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; a new JVM language!

What is BoxLang?

BoxLang is a modern dynamic JVM language that can be deployed on multiple runtimes: operating system (Windows/Mac/*nix/Embedded), web server, lambda, iOS, android, web assembly, and more. BoxLang combines many features from different programming languages, including Java, ColdFusion, Python, Ruby, Go, and PHP, to provide developers with a modern and expressive syntax.

It is also a drop-in replacement for Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee Engines.

How to get started?

Visit our docs at https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com and get coding today. If you want to try it out on the web then go to our online REPL at https://try.boxlang.io. You can also checkout our YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNE-ZbNnndB-40LvAbeSeT2Oi3V2gm_B8

ITB2024 Videos

We have now published all the presentations and videos on CFCasts. If you attended the conference you will get all the videos for free. However, if you did not, then you can purchase them today and help sustain open-source.

https://cfcasts.com/series/into-the-box-2024

This series has over 20 hours of great training video! Enjoy and have fun!

ITB2025

April 30th - May 2nd, 2025 - Washington, DC

Our next edition is already open for registration, and early bird pricing is the best deal available now! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/into-the-box-2025-the-future-is-dynamic-tickets-912700821727?aff=oddtdtcreator