Into the Box 2024 - Keynote Day 2 Slides.pdf

Into the Box Keynote Day 2: Unveiling amazing updates and announcements for modern CFML developers! Get ready for exciting releases and updates on Ortus tools and products. Stay tuned for cutting-edge innovations designed to boost your productivity.

1. Keynote Day 2
Starting 9:00am Central
LED BY
Luis F. Majano

2. WELCOME
#ITB2024
Day 2
@GOINTOTHEBOX @ORTUSSOLUTIONS

3. Don’t miss out!
•Today after the last session!
•Must be present to win!
•RaffleBox!

4. ITB USA
Washington, DC
May 2025
ITB EU
Fall 2025
Malaga, Spain

5. “El Rey”
@jquintero
Jorge Reyes
COO

6. Life isSoftware

7. •% Ortus Income goes outside its walls
•Missions We Support:
•Harvesting in Spanish: harvesting.org
•Mighty Oaks Foundation: mightyoaksprograms.org
•ColdBox 4 Hope - www.coldbox4hope.org
•Modern Day - https://www.modernday.org/
GET INVOLVED!

8. Mighty Oaks - Veteran
Recovery Program

9. Modern Day Spain!

10. EL SALVADOR
www.harvesting.org

11. Medical Family Center
SHALOM

14. Mobile Clinic
SHALOM

15. Orphanage
SHALOM

17. Colegio Cristiano
AMIGOS PARA
LATINOAMERICA

18. GRAPHIC DESIGN

19. ROBOTICS

20. Christian School
DONAL W. BENNER

22. Thanks!
YOU can make a difference

23. @lmajano @ortussolutions
LUIS F. MAJANO
CEO

25. State of ColdBox
•18th Anniversary!
•6.x Series on LTS
•7.x Series - May 2023
•8.x Series Planning has begun
•600+ ColdBox Modules

26. ColdBox Roadmap2023 6.x LTS 7.x 2022 6 LTS 7.x Beta
2024
6.x LTS
7.x LTS
8.x Beta
2025
6.x LTS
7.x LTS
8.x LTS
2026
7.x LTS
8.x LTS
9.x Beta

27. 7.x Recap
•WireBox Delegates
•Hierarchical & Module Injectors
•Lazy Properties, Property Observers
•Transient Performance Caching
•Whoops Enhanced!
•Coldbox-cli
•Enhanced Scheduled Tasks
Engine Supports

28. 8.x Series
•BoxLang Version
•Compatibility Mode for Engines
•Rearchitecture of CacheBox
•Module namespacing
•Module Injectors and Awareness
•More scheduled task enhancements
•ColdBox 8 Logo
Here please

29. 1 More Update

30. SCOTT STEINBECK
CBDebugger Guy!

31. CBDebgguer Slide

32. CBDebgguer Slide

33. @jclausen
JON CLAUSEN
Your Host
Senior Ortusian Architect
Captain Container

35. •5.x Series - Aug 2021
•Major Architectural Shift
•Most Ambitious Release
•145 Stories
•Renewed investment
•Version 6 - June 2023!
State of ContentBox

36. Roadmap2021 5 Final 2022 5.x
2024
6.x LTS
7
2023
5 LTS
6.x LTS

37. 6 Recap
•Blazing Fast Performance with ColdBox 7!
•Redesigned Menu Manager and Admin Bar
•Admin reactivity enhancements using Alpine JS
•Content Templates
•Automatic and Manual Redirects
•CBFS-integrated Media Manager

38. -Can be configured for all content
types
-Enforces the completion of defined
fields in the editor to ensure
consistency
-Top level content items may define
templates for child content
ContentBox 6 : Content Templates

39. ContentBox 6 : Smart Relocations
-As content is moved in the site tree, historical
redirects are added to prevent broken links
and improve historical SEO retention
-Manual relocations may be added for
inbound URLs.
-Extension detection for legacy sites allows
old CFM files to migrate effortlessly to CMS
content

40. ContentBox 6 : CBFS
-All media operations now use CBFS
-Configure system and site level disks to allow for
local or cloud storage ( S3 )
-Media providers updated to optimize and reduce
memory footprint of upload and download
operations

41. -ContentBox companion module which enables
Elasticsearch as the default search provider
-Easy customization of boosting and scoring fields
-Search both CMS content and Files (using ES ingest
attachment plugin)
-Search index includes all page rendered content for
better SEO relevancy
for ContentBox
box install contentbox-elasticsearch

42. What’s Next…
•BoxLang Support
•CBOpenAI for AI-generated content assistance
•Visual & Reusable Custom Fields
•New Admin
•New Themes
•Block Editor
•New File Manager UI
•Continue Migration to Alpine
ContentBox
7 LOGO

44. 1.43 Million Pulls
and Counting
Docker

45. -New support for JSON logging layouts ( e.g. Elastic APM )
-Now building three Linux OS’:
-Ubuntu ( default )
-Alpine Linux
-RHEL UBI ( Universal Base Image )
-Now building three JDK/JRE versions:
-Java 8
-Java 11
-Java 17
-9 Release Versions since September 2022
The State of the Container
Docker CommandBox

46. -For DoD and Federal Government Developers and IT
Support
-Hardened Container Images, suitable for air-gapped
environments and AWS/Azure Gov Clouds
-Weekly vulnerability scans and threat-assessment
analysis
-Four Current Flavors:
-Base Image ( Lucee Light )
-Lucee 5
-Adobe 2018
-Adobe 2021
https://p1.dso.mil/products/iron-bank
New: Iron Bank CommandBox Images
Docker CommandBox

