Modernize or Die® - CFML News for January 28th, 2020

2020-01-28 Weekly News - Episode 38

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/-hsrt4hebUM

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - CommandBox Lead for Ortus Solutions

News and Events

ColdFusion PreRelease Alpha Starting

We have heard a rumor that emails for the Alpha are being sent out.
If you haven’t signed up for the Pre-Release please do. All the feedback from the community helps to shape the product and test it.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/56WXYDQ

ITB 2020 Workshops Announcements and Pricing

The workshops for ITB 2020 have been decided.
We announced last week we were offering 2 days of workshops so now you have options.

You can take one of our offered 2 day workshops:
ColdBox Zero to Hero - Gavin Pickin
ColdBox Hero to SuperHero - API Edition - Luis Majano

Or you could take 1 day workshops on both days or just 1 day.
Day one:
Intro to BDD - Brad Wood
Containerizing CFML Applications - Jon Clausen
Intro to Quick ORM - Eric Peterson
Day Two:
Intro to BDD - Brad Wood
Containerizing CFML Applications - Jon Clausen
CBElastic Search - Eric Peterson
Troubleshooting Common CF/Lucee Server Challenges - Charlie Arehart

Round 1 of the Speaker Acceptance emails have gone out, so we’ll be announcing speakers next week as we get the confirmations. We have a lot of great content.

ITB 2020 Pricing

4 Days - 2 Day workshops + 2 Day Conference = $749 Early Bird ( normally $999 )
3 Days - 1 Day workshops + 2 Day Conference = $599 Early Bird ( normally $799 )
2 Days workshops only - $699 Early Bird
1 Day workshop only = $399 Early Bird
2 Day Conference = $399 Early Bird

Ortus Solution Webinar this Friday - cbInertia

Friday, January 31st, 2020 CST 11:00 A.M. CST (GMT -6:00)
Presented by Eric Peterson
Register today: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Qkf-ypqjoi1m-pPfQVvnguc_sgb8USqA

CF Live Coding

Michael Born and Gavin are working on a live coding series, where they are going to build a ForgeBox package, to let you participate in the Monthly code challenge. Follow along and see how they build it, pair programming, live on YouTube.
Aiming for Weekly on Wednesdays 7pm EST / 4pm PST
Michael’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClrzJNofMlYZDqnEHzobRTA/live
January 15th Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FniyMOiRR2E
January 22nd Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2oka5hoLAg

CFML Live on CodeWars

CodeWars is a cool site for practicing/training to improve your coding skills. Gavin uses the site for JavaScript often and it would be awesome if CFML was available too.
There is an API so we could tap into this and build some cool CFML tools related to this, as well as have another great training tool for new and experienced CFML Developers.
After a lot of tweets, retweets, and a blog post, lots of thumbs up, Codewars now has CFML as well.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/01/help-us-get-cfml-coldfusion-added-codewars-website/
https://www.codewars.com

Gavin’s Live Coding Challenge

So Gavin likes this live streaming thing, so he started a daily challenge for himself, to do a daily kata on CodeWars, and stream it live. So follow him on Twitter for the live stream notifications, or watch after the fact on his YouTube. The first few were Javascript, but since CFML has been accepted now, he will mix it up and do some javascript and some CFML.
https://twitter.com/gpickin
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC55cdDHnLI4HkSgoTxWJ-KA/

Conferences

Adobe CF Summit East 2020

Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Time: 8:00am - 4:00pm *Time subject to change.
Location: Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel
999 Ninth Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Cost: Complimentary

Save the date to join Adobe and Carahsoft for our interactive Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2020 to exchange ideas, inspiration, and experiences among fellow designers, developers, strategists, and thought leaders alike.

Adobe ColdFusion delivers a single platform to rapidly develop, deploy, and manage scalable, high-performing web and mobile enterprise applications — enabling agencies across the U.S. to embrace futuristic technologies with ease.
Information: https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/CFSummit2020/Custom?name=About%20the%20Summit
Register: https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/Event/Details/138812-webevent

Adobe CF Summit East 2020 Workshops

Adobe - ColdFusion Specialist Certification POST Conference

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2020
Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm
*Time subject to change.
Location: Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel
                 999 Ninth Street NW
                 Washington, DC 20001
Cost: $499.00 USD *early bird discount
          $699.00 USD *after February 29, 2020
Description: The Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Program is a full-day certificate classroom program, delivered by top Adobe ColdFusion experts. You will be enrolled into the course as soon as you register and will receive course instructions and prep materials two weeks prior to the on-site program date. Following the training you will complete an online assessment – upon successful completion, you will receive your Adobe ColdFusion Specialist certificate.
Information: https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/CFSummit2020/Custom?id=3408
Register: https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/Event/Details/141641-webevent

Ortus Solutions - Build Secure MVC ColdFusion Applications - Pre Conference

MON, APR 20, 2020, 9:00 AM – TUE, APR 21, 2020, 5:30 PM EDT
Price: $899
In this 2-day workshop you will learn how to build a secure and scalable ColdFusion MVC application. We will design a twitter like application (SoapBox) and build it using the most popular ColdFusion MVC Framework: ColdBox. We will design the client in UML and then build it using object orientation, database migrations, fluent query builders and then secure it using our rule engine: cbSecurity. We will also leverage behavior driven development (BDD) to build the entire client using a feature-test-driven approach.
Modernize your skills and applications with modern techniques and tooling.
Blog Post: https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/build-secure-mvc-coldfusion-applications-pre-cfsummit-east-2020-workshop
Register Now: