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June 24, 2022

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What has Ortus been publishing this week? We have the CFML News Podcast, more ITB Workshop Podcasts, some CFCasts and YouTube Videos, lots of Ortus and ITB Blog Posts. We have a lot more planned for next week as well

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Getting started with ColdBox Debugger

The ColdBox Debugger (cbDebugger) module is “a light-weight performance monitor and profiling tool for ColdBox applications” that can be used to see what is going on with your site. It can monitor any ColdBox site, from frontend sites with views to REST API sites. It can also track many things and give insights into requests, CacheBox caches, database activity (including cborm, quick, qb, and Adobe CF 2018+). It has also been recently updated to use Alpine JS as well as other enhancements. If you have not used ColdBox Debugger in a while, it is time to take another look.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/getting-started-with-coldbox-debugger


Live Stream Series - Koding with the Kiwi + Friends - Next stream June 24th 2022

In our next session, Sam and David from In League will join Gavin. They will talk about their experience using Quick ORM, and qb, in their ColdFusion / CFML projects. Now that we have a simple DB Migration created, we'll start fleshing some entities and orm objects. We'll talk about how to test with the database gets involved, and look at getting our API to start returning data from the database... and more about db philosophies, and how to organize your services, entities etc. Find out how you can tune in and join the live stream.

In our last session, Gavin the Kiwi, kidnaps Kai Koenig for this weeks Koding with the Kiwi + Friends. After a lot of technical difficulties, Gavin thinks this week's videos should have been called Koding Disasters with the Kiwi + Hecklers. Find out more and how to watch last weeks stream.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/live-stream-series-koding-with-the-kiwi-friends-next-stream-june-24th-2022


Online CF Meeting Series on Code Reuse, 3rd Party Libraries and Package Management

Gavin has presented several webinars on the Online ColdFusion Meetup with Charlie Arehart. This series was inspired by many questions from customers and community members, wanting to learn more about code reuse, when should they write their own modules, when should they use java or coldfusion/cfml packages, and why should people use CommandBox and ForgeBox vs manually handling your 3rd party and shared libraries. This series tries to go back to basics, and explain pros and cons of each approach, hopefully shedding light and demystifying 3rd party libraries, package management, CommandBox endpoint installations, and ForgeBox being the home of all CFML, not a tool for box only products and tools. Check out this blog post for all of these sessions, and links on how to view them on YouTube.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/online-cf-meeting-series-on-code-reuse-3rd-party-libraries-and-package-management


ITB 2022 Podcast Series - Workshop - Containerizing and Scaling Your Applications with Jon Clausen

This podcast is a special podcast for attendees or undecided attendees, to get a view of what the workshop has to offer.Jon Clausen talks about his upcoming workshop at Into the Box, he talks about who the ideal audience is, and why they should attend. He talks about what will the workshop cover, the requirements for the workshop, and what he hopes the attendees will leave the workshop with. In this workshop, you will gain knowledge and proficiency in utilizing Docker containers to develop, deploy, and scale ColdFusion (CFML) applications. Be it Docker swarms, Kubernetes, or other orchestration services. Get ready to send your applications out into the great wide world of containerization!

http://www.intothebox.org/blog/itb-2022-podcast-series-workshop-containerizing-and-scaling-your-applications-with-jon-clausen


Announcing - Pre-Conference - First set of Speakers Announced

Due to Covid and other reasons, some of the CFML Community Speakers will not be able to make this years Into the Box - but we wanted to include them anyways. To do that, last week we announced a Pre-Conference / 3rd Track for ITB. Read more about it here. Today we're happy to announce our first set of speakers for our Pre-Conference Track.

http://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-pre-conference-first-set-of-speakers-announced


ITB 2022 Podcast Series - Workshop - Async Programming & Scheduling with Luis Majano & Eric Peterson

This podcast is a special podcast for attendees or undecided attendees, to get a view of what the workshop has to offer. Luis Majano and Eric Peterson talk about their upcoming workshop at Into the Box, he talks about who the ideal audience is, and why they should attend. He talks about what will the workshop cover, the requirements for the workshop, and what he hopes the attendees will leave the workshop with. In this workshop, attendees will explore the concepts of asynchronous and parallel programming with the ColdBox Async Manager and Java’s Completable Futures APIs. They will explore the concept of async computations, async pipelines, exception handling, scheduling and so much more. Pain medication is included!

http://www.intothebox.org/blog/itb-2022-podcast-series-workshop-async-programming-scheduling-with-luis-majano-eric-peterson


Announcing - Pre-Conference - Second set of Speakers Announced

Due to Covid and other reasons, some of the CFML Community Speakers will not be able to make this years Into the Box - but we wanted to include them anyways. To do that, last week we announced a Pre-Conference / 3rd Track for ITB. Read more about it here. Today we're happy to announce our second set of speakers for our Pre-Conference Track.

http://www.intothebox.org/blog/announcing-pre-conference-second-set-of-speakers-announced

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