Modernize or Die ® Podcast - CFML News Edition

2023-02-21 Weekly News - Episode 185

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/pzrKwZI8W9g?feature=share
 

Hosts: 
  • Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
  • Grant Copley - 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:
 
Patreon Support ( SENSIBLE )

Goal 1 - We have 42 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 37% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io


News and Announcements


ICYMI - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Mura CMS and Masa CMS – Preliminary Security Advisory
Multiple versions of Mura CMS and Masa CMS contain an authentication bypass vulnerability that can allow an  unauthenticated attacker to login as any Site Member or System User.
This is a preliminary security advisory, and is being shared so that impacted organizations can update and patch as needed.  Additional technical details will be released on March 6, 2023.
https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2023/01/muracms/


ICYMI - State of the CF Union 2023 Released
Help us find out the state of the CF Union – what versions of CFML Engine do people use, what frameworks, tools etc.

https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2023-survey


ColdFusion Summit East 2023 MVC Training Workshop
We are excited to announce a training workshop before the ColdFusion Summit East in Washington, D.C., on April 4th, 2023. Luis Majano, the creator of The ColdBox Platform, will be leading this workshop, bringing you a deep dive 1-day workshop: ColdFusion MVC for Dummies.

The workshop will combine a variety of theories, hands-on coding, and best practices to give you all the tools needed to leave the workshop ready to build MVC-powered apps when you return to your office.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldfusion-summit-east-2023-mvc-training-workshop


New Releases and Updates


CBSecurity 3.1 Released
We are happy to announce our first minor release for CBSecurity v3.1.0. This release includes a major upgrade of our cbcsrf library, but more importantly a way to generate secure and random passwords using our new createPassword() method in our CBSecurity object.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbsecurity-31-released


Webinar / Meetups and Workshops


Ortus Event Calendar for Google

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y181NjJhMWVmNjFjNGIxZTJlNmQ4OGVkNzg0NTcyOGQ1Njg5N2RkNGJiNjhjMTQwZjc3Mzc2ODk1MmIyOTQyMWVkQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20


CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com


Recent Releases

Coming Soon

Conferences and Training


Github Galaxy

March 28th, 2023
Save the date for our global enterprise event focused on improving efficiency, security, and developer productivity.
GitHub Galaxy—formerly known as GitHub InFocus—is new and reimagined.
Virtual registration is right around the corner.
VIP summits: Join us in-person for a VIP summit near you, with breakout sessions, networking, and more for enterprise leaders.
https://galaxy.github.com/


Dev Nexus
April 4-6th, 2023 in Atlanta
Georgia World Congress Center
285 Andrew Young International Blvd NW
Atlanta, GA 30313
Kubernetes, Java, Software architecture, Kotlin, Performance Tuning
https://devnexus.com/


CFSummit East

Thursday, April 6, 2023
8:00am - 4:00pm
Marriott Marquis Washington, DC
Complimentary; breakfast and lunch will be provided
https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/Event/Details/341389-adobe
https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/Event/Details/344168-adobe


VueJS Live

MAY 12 & 15, 2023
ONLINE + LONDON, UK
CODE / CREATE / COMMUNICATE
35 SPEAKERS, 10 WORKSHOPS
10000+ JOINING ONLINE GLOBALLY
300 LUCKIES MEETING IN LONDON
https://vuejslive.com/


Into the Box 2023 - 10th Edition
May 17-19, 2023
The conference will be held in The Woodlands (Houston), Texas
This year we will continue the tradition of training and offering a pre-conference hands-on training day on May 17th and our live Mariachi Band Party! However, we are back to our Spring schedule and beautiful weather in The Woodlands! Also, this 2023 will mark our 10 year anniversary. So we might have two live bands and much more!!!

CLOSED -  call for speakers for the Into The Box Conference for 2023 is open until Jan 31st
Sessions announced Soon.
https://www.intothebox.org/blog/into-the-box-2023-call-for-speakers
https://itb2023.eventbrite.com/


VueConf.us
NEW ORLEANS, LA • MAY 24-26, 2023
Jazz. Code. Vue.
Workshop day: May 24
Main Conference: May 25-26
https://vueconf.us/


CFCamp is back
June 22-23rd, 2023
Marriott Hotel Munich Airport, Freising
Call for Speakers is now open!
https://www.papercall.io/cfcamp2023
https://www.cfcamp.org/


More conferences

Need more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.
https://confs.tech/
https://github.com/scraly/developers-conferences-agenda


Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week


2/14/23 - Tweet - Luis Majano - ColdBox 7 WireBox Module Inception
Get ready for ColdBox 7 Hierarchical Injectors for Modules. Each module can have an injector and dependency resolution. Mix and match module versions in complete hierarchical isolation! No other MVC framework offers these capabilities in ANY language except CFML.

