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Dillon Slaughter January 25, 2018

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January 25, 2018

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Get ready for Ortus' Into the Box 2018 by getting to know our speakers! This years conference is taking place in The Woodlands, Texas at the Hyatt Place from April 25th through April 27th. This year on our first day you will have four awesome workshops to choose from and then two more full days of 25+ speaking sessions about the latest in the CFML community. With only 14 weeks to go, hurry and sign up today!

The first three speakers feature some of our very own!

Jon Clausen
Jon hails from Gran Rapids, Michigan and has been developing CFML applications for over a decade. He was born and raised in South Dakota and attended SDSU and DePaul University. In 2004, after 14 years with a Fortune 100 company, he founded Silo, a full-stack development and technology consulting firm in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is now an integral part of the Ortus team. Jon will be leading one of our ITB workshops April 25th and then will be presenting two sessions.

Containerizing CFML Apps (Workshop)
cbElasticSearch - Take your search to modern times
CFFractal + APIs
CI with CFML Deep Dive

Eric Peterson

Eric attended the University of Utah and received a degree in Information Systems thinking he would hate programming as a career. He started programming in cfml (and in general) in 2012 and has never been more happy to be proved wrong. Now with many years of experience in programming he is a huge help in bringing forward CFML into modernity. Also an avid blogger take a look at what he has been up to at http://dev.elpete.com! His sessions at ITB will include:

qb—a Query Builder for the rest of us
CommandBox Migrations
CFFractal + APIs

Luis Majano

Luis is a Computer Engineer born in El Salvador that currently resides with his family in the Woodlands, Texas. He is the CEO of Ortus Solutions and Lead Software Architect of Ortus Web Developmenet Ecosystem and is also the creator of the ColdBox Platform (www.coldbox.org). Luis will be Leading one of our Workshops and presenting multiple sessions!

BDD with TestBox (Workshop)
CBT - Templating for You and Me!
ColdBox HMVC 5 - Revamp your monoliths

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