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In this episode, we explore the surprising impact of Quake III's rapid inverse square root function on modern computing, weigh the pros and cons of in-person events like Dockercon for the DevOps community, and delve into the burgeoning role of AI-driven code generators. We also ponder the implications of the Technological Singularity, as envisioned by thinkers like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil, and discuss the ethical considerations of augmenting human intelligence with AI to keep pace with future technological advancements.Stay updated with new weekly episodes every Thursday – and don't forget to subscribe! For more behind-the-scenes content, follow us @justshiftleft on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Docker CTO Justin Cormack reveals that Docker has been a go-to tool for data scientists in AI and machine learning for years, primarily in specialized areas like image processing and prediction models. However, the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT last year sparked a significant surge in Docker's popularity within the AI community.The focus shifted to large language models (LLMs), with a growing interest in the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) stack. Docker's collaboration with Ollama enables developers to run Llama 2 and Code Llama locally, simplifying the process of starting and experimenting with AI applications. Additionally, partnerships with Neo4j and LangChain allow for enhanced support in storing and retrieving data for LLMs.Cormack emphasizes the simplicity of getting started locally, addressing challenges related to GPU shortages in the cloud. Docker's efforts also include building an AI solution using its data, aiming to assist users in Dockerizing applications through an interactive notebook in Visual Studio Code. This tool leverages LLMs to analyze applications, suggest improvements, and generate Docker files tailored to specific languages and applications.Docker's integration with AI technologies demonstrates a commitment to making AI and Docker more accessible and user-friendly.Learn more from The New Stack about AI and Docker:Artificial Intelligence News, Analysis, and ResourcesWill GenAI Take Jobs? No, Says Docker CEODebugging Containers in Kubernetes — It's Complicated
DockerCon showcased a commitment to enhancing the developer experience, with a particular focus on addressing the challenge of debugging containers in Kubernetes. The newly launched Docker Debug offers a language-independent toolbox for debugging both local and remote containerized applications.By abstracting Kubernetes concepts like pods and namespaces, Docker aims to simplify debugging processes and shift the focus from container layers to the application itself. Our guest, Docker Principal Engineer Ivan Pedrazas, emphasized the need to eliminate unnecessary complexities in debugging, especially in the context of Kubernetes, where developers grapple with unfamiliar concerns exposed by the API.Another Docker project, Tape, simplifies deployment by consolidating Kubernetes artifacts into a single package, streamlining the process for developers. The ultimate goal is to facilitate debugging of slim containers with minimal dependencies, optimizing security and user experience in Kubernetes development.While progress is being made, bridging the gap between developer practices and platform engineering expectations remains an ongoing challenge.Learn more from The New Stack about Kubernetes and Docker:Kubernetes Overview, News, and TrendsDocker Rolls out 3 Tools to Speed and Ease DevelopmentWill GenAI Take Jobs? No, Says Docker CEO
After returning from DockerCon earlier this month (Oct 2023), Bret recorded this podcast where he breaks down all the product announcements and details from the event. We hope you enjoy it and share it with your friends and colleagues.You can read all about it and get updates and Links to all the tools, betas, and info in our newsletter post. Enjoy the YouTube version here.
In this episode, Scott Johnston, CEO of Docker, highlights the evolving role of developers, emphasizing their increasing importance in architectural decision-making and tool development for applications. This shift in prioritizing a great developer experience and rapid tool development has led to substantial spending in the industry.Johnston expressed confidence that integrating generative AI into the developer experience will drive business growth and expand the customer base. He downplayed concerns about AI taking jobs, explaining that it would alleviate repetitive tasks, enabling developers to focus on more complex problem-solving. Johnston likened this evolution to expanding bike lanes in a city, leading to increased bike traffic, equating it to the development of more apps due to increased speed and efficiency.In his talk with TNS host, Alex Williams, Johnston emphasized that each advancement in programming languages and tools has expanded the developer market and driven greater demand for applications. Notably, the demand for over 750 million apps in the next two years, as reported by IDC, demonstrates the ever-increasing appetite for creative solutions from developers.Overall, Johnston sees the integration of generative AI and increasing development velocity as a multifaceted expansion that benefits developers and meets growing demand for applications in the market.Learn more from The New Stack about Generative AI and Docker:Generative AI News, Analysis, and ResourcesDocker Launches GenAI Stack and AI Assistant at DockerConDocker Rolls out 3 Tools to Speed and Ease Development
Es spricht! Sebi berichtet von seinen Erfahrungen mit dem neuen Voice Feature von ChatGPT in den mobilen Apps von OpenAI. Hier kann man nicht nur mit ChatGPT sprechen, sondern mit Hilfe verschiedener Stimmen auch angesprochen werden.Einen weiteren Assistenten hat Jan mit dem Visual Copilot von Builder.io im Gepäck. Die Toolchain von Builder.io erlaubt es, dank eines Multi-Model-Ansatzes Figma-Layouts in Quelltext zu verwandeln. Weiterhin kann man beispielsweise durch Text-Prompts eigene Komponenten erstellen, anpassen und dann für verschiedenste UI-Frameworks kompilieren.Passend dazu liefert Fabi Neuigkeiten von der DockerCon. Dort hat Docker einen neuen GenAI Stack vorgestellt, der es Entwickler:innen durch Ollama, Neo4j und LangChain erlauben soll, schneller mit eigenen generativen AI-Projekten starten zu können.Darüber hinaus liefert Docker jetzt mit Docker Scout eigenes Tooling, um Schwachstellen in Containern zu finden und Möglichkeiten zur Optimierung aufzuzeigen.Sebi berichtet abschließend über den Release von Node.js 21. Wir lernen, dass diese Version kein LTS ist, weil sie ungerade ist, aber sie dennoch genügend neue Features mitbringt – unter anderem stabile Versionen von fetch und WebStreams.Und das Team ist sich einig: Es bedarf dringend einer guten Erklärung des Unterschieds von CommonJS und ECMAScript Modulen. Könnt ihr das erklären? Schreibt uns eine Mail!Schreibt uns! Schickt uns eure Themenwünsche und euer Feedback: podcast@programmier.barFolgt uns! Bleibt auf dem Laufenden über zukünftige Folgen und virtuelle Meetups und beteiligt euch an Community-Diskussionen. TwitterInstagramFacebookMeetupYouTube
Bret is joined by Michael Irwin, Sr. Manager for DevRel at Docker, to review and demo our top 2022 new features and announcements from Docker Inc. We run through the very long list in this episode and sadly, had to skip over the smaller, nuance features or subtle changes and focused on the bigger things - a major one being Docker extensions - as well as Docker Hub support for OCI artifacts, like the Helm charts, volume, WASM, Hardened Docker Desktop, tilt.dev and much more.Streamed live on YouTube on December 1, 2022. Includes demos.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #193)★Topics★Docker Blog, "Products" category (most of our topics came from here)Recapping the last year of Docker Desktop (YouTube, September 2022)What's new in Docker Desktop (YouTube, DockerCon 2022, May 2022)What's new in Docker build (YouTube, DockerCon 2022, May 2022)★Michael Irwin★Michael on TwitterMichael's Website★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us and fellow students on our Discord Server DevOps FansHomepage bretfisher.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Bret is joined by Guillaume Tardif and Felipe Cruz of Docker Inc. for a deep dive into Docker extensions.Docker Extensions are a favorite new feature. Guillaume and Felipe are both engineers at Docker and they walk us through how extensions came about, how to install them, and how to submit them to the marketplace.By the time Docker released extensions at DockerCon in May 2022, there were already a dozen solid extensions, including a disk manager, log explorer, and other third-party tools like Portainer, Snyk, and Anchor. Docker extensions will be most helpful to people who use Docker Desktop.Streamed live on YouTube on June 16, 2022.Unedited live recording of this show on YouTube (Ep #174). Includes demos.★Topics★Docker Extensions homepageDocker Extensions announcement at DockerCon 2022Build your first Docker ExtensionSubmit your extension for the MarketplaceVackup, an example custom extensionExtension SDKOther Extension resources★Guillaume and Felipe★Guillaume Tardif on TwitterFelipe Cruz on Twitter★Join my Community★Best coupons for my Docker and Kubernetes coursesChat with us on our Discord Server Vital DevOpsHomepage bretfisher.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
2022-05-17 Weekly News - Episode 148Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ArUgrF-YL9k Hosts: Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-en out there. A few ways to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions: BUY SOME ITB TICKETS - COME TO THE CONFERENCE Like and subscribe to our videos on YouTube. Help ORTUS reach for the Stars - Star and Fork our Repos Star 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 review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportGoal 1 - We have 36 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 46% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io PATREON SPONSORED JOB POSTING!Hagerty - MotorSportReg2 Job Opportunities for Senior Software Engineer, Motorsport - more in the job section.Watch this video with Brian Ghidinelli from Hagerty MotorsportReg Ready to get in the driver's seat? Join us!https://bit.ly/3985J3U News and AnnouncementsINTO THE BOX - UpdatesAnnouncing Speakers and Sessions for Into the Box 2022 - Round 1We are excited to announce the first set of speakers and sessions. We have a great mix of Ortus Speakers and Community speakers too. We'll be announcing round 2 later this week, and then we'll be finalizing the last few spots next week as we confirm some special items (hopefully). Here is the first 12 speakers and their sessions.https://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-speakers-for-into-the-box-2022-round-1 Into the Box 2022 - First Workshops Announced Async Programming & Scheduling Containerizing & Scaling Your Applications Legacy Code Conversion To The Modern World! TestBox: Getting started with BDD-TDD Oh My! https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/into-the-box-2022-first-workshops-announced/The final Workshop - decided by Twitter poll - VueJs SPA and Mobile App with Rest APIsDear Amazing Boss - I would like to ask for your approval to attend Into The Box 2022http://www.intothebox.org/blog/dear-amazing-boss-i-would-like-to-ask-for-your-approval-to-attend-into-the-box-2022 Computer Know How - Sponsors Into The Box 2022http://www.intothebox.org/blog/computer-know-how-sponsors-into-the-box-2022 TryCF has started a PatreonYou can now contribute to the project by sending a one-time gift of any increment of $25 or support the project monthly by becoming a Patron. Your gifts are much appreciated and will help keep TryCF.com the awesome resource it is!https://www.patreon.com/trycf/posts StackOverflow QuestionaireHey CF devs, fill out this year's Stack Overflow survey, and make sure you write in your CFML engine and frameworks into all the write-in spots :) https://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5jeoE1pq9sFcwIe ICYMI - CFWheels Guides Moved to GitBookWe are glad to announce that the CFWheels Guides have been moved to GitBook.com. The good folks at GitBook are proud to support CFWheels and have granted us an Open Source Community account. We have migrated all the guides from our old provider to GitBook and will be making some more changes as we review all the links now that the domain has been switched.https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-guides-moved-to-gitbook/New Releases and UpdatesAdobe CF Engine Updates are in CommandBox nowAdobe CF engines 2018.0.14+330003 and 2021.0.04+330004 are now available on ForgeBox for your usage. When started on CommandBox 5.5, ACF 2021 is finally free of Log4j 1.x. ACF 2018 seems to still be using Log4j 1.x however.CFWheels 2.3.0 Stable ReleasedThis is the official v2.3.0 release. It is dropping a little over a week from Release Candidate 1. We simply wanted to make sure the new CI/CD workflow was functioning before calling the release final. We feel confident that we're good to mark this release as final. There are no new enhancements or bug fixes in this release from 2.3.0.rc.1.Blog: https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-2-3-0-released/ Lucee 5.3.9.141-RC ReleasedFollowing up on our 5.3.9.133 stable release, we found a number of regression which have now all been addressed. We are doing a quick 5.3.9.141-RC before releasing the second stable 5.3.9 release on Monday.https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-5-3-9-141-rc-released/10162 Lucee - Has the ForgeBox and Docker Builds triggering Automatically Nowhttps://github.com/lucee/Lucee/runs/6401534261?check_suite_focus=true#step:17:2517 ICYMI - ColdFusion 2021 and 2018 May Security Updateshttps://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/05/coldfusion-2021-and-2018-may-security-updates/ICYMI - cbElasticSearch v2.3.0 ReleasedWe are pleased to announce the release of cbElasticsearch version 2.3.0. cbElasticsearch is the Elasticsearch module for the Coldbox platform, and provides a fluent CFML API for interacting with, searching, and serializing to Elasticsearch servers.This release includes documentation updates and and enhancements to core functions of the Document, SearchBuilder and IndexBuilder components, as well as additional error handling for async tasks.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbelasticsearch-230-released/WEBINARS / MEETUPS AND WORKSHOPSOrtus Webinar - May - Clearing the Fuzzies on Fuzzy Search with Michael BornMay 27th 2022: Time 11:00 AM Central Time ( US and Canada )Take a walk through the world of search in this webinar which will show why your database search is not smart enough, explain the basics of how fuzzy search works, and show how to use CBElasticsearch to bring the power of fuzzy searching to your CF application.https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-6ppz0qGtGPJxmywPST06e74ExsmshB/ View all Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars ICYMI - Online ColdFusion Meetup - “Code Reuse in ColdFusion - Is Spaghetti Code still Spaghetti if it is DRY?” with Gavin PickinThursday, May 12 20229:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDTFind out the difference between DRY code and WET code, and what one is better, and more importantly, WHY.We write code once, but we read it over and over again, maintaining our code is 90% of the job... code reuse is our friend. You are already Re-using code, even if you didn't know you were.We'll learn about the different types of Code Reuse in ColdFusion, and the pros and cons of each.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/285524970/ Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnOW6G5MVqE&list=PLG2EHzEbhy0-QirMKgSxhjkUyTSSTvHjL&index=1Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseTUESDAY, MAY 24, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://workshop-cf.meetus.adobeevents.com/ WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 202210AM PTWebinar - Exploring the CF Administrator: pt1Mark TakataIn part one of exploring the capabilities of the ColdFusion Administrator, Mark will explore the GUI of this powerful, unique ColdFusion tool, explaining how to use many of the capabilities exposed and available for tuning.https://exploring-coldfusion-administrator-1.meetus.adobeevents.com/ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 20229:00 AM EDTAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopBrian Sappeyhttps://1-day-coldfusion-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://adobe-cf-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/ FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.comNews Several ITB 2021 Videos are now Free so you can watch them and get in the mood for ITB 2022. https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2021 All of the Publish Your First ForgeBox Package Videos are now Free Just Released Gavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox Package How to update a package via the CLIhttps://cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/how-to-update-a-package-via-the-cli How to use Box Scripts and CommandBox Command Lifecycle Eventshttps://cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/how-to-use-box-scripts-and-commandbox-command-lifecycle-events How to update a package via the Web UIhttps://cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/how-to-update-a-package-via-the-web-ui 2022 ForgeBox Module of the Week Series - 5 new Videoshttps://cfcasts.com/series/2022-forgebox-modules-of-the-week 2022 VS Code Hint tip and Trick of the Week Series - 5 new Videoshttps://cfcasts.com/series/2022-vs-code-hint-tip-and-trick-of-the-week Coming Soon More… Gavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox Package LogBox 101 More ForgeBox and VS Code Podcast snippet videos Conferences and TrainingICYMI - DockerConMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos, breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry, and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ On Demand https://docker.events.cube365.net/dockercon/2022 MS BuildMay 24-26, 2022Come together at Microsoft Build May 24–26 2022, to explore the latest innovations in code and application development—and to gain insights from peers and experts from around the world.Regional Spotlights, One on One bookings available and more.https://mybuild.microsoft.com/en-US/home Ioniconf (Free Online Ionic conference)May 25, 2022Join us for a full day of talks from experts and leaders in the web community, showing how the web is pushing the boundaries of mobile app development. Get insights on the latest web libraries, frameworks, and tools that are empowering web developers to build stunning mobile and cross-platform apps using the power of the web.https://ionic.io/ioniconfUS VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/Speakers and Schedule Announced https://us.vuejs.org/schedule/ THAT ConferenceHowdy. We're a full-stack, tech-obsessed community of fun, code-loving humans who share and learn together.We geek-out in Texas and Wisconsin once a year but we host digital events all the time.WISCONSIN DELLS, WI / JULY 25TH - 28TH, 2022A four-day summer camp for developers passionate about learning all things mobile, web, cloud, and technology.https://that.us/events/wi/2022/ Our very own Daniel Garcia is speaking there https://that.us/activities/sb6dRP8ZNIBIKngxswIt Adobe Developer Week 2022July 18-22, 2022Online - Virtual - FreeThe Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.Note: Speakers listed are 2021 speakers currently - check back for updatesI heard speakers were being contacted, and info coming very soon!!! Wink wink nudge nudgehttps://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form CF SummitIn person at Las Vegas, NV in October 2022!Official-”ish” dates:Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit ConferenceOct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Testshttps://twitter.com/MarkTakata/status/1511210472518787073VueJS Forge June 29-30thOrganized by Vue School_The largest hands-on Vue.js EventTeam up with 1000s of fellow Vue.js devs from around the globe to build a real-world application in just 2 days in this FREE hackathon-style event.Make connections. Build together. Learn together.Sign up as an Individual or signup as a companyCompany Deal - $2000 for a team of 5, includes VueSchool annual membership and guaranteed seat at the workshops at VueJS Forge as well… and you can pick your teamhttps://vuejsforge.com/Into The Box 2022Solid Dates - September 6, 7 and 8, 2022One day workshops before the two day conference!Early bird pricing available until May 31st, 2022Conference Website:https://intothebox.orgFirst round or two of Speakers and Session Descriptions are being announced this week!ITB 2021 Videos - Several videos are now Free so you can watch them and get in the mood for ITB 2022. https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2021 ITB Blog has new updates almost every day!Into the Box Latam 2022Actual Date - Dec 7thMore information coming very soon.CFCampNo CFCAMP 2022, we're trying again for summer 2023TLDR is that it's just too hard and there's too much uncertainty right now.Heading into winter with a date around October is less than ideal from a Covid point of viewat the same time hotels in Germany have already removed the "no questions asked" cancellation policies. So, yeah - that's not great. And then there's a war going on 2 countries down the road, which adds at least some economic uncertainties and concerns about sanctions, people willing to travel and spend money on events etc. Then there is all of the general annoyances around international travel - the organizers are being very careful and "wanting to do everything to avoid international travel for anyone when running an event" side of things when it comes to Covid.So, a lot of energy would have to be spent on making the event safe enough from our own point of view… so best to wait until hopefully Summer 2023More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week 5/17/22 - Blog - Into the Box - Announcing Speakers for Into the Box 2022 - Round 1We are excited to announce the first set of speakers and sessions. We have a great mix of Ortus Speakers and Community speakers too. We'll be announcing round 2 later this week, and then we'll be finalizing the last few spots next week as we confirm some special items (hopefully). Here is the first 12 speakers and their sessions.https://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-speakers-for-into-the-box-2022-round-1 5/17/22 - Blog - Adam Cameron - If yer a CFML dev, you should consider financially supporting trycf.comIf you are a CFML developer, you will be aware and likely use trycf.com. Whenever I have an issue with some CFML that needs to be demonstrated to someone else; eg: I'm asking for help on Slack or Stack Overflow, or demonstrating an answer to someone else's question: I create a portable / repeatable repro case on trycf.com. I use it to demonstrate bugs and behavioural differences to Adobe or Lucee when both vendors don't give the same result from the same code. I use it every day.I believe trycf.com is the handiest resource available to CFML developers.https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/if-yer-cfml-dev-you-should-consider.html 5/16/22 - Blog - Peter Amiri - CFWheels - CFWheels Announces a Bug BountyWe are happy to launch a new program that we hope will lead to a more stable framework for all of us. Effective immediately we are launching our Bug Bounty program. When we first conceived of the bounty program we were looking at programs from IssueHunt and BountySource and the main goal was to widen the field of contributors to the CFWheels project as well as crush some of the long standing bugs in the framework.https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-announces-a-bug-bounty/ 5/16/22 - Blog - Gavin Pickin - Ortus Solutions - Into the Box - Updates as of May 16th, 2022Into the Box is sneaking up closer and closer. With so many announcements, we can't post them all to the Ortus Solutions blog, so we're going to just give you updates when we can. To read all of our blog posts from ITB, visit the site or subscribe to RSS https://intothebox.org/blog This week we're going to be announcing the first set of Sessions, some of the Speakers, and some more sponsors. Last week was a big week for Into the Box too, check out the highlightshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/into-the-box-updates-as-of-may-16th-2022/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast 5/16/22 - Blog - Into the Box - Computer Know How - Sponsors Into The Box 2022We are excited to announce the bronze sponsorship of Computer Know How for the Into The Box 2022 Conference this coming September. We have been partners with CKH for several years and they are an amazing web application development company. Thank you for your patronage, and continuing support. We are excited to see them in Houston this September!https://www.intothebox.org/blog/computer-know-how-sponsors-into-the-box-2022/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast 5/13/22 - Blog - Ortus Solutions - Ortus Content Digest for week of May 13thWe were busy this week, we released a lot of content for you... on the podcast, cfcasts, youtube, and our blog. Here's the summary in bite size pieceshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/ortus-content-digest-for-week-of-may-13th 5/12/22 - Podcast - Wicked Good Development - Developer and Open Source Contributor Stories at Devnexus Part 2 - Brad WoodMagic happens when we learn and have honest conversations. @bdw429s thank you for coming on Wicked Good Development and discussing #ColdFusion and what it takes to be a maintainer or contributor #jvm https://anchor.fm/wickedgooddevelopment/episodes/Developer-and-Open-Source-Contributor-Stories-at-Devnexus-Part-2-e1if4g1 5/12/22 - Blog - Into the Box - Dear Amazing Boss - I would like to ask for your approval to attend Into The Box 2022We think you should come to the conference but may need some help convincing your boss to send you. To assist with that, we created a draft letter, inspired by Smashing Magazine, VueJS Conf, and many others, which you can use to send to your boss to help convince them why attending Into the Box in 2022 is going to be a great thing for you and your company.Please use the below letter to convince your boss to let you attend the best ColdFusion Conference of the Year! Remember, the Super Early Bird prices end soon. Hope to see you in September!https://www.intothebox.org/blog/dear-amazing-boss-i-would-like-to-ask-for-your-approval-to-attend-into-the-box-2022/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast 5/12/22 - Blog - Matthew Clemente - Quick and Dirty CFML Slack Notifications with HyperWhile there may be times you need a full-featured Slack integration, just being able to send messages to a channel can be a win for many applications. I recently needed to alert a Slack channel whenever an application was deployed, and found that using Eric Peterson's module Hyper along with Slack's Incoming Webhooks did the trick nicely.I'll share how to do this with a FW/1 application - just know that with ColdBox it would be even easier, and the general approach could even be modified to work without a framework.https://blog.mattclemente.com/2022/05/12/cfml-slack-incoming-webhook-hyper/ 5/12/22 - Blog - Gavin Pickin - Ortus Solutions - Tips, Tricks and Tools to write DRYer more Reusable Code in ColdFusionIn the last blog post, we learned many reasons why we wanted DRYer more reusable code in ColdFusion. This blog post will talk about some of the different tools ColdFusion / CFML gives you to achieve that.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/tips-tricks-and-tools-to-write-dryer-more-reusable-code-in-coldfusion/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast Adam Cameron Corner 5/12/22 - Blog - Adam Cameron - CFML: Adding beforeEach handlers to my TinyTestFramework. Another exercise in TDDI have to admit I'm not sure where I'm going with this one yet. I dunno how to implement what I'm needing to do, but I'm gonna start with a test and see where I go from there.Context: I've been messing around with this TinyTestFramework thing for a bit… it's intended to be a test framework one can run in trycf.com, so I need to squeeze it all into one include file, and at the same time make it not seem too rubbish in the coding dept. The current state of affairs is here: tinyTestFramework.cfm, and its tests: testTinyTestFramework.cfm. Runnable here: on trycf.comhttps://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/cfml-adding-beforeeach-handlers-to-my.html 5/12/22 - Blog - Adam Cameron - CFML: for the sake of completeness, here's the afterEach treatmentThis immediately follows on from "CFML: Adding beforeEach handlers to my TinyTestFramework. Another exercise in TDD".Having done the beforeEach implementation for my TinyTestFramework, I reckoned afterEach would be super easy: barely an inconvenience. And indeed it was. Took me about 15min, given most of the logic is the same as for beforeEach.https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/cfml-for-sake-of-completeness-heres.html 5/13/22 - Blog - Adam Cameron - CFML: adding aroundEach to TinyTestFramework was way easier than I expectedI'm still pottering around with my TinyTestFramework. Last night I added beforeEach and afterEach handlers, but then thought about how the hell I could easily implement aroundEach support, and I could only see about 50% of it, so I decided to sleep on it.After a night's sleep I spent about 30min before work doing a quick spike (read: no tests, just "will this even work?"), and surprisingly it did work. First time. Well except for a coupla typos, but I nailed the logic first time. I'm sorta halfway chuffed by this, sorta halfway worried that even though what I decided would probably work - and it did - I haven't quite got my head around how it works, or even quite what it's doing. So let's blog about that.https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/cfml-adding-aroundeach-to.html 5/15/22 - Blog - Adam Cameron - CFML: fixing a coupla bugs in my recent work on TinyTestFrameworkLast week I did some more work on my TinyTestFramework:CFML: for the sake of completeness, here's the afterEach treatmentCFML: adding aroundEach to TinyTestFramework was way easier than I expectedOn Saturday, I found a bug in each of those. Same bug, basically, surfacing in two different ways. Here's an example:https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/cfml-fixing-coupla-bugs-in-my-recent.html CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 83 ColdFusion positions from 46 companies across 40 locations in 5 Countries.4 new jobs listedFull-Time - Senior Coldfusion Developer WORK |LATAM| at Colon, PA - United States Posted May 15https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Senior-Coldfusion-Developer-WORK-LATAM-at-Colon-PA/11470 Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at Cleveland, OH (Remote) - United States Posted May 13https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/CFDev-at-CL-OH-Remote/11464 Full-Time - Coldfusion Developer at Bengaluru, Karnataka - India Posted May 11https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/india/Coldfusion-Developer-at-Bengaluru-Karnataka/11465 Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at India - India Posted May 10https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/india/ColdFusion-Developer-at-India/11466 PATREON SPONSORED JOB POSTING!Hagerty - MotorSportRegSenior Software Engineer, MotorsportWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work primarily with Node/Vue.js, ColdFusion, and AWS to improve our platform and build greenfield experiences.We are a 25-person team supporting 1,600 organizations with our SaaS CRM, commerce and event management platform. With 8,000 events managed in our marketplace annually by our customers, our goal is to be the number one software platform for automotive and motorsport events.Ready to get in the driver's seat? Join us!https://bit.ly/3985J3U Other Job Links Ortus Solutionshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careers There is a jobs channel in the cfml slack team, and in the box team slack now too ForgeBox Module of the WeekFacebook Leadgen Forms - CFMLA CFML wrapper for the Facebook Leadgen Forms API. Create and manage Facebook's lead forms via their marketing API.Feel free to use the issue tracker to report bugs or suggest improvements!https://www.forgebox.io/view/fblgfcfml VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekVue 3 SnippetsThis extension adds Vue 2 Snippets and Vue 3 Snippets into Visual Studio Code.Including all of the API of Vue.js 2 and Vue.js 3. The code snippet of the extension is shown in the following table. You don't need to remember something, just write code as usual in vscode. You can type vcom, choose VueConfigOptionMergeStrategies, and press ENTER, then Vue.config.optionMergeStrategies appear on the screen.https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hollowtree.vue-snippets Thank you to all of our Patreon SupportersThese individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox, ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need, and funds the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox. You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutionsDon't forget, we have Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses. Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription. All Patreon supporters have a Profile badge on the Community Website All Patreon supporters have their own Private Forum access on the Community Website https://community.ortussolutions.com/ Patreons Brand new Big Patreon SponsorBrian Ghidinelli - Hagerty MotorsportReg John Wilson - Synaptrix Eric Hoffman Gary Knight Mario Rodrigues Giancarlo Gomez David Belanger (Bell-an-jer) Dan Card Jonathan Perret Jeffry McGee - Sunstar Media Dean Maunder Joseph Lamoree (Lah-more-ee)? Don Bellamy Jan Jannek (Yan Yannek) Laksma Tirtohadi (Lah-ksma Turt-o-hah-dee) Carl Von Stetten Jeremy Adams Didier Lesnicki Matthew Clemente Daniel Garcia Scott Steinbeck - Agri Tracking Systems Ben Nadel Brett DeLine Kai Koenig Charlie Arehart Jonas Eriksson Jason Daiger Shawn Oden Matthew Darby Ross Phillips Edgardo Cabezas Patrick Flynn Stephany Monge (Monghee) John Whish Kevin Wright Peter Amiri You can see an up to date list of all sponsors on Ortus Solutions' Websitehttps://ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Shokz OpenRun買いました 英語重要 Audibleで運用アンチパターンの英語版聞いてたら完全にTOEICのリスニングテスト受けてる気分に DockerCon 2022 5/9-5/11 まとめだけみた Docker desktop for linux がでたみたい。いらんかな。。 Docker desktop extension. Docker desktopにサードパーティの拡張をできるもらしい。見てみたけどまだ10件くらい？今後に期待 Google I/O 2022 5/11- 5/12 Pixel7とか 個人的に一番注目しているのはARメガネ。翻訳に特化している模様。Googleグラスはあまりブレイクしなかったので期待。デザインはやぼったくないみたい。
Docker CEO Scott Johnston joins us to talk about the announcements from this week’s DockerCon, the transition from an enterprise to a developer tools company, and the Internet’s favourite whale. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Podes and antipodes Side note: Kubernetes needs the concept of an Antipod. BRB, writing a KEP Google Cloud Podcasts News of the week DockerCon 2022 Docker Extensions Docker Desktop for Linux Late breaking news: Docker acquires Nestybox Spot VMs now on GCE and GKE; spot pods now on GKE Autopilot Fully managed Linkerd with Buoyant Cloud Sign up for CDcon and save 40% by using the code CdCon22AMEET40 AWS adds Kubernetes resource view Deploying Kubernetes clusters in absurd languages by Lee Briggs Links from the interview Docker DockerCon ‘22 DockerCon ‘14, the announcement of Kubernetes Return or Revenge? Scott’s history Four degrees from Stanford, including an MSMSE Sun and Netscape Java Servlets and J2EE Moore’s Law and Metcalfe’s Law Standard on the Internet Tom Lyon Loudcloud/Opsware and a16z Puppet Scott joins Docker in 2014 The monorepo The Soul of a New Machine Docker Swarm Messages from the future and the Google crystal ball Open Cotainers Initiative Docker Desktop for Apple Silicon Macs virtiofs for Mac $2.1 billion valuation Moby Project Moby Ice Cube The Dockershim saga, as reported throughout the episodes: Don’t panic about Docker Dockershim deprecation FAQ Mirantis will support the Dockershim But seriously, don’t worry about the Dockershim Dockershim is, like, proper gone The puns and joke section Docker is krilled to see you Billy T James Beached Az. Can’t eat chups! Docker Extensions CNCF Landscape or Magic Eye? Docker Desktop for Linux Multi-arch on Docker Hub Docker roadmap Scott Johnston on Twitter
2022-05-10 Weekly News - Episode 147Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Z4JmOKQVGIU Hosts: Eric Peterson - 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-en 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 Repos Star 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 review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportGoal 1 - We have 36 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 46% of the way to fully fund the hosting of ForgeBox.io PATREON SPONSORED JOB POSTING!New Sponsor Hagerty - MotorSportReg2 Job Opportunities for Senior Software Engineer, Motorsport - more in the job section.Brian Ghidinelli - Hagerty MotorsportReg talks about his company and their roles available.See the Video or Listen to the AudioNews and AnnouncementsINTO THE BOX - First Workshops AnnouncedConfirmed Workshops Async Programming & Scheduling Containerizing & Scaling Your Applications Legacy Code Conversion To The Modern World! TestBox: Getting started with BDD-TDD Oh My! Help us decide on the other workshops CommandBox CLI Scripting/Productivity Up and Running with Quick VueJs SPA and Mobile App with Rest APIs https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/into-the-box-2022-first-workshops-announced/CFWheels Guides Moved to GitBookWe are glad to announce that the CFWheels Guides have been moved to GitBook.com. The good folks at GitBook are proud to support CFWheels and have granted us an Open Source Community account. We have migrated all the guides from our old provider to GitBook and will be making some more changes as we review all the links now that the domain has been switched.https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-guides-moved-to-gitbook/New Releases and UpdatesICYMI - Lucee 5.3.9.131 Released Last week the stable release of Lucee 5.3.9 was made available. Available in CommandBox and from the Lucee Downloads Sitehttps://download.lucee.org/Brad releases some Community posts on Issues reported - Lucee 5.3.9 losing sessions over HTTP2 SSLhttps://community.ortussolutions.com/t/lucee-5-3-9-losing-sessions-over-ssl/9229ICYMI - CommandBox v5.5.0 and v5.5.1 releasedCommandBox 5.5.0 was released. We found some issues due to a last minute change, we rolled out a 5.5.1 patch yesterday, that seems to solve that initial issue.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-551-released/ICYMI - CommandBox Docker v3.5.0 Images ReleasedToday we are pleased to announce the release of version 3.5.0 of our CommandBox Docker images, which contains significant upgrades to the underlying CommandBox engine.Most significantly, this release upgrades the CommandBox binary to 5.5.1, which uses Lucee 5.3.9 as the underlying CFML engine. In addition, this release changes the underlying base image over to use the eclipse-temurin image builds, as the adoptopenjdk builds are being sunsetted. With this change, the underlying Debian version changes to use Ubuntu 20.0.0 (focal). As such, some custom installs in Dockerfiles may need updates to available packages from this distro.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-docker-v350-images-released ColdFusion 2021 and 2018 May Security UpdatesWe are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions: ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 4 ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 14 Note: The ColdFusion Add-Ons and lockdown installers are also refreshed. The refreshed installers are available at ColdFusion downloads.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/05/coldfusion-2021-and-2018-may-security-updates/ICYMI - ColdBox Elixir v4 ReleasedHot off the presses, ColdBox Elixir v4 is now available on NPM. This is a massive upgrade under the hood, but it shouldn't require any API changes if you are using just Elixir methods. (If you are customizing Webpack directly, you may need to make additional changes.) Please check out the Migration Guide for help upgrading.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-elixir-v4-released/ cbElasticSearch v2.3.0 ReleasedWe are pleased to announce the release of cbElasticsearch version 2.3.0. cbElasticsearch is the Elasticsearch module for the Coldbox platform, and provides a fluent CFML API for interacting with, searching, and serializing to Elasticsearch servers.This release includes documentation updates and and enhancements to core functions of the Document, SearchBuilder and IndexBuilder components, as well as additional error handling for async tasks.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbelasticsearch-230-released/ICYMI - CFWheels 2.3.0-rc.1 ReleasedView the changelog at https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-2-3-0-rc-1/WEBINARS / MEETUPS AND WORKSHOPSOrtus Webinar - May - Clearing the Fuzzies on Fuzzy Search with Michael BornMay 27th 2022: Time 11:00 AM Central Time ( US and Canada )Take a walk through the world of search in this webinar which will show why your database search is not smart enough, explain the basics of how fuzzy search works, and show how to use CBElasticsearch to bring the power of fuzzy searching to your CF application.https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-6ppz0qGtGPJxmywPST06e74ExsmshB/ View all Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Online ColdFusion Meetup - “Code Reuse in ColdFusion - Is Spaghetti Code still Spaghetti if it is DRY?” with Gavin PickinThursday, May 12 20229:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDTFind out the difference between DRY code and WET code, and what one is better, and more importantly, WHY.We write code once, but we read it over and over again, maintaining our code is 90% of the job... code reuse is our friend. You are already Re-using code, even if you didn't know you were.We'll learn about the different types of Code Reuse in ColdFusion, and the pros and cons of each.