Modernize or Die® - CFML News for December 8th, 2020 - Episode 82

Modernize or Die ® Podcast - CFML News Edition

2020-12-08 Weekly News - Episode 82

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Hosts:

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions
Brad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

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News and Events

Hotfix released for CF2021 date-mask compatibility issue

Good news to share: if you're concerned about being impacted by a pressing compatibility issue in ColdFusion 2021 (regarding using "D" in a dateformat mask), Adobe released a fix for the problem last week. There are 3 simple steps to implementing that hotfix.
For more on the problem, see see my recent post on the issue. For more on the fix, see that Adobe technote or read on for some additional details.
https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2020/12/7/cf2021_hotfix_datemask_compatibility_issue

Scott Steinbeck: Here is the regex ((?<=l?s?(dateformat|dateformat|datetimeformat)).+[DY]+[^\#]+)
You have to use java pattern matcher with the regex above ☝it uses a lookbehind

Adobe ColdFusion 2021 Deprecated Features

Thanks to James Moberg for sharing the link to this valuable information via Twitter
https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/user-guide.html/coldfusion/deprecated-features.ug.html

Sad News - Wil Genovese lost his battle with Cancer

It's a sad moment, we lost a well known member of the CFML Community this week. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family.
We have a Blog post below remembering Wil.

Preside Christmas Release - V10.13.0

The 10.13.0 release brings another treasure trove of new features and improvements to Preside. Highlights include a new form builder data model, UX improvements to the filter system and a solution to "Widgetception"! Special thanks to Brayden Tan, Guust Nieuwenhuis, Jan Jannek, Jasmin Tsai, Johnson Cheng, Kar Hong, Russel Cole, Seb Duggan, Teon Ooi and Vivien Wong for code contributions (+ anyone else I may have missed). Also to Jan Jannek, Marcus Egger and Sacha Moufarrege for translations.
https://www.preside.org/release-notes/release-notes-for-10-13-0.html

Conference - GitHub Universe this Week!!!!

Dec 8 - 10th - 830AM PST - 200PM PST
Join GitHub team leaders, industry icons, and artists inspired by code for three days of live interactive sessions as we explore the future of software for enterprises, developers, and students.
With 70 talks across the 3 days, 4 Channels, lots of great content
No registration required and free to watch
https://githubuniverse.com/

RESCHEDULED - Seattle CFUG - Hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PST
RESCHEDULED FROM Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Hosted by - William Frankhouser and Leon O'Daniel
This meeting features an hands-on deep-dive into interacting with the Thinkific API.
Thinkific is one of the top platforms for online course delivery. This meetup builds upon the concepts shared at the October 2020 Seattle ColdFusion User Group Meeting to provide a hands-on experience interacting with the Thinkific API.
https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-ColdFusion-User-Group/events/274050264/

Coldfusion Online Meetup - "Using CommandBox CLI to manage all your servers", with Brad Wood

Thursday, December 10, 2020
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST
CommandBox is a CLI tool designed for CFML developers to be easy to use. If you are not a fan of CLI tools, please don't pass over CommandBox until you've given it a try. It is capable of starting any version of Lucee Server or Adobe ColdFusion with no installation. Learn how to easily get started with a local development environment today, get tips to dial in your server settings, and discover how to automate your server setups. CommandBox is used across the CF space for local dev, production, and Docker. We'll cover what you need to know to get started and answer any questions you have about how it works.
https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274974315/

ICYMI - Coldfusion Online Meetup - "How to build Progressive Web Apps", with John Wargo
Thursday Dec 3 at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-5
Progressive Web Apps leverage modern browser capabilities to deliver additional capabilities for developers and app users. These web apps deliver capabilities that make a web app 'feel' more like traditional and mobile apps, providing offline capabilities (like the ability to run when offline or to perform background synchronization), receive push notifications, and installation on the system. In this session, John M. Wargo, the author of Pearson's Learning Progressive Web Apps (https://learningpwa.com) will introduce you to PWAs and show you how to build them.
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBVozXmp3oQ
Meeting: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/274867028/

Advent of Code 2020

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as a speed contest, interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, or to challenge each other.
You don't need a computer science background to participate - just a little programming knowledge and some problem solving skills will get you pretty far. Nor do you need a fancy computer; every problem has a solution that completes in at most 15 seconds on ten-year-old hardware.
https://adventofcode.com/2020

Help us get CFML listed on Sentry.io

Giancarlo Gomez started a thread on Sentry.io to get CFML on the Create Project view. As he mentions in the thread, we have a couple of Sentry plugins available, one he created, and one by Brad.
Let’s get behind this thread, like, reply, and make a little noise for CFML.
https://forum.sentry.io/t/adding-coldfusion-as-a-platform/11875

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