Modernize or Die® - CFML News Podcast for October 11th, 2022 - Episode 167

Modernize or Die ® Podcast - CFML News Edition

2022-10-11 Weekly News - Episode 167

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/90VaqrYeVG8

Hosts:

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

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Patreon Support ( effervescent )
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News and Announcements

CF Summit - Best one yet?

Nolans Recap - https://t.co/K0kdlSiOaO
Tweet from Ortus - https://twitter.com/ortussolutions/status/1578475362287120384
Tweet from Luis - https://twitter.com/lmajano/status/1578290619490918400

Gavin is now Certified as well as being Certifiable

While in Vegas for CF Summit, Gavin, Daniel Garcia, and several patreons and other CFML Community members took the brand new, harder than every Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion!

Good news is, Gavin passed, Daniel passed, and most of the devs they spoke with after the test (including some Patreons) all passed too. It did include more OO concepts, so for a lot of developers this would be harder.

It was open book, open internet, great for those tricky ACF settings you don’t use, but they definitely make it tricky.

The 1 day lecture was great too, Brian did a great job covering as much information as he could in one day, in addition to all of the online content, Brian’s tips for items on the test, and pre-test “practice” questions really helped.

According to Slack re Adobe Certified Professional
The Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion cert is a totally different, MUCH more difficult and comprehensive certification than the CF Specialist previously offered.
Mark Takata, Nolan and Dave F + the CF engineering team, Elishia and Kishore all spent a week together building the new one and it is HARD.
I highly recommend it as a test of your skills, I guarantee everyone will learn something new.

Yes, but there's also over 100 hours of video to go over before the 1 day lecture + cert. So you watch videos, sit in class, then take the exam there. It is no joke, definitely challenging, but super satisfying to pass.
Plus you get access to those videos for a year, which is nice for going back and reviewing things down the line.
https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/certificate.html

Trying out Github Co-Pilot

I know Adam Tuttle, Carol Hamilton, Adam Cameron are using Co-Pilot, so I thought I would try it out. It’s interesting, it’s not very CF Smart yet, but it does give you some great pseudo code, especially with our testing.
https://github.com/features/copilot

Hacktoberfest 2023

HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PARTICIPATE AND COMPLETE HACKTOBERFEST:
Register anytime between September 26 and October 31
Pull requests can be made in any GITHUB or GITLAB hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic)
Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total
Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest
The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.
https://hacktoberfest.com/

New Releases and Updates

Adobe ColdFusion 2021 and 2018 October Security Updates

We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions:

• ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 5
• ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 15

In these updates, we’ve fixed a few security and feature-specific bugs, along with other libraries. We’ve also introduced support for M1 macOS.
For more information, see the tech notes below:

• ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 5
• ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 15

https://community.adobe.com/t5/coldfusion-discussions/released-coldfusion-2021-and-2018-october-security-updates/m-p/13259746

cbElasticsearch 2.3.3 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of cbElasticsearch version 2.3.3. cbElasticsearch is the Elasticsearch module for the Coldbox platform, and provides a fluent CFML API for interacting with, searching, and serializing to Elasticsearch servers.
This release adds full compatibility for Elasticsearch v8.x as well as maintaining support for Elasticsearch versions 6 and 7.
https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbelasticsearch-233-released

Fusion Reactor 9.1.0

Not long after FR 9 was released, 9.1.0 has been released with 2 bug fixes and 5 improvements.
https://docs.fusion-reactor.com/release-notes/#910

ICYMI - Lucee Announcing Lucee 5.3.10 RC

The first release Candidate for 5.3.10 is available, mostly bug fixes, there are some additional improvements relating to CFconfig.json importing which we will be publishing docs about this week
Available as usual via your local Lucee Admin, Commandbox and Docker
Java 17 is still not supported, Java 11 recommended
Java 19 is not supported either :P
https://dev.lucee.org/t/announcing-lucee-5-3-10-79-rc/11147

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

Ortus Webinar
October 28th -

Ortus - Office Hours
November 4th

Ortus Book Club - Patreon Only
November 11th

Ortus Webinar
November 18th

CFHawaii - ColdFusion Builder for VS Code

Friday, October 28, 2022 at 3:00 PM to Friday, October 28, 2022 at 4:00 PM PDT
Mark Takata, the Adobe CF Technical Evangelist for ColdFusion will give a presentation on the new ColdFusion Builder extension for VS Code. D...