 hotfixes made it into 5.3.5 as well. Details on both final builds are below.https://dev.lucee.org/t/announcing-lucee-5-3-5-92-final-and-5-3-4-80-hotfix/6801Blog - Pete Freitag - 6 ways to stay connected with other CF developersLooking for a few ways to stay connected with other ColdFusion developers? Here's a few of my favorites:https://www.petefreitag.com/item/896.cfmBlog - Ben Nadel - Array.Sort() Operator Must Return INT-Sized Result In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80A few weeks ago, I wrote about using Subtraction to power the Array Sort operator in Lucee CFML. This has become my go-to approach for sorting arrays. However, yesterday, I ran into an edge-case in which Subtraction was throwing an error. It turns out, the number returned from the array.sort() operator has to fit into a Java int in Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3795-array-sort-operator-must-return-int-sized-result-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-4-80.htmBlog - Ben Nadel - Now Using utf8mb4 To Enable Emoji In My CommentsThis post is mostly here so that I can test the comment feature in production. I just updated my blog_comment table to use the utf8mb4 character set, which means that it can now support Emoji characters:https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3794-now-using-utf8mb4-to-enable-emoji-in-my-comments.htmBlog - Rakshith Naresh - No more GUI based installers for ColdFusion next? – Need your feedbackMany of you may have also heard about some of the changes that we are making to the product, such as reducing the overall size of the installer to around 200 MB. We are able to accomplish this because we are breaking the CF runtime into tiny modules that can be installed on demand whenever needed.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/03/no-gui-based-installers-coldfusion-next-need-feedback/Video / Tweet - Matthew Clemente - CommandBox VideosAnother video added to my playlist covering CommandBox custom commands! In this one, I demonstrate how to incorporate user settings into your modules:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idYHk7_jvDQafeature=youtu.be#CFML #ColdFusionhttps://twitter.com/mjclemente84/status/1242892997190180864https://twitter.com/mjclemente84Blog - Ben Nadel - Tag Islands And CFScript-Based Tags Bring Perfection To ColdFusion In Lucee CFML 5.3.4.80In February of this year, I wrote two back-to-back posts about fascinating features of Lucee CFML. First, that you could use all ColdFusion tags in CFScript using a consistent syntax (thanks Gert Franz); and, second, that Lucee CFML supports Tag Islands within CFScript (thanks Andrew Kretzer). In the month-and-half since those posts, I've come to believe that these two features truly round-out the ColdFusion feature set in a fundamental way, bringing an elegant perfection to the language. And, I'm freaking out that people aren't freaking out over it!To be clear, I am not saying that Lucee CFML is flawless. Just like any other programming language, it has bugs and performance issues. But, I do feel in my core that the aforementioned features close the loop on the CFScript-based syntax in such a way that makes CFScript feel, well, perfect.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3793-tag-islands-and-cfscript-based-tags-bring-perfection-to-coldfusion-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-4-80.htmBlog - Zac Spitzer - New Function inspectTemplates() in 5.3.6inspectTemplates() let you flag all file compiled code the in the cache to be checked Once (Good) again, useful when you have Inspect templates set to Never (Best Performance).https://dev.lucee.org/t/new-function-inspecttemplates-in-5-3-6/6790CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 18 ColdFusion positions from 17 companies across 15 locations in 5 Countries3 new jobs this week.Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer (OKC) at Oklahoma City, OK - United States Posted Mar 27https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-Developer-OKC-at-Oklahoma-City-OK/11040Full-Time - SENIOR COLDFUSION DEVELOPER at Washington, DC - United States Posted Mar 25https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/SENIOR-COLDFUSION-DEVELOPER-at-Washington-DC/11039Full-Time - ColdFusion developer at Oakland, CA - United States Posted Mar 24https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-developer-at-Oakland-CA/11038Other JobsTweet from @farredeh Immediate 6 month #ColdFusion Developer contract in Reston, VA. Must have strong #SQL stored procedures skills. Onsite (but will be remote until Covid-19 is clear). Please PM or email Farredeh at Tier4Group dot com for immediate consideration. #jobs #coldfusion #cmfl #HiringForgeBox Module of the WeekCFBarcode4J by Travis PetersWrapper around Barbecue - a Java barcode printing library.Can return a cfimage or write it to the browserbox install CFBarcode4Jhttps://www.forgebox.io/view/CFBarcode4JVS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekVS Code Remote DevelopmentVisual Studio Code Remote Development allows you to use a container, remote machine, or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a full-featured development environment. No source code needs to be on your local machine to get these benefits. Each extension in the Remote Development extension pack can run commands and other extensions directly inside a container, in WSL, or on a remote machine so that everything feels like it does when you run locally.https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overviewThank you to all of our Patreon SupportersNew Patreon Supporter Shawn Oden and Ben Nadel.These individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox, ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need, and funds the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox. You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutionsBen NadelDa LiDan  CardDaniel GarciaDavid  BelangerDidier  Lesnicki Don  BellamyErick HoffmanGary  KnightJan  JannekJeremy AdamsJordan ClarkJoseph  LamoreeKatie HolmesLaksma  TirtohadiMatthew ClementeMingo HagenRyanScott SteinbeckShawn OdenSteven KlotzSynaptrixYogesh  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 ★