2022-06-28 Weekly News - Episode 154

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/gxH11vBPuGA

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

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Goal 2 - We are 44% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io


News and Announcements


Ortus CF Summit Training Workshop

ColdBox Zero to MegaHero : REST APIs + VueJS Mobile App
Oct 5th and 6th - After CF Summit Conference
Lead by Luis Majano & Gavin Pickin
Price: $799 - Early bird pricing
Location: Aria - In the luxurious Executive Hospitality Suite like 2019
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ortus-cf-summit-training-workshop-tickets-375306340367

The Suite practically doubled it’s prices but we’re working hard to keep the costs to the attendees the same
4 days of amazing content, for only $899 - that’s a steal in Vegas


INTO THE BOX - Updates

Into the Box Super Early Bird ticket pricing is over, but you can still get the Early Bird. Last week we had more episodes of the Modernize or Die Podcast - Conference Edition for ITB 2022 and announced the first 2 groups of Pre-Conference Track for Into the Box.

This week we're going to be announcing more speakers for the Pre Conference Track as well as the last chance for the Early Bird Tickets

Announcing - Pre-Conference - First set of Speakers Announced

Due to Covid and other reasons, some of the CFML Community Speakers will not be able to make this years Into the Box - but we wanted to include them anyways. To do that, last week we announced a Pre-Conference / 3rd Track for ITB. Read more about it here. Today we're happy to announce our first set of speakers for our Pre-Conference Track.
http://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-pre-conference-first-set-of-speakers-announced


ITB 2022 Podcast Series - Workshop - Async Programming & Scheduling with Luis Majano & Eric Peterson

This podcast is a special podcast for attendees or undecided attendees, to get a view of what the workshop has to offer. Luis Majano and Eric Peterson talk about their upcoming workshop at Into the Box, he talks about who the ideal audience is, and why they should attend. He talks about what will the workshop cover, the requirements for the workshop, and what he hopes the attendees will leave the workshop with. In this workshop, attendees will explore the concepts of asynchronous and parallel programming with the ColdBox Async Manager and Java’s Completable Futures APIs. They will explore the concept of async computations, async pipelines, exception handling, scheduling and so much more. Pain medication is included!

http://www.intothebox.org/blog/itb-2022-podcast-series-workshop-async-programming-scheduling-with-luis-majano-eric-peterson


Announcing - Pre-Conference - Second set of Speakers Announced

Due to Covid and other reasons, some of the CFML Community Speakers will not be able to make this years Into the Box - but we wanted to include them anyways. To do that, last week we announced a Pre-Conference / 3rd Track for ITB. Read more about it here. Today we're happy to announce our second set of speakers for our Pre-Conference Track.

http://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-pre-conference-second-set-of-speakers-announced


After much discussion and debate, we eventually decided, in the efforts to maximize content, and ensuring we have speakers in front of attendees, the best option was to host a third track for the conference, and we’re calling it the pre-conference track.

The format:

Confirmed Speakers ( more to come )

New Releases and Updates


ColdBox 6.7.0 Released

I am incredibly excited to announce the release of ColdBox v6.7.0 and its standalone companion libraries: CacheBox, LogBox and WireBox. This is an action packed release for all internal libraries with a big focus on performance, async programming, task scheduling and testing.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-670-released


ICYMI - Mailgun Support for ColdBox Mail Services

I am very excited to announce the support for the Mailgun email delivery service in our ColdBox Mail Services module (cbmailservices) thanks to Scott Steinbeck. Mailgun is an email delivery service for sending, receiving, and tracking emails.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/mailgun-support-for-coldbox-mail-services


ICYMI - Galaxie Blog 3 is Now Released

I am proud to announce that Galaxie Blog 3 is finally released. It was our goal to build one of the most comprehensive HTML5-based blogging platforms that meets or exceeds the out-of-the-box core blogging functionality of major platforms like WordPress. Take a look and see- with Galaxie Blog 3, I think that you will also agree that we delivered on that goal.
https://www.gregoryalexander.com/blog/2022/6/9/Galaxie-Blog-3-is-Now-Released



Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - “How to find, install and implement 3rd party libraries in CFML” with Gavin Pickin

Thursday, June 23, 2022
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDT
In this meetup, Gavin will show you how to find, install and implement 3rd party libraries in ColdFusion / CFML. He will look at how to find them, how to install them, whether they are zips, gists, copy page, package managers, or even Java Jar files. We’ll look at the pros and cons of different approaches, and discuss the best practices for using those 3rd party libraries.
Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/286569044/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFhmcaUpzHY&t=4s


Online CF Meetup - "Planning and Building my Developer Feud Quiz API", with Gavin Pickin

Thursday, July 7, 2022
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDT
In this session, we are going to plan and build our very own Developer Feud Quiz. To do this, we will analyze and plan our app, starting with the User Stories, and then mapping that to Database, Models, and we can start building out our API, using CRUDDY by Design philosophies. We’ll shell out our TDD style Tests, and then create a couple of resources and routes.
Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/286853927/


ICYMI - Live Stream Series - Koding with the Kiwi + Friends

Special Guest - Sam Knowlton and David Rogers - Talking about Quick & qb
Friday, June 24th, at 1pm PDT
Gavin, Sam and David talked about Quick, qb, some tricks. Sam shared the story of their journey towards quick. Gavin made a fool of himself, trying to remember some code, that only seems to exist in his mind. He did show a chunk of code that uses quick to retrieve the queries not objects, and then merges children records, resulting in 2 queries, instead of n+1.
CFCasts: https://cfcasts.com/series/koding-with-the-kiwi-+-friends/videos/20220624-koding-with-the-kiwi-+-friends-sam-knowlton-and-david-rogers-talk-quick-and-qb


Live Stream Series - Koding with the Kiwi + Friends

Special Guest - Daniel Garcia - talking about OpenAPI and Swagger Documentation
Friday July 1st, at 1pm PDT

Patreon’s check your email, there will be an email sent Wednesday with the registration link for the zoom call… or keep an eye out in the Patreon Only BoxTeam Slack channel or the Ortus Community Forum section.
Not a patreon? Sign up today or wait for us to release the recording on CFCasts after the session.


ICYMI - Ortus Webinar - June - Getting started with the Legacy Migration with Dan Card

June 24th 2022: Time 11:00 AM Central Time ( US and Canada )
We will look at the process of converting legacy .cfm based sites into a more modern coding design which has less overall code, is easier to maintain and manage, mistakes and errors can more readily and speedily identified and fixed, and is easier to read.
Recording on CFCasts: https://cfcasts.com/series/ortus-webinars-2022/videos/getting-started-with-the-legacy-migration-with-dan-card
View all Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars


June 2022 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting

Sending SMS messages using ColdFusion and the Twilio API with Leon O’Daniel
Thursday, June 23, 2022
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM PDT
We are restarting our Seattle ColdFusion User Group meetings and are looking forward to meeting online with all of you.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/285974950/


Adobe Workshops

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


ICYMI - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2022
9:00 AM CET
Adobe ColdFusion Workshop
Damien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx)
https://adobe-cf-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/

ICYMI - THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2022
10:00 AM PDT
Exploring the CF Administrator: pt2
Mark Takata
https://exploring-coldfusion-administrator-2.meetus.adobeevents.com/

THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2022
10:00 AM PDT
Making games with Adobe ColdFusion
Mark Takata
https://making-games-with-adobe-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/


FREE :)
Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/



CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

Just Released

Conferences and Training


Quasar Conf

Please let us know about you and what you'd like to speak about in all things Quasar or Vue!!!
Conference Date: Saturday, July 9th, 2022 - 3 p.m. GMT
https://dev.to/quasar/its-back-quasarconf-2022-call-for-proposals-13mn


THAT Conference

Howdy. We’re a full-stack, tech-obsessed community of fun, code-loving humans who share and learn together.
We geek-out in Texas and Wisconsin once a year but we host digital events all the time.

WISCONSIN DELLS, WI / JULY 25TH - 28TH, 2022
A four-day summer camp for developers passionate about learning all things mobile, web, cloud, and technology.
https://that.us/events/wi/2022/

Our very own Daniel Garcia is speaking there
https://that.us/activities/sb6dRP8ZNIBIKngxswIt


Adobe Developer Week 2022

July 18-22, 2022
Online - Virtual - Free
The Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.
Speakers have been announced
Agenda has been announced
https://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form



VueJS Forge
 
After many requests - New Dates - July 13th-14th

Due to many of you taking advantage of early summer vacations, we have decided to postpone the event to a date that will make sure as many of you as possible won’t miss out on the opportunity to attend Vue.js Forge!