https://twitter.com/lmajano/status/1625622307740999680


2/15/23 - Discourse - Zac Spitzer - Lucee 5.3.10.120 Stable Release
Updates on some awesome deploying Lucee tricks.
  • Lucee has adopted the configImport approach which @bdw429s pioneered and it is now supported it natively, via several methods
  • There are some additional methods for deploying extensions / updates via the /deploy folder on startup
  • For warming up images for fast deployment, there LUCEE_ENABLE_WARMUP env var
  • And there are also startup listeners which can be used to programmatically configure your Lucee server using good old CFML
  • Don’t forget Lucee is open source, so anything you can do via the Lucee admin, can be done in cfml!
  • Lastly, for running CI with Lucee, we have developed the script-runner, which can be used to run test cases in CI, it’s headless, so there’s no http server, but it’s super quick. (Pretty much all the Lucee repos use script-runner to run their tests using Github Actions)
https://dev.lucee.org/t/how-do-we-make-automating-builds-and-deployments-of-lucee-applications-rock/194/13


2/19/23 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Updating Permanent Elements On Page Navigation In Hotwire Turbo And Lucee CFML
In a Hotwire Turbo application, when you add the data-turbo-permanent attribute to an element (accompanied by an id attribute), this element will be cached and then replaced into subsequent pages that contain an element with the same id. Element permanence is awesome when you want to, for example, lazy-load a Turbo-Frame once and then have it persist across pages. But, it means that updating the content of said element gets tricky. I wanted to explore this idea in the context of "Toast Messages" in Lucee CFML.

https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4410-updating-permanent-elements-on-page-navigation-in-hotwire-turbo-and-lucee-cfml.htm


CFML Jobs

Several positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/
Listing over 51 ColdFusion positions from 31 companies across 24 locations in 5 Countries.

1 new job listed this week

Coldfusion Consultant/Developer - OUTSIDE IR35 at London, UK - https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-kingdom/Coldfusion-ConsultantDeveloper-OUTSIDE-IR35-at-London/11555

Adobe posted of a job posting at Sees Candies for a CFML Developer
https://seescandiescareers.mua.hrdepartment.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/9577


Other Job Links
  • There is a jobs channel in the CFML slack team, and in the Box team slack now too



ForgeBox Module of the Week

aws-cfml
 

aws-cfml is a CFML library for interacting with AWS APIs.

It requires Lucee 4.5+ or ColdFusion 11+.

It currently supports the following APIs:

  • cognitoIdentity
  • dynamodb
  • ec2
  • ec2 auto-scaling groups
  • elasticsearch
  • elastictranscoder
  • polly
  • rekognition
  • s3
  • secretsmanager
  • sns
  • ssm
  • sqs
  • translate

Note: It has full support for the AWS S3 and AWS DynamoDB REST APIs. Other services are supported to varying degrees - if you are using a service and add a method you need, please consider contributing it back to this project.

Soon to support the Amazon Connect service!

https://forgebox.io/view/aws-cfml


VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the Week

SQLTools, Database management for VS Code
  • Beautifier and formatter for SQL code
  • Query runner, history and bookmarks
  • Connection explorer
  • Generator for INSERT queries
  • Pluggable driver architecture

Official Drivers:
  • CockroachDB
  • MariaDB
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • PostgresSQL
  • SQLLite
https://vscode-sqltools.mteixeira.dev/en/home/


Thank you to all of our Patreon Supporters

These individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox,  ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need, and funds the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox.

You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions

Don’t forget, we have Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses.

  • Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription.
  • All Patreon supporters have a Profile badge on the Community Website
  • All Patreon supporters have their own Private Forum access on the Community Website
  • All Patreon supporters have their own Private Channel access BoxTeam Slack
https://community.ortussolutions.com/

Top Patreons ( SENSIBLE )
  • John Wilson - Synaptrix
  • Tomorrows Guides
  • Jordan Clark
  • Gary Knight
  • Mario Rodrigues
  • Giancarlo Gomez 
  • David Belanger 
  • Dan Card
  • Jeffry McGee - Sunstar Media
  • Dean Maunder
  • Nolan Erck 
  • Abdul Raheen

And many more Patreons

You can see an up to date list of all sponsors on Ortus Solutions' Website
https://ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors

Thanks everyone!!!

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What is Modernize or Die ® Podcast - CFML News Edition?

Technology is ever changing, blink and you miss it, until now. This podcast keeps you up to date on everything ColdFusion related. News, Engine and Package Updates and Releases, Webinars Meetups and Workshops, CFCast updates, Conferences, Blog Tweets and Videos the Week from the Community, Job offerings, as well as the ForgeBox module of the Week and the VS Code Hint Tip and Trick of the week.