2023-04-18 Weekly News - Episode 192

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/Wq-mb05vAnM?feature=share  

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Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

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News and Announcements

ICYMI - State of the CF Union 2023 Released

Help us find out the state of the CF Union – what versions of CFML Engine do people use, what frameworks, tools etc.

https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2023-survey 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dubo741aTc 

New Releases and Updates

ICYMI - Introducing the CFML Jupyter Kernel

Jason Steinshouer created a new CFML Jupyter Kernel powered by CommandBox. This project is open source, and hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/jsteinshouer/cfml-jupyter-kernel.

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

TODAY - Exploring APIS: Building Applications with ColdFusion, REST, & GraphQL

Mark Takata

April 18, 2023

10 AM - 11 AM PT

Online

In this session, Mark Takata will demonstrate the power of ColdFusion's data access capabilities by building three different applications. These applications will include a Google Translate clone, a low-code Contacts Manager, and an ETL workflow that integrates no-SQL with a relational database. Mark will use a combination of built-in ColdFusion tooling and freely available third-party integrations to build these applications, providing attendees with valuable insights into ColdFusion's API & data access development capabilities. All code samples will be available on GitHub following the talk in order to help attendees kick-start their own versions of the apps.

TODAY -  Mid Michigan ColdFusion Users Group - Ins and outs of CFSetup with Randy Brown of Michigan State

Tuesday, April 18th at 7pm EDT
Randy Brown from Michigan State is going to show us the ins and outs of CFSetup. 

CFSetup is a tool to assist administrators and DevOps with setting migration.

https://tinyurl.com/3ek34ww2 

Sac Interactive Meetup - Crash Course in Web Components with Nolan Erck

Wednesday - April 19th, 2023 - 6:30PM PT

Web Components provide a modular way to build a consistent design system and user experience across your entire application. Instead of copy/pasting the same chunks of coded into various places, you can have a JavaScript/HTML expert focus on getting the UX correct, without them needing to worry about what's happening in the back-end at all.

Web Components offer reusable functionality on the front-end, with native JavaScript. They are a great middle-ground between standard request/response based traditional web applications, and apps that aren't quite ready to move to a full-on JavaScript SPA framework. Web Components themselves are 100% native JavaScript - no new libraries required! Let's learn how Web Components work, then look at integrating them into a back-end like CFML or PHP -- I promise it's easier than you think!

https://www.meetup.com/sacinteractive/events/292762638/ 

CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

New Features

Recent Releases

Coming Soon

Conferences and Training

SKIP - Cover it in the VS CODE HINT TIP 

VS Code Day 

April 26, 2023 - 10AM - 4PM PT

VS Code Day is our annual event where you'll learn how to elevate your development workflow using the latest and greatest features of VS Code. You'll hear from members of the VS Code team and other VS Code experts on topics like AI-powered programming with GitHub Copilot, coding anywhere with remote development, bringing data science to the cloud, and more. Whether you're just starting out or you're an experienced developer, join us on April 26, 2023 for a day focused on the editor that lets you code anything, cross-platform and free!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/learn-events/vs-code-day-2023/ 

J on the Beach

Bringing DevOps, Devs and Data Scientists together around Big Data
May 10-12, 2023 
Malaga, Spain

https://www.jonthebeach.com/
Ortus Profile: https://www.jonthebeach.com/jobs/54/Ortus%20Solutions

VueJS Live 

MAY 12 & 15, 2023

ONLINE + LONDON, UK
CODE / CREATE / COMMUNICATE

35 SPEAKERS, 10 WORKSHOPS

10000+ JOINING ONLINE GLOBALLY

300 LUCKIES MEETING IN LONDON

https://vuejslive.com/ 

Into the Box 2023 - 10th Edition

May 17-19, 2023 

The conference will be held in The Woodlands (Houston), Texas - 

This year we will continue the tradition of training and offering a pre-conference hands-on training day on May 17th and our live Mariachi Band Party! However, we are back to our Spring schedule and beautiful weather in The Woodlands! Also, this 2023 will mark our 10 year anniversary. So we might have two live bands and much more!!!
IN PERSON ONLY 

https://itb2023.eventbrite.com/ 

1 month away - can’t wait, watch videos from the last 4 years on CFCasts

VueConf.us

NEW ORLEANS, LA • MAY 24-26, 2023

Jazz. Code. Vue.

