Modernize or Die® - CFML News for September 15th, 2020 - Episode 70

2020-09-15 Weekly News - Episode 70

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/oY5QqaN6YlM

Hosts:

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

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News and Events

CFCamp - Officially Cancelled for 2020
We’ve been monitoring the pandemic situation since earlier in the year. It seems that for the foreseeable future it'll be nearly impossible to run a proper physical conference event.
CFCamp is more than just two days with a bunch of tech sessions. We are a community and the conference is not only driven by speakers and the organisers but also by the participants, chats over lunch, during breaks or while having a drink at the bar. And let's not forget the dogs-of-CFCamp from last year. Right now it’d be hardly possible to create this environment, not to mention travel and quarantine restrictions for international speakers and attendees.
Therefore: after considering all our options and the compromises we'd be willing to enter, we've decided against running CFCamp 2020.
More on their site: https://www.cfcamp.org/

Lucee Updates
The problem with excessive memory usage with ArrayEach has been fixed in 5.3.7.42 and 5.3.8.71
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-2559

Online CF Meetup - "Using CF APIs and the JAMStack" with Raymond Camden, Brian Rinaldi & Dan Wilson
Thursday Sep 17th at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4
We're happy to announce another session of the Online ColdFusion Meetup to be held Thursday Sep 17th at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4. (And hey, "we're getting the band back together", with former CFers Ray and Brian, and long-time CFer Dan Wilson.)
And for the first time, this session will be held via Youtube (and streamed to it via Streamyard):
You can use ColdFusion APIs to create fast, secure sites and apps by pre-rendering files and serving them up without web servers. In this session (a live-streamed discussion and demos, rather than a presentation), Raymond Camden and Brian Rinaldi will discuss the JAM Stack, along with Dan Wilson on how to use ColdFusion to make remote data available for it. They’ll take a look at how to create a site and serve it up without needing to manage web servers.
Event page: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/273259394/
Meeting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWOEUo8lJzE

ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "Differences between CF Ent & Std: more than you may think", w/ Charlie Arehart
Thursday Sep 10th at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4.
Most people know that there are differences between CF Enterprise and Standard, most notably the price, of course! But if pressed, I suspect most people could not name more than a couple other differences or perhaps a few, but there are literally dozens. And while you may think you "don't need" Enterprise when it "costs so much more", you may be surprised to find some things that could in fact be "worth it" compared to remaining on Standard: whether from a performance standpoint, in terms of certain tags that are throttled in Standard; or from a licensing standpoint, in terms how many more CPU cores are supported by Enterprise than Standard. It may even be possible that it would be less expensive for you to license CF Enterprise rather than Standard.
Event Page: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/273118493/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNRjwenoZLw&list=PLG2EHzEbhy0-QirMKgSxhjkUyTSSTvHjL

Ortus Webinar - Modern Coldfusion - No more copy and paste
Friday September 25th 2020 at 11:00 AM CDT (GMT -5:00)
with Gavin Pickin
Copy and Paste coding is a tried and true development method, but as your project grows, so can your headaches. With Modern ColdFusion there are lots of tools in your toolbelt that can make your life easier when it comes to maintaining your code. In this webinar we'll look at best practices for keeping your code DRY (don't repeat yourself) and maintainable across your project and even multiple projects.
Register now: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars

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Conferences

Into the Box 2020 - Workshops - Virtual Live training

October
2 day Workshop - October 8 - 9, 2020 - ColdBox Zero to Hero - lead by Gavin Pickin
2 day Workshop - October 22 - 23, 2020 - ColdBox Hero to Superhero - lead by Luis Majano

https://www.ortussolutions.com/events

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JConf.dev
September 30th, 9am - 4pm CST
https://jconf.dev/

Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2020 - Replaces CF Summit West

Date: November 17-19
Location: Online
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/
Admission: Free
Some Speakers now listed: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/speakers/

Adobe ColdFusion Certification now available Online

Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion is an industry-leading certification program from Adobe, for ColdFusion developers. The course consists of 50+ online videos and is designed for professionals who have basic to advanced level proficiency in any computer language and basic understanding of how web pages work. Successfully passing an assessment test at the end of the program will reward participants with a badge and certificate from Adobe.
Blog: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/07/coldfusion-certification-online-now/
Register: https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html

CF Camp - Not happening in 2020 :(
https://www.cfcamp.org/

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