The Ortus Keynote gives you insight into Ortus Solutions, the past, present and future.
Ortus Keynote
The Ortus Keynote gives you insight into Ortus Solutions, the past, present and future.
You'll meet the members of Team Ortus, community members, speakers and sponsors.
We'll tell you a story about CFML, which we think you will want to hear, and learn what Ortus and the community is doing for CFML and the future of CFML.
You will get updates on an array of Ortus *Box products, including recent releases & upcoming plans and features in our roadmaps.
We will finish with Ortus's plans for the future… as well as remind you of a driving force behind all things Ortus.
If you're interested in writing modern CF apps that take advantage of all the libraries and tools available to you on ForgeBox.io this session is for you.
Thinking Modularly
We'll cover what it looks like to set up your code, source control, and 3rd party files for the best workflow and deployment strategies. Expect to cover basics of package management and learn how to dial in exact package versions by getting the most out of semantic versioning. The topics discussed won't be unique to ColdBox apps, but the examples will be ColdBox-focused. No real ColdBox knowledge is required for this session, but a working knowledge of CommandBox will be useful.
Using Portainer.io for Docker Container Management
Using Portainer.io for Docker Container Management
Using Portainer.io for Docker Container Management
Using Portainer.io for Docker Container Management
12:05 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch with Fusion Reactor
Buen Provecho! Please Join us at the Ortus Room at 12:30pm for a 30 min presentation on Fusion Reactor and learn how to transform your development process with one of the most intuitive and advanced CFML/JAVA application monitoring software.
Lunch with Fusion Reactor
Buen Provecho! Don't miss the presentation on Fusion Reactor at 12.30pm. FusionReactor goes beyond “just monitoring”, to actively minimize server downtime and accelerate time to resolution like no other monitoring tool on the market. Cut to the chase and get to the root of your Java production application problems in no time.
CBT = ColdBox Templating Language ; A templating language based on the famous twig templating language for CFML engines. Come learn how to build your UI front ends using a templating approach instead of raw CFML.
Who wants to set up servers or Docker clusters for those tasks that CFML isn't the best fit?
Step into serverless with AWS + CFMl
CFML is a great language for web apps, even if it's not the right tool for every job. It's not easy to do machine learning, video compression, and computer vision from within CFML, for example. Who wants to set up servers or Docker clusters for those tasks that CFML isn't the best fit? In this session, we'll take a look at getting started in a serverless environment with Amazon Web Services' Step Functions - a powerful, visual way to orchestrate cloud functions as microservices. Along the way, you'll learn about AWS services like Lambda, S3, Rekognition, and CloudWatch. We'll see how you can invoke and track serverless workflows from within your CFML apps, and how to harness the vast array of AI and computational power that AWS provides with a simple "embrace and extend with CFML" approach.
Target Audience: Intermediate to Advanced CFML developers who want to expand their toolset by using cloud services
03:00 PM - 03:20 PM
Siesta Time (20 min break)
Time for a power nap! (Spanish = Siesta). Dulces Sueños!
Siesta Time (20 min break)
Time for a power nap! (Spanish = Siesta). Dulces Sueños!
Stop worrying about concatenating SQL strings together in the right order. Create object-oriented abstractions around SQL patterns. Compose your SQL queries in a grammar agnostic, fluent builder.
By our nature web developers are prone to anxiety. Web development takes a monumental dedication to continuing education, networking, and being an expert source for many of your coworkers. Learning to manage stress early can be one of the most indispensable skills for a long healthy career in web development. Be it FOMO, Impostor Syndrome, Analysis Paralysis, or just generally feeling overwhelmed, developers of all levels can benefit from learning to take a step back and allow themselves to relax and be productive.
I will focus on my perspective of being a web developer with anxiety in today's web development world. I'll talk about using "Fake it 'till you make it" philosophy to help combat the anxiety of keeping up with the ever evolving web. I also plan to delve into "Impostor Syndrome," and more specifically how to foster self confidence in your ability without cultivating an ego. By the end of my talk I'd like people to leave with the stress management skills and frame of mind to increase their productivity and overall job satisfaction.
This talk is ideal for developers feeling the weight of career and having stress and anxiety productivity issues.QB
If you are interested in learning how to use WireBox but just don't know where to start, this is your session.
