Modernize or Die® - CFML News for November 12th, 2019

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2019-11-12 Weekly News - Episode 27

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

News and Events

Adobe ColdFusion 2020 Pre-release announced

We are excited to announce that we will soon open up the pre-release for the next major version of ColdFusion. To express interest in this pre-release, please fill up this survey.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/56WXYDQ
The next version of ColdFusion is a game changing release for ColdFusion with significant focus on modernization of the platform, cloud integration and support for microservice architectures.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/11/announcement-pre-release-next-major-version-coldfusion/

Quick v2.4.0 released

Apply custom setters when hydrating from the database.
Query scopes can return any value.  This allows you to use scopes to perform query functions and return values.  (If you do not want to return a custom value, return the QueryBuilder instance or nothing.)
Improve error messages for not loaded entities.
Return the correct memento with accessors on.
https://quick.ortusbooks.com/whats-new
https://www.forgebox.io/view/quick

Lucee Redis Extension v1.4.0 released

We are very excited to bring you another release for our Redis Lucee Extension. This is a minor release and it sports quite a few updates, improvements and Lucee compatibility updates.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/redis-lucee-v140-extension-released

ForgeBox v4.8.0 released

Today we are pleased to announce a minor release for our FORGEBOX suite of products to version 4.8.0. This release includes lots of fixes and some great additions for your development needs for all Editions: Community and Enterprise.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/forgebox-v480-released

CF Camp Videos released
The recordings of the #cfcamp sessions are available via videos.2019.cfcamp.org for a really small fee. Attendees will get an email with a personal link to the videos (included in the ticket).
Price: $90.00
http://videos.2019.cfcamp.org/

November Seattle ColdFusion​ User Group meeting
November Seattle ColdFusion​ User Group meeting is Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 6pm at WeWork in Bellevue, WA (Online ZOOM will start at 6:30pm)
This month’s meeting includes presentations on the following topics:
– Using Adobe ColdFusion Builder 2018 to Debug your ColdFusion Application by Vinay Jinda
More information about the Seattle CFUG at www.SeattleCFUG.org
RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/265703602/

Online #ColdFusion Meetup - "Web Acceleration to the Rescue", with Bruno Zugay
Thu Nov 14, 6p US ET
Caching is one of the best ways to maximize the output of your application. However, most developers don’t look past their application code and object caching for other available options. Varnish Cache can increase the performance of your website, while at the same time significantly reduce the load on your server. We’ll go over how it works and demonstrate how you can use it on your site. Whether you are using ColdFusion on Windows or Linux, whether you are running IIS or Apache, join us to find out how Varish can help.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/266300180/

Did you miss "SQL, I learned enough to break everything" with Dave Ferguson
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/266110524/

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, Luis Vega
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

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/

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 - Ben Nadel - ColdFusion Performance Experiment: Caching Per-Application Settings In Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62
At InVision, the amount of work that we do in the Application.cfc ColdFusion framework component is a bit staggering. Not only are we setting up all of the Lucee CFML mappings, custom paths, data-sources, SMTP servers, and cache configurations, we're also defining hundreds of FW/1 routes. The pseudo-constructor of the Application.cfc gets evaluated on every single page request; which means, we're doing the aforementioned work on every single page request. Which got me thinking: can we just cache these settings and re-use them? To explore the potential performance implications of caching, I put together a very simple set of load-tested demos in Lucee CFML 5.3.3.62.
Tweet - In a #ColdFusion application, the Application.cfc defines the per-app settings on every request. As such, I wanted to see if there would be a performance improvement by caching the settings in #Lucee #CFML. TL;DR it doesn't matter. Just keep it simple
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3719-coldfusion...