2022-05-17 Weekly News - Episode 148

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ArUgrF-YL9k

Hosts:
 

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-en out there. 

A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

 
Patreon Support

Goal 1 - We have 36 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 46% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io


PATREON SPONSORED JOB POSTING!

Hagerty - MotorSportReg

2 Job Opportunities for Senior Software Engineer, Motorsport - more in the job section.
Watch this video with Brian Ghidinelli from Hagerty MotorsportReg

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



News and Announcements


INTO THE BOX - Updates

Announcing Speakers and Sessions for Into the Box 2022 - Round 1
We are excited to announce the first set of speakers and sessions. We have a great mix of Ortus Speakers and Community speakers too. We'll be announcing round 2 later this week, and then we'll be finalizing the last few spots next week as we confirm some special items (hopefully). Here is the first 12 speakers and their sessions.
https://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-speakers-for-into-the-box-2022-round-1


Into the Box 2022 - First Workshops Announced

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/into-the-box-2022-first-workshops-announced/

The final Workshop - decided by Twitter poll - VueJs SPA and Mobile App with Rest APIs

Dear Amazing Boss - I would like to ask for your approval to attend Into The Box 2022
http://www.intothebox.org/blog/dear-amazing-boss-i-would-like-to-ask-for-your-approval-to-attend-into-the-box-2022

Computer Know How - Sponsors Into The Box 2022
http://www.intothebox.org/blog/computer-know-how-sponsors-into-the-box-2022


TryCF has started a Patreon

You can now contribute to the project by sending a one-time gift of any increment of $25 or support the project monthly by becoming a Patron. Your gifts are much appreciated and will help keep TryCF.com the awesome resource it is!
https://www.patreon.com/trycf/posts


StackOverflow Questionaire

Hey CF devs, fill out this year's Stack Overflow survey, and make sure you write in your CFML engine and frameworks into all the write-in spots :) 
https://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5jeoE1pq9sFcwIe


ICYMI - CFWheels Guides Moved to GitBook

We are glad to announce that the CFWheels Guides have been moved to GitBook.com. The good folks at GitBook are proud to support CFWheels and have granted us an Open Source Community account. We have migrated all the guides from our old provider to GitBook and will be making some more changes as we review all the links now that the domain has been switched.
https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-guides-moved-to-gitbook/


New Releases and Updates

Adobe CF Engine Updates are in CommandBox now

Adobe CF engines 2018.0.14+330003 and 2021.0.04+330004 are now available on ForgeBox for your usage.  When started on CommandBox 5.5, ACF 2021 is finally free of Log4j 1.x.  ACF 2018 seems to still be using Log4j 1.x however.


CFWheels 2.3.0 Stable Released

This is the official v2.3.0 release. It is dropping a little over a week from Release Candidate 1. We simply wanted to make sure the new CI/CD workflow was functioning before calling the release final. We feel confident that we’re good to mark this release as final. There are no new enhancements or bug fixes in this release from 2.3.0.rc.1.
Blog: https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-2-3-0-released/


Lucee 5.3.9.141-RC Released

Following up on our 5.3.9.133 stable release, we found a number of regression which have now all been addressed. We are doing a quick 5.3.9.141-RC before releasing the second stable 5.3.9 release on Monday.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-5-3-9-141-rc-released/10162


Lucee - Has the ForgeBox and Docker Builds triggering Automatically Now
17:2517 ">https://github.com/lucee/Lucee/runs/6401534261?check_suite_focus=true#step:17:2517


ICYMI - ColdFusion 2021 and 2018 May Security Updates
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/05/coldfusion-2021-and-2018-may-security-updates/


ICYMI - cbElasticSearch v2.3.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of cbElasticsearch version 2.3.0. cbElasticsearch is the Elasticsearch module for the Coldbox platform, and provides a fluent CFML API for interacting with, searching, and serializing to Elasticsearch servers.
This release includes documentation updates and and enhancements to core functions of the Document, SearchBuilder and IndexBuilder components, as well as additional error handling for async tasks.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbelasticsearch-230-released/



WEBINARS / MEETUPS AND WORKSHOPS


Ortus Webinar - May - Clearing the Fuzzies on Fuzzy Search with Michael Born

May 27th 2022: Time 11:00 AM Central Time ( US and Canada )
Take a walk through the world of search in this webinar which will show why your database search is not smart enough, explain the basics of how fuzzy search works, and show how to use CBElasticsearch to bring the power of fuzzy searching to your CF application.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-6ppz0qGtGPJxmywPST06e74ExsmshB/
View all Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars


ICYMI - Online ColdFusion Meetup - “Code Reuse in ColdFusion - Is Spaghetti Code still Spaghetti if it is DRY?” with Gavin Pickin

Thursday, May 12 2022
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDT
Find out the difference between DRY code and WET code, and what one is better, and more importantly, WHY.
We write code once, but we read it over and over again, maintaining our code is 90% of the job... code reuse is our friend.
You are already Re-using code, even if you didn't know you were.
We'll learn about the different types of Code Reuse in ColdFusion, and the pros and cons of each.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/285524970/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnOW6G5MVqE&list=PLG2EHzEbhy0-QirMKgSxhjkUyTSSTvHjL&index=1


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

TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2022
9:00 AM CET
Adobe ColdFusion Workshop
Damien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx)
https://workshop-cf.meetus.adobeevents.com/


WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2022
10AM PT
Webinar - Exploring the CF Administrator: pt1
Mark Takata
In part one of exploring the capabilities of the ColdFusion Administrator, Mark will explore the GUI of this powerful, unique ColdFusion tool, explaining how to use many of the capabilities exposed and available for tuning.
https://exploring-coldfusion-administrator-1.meetus.adobeevents.com/


WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2022
9:00 AM EDT
Adobe ColdFusion Workshop
Brian Sappey
https://1-day-coldfusion-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/


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

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



CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

News

Just Released

Conferences and Training


ICYMI - DockerCon

May 10, 2022
Free Online Virtual Conference
DockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos, breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry, and much more. Don’t miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!
https://www.docker.com/dockercon/
On Demand https://docker.events.cube365.net/dockercon/2022


MS Build

May 24-26, 2022
Come together at Microsoft Build May 24–26 2022, to explore the latest innovations in code and application development—and to gain insights from peers and experts from around the world.
Regional Spotlights, One on One bookings available and more.
https://mybuild.microsoft.com/en-US/home


Ioniconf  (Free Online Ionic conference)

May 25, 2022
Join us for a full day of talks from experts and leaders in the web community, showing how the web is pushing the boundaries of mobile app development. Get insights on the latest web libraries, frameworks, and tools that are empowering web developers to build stunning mobile and cross-platform apps using the power of the web.
https://ionic.io/ioniconf


US VueJS Conf

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022
Beach. Code. Vue.
Workshop day: June 8
Main Conference: June 9-10
https://us.vuejs.org/
Speakers and Schedule Announced https://us.vuejs.org/schedule/


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.
Note: Speakers listed are 2021 speakers currently - check back for updates
I heard speakers were being contacted, and info coming very soon!!! Wink wink nudge nudge
https://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form


CF Summit

In person at Las Vegas, NV in October 2022!
Official-”ish” dates:
Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit Conference
Oct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Tests
https://twitter.com/MarkTakata/status/1511210472518787073


VueJS Forge
 
June 29-30th
Organized by Vue School
_The largest hands-on Vue.js Event
Team up with 1000s of fellow Vue.js devs from around the globe to build a real-world application in just 2 days in this FREE hackathon-style event.
Make connections. Build together. Learn together.
Sign up as an Individual or signup as a company
Company Deal - $2000 for a team of 5, includes VueSchool annual membership and guaranteed seat at the workshops at VueJS Forge as well… and you can pick your team
https://vuejsforge.com/


Into The Box 2022

Solid Dates - September 6, 7 and 8, 2022
One day workshops before the two day conference!
Early bird pricing available until May 31st, 2022
Conference Website:
https://intothebox.org

First round or two of Speakers and Session Descriptions are being announced this week!
ITB 2021 Videos - Several videos are now Free so you can watch them and get in the mood for ITB 2022. https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2021

ITB Blog has new updates almost every day!


Into the Box Latam 2022

Actual Date - Dec 7th
More information 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.

Heading into winter with a date around October is less than ideal from a Covid point of view
at the same time hotels in Germany have already removed the "no questions asked" cancellation policies. So, yeah - that's not great.
And then there's a war going on 2 countries down the road, which adds at least some economic uncertainties and concerns about sanctions, people willing to travel and spend money on events etc.
Then there is all of the general annoyances around international travel - the organizers are being very careful and "wanting to do everything to avoid international travel for anyone when running an event" side of things when it comes to Covid.

