141 Into The Box 2025 ColdFusion conference (all the details) with Daniel Garcia
Release Date: 02/25/2025
141 Into The Box 2025 ColdFusion conference (all the details) with Daniel Garcia
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info_outlineDaniel Garcia talks about “Into The Box 2025 ColdFusion conference (all the details)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.
“…box Lang, we first officially announced it last year into the box the first beta of it. It's based, I'm gonna read the official marketing speak. It's a modern, dynamically and loosely typed scripting language for multiple run times”.
Show notes
What is Into The Box conference?
- CommandBox, ColdBox, BoxLang, all the Box products by Ortus
- ColdFusion topics too
- Smaller conf, very easy to talk to speakers and other attendees
Speakers and Topics
- Speaker
- Brad Wood
- Brian Klass
- Curt Gratz
- Dan Card
- Daniel Garcia
- Eric Peterson
- Esme Acevedo
- Gavin Pickin
- George Murphy
- Giancarlo Gomez
- Grant Copley
- Jacob Beers
- Javier Quintero
- Jon Clausen
- Kevin Wright
- Luis Majano
- Michael Rigsby
- Scott Steinbeck
- Topics highlights
- Integrating OpenAI API in ColdFusion Applications
- Reactive Front-Ends with CFML, CBWIRE, and AlpineJS
- IoT Hardware Integration with BoxLang and MQTT
- Introduction to CBWIRE 4
- Open call for speakers
Preconference Workshops
- Development and Hosting using Docker, CI, CD, and AWS ECS
- Getting Started with Boxlang with Brad Wood, John Clausen, and Luis Majano
- Just Enough Workshop
- Building Modern Apps with CBWire and AlpineJS with Grant Coplin and Esme Acevedo
When is it?
- Wed April 30th - Friday May 2nd, 2025
Where is it this year?
- Washington, DC
Why not send devs to conferences?
- Dev team too big to send all → send none
- Solution: Rotate devs each year. Eg send 3 this year, another 3 next year etc
- No training mentality
- Solutions
- Free video training
- CFCasts
- Daniel offer for unemployed CFers and students
- 9-5 Devs "comfortable" who don't want to grow in tech skills
- Solutions
- Modernize or Die
- Be competitive
- Hiring
- Attitude and Aptitude
Open source
Travel
- 3 airports in Washington DC metro area. Plus Amtrack.
- Metro in the area
Cost
- Conf only early bird $349.50, 449.50
- $499, 699
- 25% off promo code CFAlive_2025
- Deals and early bird pricing 3/31/25
- BoxLang+ 1-year license included!
- Special support for BoxLang
- Code scanner
- Extra bonus feature
- BoxLang+ 1-year license included!
- Team Plans are available for businesses - Reach out at Intothebox (at) ortussolutions.com
- **Get 50% off** your second Into the Box on-site ticket.
- **Buy 2, Get 1 Free** – Purchase two on-site tickets, and the third one is on us.
What are you looking forward to at ITB this year?
Mentioned in this episode
https://teratech.com/into-the-box-conference-is-coldfusion-modern-or-dead/
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Bio
Daniel Garcia
Senior Developer at Ortus Solutions
Daniel Garcia lives in Plainfield, IL, has been working with web technologies since 1997, and is passionate about what he does. He is a husband, father, "Dad"-ager for his aspiring musician son, cinephile, regaler of useless knowledge, smoker of meats, aspiring podcaster, part-time radio DJ, and has an irreverent sense of humor. His mantras are "Work smarter, not harder" and "KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid).