Modernize or Die® - CFML News for March 2nd, 2021 - Episode 93

2021-03-02 Weekly News - Episode 93Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/trHxtxzlOqY  Hosts:Brad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsGavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsOne way to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions, is to like and subscribe to our videos on youtube, and support CFCasts, which is releasing new content every weekPatreon SupportWe have 33 patreons providing 68% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help News and EventsVisual Studio Code for Brackets users - After Adobe plans to EOL Brackets - VSCode Team have worked with Adobe to bundle an Extension Pack for VS Code to ease the migration for Brackets users. It includes: - Brackets Keymap: Applies popular Brackets keybindings to VS Code. - Live Server: Similar to "Live Preview" in Brackets. - CSS Peek: Similar to "Quick Edit" in Brackets. - IntelliSense for CSS class names in HTML: Similar to CSS classname autocomplete in Brackets.https://code.visualstudio.com/migrate-from-brackets FR Webinar - What Are The 5 Things You Should ALWAYS Check Before You Release Your Application?Join Mikey on March 25 at 09:30 PDT Releasing a new app or website can be stressful. Whilst most dev teams have a QA process, the team often needs to go a little deeper in order to spot performance issues errors buried deep within the code.  The 5 things you should always check before you release your application are https://www.fusion-reactor.com/blog/what-are-the-5-things-you-should-always-check-before-you-release-your-application/ Register: https://bit.ly/3bD4WWr Online CF Meetup - "ColdFusion 101: Intro for Beginner Devs, Decision Makers, & CEO’s", David Byers Thursday, March 11, 202111:00 AM to 12:00 PM CSTEvery developer's journey has to start somewhere. This session is designed to give new developers and business owners an overview of ColdFusion, and why it's one of the most amazing development languages available. You will learn, from a very broad perspective, the basics of how ColdFusion works, some simple ColdFusion syntax, an overview of the major ColdFusion frameworks, an overview of the developer community and various ColdFusion resources, and some facts and misconceptions.This presentation is specifically targeted towards new developers or business owners who have little to no knowledge of ColdFusion.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/276609685/ ICYMI - Online CF Meetup - "The Golden Hammer: Confessions of a Recovering Database Abuser", w/ Shawn OdenThursday, February 25, 202111:00 AM to 12:00 PM CSTEarly in my dev career, I often (unwittingly) abused my systems. My code didn't care about things like databases or networks, as long as the results were right. I had a cfHammer, and I needed to pound out a solution. I never knew I was an anti-pattern.Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/276405673/ Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq2t6ulM4hY ICYMI - Ortus Webinar - Take Control of Logging and Error handling with Stachebox with Jon ClausenFriday, February 26th - 11:00 AM CDT (GMT -6:00)Tracking, handling, and resolving bugs between different tiers can be challenging, especially in containerized or cloud environments. In this webinar, Jon Clausen will introduce you to capturing your back end and front-end error messages, and consolidating them in to one single, aggregated platform - backed by the power of Elasticsearch.https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Recording: https://cfcasts.com/series/webinars-2021/videos/jon-clausen-on-taking-control-of-logging-and-error-handling-with-stachebox Query of Query Lucee - Submit some Complex examples for testingI have been working on allowing Reserved Words for column and table names in Queries of Queries (QoQ) [LDEV-3311] QoQ should allow reserved words as column names - Lucee for Lucee 6.0Currently Lucee’s QoQ engine blows up and we’d like to make this more developer friendly and flexible, coz QoQ rocks!https://dev.lucee.org/t/complex-qoq-examples-needed-for-testing/8019 FYI - Brad’s QoQ changes coming out soon in 5.3.8Reminder about the new Ortus CommunityOrtus has rolled out our new Ortus Community site to help consolidate all of our community support and interaction.  As part of that effort, all our Google Group threads have been imported to the new Ortus Community and effective immediately, our Google Groups are closed for further posting.If you're a member of our Google groups, don't worry-- your user has already been imported into the community forum and as soon as you sign up, you will be automatically associated with all of your old posts so you can pick up your conversations right where you left off!  We've even added single sign on options for Github, Facebook, Google, and Twitter (coming soon).  If your new account is under a different E-mail address, let us know and we can merge your accounts together.https://community.ortussolutions.com/ CFCasts Content UpdatesJust Released - Jon Clausen’s Webinar on StacheBox - CommandBox Zero to Hero    - Useful Commands    - Useful Modules    - Environment VariablesComing up- More CommandBox Hero to ZeroSend your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/supportConferences and TrainingVueConf - Virtual Vue LoveApril 14th - Online - Free and there’s swag (first 500 registrations)Hosted by Evan YouLive Video with Chat Q&A with speakersAttendee Lightning TalksLive DJVirtual PartyWorkshops TBAhttp://vueconf.us/ RedisConf 2021Virtual: Apr 20-21Stay tuned for Detailshttps://redislabs.com/redisconf/ DockerConMay 27th 2021https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ Quick WorkshopMarch 11-12Lead by the creator of Quick himself, Eric Peterson.Information: