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Breaking the BHA Cycle - Microservice Architecture for CFML Legacy Apps
Jon Clausen |
March
30,
2017
No doubt you're familiar with one of the buzzwords of the moment: "microservices". Or you are familiar with the word at least, if not in practice. If you've been doing CFML development since the before Adobe bought out Macromedia, possibly even before Macromedia bought out Allaire, you've no doubt slogged through your share of procedural, template-based CFML. Then You know just the app(s!) I'm talking about...
CommandBox Docker Image 3.6.0 Released
Jon Clausen |
March
28,
2017
This morning, we released the official Docker CommandBox image v3.6.0, which adds support for customizing your server using environment variables in your build, including support for the conventions used by the cfconfig CommandBox module. While the module is still in alpha, it is already proving to be a powerful way to provision and configure CFML servers at runtime.
Why use Docker?
If you're not up to speed with what Docker is and how it can benefit you, throughout the dev-ops lifecycle of your application, have a look at this summary article on the benefits or dig in to the official documentation. As we get further in to the weeds with configuration, we'll assume you're up to speed on the basics.
More after the jump...
"Boxed" up, RESTful Goodness
Jon Clausen |
March
15,
2017
Leveraging the Coldbox REST Application Template
In February, we quietly released an updated version our our [Coldbox REST Application Template](https://github.com/coldbox-templates/rest). The enhancement aimed to consolidate a number of best practices and enhancements in RESTful API development that were worthy of being included in the template.
CommandBox 3.6.0 Released
Brad Wood |
March
10,
2017
We are proud to announce the general availability of CommandBox 3.6.0!. This is a minor release of the CLI tool that contains mostly bug fixes and small enhancements. You can download the latest version from the CommandBox download page. We've updated the GitBook docs and Command API docs as well.
Introducing CFConfig : A new way to manage your CF server's configuration from the command line
Brad Wood |
March
07,
2017
We're very excited to unveil a brand new project we've been working on called CFConfig! It's a command line tool that can help you manage the configuration for any CF server in a simple, portable, and automated fashion. CFConfig is a CommandBox module that can be used to set, show, import, export, and diff configuration on Adobe CF and Lucee servers. This project is still in an alpha state, but it ready for people to start kicking the tires and providing feedback.
Ortus Jobs: We need a DevOps Engineer
Luis Majano |
March
06,
2017
Are you a DevOps Engineer?
We are in need of a DevOps Engineer at Ortus Solutions and we would love to have you join our 100% remote and global team! So it doesn't matter if you live in a beautiful Hawaiian beach or an icy patch of land in New Hampshire. If you know your DevOps, we need to talk. Below you can find the opportunity and you can send us your resumes to lmajano@ortussolutions.com.
We are in need of a DevOps Engineer at Ortus Solutions and we would love to have you join our 100% remote and global team! So it doesn't matter if you live in a beautiful Hawaiian beach or an icy patch of land in New Hampshire. If you know your DevOps, we need to talk. Below you can find the opportunity and you can send us your resumes to lmajano@ortussolutions.com.
Don't touch that Node-- write your own command line tools in CFML!
Brad Wood |
March
02,
2017
There's a lot of command tools out there written by developers to help them automate all sorts of tasks from code refactoring, linting, and builds. Node has become a popular tool to write reusable tools that can be run from the command line, but many CF developers don't realize that CommandBox has allowed developers to [do this nativley in CFML](https://ortus.gitbooks.io/commandbox-documentation/content/developing/commands/developing_commands.html) for years now.
How to use a database in CLI scripts with CommandBox
Brad Wood |
February
21,
2017
One of the cool things that CommandBox allows you to do is run CFML code directly from the command line via the execute command, or on Unix as a natively-executable hash bang script! This opens up all sorts of doors for scheduling cron jobs and whatnot that you can write in CFML much faster and easier than using bash or shell scripts. One common question is how to access the database from one of these scripts.
New Ortus Quick API Docs Explorer
Luis Majano |
February
16,
2017
