I interviewed three key people behind the Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, Luis Majano, Brad Wood and Gavin Pickin on what it is all about, why you should come and exciting new conference details.
Video summary
- Who‘s it for? CF developers that want to take their developer skills to another level and earn more
- Not just about Box CFML products – sessions on ColdFusion and development best practices
- 2 simultaneous tracks per day plus some keynotes
- When – Wed, Thurs, Friday April 26-28, 2017
- Where – Hotel in Houston, about 30 mins from the airport.
- There is a special package with United airlines (who hubs there for US flights), lots of Intl flights too.
- Why – It's about empowering CF developers to modernize themselves
- We will be talking a lot about how we want to inspire CF developers
- Letting go of CF Language-shaming – ColdFusion developers need to be proud of their line of work, because you are doing modern stuff
- Bust the CF myths that drag us down
- You can call this conference the Face of Modern ColdFusion Development
- Nowadays everything is about micro-services; we will showcase to see how easy would to use ColdFusion for micro-services
- Showcase of how you can bring your ColdFusion code into modern times
- CF Community
- Launching a new initiative to help the ColdFusion community to grow
- Espresso machines available! 😉
- Networking- plenty of time left for this in the conference
- Sponsors – Another big difference from the last year's event is – a huge area for sponsors; awesome companies presenting their stuff, where you can mingle and get even more knowledge from these conversations
- Details at the Into The Box conference website https://www.intothebox.org/ and have a great event!
