2023-01-03 Weekly News - Episode 178

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/UR6jluFn3IM

Hosts: 

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. 
A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

 
Patreon Support ( exquisite )
Goal 1 - We have 43 patreons providing 100% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions
Goal 2 - We are 39% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

 
News and Announcements
No news.  Happy New Year!

New Releases and Updates

FORGEBOX v7.1.0 Released
30 Dec 2022
We are so happy to announce a minor release for our package management system. In this release, we take care of some bug fixes reported and a lot of work for our elastic search engine. Now better search results with an improved response time. We have updated our core modules to the latest versions for better security and performance.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/forgebox-v710-released

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Event Calendar for Google
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y181NjJhMWVmNjFjNGIxZTJlNmQ4OGVkNzg0NTcyOGQ1Njg5N2RkNGJiNjhjMTQwZjc3Mzc2ODk1MmIyOTQyMWVkQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20
 
Ortus Fridays are back in Full Effect in 2023

Conferences and Training

CF Summit Online

All the webinars, all the speakers from Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2022 – brought right to your screen. All sessions will soon be streamed online, for your convenience. Stay tuned for more!

MODERNIZING THROUGH EVOLUTION NOT REVOLUTION
Guust Nieuwenhuis
January 10, 2023 | 15:00 - 16:00 EST (1 hour)
Our company has grown over a quarter of a century, and across those years we have matured as developers and IT companies, refining both our tools and practices to a degree that the past seems hardly recognizable. Counter to this are the inevitable compromises, products of constrained timeframes, limited client budgets or strained resources. Projects inevitably lean more towards growth and depth than general modernization, to the point that they become difficult to maintain. So, what happens when the bugs add up and the monster emerges? Refactor? Rewrite from scratch? We’ve been involved in many such projects, internally and inherited both, and have learned there is no simple answer to the question “how do we move forward?” Through case studies and anecdotes I will explain what to look out for, from both a technical and business perspective.

EASIER API DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING - USE POSTMAN, WEBHOOK.SITE, AND NGROK TO ENHANCE YOUR WORKFLOW
Daniel Garcia
January 12, 2023 | 12:00 - 13:00 EST (1 hour)
Postman, Webhook.site, and ngrok are great tools that can really enhance your API development and testing workflow. PostMan is a cross-platform API Testing Tool with lots of awesome features, Webhook.site allows you to easily inspect, test, and automate any incoming HTTP request or e-mails, and ngrok enables you to expose a web server running on your local machine to the internet. These are must-have tools for any API developer (either creating or consuming). In short, these tools solve problems and best of all, they all have free versions which allow you to be very productive. My goal is that after this conference, you will start using at least one, if not all three, tools when you get home. I'm not saying using these tools will be life-changing, but I am also not not saying that either


SPREADSHEET MAGIC
Kevin Wright
January 19 | 12:00 - 13:00pm EST (1 hour)
Microsoft Office is the 'de facto' standard in most business environments. In this session we will look at different ways of integrating with one of the most used applications of the MS office suite, Excel. Come learn how to create, access and manipulate spreadsheets programmatically with the CFSPREADSHEET tag in ColdFusion. We will go beyond basic read and write features, and will delve into more advanced techniques like working with formulas and formatting, and creating multiple sheets. We will also look at examples of more complex types of spreadsheets by using lookups and even creating and embedding dynamic charts. FORMAT: Presentation with slides / live code review

OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY AND NFTS IN THE REAL WORLD
Masha Edelen and Nick Juntilla
January 24 | 14:00 - 15:00pm EST (1 hour)
Understanding the value and practical use cases of Non-Fungible Tokens in modern business applications. Learn how to get started using the blockchain and building your Web 3 strategy.



Website for CF Summit Online
https://cfsummit-online.meetus.adobeevents.com/

VUE.JS NATION CONFERENCE
January 25th & 26th 2023

https://vuejsnation.com/


VUEJS AMSTERDAM 2023
9-10 February 2023, Theater Amsterdam
World's Most Special and Largest Vue Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS AND BLIND TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!
https://vuejs.amsterdam/


Dev Nexus
April 4-6th in Georgia, Atlanta, 2023

https://devnexus.com/


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
Get Early Bird Tickets: https://ti.to/gitnation/vuejs-london-2022
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!!!
We are pleased to announce the call for speakers for the Into The Box Conference for 2023 is now officially open.
https://www.intothebox.org/blog/into-the-box-2023-call-for-speakers
https://itb2023.eventbrite.com/

CFCamp is back
June, 22-23rd 2023
Marriott Hotel Munich Airport, Freising
Call for Speakers coming in the New year
https://www.cfcamp.org/


More conferences

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

https://github.com/scraly/developers-conferences-agenda



Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week
 
12/29/22 - Blog - Ortus Solutions - Favorite 2022 Ortus Content
2022 was quite the year. For us, it was all about delivering exceptional content and service to our amazing community of developers. That's why we updated our tools, released new products, and announced upcoming projects and initiatives we are working on for 2023.
We know 2023 will be awesome but 2022 was amazing too. Read on and don't miss anything, review the top content we released in 2022 and improve your projects in 2023. Happy New Year!
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/review-the-favorite-ortus-content-of-2022

12/30/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Showing An Error Message In The OnError() Method In Application.cfc In CFML
One of the many great things about the ColdFusion (CFML) runtime is that it natively provides an event-based framework in the form of Application.cfc. This ColdFusion component allows us to tap into events such as application, session, and request initialization. It also allows us to define a global error handler via the onError() method. This method, however, is tricky to use because it means — by definition — that the error in question was not handled properly (by lower-level code). This makes the state of the request very unpredictable; which means that we need to introspect the request before we attempt to output any error message.

https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4378-showing-an-error-message-in-the-onerror-method-in-application-cfc-in-cfml.htm
 
CFML Jobs

Several positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/
Listing over 38 ColdFusion positions from 25 companies across 22 locations in 5 Countries.

1 new jobs listed this week

ColdFusion Developer (Remote)
Fort Washington, PA,  United States
M3 USA
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/CFDev-USRemote/11542


Other Job Links

ForgeBox Module of the Week
cbfs
The cbfs module will enable you to abstract ANY filesystem within your ColdBox applications. You can configure as many disks as you wish which represent file systems in your application. Each disk is backed by a storage provider and configurable within your ColdBox application.

Version 1.0.0 (and further patches) have been released. Includes a Local, RAM (great for testing!), and S3-compatible provider. That’s about all most of us need!  Contribute more providers to ForgeBox to fit your needs.

https://www.forgebox.io/view/cbfs
https://cbfs.ortusbooks.com/


VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the Week
CodeSnap

Take beautiful screenshots of your code in VS Code!

Features

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=adpyke.codesnap


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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.

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Don’t forget, we have Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses.

https://community.ortussolutions.com/

Top Patreons ( exquisite )

You can see an up to date list of all sponsors on Ortus Solutions' Website
https://ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors

Thanks everyone!!!