Ortus Galaxy Web Development Conference

Into the Box 2021 Houston, Texas
Thursday Sep 23 - Friday Sep 24
Hyatt Place The Woodlands

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Limited seating due to social distancing
COVID-19 Safety Acknowledgment

YOUR MISSION
Schedule

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, will be to conquer planets BoxTrek and BoxWars. Throughout this journey you will surpass challenges, gain knowledge, and achieve the unimaginable.
Do not fret, Pioneers will guide you on this trek and they’ll be by your side.

BoxTrek BoxTrek
BoxWars BoxWars
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

Ortus Keynote 2021

The Ortus Keynote gives you insight into Ortus Solutions, the past, present and future. More...

10:00 AM - 10:50 PM

cbwire: ColdBox + Livewire

Grant Copley

Introducing cbwire: a ColdBox module that makes building reactive, dynamic, and modern interfaces delightfully easy without leaving the comfort of CFML and with little-to-no JavaScript.

Up with ContentBox 5 to the cloud

George Murphy

If you ever felt like how do I get up and running in the cloud, this is the session for you. More...

Using Commandbox to optimize your daily workflow

Scott Steinbeck

CommandBox is a full-featured CLI tool written in CFML that streamlines your workflow. More...

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of your Website

Bill Garoutte

Do websites even produce carbon emissions? More...

WebSockets 201 : A Deep Dive on Design and Debugging Techniques

Giancarlo Gomez

So you know what WebSockets are and how to configure them for your application, but now what? More...

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Lunch Time!

Time to become a "black hole" and eat everything! More...

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Scheduling Tasks The Human Way!

Brad Wood

We'll learning about the new features of the AsyncManager for scheduling thread executions. You can use this feature in ColdBox apps as well as standalone CacheBox, WireBox, and LogBox use cases.

Telling Stories with Data

Edgardo Cabezas

Practical Introduction on Data Analytics and how it can transform your company (or your client's company) having a better look on historic data using PowerBi

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

Tame your Logs and Error Reporting with Stachebox

Jon Clausen

Ditch high-priced SaaS options or complex standalone applications and take control of your error logging. More...

Systems Thinking for Software Developers

Seth Stone

It's more important for software developers to be good "thinkers" than good "coders". More...

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

It's Alive! Giving life to static UI

Sonia Menéndez

Esmeralda Acevedo

Go further with your UI More...

Testing A to Z

John Farrar

Testing, too much or too little can break a project. The pathway is not a tight rope walk it is a broad road. Knowing the right types of testing and the right amount is critical. It has been said that failure is inevitable, proper preparation and testing velocity keep us productive and agile. This session will discuss the right mix of many approaches to testing. The right mix depends on your needs so we will be covering many types of testing hard and fast. More...

3:50 PM - 4:05 PM

Coffee Break

Time to become a "white hole" and eat everything! More...

4:05 PM - 4:55 PM

Using Testbox to refactor old code

Dan Card

In this session, we will start with a page of code that needs to be refactored how we can use Testbox to simply run functions in isolation. More...

Migrating from Docker to Kubernetes

Adolfo Delorenzo

How to do it and not lose your mind. Learn how to make the transition from Docker/Docker Swarm to Kubernetes. More...

5:05 PM - 5:55 PM

PostgreSQL - the db you didn’t know you needed

Scott Steinbeck

In this session, we will go over all the amazing possibilities possible with postgres, from joins, partitions, JSONB, partial indexes, CTE’s, lateral joins, spatial queries with PostGIS, automatic REST API's, various extensions, and more. More...

What's in your Dev Backpack (Postman, Webhook.site, ngrok)

Daniel García

I will give an overview of each of the three items, talk about how you can get started using them and why they are useful, show examples, and then open the discussion to see if anyone has other tools they can recommend.

6:00 PM - 6:50 PM

Happy Box Event + Raffles

Join us in our traditional Happy Box event and do not miss the opportunity to be one of the winners of our raffle.

BoxTrek BoxTrek
BoxWars BoxWars
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

Ortus Keynote 2021 Day 2

The Ortus Keynote gives you insight into Ortus Solutions, the past, present and future. More...

10:00 AM - 10:50 PM

GeoSpatial Made Easy with MapBox and cbElasticsearch

Jon Clausen

Mapping and Geospatial reporting is becoming an essential component of contemporary applications. Get your map geek on by using freely available spatial data, Elasticsearch, and Mapbox to create customized maps and reporting for your data. More...

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Automate All Things With Github Actions

Michael Born

Learn how to automate your CFML build process with Github Actions, the Continuous Integration tool built in to github.com More...