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/285524970/ Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseTUESDAY, MAY 14, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://workshop-cf.meetus.adobeevents.com/ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://adobe-cf-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/ FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.comNews Several ITB 2021 Videos are now Free so you can watch them and get in the mood for ITB 2022. https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2021 All of the Publish Your First ForgeBox Package Videos are now Free Just Released Gavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox Package Logging into ForgeBox Onlinehttps://cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/logging-into-forgebox-online Publish a Package via ForgeBox.iohttps://cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/publish-a-package-via-forgebox 2022 ForgeBox Module of the Week Series - 3 Videos and Countinghttps://cfcasts.com/series/2022-forgebox-modules-of-the-week 2022 VS Code Hint tip and Trick of the Week Series - 3 Videos and Countinghttps://cfcasts.com/series/2022-vs-code-hint-tip-and-trick-of-the-week Coming Soon More… Gavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox Package LogBox 101 More ForgeBox and VS Code Podcast snippet videos Conferences and TrainingDockerCon - THIS WEEKMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos , breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ MS BuildMay 24-26, 2022Come together at Microsoft Build May 24–26 2022, to explore the latest innovations in code and application development—and to gain insights from peers and experts from around the world.Regional Spotlights, One on One bookings available and more.https://mybuild.microsoft.com/en-US/home Ioniconf (Free Online Ionic conference)May 25, 2022Join us for a full day of talks from experts and leaders in the web community, showing how the web is pushing the boundaries of mobile app development. Get insights on the latest web libraries, frameworks, and tools that are empowering web developers to build stunning mobile and cross-platform apps using the power of the web.https://ionic.io/ioniconfUS VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/Speakers and Schedule Announced https://us.vuejs.org/schedule/ THAT ConferenceHowdy. We're a full-stack, tech-obsessed community of fun, code-loving humans who share and learn together.We geek-out in Texas and Wisconsin once a year but we host digital events all the time.WISCONSIN DELLS, WI / JULY 25TH - 28TH, 2022A four-day summer camp for developers passionate about learning all things mobile, web, cloud, and technology.https://that.us/events/wi/2022/ Our very own Daniel Garcia is speaking there https://that.us/activities/sb6dRP8ZNIBIKngxswIt Adobe Developer Week 2022July 18-22, 2022Online - Virtual - FreeThe Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.Note: Speakers listed are 2021 speakers currently - check back for updateshttps://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form CF SummitIn person at Las Vegas, NV in October 2022!Official-”ish” dates:Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit ConferenceOct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Testshttps://twitter.com/MarkTakata/status/1511210472518787073VueJS Forge June 29-30thOrganized by Vue School_The largest hands-on Vue.js EventTeam up with 1000s of fellow Vue.js devs from around the globe to build a real-world application in just 2 days in this FREE hackathon-style event.Make connections. Build together. Learn together.Sign up as an Individual or signup as a company (by booking a call)https://vuejsforge.com/Into The Box 2022Solid Dates - September 6, 7 and 8, 2022One day workshops before the two day conference!Early bird pricing available until April 30, 2022Conference Website:https://intothebox.orgITB 2021 Videos - Several videos are now Free so you can watch them and get in the mood for ITB 2022. https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2021 Into the Box Latam 2022Tentative dates - Dec 1-2CFCampNo CFCAMP 2022, we're trying again for summer 2023TLDR is that it's just too hard and there's too much uncertainty right now.Heading into winter with a date around October is less than ideal from a Covid point of viewat the same time hotels in Germany have already removed the "no questions asked" cancellation policies. So, yeah - that's not great. And then there's a war going on 2 countries down the road, which adds at least some economic uncertainties and concerns about sanctions, people willing to travel and spend money on events etc. Then there is all of the general annoyances around international travel - the organizers are being very careful and "wanting to do everything to avoid international travel for anyone when running an event" side of things when it comes to Covid.So, a lot of energy would have to be spent on making the event safe enough from our own point of view… so best to wait until hopefully Summer 2023More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week5/10/22 Tweet - Charlie Arehart - Shame on you, Adobe!Shame on you, Adobe! Following on my earlier post, I've learned these May 2022 #coldfusion updates DO NOT include any bug fixes--for things that have plagued us since the Sept 2021 updates. Worse, they remove special hotfixes if added. See my comment here: https://twitter.com/carehart/status/1524070239973089283 https://twitter.com/careharthttps://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/05/coldfusion-2021-and-2018-may-security-updates/#comment-471585/4/22 Blog - Mark Takata - Adobe - Comparing Adobe ColdFusion Enterprise API Manager to 3rd Party OptionsOne of the big myths about ColdFusion Enterprise is how “expensive” it is. Now, it could be argued that any programming language that costs more than $0 is “expensive”, as generally languages are free to use.But, of course, Adobe ColdFusion isn't “just” a language. It is an entire ecosystem of functionality, including an incredibly useful administrator, performance monitoring toolkit and (if you use Enterprise), the API Manager.Many folks have covered the fantastic features of the API Manager, but what is talked about less is what someone might use instead of API Manager. I'm going to look at a few common 3rd party tools and compare the costs.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/05/comparing-adobe-coldfusion-enterprise-api-manager-to-3rd-party-options/5/5/22 Blog - James Moberg - Identifying Random Uploaded Form FilesThe benefit to this approach is that it returns a single struct containing keys that match all form "file" field names with extra information identifying the original filename, type, size and temporary file path. Enjoy!https://dev.to/gamesover/identifying-random-uploaded-form-files-57n75/6/22 Blog - Brad Wood - Java regression and UndertowIn the most recent updates of Java 8 u333 and 11.0.15, there was a regression introduced that affects the XNIO libraries that power Undertow, which CommandBox uses. This issue appears to only affect Windows. If you are getting any of the error messages here, the TL; DR; is simply to update to CommandBox 5.5.1, where we have a workaround already in place.https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/java-regression-and-undertow/92285/6/22 Blog - Brad Wood - Lucee 5.3.9 losing sessions over SSLIf you've started using Lucee 5.3.9 for your CommandBox servers (which is the new default in CommandBox 5.5) and you have SSL enabled, you may have noticed your session scope getting lost in your application as well as the Lucee administrator.https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/lucee-5-3-9-losing-sessions-over-ssl/92295/6/22 Blog - Brad Wood - CommandBox 5.5 and injecting models into Task RunnersCommandBox 5.5 has a lot of new features, but there are just as many bug fixes and improvements. Sometimes these tickets unintentionally change some internal behavior you may have been depending on, but was never guaranteed.One such change that caught a couple people out was that the underlying “web root” that Lucee uses under the covers changed from the folder box.exe was started in to the root of your drive (C:/ or / in *nix). This was done for a handful of reasons, one of which being a super annoying Lucee bug where it's literally impossible to create a CF mapping that points to / on Linux.https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/commandbox-5-5-and-injecting-models-into-task-runners/9230https://xkcd.com/1172/CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 76 ColdFusion positions from 44 companies across 37 locations in 5 Countries.1 new job listedFull-Time - Senior Application Developer UK at Remote - United Kingdom - Work with Adam CameronMay 03https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-kingdom/Sr-AppDeveloper-RemoteUK/11463 PATREON SPONSORED JOB POSTING!Hagerty - MotorSportRegSenior Software Engineer, MotorsportWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work primarily with Node/Vue.js, ColdFusion, and AWS to improve our platform and build greenfield experiences.We are a 25-person team supporting 1,600 organizations with our SaaS CRM, commerce and event management platform. With 8,000 events managed in our marketplace annually by our customers, our goal is to be the number one software platform for automotive and motorsport events.Ready to get in the driver's seat? Join us!https://bit.ly/3985J3U Other Job Links Ortus Solutionshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careers Consortium Inchttps://www.dice.com/jobs/detail/-/10183574/7322396 There is a jobs channel in the cfml slack team, and in the box team slack now too ForgeBox Module of the WeekCommandBox Task Local Model ResolverA simple module that allows Task Runners to inject CFCs from the shell's working dir. This module listens to the beforeInstanceAutowire interception point in WireBox and looks for any propery injections whose DSL matches the name of a CFC in the shell's working directory. This allows a Task Runner to inject a CFC in the working directory without creating a mapping for it.https://forgebox.io/view/commandbox-task-local-model-resolverVS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekVScode CounterVS Code extension: counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.This extension uses other language extensions to determine the line of code. Therefore, you may need to install the language extension to support a new language.Conversely, as the number of language extensions increases, the range of support for this feature also increases.https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=uctakeoff.vscode-counter Thank you to all of our Patreon SupportersThese individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox, ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need, and funds the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox. You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions Don't forget, we have Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses. Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription. All Patreon supporters have a Profile badge on the Community Website All Patreon supporters have their own Private Forum access on the Community Website https://community.ortussolutions.com/ PatreonsBrand new Big Patreon SponsorBrian Ghidinelli - Hagerty MotorsportReg John Wilson - Synaptrix Eric Hoffman Gary Knight Mario Rodrigues Giancarlo Gomez David Belanger Dan Card Jonathan Perret Jeffry McGee - Sunstar Media Dean Maunder Joseph Lamoree Don Bellamy Jan Jannek Laksma Tirtohadi Carl Von Stetten Jeremy Adams Didier Lesnicki Matthew Clemente Daniel Garcia Scott Steinbeck - Agri Tracking Systems Ben Nadel Brett DeLine Kai Koenig Charlie Arehart Jonas Eriksson Jason Daiger Shawn Oden Matthew Darby Ross Phillips Edgardo Cabezas Patrick Flynn Stephany Monge John Whish Kevin Wright Peter Amiri You can see an up to date list of all sponsors on Ortus Solutions' Websitehttps://ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
2022-05-03 Weekly News - Episode 146Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/SjSH5ASDg58 Hosts: Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Dan Card - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-en 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 Repos Star 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 review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 35 patreons providing 92% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. News and EventsNew Into the Box Dates Announced - 100% finalized!!! Set in stone and signed in blood!Ortus Solutions is happy to announce we have new finalized dates for Into the Box 2022 and the venue. Into the Box 2022 will be hosted in Houston Texas, Tuesday September 6th through Thursday September 8th, 2022. The conference will be at a new venue, the Houston CityPlace Marriott at Springwoods Village.Why did we change the dates? Ortus Solutions decided to change the dates for you, the community!Ortus Solutions is a company that at the end of the day, wants what is best for the ColdFusion community. Ortus Solutions provides content, tools, trainings, conferences, support and development, but we all thrive when the ColdFusion community thrives, and that means more events, bigger events, more opportunities for speakers and attendees, so moving our conference was the smart move, for everyone.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/new-dates-for-into-the-box-2022-and-why-we-changed-them/ Since we moved dates for ITB 2022 - We extended the Call for Speaker Deadline - April 30, 2022!!!Since we had to make changes to the schedule, we wanted to make sure every community member had the opportunity to submit their proposal.Into the Box will be live in Houston in September 2022.We have 20+ speakers submit talks, with over 50 topics, so it will be hard to make a decision.Although the deadline passed, the form hasn't be disabled just yet, so if you want to sneak one in, do it now, sssssh secret squirrel.https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9https://intothebox.orgAdobe Announced Adobe Developer Week 2022July 18-22, 2022Online - Virtual - FreeThe Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.Note: Speakers listed are 2021 speakers currently - check back for updateshttps://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form Releases and UpdatesLucee 5.3.9.131 Released Last week the stable release of Lucee 5.3.9 was made available. Available in CommandBox and from the Lucee Downloads Sitehttps://download.lucee.org/CommandBox v5.5.0 and v5.5.1 releasedCommandBox 5.5.0 was released. We found some issues due to a last minute change, we rolled out a 5.5.1 patch yesterday, that seems to solve that initial issue.https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/commandboxCommandBox Docker v3.5.0 Images ReleasedToday we are pleased to announce the release of version 3.5.0 of our CommandBox Docker images, which contains significant upgrades to the underlying CommandBox engine.Most significantly, this release upgrades the CommandBox binary to 5.5.1, which uses Lucee 5.3.9 as the underlying CFML engine. In addition, this release changes the underlying base image over to use the eclipse-temurin image builds, as the adoptopenjdk builds are being sunsetted. With this change, the underlying Debian version changes to use Ubuntu 20.0.0 (focal). As such, some custom installs in Dockerfiles may need updates to available packages from this distro.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-docker-v350-images-released ColdBox Elixir v4 ReleasedHot off the presses, ColdBox Elixir v4 is now available on NPM. This is a massive upgrade under the hood, but it shouldn't require any API changes if you are using just Elixir methods. (If you are customizing Webpack directly, you may need to make additional changes.) Please check out the Migration Guide for help upgrading.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-elixir-v4-released/ CFWheels 2.3.0 Release CandidateThis version has been cooking for a while and there have been many contributors. But since this is my first release a the helm with a new CI pipeline in place, I felt more comfortable doing a Release Candidate first.https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-2-3-0-rc-1/ Webinars Meetups and WorkshopsICYMI - Online ColdFusion Meetup - "Updating the Java underlying ColdFusion", with Charlie ArehartThursday, April 28, 20229:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDTRecording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqeYME2LcEk&list=PLG2EHzEbhy0-QirMKgSxhjkUyTSSTvHjL Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/285508327/?response=3ICYMI - Ortus Webinar - April - cbSecurity: Passwords, Tokens, and JWTs with Eric PetersonApril 29th 202211:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)Learn how to integrate cbSecurity into your application whether you are using passwords, API tokens, JWTs, or a combination of all three!More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Recording: https://cfcasts.com/series/ortus-webinars-2022/videos/eric-peterson-on-cbsecurity:-passwords,-tokens,-and-jwts ICYMI - Hawaii ColdFusion Meetup Group - Using ColdFusion ORMs with Nick KwiatkowskiFriday, April 29, 20224:00 PM to 5:00 PM PDTThe ColdFusion language introduced the concept of ORM (Object Relation Mappings) to allow developers to be able to do database work without having to write database-dependent SQL.Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group/events/285109975/ Recording: https://hawaiicoldfusionusergroup.adobeconnect.com/pzrdao87tg4m/?fbclid=IwAR2pP94dj-qr73vRTWn_lwizIGaYFLOqzPvWC6OKIIIJv4nwH-0eoNobJ1Q Ortus Webinar - May - Clearing the Fuzzies on Fuzzy Search with Michael BornMay 27th 2022: Time 11:00 AM Central Time ( US and Canada )Take a walk through the world of search in this webinar which will show why your database search is not smart enough, explain the basics of how fuzzy search works, and show how to use CBElasticsearch to bring the power of fuzzy searching to your CF application.https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-6ppz0qGtGPJxmywPST06e74ExsmshB/ View all Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Online ColdFusion Meetup - “Code Reuse in ColdFusion - Is Spaghetti Code still Spaghetti if it is DRY?” with Gavin PickinThursday, May 12 20229:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDTFind out the difference between DRY code and WET code, and what one is better, and more importantly, WHY.We write code once, but we read it over and over again, maintaining our code is 90% of the job... code reuse is our friend. You are already Re-using code, even if you didn't know you were.We'll learn about the different types of Code Reuse in ColdFusion, and the pros and cons of each.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/285524970/ Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseTUESDAY, MAY 14, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://workshop-cf.meetus.adobeevents.com/ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://adobe-cf-workshop.meetus.adobeevents.com/ FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.comNews Several ITB 2021 Videos are now Free so you can watch them and get in the mood for ITB 2022 - https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2021 All of the Publish Your First ForgeBox Package Videos are now Free Just Released Eric Peterson on cbSecurity: Passwords, Tokens, and JWTs https://cfcasts.com/eric-peterson-on-cbsecurity:-passwords,-tokens,-and-jwts Gavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox Package Using the Package commands https://cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/using-the-package-commands Publish a package via the CLIhttps://cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/publish-a-package-via-the-cli Coming Soon More… Gavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox Package 2 New Series - Individual Videos ForgeBox Module of the Week VS Code Hint Tip and Trick of the Week Conferences and TrainingDockerConMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos , breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ MS BuildMay 24-26, 2022Come together at Microsoft Build May 24–26 2022, to explore the latest innovations in code and application development—and to gain insights from peers and experts from around the world.Regional Spotlights, One on One bookings available and more.https://mybuild.microsoft.com/en-US/home US VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/Adobe Developer Week 2022July 18-22, 2022Online - Virtual - FreeThe Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.Note: Speakers listed are 2021 speakers currently - check back for updateshttps://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form THAT ConferenceHowdy. We're a full-stack, tech-obsessed community of fun, code-loving humans who share and learn together.We geek-out in Texas and Wisconsin once a year but we host digital events all the time.WISCONSIN DELLS, WI / JULY 25TH - 28TH, 2022A four-day summer camp for developers passionate about learning all things mobile, web, cloud, and technology.https://that.us/events/wi/2022/ Our very own Daniel Garcia is speaking there https://that.us/activities/sb6dRP8ZNIBIKngxswIt CF SummitIn person at Las Vegas, NV in October 2022!Official-”ish” dates:Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit ConferenceOct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Testshttps://twitter.com/MarkTakata/status/1511210472518787073VueJS Forge June 29-30thOrganized by Vue School_The largest hands-on Vue.js EventTeam up with 1000s of fellow Vue.js devs from around the globe to build a real-world application in just 2 days in this FREE hackathon-style event.Make connections. Build together. Learn together.Sign up as an Individual or signup as a company (by booking a call)https://vuejsforge.com/Into The Box 2022Dates set in stone, blood, you name itSolid Dates - September 6, 7 and 8, 2022One day workshops before the two day conference!Early bird pricing available until April 30, 2022Call for Speakers - Extended until April 30, 2022 ISH or they shut the form offhttps://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9Conference Website:https://intothebox.orgITB 2021 Videos - Several videos are now Free so you can watch them and get in the mood for ITB 2022. https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2021 Into the Box Latam 2022Tentative dates - Dec 1-2CFCampNo CFCAMP 2022, we're trying again for summer 2023TLDR is that it's just too hard and there's too much uncertainty right now.So, a lot of energy would have to be spent on making the event safe enough from our own point of view… so best to wait until hopefully Summer 2023More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week5/3/22 Blog - Adam Cameron - Work with me here - revisitedBack in Jan I posted "Work with me here". Once again we are growing our team, and the equivalent job has opened again (this is in addition to the successful hire we made after the January round, not "instead of ~" ;-).So if you're in the UK, and fancy leveraging your existing strong (strong) CFML skills to get into a position where we'll migrate your capabilities to Kotlin, this could be a good opportunity.https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/work-with-me-here-revisited.html 5/3/22 Blog - Ben Nadel - Considering Approaches To Handling MySQL Key Conflicts In Lucee CFMLRelational databases are magical. And, as I've become more experienced as a software engineer, I've begun to lean more heavily on the database as a means to enforce data integrity (with UNIQUE KEY constraints) and to drive idempotent workflows. That said, I'm still trying to figure out where in the software stack it makes sense to put all the finer details. As such, I wanted to take a moment and consider my options for handling key conflicts in MySQL and Lucee CFML.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4259-considering-approaches-to-handling-mysql-key-conflicts-in-lucee-cfml.htm 5/3/22 - Blog - Peter Amiri - CFWheels - CFWheels 2.3.0-rc.1 ReleasedThis version has been cooking for a while and there have been many contributors. But since this is my first release a the helm with a new CI pipeline in place, I felt more comfortable doing a Release Candidate first.https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-2-3-0-rc-1/ 5/2/22 Blog - Adam Cameron - CFML: with Lucee, true isn't necessarily the same as trueYesterday I decided to improve my "Tiny Test Framework". I wrote an article about developing the first iterationof this as a TDD exercise six or so months ago: "TDD: writing a micro testing framework, using the framework to test itself as I build it". I use this framework on trycf.com, so I can include tests in my code samples. The first iteration of this only had the one toBe matcher, and yesterday I decided to add in toBeTrue, toBeFalse and toThrow: just to make my sample code on trycf a bit clearerhttps://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/cfml-with-lucee-true-isnt-necessarily.html 5/2/22 - Blog - Eric Peterson - Ortus Solutions - ColdBox Elixir v4 ReleasedHot off the presses, ColdBox Elixir v4 is now available on NPM. This is a massive upgrade under the hood, but it shouldn't require any API changes if you are using just Elixir methods. (If you are customizing Webpack directly, you may need to make additional changes.) Please check out the Migration Guide for help upgrading.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-elixir-v4-released/ 5/2/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - For Consideration: An ArrayFrom() Function In ColdFusionIn my previous post, I took a look at the Array.sublist() method in ColdFusion; and, demonstrated that in order to use it safely you have to create a copy of the .sublist() result. This got me thinking about JavaScript and the Array.from() method. The Array.from() method allows you to create shallow copies of other arrays and Array-like values. Would it be worth having something like an arrayFrom() built-in function (BIF) in ColdFusion? https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4258-for-consideration-an-arrayfrom-function-in-coldfusion.htm 5/2/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Safely Using Array.sublist() To Generate Slices In Lucee CFMLThe other day, in the comments of my post on the performance overhead of arraySlice() in Lucee CFML, Brad Wood mentioned that it would be much faster to dip down into the Java layer and use ArrayList.sublist(). But then, in the comments of the Lucee Jira ticket, Pothys Ravichandran cautioned that .sublist() actually returns a wrapper to the original array, not a new array. As such, mutating the results of the .sublist() call would not be safe. That said, we can easily generate a new ColdFusion array from the .sublist() result in Lucee CFML to keep things running smoothly.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4257-safely-using-array-sublist-to-generate-slices-in-lucee-cfml.htm 5/1/22 - Tweet - Scott Steinbeck - CFDocs GoodiesSome goodies added to cfdocs.com #cfml #lucee #Opensource https://t.co/v5DYIuconu https://t.co/N0RFWu8O4R https://t.co/iy4aVkGFwnhttps://t.co/mrwULlbWoh https://twitter.com/uniquetrio2000/status/1520548007157985280 https://twitter.com/uniquetrio20004/29/22 - Blog - Peter Amiri - CFWheels - CFWheels Fully Embraces ForgeBox PackagesAs you may know, many years ago CFWheels embraced the distribution of Plugins via ForgeBox packages instead of maintaining our own directory. But the framework itself remains illusive. There was some work done in the last few months to put up packages for the framework but those packages were being maintained by hand which made them a show stopper for a long term solution.Well, thanks to a new CI workflow based on GitHub Actions we now have the building and publishing of the packages fully automated. Giving credit where credit is due, the new workflow borrows heavily from the ColdBox workflow. It used GitHub Actions, Ant, and CommandBox to automate the process.https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-fully-embraces-forgebox-packages/ 4/27/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - R.O.P.E. And Battling Post-Deployment DepressionYesterday morning, I enabled a feature-flag in production that quietly released a new feature to all of our InVision customers. This was the culmination of a week's worth of incremental builds and deployments. And while a week doesn't sound like a long time, every day leading up to it was exciting—every line of code that I wrote was exhilarating. And when it all finally went live, I was dropping party parrot and rocket ship emojis all over the place! But, when the dust settled, the post-deployment depression set in. As it always does.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4256-r-o-p-e-and-battling-post-deployment-depression.htm 4/27/22 - Blog - Gavin Pickin - Ortus Solutions - New Dates for Into the Box 2022 and Why we changed themOrtus Solutions is happy to announce we have new finalized dates for Into the Box 2022 and the venue. Into the Box 2022 will be hosted in Houston Texas, Tuesday September 6th through Thursday September 8th, 2022. The conference will be at a new venue, the Houston CityPlace Marriott at Springwoods Village.Why did we change the dates? Ortus Solutions decided to change the dates for you, the community!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/new-dates-for-into-the-box-2022-and-why-we-changed-them/4/27/22 - Podcast - CFAlive - ACF and Lucee Roundtable, with Charlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben NadelCharlie Arehart, Gert Franz, Mark Drew and Ben Nadel talk about “ACF and Lucee roundtable” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.https://teratech.com/podcast/acf-and-lucee-roundtable-with-charlie-arehart-gert-franz-mark-drew-and-ben-nadel/ 4/27/22 - Podcast - Working Code Podcast - Episode 72: Wearing Too Many HatsThis week on the show, the crew discusses a topic submitted by Mingo Hagen: Do developers wear too many hats, do they spread themselves too thin, and does the work suffer because of it? There are clears benefits and drawbacks to wearing a lot of hats. Knowing a little bit about a lot of things can cut down on communication overhead and enable teams to move faster. But, without specialization, solutions will almost certainly be sub-optimal; and, "best practices" may not even be known to the engineer. Ideally, a team should consistent of both generalists and subject-matter experts (SME). This kind of balance creates a "healthy tension" that tempers perfectionism with pragmatism and keeps everyone moving forward at the right pace...https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4255-working-code-podcast-episode-72-wearing-too-many-hats.htm CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 75 ColdFusion positions from 43 companies across 36 locations in 5 Countries.0 new jobs listed this weekOther Job Links Ortus Solutionshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careers Consortium Inchttps://www.dice.com/jobs/detail/-/10183574/7322396 Senior Application Developer UK with Easy Direct Debitshttps://www.easydirectdebits.co.uk/job/senior-application-developer-uk/ You'll be working with Adam Cameron https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/05/work-with-me-here-revisited.html There is a jobs channel in the cfml slack team, and in the box team slack now too ForgeBox Module of the WeekCFWheels - EverythingCFWheels removed a couple of their old packages, changed things up and re-deployed all of their packages again. They have Fully Embraced ForgeBox Packages as it says so in their blog post. https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-fully-embraces-forgebox-packages/ Core - https://www.forgebox.io/view/cfwheelsBase Template - https://www.forgebox.io/view/cfwheels-base-template Hello Dynamic Template - https://www.forgebox.io/view/cfwheels-template-hellodynamic Hello Pages Template - https://www.forgebox.io/view/cfwheels-template-hellopages Hello World Template - https://www.forgebox.io/view/cfwheels-template-helloworld And many more plugins etcVS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekGitlab Workflow This extension integrates GitLab into Visual Studio Code. After you set up the extension, you can:View GitLab issues and merge requests. View issues, comments, merge requests, and changed files in the sidebar, or build a custom search to meet your needs. Create and review merge requests. Validate your GitLab CI/CD configuration locally with a command. Manage your pipelines. View your pipeline status and open the related merge request. With advanced pipeline actions, you can create, retry, or cancel a pipeline. Manage snippets. Create and insert snippets, and apply snippet patches. Browse a GitLab repository directly in Visual Studio Code without cloning it. Auto-complete GitLab CI/CD variables in your .gitlab-ci.yml pipeline file, and any file beginning with .gitlab-ci and ending with .yml or .yaml, like .gitlab-ci.production.yml. Big win: Supports multiple GitLab instances.https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitLab.gitlab-workflow Thank you to all of our Patreon SupportersThese individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox, ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need, and funds the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox. You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription. All Patreon supporters have a Profile badge on the Community Website All Patreon supporters have their own Private Forum access on the Community Website https://community.ortussolutions.com/ Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses. Patreons John Wilson - Synaptrix Eric Hoffman Gary Knight Mario Rodrigues Giancarlo Gomez David Belanger Dan Card Jonathan Perret Jeffry McGee - Sunstar Media Dean Maunder Joseph Lamoree Don Bellamy Jan Jannek Laksma Tirtohadi Carl Von Stetten Jeremy Adams Didier Lesnicki Matthew Clemente Daniel Garcia Scott Steinbeck - Agri Tracking Systems Ben Nadel Brett DeLine Kai Koenig Charlie Arehart Jonas Eriksson Jason Daiger Shawn Oden Matthew Darby Ross Phillips Edgardo Cabezas Patrick Flynn Stephany Monge John Whish Kevin Wright Peter Amiri You can see an up to date list of all sponsors on Ortus Solutions' Websitehttps://ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
2022-04-26 Weekly News - Episode 145Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/c7n9_RJZLZY 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-en 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 weekBuy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 35 patreons providing 92% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. News and EventsNew Into the Box Dates Announced - Almost 100% finalizedOrtus Solutions is happy to announce we have new finalized dates for Into the Box 2022 and the venue. Into the Box 2022 will be hosted in Houston Texas, Tuesday September 6th through Thursday September 8th, 2022. The conference will be at a new venue, the Houston CityPlace Marriott at Springwoods Village.Adobe semi officially announced their dates (still un-official at the time of writing this post) and they were close, back to back weeks at the end of September/October. We felt like the ColdFusion community deserves more in person conferences, ColdFusion Community members need the opportunity to speak and or attend more in person coldfusion conferences. If we left the conferences back to back with only a travel day/weekend in between, it would have been hard for many if not most coldfusion community members to attend both.By changing the dates, it might still be hard or impossible for a lot of speakers, sponsors, and community members, but now those percentages have increased, and both conferences will be more successful, and that will help the community be more successful... and at the end of the day, we all win if ColdFusion wins.Since we moved dates for ITB 2022 - We're extending the Call for Speaker Deadline - April 30, 2022Since we had to make changes to the schedule, we wanted to make sure every community member had the opportunity to submit their proposal.Into the Box will be live in Houston in September 2022.https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9https://intothebox.orgAdobe Announced Adobe Developer Week 2022July 18-22, 2022Online - Virtual - FreeThe Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.Note: Speakers listed are 2021 speakers currently - check back for updateshttps://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form Lucee 5.3.9.131-Snapshot Installers released - Stable release coming today!So we solved the last blocker for the 5.3.9 release, stable release tomorrow!Here are the preview installers, they bundleApache Tomcat/9.0.62Java 11.0.15 (Eclipse Adoptium) 64bitBonCode 1.0.42Notes: Java 17 is still not fully working, but Lucee will start instead of crashing on startup.Users with M1 Macs should now be able to use a native ARM JVM.https://dev.lucee.org/t/preview-5-3-9-131-snapshot-installers/10012 New Beta for the S3 Lucee Extension 2.0.0.71 (awslib) We had been using the older, no longer maintained jets3t library, but it's no longer maintained and was causing a range of minor problems which led us to decided to switch over to the the AWS S3 java library.Those problems beinglarge multipart uploads failing sometimesoccasional OSGI issues with the jets3t properties fileBasically as an end user, there is no functional difference between the 0.9.154 and 2.0.0.71 versions, in our testing the new version is a bit faster, especially with file deletion.https://dev.lucee.org/t/s3-extension-2-0-0-71-beta-awslib/10014 CFBreak is BackA once weekly email newsletter for the ColdFusion / CFML community.Hi, this is Pete Freitag, you're receiving this email because you signed up for my CFML / ColdFusion monthly newsletter CFML News here https://tinyletter.com/cfml a few years ago.I haven't posted to the newsletter since 2020, so I decided it is time for a refresh, and a rebrand of the newsletter.https://www.cfbreak.com/ CFWheels has joined Open Source CollectiveCFWheels has joined the Open Source Collective allowing us to raise, manage, and spend money transparently.https://cfwheels.org/blog/cfwheels-joins-open-source-collective/ Hot deal on Adobe ColdFusion from Fusion Reactor - Pricing good until April 30thAdobe ColdFusion Hot Sale. Upgrades to Adobe ColdFusion are now available at an exclusive rate. Upgrade to ColdFusion 21 if you have CF9, 10, 11, or 2016 and get the following deal:25% discount compared to the full price of CF21This offer is only available to FusionReactor customers for STD and ENT editions of ColdFusion. If you're not already a customer, then by adding FusionReactor in, you still have a significant saving. FusionReactor prices start from $19 per month, see our APM pricing page.https://www.fusion-reactor.com/blog/news/coldfusion-hot-sale/ ICYMI - Mid-Michigan CFUG - John Farrar is presenting on 13 ways to modernize with Vue 34/19/2022 - 7 pm eastern time.Learn everything that is new and how to transition to Vue 3.Meeting URL: https://bit.ly/3rwOxvq Recording Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6nMoMO5o1oOnline ColdFusion Meetup - "Updating the Java underlying ColdFusion", with Charlie ArehartThursday, April 28, 20229:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDTWith Java updates happening about quarterly (and one just last week), it's important that ColdFusion administrators and/or developers keep up to date on the Java version which underlies their CF (or Lucee) deployments. While the simplest question may seem to be "how do I do such an update, effectively" (and it really can be quite simple), there's a good bit more to updating the Java (aka jvm, jdk, jre) which underlies your CFML engine.In this session, veteran troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will share his experience helping people deal with this topic for many years, including:Considering, planning the jvm update (what jvm do you have, what can you update to, why should you?)Performing the jvm update (where to get it, how to install it, how to configure CF to use it)Avoiding various potential gotchas when updating the JVMHow to be made aware of new JVM versionsWhether you use CF or Lucee, deployed traditionally or via Commandbox (or even containers), most of the discussion will apply to you.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/285508327/?response=3Ortus Webinar - April - cbSecurity: Passwords, Tokens, and JWTs with Eric PetersonApril 29th 202211:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)Learn how to integrate cbSecurity into your application whether you are using passwords, API tokens, JWTs, or a combination of all three!More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Hawaii ColdFusion Meetup Group - Using ColdFusion ORMs with Nick KwiatkowskiFriday, April 29, 20224:00 PM to 5:00 PM PDTThe ColdFusion language introduced the concept of ORM (Object Relation Mappings) to allow developers to be able to do database work without having to write database-dependent SQL.Nick Kwiatkowski is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University, a member of the Mid-Michigan CFUG, and Apache Foundation Member. His day job also includes managing the telecommunications platforms at MSU as well as managing a variety of applications on campus. He has been a ColdFusion developer for nearly 25 years and an instructor for 15.https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group/events/285109975/ Online ColdFusion Meetup - “Code Reuse in ColdFusion - Is Spaghetti Code still Spaghetti if it is DRY?” with Gavin PickinThursday, May 12 20229:00 AM to 10:00 AM PDTFind out the difference between DRY code and WET code, and what one is better, and more importantly, WHY.We write code once, but we read it over and over again, maintaining our code is 90% of the job... code reuse is our friend. You are already Re-using code, even if you didn't know you were.We'll learn about the different types of Code Reuse in ColdFusion, and the pros and cons of each.www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/285524970/ Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseICYMI - THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 202210:00 AM PDTAdobe ColdFusion TruthsMark Takatahttps://adobe-coldfusion-truths.meetus.adobeevents.com/TODAY - TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://adobe-workshop-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.comJust ReleasedGavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox PackageMinimum Requirements for a Package https://www.cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/minimum-requirements-for-a-package What happens if your slug for your package isn't unique? https://www.cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/what-happens-if-your-slug-for-your-package-isn't-unique Coming SoonMore… Gavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox PackageConferences and TrainingDockerConMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos , breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ US VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/Adobe Developer Week 2022July 18-22, 2022Online - Virtual - FreeThe Adobe ColdFusion Developer Week is back - bigger and better than ever! This year, our experts are gearing up to host a series of webinars on all things ColdFusion. This is your chance to learn with them, get your questions answered, and build cloud-native applications with ease.Note: Speakers listed are 2021 speakers currently - check back for updateshttps://adobe-coldfusion-devweek-2022.attendease.com/registration/form THAT ConferenceHowdy. We're a full-stack, tech-obsessed community of fun, code-loving humans who share and learn together.We geek-out in Texas and Wisconsin once a year but we host digital events all the time.For a limited time all monthly THAT Online events are free and do not require a ticket to participate.Read more at: https://that.us/events/thatus/2022-5/ on THAT.There have webinars too https://that.us/activities/WISCONSIN DELLS, WI / JULY 25TH - 28TH, 2022A four-day summer camp for developers passionate about learning all things mobile, web, cloud, and technology.https://that.us/events/wi/2022/ Our very own Daniel Garcia is speaking there https://that.us/activities/sb6dRP8ZNIBIKngxswIt CF SummitIn person at Las Vegas, NV in October 2022!Official-”ish” dates:Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit ConferenceOct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Testshttps://twitter.com/MarkTakata/status/1511210472518787073VueJS Forge June 29-30thOrganized by Vue School_The largest hands-on Vue.js EventTeam up with 1000s of fellow Vue.js devs from around the globe to build a real-world application in just 2 days in this FREE hackathon-style event.Make connections. Build together. Learn together.Sign up as an Individual or signup as a company (by booking a call)https://vuejsforge.com/Into The Box 2022Solid Dates - September 6, 7 and 8, 2022One day workshops before the two day conference!Early bird pricing available until April 30, 2022Call for Speakers - Extended until April 30, 2022https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9Conference Website:https://intothebox.orgInto the Box Latam 2022Tentative dates - Dec 1-2CFCampStill waiting as well.More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the WeekLooking for more content, check out the other ColdFusion related PodcastsWorking Code Podcast https://workingcode.dev/ CF Alive https://teratech.com/podcast/ April 25, 2022 - Blog - Mark Takata - Adobe - Turning on NULL support in ColdFusion 2018+While playing around with booleans, I ended up running into some fun stuff(tm) having to do with NULL. As you might be aware, as of Adobe ColdFusion 2018, the framework has supported NULL values, but what you might not be aware of is that you can turn them on and off either globally (via the Administrator) or on a per-application level.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/04/turning-on-null-support-in-coldfusion-2018/ April 26, 2022 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Considering The Separation Of Concerns When Invoking A Remote API In ColdFusionWhen dealing with a local database in ColdFusion, the levels of abstraction and the separations of concern feel somewhat second nature. Yes, I've wrestled with some irrational guilt over returning Query objects from my DAL (Data Access Layer); but, on balance, I love the query object's simplicity and power; and, returning it from the DAL makes life easy. Lately, however, I've had to start consuming some remote APIs (microservices). And, when it comes to making HTTP calls, the separation of concerns is less clear in my head - it seems that so much more can go wrong when consuming a remote API.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4254-considering-the-separation-of-concerns-when-invoking-a-remote-api-in-coldfusion.htmBen is essentially setting up a gateway to abstract getting the data so he can standardize what the service is receiving, so it shouldn't matter where the data is coming from.April 22, 2022 - Blog - Ben Nadel - ArraySlice() Has An Exponential Performance Overhead In Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201The other day, I tweeted about Lucee CFML struggling with a massive array. I had created a data-processing algorithm that was taking an array of user-generated data and splitting it up into chunks of 100 so that I could then gather some aggregates on that data in the database. Everything was running fine until I hit a user that had 2.1 million entries in this array. This was an unexpected volume of data, and it crushed the CFML server. 2.1M is a lot of data to my "human brain"; but, it's not a lot of data for a computer. As such, I started to investigate the root performance bottleneck; and, I discovered that the arraySlice() function in Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201 has a performance overhead that appears to increase exponentially with the size of the array.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4253-arrayslice-has-an-exponential-performance-overhead-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-8-201.htm @bdw429s just left a comment on the blog-post about .subList() as well. It looks crazy-fast! This seems like the fastest possible implementation.April 22, 2022 - Blog - Charlie Arehart - Updated - Solving problems calling out of CF via https, by updating JVMIf you're getting errors in calling out to https urls from CF, especially if it was working and now is not, you may NOT need to import a certificate, nor modify any jvm args. You may simply need to update the JVM that CF uses, as discussed in this post.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/06/error-calling-cf-via-https-solved-updating-jvm/ 4/22/2022- Tweet - Brad Wood - Ortus Solutions - It sucks that CF engines still don't allow for CFCs to extend Java classesIt sucks that CF engines still don't allow for CFCs to extend Java classes. That prevents me from integrating with Java libraries like this one who don't allow interface implementations, but require abstract base class extension. https://github.com/bkiers/Liqp/issues/226 4/22/2022 - Tweet - Brad Wood - Ortus Solutions - native Java threading can't access application/session/request scopesOne of the missing pieces for CF devs using native Java threading is the inability of your code to access your application/session/request scopes. ColdBox works around this but we really need out of the box CF engine support! https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3960 https://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1517584339235745795https://twitter.com/bdw429s4/19/2022 - Blog - Charlie Arehart - New updates released for Java 8, 11, 17, and 18 as of Apr 2022New JVM updates have been released today (Apr 19, 2022) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java, 8, 11, and 17, as well as the new interim update 18. (Note that prior to Java 9, releases of Java were known technically as 1.x, to 8 is referred to in resources below as 1.8.)The new updates are 1.8.0_331, (aka 8u331), 11.0.15, 17.0.3, and 18.0.1 respectively). And as is generally the case with these Java updates, most of them have the same changes and fixes.For more on them, including changes as well as the security and bug fixes they each contain, see the Oracle resources I list below, as well as some additional info I offer for if you may be skipping to this from a JVM update from before Apr 2021. I also offer info for Adobe ColdFusion users on where to find the updated Java versions, what JVM versions Adobe CF supports, and more.https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2022/4/19/java_updates_Apr_2022 CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 75 ColdFusion positions from 43 companies across 36 locations in 5 Countries.2 new job listedFull-Time - Mid/Senior CFML Developer at Cleveland, OH - United States Apr 22https://www.getcfmljobs.com/viewjob.cfm?jobid=11462Full-Time - Senior ColdFusion/Lucee Engineer (Remote) at Remote - United States Apr 19https://www.getcfmljobs.com/viewjob.cfm?jobid=11461 Other Job LinksOrtus Solutionshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careers Consortium Inchttps://www.dice.com/jobs/detail/-/10183574/7322396 There is a jobs channel in the box team slack now tooForgeBox Module of the WeekCBMailServices PreMail FilterThis is a tool that fires on the PreMail interception point, allowing you to filter emails being sent from your application using CBMailServices.This supports multiple enviromnents, so you can turn on the filter for just one environment, or multiple environments, and you can choose to override the global settings, with settings for just one environment, whether that is allowed email addresses, or required email addresses.https://www.forgebox.io/view/cbmailservices-premail-filter VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekDepot Data Editor by Afterschool StudioStructured data editor for VS Code - Edit JSON data directly inside of code with a spreadsheet like interface. Can be used to replace the need for .csv or XML filesExtension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=afterschool.depot Bonus VS Code Livestream Recording - JSON Data in VS Code with Depot Extension
