102 ColdBox Tips and Tricks by Luis Majano
How to Quickly Find Your ColdBox Version
Need to check which version of ColdBox you're running? There are two easy ways to do this: the CommandBox wayand the ColdBox way
Many organizations still rely on manual deployments for their ColdFusion or Lucee applications. These processes might have worked years ago, but in today’s world of rapid releases and cloud-native expectations, they are fragile, slow, and risky.
A missed step, an inconsistent environment, or a late-night deployment gone wrong can mean downtime that affects your business and your users.
The good news? You don’t have to rewrite your applications to modernize how y...
This summary dives into the latest updates, innovations, and achievements across Ortus Solutions’ Corp suite of tools and platforms. As a leader in open-source development, we continue to empower developers with cutting-edge frameworks, languages, and tools designed to streamline and modernize web development, we want the community to know we keep building and improving our products.
Software doesn’t stop working the day support ends—but the risks and costs begin compounding fast. If you’re still running ColdFusion 2018 or 2021, this post is your quick brief on what End of Support (EoS) really means, the downstream impact on your teams and budgets, and how to move decisively without disruption.
We're thrilled to announce BoxLang 1.6.0, a release that delivers massive performance improvements, intelligent developer tooling, and enhanced async capabilities. This release focuses on making BoxLang faster, smarter, and more observable than ever before.
Ad-hoc releases slow teams down: flaky builds, manual handoffs, surprise hotfixes, and “it works on my machine” incidents. The cure isn’t a six-month tooling migration—it’s a focused, four-week engagement that converts chaos into a reliable release rhythm.
Below is a 30-day playbook our on-demand DevOps engineers use to standardize CI/CD fast—without pausing delivery. It’s designed to run in parallel with your current work, introducing structure, guardrails, and automa...
Modernizing without a security baseline is gambling with production. Before choosing runtimes, refactoring frameworks, or touching infrastructure, you need a clear view of your current exposure. A ColdFusion security audit is step zero: it tells you what to fix now, what to monitor, and how to modernize safely.
1) Configuration & Server Posture
If you’ve ever felt trapped by your platform instead of empowered by it, you’re not alone. Legacy systems can be expensive to maintain, slow to adapt, and limiting when it comes to growth. For many teams, innovation feels out of reach because the tools they rely on simply weren’t built for today’s pace of change.
That’s where BoxLang comes in. Built to break free from outdated constraints, BoxLang isn’t just another language, it’s a modernization movement designed to help you scale without penalties, cut costs, and build with the future in mind.
Ortus Solutions delivered a wealth of insights and updates in September 2025, focusing on modernizing development with BoxLang, ColdBox, and CFML.
Deadlines don’t wait. Whether it’s a last-minute infrastructure change, a critical deployment, or a project that suddenly became top priority, your team needs extra hands—and it needs them fast. But traditional hiring cycles and contractor onboarding often make it impossible to respond at the speed business demands.
At Ortus Solutions, we built a model designed exactly for these moments.
A stalled DevOps backlog doesn’t just delay ...