Modernize or Die® - CFML News for September 22nd, 2020 - Episode 71

2020-09-22 Weekly News - Episode 71

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ldYx6xX1XcI

Hosts:

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

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News and Events

Lucee 5.3.7.42-RC was released Friday

Brad’s QoQ have been merged into Lucee Code for 5.3.8

So excited that my recent Query of Query improvements have been reviewed and merged into the Lucee core. They will be part of the 5.3.8 release. 

Online CF Meetup - "Isolation is a Good Thing (For Your Local Dev Environments)" with Dan Skaggs
Thu, Sep 24 · 11:00 AM CDT
Learn how you can use free Docker technology with ColdFusion to keep development environments for different clients or projects separate from one another. No more managing conflicting settings between projects or applications. You can instantly set up other developers with a perfectly configured development environment. You can also archive environment configurations for apps you may need later.
Event Page: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/273354600/

ICYMI - 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/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWOEUo8lJzE

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

CFCasts Content Updates

CFConfig
- Seeing our Changes
- JSON Storage

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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.
Introductory Offer: $499
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/

More conferences: https://confs.tech/

Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the Week

Blog - Wil De Bruin - qb: Autodetecting your bind variables in SQL
In an ideal world, everyone is using qb or quick, and you really don’t know what a bind variable is. Before you discovered this ideal world, maybe you were using queryExecute and were executing queries like this one...
https://shiftinsert.nl/qb-autodetecting-your-bind-variables-in-sql/

Blog - Samuel Jo - ColdFusion Portal - SAML in ColdFusion
A rough overview of the SAML feature available in ColdFusion 2021. Learn how to create and deploy a simple SAML SSO application.
This blog post is going to be about how to implement a simple SSO application using ColdFusion SAML.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2020/09/saml-in-coldfusion/

Podcast - CFAlive - 104 CFer Mental Helpers (Stay Sane during Crises) with Jeff Kunkel
https://teratech.com/cfer-mental-helpers-stay-sane-during-crises-with-jeff-kunkel-transcript

Blog - James Moberg - Auto-Generating aria-label External Links using ColdFusion + Jsoup
While I don't claim any legal expertise in the ever-evolving WCAG requirements, some of our clients have received a "business alert" from an agency notifying them that "lawsuits are being filed regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act non-com...