What is the Software Craftsmanship Book Club?

Its a place for CFML Community members can get together, discuss and debate the thoughts, ideas, best practices outlined by a series of books focusing on increasing Software Developers efficiency, productivity and pride. It will be relaxed but educational environment, where we can learn from each other, and grow as a community.

Ortus Software Craftsmanship Book Club

The holiday season is almost here and we want to give you an early present!

For the first time ever, enjoy our "ColdBox Master Class" for FREE until Dec 31st, and start building secure and modern CFML web applications with up-to-date tools and methodologies that will help you increase your development productivity!

Start your Training today!

CBWIRE, our ColdBox module that makes building reactive, modern CFML apps delightfully easy, just dropped its 2.1 release. This release contains mostly bug fixes and also the ability to create your UI templates directly within your CBWIRE component using the onRender() method.

We all test manually, lets step up our game with some easy, powerful and valuable automated tests with TestBox - even on your legacy codebases. Join Gavin on Friday October 28th at 11am (CDT) Go register!

CFSummit was a successful event. Our Ortusians rocked their presentations and we had the chance to meet a lot of amazing people with incredible ideas to continue contributing to the CFML world!

Did you miss our sessions? Get the links to download and review anytime you want!

Hacktoberfest is here!

Ortus Solutions is built upon Open source with our flagship products all open source, this event holds a special place in our hearts and it’s a great space to show developers how we are modernizing the CFML language. We invite everyone to get involved and contribute to CFML Community Projects, with documentation, code, and new this year, non-code contributions. 

There are times when code needs to be shipped in a compiled state. It might be for obfuscation or source protection, it might just because it runs faster that way, without the CFML server needing to compile templates at runtime. It's an excellent use case for production Docker images and code deploy pipelines.

We are pleased to announce the release of cbElasticsearch version 2.3.3. cbElasticsearch is the Elasticsearch module for the Coldbox platform, and provides a fluent CFML API for interacting with, searching, and serializing to Elasticsearch servers.

This release adds full compatibility for Elasticsearch v8.x as well as maintaining support for Elasticsearch versions 6 and 7.

4 of our Ortusians will be speaking at CF Summit this year from Oct 3 - 4 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here are all the details you need to join us and enjoy valuable CFML content to modernize your projects! We are sponsoring the event and will have a booth for you to come by and have a chat with our team!

When I want to increase the perceived speed of my CBWIRE apps, one tool I reach for is prefetching. Prefetching is a built-in feature of Livewire JS that allows you to invoke an Action's results on mouseOver.