2022-04-19 Weekly News - Episode 144Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/UrcOxVA2XcA Hosts: Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer at Ortus SolutionsEric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-en 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 Repos Star 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 review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 35 patreons providing 92% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. News and EventsLast chance for ITB CFP - Into the Box 2022 CFPSupposed to Close April 17th, but the form is still up there… go submit now - we have extended it until April 30th!!!Into the Box will be live in Houston in September 2022. We want you to speak there! Topic submission closes at midnight April 30th, 2022https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9https://intothebox.orgCFML Community Submissions - Curl Converter by Scott SteinbeckConvert curl commands to Python, JavaScript, PHP, R, Go, Rust, Elixir, Java, MATLAB, Dart, CFML, Ansible URI, Strest or JSON and now CFML.https://curlconverter.com/ We need more of these tools pages to include CFML - like the QuickRef that James Moberg mentions on Twitter (talk about later)Pull request that made it happen: https://github.com/curlconverter/curlconverter/pull/376HostMedia - Released an Update to CFManagerWe've released a new update to our CFManager @cPanel plugin, improvements include UX tweaks, option to support UTF8 connection strings and a new dedicated documentation website at cfmanager.infohttps://cfmanager.info/ Mid-Michigan CFUG - John Farrar is presenting on 13 ways to modernize with Vue 34/19/2022 - 7 pm eastern time.Learn everything that is new and how to transition to Vue 3.Meeting URL: https://bit.ly/3rwOxvq Ortus Webinar - April - cbSecurity: Passwords, Tokens, and JWTs with Eric PetersonApril 29th 202211:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)Learn how to integrate cbSecurity into your application whether you are using passwords, API tokens, JWTs, or a combination of all three!More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Hawaii ColdFusion Meetup Group - Using ColdFusion ORMs with Nick KwiatkowskiFriday, April 29, 20224:00 PM to 5:00 PM PDTThe ColdFusion language introduced the concept of ORM (Object Relation Mappings) to allow developers to be able to do database work without having to write database-dependent SQL.Nick Kwiatkowski is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University, a member of the Mid-Michigan CFUG, and Apache Foundation Member. His day job also includes managing the telecommunications platforms at MSU as well as managing a variety of applications on campus. He has been a ColdFusion developer for nearly 25 years and an instructor for 15.https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group/events/285109975/ Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseTHURSDAY, APRIL 21, 202210:00 AM PDTAdobe ColdFusion TruthsMark Takatahttps://adobe-coldfusion-truths.meetus.adobeevents.com/TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://adobe-workshop-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.comJust Released Gavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox PackageCreating an Account - Onlinehttps://cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/creating-an-account-online Creating an Account - CLIhttps://cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/creating-an-account-cli Coming SoonMore… Gavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox PackageConferences and TrainingICYMI - LAST WEEK - DevNexus 2022 - The largest Java conference in the USApril 12-14, 2022Atlanta, GABrad & Luis will be speakingLuis - Alpine.js: Declare and React with SimplicityBrad - What's a Pull Request? (Contributing to Open Source)https://devnexus.com/They really enjoyed itRay Camden was tweeting about Luis's Alpine session, he might love it :)DockerConMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos , breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ US VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/That ConferenceHowdy. We're a full-stack, tech-obsessed community of fun, code-loving humans who share and learn together.We geek-out in Texas and Wisconsin once a year but we host digital events all the time.For a limited time all monthly THAT Online events are free and do not require a ticket to participate.Read more at: https://that.us/events/thatus/2022-5/ on THAT.There have webinars too https://that.us/activities/WISCONSIN DELLS, WI / JULY 25TH - 28TH, 2022A four-day summer camp for developers passionate about learning all things mobile, web, cloud, and technology.https://that.us/events/wi/2022/ Our very own Daniel Garcia is speaking there https://that.us/activities/sb6dRP8ZNIBIKngxswIt CF SummitIn person at Las Vegas, NV in October 2022!Official-”ish” dates:Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit ConferenceOct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Testshttps://twitter.com/MarkTakata/status/1511210472518787073Into The Box 2022Solid Dates - September 2022One day workshops before the two day conference!Early bird pricing available until April 30, 2022Call for Speakers:https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9Conference Website:https://intothebox.orgInto the Box Latam 2022Tentative dates - Dec 1-2CFCampStill waiting as well.More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the WeekBEN CORNER4/18/22 Tweet - Ben Nadel - Lucee thinks 2.1 million items might be too many???Apparently, the #Lucee #CFML server isn't happy taking an array of 2.1 M items and splitting it up into chunks of 100. I had NO IDEA that the algorithm I wrote would ever encounter an array with 2M items in it
2022-04-12 Weekly News - Episode 143Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/6C6hxZiBOuI 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-en 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 Repos Star 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 review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 35 patreons providing 92% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. News and EventsLast week for ITB CFP - Into the Box 2022 CFPInto the Box will be live in Houston in September 2022. We want you to speak there! Topic submission closes at midnight April 17th, 2022.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdS-7hP2VCdt0CdKBxI8aecUf3L_iTLyGFstVaV-Nte7gFJwQ/viewform https://intothebox.orgOrtus Webinar - April - cbSecurity: Passwords, Tokens, and JWTs with Eric PetersonApril 29th 202211:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)Learn how to integrate cbSecurity into your application whether you are using passwords, API tokens, JWTs, or a combination of all three!More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Hawaii ColdFusion Meetup Group - Using ColdFusion ORMs with Nick KwiatkowskiFriday, April 29, 20224:00 PM to 5:00 PM PDTThe ColdFusion language introduced the concept of ORM (Object Relation Mappings) to allow developers to be able to do database work without having to write database-dependent SQL.Nick Kwiatkowski is an adjunct professor at Michigan State University, a member of the Mid-Michigan CFUG, and Apache Foundation Member. His day job also includes managing the telecommunications platforms at MSU as well as managing a variety of applications on campus. He has been a ColdFusion developer for nearly 25 years and an instructor for 15.https://www.meetup.com/hawaii-coldfusion-meetup-group/events/285109975/ ICYMI Quick v5 betaMajor performance improvements - over 50% decrease in execution time!https://quick.ortusbooks.com/v/5.0.0-1/whats-new#5.0.0https://forgebox.io/view/quick/version/5.0.0-beta.3ICYMI qb v8.8.0 betaCouple of fixes from beta feedback.https://forgebox.io/view/qb/version/8.8.0-beta.4ICYMI ColdBox Elixir v4 betaWebpack 5!!! Node 16+!! All the updated dependencies.https://coldbox-elixir.ortusbooks.com/v/v4/migration_guide#v4.0.0ICYMI ContentBox 5.2.0 Released!A quick bug fix update for ContentBox!https://contentbox.ortusbooks.com/intro/release-history/whats-new-with-5.2.0Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseTHURSDAY, APRIL 21, 202210:00 AM PDTAdobe ColdFusion TruthsMark Takatahttps://adobe-coldfusion-truths.meetus.adobeevents.com/TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://adobe-workshop-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.comJust ReleasedGavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox Package Let's have a look at the ForgeBox Site https://cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/let's-have-a-look-at-the-forgebox-site Find out more about ForgeBox and Account Options https://cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/find-out-more-about-forgebox-and-account-options Coming SoonGavin Pickin - Publish Your First ForgeBox PackageConferences and TrainingTHIS WEEK - DevNexus 2022 - The largest Java conference in the USApril 12-14, 2022Atlanta, GABrad & Luis will be speakingLuis - Alpine.js: Declare and React with SimplicityBrad - What's a Pull Request? (Contributing to Open Source)https://devnexus.com/DockerConMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos , breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ US VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/That ConferenceHowdy. We're a full-stack, tech-obsessed community of fun, code-loving humans who share and learn together.We geek-out in Texas and Wisconsin once a year but we host digital events all the time.For a limited time all monthly THAT Online events are free and do not require a ticket to participate.Read more at: https://that.us/events/thatus/2022-5/ on THAT.There have webinars too https://that.us/activities/WISCONSIN DELLS, WI / JULY 25TH - 28TH, 2022A four-day summer camp for developers passionate about learning all things mobile, web, cloud, and technology.https://that.us/events/wi/2022/ Our very own Daniel Garcia is speaking there https://that.us/activities/sb6dRP8ZNIBIKngxswIt CF SummitIn person at Las Vegas, NV in October 2022!Official-”ish” dates:Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit ConferenceOct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Testshttps://twitter.com/MarkTakata/status/1511210472518787073Into The Box 2022Solid Dates - September 2022One day workshops before the two day conference!Early bird pricing available until April 30, 2022Call for Speakers: https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9Conference Website: https://intothebox.orgInto the Box Latam 2022 - Tentative dates - Dec 1-2CFCamp - Waiting for confirmationMore conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week4/9/22 Blog - Adam Cameron - CFML: revisit import aliasingI'm writing this here cos it's getting a bit long for a comment on the CFML Slack channel, and perhaps it might get a different set of eyes on it here anyhow.I wanna revisit the discussion about import aliasing in CFML. ie this:import com.vendor.app.package.Date as VendorDateimport org.project.lib.Date as LibDatehttps://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/04/cfml-revisit-import-aliasing.html4/8/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Using sgn() To Clamp Values In Array Sorting Operations In ColdFusionA couple of years ago, I ran into an issue with array.sort() in Lucee CFML wherein it threw an error if my sort operator returned a value that was larger than a signed integer. Yesterday, Adam Cameron left a comment on that post about using the sgn() function, in ColdFusion, to fix the issue. To be honest, I don't believe I even knew that the sgn() function existed. So, in order to help fill in my lacking mental model, I wanted to quickly look at what the sgn() function does.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4247-using-sgn-to-clamp-values-in-array-sorting-operations-in-coldfusion.htm Tweet - James Moberg - Unsupported Tags in Script for ACF2021Ugh... I went to use cfmodule in #ColdFusion 2021 (using cfscript) and immediately encountered a "Variable MODULE is undefined" error. (Cfscript syntax for this tag is supported only by Lucee #cfml.)Does Adobe have a dedicated page of all functions that don't work in cfscript?https://twitter.com/gamesover/status/1512096137477386242https://twitter.com/gamesoverTweet - James Moberg - CFTimer requires an IP Lockdown in ACF?I really like that Lucee #cfml outputs CFTimer results without toggling any admin-only debugging settings. I'm not sure why @coldfusion requires adding an IP to a global access list to simply output milliseconds. Is this considered a security risk? #ColdFusionhttps://twitter.com/gamesover/status/1511423415885914117 https://twitter.com/gamesover4/5/22 - Blog - Mark Takata - Adobe - Simple CRUD w/ CF & DynamoDBI've been playing with building out a Connect pod (blog entry & webinar coming soon ™) but in the meantime thought I'd share a little code for writing to and reading from a DynamoDB.Just as a reminder, you can find info about getting a DynamoDB object up and running here: https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/using/integrate-coldfusion-dynamodb.htmlhttps://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/04/simple-crud-w-cf-dynamodb/ CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 71 ColdFusion positions from 41 companies across 35 locations in 5 Countries.5 new job listedFull-Time - ColdFusion programmer at Washington, DC - United States Posted Apr 12https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-programmer-at-Washington-DC/11458Full-Time - Technical Operations (Coldfusion)Engineer at New York, NY - United States Posted Apr 12https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Technical-Operations-ColdfusionEngineer-at-New-York-NY/11457Full-Time - Technical Operations (Coldfusion)Engineer at United States - United States Posted Apr 12https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Technical-Operations-ColdfusionEngineer-at-United-States/11456Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at Plymouth Meeting, PA - United States Posted Apr 11https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-Developer-at-Plymouth-Meeting-PA/11455Full-Time - Public Sector Financial Services - ColdFusion Developer - Se.. - United States Posted Apr 08https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Public-Sector-Financial-Services-ColdFusion-Developer-Senior-Consultant-at-Remote/11454Other Job LinksOrtus Solutionshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careers There is a jobs channel in the box team slack now tooForgeBox Module of the WeekCB File Storages (snapshot beta) by Ortus SolutionsThe cbfs module will enable you to abstract ANY filesystem within your ColdBox applications. You can configure as many disks which represent file systems in your application. Each disk is backed by a storage provider and configurable within your ColdBox application.The available storage providers are:LocalProvider@cbfs - A local file system storage providerMockProvider@cbfs - A mock storage provider that just logs operations to a LogBox logger objectCOMING SOON: S3Provider@cbfs - An Amazon S3, Rackspace, Digital Ocean or Google Cloud Storage provider.box install cbfshttps://www.forgebox.io/view/cbfs VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekBuilt-in local file history This one was a popular feature request! Anytime a file is saved, a new entry appears in the “Timeline” view. You can name entries & compare them, restore them, or delete them. To try this out, run the command “Local History: Create Entry”https://twitter.com/i/status/1511463379210317824 Thank you to all of our Patreon SupportersThese individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox, ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need, and funds the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox. You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutionsDon't forget, we have Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses. Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription. All Patreon supporters have a Profile badge on the Community Website All Patreon supporters have their own Private Forum access on the Community Website https://community.ortussolutions.com/ Patreons John Wilson - Synaptrix Eric Hoffman Gary Knight Mario Rodrigues Giancarlo Gomez David Belanger (Bell-an-jer) Dan Card Jonathan Perret Jeffry McGee - Sunstar Media6 Dean Maunder Joseph Lamoree (Lah-more-ee)? Don Bellamy Jan Jannek (Yan Yannek) Laksma Tirtohadi (Lah-ksma Turt-o-hah-dee) Carl Von Stetten Jeremy Adams Didier Lesnicki Matthew Clemente Daniel Garcia Scott Steinbeck - Agri Tracking Systems Ben Nadel Brett DeLine Kai Koenig Charlie Arehart Jonas Eriksson Jason Daiger Shawn Oden Matthew Darby Ross Phillips Edgardo Cabezas Patrick Flynn Stephany Monge (Monghee) John Whish Kevin Wright Peter Amiri You can see an up to date list of all sponsors on Ortus Solutions' Websitehttps://ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
2022-04-05 Weekly News - Episode 142Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/obJEJPSwpWgHosts: Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus SolutionsBrad Wood - Software Consultant at Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-en 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 Repos Star 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 review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 36 patreons providing 96% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. News and EventsQuick v5 betaMajor performance improvements - over 50% decrease in execution time!https://quick.ortusbooks.com/v/5.0.0-1/whats-new#5.0.0https://forgebox.io/view/quick/version/5.0.0-beta.3qb v8.8.0 betaCouple of fixes from beta feedback.https://forgebox.io/view/qb/version/8.8.0-beta.4ColdBox Elixir v4 betaWebpack 5!!! Node 16+!! All the updated dependencies.https://coldbox-elixir.ortusbooks.com/v/v4/migration_guide#v4.0.0ContentBox 5.2.0 Released!A quick bug fix update for ContentBox!https://contentbox.ortusbooks.com/intro/release-history/whats-new-with-5.2.0ICYMI - Into the Box 2022 CFP is now open!Into the Box will be live in Houston in September 2022. We want you to speak there! Topic submission closes at midnight April 17th, 2022.https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9https://intothebox.orgICYMI - Ortus Webinar - March - ForgeBoxication with Gavin PickinMarch 25th, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)ForgeBox is CFML's package management system, and in this webinar you will learn how you can use it with any cfml app you have. You'll learn how to use ForgeBox packaged in your app, commit your own code to ForgeBox, and if we have time we might even make your code into a ColdBox module.CFCasts: https://cfcasts.com/series/ortus-webinars-2022/videos/gavin-pickin-on-forgeboxication/Ortus Webinar - April - cbSecurity: Passwords, Tokens, and JWTs with Eric PetersonApril 29th 202211:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)Learn how to integrate cbSecurity into your application whether you are using passwords, API tokens, JWTs, or a combination of all three!More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseTHURSDAY, APRIL 21, 202210:00 AM PDTAdobe ColdFusion TruthsMark Takatahttps://adobe-coldfusion-truths.meetus.adobeevents.com/TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx https://adobe-workshop-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.comJust ReleasedGavin Pickin on ForgeBoxication (free)https://cfcasts.com/series/ortus-webinars-2022/videos/gavin-pickin-on-forgeboxicationComing SoonMore in Publish Your First ForgeBox PackageConferences and TrainingDevNexus 2022 - The largest Java conference in the USApril 12-14, 2022Atlanta, GABrad & Luis will be speakingLuis - Alpine.js: Declare and React with SimplicityBrad - What's a Pull Request? (Contributing to Open Source)https://devnexus.com/DockerConMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos , breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ US VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/Into The Box 2022Solid Dates - September 2022One day workshops before the two day conference!Early bird pricing available until April 30, 2022Call for Speakers:https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9Conference Website:https://intothebox.orgCF SummitIn person at Las Vegas, NV in October 2022!Official-”ish” dates:Oct 3rd & 4th - CFSummit ConferenceOct 5th - Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion Certification Classes & Testshttps://twitter.com/MarkTakata/status/1511210472518787073Into the Box Latam 2022Tentative dates - Dec 1-2CFCampStill waiting as well.More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week03/30/2022 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Using Closures To Bind Naked Functions To Components In ColdFusionWhen we think about a "method signature", we often think solely about the arguments that it accepts and the type of data that it returns. But, there's more to a method signature, such as the mode in which it can be invoked. Most methods can only be invoked as a member method. However, in some cases, an Object's API allows for methods to be detached and passed-around as "naked functions". In ColdFusion, we can use Closures / Lambdas to bind a Function reference to a ColdFusion Component instance such that the "member method" can be used - and work correctly - as a "naked function".https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4240-using-closures-to-bind-naked-functions-to-components-in-coldfusion.htm04/03/2022 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Adding FusionReactor Sub-Transaction Breakdowns To My ColdFusion BlogA couple of years ago, I wrote about how we're using the FusionReactor API (FRAPI) to instrument our Lucee CFML apps at work. And, now that I have FusionReactor installed on my ColdFusion 2021 blog, I've been translating some of that logic over to this site. I recently demonstrated that FusionReactor gave me critical insights into my SQL queries and my in-memory caching techniques. And, this morning, I added some "Tracked Transactions" to help me understand how long certain portions of my ColdFusion request was taking to execute.Especially useful since FusionReactor doesn't provide CFC method nameshttps://www.bennadel.com/blog/4242-adding-fusionreactor-sub-transaction-breakdowns-to-my-coldfusion-blog.htmUseful link: https://forgebox.io/view/FRAPISDK04/04/2022 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Moving My Short-Code Redirects To NetlifyFor years, I've had my own "short code" URL, bjam.in. There's no meaningful reason for me to have it - only, that I was raised in an era when short codes were all the rage. And, an era in which Twitter actually counted embedded URLs as part of the overall message length (something that they no longer do). But, one thing that's always bothered me about bjam.in is that it didn't have an SSL Certificate. I never wanted to pay for one since the site does nothing but redirect to www.bennadel.com, which does have an SSL Certificate. To remedy this, I've moved my bjam.in logic over to Netlify which automatically provisions SSL Certificates using Let's Encrypt.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4243-moving-my-short-code-redirects-to-netlify.htm04/05/2022 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Adding CreateTimeSpan() To Date/Time Values In ColdFusionIn ColdFusion, it's trivial to add a given date-part, such an "hour" or a "day", to an existing date - there are built-in functions and member-methods for this task. But, it's a little harder to mix "Dates" with "Time Spans". Doing so, often leads to a fractional numeric value. This fractional value is a "numeric date". There are a number of ways to cast between "numeric dates" and "dates"; but, I wanted to look at how we can avoid casting by thinking about what a "time span" actually is; and, how we can efficiently add and remove time spans to and from dates in ColdFusion.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4244-adding-createtimespan-to-date-time-values-in-coldfusion.htm04/03/2022 - Tweet - @cfhawaiiWe are looking for a speaker on #coldFusion ORM DM me if interestedhttps://twitter.com/cfhawaii/status/151080504602325401804/01/2022 - Tweet - @ortussolutionsThe Ortus USA Team has been working hard at this year's retreat. Big things are coming…https://twitter.com/ortussolutions/status/1510020360166641665(Not an April Fools Joke.
2022-03-29 Weekly News - Episode 141Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/NMIIylXh5Ok 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-en 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 Repos https://github.com/coldbox/coldbox-platform https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/ContentBox/ https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/commandbox/ https://github.com/ortus-solutions/docker-commandbox https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/testbox/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/qb/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/quick/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbwire https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/DocBox Star 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 review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 36 patreons providing 96% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. News and EventsThe #CFML tag is apparently used for Heart Surgery now :DOne of them applied - Things are not difficult, just different :MIND-BLOWN-EMOJI:New CommandBox Module for Users of ColdSpringStick around for the Module of the Week to find out more about thatICYMI - Into the Box 2022 CFP is now open!Into the Box will be live in Houston from September 27 - 30, 2022. We want you to speak there! Topic submission closes at midnight April 17th, 2022.https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9https://intothebox.orgICYMI - Lucee 5.3.9.115 Release Candidate 3This is the final Release Candidate for 5.3.9 before we go stable. Subject to any problems, we aim to release a stable version next week. Please give the new build a spin and let us know of any problems you findhttps://dev.lucee.org/t/5-3-9-115-final-release-candidate-3/9829Built with ColdFusion CFMLThis repo is a community repo to list and showcase companies, sites and technologies powered by ColdFusion (CFML) and several Ortus Products.To contribute, fork and star the project. Then add your own organization file in the orgs directory and then append the name of that file ( excluding the extension ), into the cfml-rocks.json array of orgs. You may use the schema below for reference. Send us your pull request and once validated, we will add it to the repo and site.https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/built-with-cfml-box/ICYMI - RFC: cbq - a Provider-based Queueing System for ColdBoxHey, folks. I'd love feedback on this proposal for a provider based queue system for ColdBox.The idea here is that we could standardize the queueing jobs including things like queue names and delays regardless of the backing provider.https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/rfc-cbq-a-provider-based-queueing-system-for-coldbox/9149/10ICYMI - ContentBox 5.1 Released!Wanted to make an announcement that we have released ContentBox v5.1 now: https://contentbox.ortusbooks.com/intro/release-history/whats-new-with-5.1.0The docs are getting a massive update and this release brings a lot of stability to the platform. Enjoy!https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/contentbox-v5-1-released/9151Ortus Webinar - April - cbSecurity: Passwords, Tokens, and JWTs with Eric PetersonApril 29th 202211:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)Learn how to integrate cbSecurity into your application whether you are using passwords, API tokens, JWTs, or a combination of all three!More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars ICYMI - Ortus Webinar - March - ForgeBoxication with Gavin PickinMarch 25th, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)ForgeBox is CFML's package management system, and in this webinar you will learn how you can use it with any cfml app you have. You'll learn how to use ForgeBox packaged in your app, commit your own code to ForgeBox, and if we have time we might even make your code into a ColdBox module.Recording: https://cfcasts.com/series/ortus-webinars-2022/videos/gavin-pickin-on-forgeboxication/ More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars ICYMI - Hawaii CFUG - Moving your Legacy ColdFusion application to Modern CFML with Mark TakataMarch 24th, 20221:00pm Hawaiian Time - 4:00pm PDTWe've all seen old legacy code in our ColdFusion applications.How do you move that legacy code to modern CFML with easier maintenance and deployment, fewer bugs, and streamlined code? Why Move to Modern CFML Most of us understand that moving our legacy applications to modern CFML is smart. Easier Maintenance Rapid Deployment Fewer Bugs Modern, Responsive Front-End https://hawaiicoldfusionusergroup.adobeconnect.com/legacy/ICYMI - We missed it - FusionReactor Webinar last ThursdayMore information on it on Charlie's blog.You can email nick_flewitt@intergral.com for more information on the webinar, maybe get access to a recording.https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2022/3/22/exciting_fr_webinar_this_thursday/ Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseICYMI - THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 202210:00 AM PDTColdFusion Standard vs EnterpriseMark Takatahttps://coldfusion-standard-vs-enterprise.meetus.adobeevents.com/Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-qHryp8p6c WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 20229:00 AM EDTAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopBrian Sappeyhttps://workshop-coldfusion-adobe.meetus.adobeevents.com/THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://adobe-workshop-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 202210:00 AM PDTAdobe ColdFusion TruthsMark Takatahttps://adobe-coldfusion-truths.meetus.adobeevents.com/FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.com Just Released Publish your First ForgeBox Package What is ForgeBox and Why Should I use it?https://www.cfcasts.com/series/publish-your-first-forgebox-package/videos/what-is-forgebox-and-why-should-i-use-itMore coming soon ForgeBoxification Webinar with Gavin Pickinhttps://cfcasts.com/series/ortus-webinars-2022/videos/gavin-pickin-on-forgeboxication/ Conferences and TrainingDocker Community All HandsThursday, March 31, 2022 | 8:00am - 11:00am PTJoin us in celebrating Docker's 9th birthday at our next Community All Hands! This virtual event is a unique opportunity for the community to come together with Docker staff to learn, share and collaborate about all things Docker.https://www.docker.com/event-community-all-hands DockerConMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos , breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ DevNexus 2022 - The largest Java conference in the USApril 12-14, 2022Atlanta, GABrad & Luis will be speaking Luis - Alpine.js: Declare and React with Simplicity Brad - What's a Pull Request? (Contributing to Open Source) https://devnexus.com/US VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/Into The Box 2022Solid Dates - September 28-30One day workshops before the two day conference!Early bird pricing available until April 30, 2022Call for Speakers: https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9Conference Website: https://intothebox.orgInto the Box Latam 2022Tentative dates - Dec 1-2CF SummitStill waiting on news from Adobe.CFCampStill waiting as well.More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week3/29/22 - Video - Mark Takata - Adobe - ColdFusion Standard vs Enterprisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-qHryp8p6c 3/29/22 - Video - Mark Takata - Adobe - Cloud Report Building Using ColdFusion & Pdfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5O6fOC_Lc&t=10s 3/28/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Avoiding MySQL max_allowed_packet Errors By Splitting-Up Large Aggregation Queries In ColdFusionYesterday, I looked at splitting an array up into groups in ColdFusion. I had to do this the other day because I was running into errors when attempting to execute a very large SQL statement in MySQL. To get around the error, I ended up splitting the query logic into chunks, executing the chunks individually, and then reducing the chunk results down to a single value. This felt like a rather elegant solution to a somewhat "dirty problem"; so, I thought it might be worth sharing the approach in ColdFusion (I was writing it in Lucee CFML 5.3.8, but the demo is authored in Adobe ColdFusion 2021).https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4238-avoiding-mysql-max-allowed-packet-errors-by-splitting-up-large-aggregation-queries-in-coldfusion.htm 3/28/22 - Forum - Matthew Clemente - Using asyncManager in place of cfthreadI'm looking to use the async Manager in a place where I'd typically use cfthread, but I'm unsure of the correct syntax.Here's the situation - I'm adding a record, and then once it's added I've got three operations that need to take place, but they shouldn't be blocking and I don't need data back from them. In pseudocode, it would look something like this: …https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/using-asyncmanager-in-place-of-cfthread/9170 3/27/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Splitting An Array Into Groups In ColdFusion 2021The other day, I was dealing with a long list of IDs that I needed to use in a SQL query. In fact, the list was so long that the generated SQL statement was exceeding the max packet size property of the MySQL server. As such, I had to split the list of IDs into groups and perform the SQL query in chucks. I was surprised to see that our Utilities.cfc at work didn't already have a user defined function (UDF) for this. As such, I wrote a function that splits an array into groups of a given max-length in ColdFusion.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4237-splitting-an-array-into-groups-in-coldfusion-2021.htm 3/26/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Updating OWASP AntiSamy From 1.5.7 To 1.6.5 In ColdFusion 2021A few years ago, I started using the OWASP AntiSamy 1.5.7 project to validate Markdown comments being processed with Flexmark. I'm trying to be better about keeping vendor libraries up-to-date (in order to keep them more secure). So, this morning, I updated OWASP AntiSamy to version 1.6.5 on my ColdFusion 2021 blog. I ran into a few hurdles doing this, so I thought I would just share the errors in case anyone needs some Google-love.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4236-updating-owasp-antisamy-from-1-5-7-to-1-6-5-in-coldfusion-2021.htm 3/25/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Considering A Numeric Range / Sequence Data Structure In ColdFusionI am not sure if I would ever need something like this in a production application, but when I'm toying around with ideas in ColdFusion, it's not uncommon for me to want to iterate over a sequence of numbers. I know that other languages have the concept of a first class "Range" or "Sequence" structure. And, it seems like something that might be of some value in ColdFusion as well. As such, I wanted to try implementing a numeric range / sequence data structure in Lucee CFMLhttps://www.bennadel.com/blog/4235-considering-a-numeric-range-sequence-data-structure-in-coldfusion.htm 3/24/22 - Blog - Luis Majano - Ortus Solutions - Migrating From ColdSpring to WireBoxIf you have an application that leveraged ColdSpring for your dependency injection, you can easily port it to WireBox. The first step is converting the ColdSpring XML file to a WireBox Binder. This will translate 1-1 the bean configurations to WireBox configurations. After that, it's a matter of testing your objects and switching the references to the ColdSpring bean factory to application.wirebox.getInstance( "BeanName" ).After that, you can decide if you want to keep the object configurations as is, or you can start refactoring them by using our conventions instead of configuration approach. Especially if you love annotations in your code.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/migrating-from-coldspring-to-wirebox 3/23/22 - Forum - Brad Wood - Ortus Solutions - How to create instances of CFCs in a CommandBox Task RunnerSomeone asked me today why they couldn't run the following code inside of a Task Runner without getting an error that the CFC couldn't be found:new lib.providers.s3();They wanted to know how to create the CFC. I figured the answer(s) were worth sharing since there's several ways to skin this cat.https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/how-to-create-instances-of-cfcs-in-a-commandbox-task-runner/9158 3/20/22 The struct keys in THIS.DATASOURCESFrom ColdFusion 11 onwards, you may use THIS.DATASOURCES in Application.cfc – or, equivalenty, the Datasources attribute in Application.cfm – to create a datasource. ( Application.cfc is the recommended file to use, so we shall not consider Application.cfm in what follows. )THIS.DATASOURCES is a struct. So, how do know which keys it contains? The purpose of this blog post is to answer that question.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/03/the-struct-keys-in-this-datasources/ CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 62 ColdFusion positions from 36 companies across 33 locations in 5 Countries.3 new job listedFull-Time - Senior ColdFusion Developer - GeoNorth Information Systems a.. - United States Mar 26https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Senior-ColdFusion-Developer-GeoNorth-Information-Systems-at-Alaska/11449Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer at Remote - United States Mar 25https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-Developer-at-Remote/11448Full-Time - ColdFusion Web Developer (RADDOS) at Wright-Patterson AFB, O.. - United States Mar 23https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-Web-Developer-RADDOS-at-WrightPatterson-AFB-OH/11447Other Job LinksOrtus Solutionshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careers ProSource360 - Dayton Ohio - Secret Clearancehttps://www.prosource360.com/careers/ ForgeBox Module of the WeekCommandBox ColdSpring XML to WireBox DSL by Ortus SolutionsThis module can convert any ColdSpring XML file to the equivalent programmatic DSL for usage by WireBox Dependency Injection Framework (https://wirebox.ortusbooks.com/configuration/configuring-wirebox).UsageRun the coldspring-to-wirebox command and pass in the location of the XML file to convert with an optional destination for the WireBox.cfccoldspring-to-wirebox tests/coldspring.xml.cfmBlog: https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/migrating-from-coldspring-to-wirebox/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=contentstudio.io https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-coldspring-to-wirebox VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekENVAdds formatting, folding and syntax highlighting support for env files (.env) to Visual Studio Codehttps://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=irongeek.vscode-env My old go to was...DotENVVSCode .env syntax highlightinghttps://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mikestead.dotenv Thank you to all of our Patreon SupportersThese individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox, ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need, and funds the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox. You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutionsDon't forget, we have Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses. Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription. All Patreon supporters have a Profile badge on the Community Website All Patreon supporters have their own Private Forum access on the Community Website https://community.ortussolutions.com/ PatreonsJohn Wilson - Synaptrix Eric HoffmanGary KnightMario RodriguesGiancarlo GomezDavid BelangerDan CardJonathan PerretJeffry McGee - Sunstar Media6Dean MaunderJoseph LamoreeDon BellamyJan JannekLaksma TirtohadiCarl Von StettenJeremy AdamsDidier LesnickiMatthew ClementeDaniel GarciaScott Steinbeck - Agri Tracking SystemsBen Nadel Brett DeLineKai KoenigCharlie ArehartJonas ErikssonJason DaigerShawn OdenMatthew DarbyRoss PhillipsEdgardo CabezasPatrick FlynnStephany MongeJohn WhishKevin WrightPeter AmiriYou can see an up to date list of all sponsors on Ortus Solutions' Websitehttps://ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