WireBox Basics
If you are interested in learning how to use WireBox but just don't know where to start, this is your session. This session will focus on WireBox outside of ColdBox apps even though any of the content will be applicable to ColdBox as well. We won't cover the very advanced topics, but will rather discuss the basics to get up and running as quickly and easily as possible. once you familiarize yourself with the basics of WireBox you'll be hungry for more.
Description: Nearly everything has an API. With a simple HTTP call, you can process a payment, send a text, and yes, even return random cat pictures. But while many API providers have official libraries, it's not common for CFML to be one of the supported languages.
In this session, I'll show you how to craft your own coherent wrapper for APIs that don't already have CFML support. We'll examine code from real-world examples, to learn practical design strategies, as well as the theory behind them. After all, while every API is different, the underlying RESTful principles are the same.
Along the way, we'll tackle common issues, including naming conventions, error handing, and of course, testing. By the end, you'll have all the tips, tricks, and tools necessary to begin adding your own CFML API wrappers to ForgeBox.
Target Audience: Intermediate to advanced developers who want to take advantage of the amazing services powered by APIs, while also contributing to the wider CFML ecosystem.
Design Alexa Commands that integrate with your ColdBox API.
Alexa and ColdBox APIs
Alexa from Amazon powers the Amazon Echo, Amazon Fire TV and is Amazon's answer to Siri, Cortana and Google home.
Amazon's Alexa Skills Kit allows developers to build their own set of abilities that can be published to the Alexa App Store for consumers to use.
This Session will walk through the pros and cons of voice, how to design a voice user interface, how to get started with ColdBox, and how to design Alexa Commands that integrate with your ColdBox API.
As ColdFusion and CFML have continued to evolve and improve over time, newer, more modern features have been added. These features will help developers who use CFML work better, faster and more like other modern languages. These additions and improvements should help CFML’s standing in the industry because it is becoming more of a modern way to write code thus should attract more developers to at least take a new look at CFML.
Some of those features are as follows:
• CF 11 has added full 100% script support. This will allow developers to write cleaner code in a more modern fashion and it has a similar approach to languages like javascript.
• CF 10 started the use of Closures to let developers write function expressions or a function that exists as part of a larger expression.
• CF 11 added the queryExecute() function to use with script instead of using the tag cfquery.
• The addition of member functions which are built-in object methods are a more straight forward way to write code and can be used in method chaining as well.
• The idea that all CFML functions are now First Class functions and can be passed as callbacks and what does that mean to every developer
Even though these are more modern features, any developer should be able to understand how these can benefit them. This presentation will show how these features can be implemented by anyone using CF 10 (and Lucee) and above, however, you don’t need to have any real knowledge about how these work before coming to this session.
06:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast Live Panel Recording
Matthew Groves
Rakshith Naresh
Mark Drew
Brad Wood
Luis Majano
A special live recording of the Cross Cutting Concerns podcast. Hosted by Matt Groves, featuring a panel of special guests. The panel will discuss the 'state of the union' and will take audience questions. You may even get a chance to win some prizes!
Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast Live Panel Recording
A special live recording of the Cross Cutting Concerns podcast. Hosted by Matt Groves, featuring a panel of special guests. The panel will discuss the 'state of the union' and will take audience questions. You may even get a chance to win some prizes!
10 years ago, MVC was all the rage in web apps. It taught us to take our mountain of spaghetti code and start to call forth layers; separating the responsibilities of our code. This was great, but the way we should build apps is evolving again and this time it's away from monolithic app design and into modularity.
Instead of having one giant custom-built application, there are huge advantages to separating the functional pieces of your code as well to break large applications down into many smaller pieces. This can make for easier maintenance on a large codebase -- even across multiple teams and repos. It can help you focus on microservices of isolated functionality. And most importantly, it really opens up the door for code reuse-- especially other people's code from the community that has drop-in value for your application.
Let's dive into what a modular MVC architecture looks like in CFML using ColdBox 5.0, how to break apart large applications, write reusable libraries with hassle-free installation, and track our dependencies from the CLI for easy management and automation. This is the future of modern app development. The power of modularity will keep your skills relevant and your architecture extensible. Don't get stuck back in 2005!