Sneak Peek into the Project: Project Management SAAS App

https://vuejsforge.com/


Into The Box 2022

September 6, 7 and 8, 2022
One day workshops before the two day conference!
Super Early bird pricing ended May 31st, 2022 - Get the early bird price now
Sign up for the workshops before they fill up

Conference Website:
https://intothebox.org




CF Summit - Official

Mirage
Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit Conference
Oct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Tests
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
 
Registrations are now open.
For just $99!
Grab your early-bird tickets before June 30.

Call for Speakers is now Open - June 30th - Submit now!!!!

From Slack re Adobe Certified Professional
The Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion cert is a totally different, MUCH more difficult and comprehensive certification than the CF Specialist previously offered.
Mark Takata, Nolan and Dave F + the CF engineering team, Elishia and Kishore all spent a week together building the new one and it is HARD.
I highly recommend it as a test of your skills, I guarantee everyone will learn something new.

Yes, but there's also over 100 hours of video to go over before the 1 day lecture + cert. So you watch videos, sit in class, then take the exam there. It is no joke, definitely challenging, but super satisfying to pass.
Plus you get access to those videos for a year, which is nice for going back and reviewing things down the line.
https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html


Ortus CF Summit Training Workshop

ColdBox Zero to MegaHero : REST APIs + VueJS Mobile App
Oct 5th and 6th - After CF Summit Conference
Lead by Luis Majano & Gavin Pickin
Price: $799 - Early bird pricing
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ortus-cf-summit-training-workshop-tickets-375306340367
Location: Aria - In the luxurious Executive Hospitality Suite like 2019
The suite doubled it’s prices but we’re working hard to keep the costs to the attendees the same


Into the Box Latam 2022

Dec 7th - More information is coming very soon.


CFCamp

No CFCAMP 2022, we're trying again for summer 2023
TLDR is that it's just too hard and there's too much uncertainty right now.


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


Announcing - Pre-Conference - First set of Speakers Announced
Due to Covid and other reasons, some of the CFML Community Speakers will not be able to make this years Into the Box - but we wanted to include them anyways. To do that, last week we announced a Pre-Conference / 3rd Track for ITB. Read more about it here. Today we're happy to announce our first set of speakers for our Pre-Conference Track.
http://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-pre-conference-first-set-of-speakers-announced


Announcing - Pre-Conference - Second set of Speakers Announced
Due to Covid and other reasons, some of the CFML Community Speakers will not be able to make this years Into the Box - but we wanted to include them anyways. To do that, last week we announced a Pre-Conference / 3rd Track for ITB. Read more about it here. Today we're happy to announce our second set of speakers for our Pre-Conference Track.
http://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-pre-conference-second-set-of-speakers-announced


6/23/22 - ITB 2022 Podcast Series - Workshop - Async Programming & Scheduling with Luis Majano & Eric Peterson
This podcast is a special podcast for attendees or undecided attendees, to get a view of what the workshop has to offer. Luis Majano and Eric Peterson talk about their upcoming workshop at Into the Box, he talks about who the ideal audience is, and why they should attend. He talks about what will the workshop cover, the requirements for the workshop, and what he hopes the attendees will leave the workshop with. In this workshop, attendees will explore the concepts of asynchronous and parallel programming with the ColdBox Async Manager and Java’s Completable Futures APIs. They will explore the concept of async computations, async pipelines, exception handling, scheduling and so much more. Pain medication is included!
http://www.intothebox.org/blog/itb-2022-podcast-series-workshop-async-programming-scheduling-with-luis-majano-eric-peterson


6/23/22 - Blog - Robert Zehnder - How I use CommandBox with my blog
Over the course of the last year my blog has been through many revamps and rewrites. I wrote a CF static site generator called Jasper that manages content by dropping markdown files into the /posts folder, dynamically generating a static site that can be deployed anywhere. The current iteration of the blog is running Jasper as a server; Instead of reading markdown files, posts are returned from a database.
The system works well, but the one downside to using a database how to manage the posts. I did not want to write an admin interface, I would prefer to manage it like it is a static site generator. The posts will be saved in the database, but I can retrieve a post and save it as a markdown file for editing and posted back to the server when done. As a matter of fact, I am editing this post in vscode.
I thought about how I would implement something like that. As it turns out, it was much easier than I expected.
https://kisdigital.com/post/how-i-use-commandbox-with-my-blog