2022-03-22 Weekly News - Episode 140Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/AwsjN2jLpIw Hosts: Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus SolutionsDan Card - Software Developer at Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-en 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 Repos https://github.com/coldbox/coldbox-platform https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/ContentBox/ https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/commandbox/ https://github.com/ortus-solutions/docker-commandbox https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/testbox/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/qb/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/quick/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbwire https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/DocBox Star 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 review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 36 patreons providing 96% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. News and EventsInto the Box 2022 CFP is now open!Into the Box will be live in Houston from September 27 - 30, 2022. We want you to speak there! Topic submission closes at midnight April 17th, 2022.https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9https://intothebox.orgLucee 5.3.9.115 Release Candidate 3This is the final Release Candidate for 5.3.9 before we go stable. Subject to any problems, we aim to release a stable version next week. Please give the new build a spin and let us know of any problems you findhttps://dev.lucee.org/t/5-3-9-115-final-release-candidate-3/9829Built with ColdFusion CFMLThis repo is a community repo to list and showcase companies, sites and technologies powered by ColdFusion (CFML) and several Ortus Products.To contribute, fork and star the project. Then add your own organization file in the orgs directory and then append the name of that file ( excluding the extension ), into the cfml-rocks.json array of orgs. You may use the schema below for reference. Send us your pull request and once validated, we will add it to the repo and site.https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/built-with-cfml-box/Podcast - CFAlive 111 - CFCasts: Behind the Scenes with Eric PetersonEric Peterson talks about “CFCasts Behind the Scenes” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.https://teratech.com/podcast/cfcasts-behind-the-scenes-with-eric-peterson/RFC: cbq - a Provider-based Queueing System for ColdBoxHey, folks. I'd love feedback on this proposal for a provider based queue system for ColdBox.The idea here is that we could standardize the queueing jobs including things like queue names and delays regardless of the backing provider.https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/rfc-cbq-a-provider-based-queueing-system-for-coldbox/9149/10ContentBox 5.1 Released!Wanted to make an announcement that we have released ContentBox v5.1 now: https://contentbox.ortusbooks.com/intro/release-history/whats-new-with-5.1.0The docs are getting a massive update and this release brings a lot of stability to the platform. Enjoy!https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/contentbox-v5-1-released/9151Ortus Webinar - March - ForgeBoxication with Gavin PickinMarch 25th, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)ForgeBox is CFML's package management system, and in this webinar you will learn how you can use it with any cfml app you have. You'll learn how to use ForgeBox packaged in your app, commit your own code to ForgeBox, and if we have time we might even make your code into a ColdBox module.Register today: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkduGurDgoHNf4sljBngAFLpoNSNLkzom3 More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Ortus Webinar - April - cbSecurity: Passwords, Tokens, and JWTs with Eric PetersonApril 29th, 202211:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)Learn how to integrate cbSecurity into your application whether you are using passwords, API tokens, JWTs, or a combination of all three!More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Happy Birthday Docker - Docker Community All HandsThursday, March 31, 2022 | 8:00am - 11:00am PTJoin us in celebrating Docker's 9th birthday at our next Community All Hands! This virtual event is a unique opportunity for the community to come together with Docker staff to learn, share and collaborate about all things Docker.https://www.docker.com/event-community-all-hands Hawaii CFUG - Moving your Legacy ColdFusion application to Modern CFML with Mark TakataMarch 24th, 20221:00pm Hawaiian Time - 4:00pm PDTWe've all seen old legacy code in our ColdFusion applications.How do you move that legacy code to modern CFML with easier maintenance and deployment, fewer bugs, and streamlined code?Why Move to Modern CFML Most of us understand that moving our legacy applications to modern CFML is smart. Easier Maintenance Rapid Deployment Fewer Bugs Modern, Responsive Front-End https://hawaiicoldfusionusergroup.adobeconnect.com/legacy/Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseTHURSDAY, MARCH 24, 202210:00 AM PDTColdFusion Standard vs EnterpriseMark Takatahttps://coldfusion-standard-vs-enterprise.meetus.adobeevents.com/WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 20229:00 AM EDTAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopBrian Sappeyhttps://workshop-coldfusion-adobe.meetus.adobeevents.com/THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx https://adobe-workshop-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 202210:00 AM PDTAdobe ColdFusion TruthsMark Takatahttps://adobe-coldfusion-truths.meetus.adobeevents.com/FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ Conferences and TrainingDocker Community All HandsThursday, March 31, 2022 | 8:00am - 11:00am PTJoin us in celebrating Docker's 9th birthday at our next Community All Hands! This virtual event is a unique opportunity for the community to come together with Docker staff to learn, share and collaborate about all things Docker.https://www.docker.com/event-community-all-hands DockerConMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos , breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ DevNexus 2022 - The largest Java conference in the USApril 12-14, 2022Atlanta, GABrad & Luis will be speakingLuis - Alpine.js: Declare and React with SimplicityBrad - What's a Pull Request? (Contributing to Open Source)https://devnexus.com/US VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/Into The Box 2022Solid Dates - September 27-30Two day workshops before the two day conference!Call for Speakers:https://forms.gle/HR1vQf2T5rs8yCZo9Conference Website:https://intothebox.orgInto the Box Latam 2022Tentative dates - Dec 1-2More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week3/18/22 - Tweet - James Moberg - HEIC to JPG scriptHere's a #ColdFusion function I wrote to convert HEIC image files to JPG using ImageMagick Mogrify. https://gist.github.com/JamoCA/d52eb99b462e42866694975eb9af1396https://twitter.com/gamesover/status/15048925338049781773/17/22 - Tweet - Zac Spitzer - ContractPathOnly recently found out about ContractPath() in #lucee, it's the reverse of ExpandPath() #cfmlhttps://docs.lucee.org/reference/functions/contractpath.htmlhttps://twitter.com/zackster/status/15045529483445002243/16/22 - Video - Ortus Solutions - Celebrating 15 years of ColdBoxWe are so excited to share a small video celebrating the 15 years of the legacy of the ColdBox Platform rocking the ColdFusion (CFML) World. It has been a truly tremendous ride, filled with lots of joy, challenges, frustrations and satisfaction that ColdBox is powering applications from companies all over the world. We started as the very first conventions over configuration MVC framework. It has become the most widely used ColdFusion (CFML) framework and the standard for developing modern web applications in ColdFusion (CFML). With tons of products, modules and frameworks that have stemmed from this initial project. ColdBox HMVC has truly been a catalyst at Ortus!We are committed to open source and to the further development of modern tooling for the CFML language. We are not even close to being done yet. We have tons of new releases, tools and more coming this 2022+ that will richely empower ColdFusion (CFML) developers. We are as modern and even more than many of our competitors in other languages. We are so looking forward for the next 15 years!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-15-year-anniversary-video3/16/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - compare() And compareNoCase() Can Accept NULL ValuesAs the ColdFusion language continues to add new operators and new functionality, we have to make sure that we continue to evolve our understand of the runtime behaviors so that we can reduce syntactic noise and make our code more expressive. The steps on this journey are not always intuitive. It requires trial-and-error and whole lot of "I wonder if this will break?" experiments. Such is the way that I discovered that the compare() and compareNoCase() built-in functions can accept Null values as arguments in both Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee CFML.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4229-compare-and-comparenocase-can-accept-null-values-in-coldfusion.htm3/17/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Fundamental Differences In Elvis Operator Between Adobe ColdFusion And Lucee CFMLAt work, we use Lucee CFML; but, on my blog, I use Adobe ColdFusion. I enjoy having my feet in both camps because it forces me to have a more robust mental model of each language - seeing what is and is not the same. And, for the most part, things line up well. But, this morning I stumbled upon Charlie Cochran's post on breaking changes in the Elvis operator in Adobe ColdFusion (ACF) which gave me pause. I panicked that I might be introducing subtle bugs into my applications. But, since he was talking about ACF, and I use Lucee CFML at work, I wanted to quickly test the two engines. And, oh chickens, they are very different!https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4231-fundamental-differences-in-elvis-operator-between-adobe-coldfusion-and-lucee-cfml.htm3/19/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Creating A Health Probe Using Netlify Cron Functions, Postmark, And ColdFusionA few weekends ago, shortly after upgrading my database to MySQL 8.0.28, my blog went offline for about 8-hours. I believe the issue was related to a bug in how ColdFusion caches per-application datasources. After several days of trial-and-error, I think I finally figured out how to safely create a per-application datasource while working around the bug. And, once the fires were all put out, I started to think about that 8-hour offline window; and, how I might operationalize the monitoring of my site. I had recently heard that Netlify released cron / scheduled functions. So, I wanted to see if I could create a health probe for my ColdFusion site using Netlify scheduled functions and the Postmark SMTP service.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4232-creating-a-health-probe-using-netlify-cron-functions-postmark-and-coldfusion.htm3/21/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Playing With The MySQL 8 Document Store X DevAPI In Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201After my blog was upgraded from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0.28, I read through the MySQL 8 release notes to see what new features I would have at my disposal. I already looked at using LATERAL derived tables and Common Table Expressions (CTE). And now, I want to look briefly at something that was called "Document Store" - MySQL's document-oriented answer to the NoSQL (Not-Only SQL) band of database technologies. I found almost no examples of this on the web. So, what follows is just my trial-and-error experiment with MySQL 8's Document Store and its new X DevAPI in Lucee CFML 5.3.8.201.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4233-playing-with-the-mysql-8-document-store-x-devapi-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-8-201.htmCFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 57 ColdFusion positions from 34 companies across 32 locations in 5 Countries.1 new job listedFull-Time - Senior Web Application Developer Coldfusion at Reston, VAMar 21https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Senior-Web-Application-Developer-Coldfusion-at-Reston-VA/11446Other Job LinksOrtus Solutionshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careers ForgeBox Module of the WeekPDFBox by Matthew ClementeUtilize the PDFBox Java library to manipulate PDFs with CFML.CFML's built-in methods have their place - if they work for you, keep using them.PDFBox's performance is generally faster than CFML's built-in functions, particularly for extracting text. It provides more fine-grained control and insight into the underlying structures and data that make up a PDF (forms, links, javascript, metadata, etc.). Some PDF functionality is restricted to certain ColdFusion versions and engines, while PDFBox functions the same across engines and versions, providing flexibility in a codebase.https://forgebox.io/view/pdfboxcfcVS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekTestBox - vscode-testboxOrtus Solutions - 2221 installsIncludes: Jump to Spec Code Skeleton Snippets TestBox Snippets ColdBox Testing Snippets https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ortus-solutions.vscode-testboxThank you to all of our Patreon SupportersThese individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox, ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need, and funds the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox. You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions Don't forget, we have Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses. Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription. All Patreon supporters have a Profile badge on the Community Website All Patreon supporters have their own Private Forum access on the Community Website https://community.ortussolutions.com/ Patreons John Wilson - Synaptrix Eric Hoffman Gary Knight Mario Rodrigues Giancarlo Gomez David Belanger Dan Card Jonathan Perret Jeffry McGee - Sunstar Media6 Dean Maunder Joseph Lamoree Don Bellamy Jan Jannek Laksma Tirtohadi Carl Von Stetten Jeremy Adams Didier Lesnicki Matthew Clemente Daniel Garcia Scott Steinbeck - Agri Tracking Systems Ben Nadel Brett DeLine Kai Koenig Charlie Arehart Jonas Eriksson Jason Daiger Shawn Oden Matthew Darby Ross Phillips Edgardo Cabezas Patrick Flynn Stephany Monge John Whish Kevin Wright Peter Amiri You can see an up to date list of all sponsors on Ortus Solutions' Websitehttps://ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
2022-03-15 Weekly News - Episode 139Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/tmx5csCovncHosts: Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus SolutionsDaniel Garcia - Software Developer at Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-en 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 Repos https://github.com/coldbox/coldbox-platform https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/ContentBox/ https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/commandbox/ https://github.com/ortus-solutions/docker-commandbox https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/testbox/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/qb/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/quick/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbwire https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/DocBox Star 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 review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 36 patreons providing 96% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. News and EventsLucee 5.3.9.108 Release Candidate 2The Lucee team is proud to announce RC2, which consists of bug fixes and regressions.All things going well and subject to any regression, we plan to release a STABLE version on Friday the 25th of March, 2022https://dev.lucee.org/t/5-3-9-108-release-candidate-2/9795Built with ColdFusion CFMLThis repo is a community repo to list and showcase companies, sites and technologies powered by ColdFusion (CFML) and several Ortus Products.To contribute, fork and star the project. Then add your own organization file in the orgs directory and then append the name of that file ( excluding the extension ), into the cfml-rocks.json array of orgs. You may use the schema below for reference. Send us your pull request and once validated, we will add it to the repo and site.https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/built-with-cfml-box/Ortus Webinar - March - ForgeBoxication with Gavin PickinMarch 25th, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)ForgeBox is CFML's package management system, and in this webinar you will learn how you can use it with any cfml app you have. You'll learn how to use ForgeBox packaged in your app, commit your own code to ForgeBox, and if we have time we might even make your code into a ColdBox module.Register today: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkduGurDgoHNf4sljBngAFLpoNSNLkzom3 More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Ortus Webinar - April - cbSecurity: Passwords, Tokens, and JWTs with Eric PetersonApril 29th, 202211:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)Learn how to integrate cbSecurity into your application whether you are using passwords, API tokens, JWTs, or a combination of all three!More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Hawaii CFUG User Group - Moving your Legacy ColdFusion application to Modern CFML with Mark TakataMarch 24th, 20221:00pm Hawaiian Time - 4:00pm PDTWe've all seen old legacy code in our ColdFusion applications.How do you move that legacy code to modern CFML with easier maintenance and deployment, fewer bugs, and streamlined code?Why Move to Modern CFMLMost of us understand that moving our legacy applications to modern CFML is smart. Easier Maintenance Rapid Deployment Fewer Bugs Modern, Responsive Front-End https://hawaiicoldfusionusergroup.adobeconnect.com/legacy/ Happy Birthday Docker - Docker Community All HandsThursday, March 31, 2022 | 8:00am - 11:00am PTJoin us in celebrating Docker's 9th birthday at our next Community All Hands! This virtual event is a unique opportunity for the community to come together with Docker staff to learn, share and collaborate about all things Docker.https://www.docker.com/event-community-all-hands Adobe Workshops and WebinarsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseTHURSDAY, MARCH 24, 202210:00 AM PDTColdFusion Standard vs EnterpriseMark Takatahttps://coldfusion-standard-vs-enterprise.meetus.adobeevents.com/WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 20229:00 AM EDTAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopBrian Sappeyhttps://workshop-coldfusion-adobe.meetus.adobeevents.com/THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 20229:00 AM CETAdobe ColdFusion WorkshopDamien Bruyndonckx (Brew-en-dohnx) https://adobe-workshop-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 202210:00 AM PDTAdobe ColdFusion TruthsMark Takatahttps://adobe-coldfusion-truths.meetus.adobeevents.com/FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ Conferences and TrainingDocker Community All HandsThursday, March 31, 2022 | 8:00am - 11:00am PTJoin us in celebrating Docker's 9th birthday at our next Community All Hands! This virtual event is a unique opportunity for the community to come together with Docker staff to learn, share and collaborate about all things Docker.https://www.docker.com/event-community-all-hands DevNexus 2022 - The largest Java conference in the USApril 12-14, 2022Atlanta, GABrad & Luis will be speakingLuis - Alpine.js: Declare and React with SimplicityBrad - What's a Pull Request? (Contributing to Open Source)https://devnexus.com/DockerConMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos , breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ US VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/ Into The Box 2022Solid Dates - September 27-30Call For Speakers and blog post coming soon!Into the Box Latam 2022Tentative dates - Dec 1-2CF SummitStill waiting on news from Adobe.CFCampStill waiting as well.More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week3/8/22 - Tweet - Brad Wood - RabbitSDK UpdatesWhile doing some client work with RabbitMQ's delayed message plugin, I've added proper exchange management methods to the CFML #RabbitMQ SDK. Now you can declare, bindm, unbind, and delete exchanges. https://forgebox.io/view/rabbitsdkhttps://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1501294538052231171https://twitter.com/bdw429s3/9/22 - Tweet - Brad Wood - Slatwall No Longer Open Source#TIL The ColdFusion Slatwall Commerce platform was acquired by another company about 6 mo ago and is no longer open source. Anyone using it and affected? Looks like Ortus needs to dust off our cbCommerce module! #CFMLhttps://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1501653592960380930https://twitter.com/bdw429s3/10/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - FusionReactor APM Gives Me Peace-of-Mind Over In-Memory Caching In ColdFusionAs part of the operation of my ColdFusion application (ie, this blog), I cache a lot of data in-memory. Some of that data is cached up-front in the onApplicationStart() ColdFusion application life-cycle event handler; but, most of it is cached on-the-fly using the double-check locking pattern that I discussed recently. Unfortunately, I have no idea how much "data costs" to store in memory (meaning, how much room it takes up). So, I've always been a bit uneasy knowing that I may one day slam into a hard memory limit. But, all worry is gone now that I've installed FusionReactor's Application Performance Monitor (APM). I can now clearly see how much RAM I've used; and, more importantly, how much dang RAM I have left to play with.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4225-fusionreactor-apm-gives-me-peace-of-mind-over-in-memory-caching-in-coldfusion.htm3/15/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Adding Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) HTTP Header In ColdFusion 2021For years, I've been using Foundeo's HackMyCF security product on my server to help me keep my ColdFusion applications secure and up-to-date. Security is one of those feature that tends to rot over time. So, it's nice to have someone constantly nagging you about actively updating your platform. This morning, I'm finally adding the HTTP Strict-Transport-Security response header (often abbreviated as HSTS) to my ColdFusion blog so that browsers will force connections to be made using HTTPS, never HTTP.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4228-adding-strict-transport-security-hsts-http-header-in-coldfusion-2021.htm3/14/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Serving A Bypassable "Down For Maintenance" Page In ColdFusion 2021In the vast majority of cases, updates to my ColdFusion blog can be made while the site is online. Sometimes, however, if those changes are not backwards compatible, or require too much cross-file coordination, there's no way that I can start making changes without causing errors in the user experience (UX). In such cases, I need to temporarily block access to the site using a "Down for Maintenance" page. But, I still need to access the site in order to monitor and test the changes. As such, this maintenance page needs to be conditionally bypassable. Luckily, all of this is really easy in ColdFusion.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4227-serving-a-bypassable-down-for-maintenance-page-in-coldfusion-2021.htmColdBox Fail Fast - https://coldbox.ortusbooks.com/getting-started/configuration/bootstrapper-application.cfc#composition CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 57 ColdFusion positions from 34 companies across 32 locations in 5 Countries.2 new jobs listedFull-Time - Senior Coldfusion Developer |LATAM| at Colon, PAMar 11https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Senior-Coldfusion-Developer-LATAM-at-Colon-PA/11442Contract - Mid Level CF developer at Remote - AustraliaMar 15https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/australia/mid-cfdev-remote/11443Other Job LinksOrtus Solutionshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careers Everett Community Collegehttps://employment.everettcc.edu/postings/5300 The Consortium, Inchttps://jobs.crelate.com/portal/consortium/job/ok4b6rcj95g1rhscawespxcdjy ForgeBox Module of the WeekGeoLocation By IP by Ortus SolutionsGeoLocation By IP. Look up and cache a user's countryCode, countryName, regionName, cityName, , zipCode, latitude, longitude, and timeZone by IP address.https://forgebox.io/view/GeoLocation-lookup-by-IP “This code comes with no warranties, promises, or rainbows. In fact, it will probably kick your cat.” - Brad WoodVS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekGit TrimA command to quickly remove merged, pruned, untracked, or stale branches within a repository.https://github.com/jasonmccreary/git-trimThank you to all of our Patreon SupportersThese individuals are personally supporting our open source initiatives to ensure the great toolings like CommandBox, ForgeBox, ColdBox, ContentBox, TestBox and all the other boxes keep getting the continuous development they need, and funds the cloud infrastructure at our community relies on like ForgeBox for our Package Management with CommandBox. You can support us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutionsDon't forget, we have Annual Memberships, pay for the year and save 10% - great for businesses. Bronze Packages and up, now get a ForgeBox Pro and CFCasts subscriptions as a perk for their Patreon Subscription. All Patreon supporters have a Profile badge on the Community Website All Patreon supporters have their own Private Forum access on the Community Website https://community.ortussolutions.com/ Patreons John Wilson - Synaptrix Eric Hoffman Gary Knight Mario Rodrigues Giancarlo Gomez David Belanger Dan Card Jonathan Perret Jeffry McGee - Sunstar Media6 Dean Maunder Joseph Lamoree Don Bellamy Jan Jannek Laksma Tirtohadi Carl Von Stetten Jeremy Adams Didier Lesnicki Matthew Clemente Daniel Garcia Scott Steinbeck - Agri Tracking Systems Ben Nadel Brett DeLine Kai Koenig Charlie Arehart Jonas Eriksson Jason Daiger Shawn Oden Matthew Darby Ross Phillips Edgardo Cabezas Patrick Flynn Stephany Monge John Whish Kevin Wright Peter Amiri You can see an up to date list of all sponsors on Ortus Solutions' Websitehttps://ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
2022-03-08 Weekly News - Episode 138Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/DO6_4ccmyVg Hosts: Luis Majano- CEO of Ortus SolutionsGavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box 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 Repos https://github.com/coldbox/coldbox-platform https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/ContentBox/ https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/commandbox/ https://github.com/ortus-solutions/docker-commandbox https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/testbox/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/qb/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/quick/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbwire https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/DocBox Star 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 review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 36 patreons providing 96% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. Modernize SpotlightAwesome shoutout to Ortus in the Boxteam Slack from Don BallamyShoutout to the Ortus team! A few weeks ago we had a major security incident on our network at Azure (not CF related) that caused us to rebuild our entire network of virtual machines. We hired a security firm to oversee the rebuild and one of our legacy API apps running on CF 11 was flagged and had to be upgraded to CF 2021 (we had planned to, but time had been limiting it). I spent a few days trying, this app was originally written in ColdFusion 8, but then gave up and decided to rewrite the entire API application using ColdBox 6. I was able to rebuild the entire application in 3 days. Without the tools you guys create and work on a daily basis, this would not have been possible. Thank You!https://boxteam.slack.com/archives/C0532LKQ3/p1646535163494699 News and EventsBuilt with ColdFusion CFMLThis repo is a community repo to list and showcase companies, sites and technologies powered by ColdFusion (CFML) and several Ortus Products.To contribute, fork and star the project. Then add your own organization file in the orgs directory and then append the name of that file ( excluding the extension ), in to the cfml-rocks.json array of orgs. You may use the schema below for reference. Send us your pull request and once validated, we will add it to the repo and site.https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/built-with-cfml-box/CFML Spreadsheet v3.4.0 releasedSpreadsheet-CFML 3.4.0 released with a new sheetInfo() method to return properties of a specific sheet within your workbook https://github.com/cfsimplicity/spreadsheet-cfml Ortus Webinar - March - ForgeBoxication with Gavin PickinMarch 25th, 2022 Time: 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)ForgeBox is CFML's package management system, and in this webinar you will learn how you can use it with any cfml app you have. You'll learn how to use ForgeBox packaged in your app, commit your own code to ForgeBox, and if we have time we might even make your code into a ColdBox module.Register today: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkduGurDgoHNf4sljBngAFLpoNSNLkzom3 More Webinars: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Hawaii CFUG User Group - Moving your Legacy ColdFusion application to Modern CFML with Mark TakataMarch 24th, 20221:00pm Hawaiian TimeWe've all seen old legacy code in our ColdFusion applications.How do you move that legacy code to modern CFML with easier maintenance and deployment, fewer bugs, and streamlined code?Why Move to Modern CFMLMost of us understand that moving our legacy applications to modern CFML is smart. Easier Maintenance Rapid Deployment Fewer Bugs Modern, Responsive Front-End https://hawaiicoldfusionusergroup.adobeconnect.com/legacy/ Happy Birthday Docker - Docker Community All HandsThursday, March 31, 2022 | 8:00am - 11:00am PTJoin us in celebrating Docker's 9th birthday at our next Community All Hands! This virtual event is a unique opportunity for the community to come together with Docker staff to learn, share and collaborate about all things Docker.https://www.docker.com/event-community-all-hands Adobe WorkshopsJoin the Adobe ColdFusion Workshop to learn how you and your agency can leverage ColdFusion to create amazing web content. This one-day training will cover all facets of Adobe ColdFusion that developers need to build applications that can run across multiple cloud providers or on-premiseWEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 20229:00 AM CETDamien Bruyndonckx https://workshop-cf-adobe.meetus.adobeevents.com/ THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 20229:00 AM CESTDamien Bruyndonckxhttps://adobe-workshop-coldfusion.meetus.adobeevents.com/ FREE :)Full list - https://meetus.adobeevents.com/coldfusion/ CFCasts Content Updateshttps://www.cfcasts.com Just ReleasedBrad Wood on CommandBox 5.x. https://www.cfcasts.com/series/ortus-webinars-2022/videos/brad-wood-on-commandbox-5.x. Conferences and TrainingDocker Community All HandsThursday, March 31, 2022 | 8:00am - 11:00am PTJoin us in celebrating Docker's 9th birthday at our next Community All Hands! This virtual event is a unique opportunity for the community to come together with Docker staff to learn, share and collaborate about all things Docker.https://www.docker.com/event-community-all-hands DevNexus 2022 - The largest Java conference in the USApril 12-14, 2022Atlanta, GABrad & Luis will be speakingLuis - Alpine.js: Declare and React with SimplicityBrad - What's a Pull Request? (Contributing to Open Source)https://devnexus.com/DockerConMay 10, 2022Free Online Virtual ConferenceDockerCon will be a free, immersive online experience complete with Docker product demos , breakout sessions, deep technical sessions from Docker and our partners, Docker experts, Docker Captains, our community and luminaries from across the industry and much more. Don't miss your chance to gather and connect with colleagues from around the world at the largest developer conference of the year. Sign up to pre-register for DockerCon 2022!https://www.docker.com/dockercon/ US VueJS ConfFORT LAUDERDALE, FL • JUNE 8-10, 2022Beach. Code. Vue.Workshop day: June 8Main Conference: June 9-10https://us.vuejs.org/ Into The Box 2022 - Tentative dates - September 27-30Into the Box Latam 2022 - Tentative dates - Dec 1-2CF Summit - Still waiting on news from Adobe.More conferencesNeed more conferences, this site has a huge list of conferences for almost any language/community.https://confs.tech/Blogs, Tweets, and Videos of the Week3/8/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Using Common Table Expressions (CTE) To Create Derived Tables In MySQL 8Now that my ColdFusion blog is running on MySQL 8.0.28, I get to leverage a number of new features related to derived tables. Yesterday, I looked as using LATERAL derived tables to gather row-specific data. This morning, I want to look at using something called Common Table Expressions (CTE) in order to create derived tables that are factored-out of the main SQL query and placed within a named, temporary result set. This doesn't change the derived table, functionally speaking; but, I believe it does make the SQL query easier to read.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4223-using-common-table-expressions-cte-to-create-derived-tables-in-mysql-8.htm 3/7/22 - Charlie Arehart - FusionReactor 8.7.7 released, enhances the recent DB and API Time featureI had blogged in early November about how FusionReactor 8.7.4 had added at that time a new feature where it lists on request summary pages the DB and API Time of each request, so you could readily tell how much of a request's duration might have been caused by time spent waiting for either of those kinds of resources.Now in 8.7.7, which was released last week (Mar 1), the benefit of that feature has been extended so that a) the same information is written to both the FusionReactor request logs and b) it's also now available in FR crash protection alert emails. In this post, I'll show you examples of what's changed for each, and I'll note another related changes in the prior FR update, 8.7.6.https://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2022/3/7/fusionreactor_8_7_7_enhances_db_and_api_time_feature 3/6/22 - Tweet - John Barret - University of Hawaii using CFLM in 2005How the University of Hawaii used to use #ColdFusion in ICS 415, a class I took way back in 2005. http://nordbotten.com/articles/ColdFusion.pdf https://twitter.com/johnny_barrett/status/1500677296499269633https://twitter.com/johnny_barrett3/5/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Tracking Database Schema And Schema Migrations In Git Version ControlA decade ago, I attended a presentation from Tim Cunningham titled "Version Control on the Database: the Final Frontier". At the time, I was relatively new to version control. At InVision, we had just started using git and GitHub; and, before that, I had only dabbled briefly with SVN (Subversion). I was still struggling to wrap my head around branching and merging and rebasing. So, when Tim suggested that we should also be storing our "database" in version control, I simply wasn't ready to hear it. I mean, it sounded awesome; but, due to my lack of experience, I couldn't connect - at a practical level - with anything he was saying. Cut to 2022 and I can't imagine not tracking our database schema and schema migrations in version control!https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4221-tracking-database-schema-and-schema-migrations-in-git-version-control.htm 3/4/22 - Blog - Ben Nadel - Moving MySQL To A Per-Application Datasource In ColdFusion 2021Over the weekend, after my ColdFusion blog was accidentally upgraded from MySQL 5.0.10 to 8.0.28, I had to scurry and update the datasource configuration in both my production environment as well as in my local Docker development environment. And it occurred to me that manually updating the MySQL datasource in the ColdFusion Administrator represented a huge point of human failure. And, more than that, there was no record of these changes being made; which meant that undoing said changes would be quite challenging. In a modern application context, this is highly disturbing! My application's datasource configuration workflow should be in source-control. As such, I've decided to move my blog to a per-Application datasource.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4220-moving-mysql-to-a-per-application-datasource-in-coldfusion-2021.htm 3/4/22 - Blog - Mark Takata - Adobe - Trying out Redis for ColdFusion cachingI had a customer reach out to me last week about moving their session storage to Redis, so I decided to play around a bit with it. I'd never really had the need to utilize Redis or any of the other caches, as the companies I'd worked with used the local CF cache or other solutions. So I saw this as an opportunity to play and learn.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2022/03/trying-redis-coldfusion-caching/ 3/4/22 - Blog - Nolan Erck - South of Shasta - Why Do Some CFML Jobs Require Degrees?Earlier today in the ColdFusion Programmers forum on Facebook somebody asked (I'm paraphrasing a little) why do some ColdFusion jobs require a Computer Science degree when they don't teach CFML in college?I have 2 answers:1 - Actually, there is (or was?) a ColdFusion curriculum written up and made available for colleges that want to teach ColdFusion in the classroom. I'm unclear on the current status of this, but my guess is someone on the Adobe ColdFusion team would have more info (Mark or Kishore probably).2 - The longer answer is, because good Computer Science degrees are not language specific. Good degrees (and good software developers) focus on constructs, concepts, and higher level skills. They don't spend (much) time worrying about the difference between a CFInclude and a Custom Tag...but they do teach you why a programming construct that leaks data (CFInclude) would be less appropriate in most situations than one that promotes better programming practices (CFFunction, CFCs, and even Custom Tags are better than CFInclude in that regard).https://southofshasta.com/blog/why-do-some-cfml-jobs-require-degrees/ 3/3/22 - Tweet - Brad Wood - Ortus Solutions - CFML Queries have member functions like arrays and structsThis came up today-- you may not realize CFML queries have the same each(), map(), reduce(), filter() member functions as arrays and structs. Your closure receives a struct representing each query row. Super easy to use for manipulating queries. https://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1499534951699603456 https://twitter.com/bdw429s 3/2/22 - Blog - Brad Wood - Ortus Solutions - CommandBox/Undertow Server scanned with OWASP ZAPWe had a user ask recently if we had run any automated scanners against CommandBox servers to verify they were secure. While we've taken care to make CommandBox servers secure by default and I've helped many clients who have run scans against their own CommandBox-hosted apps, Ortus had never performed any scans just against CommandBox itself. I grabbed the OWASP ZAP scanner 4, which is a free scanning tool that checks for a bunch of different vulnerabilities, specifically HTTP header related. I figured it would be nice to post what I did here for the community to see.https://community.ortussolutions.com/t/commandbox-undertow-server-scanned-with-owasp-zap/9134 3/2/22 - Tweet - Brad Wood - Ortus Solutions - SQL Server MonitorI've tossed the (very old) code for a little CF tool/site I wrote years ago to visually monitor all the running process on a SQL Server (ONTO GITHUB). It's handy for finding processes with locks blocking other processes. It's rough, but works. Feel free to play: https://github.com/bdw429s/SQL-Server-Monitor https://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1498812367605538816https://twitter.com/bdw429s CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 54 ColdFusion positions from 33 companies across 32 locations in 5 Countries.6 new jobs listedFull-Time - ColdFusion programmer at Washington, DC - United States Mar 08https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-programmer-at-Washington-DC/11441Full-Time - Full Stack Developer (Remote) at Sacramento, CA - United States Mar 07https://www.getcfmljobs.com/viewjob.cfm?jobid=11440Full-Time - Coldfusion Developer at Connecticut - United States Mar 05https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Coldfusion-Developer-at-Connecticut/11438Full-Time - IT Web Developer at Everett - United States Mar 04https://www.getcfmljobs.com/viewjob.cfm?jobid=11437 Full-Time - Senior ColdFusion Developer - GeoNorth Information Systems a.. - United States Mar 02https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Senior-ColdFusion-Developer-GeoNorth-Information-Systems-at-Alaska/11435Full-Time - Database Administrator with ColdFusion at Remote - United States Mar 02https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/Database-Administrator-with-ColdFusion-at-Remote/11436 Other Job LinksOrtus Solutionshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/careers Everett Community Collegehttps://employment.everettcc.edu/postings/5300 The Consortium, Inchttps://jobs.crelate.com/portal/consortium/job/ok4b6rcj95g1rhscawespxcdjy ForgeBox Module of the WeekSentry by Ortus SolutionsThis module connects your CFML application to send bug reports to Sentry (https://sentry.io)If your app uses neither ColdBox nor LogBox, you can still instantiate the SentryService and use it directly so long as you prep it with the settings it needs.Methods include captureMessage, captureException, capture… with the ability to use levels, tags, auto pass cgi variables, and much more. Great free tier options for getting started with smaller apps. https://www.forgebox.io/view/sentry VS Code Hint Tips and Tricks of the WeekFile Nesting in VS CodeVS Code v1.64 was released a few days ago and it's once again packaged with nice new features and improvements. An exciting new feature is the Side Panel that can be opened opposite to the Side Bar, i.e. the “other side of the screen”, giving you the option to have more views open at once. I can see how that can be useful on bigger screens.Another new feature that catched my interest was the experimental support for file nesting. This feature lets you visually “nest”/group related files under a “root” file in the same directory. For example, say you have a main.ts file and next to it you have main.js, main.d.ts and main.js.map. 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2022-03-01 Weekly News - Episode 137Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/kRi3dMfLPxA Hosts: Gavin Pickin - Senior Developer for Ortus SolutionsDan Card - Senior Developer for Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box 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 Repos https://github.com/coldbox/coldbox-platform https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/ContentBox/ https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/commandbox/ https://github.com/ortus-solutions/docker-commandbox https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/testbox/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/qb/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/quick/ https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbwire https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/DocBox Star 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 review Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 36 patreons providing 97% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. News and EventsICYMI - Lucee 5.3.9.80 Release Candidate 1 - This release removes all traces of Log4j1With the advent of Lucee 5.3.9 -RC, we now have a build of CommandBox (5.5.0-alpha) which is 100% FREE OF LOG4J 1.x! https://downloads.ortussolutions.com/#/ortussolutions/commandbox/5.5.0-alpha/ Please help us test and use it if you need to get those #infosec monkeys off your back!