Workshop day: May 24

Main Conference: May 25-26

https://vueconf.us/ 

CFCamp - Pre-Conference - Ortus has 3 Trainings

June 21st, 2023
Held at the CFCamp venue at the Marriott Hotel Munich Airport in Freising.

https://www.cfcamp.org/pre-conference.html 

CFCamp

June 22-23rd, 2023

Marriott Hotel Munich Airport, Freising

Check out all the great sessions: https://www.cfcamp.org/sessions.html

Check out all the great speakers: https://www.cfcamp.org/cfcamp-conference-2023/speakers.html
Register now: https://www.cfcamp.org/

More conferences

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

Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week

Any #ColdFusion or SQL devs want to share tips regarding best method bypass 2,100 SQL param limit when using a list of unknown length in an "IN" query?

I validated a list of INTs & dynamically generated a VALUES() constructor string to use w/CTE. No temp vars/tables. #fast #cfml

https://twitter.com/gamesover/status/1645501538130087936?s=20 

We are excited to announce our participation at CFCamp 2023; We will be leading a couple of workshops at the Pre-Conference of the event on Wednesday, June 21st, in Munich, Germany; Luis Majano, Eric Peterson, Dan Card, and Brad Wood will be the experts leading the workshops and bringing you a deep dive into Modern CFML and up-to-date web development tools to improve your projects and maximize your programming skills.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cfcamp-pre-conference-workshops 

In the vast majority of cases, submit buttons are a descendant element, contained with the form on which they act. Sometimes, however - due to things like page layout constraints - an "external" button needs to trigger a non-parent form submission. Historically, I would have reached for JavaScript to get this done. But, I just learned that any button can natively target any form on the page by using the form attribute and a matching id value.

4/14/23 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Building Resilient Feature Flags That "Fail Open" In ColdFusion
When it comes to feature flags, I'm a super fan! I believe that they fundamentally change everything about product development (See Video Presentation). But, with that super power comes complexity. Feature flags mean branching logic and transient state. And, this complexity is only amplified when you have to reconcile a long-running process, like a Single-Page Application (SPA). One way to help reduce complexity is design resilient feature flags so that they "fail open". This makes it much easier to clean up your ColdFusion server without breaking your client-side code.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4448-building-resilient-feature-flags-that-fail-open-in-coldfusion.htm

In the Hotwire JavaScript framework, Turbo Streams give us the ability to manipulate the DOM (Document Object Model) in response to POST requests (and some GET requests). These DOM manipulations are performed through a set of defined "actions''. Turbo provides some default actions; but, we can create our own custom Turbo Stream actions in order to add even more functionality. One thing that I would love to have is a [selector] attribute on the <turbo-stream> element that would limit the operation to a sub-tree of the <template> content. I believe that this would give me more flexibility when it comes to reusing my ColdFusion templates.

https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4450-selecting-portions-of-a-turbo-stream-template-with-custom-actions.htm 

4/18/2023 - Brad Wood

Pleased to get another pull request merged into Lucee 6 last week.  Native support for the SQL rand() function in Query of Query.  #CFML #ColdFusion

https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-4446 

https://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1648387671880769544 

CFML Jobs

Several positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/

Listing over 61 ColdFusion positions from 39 companies across 30 locations in 5 Countries.

Full-Time - Senior Software Engineer - ColdFusion Developer at Bengaluru.. - India 

Posted Apr 12

ForgeBox Module of the Week

JavaFX Demo

This CommandBox module is a proof of concept to launch a cross-platform compatible native JavaFX app from the CLI.

After installing the module, run

javafx-demo

from the CommandBox shell. It will download JDK 17 and the JavaFX libraries the first time and then launch the demo app found here:

https://github.com/jfree/jfree-fxdemos 

https://www.forgebox.io/view/javafx-demo 

VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the Week

VS Code Day

April 26, 2023 - 10AM - 4PM PT

VS Code Day is our annual event where you'll learn how to elevate your development workflow using the latest and greatest features of VS Code. You'll hear from members of the VS Code team and other VS Code experts on topics like AI-powered programming with GitHub Copilot, coding anywhere with remote development, bringing data science to the cloud, and more. Whether you're just starting out or you're an experienced developer, join us on April 26, 2023 for a day focused on the editor that lets you code anything, cross-platform and free!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/learn-events/vs-code-day-2023/ 

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