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Brad Wood

August 01, 2012

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Our first ColdBox Developer Week is over and we're very pleased with the turn out.  We had 195 people register from the US, Canada, Brazil, all over Europe, Russia, India, and Australia!  We are looking foward to doing this again next year and welcome any feedback on how we can improve.

We'd like to thank the following:

  • Our sponsor, Ortus Solutions for making it possible and providing the eBook givaways
  • The speakers, for delivering exellent presentations
  • YOU for attending and giving us a reason to keep progressing the ColdBox Platform

If you weren't able to catch a session you wanted to see, or just want to hear it again, we have recordings of all 15 sessions on our Media page: 

http://www.coldbox.org/media/cbdw2012

If you have feedback of any kind, please comment on this post, or E-mail me directly at brad@coldbox.org.

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