About ChloeChloe is a Bay Area based Cloud Advocate for Microsoft. Previously, she worked at Sentry.io where she created the award winning Sentry Scouts program (a camp themed meet-up ft. patches, s'mores, giant squirrel costumes, and hot chocolate), and was featured in the Grace Hopper Conference 2018 gallery featuring 15 influential women in STEM by AnitaB.org. Her projects and work with Azure have ranged from fake boyfriend alerts to Mario Kart 'astrology', and have been featured in VICE, The New York Times, as well as SmashMouth's Twitter account. Chloe holds a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University and is a graduate of Hackbright Academy. She prides herself on being a non-traditional background engineer, and is likely one of the only engineers who has played an ogre, crayon, and the back-end of a cow on a professional stage. She hopes to bring more artists into tech, and more engineers into the arts.Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gitforked/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChloeCondonVideos TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Vultr. Spelled V-U-L-T-R because they're all about helping save money, including on things like, you know, vowels. So, what they do is they are a cloud provider that provides surprisingly high performance cloud compute at a price that—while sure they claim its better than AWS pricing—and when they say that they mean it is less money. Sure, I don't dispute that but what I find interesting is that it's predictable. They tell you in advance on a monthly basis what it's going to going to cost. They have a bunch of advanced networking features. They have nineteen global locations and scale things elastically. Not to be confused with openly, because apparently elastic and open can mean the same thing sometimes. They have had over a million users. Deployments take less that sixty seconds across twelve pre-selected operating systems. Or, if you're one of those nutters like me, you can bring your own ISO and install basically any operating system you want. Starting with pricing as low as $2.50 a month for Vultr cloud compute they have plans for developers and businesses of all sizes, except maybe Amazon, who stubbornly insists on having something to scale all on their own. Try Vultr today for free by visiting: vultr.com/screaming, and you'll receive a $100 in credit. Thats v-u-l-t-r.com slash screaming.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Honeycomb. When production is running slow, it's hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? I've got five bucks on DNS, personally. Why scroll through endless dashboards, while dealing with alert floods, going from tool to tool to tool that you employ, guessing at which puzzle pieces matter? Context switching and tool sprawl are slowly killing both your team and your business. You should care more about one of those than the other, which one is up to you. Drop the separate pillars and enter a world of getting one unified understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. With Honeycomb, you guess less and know more. Try it for free at Honeycomb.io/screaminginthecloud. Observability, it's more than just hipster monitoring.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. Somehow in the years this show has been running, I've only had Chloe Condon on once. In that time, she's over for dinner at my house way more frequently than that, but somehow the stars never align to get us together in front of microphones and have a conversation. First, welcome back to the show, Chloe. You're a senior cloud advocate at Microsoft on the Next Generation Experiences Team. It is great to have you here.Chloe: I'm back, baby. I'm so excited. This is one of my favorite shows to listen to, and it feels great to be a repeat guest, a friend of the pod. [laugh].Corey: Oh, yes indeed. So, something-something cloud, something-something Microsoft, something-something Azure, I don't particularly care, in light of what it is you have going on that you have just clued me in on, and we're going to talk about that to start. You're launching something new called Master Creep Theatre and I have a whole bunch of questions. First and foremost, is it theater or theatre? How is that spelled? Which—the E and the R, what direction does that go in?Chloe: Ohh, I feel like it's going to be the R-E because that makes it very fancy and almost British, you know?Corey: Oh, yes. And the Harlequin mask direction it goes in, that entire aesthetic, I love it. Please tell me what it is. I want to know the story of how it came to be, the sheer joy I get from playing games with language alone guarantee I'm going to listen to whatever this is, but please tell me more.Chloe: Oh, my goodness. Okay, so this is one of those creative projects that's been on my back burner forever where I'm like, someday when I have time, I'm going to put all my time [laugh] and energy into this. So, this originally stemmed from—if you don't follow me on Twitter, oftentimes when I'm not tweeting about '90s nostalgia, or Clippy puns, or Microsoft silly throwback things to Windows 95, I get a lot of weird DMs. On every app, not just Twitter. On Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, oh my gosh, what else is there?Corey: And I don't want to be clear here just to make this absolutely crystal clear, “Hey, Chloe, do you want to come back on Screaming in the Cloud again?” Is not one of those weird DMs to which you're referring?Chloe: No, that is a good DM. So, people always ask me, “Why don't you just close your DMs?” Because a lot of high profile people on the internet just won't even have their DMs open.Corey: Oh, I understand that, but I'm the same boat. I would have a lot less nonsense, but at the same time, I want—at least in my case—I want people to be able to reach out to me because the only reason I am what I am is that a bunch of people who had no reason to do it did favors for me—Chloe: Yes.Corey: —and I can't ever repay it, I can only ever pay it forward and that is the cost of doing favors. If I can help someone, I will, and that's hard to do with, “My DMs are closed so hunt down my email address and send me an email,” and I'm bad at email.Chloe: Right. I'm terrible at email as well, and I'm also terrible at DMs [laugh]. So, I think a lot of folks don't understand the volume at which I get messages, which if you're a good friend of mine, if you're someone like Corey or a dear friend like Emily, I will tell you, “Hey, if you actually need to get ahold of me, text me.” And text me a couple times because I probably see it and then I have ADHD, so I won't immediately respond. I think I respond in my head but I don't.But I get anywhere from, I would say, ohh, like, 30 on a low day to 100 on a day where I have a viral tweet about getting into tech with a non-traditional background or something like that. And these DMs that I get are really lovely messages like, “Thank you for the work you do,” or, “I decided to do a cute manicure because the [laugh] manicure you posted,” too, “How do I get into tech? How do I get a job at Microsoft?” All kinds of things. It runs the gamut between, “Where's your shirt from?” Where—[laugh]—“What's your mother's maiden name?”But a lot of the messages that I get—and if you're a woman on the internet with any sort of presence, you know how there's that, like—what's it called in Twitter—the Other Messages feature that's like, “Here's the people you know. Here's the people”—the message requests. For the longest time were just, “Hey,” “Hi,” “Hey dear,” “Hi pretty,” “Hi ma'am,” “Hello,” “Love you,” just really weird stuff. And of course, everyone gets these; these are bots or scammers or whatever they may be—or just creeps, like weird—and always the bio—not always but I [laugh] would say, like, these accounts range from either obviously a bot where it's a million different numbers, an account that says, “Father, husband, lover of Jesus Christ and God.” Which is so [laugh] ironic… I'm like, “Why are you in my DMs?”Corey: A man of God, which is why I'm in your DMs being creepy.Chloe: Exactly. Or—Corey: Just like Christ might have.Chloe: And you would be shocked, Corey, at how many. The thing that I love to say is Twitter is not a dating site. Neither is LinkedIn. Neither is Instagram. I post about my boyfriend all the time, who you've met, and we adore Ty Smith, but I've never received any unsolicited images, knock on wood, but I'm always getting these very bait-y messages like, “Hey, beautiful. I want to take you out.” And you would be shocked at how many of these people are doing it from their professional business account. [laugh]. Like, works at AWS, works at Google; it's like, oh my God. [laugh].Corey: You get this under your name, right? It ties back to it. Meanwhile—again, this is one of those invisible areas of privilege that folks who look like me don't have to deal with. My DM graveyard is usually things like random bot accounts, always starting with, “Hi,” or, “Hey.” If you want to guarantee I never respond to you, that is what you say. I just delete those out of hand because I don't notice or care. It is either a bot, or a scam, or someone who can't articulate what they're actually trying to get from me—Chloe: Exactly.Corey: —and I don't have the time for it. Make your request upfront. Don't ask to ask; just ask.Chloe: I think it's important to note, also, that I get a lot of… different kinds of these messages and they try to respond to everyone. I cannot. If I responded to everybody's messages that I got, I just wouldn't have any time to do my job. But the thing that I always say to people—you know, and managers have told me in the past, my boyfriend has encouraged me to do this, is when people say things like, “Close your DMs,” or, “Just ignore them,” I want to have the same experience that everybody else has on the internet. Now, it's going to be a little different, of course, because I look and act and sound like I do, and of course, podcasts are historically a visual medium, so I'm a five-foot-two, white, bright orange-haired girl; I'm a very quirky individual.Corey: Yes, if you look up ‘quirky,' you're right there under the dictionary definition. And every time—like, when we were first hanging out and you mentioned, “Oh yeah, I used to be in theater.” And it's like, “You know, you didn't even have to tell me that, on some level.” Which is not intended to be an insult. It's just theater folks are a bit of a type, and you are more or less the archetype of what a theatre person is, at least to my frame of reference.Chloe: And not only that, but I did musicals, so you can't see the jazz hands now, but–yeah, my degree is in drama. I come from that space and I just, you know, whenever people say, “Just ignore it,” or, “Close your DMs,” I'm like, I want people to be able to reach out to me; I want to be able to message one-on-one with Corey and whoever, when—as needed, and—Corey: Why should I close my DMs?Chloe: Yeah.Corey: They're the ones who suck. Yeah.Chloe: [laugh]. But over the years, to give people a little bit of context, I've been working in tech a long time—I've been working professionally in the DevRel space for about five or six years now—but I've worked in tech a long time, I worked as a recruiter, an office admin, executive assistant, like, I did all of the other areas of tech, but it wasn't until I got a presence on Twitter—which I've only been on Twitter for I think five years; I haven't been on there that long, actively. And to give some context on that, Twitter is not a social media platform used in the theater space. We just use Instagram and Facebook, really, back in the day, I'm not on Facebook at all these days. So, when I discovered Twitter was cool—and I should also mention my boyfriend, Ty, was working at Twitter at the time and I was like, “Twitter's stupid. Who would go on this—[laugh] who uses this app?”Fast-forward to now, I'm like—Ty's like, “Can you please get off Twitter?” But yeah, I think I've just been saving these screenshots over the last five or so years from everything from my LinkedIn, from all the crazy stuff that I dealt with when people thought I was a Bitcoin influencer to people being creepy. One of the highlights that I recently found when I was going back and trying to find these for this series that I'm doing is there was a guy from Australia, DMed me something like, “Hey, beautiful,” or, “Hey, sexy,” something like that. And I called him out. And I started doing this thing where I would post it on Twitter.I would usually hide their image with a clown emoji or something to make it anonymous, or not to call them out, but in this one I didn't, and this guy was defending himself in the comments, and to me in my DM's saying, “Oh, actually, this was a social experiment and I have all the screenshots of this,” right? So, imagine if you will—so I have conversations ranging from things like that where it's like, “Actually I messaged a bunch of people about that because I'm doing a social experiment on how people respond to, ‘Hey beautiful. I'd love to take you out some time in Silicon Valley.'” just the weirdest stuff right? So, me being the professional performer that I am, was like, these are hilarious.And I kept thinking to myself, anytime I would get these messages, I was like, “Does this work?” If you just go up to someone and say, “Hey”—do people meet this way? And of course, you get people on Twitter who when you tweet something like that, they're like, “Actually, I met my boyfriend in Twitter DMs,” or like, “I met my boyfriend because he slid into my DMs on Instagram,” or whatever. But that's not me. I have a boyfriend. I'm not interested. This is not the time or the place.So, it's been one of those things on the back burner for three or four years that I've just always been saving these images to a folder, thinking, “Okay, when I have the time when I have the space, the creative energy and the bandwidth to do this,” and thankfully for everyone I do now, I'm going to do dramatic readings of these DMs with other people in tech, and show—not even just to make fun of these people, but just to show, like, how would this work? What do you expect the [laugh] outcome to be? So Corey, for example, if you were to come on, like, here's a great example. A year ago—this is 2018; we're in 2021 right now—this guy messaged me in December of 2018, and was like, “Hey,” and then was like, “I would love to be your friend.” And I was like, “Nope,” and I responded, “Nope, nope, nope, nope.” There's a thread of this on Twitter. And then randomly, three weeks ago, just sent me this video to the tune of Enrique Iglesias' “Rhythm Divine” of just images of himself. [laugh]. So like, this comedy [crosstalk 00:10:45]—Corey: Was at least wearing pants?Chloe: He is wearing pants. It's very confusing. It's a picture—a lot of group photos, so I didn't know who he was. But in my mind because, you know, I'm an engineer, I'm trying to think through the end-user experience. I'm like, “What was your plan here?”With all these people I'm like, “So, your plan is just to slide into my DMs and woo me with ‘Hey'?” [laugh]. So, I think it'll be really fun to not only just show and call out this behavior but also take submissions from other people in the industry, even beyond tech, really, because I know anytime I tweet an example of this, I get 20 different women going, “Oh, my gosh, you get these weird messages, too?” And I really want to show, like, A, to men how often this happens because like you said, I think a lot of men say, “Just ignore it.” Or, “I don't get anything like that. You must be asking for it.”And I'm like, “No. This comes to me. These people find us and me and whoever else out there gets these messages,” and I'm just really ready to have a laugh at their expense because I've been laughing for years. [laugh].Corey: Back when I was a teenager, I was working in some fast food style job, and one of my co-workers saw customer, walked over to her, and said, “You're beautiful.” And she smiled and blushed. He leaned in and kissed her.Chloe: Ugh.Corey: And I'm sitting there going what on earth? And my other co-worker leaned over and is like, “You do know that's his girlfriend, right?” And I have to feel like, on some level, that is what happened to an awful lot of these broken men out on the internet, only they didn't have a co-worker to lean over and say, “Yeah, they actually know each other.” Which is why we see all this [unintelligible 00:12:16] behavior of yelling at people on the street as they walk past, or from a passing car. Because they saw someone do a stunt like that once and thought, “If it worked for them, it could work for me. It only has to work once.”And they're trying to turn this into a one day telling the grandkids how they met their grandmother. And, “Yeah, I yelled at her from a construction site, and it was love at first ‘Hey, baby.'” That is what I feel is what's going on. I have never understood it. I look back at my dating history in my early 20s, I look back now I'm like, “Ohh, I was not a great person,” but compared to these stories, I was a goddamn prince.Chloe: Yeah.Corey: It's awful.Chloe: It's really wild. And actually, I have a very vivid memory, this was right bef—uh, not right before the pandemic, but probably in 2019. I was speaking on a lot of conferences and events, and I was at this event in San Jose, and there were not a lot of women there. And somehow this other lovely woman—I can't remember her name right now—found me afterwards, and we were talking and she said, “Oh, my God. I had—this is such a weird event, right?”And I was like, “Yeah, it is kind of a weird vibe here.” And she said, “Ugh, so the weirdest thing happened to me. This guy”—it was her first tech conference ever, first of all, so you know—or I think it was her first tech conference in the Bay Area—and she was like, “Yeah, this guy came to my booth. I've been working this booth over here for this startup that I work at, and he told me he wanted to talk business. And then I ended up meeting him, stupidly, in my hotel lobby bar, and it's a date. Like, this guy is taking me out on a date all of a sudden,” and she was like, “And it took me about two minutes to just to be like, you know what? This is inappropriate. I thought this is going to be a business meeting. I want to go.”And then she shows me her hands, Corey, and she has a wedding ring. And she goes, “I'm not married. I have bought five or six different types of rings on Wish App”—or wish.com, which if you've never purchased from Wish before, it's very, kind of, low priced jewelry and toys and stuff of that nature. And she said, “I have a different wedding ring for every occasion. I've got my beach fake wedding ring. I've got my, we-got-married-with-a-bunch-of-mason-jars-in-the-woods fake wedding ring.”And she said she started wearing these because when she did, she got less creepy guys coming up to her at these events. And I think it's important to note, also, I'm not putting it out there at all that I'm interested in men. If anything, you know, I've been [laugh] with my boyfriend for six years never putting out these signals, and time and time again, when I would travel, I was very, very careful about sharing my location because oftentimes I would be on stage giving a keynote and getting messages while I delivered a technical keynote saying, “I'd love to take you out to dinner later. How long are you in town?” Just really weird, yucky, nasty stuff that—you know, and everyone's like, “You should be flattered.”And I'm like, “No. You don't have to deal with this. It's not like a bunch of women are wolf-whistling you during your keynote and asking what your boob size is.” But that's happening to me, and that's an extra layer that a lot of folks in this industry don't talk about but is happening and it adds up. And as my boyfriend loves to remind me, he's like, “I mean, you could stop tweeting at any time,” which I'm not going to do. But the more followers you get, the more inbound you get. So—Corey: Right. And the hell of it is, it's not a great answer because it's closing off paths of opportunity. Twitter has—Chloe: Absolutely.Corey: —introduced me to clients, introduced me to friends, introduced me to certainly an awful lot of podcast guests, and it informs and shapes a lot of the opinions that I hold on these things. And this is an example of what people mean when they talk about privilege. Where, yeah, “Look at Corey”—I've heard someone say once, and, “Nothing was handed to him.” And you're right, to be clear, I did not—like, no one handed me a microphone and said, “We're going to give you a podcast, now.” I had to build this myself.But let's be clear, I had no headwinds of working against me while I did it. There's the, you still have to do things, but you don't have an entire cacophony of shit heels telling you that you're not good enough in a variety of different ways, to subtly reinforcing your only value is the way that you look. There isn't this whole, whenever you get something wrong and it's a, “Oh, well, that's okay. We all get things wrong.” It's not the, “Girls suck at computers,” trope that we see so often.There's a litany of things that are either supportive that work in my favor, or are absent working against me that is privilege that is invisible until you start looking around and seeing it, and then it becomes impossible not to. I know I've talked about this before on the show, but no one listens to everything and I just want to subtly reinforce that if you're one of those folks who will say things like, “Oh, privilege isn't real,” or, “You can have bigotry against white people, too.” I want to be clear, we are not the same. You are not on my side on any of this, and to be very direct, I don't really care what you have to say.Chloe: Yeah. And I mean, this even comes into play in office culture and dynamics as well because I am always the squeaky wheel in the room on these kind of things, but a great example that I'll give is I know several women in this industry who have had issues when they used to travel for conferences of being stalked, people showing up at their hotel rooms, just really inappropriate stuff, and for that reason, a lot of folks—including myself—wouldn't pick the conference event—like, typically they'll be like, “This is the hotel everyone's staying at.” I would very intentionally stay at a different hotel because I didn't want people knowing where I was staying. But I started to notice once a friend of mine, who had an issue with this [unintelligible 00:17:26], I really like to be private about where I'm staying, and sometimes if you're working at a startup or larger company, they'll say, “Hey, everyone put in this Excel spreadsheet or this Google Doc where everyone's staying and how to contact them, and all this stuff.” And I think it's really important to be mindful of these things.I always say to my friends—I'm not going out too much these days because it's a pandemic—and I've done Twitter threads on this before where I never post my location; you will never see me. I got rid of Swarm a couple [laugh] years ago because people started showing up where I was. I posted photos before, you know, “Hey, at the lake right now.” And people have shown up. Dinners, people have recognized me when I've been out.So, I have an espresso machine right over here that my lovely boyfriend got me for my birthday, and someone commented, “Oh, we're just going to act like we don't see someone's reflection in the”—like, people Zoom in on images. I've read stories from cosplayers online who, they look into the reflection of a woman's glasses and can figure out where they are. So, I think there's this whole level. I'm constantly on alert, especially as a woman in tech. And I have friends here in the Bay Area, who have tweeted a photo at a barbecue, and then someone was like, “Hey, I live in the neighborhood, and I recognize the tree.”First of all, don't do that. Don't ever do that. Even if you think you're a nice, unassuming guy or girl or whatever, don't ever [laugh] do that. But I very intentionally—people get really confused, my friends specifically. They're like, “Wait a second, you're in Hawaii right now? I thought you were in Hawaii three weeks ago.” And I'm like, “I was. I don't want anyone even knowing what island or continent I'm on.”And that's something that I think about a lot. When I post photo—I never post any photos from my window. I don't want people knowing what my view is. People have figured out what neighborhood I live in based on, like, “I know where that graffiti is.” I'm very strategic about all this stuff, and I think there's a lot of stuff that I want to share that I don't share because of privacy issues and concerns about my safety. And also want to say and this is in my thread on online safety as well is, don't call out people's locations if you do recognize the image because then you're doxxing them to everyone like, “Oh”—Corey: I've had a few people do that in response to pictures I've posted before on a house, like, “Oh, I can look at this and see this other thing and then intuit where you are.” And first, I don't have that sense of heightened awareness on this because I still have this perception of myself as no one cares enough to bother, and on the other side, by calling that out in public. It's like, you do not present yourself well at all. In fact, you make yourself look an awful lot like the people that we're warned about. And I just don't get that.I have some of these concerns, especially as my audience has grown, and let's be very clear here, I antagonize trillion-dollar companies for a living. So, first if someone's going to have me killed, they can find where I am. That's pretty easy. It turns out that having me whacked is not even a rounding error on most of these companies' budgets, unfortunately. But also I don't have that level of, I guess, deranged superfan. Yet.But it happens in the fullness of time, as people's audiences continue to grow. It just seems an awful lot like it happens at much lower audience scale for folks who don't look like me. I want to be clear, this is not a request for anyone listening to this, to try and become that person for me, you will get hosed, at minimum. And yes, we press charges here.Chloe: AWSfan89, sliding into your DMs right after this. Yeah, it's also just like—I mean, I don't want to necessarily call out what company this was at, but personally, I've been in situations where I've thrown an event, like a meetup, and I'm like, “Hey, everyone. I'm going to be doing ‘Intro to blah, blah, blah' at this time, at this place.” And three or four guys would show up, none of them with computers. It was a freaking workshop on how to do or deploy something, or work with an API.And when I said, “Great, so why'd you guys come to this session today?” And maybe two have iPads, one just has a notepad, they're like, “Oh, I just wanted to meet you from Twitter.” And it's like, okay, that's a little disrespectful to me because I am taking time out to do this workshop on a very technical thing that I thought people were coming here to learn. And this isn't the Q&A. This is not your meet-and-greet opportunity to meet Chloe Condon, and I don't know why you would, like, I put so much of my life online [laugh] anyway.But yeah, it's very unsettling, and it's happened to me enough. Guys have shown up to my events and given me gifts. I mean, I'm always down for a free shirt or something, but it's one of those things that I'm constantly aware of and I hate that I have to be constantly aware of, but at the end of the day, my safety is the number one priority, and I don't want to get murdered. And I've tweeted this out before, our friend Emily, who's similarly a lady on the internet, who works with my boyfriend Ty over at Uber, we have this joke that's not a joke, where we say, “Hey if I'm murdered, this is who it was.” And we'll just send each other screenshots of creepy things that people either tag us in, or give us feedback on, or people asking what size shirt we are. Just, wiki feed stuff, just really some of the yucky of the yuck out there.And I do think that unless you have a partner, or a family member, or someone close enough to you to let you know about these things—because I don't talk about these things a lot other than my close friends, and maybe calling out a weirdo here and there in public, but I don't share the really yucky stuff. I don't share the people who are asking what neighborhood I live in. I'm not sharing the people who are tagging me, like, [unintelligible 00:22:33], really tagging me in some nasty TikToks, along with some other women out there. There are some really bad actors in this community and it is to the point where Emily and I will be like, “Hey, when you inevitably have to solve my murder, here's the [laugh] five prime suspects.” And that sucks. That's [unintelligible 00:22:48] joke; that isn't a joke, right? I suspect I will either die in an elevator accident or one of my stalkers will find me. [laugh].Corey: It's easy for folks to think, oh, well, this is a Chloe problem because she's loud, she's visible, she's quirky, she's different than most folks, and she brings it all on herself, and this is provably not true. Because if you talk to, effectively, any woman in the world in-depth about this, they all have stories that look awfully similar to this. And let me forestall some of the awful responses I know I'm going to get. And, “Well, none of the women I know have had experiences like this,” let me be very clear, they absolutely have, but for one reason or another, they either don't see the need, or don't see the value, or don't feel safe talking to you about it.Chloe: Yeah, absolutely. And I feel a lot of privilege, I'm very lucky that my boyfriend is a staff engineer at Uber, and I have lots of friends in high places at some of these companies like Reddit that work with safety and security and stuff, but oftentimes, a lot of the stories or insights or even just anecdotes that I will give people on their products are invaluable insights to a lot of these security and safety teams. Like, who amongst us, you know, [laugh] has used a feature and been like, “Wait a second. This is really, really bad, and I don't want to tweet about this because I don't want people to know that they can abuse this feature to stalk or harass or whatever that may be,” but I think a lot about the people who don't have the platform that I have because I have 50k-something followers on Twitter, I have a pretty big online following in general, and I have the platform that I do working at Microsoft, and I can tweet and scream and be loud as I can about this. But I think about the folks who don't have my audience, the people who are constantly getting harassed and bombarded, and I get these DMs all the time from women who say, “Thank you so much for doing a thread on this,” or, “Thank you for talking about this,” because people don't believe them.They're just like, “Oh, just ignore it,” or just, “Oh, it's just one weirdo in his basement, like, in his mom's basement.” And I'm like, “Yeah, but imagine that but times 40 in a week, and think about how that would make you rethink your place and your position in tech and even outside of tech.” Let's think of the people who don't know how this technology works. If you're on Instagram at all, you may notice that literally not only every post, but every Instagram story that has the word COVID in it, has the word vaccine, has anything, and they must be using some sort of cognitive scanning type thing or scanning the images themselves because this is a feature that basically says, hey, this post mentioned COVID in some way. I think if you even use the word mask, it alerts this.And while this is a great feature because we all want accurate information coming out about the pandemic, I'm like, “Wait a minute. So, you're telling me this whole time you could have been doing this for all the weird things that I get into my DMs, and people post?” And, like, it just shows you, yes, this is a global pandemic. Yes, this is something that affects everyone. Yes, it's important we get information out about this, but we can be using these features in much [laugh] more impactful ways that protects people's safety, that protects people's ability to feel safe on a platform.And I think the biggest one for me, and I make a lot of bots; I make a lot of Twitter bots and chatbots, and I've done entire series on this about ethical bot creation, but it's so easy—and I know this firsthand—to make a Twitter account. You can have more than one number, you can do with different emails. And with Instagram, they have this really lovely new feature that if you block someone, it instantly says, “You just blocked so and so. Would you like to block any other future accounts they make?” I mean, seems simple enough, right?Like, anything related—maybe they're doing it by email, or phone number, or maybe it's by IP, but like, that's not being done on a lot of these platforms, and it should be. I think someone mentioned in one of my threads on safety recently that Peloton doesn't have a block user feature. [laugh]. They're probably like, “Well, who's going to harass someone on Peloton?” It would happen to me. If I had a Peloton, [laugh] I assure you someone would find a way to harass me on there.So, I always tell people, if you're working at a company and you're not thinking about safety and harassment tools, you probably don't have anybody LGBTQ+ women, non-binary on your team, first of all, and you need to be thinking about these things, and you need to be making them a priority because if users can interact in some way, they will stalk, harass, they will find some way to misuse it. It seems like one of those weird edge cases where it's like, “Oh, we don't need to put a test in for that feature because no one's ever going to submit, like, just 25 emojis.” But it's the same thing with safety. You're like, who would harass someone on an app about bubblegum? One of my followers were. [laugh].Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle HeatWave is a new high-performance accelerator for the Oracle MySQL Database Service. Although I insist on calling it “my squirrel.” While MySQL has long been the worlds most popular open source database, shifting from transacting to analytics required way too much overhead and, ya know, work. With HeatWave you can run your OLTP and OLAP, don't ask me to ever say those acronyms again, workloads directly from your MySQL database and eliminate the time consuming data movement and integration work, while also performing 1100X faster than Amazon Aurora, and 2.5X faster than Amazon Redshift, at a third of the cost. My thanks again to Oracle Cloud for sponsoring this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: The biggest question that doesn't get asked that needs to be in almost every case is, “Okay. We're building a thing, and it's awesome. And I know it's hard to think like this, but pivot around. Theoretically, what could a jerk do with it?”Chloe: Yes.Corey: When you're designing it, it's all right, how do you account for people that are complete jerks?Chloe: Absolutely.Corey: Even the cloud providers, all of them, when the whole Parler thing hit, everyone's like, “Oh, Amazon is censoring people for freedom of speech.” No, they're actually not. What they're doing is enforcing their terms of service, the same terms of service that every provider that is not trash has. It is not a problem that one company decided they didn't want hate speech on their platform. It was all the companies decided that, except for some very fringe elements. And that's the sort of thing you have to figure out is, it's easy in theory to figure out, oh, anything goes; freedom of speech. Great, well, some forms of speech violate federal law.Chloe: Right.Corey: So, what do you do then? Where do you draw the line? And it's always nuanced and it's always tricky, and the worst people are the folks that love to rules-lawyer around these things. It gets worse than that where these are the same people that will then sit there and make bad faith arguments all the time. And lawyers have a saying that hard cases make bad law.When you have these very nuanced thing, and, “Well, we can't just do it off the cuff. We have to build a policy around this.” This is the problem with most corporate policies across the board. It's like, you don't need a policy that says you're not allowed to harass your colleagues with a stick. What you need to do is fire the jackwagon that made you think you might need a policy that said that.But at scale, that becomes a super-hard thing to do when every enforcement action appears to be bespoke. Because there are elements on the gray areas and the margins where reasonable people can disagree. And that is what sets the policy and that's where the precedent hits, and then you have these giant loopholes where people can basically be given free rein to be the worst humanity has to offer to some of the most vulnerable members of our society.Chloe: And I used to give this talk, I gave it at DockerCon one year and I gave it a couple other places, that was literally called “Diversity is not Equal to Stock Images of Hands.” And the reason I say this is if you Google image search ‘diversity' it's like all of those clip arts of, like, Rainbow hands, things that you would see at Kaiser Permanente where it's like, “We're all in this together,” like, the pandemic, it's all just hands on hands, hands as a Earth, hands as trees, hands as different colors. And people get really annoyed with people like me who are like, “Let's shut up about diversity. Let's just hire who's best for the role.” Here's the thing.My favorite example of this—RIP—is Fleets—remember Fleets? [laugh]—on Twitter, so if they had one gay man in the room for that marketing, engineering—anything—decision, one of them I know would have piped up and said, “Hey, did you know ‘fleets' is a commonly used term for douching enima in the gay community?” Now, I know that because I watch a lot of Ru Paul's Drag Race, and I have worked with the gay community quite a bit in my time in theater. But this is what I mean about making sure. My friend Becca who works in security at safety and things, as well as Andy Tuba over at Reddit, I have a lot of conversations with my friend Becca Rosenthal about this, and that, not to quote Hamilton, but if I must, “We need people in the room where it happens.”So, if you don't have these people in the room if you're a white man being like, “How will our products be abused?” Your guesses may be a little bit accurate but it was probably best to, at minimum, get some test case people in there from different genders, races, backgrounds, like, oh my goodness, get people in that room because what I tend to see is building safety tools, building even product features, or naming things, or designing things that could either be offensive, misused, whatever. So, when people have these arguments about like, “Diversity doesn't matter. We're hiring the best people.” I'm like, “Yeah, but your product's going to be better, and more inclusive, and represent the people who use it at the end of the day because not everybody is you.”And great examples of this include so many apps out there that exists that have one work location, one home location. How many people in the world have more than one job? That's such a privileged view for us, as people in tech, that we can afford to just have one job. Or divorced parents or whatever that may be, for home location, and thinking through these edge cases and thinking through ways that your product can support everyone, if anything, by making your staff or the people that you work with more diverse, you're going to be opening up your product to a much bigger marketable audience. So, I think people will look at me and be like, “Oh, Chloe's a social justice warrior, she's this feminist whatever,” but truly, I'm here saying, “You're missing out on money, dude.” It would behoove you to do this at the end of the day because your users aren't just a copy-paste of some dude in a Patagonia jacket with big headphones on. [laugh]. There are people beyond one demographic using your products and applications.Corey: A consistent drag against Clubhouse since its inception was that it's not an accessible app for a variety of reasons that were—Chloe: It's not an Android. [laugh].Corey: Well, even ignoring the platform stuff, which I get—technical reasons, et cetera, yadda, yadda, great—there is no captioning option. And a lot of their abuse stuff in the early days was horrific, where you would get notifications that a lot of people had this person blocked, but… that's not a helpful dynamic. “Did you talk to anyone? No, of course not. You Hacker News'ed it from first principles and thought this might be a good direction to go in.” This stuff is hard.People specialize in this stuff, and I've always been an advocate of when you're not sure what to do in an area, pay an expert for advice. All these stories about how people reach out to, “Their black friend”—and yes, it's a singular person in many cases—and their black friend gets very tired of doing all the unpaid emotional labor of all of this stuff. Suddenly, it's not that at all if you reach out to someone who is an expert in this and pay them for their expertise. I don't sit here complaining that my clients pay me to solve AWS billing problems. In fact, I actively encourage that behavior. Same model.There are businesses that specialize in this, they know the area, they know the risks, they know the ins and outs of this, and consults with these folks are not break the bank expensive compared to building the damn thing in the first place.Chloe: And here's a great example that literally drove me bananas a couple weeks ago. So, I don't know if you've participated in Twitter Spaces before, but I've done a couple of my first ones recently. Have you done one yet—Corey: Oh yes—Chloe: —Corey?Corey: —extensively. I love that. And again, that's a better answer for me than Clubhouse because I already have the Twitter audience. I don't have to build one from scratch on another platform.Chloe: So, I learned something really fascinating through my boyfriend. And remember, I mentioned earlier, my boyfriend is a staff engineer at Uber. He's been coding since he's been out of the womb, much more experienced than me. And I like to think a lot about, this is accessible to me but how is this accessible to a non-technical person? So, Ty finished up the Twitter Space that he did and he wanted to export the file.Now currently, as the time of this podcast is being recorded, the process to export a Twitter Spaces audio file is a nightmare. And remember, staff engineer at Uber. He had to export his entire Twitter profile, navigate through a file structure that wasn't clearly marked, find the recording out of the multiple Spaces that he had hosted—and I don't think you get these for ones that you've participated in, only ones that you've hosted—download the file, but the file was not a normal WAV file or anything; he had to download an open-source converter to play the file. And in total, it took him about an hour to just get that file for the purposes of having that recording. Now, where my mind goes to is what about some woman who runs a nonprofit in the middle of, you know, Sacramento, and she does a community Twitter Spaces about her flower shop and she wants a recording of that.What's she going to do, hire some third-party? And she wouldn't even know where to go; before I was in tech, I certainly would have just given up and been like, “Well, this is a nightmare. What do I do with this GitHub repo of information?” But these are the kinds of problems that you need to think about. And I think a lot of us and folks who listen to this show probably build APIs or developer tools, but a lot of us do work on products that muggles, non-technical people, work on.And I see these issues happen constantly. I come from this space of being an admin, being someone who wasn't quote-unquote, “A techie,” and a lot of products are just not being thought through from the perspective—like, there would be so much value gained if just one person came in and tested your product who wasn't you. So yeah, there's all of these things that I think we have a very privileged view of, as technical folks, that we don't realize are huge. Not even just barrier to entry; you should just be able to download—and maybe this is a feature that's coming down the pipeline soon, who knows, but the fact that in order for someone to get a recording of their Twitter Spaces is like a multi-hour process for a very, very senior engineer, that's the problem. I'm not really sure how we solve this.I think we just call it out when we see it and try to help different companies make change, which of course, myself and my boyfriend did. We reached out to people at Twitter, and we're like, “This is really difficult and it shouldn't be.” But I have that privilege. I know people at these companies; most people do not.Corey: And in some cases, even when you do, it doesn't move the needle as much as you might wish that it would.Chloe: If it did, I wouldn't be getting DMs anymore from creeps right? [laugh].Corey: Right. Chloe, thank you so much for coming back and talk to me about your latest project. If people want to pay attention to it and see what you're up to. Where can they go? Where can they find you? Where can they learn more? And where can they pointedly not audition to be featured on one of the episodes of Master Creep Theatre?Chloe: [laugh]. So, that's the one caveat, right? I have to kind of close submissions of my own DMs now because now people are just going to be trolling me and sending me weird stuff. You can find me on Twitter—my name—at @chloecondon, C-H-L-O-E-C-O-N-D-O-N. I am on Instagram as @getforked, G-I-T-F-O-R-K-E-D. That's a Good Placepun if you're non-technical; it is an engineering pun if you are. And yeah, I've been doing a lot of fun series with Microsoft Reactor, lots of how to get a career in tech stuff for students, building a lot of really fun AI/ML stuff on there. So, come say hi on one of my many platforms. YouTube, too. That's probably where—Master Creep Theatre is going to be, on YouTube, so definitely follow me on YouTube. And yeah.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to that in the [show notes 00:37:57]. Chloe, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. I really appreciate it, as always.Chloe: Thank you. I'll be back for episode three soon, I'm sure. [laugh].Corey: Let's not make it another couple of years until then. Chloe Condon, senior cloud advocate at Microsoft on the Next Generation Experiences Team, also chlo-host of the Master Creep Theatre podcast. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with a comment saying simply, “Hey.”Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 13th, 2021Docker, Inc., an Early EpitaphWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for September 13th, 2021.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on September 13th included Steve Tuck, Tom Lyon, Dan Cross, Josh Clulow, Ian, Nick Gerace, Aaron Goldman, Drew Vogel, and vint serp. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Topic: Scott Carey's article How Docker broke in halfMore by Carey on Docker: Docker Desktop is no longer free for enterprise users What is Docker? The spark for the container revolution Andrej Karpathy's tweet showing InfoWorld.com spamming ads Carey talked to: Solomon Hykes (Docker cofounder with Sebastien Pahl) Ben Golub (Docker CEO 2013-2017) Craig McLuckie (Kubernetes cofounder) Nick Stinemates (early employee and former VP of Business Development) [@5:21](https://youtu.be/l9LTJdT0sZ8?t=321) Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Rashomon ~90mins. Watch a 2min trailer Box office bomb “The Hottie and the Nottie” movie. Other stinkers: Gigli, Gotti [@9:31](https://youtu.be/l9LTJdT0sZ8?t=571) Jerry Kaplan's 1996 book Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure Steve's take on commercialization > Bryan: There's no question that they hit on something very big. > We saw a container as an operational vessel, but we failed to see > a container as a development vessel. [@14:36](https://youtu.be/l9LTJdT0sZ8?t=876) dotCloud (PaaS) struggles to find a buyer; ultimately open sources as last resort > All of a sudden a company that nobody had heard of, > was a company that everybody had heard of. They took too much money. [@17:40](https://youtu.be/l9LTJdT0sZ8?t=1060) Pitfalls in raising money and scaling sales by imitating big companiesHBO's Silicon Valley Clip ~1min with Jan the Man, Keith, and Doug (I'm shadowing Keith) > Everybody should be spending time arm in arm with customers understanding > how is this technology going to solve a problem > which they'll want to pay to have a solution. Tom: Was there actually a business anyways? Or was it just technology? What if developers are attracted to those things they know cannot be monetized? There was this belief that if a technology is this ubiquitous, it will be readily monetizable. [@27:26](https://youtu.be/l9LTJdT0sZ8?t=1646) Docker Swarm and Kubernetes > Hykes: We didn't work at Google, we didn't go to Stanford, > we didn't have a PhD in computer science. Stinemates: (The Kubernetes team) had strong opinions about the need for a service level API and Docker technically had its own opinion about a single API from a simplicity standpoint. We couldn't agree. DockerCon 2015: No mentioning Kubernetes! Brendan Burns' talk “The distributed system toolkit: Container patterns for modular distributed system design” was unfortunately made private by Docker sometime in the last two years. The internet archive only has this. Burns wrote a blog post about the topics from his talk. rkt (“Rocket”), CoreOS [@36:11](https://youtu.be/l9LTJdT0sZ8?t=2171) Docker coming to market Enterprise teams wanted support Initial support offerings were expensive and limited (no after hours, no weekends) > Bryan: I floated to Solomon in 2014: run container management as a service. Rancher Labs, K3s (lightweight kubernetes) People care about GitHub stars (for better or worse) [@48:02](https://youtu.be/l9LTJdT0sZ8?t=2882) Monetizing open source technologies Triton implementing the Docker API The support relationships are the foothold to figure out the product. [@54:36](https://youtu.be/l9LTJdT0sZ8?t=3276) Venture capital going into DockerDocker acquires Tutum Product market fitAcquisitions [@1:04:42](https://youtu.be/l9LTJdT0sZ8?t=3882) Could the outcome have been materially different? Who made money on Docker? Cloud companies? Developers? VMware acquires Heptio Who invented containers? BSD Jails, Plan9 namespaces? Tyler Tringas' post about how small teams can create value with little outside investment, as a result of the Peace Dividend of the SaaS Wars. If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
