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.