118 Into The Box ColdFusion Conference 2022 (new details revealed) with Gavin Pickin

Gavin Pickin talks about “Into The Box ColdFusion Conference 2022 (new details revealed) ” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.

"...That's the thing is, you know, with the conference, it's a great way to have a look at a lot of different things. And you know, usually people have heard of ColdBox, you know, it's one of the big three MVC frameworks still left in ColdFusion, you know, call boxes, according to your survey, which we'll talk about, in another episode coming up the, you know, state of the CFE union survey, PO boxes, the bigger most used framework, framework one is still up there, but you know, it doesn't have the same support now that Sean Paul fields moved on, and then see if wheels has been revived in that doing well, too..."

Show notes

What is Into The Box conference?

• Started with ColdBox Developer Week, then Ortus Developer Week.
• 2022 is the 9th edition.
• Started as a pre-conference before CFObjective
• Houston 2016 was the first ITB standing on it’s own legs without piggy backing onto another Conference.
• 1 day before a 3 day conference was tough, we moved so we could get 2 days.
• We have PLENTY to TALK ABOUT - so didn’t take us long to need more than 2 days in our own conference.
• Box products and general CF topics

Why did we need our own conference?

• Made a name for ourselves at Ortus at first with Documentation, and now through tools
• Great way to network as a Professional Open Source company, meeting clients and our contributors.
• ColdFusion as a whole, likes to keep most talks framework agnostic, so we needed our own conference to show all of the content we get demands for.
• Every year is improving.
• Great response when we offered one day workshops, and in the past even 2 days of workshops, plus 2 days of the conference, 4 great days of content, and the attendees loved it.
• And ITs GROWN AND GROWN until this year’s conference, and it looks like the best one yet!!!!!!!

Why ITB?

• Advantages for our company

  • If given the chance to attend the conference, it will help our company to:
  • Learn from ColdFusion industry leaders and Ortus core team members.
  • Inspire new ideas to use on projects within our company.
  • We will catch more bugs with improved testing practices earlier, costing us less money in support and maintenance.
  • Learn more about Package Management with ForgeBox and CommandBox, to better utilize community libraries, so we don’t have to reinvent the wheel all the time.
  • All Into the Box Attendees get a free month of CFCasts.com - Ortus’ great online video training website.
  • All of the Into the Box Videos will be made available after the conference for attendees, so we can watch all of the sessions, even the sessions we missed in person.

• Advantages for you

  • As far as why I’m excited at the prospect of attending this conference:
  • There’s an impressive line-up of experts who are working with technologies, tools, and methodologies we use daily.
  • Hands-on workshops with experts allow me to learn new practices and techniques and improve my skills.
  • The friendly, intimate spirit of the conference makes it easy to interact with speakers and ask questions.
  • As the conference attracts seasoned developers, I’m excited to learn from everyone and discover their experiences and best practices from their projects.
  • The ColdFusion/CFML-related technology is changing rapidly; it’s essential to learn what’s possible and current in the ecosystem and dive deeper into those areas we need to explore.
  • Opportunity to network with other ColdFusion developers.

• Pre-Conf Speakers

  • Michael Born
  • Matthew Clemente
  • Kai Koenig
  • Brian Rinaldi
  • Charlie Arehart
  • Mark Takata
  • Raymond Camden

• In Person Speakers

  • Abram Adams
  • Brad Wood
  • Dan Card 
  • Daniel García 
  • Eric Peterson
  • Esmeralda Acevedo 
  • Gavin Pickin 
  • George Murphy 
  • Grant Copley 
  • Javier Quintero 
  • John Farrar 
  • Jon Clausen 
  • Luis Majano 
  • Nolan Erck 
  • Scott Steinbeck 
  • Seth Stone 
  • Shawn Oden
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• Preconference week online sessions

  • 1 hours sessions online, downloadable for attendees, later in CFCasts
  • Cold Brews: Getting Started with Java in Your CFML Apps - Matthew Clemente
  • Meilisearch: A Search Platform for the Rest of Us - Michael Born
  • Modern ways to keep on top of crashes and errors in your applications - Kai Koenig
  • Feature Flagging is Just Simple Booleans: False - Brain Rinaldi
  • Comparing and contrasting Docker images from Ortus, Adobe, and Lucee - Charlie Arehart 
  • Advanced Manipulation of PDF Documents using Adobe ColdFusion DDX - Mark Takata
  • Extending PDF Capabilities With Adobe Document Services - Raymond Camden

