Get the inside scoop on the Into The Box 2025 ColdFusion Conference from Daniel Garcia and Michaela Light. This episode covers the event’s schedule, top speakers, trending ColdFusion and BoxLang topics, exclusive workshops, travel and pricing tips, plus special offers for developers and teams.

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”.

https://youtu.be/RDYMKtq03iQ

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

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/ 

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

121 How to Get Your Next Ideal CF Job (using LinkedIn, Resume, GitHub), with Doug McCaughan

CFCasts

Listen to the Audio

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