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The day started again with breakfast! <picture>
Thank you to Ortus for the great food.
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Keynote:
Reminder - Keynotes are available for free on cfcasts.com (https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2021/videos/keynote-day-2)
It began with Edgardo reminding us of his awesome dance moves from yesterday. It's definitely something to see. Even though you can't unsee it.
Also, Life is more than software.
Pause Breathe Resume
Ortus does a whole lot to help the community. Thank you to Ortus.
Next up is Luis again.
ContentBox
- 9th Anniversaries
- 4.x Series 2018, 5.x Series 2021 (yesterday), 6 Beta in 2022, 6 Final in 2023, 7 Beta 2024
- Main new features = Multi-site, Headless, Reactive Admin, CLI
- Multi-site
- Manage 1 or 1000 sites on one Box.
- Detection through URI, Query String or Headers
- Staging + Prod in one box
- Copy/Clone/Move between sites
- Export/Import
- Headless CMS
- Everything modularized.
- Expressive RESTful API
- JWTs
- Can be deployed as a single module
- Consume from ANY language
- Build self-documents
- Reactive Admin
- Using Alpine.js + Tailwind
- CBWire Elements
- Return Vanilla.js
- CLI
- contentbox-cli
- Install ContentBox on any CFML Engine with any supported database
- Automise entire content sites
- ContentBox Cloud - CAAS Content as a Service
- Bring your own UI
- Beta Q2 2022
TestBox de facto standard for TDD and BDD in CFML dev
- 7th Anniversary.
- 734K installations
- 4.x Series April 2020
- 5 releases, 1 coming soon
- 5.x series planning has started.
- output utilities through `request.testbox` or console or CF output buffer.
- updated reporters - Easier to read
Mocking (MockdataCFC rewrite)
- Over 15 mocking types
- Can also be a mocking HTTP REST Service, a CFML app or a ColdBox module.
IDE Integration
Now Jon Clausen ("Captain Container")
State of the Container
- more ubiquitous
- Orchestration tools evolve (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Portainer, Ranger)
- Usage of containers for Cron and Lambda
- Swarm Stacks and Kube Workflows make full stack deployments (almost) trivial
- Docker Commandbox has almost 1.3M pulls!
- 6 releases in 2021
- Tighter integration with Commandbox
- Multi-Architecture support - (also supports ARM)
- ACF 2021 Support
- Lucee Lite Builds
- Don't forget MiniBox (Pete Freitag) (with Docker Commandbox)
- StacheBox
- Logging and Bug Tracking framework for Coldbox
- Javascript bug logging system which integrates with the module.
- Can run as a module or as standalone
- Can aggregate data between multiple log indexes and track occurrences.
ortussolutions.org/stachebox
stachebox.ortusbooks.com
- cbElasticsearch (lowest barrier of entry for advanced elasticsearch with CFML apps)
- 23K installs
- PATCH API support
cbelasticsearch.ortusbooks.com
- CommandBox containers make your life easier.
Next up Eric Peterson - Lead module architect
- qb = queryBuilder (Last year = 37 releases and 18 contributors)
- Optional strict date detection
- computed and virtual columns
- Dump Helper - dump dump == debug query contents
- table locks
- auto scale for decimals and floats
- Now handles Upserts
- Quick (26 rel, 11 contrib)
- ORM for ColdBox
- "Up and Running with Quick" workshop on CFCasts -
- NEW:
- JSON and Boolean Casts
- Easy return relationship counts
- Parent/Child
- cbDebugger
- Mini-APM (Application Performance Monitoring)
- works with API requests
- qb, Quick and cbORM reporting
- Quasar App coming soon
- Word Cloud of modules that have recently been updated <pic>
- CFCasts (modern CFML content)
- 21 Series, 311 Videos, 85 FREE
- 100 hours of content
- over 450 registrations.
Next up: Michael Born (Sr Ortusian Dev)
- DocBox Lives!
- Documentation Library that reads code metadata and generates documentation.
- Machine readable docs
- Added multi-output format
= docbox.ortusbooks.com
- cbORM (sane way to work with Hibernate)
- chainable human DSL
- Java streams support
- native array of structs
- Partnered with Lucee to upgrade Hibernate extension.
- moves imbedded Hibernate forward a full decade.
- Breaking change in 5.4 == positional parameters (update to new JPA syntax)
Finally, Gavin Pickin (The Balrog of NZ)
- Ortus Podcasts
- "Let us be the voices in your head."
- Modernize or Die CFML News Edition - Approx 14K listens + 10K YouTube watches over 125 episodes.
- About 40 minutes, weekly, Tuesdays
- Bringing back SoapBox Edition
- Hosted by Luis Majano
- Longer format - 30-60 minutes
- Monthly
And the Keynote has come to an end.
"Go Forth and Conquer!"
Once again, they have shown me even more "Box" goodies that I don't know enough about. QB and Quick look pretty cool. I need to flag down Eric later to ask about QB.
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SESSION 1 - Using Commandbox to optimize your daily workflow - Scott Steinbeck
CommandBox is a full-featured CLI tool written in CFML that streamlines your workflow. We will be navigating through many of the features included out of the box such as: command aliases, environment variables, enhanced terminal commands, JSON/File search & filter, watch tasks, as well as other Box product built in commands. Then we will explore extended features provided by published CommandBox modules and your own custom modules and task runners.
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- What is Commandbox?
`box start cfengine="none"` >>> gives a plain HTML server! Very cool.
- To learn more, go to the docs. There's a _TON_ of info about what CommandBox can do.
`server list running`
`server stop all`
- Environment Vars Overrides!