+ 3 more sessions TBA

• Full day Workshops day before

  • Tuesday
  • 10-15 attendee limit for hands on help - bring your laptop with you to learn in the class.
  • Luis Majano & Eric Peterson | Async Programming & Scheduling
  • Jon Clausen & Grant Copley | Containerizing & Scaling Your Applications
  • Dan Card & Alan Quinlan | Legacy Code Conversion To The Modern World!
  • Brad Wood & Javi Quintero | TestBox: Getting started with BDD-TDD Oh My!
  • Gavin Pickin & Daniel Garcia | VueJs SPA and Mobile App with Rest APIs

In-person Community Speakers and Sessions

• Scott Steinbeck | Advanced pdf generation + Building a gitbook markdown conversion process & Building Modules
• Nolan Erck | Web Components in Your CFML Application & I'm Still Scared of Aspect Oriented Programming!
• Abram Adams | Khaos - A CommandBox Module for DevOps
• Seth Stone | Quick Start for CI/CD Automation on AWS
• Shawn Oden | I'm Just Here For The T-Shirt

In Person Ortus Speakers and Sessions

• Luis Majano and Grant Copley | cbfs: Abstract, Extend, Integrate Any File System
• Brad Wood | Securing and Tuning CommandBox Servers for production
• Jon Clausen | cbCommerce - A flexible, modular e-commerce solution
• Grant Copley | Sublime Reactivity with CBWIRE
• Daniel Garcia | Alpine.js : Declare and React!
• Dan Card | Unpacking The Box - Why so many boxes and what do they do?????
• Luis Majano | To the future with cbFutures!
• Brad Wood | ColdBox Task Scheduling Demystified
• Jon Clausen | Building Collaborative Applications with Websockets and MQ Services
• Eric Peterson | cbq — Jobs and Tasks in the Background
• Eric Peterson | cbPlaywright — End-to-End Tests with Playwright and TestBox
• Gavin Pickin | Building a CFML API powered Quiz Game with VueJS and deployed with SPA and Android + more
• Esmeralda Acevedo and Javier Quintero - Off with their heads → ContentBox 5 : Headless CMS
• Daniel Garcia | How to Debug Your CF Apps
• Dan Card | What I learned about Mental Health from my computer and its network.
• George Murphy | Configure ContentBox 5 In the Cloud the easy way

Registration

• Register at https://www.intothebox.org/ 
• Your community 20% discount code is: TERAITB20 
  • You can use it either for just the conference, or 
  • the full access pass (Conference+Workshop)

• Code samples and slides - site, cfcasts, app

• What are you excited about in CFML this year?

  • Adobe CF Summit post conf classes
  • ACF 2023 news
  • CF Builder VS Code
  • Lucee 6 beta

• Travel

  • ITB is nearer to Houstin IAH airport at the Houston CityPlace Marriott at Springwoods Village
  • Special conference hotel room prices

Mentioned in this episode

• Into The Box Conference official website 
• Dear Amazing Boss - I would like to ask for your approval to attend Into The Box 2022
  
• Announcing - Pre-Conference + 3rd Track for Into the Box
• Using 3rd party ColdFusion libraries at work - 3 Meetup series 
• Patreon Ortus Solutions
• CFCasts episode

 

Bio

Gavin Pickin

Software Consultant passionate about Building Better Businesses using CFML, JavaScript, VueJS, Docker, Training, Podcasts and sharing all my lessons learned

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

Gavin started using ColdFusion in 1999 when working for the university of Auckland in New Zealand before moving to California. He has led teams, trained new developers and worked the full stack from graphic design, HTML and CSS JavaScript through ColdFusion MySQL and server administration.

Gavin has a passion for learning and cannot understand why the 9-5ers aren't listening to podcasts while changing diapers, watching video tutorials while cleaning baby bottles and folding clothes, or putting the kids to sleep with soothing phone gap mobile application cookbook recipes.

Links

• Gavin Pickin (@gpickin) / Twitter
• George “Gavin” Pickin | LinkedIn
• ColdBox Zero to MegaHero Training After CF Summit - Oct 5th in Las Vegas
• CFML News Modernize or Die podcast