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129 MASA ColdFusion CMS (new open source Content Manager) with Guust Nieuwenhuis

Release Date: 03/09/2023

140 BoxLang modern JVM language that runs CFML code (new CFML engine and much more) with Luis Majano and Brad Wood

ColdFusion Alive

Luis Majano and Brad Wood talk about “BoxLang modern JVM language that runs CFML code (new CFML engine and much more)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…BX is the acronym we use a lot like our file extensions are analogous to the cold fusion file extensions. So a CFM file, we call that bxm For box Lang markup, CMS, which Lucy six had his support for, which is cold fusion script”. Show notes What is BoxLang? A new language for the JVM that includes CFML Inspired by cool CF, Groovy, Rust, Go, PHP etc Compiles into Java byte code, just like CF A...

139 All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 2: PDF, CCS, SSO, perf, security) with Mark Takata

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Mark Takata talks about “All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 2: PDF, CCS, SSO, perf, security)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…So we decided to build this thing called CCS central configuration server. And it runs at the command line, basically, and allows you to control your servers from a central location.”. Show notes Enhanced HTML-to-PDF Conversion New HTML-to-PDF conversion engine Supports new CSS features for pixel perfect PDFs Imbed audio, video and SVG Old tags features for manipulation of PDFs and forms etc still work Increased...

138 All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 1: containers, GCP, GraphQL, JWT) with Mark Takata

ColdFusion Alive

Mark Takata talks about “All About Adobe ColdFusion 2023 (Part 1: containers, GCP, GraphQL, JWT)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…So we support Google's version of Pub Sub. And it's fairly simple. You know, you've got a you've got someone creating a message. You've got a subscriber that you can create to listen to that message, messages of contact message that I gaze at It just have, you know, timestamps and things like that”. Show notes In this episode, we look at all the Adobe ColdFusion 2023 new features with the Adobe CF evangelist, Mark...

137 ColdFusion Oracle Cloud Migration with MySQL (from VPS) with Scott Stroz

ColdFusion Alive

Scott Stroz talks about “ColdFusion Oracle Cloud Migration with MySQL (from VPS)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “…And the difference between Oracle clouds version of the manage the managed MySQL database is that in Oracle Cloud, it's Enterprise Edition. So if you are using MySQL heatwave in Oracle Cloud, you're actually using Enterprise Edition”. Show notes What is Oracle Cloud? Oracle cloud services like AWS, GCP, Azure etc Servers, Storage, MySQL, AI etc OCI = Oracle Cloud Infrastructure How does it differ from AWS, GCP, Azure etc? Robust...

136 Into The Box 2024 (all the details and speakers) with Jorge Reyes

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Jorge Reyes talks about “Into The Box 2024 (all the details and speakers)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “...But it's just those aha moments where, Hey, I didn't know you could do that. So you can actually, when you go back home and do your job, then you can actually worry about looking more into it and implementing it. So that's kind of the idea behind all the sessions, actually.”. Show notes What is Into The Box conference? Is it only for Box products topics? No - lots of CF topics, not just Box products Do not have to use ColdBox framework...

135 Lucee Migration (8 CFML code moving tips) with Mike Chytráček

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Mike Chytráček talks about “Lucee Migration (8 CFML code moving tips)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “...but we had migrated everything over and all new clients went to Lucy all new applications went to Lucy. And within I'd say maybe two years, we had probably 95% of our clients might get it off, some clients still required it”. Show notes What is Lucee? Why did you migrate to Lucee? 2018 switch from ACF to Lucee Adobe Licensing fishing call and new licensing model per application with $10ks extra cost. “SaaS” due to Mura Per core...

134 ColdFusion Legacy app - Is a Refactor Better than a Rewrite? with Denny Springle

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Denny Springle talks about “ColdFusion Legacy app - Is a Refactor Better than a Rewrite?” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “Refactoring is a way of taking in modernizing code that already exists, and bring it up to speed with generally modern best development practices. So you know, some object orientation, data modeling type of thing, as well as you know, either using a framework or building an application framework yourself, that hits all of the major obstacles that are that a framework will do for you generally.” Show notes Why is refactoring vs...

133 GitHub Copilot & AI-Assisted Coding (Unlocking ColdFusion's AI Potential) with Monte Chan

ColdFusion Alive

Monte Chan talks about “GitHub Copilot & AI-Assisted Coding (Unlocking ColdFusion's AI Potential)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “It is an AI pair programming tool. So this helps test your programming that basically, there's another person but in this case is a AI tool, if you will, so but you will be doing most of the typing. But then that will also give you some code suggestions, if you will. And to help you with coding. So sometimes can be a short one liner, or could be one whole block of codes. So you can save a lot of typing.” Show notes...

132 ColdFusion Hosting options with Dakota Clum and Ryan Brown

ColdFusion Alive

Dakota Clum and Ryan Brown talk about “ColdFusion Hosting options (what to consider when choosing a CF host)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “……you shouldn't have to be trapped with one hosting option or one provider. So when we think about the AWS are the answers of the world, when there's a need for those specific resources are specific tooling and libraries, we want to be able to support that. So, to your point, there's no kind of lock in, or anything like that you shouldn't do one or the other, you should keep all the options open to you.”...