Understanding the secret behind the turbo button on his first 486 PC motivated our guest to study computer science. That decision started a journey making him constantly learn new technology ranging from coding languages, operational tasks as well as a focusing on improving developer experiences and boosting developer productivityListen in and hear from Michael Friedrich (@dnsmichi), The Ops in Dev Evangelist at GitLab, on why it is important to enable developers to design and develop code that makes it easier for DevOps and SREs to operate and automate. “The biggest challenge is code that breaks production but where there is no clear evidence for DevOps & SREs about the root cause”Make sure to join Michael's #EveryCanContribute and follow his advocacy such as DockerCon 2021 on From Infrastructure as Code to Cloud Native Deployments in 5 MinutesLinks from show:Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dnsmichi/Twitterhttps://twitter.com/dnsmichiEveryone Can Contributehttps://everyonecancontribute.com/From Infrastructure as Code to Cloud Native Deployments in 5 Minhttps://docker.events.cube365.net/dockercon-live/2021/content/Videos/emEjNyA4WmBSv8BW2
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2021-06-01 Weekly News - Episode 106Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/jmA7-rHjomk Hosts: Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsEric Peterson - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box out there. A few ways to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions: Like and subscribe to our videos on youtube. Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus's new Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 36 patreons providing 84% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help News and EventsLucee 5.3.8.179-RC4 (Final Release Candidate) ReleasedThis will be the Final RC before STABLE, available via your admin or via https://download.lucee.org/There are some improvements for MS SQL users since RC3. There is currently a problem with MS SQL extensions not being available for download, including 7.22, apologies, this will be fixed tomorrow.https://dev.lucee.org/t/lucee-5-3-8-179-rc4-final-release-candidate/8400 Adobe leaking Dev Week Sessions on TwitterAdobe has not added sessions to the Dev Week site yet, but Adobe is tweeting promos with the Session Name, Speaker, date and time on Twitter.https://twitter.com/coldfusionOnline CF Meetup - Getting Started with FusionReactor, with Brad WoodThursday Jun 3rd at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4.New to FusionReactor? Perhaps you have a license but aren't sure how to tap into the features? We'll cover the basics of using FR to profile code, view your running and recent requests, and how to tell what is making a request slow. We'll cover tracking JDBC requests, HTTPS calls, and using the Profiler feature. There are many more features in FR, but we'll cover enough to get you started.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/278404050/ Ortus Webinar for June - Eric Peterson - Topic - Build a Blog in 30 minutes with QuickWebinars Page: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars Registration: coming soonICYMI TestBox v4.3 Released!We are excited to announce a new minor version release of TestBox version 4.3.x. To install just use CommandBox: install testbox --saveDev or to update your TestBox installation update testbox.This update includes several cool new features and improvements that will delight your testing life! For example, we have integrated your favorite code editors to the simple reporter so you can now open the line of code that failed your test or created and exception!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/testbox-v43-released Reminder - State of the CF Union SurveyHelp us find out the state of the CF Union – what versions of CFML Engine do people use, what frameworks, tools etc. We will share the summary results with everyone who completes the survey so that you can see how you compare with other CF developers.Spread the news so we can get as many responses as possible.https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2021-survey CFCasts Content Updateshttp://www.cfcasts.com New features alert
2021-05-25 Weekly News - Episode 105Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/cwD6BFdhR0M Hosts: Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsBrad Wood - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box out there. A few ways to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions: Like and subscribe to our videos on youtube. Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week Buy Ortus’s new Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips) Patreon SupportWe have 36 patreons providing 83% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help News and EventsTestBox v4.3 Released!We are excited to announce a new minor version release of TestBox version 4.3.x. To install just use CommandBox: install testbox --saveDev or to update your TestBox installation update testbox.This update includes several cool new features and improvements that will delight your testing life! For example, we have integrated your favorite code editors to the simple reporter so you can now open the line of code that failed your test or created and exception!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/testbox-v43-released Java 16 is out - It doesn’t play nice with ColdFusion (ACF and LUCEE)PSA: Java 16 is out, but DO NOT try to run it as it has broken both Lucee Server and Adobe ColdFusionhttps://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-3526 https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/CF-4211844 Oracle has started making good on their deprecation threats regarding illegal reflective access. #CFML #ColdFusionhttps://twitter.com/bdw429s/status/1395432704846536711 Online CF Meetup - Getting Started with FusionReactor, with Brad WoodThursday Jun 3rd at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4.New to FusionReactor? Perhaps you have a license but aren't sure how to tap into the features? We'll cover the basics of using FR to profile code, view your running and recent requests, and how to tell what is making a request slow. We'll cover tracking JDBC requests, HTTPS calls, and using the Profiler feature. There are many more features in FR, but we'll cover enough to get you started.https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/278404050/ ICYMI - Adobe Webinar Series - API Creation and ManagementNext Webinar: 5/24/21ColdFusion Developers, do you want a first hand look at publishing APIs securely and at scale? Then mark your calendars for Brian Sappey’s upcoming webinars! This seven-part series will give you a 360 degree view of the API Manager and teach you how to build RESTful APIs with Adobe ColdFusion. Everything from securing, publishing and monitoring APIs, will be covered with hands-on examples, and easy discussions.Dates: 3/24/21, 3/25/21, 4/28/21, 4/29/31, 5/12/21, 5/13/21, 5/24/21Information: https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/03/webinar-series-api-creation-management/ Recordings: https://t.co/ZQc637BSkv (2 videos posted)ICYMI - Ortus Webinar for May - What's new in CommandBox 5.3 with Brad WoodFriday, May 21st at 11:00 AM CTCome learn with Brad Wood about all the new features and tricks in the newest CommandBox releases, including versions 5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0.Recording: https://cfcasts.com/series/webinars-2021/videos/brad-wood-on-what's-new-with-commandbox-5.3 Webinar Page: https://www.ortussolutions.com/events/webinars CFCasts Content Updateshttp://www.cfcasts.com New features alert
2021-05-18 Weekly News - Episode 104Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtu.be/XADBSOM1CGs Hosts: Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus SolutionsLuis Majano - Owner of Ortus SolutionsThanks to our Sponsor - Ortus SolutionsThe makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and almost every other Box out there. A few ways to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:- Like and subscribe to our videos on youtube. - Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content every week- Buy Ortus’s new Book - 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)Patreon SupportWe have 37 patreons providing 84% of the funding for our Modernize or Die Podcasts via our Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions. If you love our podcasts and all we do for the #coldfusion #cfml community considers chipping in, we are almost there!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/we-need-your-help News and EventsCommandBox 5.3.1 ReleasedThe sql command is brand new in 5.3.1 as well thanks to Scott and Brad. cat myfile.json | sql select=id,name where="name like '%sql%'" orderby=name limit=3You can pipe in any JSON representation of data and filter it on the fly with QoQWhich pairs nicely with the table printer and this new import/export module that supports different file formatshttps://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/commandbox-531-releaseFusionReactor 8.7.1 ReleasedFusionReactor 8.7.1 was released on May 12th. Included are improvements to both the support chat and Redisson async tracking, as well as various bug fixes.https://www.fusion-reactor.com/download-fusionreactor/ ColdBox Validation 3.1 ReleasedcbValidation v3.1 was released on May 17th. Included 6 new validators, 3 new mixins and a new functional approach to validation.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbvalidation-v310-releasedState of the CF Union SurveyHelp us find out the state of the CF Union – what versions of CFML Engine do people use, what frameworks, tools etc. We will share the summary results with everyone who completes the survey so that you can see how you compare with other CF developers.Spread the news so we can get as many responses as possible.https://teratech.com/state-of-the-cf-union-2021-survey ICYMI - Bintray decommissioning - Adobe Docker image updateOn May 1, 2021, all Bintray services will be deprecated, and your accounts will be disabled. For more information, see the official Bintray blog. This means that the ColdFusion, Performance Monitoring Toolset, and API Manager containers for the versions 2016/2018/2021 will no longer be accessible. This may lead to interruption in your automation scripts and other CI/CD pipelines.We have moved all the containers to ColdFusion downloads. You’ll load the tar file in Docker and then run ColdFusion or the other tools.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/04/bintray-decommissioning/ICYMI - FusionReactor Webinar - Reach for the Clouds with FusionReactorMay 12, 2021 05:00 PM in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna8am PST, 10am CSTFusionReactor APM has been available as a cloud-based or SaaS solution for a few years now. This webinar will reveal what additional capabilities and benefits this platform has to offer (on top of everything which FusionReactor on-premise provides). We will also answer questions about licensing, data retention and technical aspects of expanding to the cloud.Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6CYkY6TzM Adobe Webinar Series - API Creation and Management - One leftNext Webinar: 5/24/21ColdFusion Developers, do you want a first hand look at publishing APIs securely and at scale? Then mark your calendars for Brian Sappey’s upcoming webinars! This seven-part series will give you a 360 degree view of the API Manager and teach you how to build RESTful APIs with Adobe ColdFusion. 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This year, we’ve lined up a series of sessions and webinars that will give you a 360-degree view of ColdFusion 2021’s brand new features and updates. Right from developing cloud-native applications to reducing downtime, these webinars will let you in on the best tips to deploy applications rapidly and seamlessly.This is your chance to meet coders from across the globe and exchange ideas with some of the best minds in the industry. And that’s not all! Your presence at the conference will earn you points that can help you win exciting prizes and vouchers. Our scoreboard will keep track of active participation!Whether you’re a new developer, someone with little or no experience with Adobe ColdFusion, or even if you have been using it all your life, Adobe ColdFusion Developers Week 2021 is where you need to be. 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Today, I learned about using interval to easily select a range of time.While reviewing data from a logging table, I needed to select records from the past 30 days. On a whim, I decided to see if PostgreSQL provided any clever ways to do this. My searches lead me to learn about a new data type: interval.1 Here’s a link to the docs, as well as the post I stumbled upon that demonstrated how to write this type of query. Let’s take a closer look.https://blog.mattclemente.com/2021/05/18/postgresql-select-date-range.html Blog - Luis Majano - Ortus Solutions - cbValidation v3.1.0 ReleasedI am so excited to bring you the release of cbValidation to version 3.1.0. This has been a great collaboration between Wil De Bruin and Eric Peterson. Thanks so much guys for all that you do for open source. You can see all of the release notes below with some of the major improvements of this release. To get this release make sure you are already on version 3.x and use CommandBox: box update cbvalidation. You can find the release notes here: https://coldbox-validation.ortusbooks.com/intro/release-history/whats-new-with-3.1.0 and you can view all the new documentation here: https://coldbox-validation.ortusbooks.com. Enjoy!https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/cbvalidation-v310-released Blog - Zac Spitzer - Debugging Trick with Echo()@micstriit showed me a nice debugging trick with echo()https://dev.lucee.org/t/nice-echo-trick-working-with-try-catch/8338 Blog - Adam Cameron - CFWheels: running TestBox instead of RocketUnitCFWheels ships with its own inbuilt (albeit third-party) testing framework. I discuss its merits in an earlier article: "Testing: A Horror Story". You can probably work out my opinion of the inbuilt testing framework - RocketUnit - from the title. That's really all you need to know to contextualise why I am now going to get TestBox working in a CFWheels context. One would expect that this would simply be a matter of installing TestBox and then using the CFWheels API to call methods on its classes to… um… use it. Not so fast there chief.https://blog.adamcameron.me/2021/05/cfwheels-running-testbox-instead-of.html Blog - Ben Nadel - GetBaseTagData() Works Differently In Adobe ColdFusion 2018 And Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47For a few weeks now, I've been slowly rolling out my ColdFusion custom tag DSL for HTML emails at InVision. And, it's been great! So, yesterday, I decided to start using it on my blog for the comment emails. However, InVision runs on Lucee CFML and my blog runs on Adobe ColdFusion 2018; and, it turns out that the getBaseTagData() function - which is a critical part of my DSL architecture - works completely different in the two ColdFusion runtimes.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4050-getbasetagdata-works-differently-in-adobe-coldfusion-2018-and-lucee-cfml-5-3-7-47.htm Blog - Ben Nadel - Using The Elvis / Null Coalescing Operator To Loop Past Array Boundaries In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47The Elvis / null coalescing operator (?:) in Lucee CFML allows us to evaluate expressions that have fallback values if the left operand results in a null / undefined value. It's a powerful operator; and, can even replace the safe-navigation operator under certain circumstances. One place that I've been using it lately is when looping over an Array wherein I need to "cycle back" to the opposite end of the array upon hitting a boundary condition. I feel like it expresses the intent of the code quite cleanly. As such, I wanted to make a quick demo in Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4049-using-the-elvis-null-coalescing-operator-to-loop-past-array-boundaries-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-7-47.htm Blog - Ben Nadel - Pro Tip: Using The say Voice Synthesis Command After A Long-Running TaskThis is a pro-tip that I picked up from Aaron Lerch - using the say voice synthesis command after a long-running command-line task. Often times, at work, I'll have to run some sort of compilation process that can take anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes. And, in order to maximize my productivity, I'll use this compilation "down time" to perform other duties. However, so as to not let myself go down a rabbit hole, I'll append the say command so that I am alerted to the completion of the compilation.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4048-pro-tip-using-the-say-voice-synthesis-command-after-a-long-running-task.htm Blog - Brad Wood - Ortus Solutions - Have you taken the State of the CF Union 2021 survey?Our friends at TeraTech help put together a comprehensive survey of the entire CFML community to get a feel for how it's evolving, what new technologies are getting picked up, and what the current pain points are. We use this data at Ortus to help us decide what CF engines to support and how to help the community.https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/have-you-taken-the-state-of-the-cf-union-2021-survey Guide - Lucee - Installing and running Lucee with CommandBox on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server and Apache2A step by step guide about installing and running Lucee with CommandBox behind Apache2 with AJP. 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About Julian WoodJulian Wood is a Senior Developer Advocate for the AWS Serverless Team. He loves helping developers and builders learn about, and love, how serverless technologies can transform the way they build and run applications at any scale. Julian was an infrastructure architect and manager in global enterprises and start-ups for more than 25 years before going all-in on serverless at AWS.Twitter: @julian_woodAll things Serverless @ AWS: ServerlessLandServerless Patterns CollectionServerless Office Hours – every Tuesday 10am PTLambda ExtensionsLambda Container ImagesWatch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jtNLt3Y51-gThis episode sponsored by CBT Nuggets and Lumigo.TranscriptJeremy: Hi everyone, I'm Jeremy Daly and this is Serverless Chats. Today I'm joined by Julian Wood. Hey Julian, thanks for joining me.Julian: Hey Jeremy, thank you so much for inviting me.Jeremy: Well, I am super excited to have you here. I have been following your work for a very long time and of course, big fan of AWS. So you are a Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS, and I'd love it if you could just tell the listeners a little bit about your background, so they get to know you a bit. And then also, sort of what your role is at AWS.Julian: Yeah, certainly. Well, I'm Julian Wood. I am based in London, but yeah, please don't let my accent fool you. I'm actually originally from South Africa, so the language purists aren't scratching their heads anymore. But yeah, I work within the Serverless Team at AWS, and hopefully do a number of things. First of all, explain what we're up to and how our sort of serverless things work and sort of, I like to sometimes say a bit cheekily, basically help the world fall in love with serverless as I have. And then also from the other side is to be a proxy and sort of be the voice of builders, and developers and whoever's building service applications, and be their voices internally. So you can also keep us on our toes to help build the things that will brighten your days.And just before, I've worked for too many years probably, as an infrastructure racker, stacker, architect, and manager. I've worked in global enterprises babysitting their Windows and Linux servers, and running virtualization, and doing all the operations kind of stuff to support that. But, I was always thinking there's a better way to do this and we weren't doing the best for the developers and internal customers. And so when this, you know in inverted commas, "serverless way" of things started to appear, I just knew that this was going to be the future. And I could happily leave the server side to much better and cleverer people than me. So by some weird, auspicious alignment of the stars, a while later, I managed to get my current dream job talking about serverless and talking to you.Jeremy: Yeah. Well, I tell you, I think a lot of serverless people or people who love serverless are recovering ops and infrastructure people that were doing racking and stacking. Because I too am also recovering from that and I still have nightmares.I thought that it was interesting too, how you mentioned though, developer advocacy. It's funny, you work for a specific company, AWS obviously, but even developer advocacy in general, who is that for? Who are you advocating for? Are you advocating for the developers to use the service from the company? Are you advocating for the developers so that the company can provide the services that they actually need? Interesting balance there.Julian: Yeah, it's true. I mean, the honest answer is we don't have great terms for this kind of role, but yeah, I think primarily we are advocating for the people who are developing the applications and on the outside. And to advocate for them means we've got to build the right stuff for them and get their voices internally. And there are many ways of doing that. Some people raise support requests and other kind of things, but I mean, sometimes some of our great ideas come from trolling Twitter, or yes, I know even Hacker News or that kind of thing. But also, we may get responses from 10 different people about something and that will formulate something in our brain and we'll chat with other kind of people. And that sort of starts a thing. It's not just necessarily each time, some good idea in Twitter comes in, it gets mashed into some big surface database that we all pick off.But part of our job is to be out there and try and think and be developers in whatever backgrounds we come from. And I mean, I'm not a pure software developer where I've come from, and I come, I suppose, from infrastructure, but maybe you'd call that a bit of systems engineering. So yeah, I try and bring that background to try and give input on whatever we do, hopefully, the right stuff.Jeremy: Right. Yeah. And then I think part of the job too, is just getting the information out there and getting the examples out there. And trying to create those best practices or at least surface those best practices, and encourage the community to do a lot of that work and to follow that. And you've done a lot of work with that, obviously, writing for the AWS blog. I know you have a series on the Serverless Lens and the Well-Architected Framework, and we can talk about that in a little while. But I really want to talk to you about, I guess, just the expansion of serverless over the last couple of years.I mean, it was very narrowly focused, probably, when it first came out. Lambda was ... FaaS as a whole new concept for a lot of people. And then as this progressed and we've gotten more APIs, and more services and things that it can integrate with, it just becomes complex and complicated. And that's a good thing, but also maybe a bad thing. But one of the things that AWS has done, and I think this is clearly in reaction to the developers needing it, is the ability to extend what you can do with a Lambda function, right? I mean, the idea of just putting your code in there and then, boom, that's it, that's all you have to do. That's great. But what if you do need access to lifecycle hooks? Or what if you do want to manipulate the underlying runtime or something like that? And AWS, I think has done a great job with that.So maybe we can start there. So just about the extensibility of Lambda in general. And one of the new things that was launched recently was, and recently, I don't know what was it? Seven months ago at this point? I'm not even sure. But was launched fairly recently, let's say that, is Lambda Extensions, and a couple of different flavors of that as well. Could you kind of just give the users an over, the users, wow, the listeners an overview of what Lambda Extensions are?Julian: I could hear the ops background coming in, talking about our users. Yeah. But I mean, from the get-go, serverless was always a terrible term because, why on earth would you name something for what it isn't? I mean, you know? I remember talking to DBAs, talking about noSQL, and they go, "Well, if it's not SQL, then what is it?" So we're terrible at that, serverless as well. And yeah, Lambda was very constrained when it came out. Lambda was never built being a serverless thing, that's what was the outcome. Sometimes we focus too much on the tools rather than the outcome. And the story is S3, just turning 15. And the genesis of Lambda was being an event trigger for S3, and people thought you'd upload something to S3, fire off a Lambda function, how cool is that? And then obviously the clever clubs at the time were like, "Well, hang on, let's not just do this for S3, let's do this for a whole bunch of kind of things."So Lambda was born out of that, as that got that great history, which is created an arc sort of into the present and into the future, which I know we're also going to get on about, the power of event driven applications. But the power of Lambda has always been its simplicity, and removing that operational burden, and that heavy lifting. But, sometimes that line is a bit of a gray area and there're people who can be purists about serverless and can be purists about FaaS and say, "Everything needs to be ephemeral. Lambda functions can't extend to anything else. There shouldn't be any state, shouldn't be any storage, shouldn't be any ..." All this kind of thing.And I think both of us can agree, but I don't want to speak for you, but I think both of us would agree that in some sense, yeah, that's fine. But we live in the real world and there's other stuff that needs to connect to and we're not here about building purist kind of stuff. So Lambda Extensions is a new way basically to integrate Lambda with your favorite tools. And that's the sort of headline thing we like to talk about. And the big idea is to open up Lambda to more effectively work mainly with partners, but also your own tools if you want to write them. And to sort of have deeper hooks into the Lambda lifecycle.And other partners are awesome and they do a whole bunch of stuff for serverless, plus customers also have connections to on-prem staff, or EC2 staff, or containers, or all kind of things. How can we make the tools more seamless in a way? How can we have a common set of tools maybe that you even use on-prem or in the cloud or containers or whatever? Why does Lambda have to be unique or different or that kind of thing? And Extensions is sort of one of the starts of that, is to be able to use these kind of tools and get more out of Lambda. So I mean, just the kind of tools that we've already got on board, there's things like Splunk and AppDynamics. And Lumigo, Epsagon, HashiCorp, Honeycomb, CoreLogic, Dynatrace, I can't think. Thundra and Sumo Logic, Check Point. Yeah, I'm sorry. Sorry for any partners who I've forgotten a few.Jeremy: No, right, no. That's very good. Shout them out, shout them out. No, I mean just, and not to interrupt you here, but ...Julian: No, please.Jeremy: ... I think that's great. I mean, I think that's one of the things that I like about the way that AWS deals with partners, is that ... I mean, I think AWS knows they can't solve all these problems on their own. I mean, maybe they could, right? But they would be their own way of solving the problems and there's other people who are solving these problems differently and giving you the ability to extend your Lambda functions into those partners is, there's a huge win for not only the partners because it creates that ecosystem for them, but also for AWS because it makes the product itself more valuable.Julian: Well, never mind the big win for customers because ultimately they're the one who then gets a common deployment tool, or a common observability tool, or a HashiCorp Vault that you can manage secrets and a Lambda function from HashiCorp Vault. I mean, that's super cool. I mean, also AWS services are picking this up because that's easy for them to do stuff. So if anybody's used Lambda Insights or even seen Lambda Insights in the console, it's somewhere in the monitoring thing, and you just click something over and you get this tool which can pull stuff that you can't normally get from a Lambda function. So things like CPU time and network throughput, which you couldn't normally get. But actually, under the hoods, Lambda Insights is using Lambda extensions. And you can see that if you look. It automatically adds the Lambda layer and job done.So anyway, this is how a lot of the tools work, that a layer is just added to a Lambda function and off you go, the tool can do its work. So also there's a very much a simplicity angle on this, that in a lot of cases you don't have to do anything. You configure some of the extensions via environment variables, if that's cooled you may just have an API key or a log retention value or something like that, I don't know, any kind of example of that. But you just configure that as a normal Lambda environment variable at this partner extension, which is just a Lambda layer, and off you go. Super simple.Jeremy: Right. So explain Extensions exactly, because I think that's one of those things because now we have Lambda layers and we have Lambda Extensions. And there's also like the runtime API and then something else. I mean, even I'm not 100% sure what all of the naming conventions. I'm pretty sure I know what they do ...Julian: Yeah, fair enough.Jeremy: ... but maybe we could say the names and say exactly what they do as well.Julian: Yeah, cool. You get an API, I get an API, everybody gets an API. So Lambda layers, let's just start, because that's, although it's not related to Extensions, it's how Extensions are delivered to the power core functions. And Lambda layers is just another way to add code to a Lambda function or not even code, it can be a dependency. It's just a way that you could, and it's cool because they are shareable. So you have some dependencies, or you have a library, or an SDK, or some training data for something, a Lambda layer just allows you to add some bits and bobs to your Lambda function. That's a horrible explanation. There's another word I was thinking of, because I don't want to use the word code, because it's not necessarily code, but it's dependency, whatever. It's just another way of adding something. I'll wake up in a cold sweat tonight thinking of the word I was thinking of, but anyway.But Lambda Extensions introduces a whole new companion API. So the runtime API is the little bit of code that allows your function to talk to the Lambda service. So when an event comes in, this is from the outside. This could be via API gateway or via the Lambda API, or where else, EventBridge or Step Functions or wherever. When you then transports that data rise in the Lambda services and HTTP call, and Lambda transposes that into an event and sends that onto the Lambda function. And it's that API that manages that. And just as a sidebar, what I find it cool on a sort of geeky, technical thing is, that actually API sits within the execution environment. People are like, "Oh, that's weird. Why would your Lambda API sit within the execution environment basically within the bubble that contains your function rather than it on the Lambda service?"And the cool answer for that is it's actually for a security mechanism. Like your function can then only ever talk to the Lambda runtime API, which is in that secure execution environment. And so our security can be a lot stronger because we know that no function code can ever talk directly out of your function into the Lambda service, it's all got to talk locally. And then the Lambda service gets that response from the runtime API and sends it back to the caller or whatever. Anyway, sidebar, thought that was nerdy and interesting. So what we've now done is we've released a new Extensions API. So the Extensions API is another API that an extension can use to get information from Lambda. And they're two different types of extensions, just briefly, internal and external extensions.Now, internal extensions run within the runtime process so that it's just basically another thread. So you can use this for Python or Java or something and say, when the Python runtime starts, let's start it with another parameter and also run this Java file that may do some observability, or logging, or tracing, or finding out how long the modules take to launch, for example. I know there's an example for Python. So that's one way of doing extensions. So it's internal extensions, they're two different flavors, but I'll send you a link. I'll provide a link to the blog posts before we go too far down the rabbit hole on that.And then the other part of extensions are external extensions. And this is a cool part because they actually run as completely separate processes, but still within that secure bubble, that secure execution environment that Lambda runs it. And this gives you some superpowers if you want. Because first of all, an extension can run in any language because it's a separate process. So if you've got a Node function, you could run an extension in other kind of languages. Now, what do we do recommend is you do run your extension in a compiled binary, just because you've got to provide the runtime that the extensions got to run in any way, so as a compiled binary, it's super easy and super useful. So is something like Go, a lot of people are doing because you write a single extension and Go, and then you can use it on your Node functions, your Java functions, your PowerShell functions, whatever. So that's a really good, simple way that you can have the portability.But now, what can these extensions do? Well, the extensions basically register with extensions API, and then they say to Lambda, "Lambda, I want to know about what happens when my functions invoke?" So the extension can start up, maybe it's got some initialization code, maybe it needs to connect to a database, or log into an observability platform, or pull down a secret order. That it can do, it's got its own init that can happen. And then it's basically ready to go before the function invokes. And then when the extension then registers and says, "I want to know when the function invokes and when it shuts down. Cool." And that's just something that registers with the API. Then what happens is, when a functioning invoke comes in, it tells the runtime API, "Hello, you now have an event," sends it off to the Lambda function, which the runtime manages, but also extension or extensions, multiple ones, hears information about that event. And so it can tell you the time it's going to run and has some metadata about that event. So it doesn't have the actual event data itself, but it's like the sort of Lambda context, a version of that that it's going to send to the extension.So the extension can use that to do various things. It can start collecting telemetry data. It can alter instrument some of your code. It could be managing a secret as a separate process that it is going to cache in the background. For example, we've got one with AppConfig, which is really cool. AppConfig is a service where you manage parameters external to your Lambda function. Well, each time your Lambda function warm invokes if you've got to do an external API call to retrieve that, well, it's going to be a little bit efficient. First of all, you're going to pay for it and it's going to take some time.So how about when the Lambda function runs and the extension could run before the Lambda function, why don't we just cache that locally? And then when your Lambda function runs, it just makes a local HTTP call to the extension to retrieve that value, which is going to be super quick. And some extensions are super clever because they're their own process. They will go, "Well, my value is for 30 minutes and every 30 minutes if I haven't been run, I will then update the value from that." So that's useful. Extensions can then also, when the runtime ... Sorry, let me back up.When the runtime is finished, it sends its response back to the runtime API, and extensions when they're done doing, so the runtime can send it back and the extension can carry on processing saying, "Oh, I've got the information about this. I know that this Lambda function has done X, Y, Z, so let me do, do some telemetry. Let me maybe, if I'm writing logs, I could write a log to S3 or to Kinesis or whatever. Do some kind of thing after the actual function invocation has happened." And then when it says it's ready, it says, "Hello, extensions API, I'm telling you I'm done." And then it's gone. And then Lambda freezes the execution environment, including the runtime and the extensions until another invocation happens. And the cycle then will happen.And then the last little bit that happens is, instead of an invoke coming in, we've extended the Lambda life cycles, so when the environment is going to be shut down, the extension can receive the shutdown and actually do some stuff and say, "Okay, well, I was connected to my observer HTTP platform, so let me close that connection. I've got some extra logs to flush out. I've got whatever else I need to do," and just be able to cleanly shut down that extra process that is running in parallel to the Lambda function.Jeremy: All right.Julian: So that was a lot of words.Jeremy: That was a lot and I bet you that would be great conversation for a dinner party. Really kicks things up. Now, the good news is that, first of all, thank you for that though. I mean, that's super technical and super in-depth. And for anyone listening who ...Julian: You did ask, I did warn you.Jeremy ... kind of lost their way ... Yes, but something that is really important to remember is that you likely don't have to write these yourself, right? There is all those companies you mentioned earlier, all those partners, they've already done this work. They've already figured this out and they're providing you access to their tools via this, that allows you to build things.Julian: Exactly.Jeremy: So if you want to build an extension and you want to integrate your product with Lambda or so forth, then maybe go back and listen to this at half speed. But for those of you who just want to take advantage of it because of the great functionality, a lot of these companies have already done that for you.Julian: Correct. And that's the sort of easiness thing, of just adding the Lambda layer or including in a container image. And yeah, you don't have to worry any about that, but behind the scenes, there's some really cool functionality that we're literally opening up our Lambda operates and allowing you to impact when a function responds.Jeremy: All right. All right. So let me ask another, maybe an overly technical question. I have heard, and I haven't experienced this, but that when it runs the life cycle that ends the Lambda function, I've heard something like it doesn't send the information right away, right? You have to wait for that Lambda to expire or something like that?Julian: Well, yes, for now, about to change. So currently Extensions is actually in preview. And that's not because it's in Beta or anything like that, but it's because we spoke to the partners and we didn't want to dump Extensions on the world. And all the partners had to come out with their extensions on day one and then try and figure out how customers are going to use them and everything. So what we really did, which I think in this case works out really well, is we worked with the partners and said, "Well, let's release this in preview mode and then give everybody a whole bunch of months to work out what's the best use cases, how can we best use this?" And some partners have said, "Oh, amazing. We're ready to go." And some partners have said, "Ah, it wasn't quite what we thought. Maybe we're going to wait a bit, or we're going to do something differently, or we've got some cool ideas, just give us time." And so that's what this time has been.The one other thing that has happened is we've actually added some performance enhancements during it. So yes, currently during the preview, the runtime and all extensions need to finish before we give you your response back to your Lambda function. So if you're in an asynchronous mode, you don't really care, but obviously if you're in a synchronous mode behind an API, yeah, you don't really want that. But when Extensions goes GA, which isn't going to be long, then that is no longer the case. So basically what'll happen is the runtime will respond and the result goes directly back to whoever's calling that, maybe API gateway, and the extensions can carry on, partly asynchronously in the background.Jeremy: Yep. Awesome. All right. And I know that the plan is to go GA soon. I'm not sure when around when this episode comes out, that that will be, but soon, so that's good to know that that is ...Julian: And in fact, when we go GA that performance enhancement is part of the GA. So when it goes GA, then you know, it's not something else you need to wait for.Jeremy: Perfect. Okay. All right. So let's move on to another bit of, I don't know if this is extensibility of the actual product itself or more so I think extensibility of maybe the workflow that you use to deploy to Lambda and deploy your serverless applications, and that's container image support. I mean, we've discussed it a lot. I think people kind of have an idea, but just give me your quick overview of what that is to set some context here.Julian: Yeah, sure. Well, container image support in a simple sort of headline thing is to be able to build and package your functions as a container image. So you basically build a function using a Docker file. So before if you use a zip function, but a lot of people use Serverless Framework or SAM, or whatever, that's all abstracted away from you, but it's actually creating a zip file and uploading it to Lambda or S3. So with container image support, you use a