So, a lot of energy would have to be spent on making the event safe enough from our own point of view… so best to wait until hopefully Summer 2023


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


5/17/22 - Blog - Into the Box - Announcing Speakers for Into the Box 2022 - Round 1
We are excited to announce the first set of speakers and sessions. We have a great mix of Ortus Speakers and Community speakers too. We'll be announcing round 2 later this week, and then we'll be finalizing the last few spots next week as we confirm some special items (hopefully). Here is the first 12 speakers and their sessions.
https://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-speakers-for-into-the-box-2022-round-1


5/17/22 - Blog - Adam Cameron - If yer a CFML dev, you should consider financially supporting trycf.com
If you are a CFML developer, you will be aware and likely use trycf.com. Whenever I have an issue with some CFML that needs to be demonstrated to someone else; eg: I'm asking for help on Slack or Stack Overflow, or demonstrating an answer to someone else's question: I create a portable / repeatable repro case on trycf.com. I use it to demonstrate bugs and behavioural differences to Adobe or Lucee when both vendors don't give the same result from the same code. I use it every day.
I believe trycf.com is the handiest resource available to CFML developers.
https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/if-yer-cfml-dev-you-should-consider.html


5/16/22 - Blog - Peter Amiri - CFWheels - CFWheels Announces a Bug Bounty
We are happy to launch a new program that we hope will lead to a more stable framework for all of us. Effective immediately we are launching our Bug Bounty program. When we first conceived of the bounty program we were looking at programs from IssueHunt and BountySource and the main goal was to widen the field of contributors to the CFWheels project as well as crush some of the long standing bugs in the framework.
https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-announces-a-bug-bounty/


5/16/22 - Blog - Gavin Pickin - Ortus Solutions - Into the Box - Updates as of May 16th, 2022
Into the Box is sneaking up closer and closer. With so many announcements, we can't post them all to the Ortus Solutions blog, so we're going to just give you updates when we can. To read all of our blog posts from ITB, visit the site or subscribe to RSS https://intothebox.org/blog
This week we're going to be announcing the first set of Sessions, some of the Speakers, and some more sponsors. Last week was a big week for Into the Box too, check out the highlights
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/into-the-box-updates-as-of-may-16th-2022/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast


5/16/22 - Blog - Into the Box - Computer Know How - Sponsors Into The Box 2022
We are excited to announce the bronze sponsorship of Computer Know How for the Into The Box 2022 Conference this coming September. We have been partners with CKH for several years and they are an amazing web application development company. Thank you for your patronage, and continuing support. We are excited to see them in Houston this September!
https://www.intothebox.org/blog/computer-know-how-sponsors-into-the-box-2022/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast


5/13/22 - Blog - Ortus Solutions - Ortus Content Digest for week of May 13th
We were busy this week, we released a lot of content for you... on the podcast, cfcasts, youtube, and our blog. Here's the summary in bite size pieces
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/ortus-content-digest-for-week-of-may-13th


5/12/22 - Podcast - Wicked Good Development - Developer and Open Source Contributor Stories at Devnexus Part 2 - Brad Wood
Magic happens when we learn and have honest conversations. @bdw429s thank you for coming on Wicked Good Development and discussing #ColdFusion and what it takes to be a maintainer or contributor #jvm https://anchor.fm/wickedgooddevelopment/episodes/Developer-and-Open-Source-Contributor-Stories-at-Devnexus-Part-2-e1if4g1


5/12/22 - Blog - Into the Box - Dear Amazing Boss - I would like to ask for your approval to attend Into The Box 2022
We think you should come to the conference but may need some help convincing your boss to send you. To assist with that, we created a draft letter, inspired by Smashing Magazine, VueJS Conf, and many others, which you can use to send to your boss to help convince them why attending Into the Box in 2022 is going to be a great thing for you and your company.
Please use the below letter to convince your boss to let you attend the best ColdFusion Conference of the Year! Remember, the Super Early Bird prices end soon. Hope to see you in September!
https://www.intothebox.org/blog/dear-amazing-boss-i-would-like-to-ask-for-your-approval-to-attend-into-the-box-2022/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast


5/12/22 - Blog - Matthew Clemente - Quick and Dirty CFML Slack Notifications with Hyper
While there may be times you need a full-featured Slack integration, just being able to send messages to a channel can be a win for many applications. I recently needed to alert a Slack channel whenever an application was deployed, and found that using Eric Peterson's module Hyper along with Slack's Incoming Webhooks did the trick nicely.
I'll share how to do this with a FW/1 application - just know that with ColdBox it would be even easier, and the general approach could even be modified to work without a framework.
https://blog.mattclemente.com/2022/05/12/cfml-slack-incoming-webhook-hyper/


