Modernize or Die® - CFML News Podcast for December 6th, 2022 - Episode 174

Modernize or Die ® Podcast - CFML News Edition

2022-12-06 Weekly News - Episode 174

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/TLt1L1HzqZQ

Hosts:

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions
The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there.
A few ways to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube.
• Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos
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• Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a review
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Books
  • 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)
  • Learn Modern ColdFusion (CFML) in 100+ Minutes - Free online https://modern-cfml.ortusbooks.com/ or buy an EBook or Paper copy https://www.ortussolutions.com/learn/books/coldfusion-in-100-minutes

Patreon Support ( stupendous )
Goal 1 - We have 43 patreons providing 100% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions.
Goal 2 - We are 39% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io

Patreon Sponsored Job Announcement - Tomorrows Guides

Tomorrows Guides is a fast paced leader in the UK care sector, catering for care seekers across three areas: Care Homes, Nurseries and Home Care. We are often called the Trip Advisor of the care sector.
Current Roles - More in the job section
Senior Cf Developer – UK Only | Remote | Permanent | Circa £60k - https://app.occupop.com/shared/job/senior-coldfusion-developer-5925b/
Automation Test Engineer – UK Only | Remote | Permanent | Crica £40k - https://app.occupop.com/shared/job/automation-test-engineer-a6545/
News and Announcements

We’ve Made It!

Scraped as “Update or Pass away®”
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Adobe ColdFusion Fortuna Alpha

Signup for the pre-release - Special things happening which I can’t talk about
https://www.adobeprerelease.com/beta/C0A219A0-A127-417A-D0D3-A7B5B3C5A0AE/participate/C3B4F4DC-8662-4610-D2B1-EE8FAD396648

Advent of Code

https://adventofcode.com/

CFML Slack Leaderboard: `1574707-be30db8f`
Box Team Leaderboard: `26416-a4842ce2`

ICYMI - ColdBox Master Class - Completely Free until the end of the Year!
Want to learn about modern web apps in ColdFusion (CFML)? We have our ColdBox Master Class for FREE until the end of the year! A gift to the community, so we can all build amazing apps together! Watch all the videos! Binge Coding Anyone? Enjoy!
https://www.cfcasts.com/series/cb-master-class?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=PODCAST&utm_campaign=LM-PODCAST

New Releases and Updates

ICYMI - Lucee released 5.3.10
One of the most exciting features in 5.3.10+97, which should make everyone’s life easier when deploying Lucee servers, is improved, still experimental, native support for CFconfig.
https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-5-3-10-97-stable-release/11540

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

This Week - Ortus Software Craftsmanship Book Club - Patreon Only
Friday, December 9th at 2pm CDT - 2nd Friday of the Month
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Martin (Uncle Bob)
Focus - Chapter 2 - Naming Conventions - 1 of the 2 hardest things in programming, along with cache invalidation and off by 1 errors ;)

We will meet monthly on Zoom, and we’ll use the Ortus Community Forum for Patreon to discuss the book.
https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/ortus-software-craftsmanship-book-club-clean-code/9432

We will also be rewriting the code from Java to CFML as we proceed through the book.
The final result will be here https://github.com/gpickin/clean-code-book-cfml-examples

You can get a copy of the book at one of the below links, or your favorite bookstore
https://amzn.to/3TIrmKm or https://www.audible.com/pd/Clean-Code-Audiobook/B08X7KL3TF?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp&shareTest=TestShare

Zoom link will be posted in Patreon Slack Channel and Patreon Community Forum
Signup to Patreon to join live: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions

Ortus Event Calendar for Google
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y181NjJhMWVmNjFjNGIxZTJlNmQ4OGVkNzg0NTcyOGQ1Njg5N2RkNGJiNjhjMTQwZjc3Mzc2ODk1MmIyOTQyMWVkQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20

ColdFusion Security Training - Writing Secure CFML with Pete Freitag from Foundeo
When: Tuesday December 13, 2022 @ 11am-2pm & Wednesday December 14 @ 11am-2pm
(Eastern Standard Time, UTC -5) - 6 hours in total.

A hands-on CFML / ColdFusion Security Training class for developers. Learn how to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in your ColdFusion / CFML applications.
The class will be recorded, so if you cannot attend it fully online you will have access to a recording.

Where: Online / Web Conference
Who: Taught by Pete Freitag
Cost: $999/student $899/student (Early Bird Discount)
Register: https://foundeo.com/consulting/coldfusion/security-training/

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