Modernize or Die® - CFML News Podcast for August 20th, 2024 - Episode 218

2024-08-20 Weekly News — Episode 218Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/sK5ns9Y_gR0?feature=share Hosts: Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus SolutionsDaniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there including BoxLang.A few ways to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:Buy Tickets to Into the Box 2025 in Washington DC https://t.co/cFLDUJZEyMApril 30, 2025 - May 2, 2025 - Washington, DCLike and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our ReposStar all of your Github Box Dependencies from CommandBox with https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-github Subscribe to our Podcast on your Podcast Apps and leave us a reviewSign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content regularlyBOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shopBuy Ortus’s Books102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)Now on Amazon! In hardcover too!!!https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJHB712MLearn Modern ColdFusion (CFML) in 100+ Minutes - Free online https://modern-cfml.ortusbooks.com/ or buy an EBook or Paper copy https://www.ortussolutions.com/learn/books/coldfusion-in-100-minutes Patreon Support (supercali)We have 58 patreons: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. News and AnnouncementsInto the Box 2025 - Call for Speakers Now OpenWe’re excited to invite you to share your knowledge and insights at Into the Box 2025: The Future is Dynamic for Modern Web Developers!We’re seeking speakers eager to discuss their latest projects, share best practices, or explore new trends in web development. If you have valuable insights, we’d love to hear from you!Submit your topics using the form below. The deadline is midnight on November 1, 2024. We encourage everyone to submit up-to-date and trendy topics like Modern CFML tools, BoxLang, AI, Frameworks, Open Source Libraries, Modern Web Development Trends, Cybersecurity, etc. Feel free to share all your ideas!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/call-for-speakers-into-the-box-2025 New Releases and UpdatesAdobe ColdFusion Updates - ColdFusion 2023 and 2021 August 20th, 2024 General UpdatesWe are pleased to announce that we have released general updates to ColdFusion (2023 release) Update 9 and ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 15. We've upgraded Tomcat from version 9.0.85 to version 9.0.93 for both versions. https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2024/08/released-coldfusion-2023-and-2021-august-20th-2024-general-updates/BoxLang Betas — Beta 9 and 10Beta 9 released - August 9th, 2024 New FeaturesBL-105 PDF ModuleBL-110 objectLoad() and objectSave() implemented and renamed to objectSerialize() and objectDeserialize()BL-420 Exit REPL with quit or exitBL-422 Ability to serialize BoxLang classes to binary and deserialize them back using it's stateBL-423 New experimental features block on the `boxlang.json`BL-424 BoxRunner action commands now for: compile, cftranspile, featureAuditImprovementsBL-414 Renaming of Box Cache functions to standardized cache{function}()BL-415 Increase precision of math operations by using BigDecimalBL-421 Finalize FileUpload, FileUploadAll BIFs and File Component upload actions in Web SupportBugsBL-405 BigIntegers cause error: integer number too largeBL-419 Not all unquoted tag attribute values are parsingBeta 10 released - August 16th, 2024New FeaturesBL-435 transpile queryGetRow() to queryRowData()BL-436 Ini files supportBL-437 JSStringFormat BIFBL-439 xml componentBL-442 getVariable() & BL-443 setVariable()BL-444 Add getClientVariablesList() to compatBL-448 New getDescendantsOfType() AST method with predicateBL-449 Implement single quote escapes in queries and preserveSingleQuotesBL-450 Allow .cfm and .cfs files from the boxlang CLI runnerBL-440 Add isNumericDate BIFBL-441 Add getHTTPTimeString BIF to web-supportBL-143 Writedump label supportBL-447 java.math.BigInteger casterImprovementsBL-425 When doing class serialization make sure to identify which properties have BL-426 content component can have bodyBL-429 Enhance error messages for parsing invalid tag codeBugsBL-427 MalformedInputException: Input length = 1 when parsing CFCBL-428 component detection can be tricked if there is a tag comment line starting with the word "component"BL-432 Regression: Can't run files via BoxRunner due to new action command logicBL-451 Sometimes trying to shutdown runtime throws NPE if it was never started fullyBL-452 pretty print visitor outputting extra " on tag catch blockBL-453 pretty print visitor doesn't handle array notation invocationhttps://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/boxlang-100-beta-10-launched Webinars, Meetups and WorkshopsICYMI - Online ColdFusion Meetup Group - "CF Scheduled Tasks: there’s more than you may know", with Charlie ArehartThursday Aug 8th at 12pm US Eastern TimeIf folks were asked to discuss CF scheduled tasks, I suspect most would feel "there's not much to say". But there really is a lot more to working with them than simply "setting a given url to run on a given schedule" (did you know it could be a CFC, for instance? Did you know about the cron time feature? Did you know about clustering scheduled tasks--even with ColdFusion Standard?). Besides there being more features than many may realize, there are also some common problems people face when running them, and there are tools and techniques to help with that.In this talk, veteran CF troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will address all these and more, starting with several ways to create them (yes, even more than just cfschedule and the CF Admin UI) then more on those more advanced/easily missed features, as well as tools and techniques for solving common problems with them. We'll also explore configuration files and features for managing tasks. Finally we'll also cover ways CF scheduled tasks may NOT work well and discuss alternatives to them.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/302616793/?eventOrigin=group_events_list ICYMI - Online ColdFusion Meetup Group - "Getting Started with BoxLang Runtimes", with Luis Majano & Brad WoodBoxLang is a new application server released by Ortus Solutions. It can run...