2021-09-14 Weekly News - Episode 119

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

Hosts:
 
Eric Peterson - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions
Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus Solutions


Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

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News and Events


Special Into the Box Announcement - ITB 2021 is now Hybrid!!!!

We will still be doing live in person, but with Covid numbers rising sharply, we are now offering online streaming tickets to all of those not willing or able to attend in person.
Check your tickets now!
If you sign up for a 1 year subscription to CFCasts by 9/22 you will get a free virtual ticket to ITB


No Podcast September 21st

With everything happening next week with the Into the Box Conference - we will not be live streaming a podcast that week.
We will be back, with a full ITB Recap on September 28th, after the conference.



Adobe ColdFusion Updates Released

We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions:

Note: The ColdFusion (2021 release) installers have also been refreshed with this update. The new server installers bundle Update 2 and JDK 11.0.11. The ColdFusion Add-Ons and other installers are bundled with JDK 11.0.11. The refreshed installers are available at ColdFusion downloads.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/09/coldfusion-2021-and-2018-september-updates/


Adobe CF 2021 Docker Images finally on DockerHub

I’m happy to be able to report that Adobe has finally started putting their ColdFusion Docker images onto Docker hub, for now at least CF2021, which I found was put there last week. We can expect more in time, I’m sure. For more info, read on.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/09/adobe-coldfusion-2021-docker-image-now-available-dockerhub/
https://hub.docker.com/u/adobecoldfusion


Adobe 1 Day Workshop - Adobe ColdFusion Workshop with Damien Bruyndonckx

Wed, September 22, 2021
09:00 - 17:00 CEST EUROPEAN
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.
https://coldfusion-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/


Adobe Webinar for September - Head in the clouds: Installing ColdFusion on Azure and AWS with Mark Takata

Wed, September 22, 2021
09:00 - 10:00 PDT
If you’ve been thinking about getting your CF instance moved into the cloud but don’t know where to start, this webinar will get you rolling. We will explore how to install, configure and update CF2021 installs in both Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure and give you tips and tricks on how to get things off the ground.
https://installing-coldfusion-on-azure-and-aws.meetus.adobeevents.com/



CFCasts Content Updates

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Conferences and Training


Into the Box 2021 - HYBRID - Live in Person in Texas. and Live Online

September 23rd and 24th.
Speakers and Schedule Released!!
https://intothebox.org
https://itb2021.eventbrite.com


Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2021

December 7th and 8th
Virtual
Register for Free - https://cfsummit.vconfex.com/site/adobe-cold-fusion-summit-2021/1290
Blog - https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/09/adobe-coldfusion-summit-2021-registrations-open/


More conferences

Need more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.
https://confs.tech/



Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week


Blog - Adobe - Adobe ColdFusion Updates Released

We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions:
ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 2
ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 12
Note: The ColdFusion (2021 release) installers have also been refreshed with this update. The new server installers bundle Update 2 and JDK 11.0.11. The ColdFusion Add-Ons and other installers are bundled with JDK 11.0.11. The refreshed installers are available at ColdFusion downloads.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/09/coldfusion-2021-and-2018-september-updates/


Blog - Ben Nadel - Producing And Consuming Amazon SQS Messages In Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201
A year ago, I shed some light on my quest to merge microservices back into my ColdFusion monolith. For my size team and the type of domain boundaries that we have, a monolith just makes the most sense. And while I've been thrilled with the progress my team has made in its re-consolidation efforts, there's one more microservice that I've had my eye on for a long time. This microservice has eluded my grasp, however, because it interacts with a message queue. And, to date, all parts of the legacy platform that deal with message queues live outside of the monolith. As such, if I ever want to pull this microservice back into the monolith, I have to figure out how to use message queues in ColdFusion. To start with, I wanted to see if I could simply produce and consume Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) messages in Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4110-producing-and-consuming-amazon-sqs-messages-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-8-201.htm


Blog - Ben Nadel - Separation Of Concerns When Consuming Amazon SQS Queues In Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201
Last week, I started to explore the consumption of Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) in a Lucee CFML application. That first post was a low-level look at the mechanics of using the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Java SDK to add and remove messages to and from a given queue, respectively. Today, I wanted to step back and start thinking about the separation of concerns in the larger ColdFusion application context.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4111-separation-of-concerns-when-consuming-amazon-sqs-queues-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-8-201.htm


Blog - Ben Nadel - Checking CFLock Acquisition Success In Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201
Yesterday, in my post about considering the separation of concerns when consuming Amazon SQS queues in Lucee CFML, I created a demo in which I synchronized long-polling requests through the use of an exclusive CFLock tag. For the demo, I had logging in place to trace the workflow of each request; and, as I was putting it together, I noticed that the CFLock tag - at least in Lucee CFML - has an optional result attribute. This result attribute can be used to check whether or not the template was able to successfully access a given lock.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4112-checking-cflock-acquisition-success-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-8-201.htm


Blog - Charlie Arehart - Adobe ColdFusion 2021 Docker image now available on dockerhub
I’m happy to be able to report that Adobe has finally started putting their ColdFusion Docker images onto Docker hub, for now at least CF2021, which I found was put there last week. We can expect more in time, I’m sure. For more info, read on.
This is a follow-up to my post in July reporting how Adobe had announced then their plans to create a Dockerhub repo for ColdFusion, and how they had already started to post images to the Amazon ECR repo for ColdFusion.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/09/adobe-coldfusion-2021-docker-image-now-available-dockerhub/


Blog - Charlie Arehart - Finding default/initial CF admin config (neo-*.xml) files, now at cfmlrepo.com
Have you ever wished to obtain a copy of one CF's neo-*.xml files (like neo-cron.xml), for the purpose of setting yours back to its defaults? Folks sometimes need to do that to recover from certain problems.
I've seen the problem raised often enough that when I saw someone raising it this weekend, I decided to solve it by creating a new folder in the cfmlrepo.com site, at least for CF2021 and CF2018 (for now), offering there the initial versions of all the neo-*.xml files for those two editions.
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2021/9/13/finding_default_cf_admin_config_files_now_at_cfmlrepo_dot_com/


Tweet - James Moberg - Non Breaking Space Highlighter for VS Code
The "Non-breaking space highlighter" @code extension has been beneficial in identifying non-ASCII spaces.  ow.ly/MyZT50G5IZj (I made the mistake of using @evernote for #cfml code snippets not knowing that it would add lots of UTF-8 chars to preserve spacing.)
https://twitter.com/gamesover/status/1435303007726587904
https://twitter.com/gamesover


Blog - Java - Introducing the Free Java License
Oracle is making the industry leading Oracle JDK available for free, including all quarterly security updates.  This includes commercial and production use.
https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk-faqs.html



CFML Jobs

Several positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/
Listing over 190 ColdFusion positions from 85 companies across 111 locations in 5 Countries.

9 new jobs listed (3 possible duplicate positions)

Full-Time - ColdFusion Web Developer for SaaS Provider at Remote - United States
Sep 14
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-Web-Developer-for-SaaS-Provider-at-Remote/11337

Full-Time - Sr. ColdFusion Developer at Alexandria, VA - United States
Sep 14
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Sr-ColdFusion-Developer-at-Alexandria-VA/11336

Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer | 4 to 6 years | Pune at Pune, Maharash.. - India
Sep 13
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/india/ColdFusion-Developer-4-to-6-years-Pune-at-Pune-Maharashtra/11335

Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer | 4 to 6 years | Pune at Pune, Maharash.. - India
Sep 13
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/india/ColdFusion-Developer-4-to-6-years-Pune-at-Pune-Maharashtra/11334

Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at Herndon, VA - United States
Sep 11
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-Developer-at-Herndon-VA/11333

Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at Herndon, VA - United States
Sep 10
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-Developer-at-Herndon-VA/11332

Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at Ocean Isle Beach - United States
Sep 09
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/viewjob.cfm?jobid=11331

Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at Oklahoma City, OK - United States
Sep 08
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-Developer-at-Oklahoma-City-OK/11330

Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at Oklahoma City, OK - United States
Sep 08
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-Developer-at-Oklahoma-City-OK/11329



ForgeBox Module of the Week

Upchunk by Michael Born

Chunked uploads 🥧
Non-chunked uploads 🍪
DropZone support ✅
Uploader.js support ✅
Easily extendable for other vendors

https://www.forgebox.io/view/upchunk



VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the Week

VSCode Spotify

Vscode-spotify - shyykoserhiy |  152,990 installs

Use Spotify inside vscode. Provides integration with Spotify Desktop client.
Note that some of the functionalities are only available on macOS systems (see How it works section)
This extension requires Spotify Premium to work on Windows

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=shyykoserhiy.vscode-spotify



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