Docker file to build your Lambda function. That's the headline of what's happening.Jeremy: Right. And so the idea of creating, and this is also, and again, you mentioned packaging, right? I mean, that is the big thing here. This is a packaging format. You're not actually running the container in a Lambda function.Julian: Correct. Yeah, let's maybe think, because I mean, "containers," in inverted commas again for people who are on the audio, is ...Jeremy: What does it even mean?Julian: Yeah, exactly. And can be quite an overload of terms and definitely causes some confusion. And I sort of think maybe there's sort of four things that are in the container world. One, containers is an isolation mechanism. So on Linux, this is UNC Group, seccomp, other bits and pieces that can be used to isolate processes or maybe groups of processes. And then a second one, containers as the packaging mechanism. This is what Docker really popularized and this is about taking some code and the dependencies needed to run the code, and then packaging them all out together, maybe with some metadata to describe it.And then, three is containers as also a design philosophy. This is the idea, if we can package and isolate software, it's easier to run. Maybe smaller pieces of software is easy to reason about and manage independently. So I don't want to necessarily use microservices, but there's some component of that with it. And the emphasis here is on software rather than services, and standardized tooling to simplify your ops. And then the fourth thing is containers as an ecosystem. This is where all the products, tools, know how, all the actual things to how to do containers. And I mean, these are certain useful, but I wouldn't say there're anything about the other kind of things.What is cool and worth appreciating is how maybe independent these things are. So when I spoke about containers as isolation, well, we could actually replace containers as isolation with micro VMs such as we do with Firecracker, and there's no real change in the operational properties. So one, if we think, what are we doing with containers and why? One of those is in a way ticked off with Lambda. Lambda does have secure isolation. And containers as a packaging format. I mean, you could replace it with static linking, then maybe won't really be a change, but there's less convenience. And the design philosophy, that could really be applicable if we're talking microservices, you can have instances and certainly functions, but containers are all the same kind of thing.So if we talk about the packaging of Lambda functions, it's really for people who are more familiar with containers, why does Lambda have to be different? You've got, why does Lambda to have to be a snowflake in a way that you have to manage differently? And if you are packaging dependencies, and you're doing npm or pip install, and you're used to building Docker files, well, why can't we just do that for Lambda at the same things? And we've got some other things that come with that, larger function sizes, up to 10 gig, which is enabled with some of this technology. So it's a packaging format, but on the backend, there's a whole bunch of different stuff, which has to be done to to allow this. Benefits are, use your tooling. You've got your CI/CD pipelines already for containers, well, you can use that.Jeremy: Yeah, yeah. And I actually like that idea too. And when I first heard of it, I was like, I have nothing against containers, the containers are great. But when I was thinking about it, I'm like, "Wait container? No, what's happening here? We're losing something." But I will say, like when Lambda layers came out, which was I think maybe 2019 or something like that, maybe 2018, the idea of it made a lot of sense, being able to kind of supplement, add additional dependencies or code or whatever. But it always just seemed awkward. And some of the publishing for it was a little bit awkward. The versioning used like a numbered versioning instead of like semantic versioning and things like that. And then you had to share it to multiple places and if you published it as a SAR app, then you got global distri ... Anyways, it was a little bit hard to use.And so when you're trying to package large dependencies and put those in a layer and then combine them with a Lambda function, the other problem you had was you still had a maximum size that you could use for those, when those were combined. So I like this idea of saying like, "Look, I'd like to just kind of create this little isolate," like you said, "put my dependencies in there." Whether that's PyCharm or some other thing that is a big dependency that maybe I don't want to install, directly in a Lambda layer, or I don't want to do directly in my Lambda function. But you do that together and then that whole process just is a lot easier. And then you can actually run those containers, you could run those locally and test those if you wanted to.Julian: Correct. So that's also one of the sort of superpowers of this. And that's when I was talking about, just being able to package them up. Well, that now enables a whole bunch of extra kind of stuff. So yes, first of all is you can then use those container images that you've created as your local testing. And I know, it's silly for anyone to poo poo local testing. And we do like to say, "Well, bring your testing to the cloud rather than bringing the cloud to your testing." But testing locally for unit tests is super great. It's going to be super fast. You can iterate, have your Lambda functions, but we don't want to be mocking all of DynamoDB, all of building harebrained S3 options locally.But the cool thing is you've got the same Docker file that you're going to run in Lambda can be the same Docker file to build your function that you run locally. And it is literally exactly the same Lambda function that's going to run. And yes, that may be locally, but, with a bit of a stretch of kind of stuff, you could also run those Lambda functions elsewhere. So even if you need to run it on EC2 instances or ECS or Fargate or some kind of thing, this gives you a lot more opportunities to be able to use the same Lambda function, maybe in different way, shapes or forms, even if is on-prem. Now, obviously you can't recreate all of Lambda because that's connected to IM and it's got huge availability, and scalability, and latency and all that kind of things, but you can actually run a Lambda function in a lot more places.Jeremy: Yeah. Which is interesting. And then the other thing I had mentioned earlier was the size. So now the size of these container or these packages can be much, much bigger.Julian: Yeah, up to 10 gig. So the serverless purists in the back are shouting, "What about cold starts? What about cold starts?"Jeremy: That was my next question, yes.Julian: Yeah. I mean, back on zip functional archives are also all available, nothing changes with that Lambda layers, many people use and love, that's all available. This isn't a replacement it's just a new way of doing it. So now we've got Lambda functions that can be up to 10 gig in size and surely, surely that's got to be insane for cold starts. But actually, part of what I was talking about earlier of some of the work we've done on the backend to support this is to be able to support these super large package sizes. And the high level thing is that we actually cache those things really close to where the Lambda layer is going to be run.Now, if you run the Docker ecosystem, you build your Docker files based on base images, and so this needs to be Linux. One of the super things with the container image support is you don't have to use Amazon Linux or Amazon Linux 2 for Lambda functions, you can actually now build your Lambda functions also on Ubuntu, DBN or Alpine or whatever else. And so that also gives you a lot more functionality and flexibility. You can use the same Linux distribution, maybe across your entire suite, be it on-prem or anywhere else.Jeremy: Right. Right.Julian: And the two little components, there's an interface client, what you install, it's just another Docker layer. And that's that runtime API shim that talks to the runtime API. And then there's a runtime interface emulator and that's the thing that pretends to be Lambda, so you can shunt those events between HTTP and JSON. And that's the thing you would use to run locally. So runtime interface client means you can use any Linux distribution at the runtime interface client and you're compatible with Lambda, and then the interface emulators, what you would use for local testing, or if you want to spread your wings and run your Lambda functions elsewhere.Jeremy: Right. Awesome. Okay. So the other thing I think that container support does, I think it opens up a broader set of, or I guess a larger audience of people who are familiar with containerization and how that works, bringing those two Lambda functions. And one of the things that you really don't get when you run a container, I guess, on EC2, or, not EC2, I'm sorry, ECS, or Fargate or something like that, without kind of adding another layer on top of it, is the eventing aspect of it. I mean, Lambda just is naturally an event driven, a compute layer, right? And so, eventing and this idea of event driven applications and so forth has just become much more popular and I think much more mainstream. So what are your thoughts? What are you seeing in terms of, especially working with so many customers and businesses that are using this now, how are you seeing this sort of evolution or adoption of event driven applications?Julian: Yeah. I mean, it's quite funny to think that actually the event of an application was the genesis of Lambda rather than it being Serverless. I mentioned earlier about starting with S3. Yeah, the whole crux of Lambda has been, I respond to an event of an API gateway, or something on SQS, or via the API or anything. And so the whole point in a way of Lambda has been this event driven computing, which I think people are starting to sort of understand in a bigger thing than, "Oh, this is just the way you have to do Lambda." Because, I do think that serverless has a unique challenge where there is a new conceptual learning maybe that you have to go through. And one other thing that holds back service development is, people are used to a client's server and maybe ports and sockets. And even if you're doing containers or on-prem, or EC2, you're talking IP addresses and load balances, and sockets and firewalls, and all this kind of thing.But ultimately, when we're building these applications that are going to be composed of multiple services talking together through using APIs and events, the events is actually going to be a super part of it. And I know he is, not for so much longer, but my ultimate boss, but I can blame Jeff Bezos just a little bit, because he did say that, "If you want to talk via anything, talk via an API." And he was 100% right and that was great. But now we're sort of evolving that it doesn't just have to be an API and it doesn't have to be something behind API gateway or some API that you can run. And you can use the sort of power of events, particularly in an asynchronous model to not just be "forced" again in inverted commas to use APIs, but have far more flexibility of how data and information is going to flow through, maybe not just your application, but your suite of applications, or to and from your partners, or where that is.And ultimately authentications are going to be distributed, and maybe that is connecting to partners, that could be SaaS partners, or it's going to be an on-prem component, or maybe things in other kind of places. And those things need to communicate. And so the way of thinking about events is a super powerful way of thinking about that.Jeremy: Right. And it's not necessarily new. I mean, we've been doing web hooks for quite some time. And that idea of, something is going to happen somewhere and I want to be notified of it, is again, not a new concept. But I think certainly the way that it's evolved with Lambda and the way that other FaaS products had done eventing and things like that, is just those tight integrations and just all of the, I guess, the connective tissue that runs between those things to make sure that the events get delivered, and that you can DLQ them, and you can do all these other things with retries and stuff like that, is pretty powerful.I know you have, I actually just mentioned this on the last episode, about one of my favorite books, I think that changed my thinking and really got me thinking about how microservices communicate with one another. And that was Building Microservices by Sam Newman, which I actually said was sort of like my Bible for a couple of years, yes, I use that. So what are some of the other, like I know you have a favorite book on this.Julian: Well, that Building Microservices, Sam Newman, and I think there's a part two. I think it's part two, or there's another one ...Jeremy: Hopefully.Julian: ... in the works. I think even on O'Riley's website, you can go and see some preview copies of it. I actually haven't seen that. But yeah, I mean that is a great kind of Bible talking. And sometimes we do conflate this microservices things with a whole bunch of stuff, but if you are talking events, you're talking about separating things. But yeah, the book recommendation I have is one called Flow Architectures by James Urquhart. And James Urquhart actually works with VMware, but he's written this book which is looking sort of at the current state and also looking into the future about how does information flow through our applications and between companies and all this kind of thing.And he goes into some of the technology. When we talk about flow, we are talking about streams and we're talking about events. So streams would be, let's maybe put some AWS words around it, so streams would be something like Kinesis and events would be something like EventBridge, and topics would be SNS, and SQS would be queues. And I know we've got all these things and I wish some clever person would create the one flow service to rule them all, but we're not there. And they've got also different properties, which are helpful for different things and I know confusingly some of them merge. But James' sort of big idea is, in the future we are going to be able to moving data around between businesses, between applications. So how can we think of that as a flow? And what does that mean for designing applications and how we handle that?And Lambda is part of it, but even more nicely, I think is even some of the native integrations where you don't have to have a Lambda function. So if you've got API gateway talking to Step Functions directly, for example, well, that's even better. I mean, you don't have any code to manage and if it's certainly any code that I've written, you probably don't want to manage it. So yeah. I mean this idea of flow, Lambda's great for doing some of this moving around. But we are even evolving to be able to flow data around our applications without having to do anything and just wire up some things in a console or in a terminal.Jeremy: Right. Well, so you mentioned, someone could build the ultimate sort of flow control system or whatever. I mean, I honestly think EventBridge is very close to that. And I actually had Mike Deck on the show. I think it was like episode five. So two years ago, whenever it was when the show came out. I mean, when EventBridge came out. And we were talking and I sort of made the joke, I'm like, so this is like serverless web hooks, essentially being able, because there was the partner integrations where partners could push events onto an event bus, which they still can do. But this has evolved, right? Because the issue was always sort of like, I would have to subscribe to web books, I'd have to build a web hook to get events from a particular company. Which was great, always worked fine, but you're still maintaining that infrastructure.So EventBridge comes along, it creates these partner integrations and now you can just push an event on that now your applications, whether it's a Lambda function or other services, you can push them to an SQS queue, you can push them into a Kinesis stream, all these different destinations. You can go ahead and pull that data in and that's just there. So you don't have to worry about maintaining that infrastructure. And then, the EventBridge team went ahead and released the destination API, I think it's called.Julian: Yeah, API destinations.Jeremy: Event API destinations, right, where now you can set up these integrations with other companies, so you don't even have to make the API call yourself anymore, but instead you get all of the retries, you get the throttling, you get all that stuff kind of built in. So I mean, it's just really, really interesting where this is going. And actually, I mean, if you want to take a second to tell people about EventBridge API destinations, what that can do, because I think that now sort of creates both sides of that equation for you.Julian: It does. And I was just thinking over there, you've done a 10 times better job at explaining API destinations than I have, so you've nailed it on the head. And packet is that kind of simple. And it is just, events land up in your EventBridge and you can just pump events to any arbitrary endpoint. So it doesn't have to be in AWS, it can be on-prem. It can be to your Raspberry PI, it can literally be anywhere. But it's not just about pumping the events over there because, okay, how do we handle failover? And how do we handle over throttling? And so this is part of the extra cool goodies that came with API destinations, is that you can, for instance, if you are sending events to some external API and you only licensed for 1,000 invocations, not invocations, that could be too Lambda-ish, but 1,000 hits on the API every minute.Jeremy: Quotas. I think we call them quotas.Julian: Quotas, something like that. That's a much better term. Thank you, Jeremy. And some sort of quota, well, you can just apply that in API destinations and it'll basically store the data in the meantime in EventBridge and fire that off to the API destination. If the API destination is in that sort of throttle and if the API destination is down, well, it's going to be able to do some exponential back-off or calm down a little bit, don't over-flood this external API. And then eventually when the API does come back, it will be able to send those events. So that does just really give you excellent power rather than maintaining all these individual API endpoints yourself, and you're not handling the availability of the endpoint API, but of whatever your code is that needs to talk to that destination.Jeremy: Right. And I don't want to oversell this to anybody, but that also ...Julian: No, keep going. Keep going.Jeremy: ... adds the capability of enhanced security, because you're not exposing those API keys to your developers or anybody else, they're all baked in and stored within, the API destinations or within an EventBridge. You have the ability, you mentioned this idea of not needing Lambda to maybe talk directly, API gateway to DynamoDB or to step function or something like that. I mean, the cool thing about this is you do have translation capabilities, or transformation capabilities in EventBridge where you can transform the event. I haven't tried this, but I'm assuming it's possible to say, get an event from Salesforce and then pipe it into Stripe or some other API that you might want to pipe it into.So I mean, just that idea of having that centralized bus that can communicate with all these different things. I mean, we're talking about distributed systems here, right? So why is it different sending an event from my microservice A to my microservice B? Why can't I send it from my microservice A to company-wise, microservice B or whatever? And being able to do that in a secure, reliable, just with all of that stuff kind of built in for you, I think it's amazing. So I love EventBridge. To me EventBridge is one of those services that rivals Lambda. It's as, I guess as important as Lambda is, in this whole serverless equation.Julian: Absolutely, Jeremy. I mean, I'm just sitting here. I don't actually have to say anything. This is a brilliant interview and Jeremy, you're the expert. And you're just like laying down all of the excellent use cases. And exactly it. I mean, I like to think we've got sort of three interlinked services which do three different things, but are awesome. Lambda, we love if you need to do some processing or you need to do something that's literally your business logic. You've got EventBridge that can route data from in and out of SaaS partners to any other kind of API. And then you've got Step Functions that can do some coordination. And they all work together, but you've got three different things that really have sort of superpowers in terms of the amount of stuff you can do with it. And yes, start with them. If you land up bumping up against any kind of things that it doesn't work, well, first of all, get in touch with me, I'll work on that.But then you can maybe start thinking about, is it containers or EC2, or that kind of thing? But using literally just Lambda, Step Functions and EventBridge, okay. Yes, maybe you're going to need some queues, topics and APIs, and that kind of thing. But ...Jeremy: I was just going to say, add DynamoDB in there for some permanent state or for some data persistence. Right? Yeah. But other than that, no, I think you nailed it. Honestly, sometimes you're starting to build applications and yeah, you're right. You maybe need a queue here and there and things like that. But for the most part, no, I mean, you could build a lot with those three or four services.Julian: Yeah. Well, I mean, even think of it what you used to do before with API destinations. Maybe you drop something on a queue, you'd have Lambda pull that from a queue. You have Lambda concurrency, which would be set to five per second to then send that to an external API. If it failed going to that API, well, you've got to then dump it to Lambda destinations or to another SQS queue. You then got something ... You know, I'm going down the rabbit hole, or just put it on EventBridge ...Jeremy: You just have it magically happen.Julian: ... or we talk about removing serverless infrastructure, not normal infrastructure, and just removing even the serverless bits, which is great.Jeremy: Yeah, no. I think that's amazing. So we talked about a couple of these different services, and we talked about packaging formats and we talked about event driven applications, and all these other things. And a lot of this stuff, even though some of it may be familiar and you could probably equate it or relate it to things that developers might already know, there is still a lot of new stuff here. And I think, my biggest complaint about serverless was not about the capabilities of it, it was basically the education and the ability to get people to adopt it and understand the power behind it. So let's talk about that a little bit because ... What's that?Julian: It sounds like my job description, perfectly.Jeremy: Right. So there we go. Right, that's what you're supposed to be doing, Julian. Why aren't you doing it? No, but you are doing it. You are doing it. No, and that's why I want to talk to you about it. So you have that series on the Well-Architected Framework and we can talk about that. There's a whole bunch of really good resources on this. Obviously, you're doing videos and conferences, well, you used to be doing conferences. I think you probably still do some of those virtual ones, right? Which are not the same thing.Julian: Not quite, no.Jeremy: I mean, it was fun seeing you in Cardiff and where else were you?Julian: Yeah, Belfast.Jeremy: Cardiff and Northern Ireland.Julian: Yeah, exactly.Jeremy: Yeah, we were all over the place together.Julian: With the Guinness and all of us. It was brilliant.Jeremy: Right. So tell me a little bit about, sort of, the education process that you're trying to do. Or maybe even where you sort of see the state of Serverless education now, and just sort of where it's evolved, where we're getting best practices from, what's out there for people. And that's a really long question, but I don't know, maybe you can distill that down to something usable.Julian: No, that's quite right. I'm thinking back to my extensions explanation, which is a really long answer. So we're doing really long stuff, but that's fine. But I like to also bring this back to also thinking about the people aspect of IT. And we talk a lot about the technology and Lambda is amazing and S3 is amazing and all those kinds of things. But ultimately it is still sort of people lashing together these services and building the serverless applications, and deciding what you even need to do. And so the education is very much tied with, of course, having the products and features that do lots of kinds of things. And Serverless, there's always this lever, I suppose, between simplicity and functionality. And we are adding lots of knobs and levers and everything to Lambda to make it more feature-rich, but we've got to try and keep it simple at the same time.So there is sort of that trade-off, and of course with that, that obviously means not just the education side, but education about Lambda and serverless, but generally, how do I build applications? What do I do? And so you did mention the Well-Architected Framework. And so for people who don't know, this came out in 2015, and in 2017, there was a Serverless Lens which was added to it; what is basically serverless specific information for Well-Architected. And Well-Architected means bringing best practices to serverless applications. If you're building prod applications in the cloud, you're normally looking to build and operate them following best practices. And this is useful stuff throughout the software life cycle, it's not just at the end to tick a few boxes and go, "Yes, we've done that." So start early with the well-architected journey, it'll help you.And just sort of answer the question, am I well architected? And I mean, that is a bit of a fuzzy, what is that question? But the idea is to give you more confidence in the architecture and operations of your workloads, and that's not a goal it's in, but it's to reduce and minimize the impact of any issues that can happen. So what we do is we try and distill some of our questions and thoughts on how you could do things, and we built that into the Well-Architected Framework. And so the ServiceLens has a few questions on its operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, efficiency, and cost optimization. Excellent. I knew I was going to forget one of them and I didn't. So yeah, these are things like, how do you control access to an API? How do you do lifecycle management? How do you build resiliency into your application? All these kinds of things.And so the Well-Architected Framework with Serverless Lens there's a whole bunch of guidance to help you do that. And I have been slowly writing a blog series to literally cover all of the questions, they're nine questions in the Well-Architected Serverless Lens. And I'm about halfway through, and I had to pause because we have this little conference called re:Invent, which requires one or two slides to be created. But yeah, I'm desperately keen to pick that up again. And yeah, that's just providing some really and sort of more opinionated stuff, because the documentation is awesome and it's very in-depth and it's great when you need all that kind of stuff. But sometimes you want to know, well, okay, just tell me what to do or what do you think is best rather than these are the seven different options.Jeremy: Just tell me what to do.Julian: Yeah.Jeremy: I think that's a common question.Julian: Exactly. And I'll launch off from that to mention my colleague, James Beswick, he writes one or two things on serverless ...Jeremy: Yeah, I mean, every once in a while you see something from it. Yeah.Julian: ... every day. The Besbot machine of serverless. He's amazing. James, he's so knowledgeable and writes like a machine. He's brilliant. Yeah, I'm lucky to be on his team. So when you talk about education, I learn from him. But anyway, in a roundabout way, he's created this blog series and other series called the Lambda Operations Guide. And this is literally a whole in-depth study on how to operate Lambda. And it goes into a whole bunch of things, it's sort of linked to the Serverless Lens because there are a lot of common kind of stuff, but it's also a great read if you are more nerdily interested in Lambda than just firing off a function, just to read through it. It's written in an accessible way. And it has got a whole bunch of information on how to operate Lambda and some of the stuff under the scenes, how to work, just so you can understand it better.Jeremy: Right. Right. Yeah. And I think you mentioned this idea of confidence too. And I can tell you right now I've been writing serverless applications, well, let's see, what year is it? 2021. So I started in 2015, writing or building applications with Lambda. So I've been doing this for a while and I still get to a point every once in a while, where I'm trying to put something in cloud formation or I'm using the Serverless Framework or whatever, and you're trying to configure something and you think about, well, wait, how do I want to do this? Or is this the right way to do it? And you just have that moment where you're like, well, let me just search and see what other people are doing. And there are a lot of myths about serverless.There's as much good information is out there, there's a lot of bad information out there too. And that's something that is kind of hard to combat, but I think that maybe we could end it there. What are some of the things, the questions people are having, maybe some of the myths, maybe some of the concerns, what are those top ones that you think you could sort of ...Julian: Dispel.Jeremy: ... to tell people, dispel, yeah. That you could say, "Look, these are these aren't things to worry about. And again, go and read your blog post series, go and read James' blog post series, and you're going to get the right answers to these things."Julian: Yeah. I mean, there are misconceptions and some of them are just historical where people think the Lambda functions can only run for five minutes, they can run for 15 minutes. Lambda functions can also now run up to 10 gig of RAM. At re:Invent it was only 3 gig of RAM. That's a three times increase in Lambda functions within a three times proportional increase in CPU. So I like to say, if you had a CPU-intensive job that took 40 minutes and you couldn't run it on Lambda, you've now got three times the CPU. Maybe you can run it on Lambda and now because that would work. So yeah, some of those historical things that have just changed. We've got EFS for Lambda, that's some kind of thing you can't do state with Lambda. EFS and NFS isn't everybody's cup of tea, but that's certainly going to help some people out.And then the other big one is also cold starts. And this is an interesting one because, obviously we've sort of solved the cold start issue with connecting Lambda functions to VPC, so that's no longer an issue. And that's been a barrier for lots of people, for good reason, and that's now no longer the case. But the other thing for cold starts is interesting because, people do still get caught up at cold starts, but particularly for development because they create a Lambda function, they run it, that's a cold start and then update it and they run it and then go, oh, that's a cold start. And they don't sort of grok that the more you run your Lambda function the less cold starts you have, just because they're warm starts. And it's literally the number of Lambda functions that are running at exactly the same time will have a cold start, but then every subsequent Lambda function invocation for quite a while will be using a warm function.And so as it ramps up, we see, in the small percentages of cold starts that are actually going to happen. And when we're talking again about the container image support, that's got a whole bunch of complexity, which people are trying to understand. Hopefully, people are learning from this podcast about that as well. But also with the cold starts with that, those are huge and they're particular ways that you can construct your Lambda functions to really reduce those cold starts, and it's best practices anyway. But yeah, cold starts is also definitely one of those myths. And the other one ...Jeremy: Well, one note on cold starts too, just as something that I find to be interesting. I know that we, I even had to spend time battling with that earlier on, especially with VPC cold starts, that's all sort of gone away now, so much more efficient. The other thing is like provision concurrency. If you're using provision concurrency to get your cold starts down, I'm not even sure that's the right use for provision concurrency. I think provision concurrency is more just to make sure you have enough capacity because of the ramp-up time for Lambda. You certainly can use it for cold starts, but I don't think you need to, that's just my two cents on that.Julian: Yeah. No, that is true. And they're two different use cases for the same kind of thing. Yeah. As you say, Lambda is pretty scalable, but there is a bit of a ramp-up to get up to many, many, many, many thousands or tens of thousands of concurrent executions. And so yeah, using provision currency, you can get that up in advance. And yeah, some people do also use it for provision concurrency for getting those cold starts done. And yet that is another very valid use case, but it's only an issue for synchronous workloads as well. Anything that is synchronous you really shouldn't be carrying too much. Other than for cost perspective because it's going to take longer to run.Jeremy: Sure. Sure. I have a feeling that the last one you were going to mention, because this one bugs me quite a bit, is this idea of no ops or some people call it ops-less, which I think is kind of funny. But that's one of those things where, oh, it drives me nuts when I hear this.Julian: Yeah, exactly. And it's a frustrating thing. And I think often, sometimes when people are talking about no ops, they either have something to sell you. And sometimes what they're selling you is getting rid of something, which never is the case. It's not as though we develop serverless applications and we can then get rid of half of our development team, it just doesn't work like that. And it's crazy, in fact. And when I was talking about the people aspect of IT, this is a super important thing. And me coming from an infrastructure background, everybody is dying in their jobs to do more meaningful work and to do more interesting things and have the agility to try those experiments or try something else. Or do something that's better or even improve the way your build or improve the way your CI/CD pipeline runs or anything, rather than just having to do a lot of work in the lower levels.And this is what serverless really helps you do, is to be able to, we'll take over a whole lot of the ops for you, but it's not all of the ops, because in a way there's never an end to ops. Because you can always do stuff better. And it's not just the operations of deploying Lambda functions and limits and all that kind of thing. But I mean, think of observability and not knowing just about your application, but knowing about your business. Think of if you had the time that you weren't just monitoring function invocations and monitoring how long things were happening, but imagine if you were able to pull together dashboards of exactly what each transaction costs as it flows through your whole entire application. Think of the benefit of that to your business, or think of the benefit that in real-time, even if it's on Lambda function usage or something, you can say, "Well, oh, there's an immediate drop-off or pick-up in one region in the world or one particular application." You can spot that immediately. That kind of stuff, you just haven't had time to play with to actually build.But if we can take over some of the operational stuff with you and run one or two or trillions of Lambda functions in the background, just to keep this all ticking along nicely, you're always going to have an opportunity to do more ops. But I think the exciting bit is that ops is not just IT infrastructure, plumbing ops, but you can start even doing even better business ops where you can have more business visibility and more cool stuff for your business because we're not writing apps just for funsies.Jeremy: Right. Right. And I think that's probably maybe a good way to describe serverless, is it allows you to focus on more meaningful work and more meaningful tasks maybe. Or maybe not more meaningful, but more impactful on the business. Anyways, Julian, listen, this was a great conversation. I appreciate it. I appreciate the work that you're doing over at AWS ...Julian: Thank you.Jeremy: ... and the stuff that you're doing. And I hope that there will be a conference soon that we will be able to attend together ...Julian: I hope so too.Jeremy: ... maybe grab a drink. So if people want to get a hold of you or find out more about serverless and what AWS is doing with that, how do they do that?Julian: Yeah, absolutely. Well, please get hold of me anytime on Twitter, is the easiest way probably, julian_wood. Happy to answer your question about anything Serverless or Lambda. And if I don't know the answer, I'll always ask Jeremy, so you're covered twice over there. And then, three different things. James is, if you're talking specifically Lambda, James Beswick's operations guide, have a look at that. Just so much nuggets of super information. We've got another thing we did just sort of jump around, you were talking about cloud formation and the spark was going off in my head. We have something which we're calling the Serverless Patterns Collection, and this is really super cool. We didn't quite get to talk about it, but if you're building applications using SAM or serverless application model, or using the CDK, so either way, we've got a whole bunch of patterns which you can grab.So if you're pulling something from S3 to Lambda, or from Lambda to EventBridge, or SNS to SQS with a filter, all these kind of things, they're literally copy and paste patterns that you can put immediately into your cloud formation or your CDK templates. So when you are down the rabbit hole of Hacker News or Reddit or Stack Overflow, this is another resource that you can use to copy and paste. So go for that. And that's all hosted on our cool site called serverlessland.com. So that's serverlessland.com and that's an aggregation site that we run because we've got video talks, and we've got blog posts, and we've got learning path series, and we've got a whole bunch of stuff. Personally, I've got a learning path series coming out shortly on Lambda extensions and also one on Lambda observability. There's one coming out shortly on container image supports. And our team is talking all over as many things as we can virtually. I'm actually speaking about container images of DockerCon, which is coming up, which is exciting.And yeah, so serverlessland.com, that's got a whole bunch of information. That's just an easy one-stop-shop where you can get as much information about AWS services as you can. And if not yet, get in touch, I'm happy to help. I'm happy to also carry your feedback. And yeah, at the moment, just inside, we're sort of doing our planning for the next cycle of what Lambda and what all the service stuff we're going to do. So if you've got an awesome idea, please send it on. And I'm sure you'll be super excited when something pops out in the near issue, maybe just in future for a cool new functionality you could have been involved in.Jeremy: Well, I know that serverlessland.com is an excellent resource, and it's not that the AWS Compute blog is hard to parse through or anything, but serverlessland.com is certainly a much easier resource to get there. S
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And, by the time I was done, the CFML looked a hot mess with several ternary operators all being interpolated into one class="" attribute. And, as I sat there, wallowing in the shame of such ugly looking code, it hit me like a bolt of lightening: Angular already solved this problem so elegantly with the NgClass directive that applies dynamic class names based on a set of conditionals. The same exactly thing should be quite doable in Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4043-collecting-html-class-name-attributes-in-template-rendering-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-7-47.htm Blog - Ben Nadel - Using Both SrcFile And CFDocumentItem In The Same CFDocument Tag In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47At InVision, we generate a surprising number of PDF documents. For the most part, the CFDocument tag in Lucee CFML just works. But, sometimes, PDF generation eats-up all the RAM and an OOM (Out of Memory) error is thrown. As such, I'm always on the lookout for ways to tweak the PDF generation process to see if I can consume fewer resources. One idea that I had was to pre-generate the HTML file instead of just rendering the HTML content within the CFDocument tag-body. But, I wasn't sure if I could combine the concept of the srcfile attribute with the child-tag, CFDocumentItem. As such, I wanted to try it out in Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4042-using-both-srcfile-and-cfdocumentitem-in-the-same-cfdocument-tag-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-7-47.htm Blog - Ben Nadel - Validating And Documenting Complex Object Structures With CFParam In Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47At InVision, we generate our transactional emails by including a CFML template into a buffer; and then, using that buffer as the body attribute of a CFMail tag. And, since the definition of that template feels somewhat "far away" from the context in which it is being consumed, I've gotten into the habit of parameterizing the template variables using CFParam tags. This way, it's intensely obvious which variables are being used in the template; and, if I accidentally forget to define a variable during refactoring, the template will blow-up when I go to test it. Part of what makes this easy to do is the fact that the CFParam tag can validate complex object structures. I don't often use it this way, so I thought it would be interesting to share in Lucee CFML 5.3.7.47.https://www.bennadel.com/blog/4041-validating-and-documenting-complex-object-structures-with-cfparam-in-lucee-cfml-5-3-7-47.htm Blog - Charlie Arehart - Adobe CF certification now only US$149, including many hours of trainingIf you may not have heard the news or noticed it on the Adobe CF Certification page, the price is now listed as only US$149.https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2021/05/adobe-cf-certification-now-us149-including-many-hours-training/ CFML JobsSeveral positions available on https://www.getcfmljobs.com/Listing over 120 ColdFusion positions from 52 companies across 90 locations in 5 Countries since Dec 1st.Full-Time - Coldfusion/SUNCORP INSURANCE at Sydney NSW - Australia Posted May 11https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/australia/ColdfusionSUNCORP-INSURANCE-at-Sydney-NSW/11267 Full-Time - Coldfusion Developer at Vancouver, BC - Canada Posted May 08https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/canada/Coldfusion-Developer-at-Vancouver-BC/11266 Full-Time - Coldfusion at Bengaluru, Karnataka - India Posted May 07https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/india/Coldfusion-at-Bengaluru-Karnataka/11265 Full-Time - ColdFusion Developer (Secret clearance) at Chantilly, VA - United States Posted May 05https://www.getcfmljobs.com/jobs/index.cfm/united-states/ColdFusion-Developer-Secret-clearance-at-Chantilly-VA/11256 ForgeBox Module of the WeekFacebook Conversions - CFML by Matthew ClementeA CFML wrapper for the Facebook Conversions API. 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Summary: In this episode, we'll discuss Continuous Updates, a concept introduced in the Liquid Software book by Fred Simon, Yoav Landman, and Baruch Sadogursky. It is a logical next step in all the things continuous, as Baruch will explain. Tune in to hear the Head of DevOps Advocacy in JFrog talking about his, JFrog's, and even some of the industry's DevOps Journey.Bio: Baruch Sadogursky (a.k.a JBaruch) is the Head of DevOps Advocacy and a Developer Advocate at JFrog. His passion is speaking about technology. Well, speaking in general, but doing it about technology makes him look smart, and 19 years of hi-tech experience sure helps. When he's not on stage (or on a plane to get there), he learns about technology, people, and how they work, or more precisely, don't work together.He is a co-author of the Liquid Software book, a CNCF ambassador and a passionate conference speaker on DevOps, DevSecOps, digital transformation, containers and cloud-native, artifact management and other topics, and is a regular at the industry's most prestigious events including KubeCon, DockerCon, Devoxx, DevOps Days, OSCON, Qcon, JavaOne and many others. You can see some of his talks at jfrog.com/shownotes. Support the show (https://cd.foundation/podcast/podcast-submission-form/)
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DockerCon Videos - https://docker.events.cube365.net/docker/dockerconSome interesting takeaways from the keynote: Strategic Microsoft partnership https://www.docker.com/blog/shortening-the-developer-commute-with-docker-and-microsoft-azure/ Windows and WSL2 reach GA Now directly from Docker Desktop, you can push containers to Azure Container Instances (ACI) Docker Hub new features for Security and Teams Docker Desktop and Docker Hub has a tighter integration Snyk provides image scanning in Docker Hub My presentation - Become a Docker Power User with Visual Studio Code - https://youtu.be/sUZxIWDUicA
In episode 62 of Mobycast, we recap another DockerCon 2019 session. This one focuses on Practical Istio by Zack Butcher. Welcome to Mobycast, a weekly conversation about cloud-native development, AWS, and building distributed systems.
In episode 61 of Mobycast, we recap another DockerCon 2019 session titled "Just What Is A 'Server Mesh,' And If I Get One Will It Make Everything OK?" by Elton Stoneman. Welcome to Mobycast, a weekly conversation about cloud-native development, AWS, and building distributed systems.
