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Brad Wood

October 01, 2014

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As we're recovering from our third annual ColdBox Developers Week, we'd like to give a shout out of thanks to everyone who participated.  From our sponsors, to the speakers and the attendees; everyone helped play a part in making these 21 training sessions fun and informative.  We hope everyone had as much fun learning as we did putting this on.

Prizes

Thanks to our sponsors, Ortus Solutions and Computer Know How, we had tons of prizes to give away. Here's a recap of the winners.  Congratulations!

Furthermore, we offered additional prizes to the first two people to submit new packages to ForgeBox-- CFML's newest and most comprehensive code repository.  The following two people stepped up:

Recordings

The most common question I've gotten is, "Was this session recorded?"  The answer is, YES!  Every session including our special guest session by Gert Franz of Railo was recorded and is posted along with the slide decks over on the CBDW 2014 recording page.

http://www.coldbox.org/media/cbdw2014

Resources

Hopefully you came away from CBDW excited to try out some of the tooling you learned about.  We're here to help you with that.  Here's some links for you to get started:

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