2024-05-28 Weekly News — Episode 216

Watch the video version on YouTube at https://youtube.com/live/Djeas-Lw3XU?feature=share
 
Hosts: 

• Eric Peterson - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
• Daniel Garcia - Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions

Thanks to our Sponsor - Ortus Solutions

The makers of ColdBox, CommandBox, ForgeBox, TestBox and all your favorite box-es out there. 
A few ways to say thanks back to Ortus Solutions:

• Buy Tickets to Into the Box 2025 in Washington DC https://t.co/cFLDUJZEyM
• April 30, 2025 - May 2, 2025 - Washington, DC
• 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 AND WE WILL READ IT ON THE SHOW
• Sign up for a free or paid account on CFCasts, which is releasing new content regularly
• BOXLife store: https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/shop
• Buy Ortus’s Books
  • 102 ColdBox HMVC Quick Tips and Tricks on GumRoad (http://gum.co/coldbox-tips)
  • Now on Amazon! In hardcover too!!!
    • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJHB712M
  • Learn Modern ColdFusion (CFML) in 100+ Minutes - Free online https://modern-cfml.ortusbooks.com/ or buy an EBook or Paper copy https://www.ortussolutions.com/learn/books/coldfusion-in-100-minutes 

Patreon Support (Magnificent)
We have 50 patreons:
https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions.

News and Announcements

BoxLang — Dynamic : Modular : Productive

https://boxlang.io/
https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/

New Releases and Updates

Galaxie Blog 3.57
https://www.gregoryalexander.com/blog/2024/5/22/galaxie-blog-357-is-released


ITB Releases

ITB Highlights

Keynote Day 1

• BoxLang released!
  • Modern Dynamic Language
  • Java Interop
  • Pure Functions + Immutable Classes
  • Multi-Runtime Architecture
  • Multi-Parsers : BoxLang + CFML + ???
  • Event-Driven Language
  • Enterprise Caching Engine & Aggregator
  • Scheduling & Task Framework
  • Tested & Documented
  • Tooling
    • BoxLang IDE (VS Code Extension)
    • CLI
    • Debugger
  • Modules
    • Web Applications - HTTP Request/Response Data
    • Tasks and Queues -  Watchers, Event Handling, Async
    • Lambda and CLI -  fast start and blazing speeds!
    • iOS/Android - Low resource footprint, event handling
    • Web Assembly - Transpilation and Sandboxing
  • boxlang.io
    • Has installers
  • boxlang.ortusbooks.com
  • Try.boxlang.io
    • AWS Lambda Runtime
  • Professional Open Source
  • Visionary Licenses

Keynote Day 2

• ColdBox 8.x Beta in 2024, release in 2025
• New cbDebugger (thanks Scott Steinbeck)
• ContentBox 7 Beta in 2024, release in 2025
  • CommandBox
  • CommandBox Pro
  • Multisite Support (don’t need pro for this actually)
  • Windows Installer
  • Updated Docker Images
  • New Iron Bank images
• cbWire v4 launched
• Modules
  • QB Updates
  • Quick Updates
  • Hyper Updates
  • cbq Updates
  • Vite plugin
  • Megaphone
  • cbSecurity Passkeys

BoxLang

Highlights:

TryBoxLang

• Runs on AWS Lambda

cbWire v4

• wire:navigate
• Lazy Loading
• Teleport
• Execute JavaScript from templates
• Streaming responses
• Smaller and faster!

cbSecurity Passkeys

• Add Passkey support to your site that uses cbSecurity
• Easy to get started with and configurable to your needs

cbq v3

• More stable, fewer bugs, and better docs

Webinars, Meetups and Workshops

Into the Box 2024, Day 1 & 2 Keynotes
Into the Box 2024 Keynote Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M0IdUl7IWg
Into the Box 2024 Keynote Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgQzgUPUtzk

CFCasts Content Updates

https://www.cfcasts.com

Recent Releases

• ITB 2024 videos coming soon for all attendees

Conferences and Training

CFCamp 2024

• Location: Munich, Freising, Germany
• Dates: June 13-14, 2024
• Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/cf_camp/status/1736705195927646236
• Facebook Link: https://t.co/YKU4dhuHEO
• https://www.cfcamp.org/ 
• https://www.cfcamp.org/tickets.html 
• Sessions announced: https://www.cfcamp.org/sessions.html 

CF Summit West in Las Vegas

At Resorts World - New venue!!!
Sep 30 - Oct 1st for the Conference
Oct 2nd for the Certification

https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/

Pricing
$99 for the Session Pass right now.
Coupon code might be in your email if you are a previous attendee for even better pricing
$199 for the Professional Pass - include Certification Training on the 2nd of Oct.
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/register/registration/select

Call for Speakers is Open!!!
https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/speaker-application/

Accommodations

Resorts World
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Las Vegas, NV, United States, Nevada

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Ortus - Workshop - TBA

ITB 2025

• Location: Washington, DC
• Dates: April 30, 2025 - May 2, 2025 - Washington, DC
• https://t.co/cFLDUJZEyM
• 50% off blind tickets

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