Modernize or Die® - CFML News Podcast for November 8th, 2022 - Episode 171

2022-11-08 Weekly News - Episode 171Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/teJ4cpNvYOY Hosts: Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus SolutionsBrad Wood - Senior Developer at Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. A few ways  to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:Like 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 every weekBOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shopBuy Ortus’s Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)Patreon Support 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 38% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io Patreon Sponsored Job Announcement - Tomorrows GuidesTomorrows Guides is a fast paced leader in the UK care sector, catering for care seekers across three areas: Care Homes, Nurseries and Home Care. We are often called the Trip Advisor of the care sector. Our Product team consists of over 20 individuals across the UK working remotely to expand and improve our offering with regular expansion in teams year on year. We work with both Coldfuson 2021 and Node.js/React in the Azure cloud, while also using both MSSQL and MongoDB databases. Currently we are looking for Senior Coldfusion developers and Automation Testers with training paths to node.js available as well. We offer a wide variety of perks from our company wide £4k bonus scheme, and quarterly nights out with the whole company and the Product team to a 6% company pension contribution. Current Roles in detail All roles: https://www.tomorrows.co.uk/jobs.cfm Senior Cf Developer – UK Only | Remote | Permanent | Circa £60k - https://app.occupop.com/shared/job/senior-coldfusion-developer-5925b/-  Minimum three years’ experience with ColdFusion-  Database design, normalisation and ability to write/understand complex queries using MSSQL Server 2019-  Familiarity with Git-  Flexible skillset covering a wide range of development Automation Test Engineer – UK Only | Remote | Permanent | Crica £40k - https://app.occupop.com/shared/job/automation-test-engineer-a6545/-  Minimum three years experience with automated testing-  Experience with automated testing tools such as selenium-  Experience with API test tools such as Postman/Fiddler etc Benefits of both roles:-  £4,000 per annum discretionary company bonus scheme-  25 days annual leave + bank holidays-  6% employer pension contribution-  Access to free perks and discounts through Perkbox-  Long Service Awards-  Cycle to Work Scheme-   Company and Team nights outNews and AnnouncementsOpenSSL VulnerabilitiesPete has had a several people asking me about the openssl vulnerabilities that were patched this week: CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 aka Spooky SSL.https://www.petefreitag.com/item/1000.cfm ColdBox Master Class - Completely Free until the end of the Year!Want to learn about modern web apps in ColdFusion (CFML)? We have our ColdBox Master Class for FREE until the end of the year!  A gift to the community, so we can all build amazing apps together! Watch all the videos!  Binge Coding Anyone? Enjoy! https://www.cfcasts.com/series/cb-master-class?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=PODCAST&utm_campaign=LM-PODCAST Wirebox DelegatesWireBox supports the concept of object delegation in a simple expressive DSL.  In object-oriented programming, delegation refers to the evaluating a member (property or method) of one object (the receiver) to the context of another object (the sender).  Basically a way to proxy calls from one object to the other and avoid the overuse of inheritance, avoid runtime mixins or traits.  WireBox provides a set of rules for method lookup and method dispatching that will allow you to provide delegation easily in your CFML applications.https://ortussolutions.notion.site/WireBox-Delegators-8608752a03d345ad80f8c1a1b441a428 CommandBox vNext supports providing SSL certs in PFX formatCommandBox vNext finally supports providing SSL certs in PFX format, which is a single file containing the public and private key as opposed to needing those in two separate files.https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/COMMANDBOX-1499 New Releases and UpdatesLucee released 5.3.9.166 StableThis a minor bug fix release, which addresses a few bugs listed below, mainly relating to concurrency or errors under heavy load.Anyone running 5.3.9.160 is encouraged to update to this release.https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-5-3-9-166-stable-release/11319 Restoring the CF Admin logviewer removed in Oct 2022 CF updates, at your own riskAs of the Oct 2022 CF updates (CF2021 update 5 and CF2018 update 15), Adobe has chosen to remove the CF Admin feature to view, search, download, and delete CF logs, due to asserted (but as-yet undocumented) security concerns.What if you want it back? In this post, I explain what changed, why, and how to get the functionality back--albeit at your own risk. For more, read on.https://www.carehart.org/blog/2022/11/3/restoring_admin_logviewer ICYMI - CBWIRE v2.1 ReleasedCBWIRE, our ColdBox module that makes building reactive, modern CFML apps delightfully easy, just dropped its 2.1 release. This release contains mostly bug fixes and also the ability to create your UI templates directly within your CBWIRE component using the onRender() method.We've added an example of using onRender() to our ever growing CBWIRE-Examples Repo that you can run on your machine locally. https://github.com/grantcopley/cbwire-examples https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbwire-2-1-released Webinar / Meetups and Workshops