BoxLang is a modern dynamic programming language and framework designed to run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It is object-oriented, functional, and fluent. It emphasizes flexibility and dynamism, aiming to simplify tasks typically complex in traditional static JVM languages.

I am so excited to still be part of the Into The Box web development conference since 2013!

Reserve your dates: April 30-May2nd 2025 - Washington DC! Into The Box is back in the DC Metro area to bring another great event. We are looking for speakers right now, so if you are interested in presenting on anything related to web development, the JVM, BoxLang, ColdFusion (CFML), JavaScript, TypeScript or whatever! Bring it!

Into The Box is a web development conference I help start almost 11 years ago in the Minneapolis area. It centered on collaboration, networking, and just good fellowship with our fellow CFML/Web Developers. It mostly centered at the beginning around ColdBox, as that was my only open-source project at the time. However, now after 11 years it has morphed into a full-fledged web development conference focusing on all kinds of projects, languages and of course all the goodness we create at Ortus.

This year was special as we brought forth BoxLang.

I am excited to once more join the Adobe ColdFusion Summit as a speaker. I will be talking about building **modern and fluent RESTFul services. **

I am excited to be hosting a training workshop in Las Vegas, Nevada just before the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2024! This will be a 2 day workshop over the weekend where we are going to focus on building a RESTFul Content Management System using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) approaches. Space is limited, so make sure you get your reservation going today: https://Ortus-Rest-API-2024.eventbrite.com

I am super excited to be part of yet another Ortus Developer Week this November 14-18th. This virtual conference has been put on by my company, Ortus Solutions, for more than 5 years now in order to empower developers with more FREE training and knowledge.

This year's lineup looks oustanding with major speakers from major companies like Google, Ionic, Couchbase, Nginx, IBM and much more. So [register](https://odw2016.eventbrite.com/) now for over 20 great free training sessions.

Here are my slides from my Testing Automaton presentation. In this session, I investigated all the ways that you can automate your testing processes with TestBox and many CI and automation tools. From Jenkins integration, Travis CI, Node runners, Grunt watchers and much more.

Here are the slides from my presentation at ColdFusion Summit 2016.  My presentation was on RESTFul services and how to have good design principles. How to tune them and scale them. Hope you enjoyed it.

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.