What is Koding with the Kiwi?

Starting last Friday, June 10th, at 1pm PDT, Gavin Pickin hosted a live stream, live coding, pair programming with some Community Member "Friends". This stream will try to include special guests from the community, to get their viewpoints / advice on how Gavin should do something. They’ll be pair programming while they chat, with each stream focusing on a piece of the project.

June 17th - Kai Koenig - Talking Databases, ORM, and Database Testing

In this session, Kai will join Gavin. They will talk about Databases, ORM, and start building out the database with some migrations, and 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.

Last Week - June 10th - Adam Cameron - TDD

The first session went pretty well. Adam Cameron joined a number of Patreons, they talked about TDD, approaches, where to put your files, how to name them, and walked through the process of getting started with the project, and wrote some tests, true tdd style. The Patreons gave feedback in the chat, and we even opened up the microphones.

The recording is now available on CF Casts for you to view - https://cfcasts.com/series/koding-with-the-kiwi-+-friends/videos/20220610-koding-with-the-kiwi-+-friends-adam-cameron-tdd-testing

What type of code / project will Gavin and Friends be working on?

With ColdFusion Conference Season Upon us, Gavin is preparing for Adobe Dev Week, Into the Box Workshops, and Into the Box sessions, and hopefully Adobe CF Summit and Quasar Conference. Gavin is trying to tie all of his projects together, by building an multi faceted ColdFusion REST API that powers a front-end VueJS application written in the Quasar Framework, which will provide a great set of components, but also allow him to publish SPA apps, PWA apps, iOS, MacOS, Android and Windows Applications.

The theme of the project is a Quiz based learning platform with different types of questions, and different formats. Each conference / session will focus on a different piece, but will be all related. The project Gavin will be working on is a series of REST API apps to power all of those VueJS front-ends.

He'll be using ColdBox, TestBox, CF Migrations, Quick and QB, CBSecurity, CBValidation, Pagination, to build a secure ColdFusion ColdBox REST API, and you'll see how the bread is made in this series, influenced by all of the community members who will be sharing their best practices.

Date and Times

Weekly on Fridays at 1pm PDT - The goal is to host these live streams on a weekly basis, when possible, Gavin will announce them Tuesday on the Podcast and via blog/email.

Who can Attend?

The live stream will be open to all Patreons, no matter what level you are at.

Not a patreon? Sign up today or wait for us to release the recording on CFCasts after the session.

Patreon’s check your email, there will be an email sent soon with the registration link for the zoom webinar. Mic's will be muted by default, but they'll open them up for questions, and they'll try to keep an eye on the chat, to keep things interactive, and fun.

Hope you like the new format, Patreons, check your emails, and we'll see you on Friday!

If you're a Patreon, check your email. If not, sign up now on https://www.patreon.com/ortussolutions If you DM Gavin on Twitter with your receipt, he'll make sure you get the webinar registration link.