How to create high performance teams

Stephanie Monge

There is no secret recipe to create high-performance teams, however, we will share some valuable tips that will help you look over yourself and your team to find improvement opportunities that will boost your team performance and growth.

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Lunch Time day 2!

Adobe Adobe Sponsored Lunch Session with Mark Takata

Time to become a "black hole" and eat everything!

More...

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

ContentBox 5: Headless, Multi-Site, Modular, Hierarchical CMS Oh My!

Luis Majano

TBA

Don't Go Breakin' My Heart: Trust, But Verify

Shawn Oden

September is Insider Threat Awareness Month. So let's talk a little cybersecurity. Insider threats are a problem that every business should watch out for. More...

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

Building Quick APIs

Gavin Pickin

What’s better than a Quick API when you’re coding? A fast API built with ColdBox quick orm. More...

Considering Monitoring Solutions for CF and Lucee

Charlie Arehart

If you're suffering performance and stability problems, there's no substitute for having SOME kind of monitoring in place. But there are quite a variety of monitoring solutions available for ColdFusion and Lucee. How do you choose? (Or are they "all the same"? No!) More...

3:05 PM - 3:55 PM

Testing APIs with TestBox

Javier Quintero

Ready to start testing your CFML apps but not sure how to do it right? In this session, you will learn how to test your app whether is a ColdBox app or not. I will guide you and show you the benefits of using TestBox when writing API tests. Remember, writing tests is a vital part of the development process, make sure you write tests for your existing and new apps. Do it often and take advantage of the features and benefits that TestBox has in the store for you.

Extending PDF Capabilities With Adobe Document Services

Raymond Camden

ColdFusion ships with some pretty impressive document features, but you can extend them even further using Adobe Document Services. More...

3:50 PM - 4:05 PM

Coffee Break day 2

Time to become a "black hole" and eat everything! More...

4:05 PM - 4:55 PM

Quick - Scopes, Relationships, and Patterns

Eric Peterson

Come learn how Quick can help you improve the readability of your code, not just represent SQL as Objects. 1. Give relevant names to important collections of SQL code. (scopes, relationships, etc.) 2. Make queries easy to compose at runtime to get the exact data you want in the most efficient way (subselects, eager loading, etc.) 3. Get out of your way when you need or want to write barebones SQL.

Add ColdBox and a REST API to an existing codebase

Dan Card

Yes, you have heard the news that REST is good and you might even be able to see its benefits. However, the reality is that your code wasn't written that way and it is too massive of a task to even contemplate starting over. More...

5:00 PM - 5:50 PM

More Raffles + Closing

Time to say SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! without first giving you the chance to be the winner of more prizes

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Limited seating due to social distancing
COVID-19 Safety Acknowledgment

PIONEERS
Speakers

Meet the Pioneers who will guide you though this journey sharing their knowledge and giving you the tools and weapons you’ll need.

Adolfo Delorenzo
Adolfo Delorenzo
Bill Garoutte
Bill Garoutte
Brad Wood
Brad Wood
Charlie Arehart
Charlie Arehart
Dan Card
Dan Card
Daniel García
Daniel García
Edgardo Cabezas
Edgardo Cabezas
Eric Peterson
Eric Peterson
Esmeralda Acevedo
Esmeralda Acevedo
Gavin Pickin
Gavin Pickin
George Murphy
George Murphy
Giancarlo Gomez
Giancarlo Gomez
Grant Copley
Grant Copley
Javier Quintero
Javier Quintero
John Farrar
John Farrar
Jon Clausen
Jon Clausen
Jorge Reyes
Jorge Reyes
Luis Majano
Luis Majano
Michael Born
Michael Born
Raymond Camden
Raymond Camden
Scott Steinbeck
Scott Steinbeck
Seth Stone
Seth Stone
Shawn Oden
Shawn Oden
Sonia Menéndez
Sonia Menéndez
Stephanie Monge
Stephanie Monge

Hyatt Place Houston
1909 Research Forest Dr., The Woodlands, TX 77380, USA

Please call Hyatt Place Reservations at +1-832-616-3916 and request the group code G-OSOL to receive a discounted group rate.
You can also go at Hyatt Place's Website and enter the group rate shown above in the Corporate or Group Code box.

  • Group Name: G-OSOL
  • Dates: 9/22/21- 9/25/21
  • Rate: $129.00

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ORTUSIANS
Choose your alley

It’s dangerous to go alone, choose your companion!

Astrogirl

Loves to code, constant learner and debugger.

Ninja

A night owl expert in “googling” and resolve all the problems

Astroboy

Methodic, aesthetic, testing, testing and testing.

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Limited seating due to social distancing
COVID-19 Safety Acknowledgment