Modernize or Die® - CFML News for June 23rd, 2020

2020-06-23 Weekly News - Episode 58

Watch the video version on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/QsPE90ZDZ3w

Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Eric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

Happy Birthday ColdBox - 14 years Old

Ortus Webinar - Modern Functional & Fluent CFML REST APIs

Presented by: Gavin Pickin
Friday June 26th, at 9am PDT or 11am CDT
DRY Programming can be more fun than you think, in this session we'll show you how a few helper methods can give you a functional, fluent, stylish and clean way to write code for your REST API. Not writing an API, this can help traditional Applications too.
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qceuoqjMiGtVP0Bj9Uvya5hCV6yX1pzm-
Webinars page: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

ColdFusion Meetup - "Keeping CF (and Java) updated: challenges and solutions", with Charlie Arehart

Thursday June 25 at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4.
Are you keeping up on whatever updates are available for the CF version you're running (2018, 2016, or so on)? And how about updating the Java/JVM that CF uses? You should be, for security as well as bug fix reasons. And what about the web server connector (wsconfig)?
Meeting URL: https://experts.adobeconnect.com/cfmeetup/

ICYMI: ColdFusion Meetup - "How to transform DB tuning into a rewarding effort", with Josh Patterson

Presented on June 18th
Poor database performance can cost you customers, and when it’s happening that’s not the best time to be making decisions about how to monitor and tune things. Better to consider options in advance, and even proactively tune things if possible. Tuning might also allow you to reduce overly-scaled out instances, reducing DB licensing and/or server costs.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3man0qcnq4&feature=youtu.be
Event: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/271254532/

ICYMI: ColdFusion Meetup - "Low-Code for the ColdFusion Developer – What is it, and Why you should care" with G. Andrew Duthie

June 11th
ColdFusion developers know what it means to be productive. Delivering data-driven websites and solutions is familiar territory. But whether you’re an employee in the enterprise, or a contractor seeking out your next gig, you may start hearing about Low-Code, if you haven’t already. Maybe your company has decided to try it out, or maybe it’s just something a customer asked about, but if you listen to the analysts, Low-Code is a growing segment of the IT market, and a market shaping up to be in the tens of billions of dollars.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfZdgBoSurM&feature=youtu.be
Event: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/271110445/

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Conferences

Into the Box 2020 - Workshops - Virtual Live training

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ColdBox Zero to Hero - Coming in July - date to be confirmed shortly - Possibly July 9/10

CF Summit West
October 28-29
Mirage Hotel
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

CF Camp
TBA

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Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Ben Nadel - Scope Traversal Behavior With Undefined Function Arguments In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61
Just now, as I was looking at iterating over Structs using CFLoop in Lucee CFML, I ran into a fun little behavior of the ColdFusion language: Scope traversal will skip-over undefined function arguments and access like-named values in higher-up scopes. At first, this feels like a bug. But, I think it ends-up being consistent with how ColdFusion has always handled scope traversal. That said, as a mental refresher, I thought it would be worth exploring this use-case in Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61.
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3852-scope-traversal-behavior-with-undefined-function-arguments-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-6-61.htm

Blog - Ben Nadel - Struct Iteration With CFLoop Exposes Both Key And Value In Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61
Back in February, when I was having lunch with Gert Franz, co-creator of Lucee CFML, we were commiserating on how amazing ColdFusion is. At that lunch, Gert told me about some of the great things that Lucee CFML offers, like its seamless support for ColdFusion Tags in CFScript. Another minor feature that he mentioned was that the CFLoop tag exposes both Key and Value attribute that remove the need to look-up the value within the CFLoop body. Now, months later, I finally used this feature for the first time in yesterday's post on proxying Amazon S3 uploads using CFHTTP and Lucee CFML. Given the fact that Adobe ColdFusion doesn't support this feature, I thought it might be worth exploring in Lucee CFML 5.3.6.61 in case new Lucee-converts didn't realize it was there (just as I didn't).
https://www.bennadel.com/b...