The Into The Box 2015 conference has just been announced and I am super excited to be part of it for another year.  This year it was a great success and such a great networking event with speakers and attendees from across the world.  The call for speakers has been announced, so if you are interested in participating in this developer conference, please head over the call for speakers entry and fill it out to your heart's content.  See you next year in Minneapolis!

I just stumbled upon this site today: http://eclipsecolorthemes.org after spending so much time on dark IDE themes and going back to ColdFusion Builder, I was getting a nice headache.  I quickly downloaded and installed some nice themes from here and voila!  ColdFusion Builder has come to life with some great new dark themes.  Here is a screenshot of my IDE now:

Enjoy!

Just wanted to share the Into The Box 2014 Conference Photo Album Slideshow! It was a great and exciting event, see you next year!

I am very happy to announce that I will be speaking at another ColdBox Developer Week coming to a desktop, mobile, ipad, Android, etc near you!  The ColdBox and ContentBox teams and several community members join forces each year to bring you a weekly FREE training online extravaganza.  I am excited to be presenting on several topics not only about ColdBox but also about ContentBox,the modular CMS solution for CFML, this year as our *BOX products are growing.

When: September 22-26 from 9 am Pacific to late at night.... (Check out the site for your local timezone)

Where: www.coldbox.org/cbdw

Over at Ortus Solutions we have been hard at work to bring about pre-configured Railo CloudVPS servers to the masses.  We partnered with KickassVPS and now have our very own offering of highly tuned Railo CloudVPS servers! Check them out: https://www.ortussolutions.com/services/railo-vps

This August 13th, 2014 at 7pm I will be presenting on ContentBox Modular CMS at the North Virginia ColdFusion User Group.  So if you are in the vicinity, drop by for some food, drinks, goodies and some knowledge on ContentBox Modular CMS!  We will also transmit it via Connect:

http://experts.adobeconnect.com/contentbox/

You can find much more information in the User Group page: http://www.meetup.com/nvcfug/events/198139752/.  See you there!

ContentBox is an open source modular content application written in CFML that will provide you with blogs, cms, wiki and more. Built on the solid ColdBox Platform and ColdFusion ORM foundations, ContentBox can be extended using modular architecture instead of conforming to a standard application API. Based fully on conventions, event-driven programming and ColdBox modules, your content can scale and customizations now become trivial. Extend and scale based on industry standards and think outside of the box!

I am excited to be able to present to the fine folks of the London Railo Group next Friday May 30th at 6:30 pm on ColdBox 4 and CommandBox, our new CLI and Package Manager for CFML.  So if you are in the London vicinity drop by for a sneak peak of ColdBox4, CommandBox and Pixel8's PresideCMS (Powered by ColdBox).

See you there!

My friend Brad Wood will be doing a webinar on introducing Couchbase NoSQL server for usage within CFML for Caching and NoSQL purposes.  Check it out and register for this webinar for April 8th at 1PM EDT.

I will be presenting live at the Inland Empire User Group (www.iecfug.com) this coming March 4th at 7pm in Cal Poly Pomona.  So if you are close to the Los Angeles Metro area, please drop by as they will have food, drinks and of course our BDD presentation on TestBox.

Presentation Description:
Come learn about this xunit and bdd testing framework. We will cover how TestBox is a direct replacement for mxunit, how it introduces a new way to test via Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and automation via ant. 

Details:
March 4th, 2014 @ Cal Poly Pomona
Room 5-16 in Building 98C
6:30PM - Doors open for food, drinks, and networking
7:00 PM  - Presentation starts

I just wanted to announce I will be presenting on TestBox and BDD (Behavior Driven Development) at the Northern Virginia ColdFusion User Group (NVCFUG) this coming Wednesday at 7PM Eastern/4PM Pacific.  You can see the full list announcement here: http://www.meetup.com/nvcfug/events/161772632/.  For those of you who are virtual and would like to attend, here is the Adobe Connect URL you can use for the presentation: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/r8czor3ssn2/.

See you soon!