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Phil Estes - https://twitter.com/estespContainerD - https://containerd.io/ContainerD Maintainer Michael Crosby - https://twitter.com/crosbymichaelCERN - https://home.cern/Tim Berners-Lee's First Web Browser 1993 - http://info.cern.ch/NextBrowser.htmlBirth of the Web at CERN - https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-webEpisode TranscriptBrian Christner: Welcome back to The Byte. In this episode, we're going to be interviewing Phil Estes. Phil Estes, correct?Phil Estes: Yes that's correct.Brian Christner: He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer for IBM Cloud, ContainerD maintainer, correct?Phil Estes: Yeah.Brian Christner: Member of the Technical Oversight Board for open containers, recently Cloud Native Ambassador, and home-based in Virginia. That is quite an impressive resume to be honest.Phil Estes: Yeah, yeah. Especially that I live in Virginia and do all that.Brian Christner: That tops off the cake, right? So we're here in Switzerland today, Phil is actually flying through for a conference that he's attending later this week, or tomorrow actually. And he came by and he's visiting us at Spaces here in Zurich, so that's really cool of you to join us. Now, where are you going after his?Phil Estes: So this week, got a really neat opportunity to go to CERN. Initially just was going to talk about ContainerD with interested parties there and actually, we've got few other maintainers coming in because KubeCon is next week. There was some ability to kind of add this to people's schedule. So we're going to talk some about ContainerD on Friday but then Jess Frazelle, who I've been working with way back in the Docker open source community days, she had always wanted to visit CERN. So anyway, one thing led to another and now we're both speaking tomorrow in kind of the main auditorium just what they call an IT seminar, give a talk on some topics so I'm going to talk about open source and containers. So yeah it'll be fun.Brian Christner: Now for those who don't know CERN, they trying to make a black hole with a giant particle collider. And they're actually trying to find what particles make up human beings and all the matter around us, which is quite interesting. And they probably have one of the largest IT infrastructures in the world.Phil Estes: Yeah, yeah. And actually some pretty interesting historic infrastructure. You know, they've got the NeXT first web server that Tim Berners-Lee ran, that sat at CERN and ran the first few websites. And I think when you visit their data center, you can kind of look through the glass and there's a sign hanging over a certain spot, like the first internet router was here, so it's a pretty interesting place. And like you said, an amazing amount of compute and storage because of all the experiments going on there and they're obviously very interested in cloud and modern technologies to help them kind of operate this infrastructure for the scientists and the researchers.Brian Christner: I mean that's an impressive facility and it's going to be an amazing event that you get to attend.Phil Estes: Yeah.Brian Christner: Now next up, I want to ask you about your first computer. Can you tell us way back when your first computer and what it was and what you did with this first computer?Phil Estes: Sure. Yeah, so at the time I was in junior high I lived in kind of a rural, not a tiny town but a small town in Illinois. We had the one like a local mall with like a Radio Shack and I would actually walk there after school and play around on theses TRS80 computers which were kind of the early modern PC that you could actually off-the-shelf buy. I know there was some earlier computer equipment you could buy but the TRS80 was kind of commercialized and Radio Shack was pushing it pretty hard. And so anyway, one Christmas my grandfather went in with my parents knowing that I had a strong interest in ... a TRS80 showed up with a two like five and a quarter floppy drives and I think we even had the acoustic coupler for like tape. Anyway, all the hilarious gizmos of that era of computing. And it came with Frogger, a couple of other games.Phil Estes: But I pretty quickly learned the commands for MS-DOS and got a book on Basic and thought, you know, I just want to see what I can program. So I was just writing silly programs trying to paint things on the screen, make noises. And so yeah that was my first exposure to computers and programming and I guess you could I say I never kind of lost that bug. Just the interest of trying to see what you can make it do. So yeah.Brian Christner: Nice. I mean, it's incredible when we think back to our first computers and where we're sitting today, it's always a nice journey. So now you're working IBM for quite a long time, actually I remember we discussed this and you what, about two years ago, became a distinguished engineer, or year and a half ago or so.Phil Estes: Yeah just a year ago.Brian Christner: So tell us about that journey, how you became a distinguished engineer.Phil Estes: Yeah, so the cool thing about IBM is that they have, especially as you advance in your career, there's a very clear and discreet path for technical advancement. So for example, there are websites that detail kind of the skills expected, lots of materials to help you kind of understand how to grow and find gaps where you need to work with your manager to find out okay, to be this next level on the technical ladder, I need to do these things or have this kind of scope of my visibility to the rest of IBM. And so distinguished engineer is kind of the culmination of a lot of that because it's the first sort of executive rung on the technical ladder at IBM. And there's really only one above that and it's IBM Fellow, which is a pretty significant accomplishment. There are only a hundred or so active IBM Fellows in the entire company, which if you're in a small company a hundred is a big number if you're in IBM a hundred is a very small number.Phil Estes: But yeah, so I would say that distinguished engineer is not only about being smart or being technically astute, there needs to be a breadth of something that you're seen as a leader on. And thankfully I'd say I'm lucky that containers and open source and all these things kind of came together at a time when I just happened to get involved and become known as the guy who knew about Docker and containers and then IBM decided to build kind of our cloud platform around that. And so yeah, I mean the timing was perfect for me to kind of expand my scope in IBM to be seen as a leader to where my management and those who supported me could honestly take it forward to, kind of first the Cloud Unit Review Board, and then it's actually a corporate recognition so DE is an appointment at the corporate level.Phil Estes: You know, it's not something you can sneak into, you got to have a ton of support across IBM, you got to have the right people kind of pulling for you, and so I'm just thankful I had some amazing people around me, management that brought that together. Because it's something I never necessarily thought I would reach at IBM and it's a cool thing.Brian Christner: I mean it's really an amazing achievement. I mean considering the size of IBM, I don't know how many employees, must be a hundred thousand-Phil Estes: 400,000.Brian Christner: 400,000.Phil Estes: Worldwide.Brian Christner: So I mean, it's a small, smallest percentage of actually become distinguished engineers. So I mean, that's really an accomplishment. Now you mentioned the open source and how you started with Docker, let's talk a little bit about ContainerD and how you got involved in ContainerD.Phil Estes: Yeah, so I was working on Docker, the open-source project, obviously 2014, 2015 into 2016 it was hugely popular as an open-source project. It was also under a lot of stress from just the amount of people wanting to kind of give their input, make their mark on Docker, you know, whether it's vendors or independent people. It was being pulled in a lot of directions and of course Docker the company also had specific ideas and strong opinions on Docker the open-source project. And it was causing some tension, Kubernetes Swarm, that was kind of a big excitement in 2016. And ContainerD really came out of a set of discussions with many players at the time, you know, there'd been some public calls for we just need a stable core run time, that's not opinionated, that we can all build on. Docker can continue to build their platform, people that love Kubernetes can build on it.Phil Estes: So ContainerD, you know again, came out of Docker. Michael Crosby had a huge hand in kind of putting that together. It originally showed up in 2016 as kind of a management layer over runc, which is the OCI layer that also appeared that year. But it was really late that year that, through my involvement with Docker and talking to Solomon (Docker Founder) and all the people at Docker, that we really agreed this is something that should be outside of Docker, should be in CNCF or wherever you guys think is best. And so, you know, early 2017 it was donated to the CNCF. And so again, I felt like it just made sense for IBM to continue involvement to get even more involved in ContainerD than we had in Docker because we built, again, our cloud platform around Kubernetes and having ContainerD as this core runtime across all our platform, which we use Cloud Foundry, which has a container runtime. We have functions and service platform which now uses ContainerD.Phil Estes: So it's become kind of this underpinning underneath all these layers of [inaudible 00:10:17], you know containers as a service. So yeah, that's kind of the history of how it came to be and why IBM decided that it made sense for us to be involved and why I continued as a maintainer there to be that connection point between IBM product and the open-source side of ContainerD development.Brian Christner: I mean, ContainerD, I mean within IBM is becoming the standard, but also outside of IBM, I mean Google, Amazon, everybody is relying on ContainerD as the runtime. Is that correct? I mean, how do you see that going forward?Phil Estes: Yeah, I mean I feel like our adoption has been phenomenal and the cool thing is because, and again I can't take credit for this, Michael Crosby, Stephen Day, Derek McGowan, they had lived through the entire Docker development lifetime and ContainerD was almost a chance to rethink a few pieces to make sure that the abstractions were really, really clean. And so now what's cool to see is it's not just about Docker using ContainerD or Kubernetes using ContainerD, but like AWS Firecracker or gVisor or you know all these kind of new ideas about container isolation. ContainerD just happens to be a perfect vehicle for bringing new kind of ideas around containers and isolation that don't necessarily have to live on top of Kubernetes or the Docker engine.Phil Estes: So yeah, I think because of that you're seeing, you know, wide adoption. Alibaba Cloud, I like to point at them because they're using it like everywhere in their cloud. They've built their own Pouch Container open source project that sits on ContainerD, that's like a Swiss Army Knife of runtime and registry interactions. And so I think all these things clearly show that it's simple to use, very extensible, and people love how simple it is to start with ContainerD.Brian Christner: I have to agree with that. I mean it's extremely easy to use, it's understandable, it's documented well. Now for next up for ContainerD, where do you see the direction heading for ContainerD?Phil Estes: Yeah, you know I think we never want the scope to have this creep of becoming another huge monolithic engine that has every contraption. So we've tried to build in pluggability, we've resisted PRs that want to add a lot of new function directly in it because like the Firecracker team built all their functionality as plug-ins. Most of their code doesn't need to be in ContainerD, so that's the way we see ContainerD growing in functionality is not by us adding function but the pluggability and extensibility allow that outside of the core project.Phil Estes: So really the core project, stability, performance, better Windows support, which the Microsoft team is working on for our next major release. Again making sure this runtime layer, it allows, not just runc, but all these other variants of Kata Containers and Nabla and gVisor, to have the best possible kind of support for how they use the platform. You know things like multiple containers per VM like we had to shift around the API to make sure that was well supported. But yeah, outside of that I don't see us having major functional additions other than making sure ContainerD stays ... The reason people like it, it maintains that simplicity and usability.Brian Christner: I mean that's something that's very important in today's age is that not always do we need to keep adding features, sometimes just stable products is what we need. And so that's a brilliant way to go about it. And the last question I have about ContainerD is how can people contribute? So even if you're not a developer, I mean where do you recommend starting with ContainerD if someone wants to get involved?Phil Estes: Yeah, so I think, you know a lot of the last few months have been busy with some releases and also because we maintain compatibility and release cycles. You know, something we never were able to pull off in Docker is having multiple lines of support, you know, bug fixes or being backported. So that keeps the maintainers fairly busy. So I think anyone who wants to come in and kind of start to look through ways the documentation may be lagging, code, that's always a huge area. We have a website that just has basic information that could be extended with a lot more examples, especially these plug points, like smart people from AWS just came in a figured it out, but I'd be great to have clear documentation. Like how would I add a plug-in to do this? So those are non-development areas that could always use extra hands.Brian Christner: Absolutely. Now I want to kind of transition this into the next phase, is like conferences. Now you're kind of like a professional on the conference circuit and what're your tips for conferences? I mean, you attend a lot of conferences, you see a lot of them, so I mean, what can you ... And you're going to KubeCon next week, you're going to CERN. Do you have any tips for people and like submitting CFPs to conferences?Phil Estes: Yeah, I mean CFPs, I've always found, you know just to be honest, I found to be tough because it's ... Especially if we're talking about at KubeCon level or even DockerCon, where there's significant contention over a number of slots that are small and a number of submissions that can be extremely large. And I've even been on review teams for DockerCon, for KubeCons, for other smaller conferences, and you know it can be overwhelming to try and think how do I pick the best talks because the numbers are so large, there are lots of great ideas. So I think some of the best insight that is not necessarily just from me, I've heard it from others as well, is because people are busy, reviewers especially, you have a sentence or two to grab their attention. So, not that you want to over promise, but you need to pack those first few sentences with like what's the real value you're going to give to people coming to this talk. Because a lot of people spend a lot of time kind of with backstory and it's like people just don't have the time to get to where you're going. So yeah.Brian Christner: It's really like fire sale or as a resume, you know, you really want to catch somebody with a cover letter and just really pull them in.Phil Estes: Yeah.Brian Christner: Now, since you're also going, what are some conference concepts that you really enjoy, that you've seen? Like open spaces or like at DockerCon we saw like a, what was it, they open space that you can submit talks to on the side. I mean, that's kind of a new concept that's taking over conferences. Do you see anything else grabbing attention?Phil Estes: Yeah, so like you're saying, I think Hallway Track is an old term of just standing around in the hall that's been formalized, we've seen at conferences like a DockerCon. Which is really valuable. I mean, I think there's a slight bit of abuse of ... Like you see a lot of sales pitches being put into Hallway Track like, you know, come let me tell you about our product. Which is fine, I mean people can self select out of that obviously. I think the other thing, again, that is at DockerCon but I've seen other similar ideas around it is just connecting people because it's very interesting, like you said, when I attend a conference that's my community, so to speak, it's a ton of fun because I'm going to see a lot of people I know.Phil Estes: When I go to a conference that's not necessarily ... You know I was just at CraftConf in Budapest last week, which is a huge cross-industry conference, and so it's not a bunch of container people. And it is a different feeling to walk in and like oh man I don't really know anybody, how do I connect? And thankfully if you're a speaker, sometimes there's a speaker event where you start to mingle. But anything that a conference can provide to connect people in, like, at DockerCon, it's very specific, the Pals program. I think that anything like that to try and help people that their company may have paid good money for them to be there and yeah if they feel disconnected they may just go back to their hotel and really miss out on connecting with people or listening to the talks. So I think that's area conferences, especially really large conferences, it's overwhelming for like a total newbie.Brian Christner: I mean I feel that also, I mean the talks are amazing but the talks are always online so if you miss something you always go online, but I find the networking and talking to people actually building things, I mean you get just tons of value out of this.Phil Estes: Yeah. And, you know, I guess being an introvert of sorts myself, I was never in to kind of walking the booths of like an expo hall, but I've learned, and I've sort of forced myself to learn, that's a great way to actually find out what's happening in the industry. Because people at those booths would love to tell you, you know maybe it's a product pitch in some sense, but it can be really valuable to kind of get a pulse for what people are ... If it's a container conference, what are different people doing with containers, what's the view on security, and what people think about the value of containers for industry such and such, you know finance or. So that's another way, it takes a kind of stepping may be outside your comfort zone at times but just strolling around an expo haul and connecting with people there.Brian Christner: That's a great tip, thank you very much. Well, that's all the time we have for this episode. We really appreciate Phil coming on our first interview of The Byte and we wish him success at CERN and KubeCon. Any last words you want to tell us?Phil Estes: No, it's sort of becoming a habit to stop in Zurich, sadly Brian always sees me right after an international flight when I'm still a little out of sorts, but it's always cool to be welcomed here and go off to some other beautiful place in Switzerland. But yeah, thanks for having me.Brian Christner: Absolutely, thank you, Phil.
In episode 60 of Mobycast, we conclude our series on Bret Fisher's DockerCon session, Node.js Rocks in Docker for Dev and Ops. Welcome to Mobycast, a weekly conversation about cloud-native development, AWS, and building distributed systems.
In Episode 59 of Mobycast, Jon and Chris break down Bret Fisher's DockerCon 2019 session which was titled, Node.js Rocks in Docker for Dev and Ops. Welcome to Mobycast, a weekly conversation about cloud-native development, AWS, and building distributed systems.
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Microsoft Visual Studio Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/Live Share Extension - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-packPatrick Chanezon - https://twitter.com/chanezonEpisode TranscriptionWelcome back to The Byte, just made it back from San Francisco, struggling with a little jet lag. I'm sure everyone understands this. In this episode, we're going to talk about Microsoft Visual Studio Live Share. Live Share is a code collaboration tool which allows us to invite people to Microsoft Visual Studio Code, to actually review our code, actually interact with the code. So we can actually see multiple different cursors moving, and we can invite people to our server, we can share our terminals. I mean we can really do a lot of information. We can do a lot of collaboration with this.Now typically people use screen sharing, or talk over the phone, or sending screenshots, and I find Visual Studio Live Share is actually much more collaborative. Because you can actually spawn a call within Live Share. So you can actually have a Skype call going, while you're doing Live Share, and you can actually do live debugging, you can do a collaboration, you can do actually code review. And I quite like it, personally, for doing training. Teaching people how to use something remotely. They can log in, they can see the link, they can actually interact with the code, they can see what I'm doing, how I'm executing things. So it brings a whole new use case to collaboration with editors.Now Live Share is just an extension within Microsoft Visual Studio Code. And you install it like any other extension, you go to extensions, search for Live Share, install it. And you have to connect it to some sort of authentication provider. So I connected mine to GitHub, it's owned by Microsoft anyway, so no problem. And from there, you can then collaborate with people. It installs an additional extension, and then at the bottom of the screen, you see your name usually, your GitHub name. And in here, you can invite others with a link, you can share terminals, you can share servers, and you can stop the collaborations sessions. And you see like little icon next to it, it's like a team icon. And you see how many people are actually viewing your code simultaneously.Now once you have it up and running, I mean it's quite cool, because you can invite somebody in. And they see your code, and you can see everyone's cursor, where everyone's working, you can see the debugging. And I find it quite helpful. I've used it a couple of times where people say, "Oh no, you know this docker composed file or whatever is not running." And we start up a session, I look at it, and like okay, walk me through exactly what you're doing, let me see. And you can identify right away what's going on. And you can actually interact with it, and jump in the terminal, and they see exactly what you're typing, etc. So it actually is a great learning tool. I find it's a great learning tool.Now some of the common use cases, which people say they're using Live Share for is often you see quick assistance. I'm having an error, can you help me? Office hours, I want to demo my project, how about like mob programming, like pair programming, coding competitions, hackathons, school group projects, developer streaming, then interactive education. And I find interactive education is probably the best use case for the Live Share because I see it as really a learning tool. And I'll give you an example, at DockerCon, Patrick Chanezon actually did his session with Live Share. And he invited someone from I to think the UK, and DockerCon was in San Francisco. He called them up with Skype and said, "Hey, we're going to do this really quick." They interacted with Live Share, they were doing actually Kubectl commands, via Live Share, sharing the terminal. And it was really amazing. I mean this is the first time I've seen it in a conference, someone actually doing collaborative editing with the editor. So it was really nice.Other use cases, code reviews, and technical interviews. Maybe someone wants to show you what they're working on and walk you through the code and how it works, which is also quite interesting. Then you can share it with multiple people, you don't have to be in the same room. Especially since we're getting into more of a remote type of context. More people are working remotely. This is really helpful to see the code and understand what their thought process is when they're looking at the code. Because someone just sends you a GitHub link, that's great. But when someone can walk you through the code, interactively, and highlight the different sections, this changes the whole aspect of how the code lives, an how it communicates different people.So I'm using it quite often and I'm going to use it more for my training sessions. I'm going to kick out some workshops, and I'm going to actually do everything through Microsoft Live Share. So people can actually interact, they can see exactly what's going on, then they can try it on their terminals to see what's going on as well. So it's learning by doing a type of thing, but it's very easy to identify exactly what I'm doing, what step I'm in, and it's clear. I actually find it a little bit easier than attending workshops, because you see the code, you see how I'm typing, you see how I'm interacting.The only limitation I find is you definitely need two screens. So you can work on one screen and view the other screen. Now I'm going to start using this more and more, I've used it a couple of times already. I see tons and tons of use cases for it. I highly encourage everyone to go check it out. I mean just go to Microsoft Visual Studio Code, install Live Share, connect it to GitHub. And then within the Live Share client, I mean right when you click your name, you can just copy the link, drop it into Slack, you can email it to anyone. And once this other person clicks this link, they connect to your session. It is that easy. And then you can do Skype calls, or you can do Hangouts, however, you want to talk. So you can have a call going while you're doing the live share.Give it a try, I mean it's very, very helpful. You can see a ton of use cases out of it. I mean to try it out, give me some feedback. Let me know what you think of it, like I said, in DockerCon they demoed it, they demoed part of the session using it. So I can see more and more use cases coming along. And I can see this type of collaborative workshops, code reviews, and just collaboration on projects generally should increase. So we're getting away from screen sharing, we're actually all using the same terminal, same code base, and view exactly what's going on at the same time like we're all sitting in the same room.Well, that's all for this episode, Microsoft Visual Studio Live Share, give it a try. Have a great day and we will see you next time.
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Open Policy Agent - https://www.openpolicyagent.org/Styra - https://www.styra.com/Play with Open Policy Agent - https://play.openpolicyagent.org/Episode TranscriptionWelcome back to The Byte. My last day here in San Francisco. DockerCon has been an amazing event, and like I said in previous episodes I had the opportunity to speak to a lot of vendors and learn a lot from a lot of the attendees. It was a really amazing experience. One of the companies I came across was Styra, and Styra is actually the company behind Open Policy Agent, which I didn't realize. We've used Open Policy Agent on a couple of projects, and Open Policy Agent if you haven't played around with it, it really is ... you know it's a control platform for your environment. So you put this between your environment and your users and you can then change the policies. So you want people to get access into an Ubuntu server for example. Instead of having to change your application and the server and all of these things, you actually just change the policy within Open Policy Agent and then you have access within.So it's much easier. Easier to audit. Compliance is much happier because it's all documented and you can see these fine-grained policies at a glance. Now, this is a very powerful tool. I mean it's ... it decouples all the policies from your applications, which we've done previously. We actually put policies in our applications, and if we wanted to change something, we had to change our applications.Open Policy Agent actually allows us to separate our policy decisions outside of our stack, and make these changes from externally, without affecting the workload, which is really, really helpful. So we can declare, we can express in a declarative language, fine-grain policy details. In the Ubuntu example SSH access. I can say, "Hey, I want to block SSH for all of these instances that are running in a certain region, but region two is allowed." You can have that level of detail that's going on. Now, Styra I talked to the founders and I talked to a bunch of the team there, and they were building a managed service for Open Policy Agent, which is quite cool because I didn't realize that even existed.And this is an interesting space because not many companies are focusing on the compliance side and this type of security. Most of the companies are focusing on firewall and you know, how do we secure the workload? This is really creating policies which every company has, right? We all have some sort of policy we need to define, then we need to validate these and we need to enforce them, and we need some sort of graphical representation of what's actually happening on these decisions. So they're making this as a service, right? Open Policy as a service. It's, I believe it's going to be a SaaS at the moment, but it will be on-prem in the future they indicated. So there's a lot of potentials there. And you know, one of the Docker captains, as I'm looking into this, tweeted out, Scott Coulton, which is based out of Australia, working for Microsoft, really into the Kubernetes world.He tweeted out yesterday that Open Policy Agent now has a play with Open Policy agents. So play with ... play.openpolicyagent.org. So you don't even need to spin this up. And this is really aimed for the Kubernetes environment. So you can actually open this up. You can play around with the inputs and outputs and see exactly what you can define. I mean it's just right there in your browser, which is really, really helpful. And like I said, we have some financial customers. We have, you know, big telecommunications companies that are interested to enforce these types of policies on their Kubernetes clusters.Open Policy is becoming almost the standard for defining policies on their clusters. So I can only see the space growing as compliance and more security-aware applications start running on Kubernetes. So I think it's something to watch. Compliance is always some of these ... one of these things that's a slow mover because they need to get all the checkboxes ticked before they can move on to the workload. Open Policies and it will make that possible. But I know in a lot of organizations they can't implement such tools unless there's a company behind it. Well, Styra is a company behind it. They had their own managed service. So this could enable companies that weren't able to use tools like Kubernetes before, with something that has a managed service. You have some dashboards, you can really have some audit trails and you can do like a security policy as code as they said, which was really kind of cool.I encourage you to try out to play with Open Policy Agent. It's a new tool, and I'm going to start playing with that ... around with it myself. So I'm going to put some GitHub projects out there so people can kind of follow around and see exactly what's possible and yeah, give it a try. Openpolicyagent.org is the open-source. You know it's part of the CNCF Stryra ... I can't say that right. So Styro, Styra is actually the company behind Open Policy Agent, it actually created it, and now they're spinning off their managed service offering. And then to play with Open Policy Agent as well. I'll put to all these links in the notes. That's all I have for today. I'm heading back to Switzerland. Can't wait to see the family, and stay tuned. I have a lot more shows, I took a ton of notes during DockerCon, so stay tuned.I'm also planning to interview a lot of the captains I had dinner with and talked to over the last few days. I mean, speaking to these captains is amazing. Every time I sit with these really intelligent individuals, my to-do list just grows incredibly, because now I have a lot of book recommendations. I have podcasts, I have videos. I mean, the list goes on, so I need to catch up on all of these on this 12-hour flight I have ahead of me, and I'm planning on interviewing all these people in the next few weeks. So stay tuned. There's a lot of exciting content coming. Thanks and have a great weekend. Bye-bye.
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Sign up to all the new announcements including AWS credits - https://beta.docker.com/Help others- https://codepath.org/Docker Foundation - https://www.docker.com/foundationEpisode TranscriptionWelcome back to The Byte. Day two, DockerCon recap. We're just going to walk through a couple of the announcements in day two. A couple of things I missed on day one. Like the ARM announcement. I can't believe I forgot to announce that in the last episode. Docker is actually partnering with ARM to develop a relationship where they can push containers on to ARM devices. You can actually develop on a Mac or a Windows machine ARM containers. That's a huge advantage. You can actually paralyze your build on your machine for X86 and ARM and then ship it to an ARM device.The reason why ARM is so important is that obviously, it powers every cell phone. The ARM processor is on every device everywhere. It's really low-level stuff. It's small processors. Doesn't take a lot of energy. Super, super-efficient, and at the same time, Amazon announced its ARM processor initiative as well. Now you can actually deploy ARM processors in Amazon Cloud and they're cheaper than Intel processors. It works on the same workload. If you were to run it on a Python machine, a Python application, you could ship it to an ARM processor instance in Amazon, it's actually cheaper. That's really cool.They kind of did some demos around it and they showed in day two a concept where they actually built parallel workloads. One for ARM, one for X86, and that was really cool. Now, some of the tools that they actually showed during the demo was Buildx. Buildx, it's really actually pretty cool. It allows you to paralyze your composed builds for super-fast local iteration. I'm just reading the recap. Sorry.The next thing was Docker Jump. It actually allows you to provision instances in the cloud. Similar to what machine did, but you did, do Docker provision or Docker Jump. You can give it the instance information and it provisions everything into your cloud. That's really awesome, if it works that seamless as the demo was, I just can't wait because that's going to be really handy because it does all the communication, all the tunneling back and forth, and it'll be ... make our jobs much more efficient, being able to provision from the Docker command line.Buildx enables ARM builds as well. You don't have to change the Docker file. You don't have to do anything. You just do Buildx. You give it the ARM architecture flag and it just builds it. Really cool. Also, you can context manage. You can actually tell the Docker command line, "Hey, I want to actually manage my environment." You go Docker context and you give it the server name and you can switch between instances with the same command line. For example, I can run Docker on my laptop, do Docker context, and then I'm actually controlling my instance in the cloud with the same command line, without doing anything else. That's really handy.They also kind of explored the engineering initiatives, what they're trying to achieve. They came out and they said, "Container to user, super important initiative." They're actually going to offer commercial support around container D, and I thought that was pretty interesting. No one else is doing that and it's going to really bring some more support to the community, because it's obviously the industry-standard container D, and now since they're getting commercial support, maybe we can build even more interesting things on top of it.Day two, a little bit jumped into [inaudible 00:03:35], Docker company to support services. Sorry. Like I said, I'm still not quite sure what it is. Is it just enterprise with Kubernetes offering? I'm still asking around, looking for more details. Additionally, at the very beginning of the Docker keynote for day two, CEO Steve Singh was talking about the Docker Foundation that they're starting to really enable developers around the world, give them a chance to actually build up their knowledge, enable developers of all background, ethnicities ... just everywhere in the world. They want to level the playing field, which I thought was really cool. They donated a lot of money to this program. They brought up somebody from codepath.org and he was explaining exactly his initiative to bring more students into the fold. It's really nice. It's like an open-source initiative, so you can offer your time to help our or you can actually write material so check it out. codepath. Interesting initiative.Finally, if you want to trial these things I talked about, day one, day two, they finally gave us a link and it's called beta.docker.com, and on this link, you can sign up for all these command line plugins we're talking about, enterprise edition, Docker enterprise desktop. All these things will be coming through beta. I think some of them are available now. I haven't signed up yet. They'll let you know as more things come available. Go ahead and go to the beta.docker.com, sign up, and you'll be on the list when things get announced.That's all for today. I will head back over to the conference today and get some more information and I'll provide you what I find out once again. Have a great day. Talk to you later.
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2019 StackOverflow Survey Results - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019Episode TranscriptionWelcome back to the Byte. I'm in San Francisco this week for DockerCon, and day one is in the books. It was a lot of information we received in this keynote, and also throughout the day. Talked to a lot of interesting people. Some new companies I was never exposed to before. So, I'm going to kind of dive into these separate topics in different episodes, because there's a lot of information I gathered, and I want to share it with everyone. I find it super interesting, because it's some spaces like IoT, Open Policy Agent, which I haven't really covered in the past, and I've been exposed to now, and it's really interesting. So, I'm going to share this information with you as well.In the keynote for DockerCon, it was focused on first, a customer panel. The customer panel had a couple of financial institutions. It had Carnival Cruise Line, which was really interesting because they're designing a user experience or a customer experience for the passengers. They get a medallion and this medallion kind of anticipates where they're going through the ship, and it helps them navigate the ship. It anticipates their needs, helps you track your family on the ship. It does a lot of cool things. They're actually wrapping Carnival Cruise Line ships in a container, the entire ship, and the experience. It was a very interesting talk.Also, Lindsay Corporation. It's a farm company. They produce machinery, but they're using docker in a global scale for industrial IoT farming, but their farm equipment is saving like 900,000 gallons of water a year, based on the new technology that they're only giving as much water as needed to their farms. It was a really interesting customer panel, to be honest. I wasn't expecting it, because customer panels typically are very salesy, but this was really interesting, so I quite enjoyed it.Next up, we walked through the docker survey, that was available by Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow announced a couple of weeks back about developers adoption of different platforms, but docker scored quite high. Docker for desktop is the most wanted platform. The most loved platform is number two. The most used platform is number three. One, two, three, it's ranked in one of these categories, which is quite impressive.Now, the actual conference, the keynote, we kicked off with docker enterprise, version 3.0. 3.0 encompasses three different features that are coming out. Docker Desktop Enterprise, we've seen that in Barcelona. It seems to become more mature, and it's getting ready. So, I'm getting super excited. I'm already pushing product management for some demos, and some access.Next step, is Docker Kubernetes service, Kubernetes servers DKS. We didn't go in to too much detail here, because it was just lightly touched on. I have a lot of questions here still. Docker application, I'll touch this in a moment, because they did some really cool demos around this.Next up, docker enterprise, docker as a service. Docker enterprise is a service. It's a managed docker installation. So, manage docker on PRIM, in the cloud, on your own machines, wherever you want. This is something that we, as a company, 56K, we see a lot of customers asking for it. They're like, "We want containers. We want these, but we don't want to manage it. We want someone else to manage it." I think it's going after a space that's really needed, to be honest, and it's something that is desired at the moment, I see.Back to docker desktop, Docker Desktop Enterprise. It's come a long way since Barcelona. I've noticed it has a lot more features. It looks a lot more polished. One of the things that stuck out at me, is now you can do version control, so you can have multiple versions running. You can switch between, version one, two, three, four, and this enables you to test and build against a newer version. However, backport it to an older version, that's Maze running in production. So, you can play around with version control there.Also, from an organization point of view, you can control the docker for Desktop Enterprise, deployments, and what versions, and what features and permissions can be installed. From an enterprise perspective, it looks pretty interesting. K8s, Kubernates, and dockers included, obviously they're kind of making like a marketplace within docker for Desktop Enterprise. It's a predefined application stacks. As a company, you can have your bread and butter application. It can be no JS, some Middleware, and a back end. You could wrap it as a predefined application bundle, and your developers can just take it, add their applications into it, and deploy it all through a GUI.This is really lowering the bar for entry into the enterprise space. People that are not maybe familiar with the command line, or not so comfortable. This really opens up the possibilities that people can use docker, it's quite interesting. I'm really looking forward to using it, to be honest.Next up, was on the command line side, is docker App, which is like an implementation of CNAB, and that's a new standard for application bundles. What it is, is the Cloud Native Application Bundle is what it's called, and docker App, allows us to use the same workflow for legacy applications, brownfield, Greenfield, if you were trying to containerize new applications.We saw a demo where they have three different application types, Legacy, brownfield, Greenfield, and they containerized all of them. Basically the command, it looks inside the current directory. Oh, it's a Java directory. You run this command, docker assemble. It actually creates a docker file. It creates some testing files. It creates everything for you. You can actually open up directly from docker for desktop enterprise, in to Visual Studio Code, make your changes, commit it back to get. It's really nice.Additionally, what's also included in here, is now we can do docker pipelines. So, after we do our docker assemble, you can do docker pipeline, and it actually created Jenkins Pipeline for us. It's autogenerated Jenkins pipeline. I thought that was pretty cool. Got a pretty nice reception from the crowd. There's a lot of interesting things coming. I see quite some things in the works.Day two is today, so we're going to see a lot more from the technical side. We're going to dive deeper into the technical side, talk to a lot of companies, and I expect to interview some more people while I'm here, and dive into some of these new company topics, that I've seen, that I wasn't exposed to before. It's been an exciting first day. Day one is in the books. Join me, and I'll keep you updated on how the day goes. Have a great day. See you next time.
In episode 57 of Mobycast, we look ahead towards DockerCon 2019, discuss what to expect and throw down a few predictions. Welcome to Mobycast, a weekly conversation about cloud native development, AWS, and building distributed systems.
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Blog Post - https://www.brianchristner.io/how-a-single-raspberry-pi-made-my-home-network-faster/Viral Analytics - https://simpleanalytics.io/brianchristner.io?start=2019-04-13&end=2019-04-20Episode TranscriptionWelcome back to the bite. Brian Christner and recording live here in Phoenix, Arizona soaking up some sunshine while I'm on holidays. But what's interesting is while I've been on holidays, my personal blog, BrianChristner.io went a bit viral while I've been on holiday, which is quite cool. What happened was, I wrote this article about Raspberry Pi and how you use Pi-hole and integrating these two together and how it all works. I talked about Pi-hole in previous episodes and I tweeted out, I submitted it to Hacker News, and it got a tiny bit of traction. I'd say a few hundred people visited the article, and that's typically how my articles go. However, Docker tweeted this out and said, "Hey, check out this article, Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole, how to make your home network more secure," and I received about 1,400 additional hits onto this article.Very cool. I was like, okay, this is getting somewhere. Then shortly after that, Docker then went to their Facebook fan page and submitted their article on their Facebook fan page, and I received about 2,000 hits from their Facebook community. Just to show, you get about 600 more people from Facebook interaction versus Twitter. I found that quite interesting because typically I don't see much Facebook traction. Finally, somewhere along the line, someone resubmitted my article to Hacker News, and that's when it wouldn't really crazy. It went up to about 13,000 hits just on Hacker News. So 13,000 referrals come from Hacker News alone. Then it somehow transferred over to Reddit and it went on and on and on. But on the 14th of April, I received approximately, let's see what it is here. About 22,000 views in one day and I'll put this into the show notes so everybody can see.But it's quite interesting because my website just got 27,252 hits in a single day, and there are websites out there getting this every day. But for my personal blog, it's quite big. I'm running Ghost. I have it fronted with Cloud Flair, which I've talked about in previous episodes, and the website just ticked along, no problem at all. I mean, Ghost is a super performance CMS system, and when you front it with something like CloudFlare, it just works right off the bat. But what I found the most interesting is how each social media platform picked up traction on this article, and how much traffic had actually sent to my platform, to my blog post, how a single Raspberry Pi made my home network faster. So Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, they sent you to know together about 6,000 referrals, but Hacker News obviously, that's a totally different ball game, and it went up 13,000.There's a bunch of other article referrals that also contributed, but I'm just super happy that my, A, my sites handled the load, no problems. I didn't receive like any downtime, and it's just a nice confirmation that this is how things are working. I also shared these statistics with Docker. I said, "Hey, this is what happens when you tweet out on your Facebook community, from my point of view, how people actually interact with my site." And like I said before, my statistics are completely open so you can see this. I'll put the actual time period in there, and you can see previous to the site going viral, it was hovering around 500 and a thousand hits a day, and then it goes from that to about 27,000. This is a huge spike. It really messes up your analytics cause it's kind of really flat, then you have a huge spike in the middle of it.Now out of that, I didn't have anything set up on my website to actually capture subscribers or anything of that type because I've not interested the capture these things. I'm more interested to share information, but I'm going to share my analytics with everyone so everyone can see what happens when your site goes a bit viral because typically everybody says, "Oh, I went viral," but I'm going to actually show the details, so I will share this in the show notes and everybody can see for themselves. But going forward, I think I'm going to try to promote my company a bit more 56k.cloud, as well as this podcast, The Byte.Well, thanks for listening. The next episode I'll talk about Ghost CMS, so what's powering my blog and how well it performed, and that's all for today. From Sunny Phoenix, Arizona, and soon one week away from DockerCon. I'll see you in the next episode. Have a great day and talk to you soon. Newest Oldest Longest Shortest Random
In episode 20 of Mobycast, Chris recaps another DockerCon 2018 session, how to create effective container images by Abby Fuller. Welcome to Mobycast, a weekly conversation about containerization, Docker, and modern software deployment.
In episode 18 of Mobycast, Chris leads a DockerCon session roll up. In particular, we discussed securing container-based deployments. Welcome to Mobycast, a weekly conversation about containerization, Docker, and modern software deployment.
In episode 17 of Mobycast, Chris provides his main takeaways from dockercon 2018. Welcome to Mobycast, a weekly conversation about containerization, Docker, and modern software deployment.
Networking and storage are two of the most difficult and complex parts of a cloud-native platform. In this episode we talk with Usha Ramachandran who product managers containing networking and volume services in Cloud Foundry. We discuss the networking problems being solved with c2c and why networking problems is so difficult. While not as extensive, we have a brief conversation around storage. Also, as ever, we discuss some recent news from DockerCon, Google voice services, and the recent Spring Cloud Data Flow release. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
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