131 Lucee 6 with Gert Franz, Charlie Arehart, Ben Nadel, Mark Drew, Zac Spitzer

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Gert Franz, Charlie Arehart, Ben Nadel, Mark Drew, and Zac Spitzer talk about “Lucee 6” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light. “Welcome to the podcast. We’re coming here live from CF camp in Munich, Germany. And we are going to be talking about Lucee 6, the new release of Lucee CFML. And we’ve got some amazing experts here. Mark Drew who's done a lot of Lucee coding at distro kid. Then we’ve got Charlie Erehart, the ColdFusion troubleshooting expert giving an independent view on Lucee. Then we’ve got Ben Nadal all the way from New York City. And...

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Guust Nieuwenhuis talks about “MASA ColdFusion CMS (new open source Content Manager)” in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.

“he’s joining us to talk about MASA CMS, a new CMS launched about a year and a half ago. It’s a fork out of the famous Muira CMS. And we’ll talk about why you even want to use a CMS at all, we’ve got some astounding statistics out of the confusion. State of the Union survey will be run every year that I think are important regarding this.”

Show notes

What is MASA?
- ColdFusion Entrepreneur CMS
What is a CMS?
- Content Management System
- Store content in a database rather than hard coding in CF files
  - Letting users at your organization edit content directly
  - Avoids delays from developers updating content
  - Or users editing CFM files directly and creating bugs in your code
- Workflow and control of content updates
Why use a CMS?
- Better control of content edits
- Safer
- Better features
What CMSes do CFers use?
- State of CF Union survey

Why MASA?
Introduction to MASA CMS
- Roots in Mura CMS (open source version 7.1)
  - 1.5 years ago fork from Mura
  - Rebrand
  - Legal check
  - Removed commercial software dependencies so it is
  - GPL 2 license
  - Source, docs and discussion hosted on GitHub
- Mura changed to closed source in version 10
Enterprise Content Management
- Features
- User roles, Workflow, version sets, content staging (previous draft)
- EU website store sales rules
- Security
Features of MASA CMS
- UX easy to use
- Documentation
  - https://docs.masacms.com/
- New Admin file browser
- Layout manager - WYSIWYG drag and drop modules into your content page
  - Inline edits
- Themes
  - Look and feel of while site, CSS, colors etc
  - Custom modules
- Plugins
  - Non-visual functionality customization
  - Admin functionality
- Modules
  - Visual element with code
  - Widgets
  - Text box
  - Image gallery
  - Video
  - Etc
- Events
  - Rich event lifecycle
  - Clear naming convention
  - Many hooks to let you customize MASA using custom plugins
    - Eg OnBeforeContentSave, OnAfterContentSave
- OO approach is good for MASA and not required
- ORM and beans
- API
  - Front end JavaScipt access to MASA via API
  - Adobe API
- M-tag
  - When creating content in Masa CMS you use the [m] tag for rendering dynamic content. This is a very powerful way to access CFML and Masa functionality. Call CF custom functions from your content.
- Workflows
  - Create a custom group workflow
MASA statistics
- Thousands of content pages
- Hundreds of content editors/approvers
Mura backward compatibility
- Very easy from the latest Mura open source version (7.1) - just a config file
- For earlier versions of Mura, you need to update a bit more in the code.
  - Guust’s company can help with this.
- Future MASA versions have semantic versioning (https://semver.org/) eg 7.4.1
  - Major version number = 7
    - May have breaking changes or big changes
  - A minor version number with the Major = 4
    - No breaking changes
  - Batch version number within the Minor = 1
    - Small bug fixes
  - Ember.js is a good example of version numbers
    - 6-week minor version release cycle
    - When enough changes they roll up all the minor versions to a new major version with depreciations of old features.
Deployment options on different infrastructure
- ACF
- Lucee
- Cloud and Docker
- MySQL, SQL Server, Progress, Oracle
- Test suite
What is the plan for new features?
- Roadmap
- Headless CMS
  - Content Mobile
- Decoupled CMS
  - Static content edited via admin in a separate site
- How many versions does MASA have so far?
Support agreements
MASA cloud hosting
Going to CFCamp

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Bio

Guust Nieuwenhuis

Guust Nieuwenhuis is a Full Stack Web Wizard with experience in a wide range of technologies. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in projects for various clients like the European Commission, NSHQ (NATO), Adobe, AS Adventure Group, NS (Dutch railways), CZ Groep, Proximus, Avery Dennison and Mediagenix.

Through We Are North, we do ‘Customization-As-A-Service'. We don’t build from scratch: we find the best solutions out there and tailor them to our customers’ business needs. In doing so, we never lose sight of the goal of the client.

In his free time, he plays the double bass and drums, crosses the forest on his mountain bike and coaches the youth at their local football club (where he is a board member as well). He likes spending time with his wife and two kids or meeting friends for a chat, game or drink.

If he still has some time left, he mainly spends it behind his computer to fulfill his hunger for the latest trends in IT.

Show notes

What is MASA?

What is a CMS?

Why use a CMS?

What CMSes do CFers use?

Why MASA?

Introduction to MASA CMS

Enterprise Content Management

Features of MASA CMS

MASA statistics

Mura backward compatibility

Deployment options on different infrastructure

What is the plan for new features?

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