Modernize or Die® - CFML News for December 3rd, 2019

2019-12-03 Weekly News - Episode 30

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/FRKMh4HTDcc

Hosts:
Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - Lead Architect for Ortus Solutions

News and Events

Online Training - Pete Freitag - ColdFusion Security Training - Writing Secure CFML
A hands-on CFML / ColdFusion Security Training class for developers. Learn how to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in your ColdFusion / CFML applications.
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When: Wednesday December 11, 2019 @ 11am-2pm & Thursday December 12 @ 11am-2pm
(Eastern Standard Time, UTC -5) - 6 hours in total.
Where: Online / Web Conference
Who: Taught by Pete Freitag
Cost: $400/student Punctual Bird Pricing - (regular price $450/student)
Punctual Bird Pricing ($400/student) is available until Thursday Dec 5th.
Group (4+) Discounts Available ( upon request )
https://foundeo.com/consulting/coldfusion/security-training/

ColdFusion now runs on WordPress- wait what?

Quote: Built on high of the world’s preferred content management system - Wordpress, ColdFusion could be a powerful, integrated, secure platform with a spread of options obtainable ‘out-of-the-box’.
Quote: Wordpress is that the leader within the ASCII text file CMS world. once bundled with ColdFusion, it provides a seamless mix of content and commerce
Quote: From physical products to digital downloads to subscriptions, from content to appointments, you'll be able to sell virtually something with ColdFusion.
Quote: one of the best advantages of victimization ColdFusion is it is time to promote.
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, even if it is the best ColdFusion Development Company in the world.

Conferences

Into the Box LATAM (LatinoAmerica)

Dec 4, 2019 - San Salvador, El Salvador
1 Day - 1 Track - Presented in Spanish
Speakers include: Luis Majano, Edgardo Cabezas, Jorge Reyes, Jon Clausen, Esmeralda Acevedo, Stephanie Monge, Javier Quintero
Lots of great content, I had to use google translate to know what they were talking about.
https://latam.intothebox.org/
Tickets available now. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/into-the-box-latinoamerica-2019-tickets-76371335721

Blog Post: Curacao sponsors an unprecedented worldwide event in the region, the Into the Box Latin America
https://lanoticiasv.com/la-curacao-es-patrocinar-de-un-evento-de-nivel-mundial-sin-precedentes-en-la-region-el-onto-the-box-
In addition to the important sponsorship of La Curacao and other companies, the Into the Box Latin America has, for the first time, the support of the Government of El Salvador, through the Ministry of Innovation, through which work will be carried out to encourage technological spaces.

CF Summit India

Dec 7, 2019 - Bangalore
The ColdFusion India Summit is a confluence of everything in the realm of web applications. If you develop web applications, this is the place to be. For designers, developers, strategists and thought leaders, the ColdFusion India Summit provides the perfect forum to exchange ideas, inspiration and experiences.
In addition to opportunities to interact with ColdFusion experts, domain leaders and peers, get to learn about the latest technologies, techniques, and strategies to rapidly build and successfully deliver web applications to the market. With the web applications scenario evolving rapidly, explore how ColdFusion is driving change and how you can propel this dynamism.
Registration is complimentary.
https://cfindiasummit.attendease.com/

Blog Post about the Conference:
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/11/adobe-coldfusion-summit-india-bangalore-dec-7th/

CF Alive Podcast interview with Kishore about CF Summit India 2019 - https://teratech.com/podcast/cf-summit-india-2019-revealed-with-adobes-kishore-balakrishnan/

Into the Box 2020

May 6-8, 2020 | Texas
Hyatt Place The Woodlands
1909 Research Forest Dr., The Woodlands, TX 77380
Call for Speakers is now open. We are always looking for lots of different content from different speakers, don’t be shy, submit something. Does not have to be related to BOX products.
Early bird tickets will be available close to the end of the year.
Call for Speakers: https://www.papercall.io/itb2020
Buy 2019 Videos: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/itb2019/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - James Moberg - StructIsOrdered() Support for ColdFusion 2016
Both ColdFusion 2016 and 2018 support ordered structs, but only ColdFusion 2018 has the built-in StructIsOrdered() function.  Here’s a UDF that adds fallback support for ColdFusion 2106.
https://gamesover2600.tumblr.com/post/189453879889/structisordered-support-for-coldfusion-2016

Blog - Ben Nadel - Capturing Pointer Events Using Bookmarklets
As a web application developer, I spend a lot of time looking at the source code of HTML pages. This includes pages that my team has created; and, pages that I find in the wild about which I am curious. In either case, there's nothing more frustrating than right-clicking on an Element with the intent to Inspect it only to find myself on the body element because the target element has pointer-events disabled. To "fix" this issue, I've created a Bookmarklet that appends a style tag that attempts to re-enable all pointer-events through the use of the !important CSS modifier.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3734-capturing-pointer-events-using-bookmarklets.htm

Tweet - CFCamp - Photos from CFCamp are here - thanks for James Allen
The images of #cfcamp are here! A very, very big thank you @CFJamesAllen for taking and optimizing the pictures!!
https://www.cfcamp.org/impressions/fotos.html
https://twitter.com/cf_camp/status/1199688952493592579
https://twitter.com/cf_camp

Blog - Ben Nadel - Monolith To Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns To Transform Your Monolith By Sam Newman
Three years ago, I read Building Microservices by Sam Newman. And, in the years since then, I've been trying - and struggling - to wrap my head around the concept of microservices and distributed systems. While I think I understand microservices at a conceptual level, I continually find myself running into more questions than I do answers. So, when I saw that [Sam Newman]'s new book - Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith - was finally available for Kindle, I purchased it and gobbled it up over Thanksgiving break. This book is awesome! ...