Modernize or Die® - CFML News Podcast for September 19th, 2023 - Episode 204

Modernize or Die ® Podcast - CFML News Edition

2023-09-19 Weekly News — Episode 204

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/QR78EAolYQo?feature=share

Hosts:

• Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Dan Card- Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

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News and Announcements

Sept 13th - Happy Programmers Day

Hacktoberfest is coming
CELEBRATE OUR 10TH YEAR SUPPORTING OPEN SOURCE!
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Hacktoberfest, and we’re calling on your support! Whether it’s your first time participating—or your tenth—it’s almost time to hack out four pristine pull/merge requests as we continue our month of support for open source.

Hacktoberfest has grown from 676 participants in 2014 to nearly 147,000 participants last year. To help ensure Hacktoberfest can be sustained for another decade, this year we’re moving away from a free t-shirt reward to a digital reward.

PREPTEMBER
September is the perfect time to prepare for Hacktoberfest. Get a jump start by finding projects to contribute to, adding the ‘hacktoberfest’ tag to your projects, or familiarizing yourself with Git.

Discord: https://discord.gg/hacktoberfest
https://hacktoberfest.com/

CFMLers get AWS Certified
Daniel Garcia from Ortus, and a few other CFML Community members created a study group to complete the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification, the first on many AWS tracks.
All of the group members who took the Certification exam passed, which is great for these developers, their employers, and the community.

If you are considering a certification, create a study group with friends or community members, it helps with learning, accountability and it’s great to socialize with like minded people.

https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs/AWS_certification_paths.pdf
https://aws.amazon.com/certification/?nc2=sb_ce_co

New Releases and Updates

Lucee 5.4.3.7-Snapshot ready for Testing
Hey everyone, we have a new 5.4.3.7-SNAPSHOT out which addresses all the known regressions with 5.4.3

LDEV-4675 Admin: requested action doesn’t exist 1
LDEV-3854 a fix for the pagePool locking problem 7
LDEV-4480 “.” should not be accepted/converted as/to a number 2
LDEV-4676 SerializeJSON() produces invalid JSON when serializing some CFC instances 5
Builds are up, including docker images, It would be great if people can test this out and let us know

https://dev.lucee.org/t/5-4-3-7-snapshot-ready-for-testing/13001

Webinar / Meetups and Workshops

OOP & ColdFusion
Nolan Erck
Friday, September 29, 2023 @ 12 PM HAST (Hawaii Standard Time)

Object-Oriented Programming is a common term in programming languages. It’s a vast concept but to sum it up in a single line, it is a set of concepts and techniques that make use of the “object” construct, to write more reusable, maintainable, and organized code. Objects are implemented differently in every language. In ColdFusion, we have ColdFusion Components (CFCs) that can be instantiated to create objects.

Anyone who has ever studied OOP must know that there are four main concepts, which are:

• Abstraction
• Encapsulation
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism

https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group/events/294629892/

ICYMI - Hawaii CF User Group Meetup - Mark Takata on Graph QL & ColdFusion
GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.
https://hawaiicoldfusionusergroup.adobeconnect.com/p6cwiyco0hx7/

ICYMI - Sac Interactive - Mark Takata - ColdFusion 2023 Modern CFML Development Ecosystem
Join Mark Takata, Global Technical Evangelist for Adobe ColdFusion as he delves into all of the new incredible feature additions for ColdFusion 2023. We will discuss GraphQL, a variety of GCP native features (including storage, FireStore and Pub/Sub), JWT and security additions for single sign-on for the ColdFusion administrator. Both high level overview and code samples will be highlighted, and all code will be available on GitHub for download after the talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdRtN2YEUnE

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