Daniel Garcia talks about “Into The Box 2025 ColdFusion conference (all the details)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.
“…BoxLang, we first officially announced it last year into the box the first beta of it. It's a modern, dynamically and loosely typed scripting language for multiple runtimes”.
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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
Into The Box 2025 conf site https://www.intothebox.org/
Comprehensive TeraTech blog about ITB https://teratech.com/into-the-box-conference-is-coldfusion-modern-or-dead/
121 How to Get Your Next Ideal CF Job (using LinkedIn, Resume, GitHub), with Doug McCaughan
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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).
Links
- Daniel Garcia | LinkedIn
- Ortus Solutions
- GitHub Garciadev
- https://www.ortussolutions.com/about-us/daniel-garcia
- CFML and Box Slack Daniel Garcia
Interview transcript
Michaela Light 0:00
Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Daniel Garcia, and he and I are going to talk about an amazing cold fusion conference coming up real soon. Now called into the box. You may think it only covers box things, but actually covers all kinds of cold fusion things as well. And if you don't know Daniel, he's been doing cold fusion for decades now, probably started bringing in web tech. Yes, decades started in 1997 with web tech, and he loves doing it. He's also a dad got an 11 year old son who's a musician, and he's the manager, or he likes calling him himself, the dad, manager of his son. And he's also a podcaster. DJ has a wicked sense of humor. So welcome Daniel.
Daniel Garcia 0:59
Thank you for having me. Michaela, it's been years since, yes, since
Michaela Light 1:03
we lost on the show. So what is this? Into the box conference? For people, I know what it is, but maybe some people listening don't well into
Daniel Garcia 1:13
the box. So first of all, my name is Daniel gersim With orti solutions. We're one of the premier code fusion consulting companies out there. You've probably heard of us. We're the Box Company, cold box, command box, test box, content box, all that, and into the box. Get it into the box. It's a box theme is our annual developer conference, and so we put it on every year. Last year was the first time you moved to DC with it. Again. This year we're gonna be DC again, but it's our conference to bring together developers, engineers, enthusiasts, basically anyone who works with CO fusion box, laying any related technologies, kind of learn the best practices, networking, discuss trends, things like that,
Michaela Light 1:57
all right. And so will be a lot of things about cold box and command box, and how many box things are these days? Every time I turn around, it seems there's another box, cold fusion library or tool released. Well,
Daniel Garcia 2:10
the quick answer is, I don't know, and I'm gonna get made fun of for that leader by my team, in a good way, but there's a lot of boxes there are. And because not just the main core products, we also have a lot of modules and all sorts of things to get with it, I should have been more prepared. Michaela, I'm sorry
Michaela Light 2:30
if you want that's okay, but there's more than 20, I
Daniel Garcia 2:36
think, right there are a lot the main ones that people know are going to be cold box, command box. Love command box. We love cold box. Dude, content box, test box, stash box, all these, well, they could just go to the website and look at them, but that's less than just no
