API is the big buzzword these days

can use ContentBox API to get data in/out of your site
internally in your content box app
externally
mobile app
web hooks,
etc

(John did a lot of walking thru code during his preso. I eventually stopped taking notes and just watched his code. I believe the sample files will be available for download from him somewhere.)

Dont replace jquery w/ vue
they solve different problems
keep using jquery if you want

The Past —

got its start as a static web server and a proxy
Igor Sysoev
apache had a problem where it’d fall over after 10K requests
Igor wrote NGINX to handle proxy connections and do things in a new way.

Why use modules?

We can reuse modules, improve each other’s work

versioning
can pin to 1 version if you’re worried about a future version breaking something in your app

(Much of this talk was watching live processes run on Corby’s machine, hence not many notes.)

Development Cycle:
requirements > code > build > deploy/operate > feedback > requirements…

when we talk to high perf software dev companies
the diff is not in the talent of the people
it’s how fast can they get around the dev cycle loop

Luis Majano —

Ortus has grown. From ColdBox to “Many Boxes”.

“You’re still coding in that?!” story

This week is the Into The Box conference in Houston. Like previous years, it’s run by the fine folks at Ortus Solutions.  Unlike previous years, the conference is now in Texas, and has expanded to 2 days, plus an additional day of pre-conference training.  

Tomorrow morning I jump on a plane (that thankfully isn’t United, ha!) and head to the Adobe ColdFusion Government Summit. Here’s my best guess as to where you’ll be able to find me:

This Wednesday (April 19) at SacInteractive, Jon Nutting will be giving an Intro To React.  The description is below; as always our meeting is FREE and open to everyone. It starts at 6:30 at HackerLab -- hope to see you there! --nolan

This Wednesday (April 19) I’ll be speaking at the Adobe ColdFusion Government Summit in Washington DC. I’m not actually giving a ColdFusion specific talk, but rather I’ll be presenting “Crash Course in jQuery”.

CF is 21 years young
double-digit growth
between 2014 (cf11) and 2016 (cf2016), we saw “double digit growth” in CF
adding new customers year over year (consistent over the last few years)
these are customers who have NEVER bought CF before

doing a lot of going to different cities, having conversations w/ CF folks
feedback taken to product/engineering team

next month (May) CF 10 goes out of core support - no more security/hot fixes
ONE more for CF 10 and 11 in the next few weeks, but that’s it for 10

Wednesday was the ColdFusion Roadshow in San Francisco. Essentially this was 2 1-hour sessions by Elishia Dvorak and Rakshith Naresh about the current state of ColdFusion, and future plans. Much of the info was similar to what we’d been told at CF Summit and CF Camp last year, but there were some new details as well. (I’ll post my notes from both sessions shortly.)  Overall it looks like Adobe has some great ideas planned for the next 2 ColdFusion releases (tentatively scheduled for 2018 and 2020).

The fine folks at the CF Alive Podcast interviewed me recently. We talked about my upcoming presentation on Dependency Injection at the Into The Box Conference, WireBox, ColdFusion, and various other things.

While working on a project with Blue River, Eddie Ballisty and I had to write a Mura plugin for adding iFrames to a Mura website.  Blue River was kind enough to let us release the plugin as open source for the rest of the Mura community.

You can download the plugin here: https://github.com/nolanerck/Mura-IFrame-Plugin

Just a quick note about my Mura Google News Sitemaps plugin.  Per a client request, I’ve added an
“Excluded SubTypes” option to the Settings page.  Essentially this is a “short circuit” for the Exclude From News Sitemap field on the Content - Extended Attributes tab.  

This Wednesday at SacInteractive we have “10 Tips to Save Development Time”. Dave Jones was scheduled to give this talk earlier but there was a storm and we lost electricity for the night. Dave was kind enough to reschedule and is giving the talk this coming Wednesday night.  Details are below; as always it’s FREE and open to everyone.

Bay area people, who wants to learn JavaScript? I'm teaching a 2 day "Intro to JavaScript" class on March 11 and 12 at Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco.  I may be able to get you a discount on the price. Drop me a message if you're interested. More details are available on the BVAC website.