Modernize or Die® - CFML News for October 5th, 2021 - Episode 121

2021-10-05 Weekly News - Episode 121Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/rXPASiVo6ks Hosts: Eric Peterson - Senior Developer for Ortus SolutionsGavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box out there. A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every weekBuy Ortus’s new Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)Patreon SupportWe have 38 patreons providing 100% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. We are now 41% of the way to our next goal, fully funding the ForgeBox.io site.Now offering Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses.News and EventsInto the Box 2021 - Videos are now availableVideos are now available on CFCasts!https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2021Free for subscribers; Free for ITB 2021 attendees; available as a one-time purchase for $199.If you bought a ticket to Into the Box 2021 and have not received a coupon for access to the videos on CFCasts, please contact us from the CFCasts support page. https://cfcasts.com/supportContentBox v5 releasedWe are incredibly excited to announce the release of the ContentBox Modular CMS v5 series. This has been a work over 1 year with a complete refocus and rearchitecturing of the core to take ContentBox to the next 10 years. It is also great to note that we are Professional Open Source, FREE, FOREVER. This series includes tons of great features and updates that will take your content management to the next level. From multi-site support, a companion CLI, to a complete Headless CMS deployment, your will be able to deliver your projects in no time.Blog post - https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/contentbox-v5x-releasedMarketing site - https://www.contentboxcms.org/Docs - https://contentbox.ortusbooks.com/v/v5.x/Modernize Or Die Podcast - SoapBox Edition - Relaunching Oct 7thLuis Majano is hosting a series of Community Members over the coming months.Interview format. Several episodes are recorded and prepped for release.https://soapbox.modernizeordie.io/ Ortus Webinar for October - Gavin Pickin - Building Quick APIs - the extended versionIn this session we will use ColdBox’s built in REST BaseHandler, and with CBSecurity and Quick ORM we will set up a secure API using fluent query language - and you’ll see how quick Quick development can be!Signup coming soonhttps://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinarsHacktoberfest 2021Support open source throughout October!Hacktoberfest encourages participation in the open source community, which grows bigger every year. Complete the 2021 challenge and earn a limited edition T-shirt.GIVING TO OPEN SOURCEOpen-source projects keep the internet humming—but they can’t do it without resources. Donate and support their awesome work.TREES NOT TEESRather than receive t-shirts as swag, you can choose to have a tree planted in your name and help make Hacktoberfest 2021 more carbon neutral.To win a reward, you must sign up on the Hacktoberfest site and make four pull requests on any repositories classified with the 'hacktoberfest 'topic on GitHub or GitLab by October 31. If an Ortus Solutions repo that you want to contribute to is not marked with the `hacktoberfest` topic, please let us know so we can fix it.https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ Adobe 1 Day Workshop - Adobe ColdFusion Workshop with Damien BruyndonckxWed, November 10, 202109:00 - 17:00 CEST EUROPEANJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premise.https://coldfusion-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/ CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.com Just ReleasedInto the Box 2021Coming this weekMore Up and Running with QuickSend your suggestions at https://cfcasts.com/supportConferences and TrainingVueJS LiveOctober 20-21, 2021 - Online and London, UkRemote and In Person Tickets Availablehttps://vuejslive.com/Microsoft Ignitehttps://myignite.microsoft.com/homeAdobe ColdFusion Summit 2021December 7th and 8thMark let us know the Keynote Speaker will be someone from outside of Adobe - will announce once the contract is inked. She works for a big company.VirtualRegister for Free - https://cfsummit.vconfex.com/site/adobe-cold-fusion-summit-2021/1290Blog - https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/09/adobe-coldfusion-summit-2021-registrations-open/ More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets and Videos of the WeekBlog - Matthew Clemente - objectSave() and objectLoad() for Complex Data Storage, Transport, and ManipulationThis should be a short post, on a pair of complementary functions that I just learned: objectSave and objectLoad. I’m not sure I’ve fully grasped their practical utility yet, but they’re certainly worth knowing.https://blog.mattclemente.com/2021/10/01/til-cfml-objectsave-objectload/Tweet - Brad Wood - COLDBOX_FAIL_FASTI don’t think this is documented in the ColdBox docsDid you know you can customize the "ColdBox is still not ready to serve requests" message when reinitting under load? Just pass a closure to the COLDBOX_FAIL_FAST bootstrap variable that outputs whatever HTML/headers you want the user to see in that situation. #CFML #ColdBoxhttps://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1443692705062739970Blog - Terry Beard - [Un]Common Practices - Rolling Your Own: CFQUERY to JSONWhat'...