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We are very excited to announce that Fusion Reactor, a silver level sponsor for Into The Box 2018, will be giving their very own lunch time #session!

Don't miss this keynote speaker April 26th at 12.30pm! FusionReact...

Into The Box is a 2-day, 2-track event with speakers from around the world presenting on topics surrounding the Ortus Solutions product stack, modern ColdFusion (CFML), Java, web technologies, development processes and software craftsmanship. The conference is on April 26-27th at the Hyatt Place, in The Woodlands, Tx and we will be having a hands-on training workshop day on April 25th were you can train with the Ortus Team.

Into The Box 2018

Into The Box 2018 is going to be an extravaganza of coldfusion madness with over 25 + different speaking sessions and 4 hands on workshops April 25th-27th in The Woodlands, TX! Our speakers include our very own Ortus team and others from all around the globe that are a huge part of the CFML community. This week we wanted to inform you that one of our most popular workshops, Coldbox 0–Hero has already sold out, but we have good news! We have decided to add another assistant and make room for 5 more attendees! So get your seat before it's too late! But you might be wondering what exactly does it look like to go from Zero to Hero?

Go From Zero to Hero

Into The box 2018 Trailer from Luis Majano on Vimeo.

Into The Box 2018 is just around the corner and our Early Bird Special is ending soon! So if you haven't made your purchase yet, the sale ends February 25th!

Our event will be hosted at the Hyatt Placein The Woodlands, Tx April 25th–27th. To receive a discounted group rate on room reservations call @ 855-312-7268 or visit their website and enter the group promo code G-ORSO! We are incredibly thankful to be hosting another year and look forward to exploring the latest advancements in the CFML community with you all!

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We are offering Into The Box Early Bird Pricing only up to the 25th of February! Hurry and purchase your seat soon as time and spots are running out! Also for this week we are continuing with more speaker highlights featuring 3 more of our awesome keynotes!

Register Early Bird Pricing!

We are excited to announce the release of TestBox version 2.6.0. To install just do:

box install testbox --savedev

To upgrade your current testbox installation just run the following:

box uninstall testbox && install testbox --savedev

TestBox 2.6.0 is a minor release with some great new functionality and tons of fixes. You can find the release notes here and the major updates for this release.

Get ready for Ortus' Into the Box 2018 by getting to know our speakers! With only 13 weeks to go, hurry and sign up today. The Early Bird special is endind soon, February 25th! Sign up today!

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We've made another screencast for you and this one shows how you can run CommandBox sites behind an IIS web server using the Boncode connector.  If you're interested in using CommandBox for easy management of your production websites, this allows static files like images, JavaScript, or PDFs to be served by the web server.  It can also be handy if your site requires some IIS-specific features but you still want the portability and ease of deployment that comes with CommandBox and CFConfig.  

A common question we get now is how to take a CommandBox server and wrap it in a Windows service so it starts automatically at boot time.  This is ideal for production use or just a dev site that you always want to stay running.  With this new screencast, you will learn how to take any CommandBox server and install it as a Windows service using a free tool called NSSM.

Into The box 2018 Trailer from Luis Majano on Vimeo.

Into The Box 2018 is coming up faster than you think—just fourteen weeks away! The schedule is out and the speakers are getting ready to roll. We wanted to let you get to know them just a little bit, so we are giving you a sneak peak at some of our keynotes and the topics they will be delivering. So here are three of our very own...