Ortus Content Digest for week of July 29th

CFCasts, Podcasts, Tutorials

Gavin Pickin July 29, 2022

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Gavin Pickin

July 29, 2022

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It's July 29th... 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 Podcast for July 26th, 2022 - Episode 158

CFCasts

LogBox 101
- Episode 10 - Sending Logs to Slack with a Custom Appender
ForgeBox Module of the Week
- Coldbox Existing Code - ForgeBox Module of the Week - 7/5/22 Episode 155
VS Code - Hint tip and Trick of the Week
- Ngrok for VSCode - VSCode Hint Tip and Trick of the Week - 7/5/22 - Episode 155

YouTube

Ortus Solutions Blog

Integrating ColdBox with Existing Code Series -3 -First Module / Include our Code

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-3-first-module-include-our-code

ColdBox 8.1.0 Released — AI Routing, MCP, and BoxLang-First Power! 🚀

We are thrilled to announce ColdBox 8.1.0, a targeted minor release packed with powerful new features, important improvements, and critical bug fixes across ColdBox, WireBox, and CacheBox. While minor in version number, this release delivers some truly exciting capabilities — especially for BoxLang developers building AI-powered applications.

ColdFusion Modernization for UK Universities Without Downtime

Across the United Kingdom, many universities still rely on legacy ColdFusion and CFML systems to power student portals, enrollment platforms, research databases, payment gateways, and internal academic workflows.

These systems are often:

15 to 25 years old
Mission-critical
Deeply integrated with student information systems
Running on older Adobe ColdFusion or Lucee versions
Tightly coupled monolithi...

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