Intro to Unit Testing, BDD and Mocking using TestBox & MockBox
Intro to Unit Testing, BDD and Mocking using TestBox & MockBox
This session will cover the basics such as what is unit testing, why to do unit testing and guidelines to write the unit tests. It will then cover xUnit and BDD styles of testing in TestBox, Given – When – Then syntax and the general structure for writing unit tests. We will then look into the mocking and demo examples of unit testing using TestBox & MockBox.
Come learn tips and tricks for integrating a legacy code base over to ColdBox MVC.
Integrating MVC into legacy
The good news is you can make this transition slowly and at your own pace by embedding the new with the old. ColdBox's conventions are simple and easy to learn so you can convert the basics at first and implement more complex features down the road. We'll cover several methods of integrating ColdBox MVC into a legacy application and have demos of each to get you started.
Time to test your ColdFusion code in an automated fashion.
Automate your tests
A look at testing your Coldfusion code with Jenkins and a Jenkins pipeline file. Aimed at those who started writing tests with TestBox and now want to run and package the code to be deployed.
12:05 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch with Foundeo
Buen Provecho! Don't miss the presentation from Foundeo at 12.30pm. Securing CFML Apps with FuseGuard.
Lunch with Foundeo
Buen Provecho! Don't forget to join us at the Ortus Room for Foundeo's Session on Securing CFML Apps with FuseGuard: Using a horribly vulnerable CFML application we'll look at its holes and be thankful that we do not have to maintain it. Next we will explore how these holes may be exploited by attackers and learn about what protections should be put in place to avoid them. Finally we'll add FuseGuard to the same application and see how it can be used to block malicious requests before they hit the application.
A framework-agnostic way to take control of your database schema changes versioned inside your application.
CommandBox Migrations
Introducing CommandBox Migrations, a framework-agnostic way to take control of your database schema changes versioned inside your application. Powered by qb.
Building and managing your own enterprise: Infrastructure, Support, Payroll, Taxes and Toolsets. An introduction to your own business from the founder of inLeague (15+ years in the market) with an emphasis on how ordinary developers can manage a shop, grow a team, and still write code. Topics will not include Getting Rich Quick or Venture Capital.
03:00 PM - 03:20 PM
Siesta Time (20 min break)
Time for a power nap! (Spanish = Siesta). Dulces Sueños!
Siesta Time (20 min break)
Time for a power nap! (Spanish = Siesta). Dulces Sueños!
Start to finish, launch your ContentBox site in the cloud with Docker. We will look at the ContentBox docker image, which has a few extra ContentBox goodies added on top of the usual CommandBox docker image. We will learn how to use a file mount to be able to share Media files between 2 instances, and how to cluster sessions so your ContentBox site can run in the cloud, on more than one instance.
In this session we will be taking a look at build in APIs using ColdBox and Postman. Yes, postman free is awesome at everything from manual to automated end to end API testing. If you think you know Postman, learn how to do BDD style testing, use the console and much more to build and maintain your APIs like never before.
04:25 PM - 05:20 PM
Take your CF apps from local dev to production with CommandBox and CFConfig and Docker
Take your CF apps from local dev to production with CommandBox and CFConfig and Docker!
Take your CF apps from local dev to production with CommandBox and CFConfig and Docker
We'll take a comprehensive look at how to standardize your server infrastructure from development to production using CommandBox, CFConfig, and Docker. These powerful tools help simplify the number of servers you have to keep track of and help you keep consistent settings and behavior across the board-- a must for a team of people all doing local development. We'll also do a brief introduction into what Docker is and how it can help you with a lot of deployment concerns. This won't be all or nothing, so please attend even if you aren't interested in Docker or local dev. Everything we cover can be used by itself or all together for just the right amount of automation that your shop needs.
Vue.js is quickly becoming one of the more popular JavaScript frameworks. It provides a lot of the same benefits of Angular and React, but with a less intense learning curve, and more flexibility. We’ll start at the very beginning, showing how to install and begin using Vue and some of the basic features it provides. Then comes the server part. How do we send data from the Vue.js app to a server in the cloud? That’s were our CFML code comes into play. In this session we’ll discuss how to get started with Vue.js and how to start building a simple JSON API using CFML. Then we’ll connect the 2 pieces together building a fully working application with Vue.js + CFML.
