Ortus Content Digest for week of August 5th

CFCasts, Podcasts, Tutorials

Gavin Pickin August 05, 2022

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Gavin Pickin

August 05, 2022

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It's August 5th... what has Ortus been publishing this week? We have the CFML News Podcast, some CFCasts and YouTube Videos, lots of Ortus and ITB Blog Posts. We have a lot more planned for next week as well.

Podcasts

Modernize or Die® - CFML News Edition - August 2nd, 2022 - Episode 159

CFCasts

LogBox 101
- Episode 11 - Async Appenders
Ortus Webinars - 2022
- Ortus Webinar for July - Legacy Migration Follow Up: Using Coldbox with an Existing Code Base with Dan Card
ForgeBox Module of the Week
- Commandbox-Jasper - ForgeBox Module of the Week - 07/12/22 - Episode 156
VS Code - Hint tip and Trick of the Week
- Emoji Snippets - VSCode Hint Tip and Trick of the Week - 07/12/22 - Episode 156

YouTube

Ortus Solutions Blog

Integrating ColdBox with Existing Code Series Part 4: More Integration

Recently I did a webinar on Refactoring Legacy Code and the question came up about whether or not it was possible to use Coldbox with existing code without converting everything to a Coldbox module or making changes to the existing codebase. In the first installation in this series, we took a tour of the various elements which make up ColdBox. In the second installation, we looked at creating layouts, views, and routes in the main site. In this installation, we’re going to start incorporating our existing code base and do so using a module.

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/integrating-coldbox-with-existing-code-series-part-4-more-integration

ColdBox 6.8.0 Released

I am incredibly excited to announce the release of ColdBox v6.8.0 and its standalone companion libraries: CacheBox, LogBox and WireBox. This update includes some important fixes and we managed to squeeze some nice improvements!

https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-680-released

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Would you tell the business the upgrade is complete?

Consider an illustrative scenario: a customer submits an order after an upgrade. The application saves it and displays a confirmation page. But the confirmation email never arrives, and the scheduled process that sends the order to fulfillment has not completed.

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Updating Adobe ColdFusion isn't always just installing the latest patch

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Updates can include security fixes, library upgrades, JVM-related changes, changes to the ColdFusion Administrator, updated packages, bug fixes, and changes in runtime behavior. Most updates will not cause problems for most applications. But when you'r...

BoxLang AI 3.6: Your Agent Now Has Eyes, Ears, and a Voice

Ortus Solutions today announces BoxLang AI 3.6, the release that connects the AI framework to the rest of the BoxLang productivity platform. Your agents can now drive a real browser via bx-playwright, speak and master audio via bx-audio, stream text-to-speech token by token, talk to any MCP server over stdio — and do all of it with the same fluent BoxLang syntax they always have.

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