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At this year's CF.Objective I had the privilege to present on CommandBox and how to create packages and publish them in our community website www.forgebox.io. It is imperative for the ColdFusion (CFML) community to start leveraging CommandBox and ForgeBox in order to create applications, libraries and share cool code!

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CommandBox, Conferences, ForgeBox, Presentations

At this year's CF.Objective I had the privilege to present on testing and automation. Here are the slides for the presentation and you can find the test source code in github: https://github.com/coldbox-samples/cbvue.

Automate Thyself Synop...

The ContentBox roadshow keeps on trucking, with this weeks free online webinar being presented on ContentBox Administration 101, by Jorge Reyes, on Friday, July 8th at 11am Central time. This is a great session, because it looks at ContentBox from an administrator or a users position. As developers at Ortus, we get excited about all the nuts and bolts under the covers, but for non developers, ContentBox is a quality enterprise level product, that anyone can use.

Please register to get updates, summaries, and all the recording links ( in case you cannot make the live webinars ).

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Brad Wood will be giving a presentation on our newest Ortus project CommandBox this Thursday to Charlie Arehart's Online ColdFusion Meetup.  The session will be noon US Eastern and like all Online CF Meetups, will be recorded.

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CommandBox is a standalone, native tool for Windows, Mac, and Linux that will provide you with a Command Line I...

Ortus is the company that has brought you the ColdBox MVC Platform, TestBox, CacheBox, WireBox, etc and we're still coming out with cool new stuff like our NoSQL library and CommandBox.  And while we offer...

This August 13th at 6:30 pm Brad Wood will be presenting an introduction to the ColdBox MVC Platform to the Chicagoland user group.  If you're in the area, please attend in person.  For everyone else, I'll be presenting via Adobe Connect and you can join the room to listen in.

This August 13th at 7PM Luis Majano, creator of ContentBox, will be presenting the newest version of our CMS at the North Virginia ColdFusion User Group. So if you are in the Washington, DC and/or Virginia vicinity, please drop on by.  Luis will be reviewing all the new features of ContentBox and the upcoming roadmap of this Modular CMS.  For much more information and your RSVP, please go to:

Luis Majano will be presenting on TestBox and BDD (Behavior Driven Development) at the Northern Virginia ColdFusion User Group (NVCFUG) this coming Wednesday at 7PM Eastern/4PM Pacific.  You can see the NVCFUG post here: http://www.meetup.com/nvcfug/events/161772632/. 

We are very excited to announce a brand new webinar coming up on November 19th at 9am PST which will dive into exactly what Couchbase Server is and how to leverage it in any CFML application.  We have partnered with the great guys at Couchbase to put on this FREE official Couchbase webinar and will be co-presenting with

We are very excited to partner up with the great folks at Couchbase to bring you an awesome webinar on November 19th, 2013.  Myself, Brad and Tug will be presenting on the amazing features of the Couchbase NoSQL server and how it can be leveraged for scalability with CFML applications.  Here is a synopsis of the webinar:

Scaling ColdFusion (CFML) Applications with Couchbas...