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Showing 5 archived entries for: January, 2016

Into The Box 2016 Mobile Apps Are Here

The Into The Box 2016 Mobile application has landed. Here are the links for you to install our apps and keep up to date with the conference this June 14th. Please also note that our mobile apps will activate the session and conference survey, so we are going paperless for surveys :)

Enjoy!

Into The Box 2016 Speaker Highlights - Aaron Benton

Into The Box Conference 2016 (all the info here..)

Remember, June 14^th, 2016, 1 day before dev.Objective. Don't forget to secure your ticket in time.

Meet Into The Box 2016 Speaker: Aaron Benton

Aaron Benton

Aaron is an experienced architect who specializes in creative solutions to develop innovative mobile applications. He has over 10 years of experience in full stack development, including ColdFusion, SQL, NoSQL, JavaScript, HTML &am; CSS. Aaron is currently the Mobile Applications Architect for Shop.com in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Q & A with Aaron

What made you want to speak at ITB 2016?

I have been using Couchbase for several years, and was really excited for the N1QL (SQL for Documents) querying support that was added in Couchbase Server 4.0. However, the Java SDK CFCouchbase was using was only on v1.3.1; N1QL query support was added in the v2.0.0 SDK. I forked the CFCouchbase SDK project from Ortus, and added support for everything in the newest SDK (which at this time is v2.2.5). All of the changes have been contributed back to the original project. With the CFCouchbase SDK getting a much needed update, and the addition of several new features, Luis and Brad invited me to ITB2016 to speak on the newly updated SDK.

Anything in particular that you want to experience during the conference?

I have attended ITB for the past 2 years and it is an awesome conference, there are some very bright individuals that have presented on a wide range of technologies. I am hoping to not only learn, but network with like-minded individuals. Plus who doesn't like beer and mariachi bands?

Tell us something random about yourself:

Every summer I put away technology for a few weeks, and travel back home to help out on my family's farm. My days are spent driving a combine or tractor for the wheat harvest. I also went to college to become a pilot before switching majors to programming. I do however still have my pilot's license.

Aaron' Session

Live Scaling with CouchBase Server

In this session we will review how easy it is to create, manage and expand a Couchbase NoSQL Cluster. We will then use such cluster to scale any web application with a focused demo on a real-life ContentBox Modular CMS site.

Into The Box 2016 Speaker Highlights - Dan Roemer

Into The Box Conference 2016 (all the info here..)

Remember, June 14^th, 2016, 1 day before dev.Objective. Don't forget to secure your ticket in time.

Meet Into The Box 2016 Speaker: Dan Roemer

Dan Roemer

Q & A with Dan

What made you want to speak at ITB 2016?

To get some experience speaking and to improve my skill set.

Anything in particular that you want to experience during the conference?

I want to hear other speakers and learn more box things!

Tell us something random about yourself:

I like fishing and anything outdoors.

Dan' Session

ContentBox CMS - for a perfect project fit

An exploration of ContentBox as a CMS for your next project. See specific examples of the various ways that ContentBox can be customized to answer your exact business needs. We will demonstrate the abilities of ContentBox to power multiple websites and applications from one content repository. Five main points

What is ContentBox and why should I use it?
Setting up your first site
Theming and customization
Building your own modules
Powering various websites and applications from one content repository

Into The Box 2016 Speaker Highlights - Scott Steinbeck

Into The Box Conference 2016 (all the info here...)

Remember, June 14^th, 2016, 1 day before dev.Objective. Don't forget to secure your ticket in time.

Meet Into The Box 2016 Speaker: Scott Steinbeck

Scott Steinbeck

Software developer specializing in web and mobile application development. Over the last 10 years I have produced 100+ websites including site for: Company Storefronts, Online Shopping, Customer Relationship Management, Content Management Systems, Engineering Plan Rooms, Educational Testing, Learning Information Systems, Agricultural Tracking & Analysis, Automated Billing, Report Forecasting, Agricultural Scouting, GIS Mapping Solutions, Irrigation Management, just to name a few.

I enjoy working with ColdFusion, and all sorts of JavaScript Frameworks like: ReactJS, Angular JS, ExtJS, Ionic Framework, jQuery, etc. When I'm not programming you will most likely find me tinkering with electronics or woodworking.

Q & A with Scott

What made you want to speak at ITB 2016?

Really love the box* products.

Anything in particular that you want to experience during the conference?

Meet some great developers and learn something new.

Tell us something random about yourself:

I love chicken wings.

Scott's Session

Building Mobile Apps with ColdBox REST

Were going to take a in depth look at connecting your ColdBox site with a mobile app using ColdBox & Ionic Framework. Ionic is a mobile framework built on Angular JS and comes with a lot of features out of the box. Its very easy to customize, comes with a CLI and a great ecosystem of tools to help get your mobile app up and running on your phone quickly. This talk will walk though the process of setting up a simple REST backend to communicate with our mobile app, and then we will create an app with a slide menu with a list of pages all pulled from the ColdBox REST API dynamically.

Into The Box 2016 Speaker Highlights - Gavin Pickin

Into The Box Conference 2016 (all the info here..)

Remember, June 14^th, 2016, 1 day before dev.Objective. Don't forget to secure your ticket in time.

Meet Into The Box 2016 Speaker: Gavin Pickin

Gavin Pickin

Gavin started using ColdFusion in 1999 when working for the university of Auckland in New Zealand before moving to California. He has lead teams, trained new developers and worked the full stack from graphic design, HTML CSS JavaScript through to ColdFusion MySQL and server administration.

Gavin has a passion for learning and cannot understand why the 9-5ers aren't listening to podcasts while changing diapers, watching video tutorials while cleaning baby bottles and folding clothes, or putting the kids to sleep with soothing phone gap mobile application cookbook recipes.
You will find him blogging at gpickin.com and on twitter @gpickin and occasionally being mocked on cfhour's podcast.

Q & A with Gavin

What made you want to speak at ITB 2016?

I love speaking at conferences and sharing what I have learned, the hard way.

Anything in particular that you want to experience during the conference?

I want to absorb as much knowledge as I can, while catching up with old friends, and making new friends.

Tell us something random about yourself:

I played Cricket for Northern California and Southern California in the same Weekend, and represented Southern California at the USA National Cricket Championship in Dallas.

Gavin' Session

Relax with ColdBox RESTFul Services

In this session we will review all of the RESTful capabilities of ColdBox. We will then go into modeling mode and model a RESTful service using the ColdBox Relax Module and finally implement the running service. But there's more, we will then document the entire service for you.

Modularize your content with ContentBox CMS

No other CMS offers modularization capabilities as ContentBox. In this session you will learn how to squize the juice out of this ContentBox key feature and let it take your web applications to exactly where you want them to be.

Intro to BDD

This session will focus on the concepts behind Behavior Driven Development and how easily you can implement them with TestBox.