"Getting Started with BoxLang Runtimes", with Luis Majano & Brad Wood

We're happy to announce the next Online ColdFusion Meetup to be held Thursday Aug 15th at 12pm US Eastern Time, UTC-4:

"Getting Started with BoxLang Runtimes", with Luis Majano & Brad Wood

Meeting URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmX8teG-4qE&list=PLG2EHzEbhy0-QirMKgSxhjkUyTSSTvHjL

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

BoxLang is a new application server released by Ortus Solutions. It can run your CF code on a brand new runtime that's been built from scratch to be smaller, faster, and more versatile, and using the modern features of Java. We've re-imagined where CF can be used with a CLI runtime, Server runtime, AWS Lambda runtime, and more. BoxLang is super small-- only a core jar of 6 MBs, allowing smaller, faster servers that compete the evolving server space. We've also added a host of improved Java interop features, and modular design, and language improvements with our BoxLang scripting syntax.

In this session, we'll cover what BoxLang is, how to install it, and we'll show you how to get going with 4 of BoxLang's runtimes: CLI, MiniServer, CommandBox/servlet, and AWS Lambdas. Presented by Luis Majano and Brad Wood, two of the creators of BoxLang.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: (provided by the speaker)

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer and author who has been creating software since the year 2000. He was born in San Salvador, El Salvador in the late 1970s, during a period of economic instability and civil war. He lived in El Salvador until 1995 and then moved to Miami, Florida where he studied and completed his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at Florida International University.

He is the founder and CEO of Ortus Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in web development, ColdFusion (CFML), Java development and all open source professional services under the ColdBox and ContentBox stack. He is the creator of ColdBox, ContentBox, WireBox, MockBox, LogBox and anything BOX, and contributes to many open source ColdFusion/Java projects. You can read his blog at www.luismajano.com.
---
Brad Wood grew up in southern Missouri and after high school majored in Computer Science with a music minor at MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS). Today he lives in Kansas City with his wife and three girls. Brad enjoys all sorts of international food and the great outdoors.

Brad has been programming ColdFusion since around 2002 and has used every version of CF since 4.5. He first fell in love with ColdFusion as a way to easily connect a database to his website for dynamic pages. He enjoys configuring and performance tuning high-availability Windows and Linux ColdFusion environments as well as SQL Server

RECORDINGS:

All meetings are recorded. As a Youtube live meeting, the URL offered here is the link to the recording as well. But the URL will also be posted after meeting at https://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com, and via the Youtube playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG2EHzEbhy0-QirMKgSxhjkUyTSSTvHjL).

WANT TO PRESENT?

We welcome and indeed seek presentations from anyone wishing to speak about any projects regarding or tangentially related to CF. For more, see https://speak.coldfusionmeetup.com.