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

Modernize or Die ® Podcast - CFML News Edition

2024-08-20 Weekly News — Episode 218

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Hosts:

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

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News and Announcements

Into the Box 2025 - Call for Speakers Now Open
We’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 Updates

Adobe ColdFusion Updates - ColdFusion 2023 and 2021 August 20th, 2024 General Updates
We 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 10

Beta 9 released - August 9th, 2024

New Features

BL-105 PDF Module
BL-110 objectLoad() and objectSave() implemented and renamed to objectSerialize() and objectDeserialize()
BL-420 Exit REPL with quit or exit
BL-422 Ability to serialize BoxLang classes to binary and deserialize them back using it's state
BL-423 New experimental features block on the `boxlang.json`
BL-424 BoxRunner action commands now for: compile, cftranspile, featureAudit

Improvements

BL-414 Renaming of Box Cache functions to standardized cache{function}()
BL-415 Increase precision of math operations by using BigDecimal
BL-421 Finalize FileUpload, FileUploadAll BIFs and File Component upload actions in Web Support

Bugs

BL-405 BigIntegers cause error: integer number too large
BL-419 Not all unquoted tag attribute values are parsing

Beta 10 released - August 16th, 2024

New Features

BL-435 transpile queryGetRow() to queryRowData()
BL-436 Ini files support
BL-437 JSStringFormat BIF
BL-439 xml component
BL-442 getVariable() & BL-443 setVariable()
BL-444 Add getClientVariablesList() to compat
BL-448 New getDescendantsOfType() AST method with predicate
BL-449 Implement single quote escapes in queries and preserveSingleQuotes
BL-450 Allow .cfm and .cfs files from the boxlang CLI runner
BL-440 Add isNumericDate BIF
BL-441 Add getHTTPTimeString BIF to web-support
BL-143 Writedump label support
BL-447 java.math.BigInteger caster

Improvements

BL-425 When doing class serialization make sure to identify which properties have
BL-426 content component can have body
BL-429 Enhance error messages for parsing invalid tag code

Bugs

BL-427 MalformedInputException: Input length = 1 when parsing CFC
BL-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 logic
BL-451 Sometimes trying to shutdown runtime throws NPE if it was never started fully
BL-452 pretty print visitor outputting extra " on tag catch block
BL-453 pretty print visitor doesn't handle array notation invocation

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/boxlang-100-beta-10-launched

Webinars, Meetups and Workshops

ICYMI - Online ColdFusion Meetup Group - "CF Scheduled Tasks: there’s more than you may know", with Charlie Arehart
Thursday Aug 8th at 12pm US Eastern Time
If 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 Wood
BoxLang is a new application server released by Ortus Solutions. It can run...