5/12/22 - Blog - Gavin Pickin - Ortus Solutions - Tips, Tricks and Tools to write DRYer more Reusable Code in ColdFusion
In the last blog post, we learned many reasons why we wanted DRYer more reusable code in ColdFusion. This blog post will talk about some of the different tools ColdFusion / CFML gives you to achieve that.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/tips-tricks-and-tools-to-write-dryer-more-reusable-code-in-coldfusion/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast


Adam Cameron Corner

 
5/12/22 - Blog - Adam Cameron - CFML: Adding beforeEach handlers to my TinyTestFramework. Another exercise in TDD
I have to admit I'm not sure where I'm going with this one yet. I dunno how to implement what I'm needing to do, but I'm gonna start with a test and see where I go from there.
Context: I've been messing around with this TinyTestFramework thing for a bit… it's intended to be a test framework one can run in trycf.com, so I need to squeeze it all into one include file, and at the same time make it not seem too rubbish in the coding dept. The current state of affairs is here: tinyTestFramework.cfm, and its tests: testTinyTestFramework.cfm. Runnable here: on trycf.com
https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/cfml-adding-beforeeach-handlers-to-my.html


5/12/22 - Blog - Adam Cameron - CFML: for the sake of completeness, here's the afterEach treatment
This immediately follows on from "CFML: Adding beforeEach handlers to my TinyTestFramework. Another exercise in TDD".
Having done the beforeEach implementation for my TinyTestFramework, I reckoned afterEach would be super easy: barely an inconvenience. And indeed it was. Took me about 15min, given most of the logic is the same as for beforeEach.
https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/cfml-for-sake-of-completeness-heres.html


5/13/22 - Blog - Adam Cameron - CFML: adding aroundEach to TinyTestFramework was way easier than I expected
I'm still pottering around with my TinyTestFramework. Last night I added beforeEach and afterEach handlers, but then thought about how the hell I could easily implement aroundEach support, and I could only see about 50% of it, so I decided to sleep on it.
After a night's sleep I spent about 30min before work doing a quick spike (read: no tests, just "will this even work?"), and surprisingly it did work. First time. Well except for a coupla typos, but I nailed the logic first time. I'm sorta halfway chuffed by this, sorta halfway worried that even though what I decided would probably work - and it did - I haven't quite got my head around how it works, or even quite what it's doing. So let's blog about that.
https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/cfml-adding-aroundeach-to.html


5/15/22 - Blog - Adam Cameron - CFML: fixing a coupla bugs in my recent work on TinyTestFramework
Last week I did some more work on my TinyTestFramework:
CFML: for the sake of completeness, here's the afterEach treatment
CFML: adding aroundEach to TinyTestFramework was way easier than I expected
On Saturday, I found a bug in each of those. Same bug, basically, surfacing in two different ways. Here's an example:
https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/cfml-fixing-coupla-bugs-in-my-recent.html



CFML Jobs

Several positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/
Listing over 83 ColdFusion positions from 46 companies across 40 locations in 5 Countries.

4 new jobs listed

Full-Time - Senior Coldfusion Developer WORK |LATAM| at Colon, PA - United States
Posted May 15
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Senior-Coldfusion-Developer-WORK-LATAM-at-Colon-PA/11470

Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at Cleveland, OH (Remote) - United States
Posted May 13
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/CFDev-at-CL-OH-Remote/11464

Full-Time - Coldfusion Developer at Bengaluru, Karnataka - India
Posted May 11
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/india/Coldfusion-Developer-at-Bengaluru-Karnataka/11465

Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at India - India
Posted May 10
https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/india/ColdFusion-Developer-at-India/11466


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

Facebook Leadgen Forms - CFML

A CFML wrapper for the Facebook Leadgen Forms API. Create and manage Facebook's lead forms via their marketing API.
Feel free to use the issue tracker to report bugs or suggest improvements!

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


VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the Week

Vue 3 Snippets

This extension adds Vue 2 Snippets and Vue 3 Snippets into Visual Studio Code.
Including all of the API of Vue.js 2 and Vue.js 3. The code snippet of the extension is shown in the following table. You don't need to remember something, just write code as usual in vscode. You can type vcom, choose VueConfigOptionMergeStrategies, and press ENTER, then Vue.config.optionMergeStrategies appear on the screen.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hollowtree.vue-snippets



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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.

You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions

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

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