6/25/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Namespacing Components With Per-Application Mappings In ColdFusion
In my ColdFusion applications, I use a lot of components. But, these components are, for the most part, application-specific and live seamlessly alongside my application's custom mappings. Recently, however, I've been thinking about writing a "module" (ie, a set of related components) that I might want to use in multiple applications. And, it wasn't immediately obvious to me how I might define my ColdFusion per-application mappings in order to avoid conflicts with an application's existing component tree. As such, I wanted to experiment with using per-application mappings to create "namespaces" for shared ColdFusion components.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4291-namespacing-components-with-per-application-mappings-in-coldfusion.htm


6/23/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Updating My Mental Model For Shared Array / Struct Iteration In ColdFusion
In the very early days of ColdFusion, it was considered a "Best Practice" to synchronize access to all shared data structures. Meaning, to single-thread the access in order to avoid race conditions. Over time, this practice became much more nuanced; and, more of the native data types within ColdFusion became synchronized by default. Meaning, they were being made thread-safe internally. I believe that my mental model for iteration over shared data structures is outdated. As such, I wanted to run some parallel iterations in Adobe ColdFusion 2021 and Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4289-updating-my-mental-model-for-shared-array-struct-iteration-in-coldfusion.htm


6/24/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Looking At The Performance Overhead Of A Read-Only Lock In Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201
In yesterday's post, I demonstrated that iterating over shared Structs and Arrays is thread-safe in ColdFusion; assuming, of course, that the access is read-only. But, what if I need to occasionally mutate the shared data? In that case, I'd have to acquire an exclusive lock some of the time; which, in turn, means that I'd have to acquire a read-only lock most of the time. This got me thinking about the performance overhead of a read-only lock in Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201.
The performance overhead of an exclusive lock is easier to understand because it essentially single-threads access to a given block of code. So, if nothing else, there's a limit to the throughput on an exclusive lock. But, with a read-only lock, throughput isn't an issue (unless there's a competing exclusive lock) - multiple threads can access the same read-only lock at the same time.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4290-looking-at-the-performance-overhead-of-a-read-only-lock-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-8-201.htm


6/24/22 - Blog - Charlie Arehart - Understanding the "cost" of cflock, part 1
In a post today on his blog, Ben Nadel did an experiment "Looking At The Performance Overhead Of A Read-Only Lock". (He happened to do it in Lucee, but the concept applies equally to CF.)
And I wanted to offer some additional thoughts--first planning to offer them as a comment--because there's a lot behind the question and his observations. But as it got longer, I realized it was too long for a comment. Also, I didn't want people to think (in reading a comment on Ben's blog) that I was challenging Ben or questioning his understanding of the matter! Not at all. :-) Instead, I was just wanting to add more context, to help other readers, and based on my years of observing the community.
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2022/6/24/understanding_cflock_cost_part_1



CFML Jobs

Several positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/
Listing over 100 ColdFusion positions from 55 companies across 47 locations in 5 Countries.

3 new jobs listed

Full-Time - Senior ColdFusion Developer at Remote - United Kingdom
Jun 27
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-kingdom/Senior-ColdFusion-Developer-at-Remote/11487

Full-Time - SE-ColdFusion at Bengaluru, Karnataka - India
Jun 27
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/india/SEColdFusion-at-Bengaluru-Karnataka/11486

Full-Time - Senior ColdFusion Developer - GeoNorth Information Systems a.. - United States
Jun 25
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Senior-ColdFusion-Developer-GeoNorth-Information-Systems-at-Alaska/11485


PATREON SPONSORED JOB POSTING!

Hagerty - MotorSportReg

Senior Software Engineer, Motorsport
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work primarily with Node/Vue.js, ColdFusion, and AWS to improve our platform and build greenfield experiences.

We are a 25-person team supporting 1,600 organizations with our SaaS CRM, commerce and event management platform. With 8,000 events managed in our marketplace annually by our customers, our goal is to be the number one software platform for automotive and motorsport events.

Ready to get in the driver’s seat? Join us!
https://bit.ly/3985J3U

Other Job Links

ForgeBox Module of the Week

Hyper v3.6.0 (new update)

Hyper exists to provide a fluent builder experience for HTTP requests and responses. It also provides a powerful way to create clients, i.e. Builder objects with pre-configured defaults like a base URL or certain headers.

New Updates
Add async requests using ColdBox's AsyncManager

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



VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the Week

CommandBox by Ortus Solutions

Brings CommandBox features and helpers into VS Code
Features

Lots of settings for your customization, including customization for ForgeBox enterprise

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ortus-solutions.vscode-commandbox


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