- `env set cfconfig_AdminPassword "P@ssW0rd"`
67 Commandbox modules in total.
- CFDocs
- Bullettrain
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SESSION 2 - How to create high performance teams - Stephanie Monge
There is no secret recipe to create high-performance teams, however, we will share some valuable tips that will help you look over yourself and your team to find improvement opportunities that will boost your team performance and growth.
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"Man is, by nature, a social animal." = Aristotle
"I am because We are." - Ubuntu
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LUNCH TIME!
Pulled pork! Baked beans. Bread. Smells fantastic! But....
My session is right after lunch. There's absolutely _NO WAY_ I'm going to eat anything beforehand.
But I grabbed a plate and stashed it in my preso room. I'll eat after my talk.
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SESSION 3 - Don't Go Breakin' My Heart: Trust, But Verify = Shawn Oden
September is Insider Threat Awareness Month. So let's talk a little cybersecurity. Insider threats are a problem that every business should watch out for.
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September is Insider Threat Awareness Month. So let's talk a little cybersecurity. Insider threats are a problem that every business should watch out for. To function, any business must trust their employees. But, sometimes, that trust can be abused to disastrous ends. In this talk, I'll go over some of the basics of Insider Threat Awareness, and I'll show some examples of real Insider Threats and how they could have been seen coming.
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This was my talk. First time talking in front of more than a few people in forever. I hope it went well.
About half way through, the hotel wifi went out, so I completely lost my Zoom audience. It took me a few minutes to get reconnected and back on with everyone. So my recording will be broken.
That got me about 10 minutes behind, so I had to rush through the last half of my preso. I ended it about 10 minutes late. Fortunately, Charlie Arehart was after me, so he was able to adjust his preso and catch back up. Thanks a ton, Charlie!
NOTE: Before my preso, I was talking with Dan Card. He liked my background. Said it was very "Usual Suspects", and he mentioned that Office Space would be a good fit for my topic. :-)
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SESSION 4 - Considering Monitoring Solutions for CF and Lucee
Charlie Arehart
If you're suffering performance and stability problems, there's no substitute for having SOME kind of monitoring in place. But there are quite a variety of monitoring solutions available for ColdFusion and Lucee. How do you choose? (Or are they "all the same"? No!)
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There may be some monitoring features built-into your CFML engine (and free), which perhaps you didn't even know about--or it may depend on which version of the engine you're running. There are also commercial third-party monitoring tools, built for CF and Lucee. And there are still other Java monitoring tools (some free, some commercial), which can be used readily with CF and Lucee. So many choices, but which is best for you? In this session, we'll review several of these monitoring alternatives, and which are available for various releases of CF and Lucee. We'll identify several goals (problems to be solved or features one may seek). With this information, one can better determine if a built-in tool may suffice, or better choose among other options that would best meet their specific needs, including whether having more than one tool (yes, more than monitor against a single instance) may be the best way to satisfy different needs.
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Again, thank you, Charlie, for being a super-professional. I wanted to watch this whole talk, but I already made him start late, and I was hungry. I wanted my lunch that I stashed away. But the awesome hotel staff were a bit too efficient. Someone found my stashed plate and cleaned it up.
Fortunately, they were still cleaning up the lunch service, so I was able to fix myself another plate. It was cold, but it was still very tasty.
I got to eat while I watched the last half of Charlie's preso. Sadly, I didn't take any real notes, other than a tiny one about Challenges of Scale (1vs7000 servers) and a note about CFStat and ListMetricData().
I'll look up his slides later. He's always full of good info.
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SESSION 5 - Testing APIs with TestBox
Javier Quintero
Ready to start testing your CFML apps but not sure how to do it right? In this session, you will learn how to test your app whether is a ColdBox app or not. I will guide you and show you the benefits of using TestBox when writing API tests. Remember, writing tests is a vital part of the development process, make sure you write tests for your existing and new apps. Do it often and take advantage of the features and benefits that TestBox has in the store for you.
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Server Error Code Families
1xx Info
2xx Success
3xx Redirect
4xx Client Error
5xx Server Error
Coldbox Relax -- `box install relax`
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SESSION 6 - Quick - Scopes, Relationships, and Patterns
Eric Peterson
Come learn how Quick can help you improve the readability of your code, not just represent SQL as Objects. 1. Give relevant names to important collections of SQL code. (scopes, relationships, etc.) 2. Make queries easy to compose at runtime to get the exact data you want in the most efficient way (subselects, eager loading, etc.) 3. Get out of your way when you need or want to write barebones SQL.
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- Quick is the ColdBox ORM engine.
- Scope - How to organize SQL objects
- cbDebugger - get your queries that are generated
- Workshops on CFCasts!
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And we're done. Almost. We've got the closing and the final Raffle.....
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Sweet! I won an Amazon Echo Auto!
And now we're really done. :-(
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I tried to switch my flight to leave tonight, but I couldn't get it done. Because I was trying to fly out of IAH instead of HOU, I'd have to talk to an agent. And with a 40 minute expected wait, I'd be cutting it _EXTREMELY_ close to switch my plane then find an Uber that could get me to the airport. I guess I'll stick to my original flight and leave in the morning.
.........
Since I'm sticking around for the evening, I'm going to walk back down to the restaurant we went to the other day to grab some grub.
....
That place was _PACKED_! I walked back down to Goode Company and ordered an Old No. 7. It was some of the best Tex-Mex I think I've ever had. Though, to be fair, I'm in Houston, which already has great Tex-Mex, and it's been a couple of decades since I've been in this part of the country. They gave me a ton of food, more than I was able to eat, to be honest, and I would _HIGHLY_ recommend this place again (https://kitchenandcantina.com/menus/the-woodlands/).
Now that I'm stuffed, it's time to wind down and go to bed. I've got to be up _REALLY_ early to check out and meet my Uber at 5 A.M.
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