Main takeaways:
* Installing Vue.js and building your first Vue app
* Basic structure of an Vue application
* Building views and navigation
* Adding a service layer
* A brief intro to JSON, REST and API’s
* Using ColdFusion to build a JSON API
* Connecting a Vue application to a server-side API for legacy CFML apps
* Connecting a Vue application to a server-side API with ColdBox
* Some best practices
* Other resources
Target audience: ColdFusion programmers that are new nor mostly new to Vue.JS are encouraged to attend. Developers looking to start using ColdBox and those still stuck maintaining a legacy CF-include based application will all learn ways to connect their CFML codebase to a Vue front end application.
In software, most of the work that adds value to the development process is performed by people usually in the form of a project-team. While every project is unique in nature, and therefor the dynamics of a project-team most certainly will (have to) vary from one project to another, there are some proven steps and guidelines towards building high performance teams that consistently deliver good results across all projects. Join this session to learn about this important topic and evaluate results of real life implementations of the principles discussed in this session.
Assert Control Over Your Legacy Applications with TestBox
Becoming more confident and efficient improving overall code quality.
Assert Control Over Your Legacy Applications with TestBox
Target Audience
This talk is aimed at developers who work in environments having little to no code coverage with unit tests.
Description
Developers are more confident making changes to code when it is covered by tests. Tests can be run as part of a business' deployment process improving overall quality. When starting a new "green field" project, this can be accomplished using Test Driven Development (TDD) which prescribes writing tests and then writing code to make those tests pass. But what if we already have a code base written with little or no tests? How do we improve our code coverage then? In this talk I will show you how to install TestBox quickly in your existing environment and how to get started writing tests improving the quality of your code and the dependability of your application. You will learn what tests to write, how to name them, how to write them, and when to write them. Attendees will be able to return to their office and immediately begin writing tests covering their legacy code, improving quality and reliability of their application.
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Ortus Solutions is the company behind all the Box products: ColdBox, ContentBox, ProfileBox, MockBox, WireBox, TestBox, LogBox, DataBoss, FuseGuard Module, and much more. It is a professional open source company that not only creates these products but offers web development services, architecture and infrastructure design, support and training.
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For more than two decades, the company's award-winning software and technologies have set new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content across multiple media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected software brands, Adobe is one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies.
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Couchbase customers include industry leaders like AOL, Amadeus, AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, Concur, Disney, Dixons Carphone, eBay, General Electric, Marriott, Neiman Marcus, Ryanair, Rakuten/Viber, Tesco, Verizon, Wells Fargo, as well as hundreds of other household names.
Foundeo is a product & consulting firm specializing in ColdFusion Security. Our products include FuseGuard, a Web Application Firewall for ColdFusion code, and HackMyCF.com an automated service to scan your ColdFusion server for security issues.
Foundeo consulting services feature CFML code reviews, server lockdown / review, training and development. Talk to Foundeo about improving the security of your ColdFusion applications
FusionReactor goes beyond “just monitoring”, to actively minimize server downtime and accelerate time to resolution like no other monitoring tool on the market. Cut to the chase and get to the root of your Java production application problems in no time.
Mura CMS provides a robust toolkit to help increase productivity and make development easier, while simultaneously being easy to configure and operate under multiple use-cases. Mura’s built-in ORM, Mura JS and JSON/REST APIs allow developers to build serious applications rapldly, and our Docker-friendly deployment options make it easy to setup and maintain.
At TeraTech, we do things a little differently. You don’t have to worry about your project not being completed correctly or with massive delays. With our expert team and time-tested process, you’ll have “peace of mind” in knowing the exact scope of the project, how much it’s going to cost, and when it will be complete.
Your ColdFusion project should be something that you are happy with, NOT something that you worry about. We'll do the problem solving for you.
Jorge Reyes
Jon Clausen
Luis Majano
Gavin Pickin
Brad Wood
Raymond Camden
Neil Cresswell
Mark Drew
Eric Peterson
Brian Klaas
Jeffrey Kunkel
Matthew Clemente
Dan Fredericks
Matthew Groves
Rakshith Naresh
Uma Ghotikar
Lonnie Ramirez
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