Modernize or Die® - CFML News Podcast for February 6th, 2024 - Episode 211

Modernize or Die ® Podcast - CFML News Edition

2024-02-06 Weekly News — Episode 211

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/_Uo1izajUeM?feature=share

Hosts:

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

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News and Announcements

CF Summit East Announced
Hey east coast Adobe #ColdFusion developers, get ready because #CFSummitEast2024 is coming in hot, on April 23rd-24th!
This #FreeEvent brings together some of the most accomplished #CFML speakers in the world in a government, military and adjacent contractors focused #conference,in an intimate, small setting in Washington D.C..
We are also once again offering an in-person training and certification opportunity to earn your Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion ($99).
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marktakata_coldfusion-cfsummiteast2024-freeevent-activity-7158533583014436864-u182

Mark Takata at Adobe
On LinkedIn earlier this week, Mark Takata said that he is both thrilled and humbled to announce that he had been promoted to Senior ColdFusion Technical Evangelist at Adobe!
Congrats Mark!

Second set of ITB Speakers & Sessions announced - more to come!!!
Get ready for an innovative and exciting experience at the upcoming Into the Box 2024 conference, where we're changing venues and reshaping the essence of content delivery. Anticipate a surge of excitement with thrilling product updates and new releases. Join us from May 15th to 17th, 2024, in the dynamic city of Washington, DC, hosted at the cutting-edge Optica venue. Witness a conference that marks the dawn of a new modernization era, curated by the forward-thinking Ortus Solutions Team.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/into-the-box-2024-second-round-of-sessions-released

https://www.intothebox.org/

New Releases and Updates

ColdFusion Builder extension for Visual Studio Code - A new update is available!
We are pleased to announce the availability of the updated ColdFusion Builder extension for Visual Studio Code.
Highlights of the release
ColdFusion Builder extension for Visual Studio code (update 2) (release date: January 16, 2024) contains dictionary support for the functions added in ColdFusion (2023 release), such as JWT, serialization, and XML. The update also contains a few bug fixes.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/coldfusion-discussions/coldfusion-builder-extension-for-visual-studio-code-a-new-update-is-available/m-p/14365891

Hyper v7.3.0
Retrying Failed Requests
You can now configure a HyperRequest to automatically retry failed requests. See the HyperRequest docs for details.

Default User-Agent
Hyper now sends a default User-Agent of HyperCFML/#versionNumber#.

Reset Fake Request Counts and Sequences
Hyper can now reset the fake request counts and sequences without losing the fake configuration using the resetFakes method.

https://hyper.ortusbooks.com/whats-new#id-7.3.0

Webinars, Meetups and Workshops

ICYMI - Online CFMeetup - “The Many Capabilities of CF Package Management and cfpm" with Charlie Arehart #305
Thursday, January 25, 2024
9:00 AM PST
You may or may not have heard that CF2021 added a new tool called cfpm, the ColdFusion Package Manager. It was introduced in CF2021, and while some are aware that it can help manage the new modular packages-based design of ColdFusion, many are unaware of the many features of this cfpm tool--and how this package management mechanism can be used to their advantage.
In this talk, veteran CF troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will introduce the feature (CF's package-based design and the package manager), including identifying the way it can manage the packages used in a current CF instance as well as in automating creation of new instances. Perhaps most useful, we'll see how the tool offers a mechanism to SCAN your CFML code base to identify what packages you would need. We'll also see how the tool can help with updating CF, as well as managing the update download "repo". And speaking of updates, we'll discuss ways the cfpm/package mechanism has evolved in updates since the release of CF2021 and in CF2023.
Meetup:https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/298727912/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYTW7adg_Ao&list=PLG2EHzEbhy0-QirMKgSxhjkUyTSSTvHjL&index=1&pp=iAQB

CF Hawaii - ColdBox Modules - Jon Clausen
Feb 23rd - 12pm Hawaii Time
https://cfml.slack.com/archives/C06TSRXCJ/p1706309775867449?thread_ts=1706236924.005739&cid=C06TSRXCJ

Recent Releases
Into the Box 2023 Videos are now available for all Paid Subscriptions https://cfcasts.com/series/itb-2023

Coming Soon - After the break from Holidays
Mastering CBWIRE v3 from Grant

Conferences and Training

Adobe ColdFusion Online Summit 2024
Unleash the powe...