Modernize or Die® - CFML News for October 5th, 2021 - Episode 121

Modernize or Die ® Podcast - CFML News Edition

2021-10-05 Weekly News - Episode 121

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/rXPASiVo6ks

Hosts:

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

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box out there.
A few ways to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube.
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
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Patreon Support

We have 38 patreons providing 100% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions.
We are now 41% of the way to our next goal, fully funding the ForgeBox.io site.
Now offering Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses.

News and Events

Into the Box 2021 - Videos are now available

Videos are now available on CFCasts!
https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2021

Free for subscribers; Free for ITB 2021 attendees; available as a one-time purchase for $199.

If you bought a ticket to Into the Box 2021 and have not received a coupon for access to the videos on CFCasts, please contact us from the CFCasts support page. https://cfcasts.com/support

ContentBox v5 released

We are incredibly excited to announce the release of the ContentBox Modular CMS v5 series. This has been a work over 1 year with a complete refocus and rearchitecturing of the core to take ContentBox to the next 10 years. It is also great to note that we are Professional Open Source, FREE, FOREVER. This series includes tons of great features and updates that will take your content management to the next level. From multi-site support, a companion CLI, to a complete Headless CMS deployment, your will be able to deliver your projects in no time.

Blog post - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/contentbox-v5x-released
Marketing site - https://www.contentboxcms.org/
Docs - https://contentbox.ortusbooks.com/v/v5.x/

Modernize Or Die Podcast - SoapBox Edition - Relaunching Oct 7th

Luis Majano is hosting a series of Community Members over the coming months.
Interview format.
Several episodes are recorded and prepped for release.
https://soapbox.modernizeordie.io/

Ortus Webinar for October - Gavin Pickin - Building Quick APIs - the extended version

In this session we will use ColdBox’s built in REST BaseHandler, and with CBSecurity and Quick ORM we will set up a secure API using fluent query language - and you’ll see how quick Quick development can be!
Signup coming soon
https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

Hacktoberfest 2021

Support open source throughout October!
Hacktoberfest encourages participation in the open source community, which grows bigger every year. Complete the 2021 challenge and earn a limited edition T-shirt.
GIVING TO OPEN SOURCE
Open-source projects keep the internet humming—but they can’t do it without resources. Donate and support their awesome work.
TREES NOT TEES
Rather than receive t-shirts as swag, you can choose to have a tree planted in your name and help make Hacktoberfest 2021 more carbon neutral.
To win a reward, you must sign up on the Hacktoberfest site and make four pull requests on any repositories classified with the 'hacktoberfest 'topic on GitHub or GitLab by October 31.
If an Ortus Solutions repo that you want to contribute to is not marked with the `hacktoberfest` topic, please let us know so we can fix it.
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

Adobe 1 Day Workshop - Adobe ColdFusion Workshop with Damien Bruyndonckx

Wed, November 10, 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/

CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

Just Released

• Into the Box 2021

Coming this week

• More Up and Running with Quick

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Conferences and Training

VueJS Live

October 20-21, 2021 - Online and London, Uk
Remote and In Person Tickets Available
https://vuejslive.com/

Microsoft Ignite

https://myignite.microsoft.com/home

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2021

December 7th and 8th
Mark let us know the Keynote Speaker will be someone from outside of Adobe - will announce once the contract is inked. She works for a big company.
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 - Matthew Clemente - objectSave() and objectLoad() for Complex Data Storage, Transport, and Manipulation
This should be a short post, on a pair of complementary functions that I just learned: objectSave and objectLoad. I’m not sure I’ve fully grasped their practical utility yet, but they’re certainly worth knowing.
https://blog.mattclemente.com/2021/10/01/til-cfml-objectsave-objectload/

Tweet - Brad Wood - COLDBOX_FAIL_FAST
I don’t think this is documented in the ColdBox docs
Did you know you can customize the "ColdBox is still not ready to serve requests" message when reinitting under load? Just pass a closure to the COLDBOX_FAIL_FAST bootstrap variable that outputs whatever HTML/headers you want the user to see in that situation. #CFML #ColdBox
https://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1443692705062739970

Blog - Terry Beard - [Un]Common Practices - Rolling Your Own: CFQUERY to JSON
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