47. State of CommandBox
•10 Years Old
•42 Total Releases
•84 Tickets closed this year
•21 Pull Requests this year
•Active community of contributors

48. CommandBox Usage
0
12500
25000
37500
50000
20142015201620172018201920202021202220232024

49. CommandBox Servers
Power the CF World
•854,000 Adobe CF installs
•681,000 Lucee installs
•Docker 1.4+ Million Pulls
•SOTCFU 2023
•53% use CommandBox in some regard
•39% use CommandBox for development
•65% using Docker on production use CommandBox
•27% use CFConfig for server lockdown
•6% use CommandBox Task Runners for automation
0
400000
800000
1200000
1600000
2019 2020 2021 2022
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Adobe Lucee

50. CommandBox 6.x Recap
•Java 17 Support (preliminary) 
•Library Updates (Security)
•Override package install paths
•ls --tree commands

52. A professionally supported version of CommandBox that
includes several exclusive features and benefits. It also
includes a business SLA that can be customized if needed
Included with a BoxLang+ or ++ Subscription
CommandBox PRO

53. Overview

54. Key Features

55. Multi-Site
•Fully-featured Web Server built into CommandBox
•Host as many separate websites as you like
•No need for any front-end web server, or ModCFML
•Supports separately configurable rewrites, lockdowns, virtual directories,
and other settings on a per-site basis
•Supports unlimited HTTP/SSL/AJP bindings, SSL certs, and host headers
•Newly expanded server.json format
•Blazing fast and all built on JBoss Undertow
•Allows your CFML servers to be simplified down to a single moving part

56. Multi-Server - Global Settings

57. Multi-Server - Global Settings

58. Site Configs
•HTTP/SSL/AJP bindings
•Server Rules (rewrites)
•Aliases/Virtual dirs
•Access logs
•Lockdown settings (Block CF Admin, Block flash remoting, etc)
•Security (Basic auth, Client cert auth)
•Error pages (404, 500, etc)
•Mime types
•GZip predicate
•Welcome files
•Directory browsing

59. @GrantCopley
GRANT COPLEY
Your Host
Lead Developer cbWire
Señor Wire!

61. -ColdBox Module to quickly add reactivity to your apps
-HTML-over-the-wire: UI components and updates are rendered server-side
-Built with CFML components and templates ( .CFC, .CFM )
-SEO Friendly
-Similar concepts as Vue
-Data properties, Computed properties
-Events & Listeners
-Templates, Template Directives ( wire:click, wire:model )
-Form Validation
What is cbWire

62. -Simple, quick to get started
-Create modern, reactive applications that users love
-Create single-page applications ( Turbo ), avoid page refreshing
-Alternative to Vue, React, Angular
-Avoid unnecessary JSON APIs, JS compilation, front-end bloat
-Use tools you already know and have invested in ( TestBox, WireBox, CFML )
-Keep your domain knowledge and logic server-side
-Use as much as you need, still use JavaScript when needed ( AlpineJS )
Why cbWire

63. COUNTER.CFM

64. LAYOUT

65. -CBWIRE v1 was announced @ ITB 2021
-CBWIRE v2 was announced @ ITB 2022
-CBWIRE v3 announcing here @ ITB 2023
-19 tickets completed ( 13 enhancements, 6 bugs )
-Refactored and optimized core
-New Component Syntax
-New integration with AlpineJS ( Entangle )
-Improved Component Testing
-New Lifecycle Hooks
-Documentation updates
AND MORE…
MOMENTUM

66. Session in

67. MICHAEL RIGSBY
CBWire Case Study

68. Rigsby Slide

69. Rigsby Slide

70. @gpickin
GAVIN PICKIN
Your Host
Senior Ortusian Developer
Mr Modernize or Die

73. Brian Ghidinelli Jordan Clark Dan Card
Jonathan Perret David Belanger Giancarlo Gomez
Dean Maunder Jeffry McGee Wil De Bruin
Gary Knight
Mario Rodriguez

75. We’ll mispronounce
your name every week!!!!!

79. •Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular and is seen as a
valuable tool for strengthening and growing the CFML community.
•With the constantly evolving nature of the Ortus and CFML
world, it can be challenging to stay up-to-date with all the latest
developments.
•Ortus has lots to talk about - let’s face it!
Let us be the little voices in your head
Ortus Podcasts

80. Approx 22,000
49%
PODCAST STATS
220*
Episodes
45,000
Total Views / Listens
510 + subscribers
51%
400k+ Impresions
Approx 23,000

81. YouTube Podcasts

82. @_elpete
ERIC PETERSON
Your Host
•Module Maestro
•That CFCasts Guy
Module Maestro!

83. State of QB
•12 Releases since ITB 2022 (v 9.2.1)
•New Features:
•SQLite Grammar Support
•SQL Commenter
•Inline Bindings for Debugging
•Auto-deriving Numeric SQL Types
•Strict Date Detection for SQL Types
•`returning` in update and delete statements

85. State of Quick!
•20(!) releases since ITB 2022
•New release for ITB: v6.0.0!
•New Features:
•ColdBox 7 Support
•asQuery — Fast, eager-loaded queries straight in qb
•Better CommandBox compatibility
•Dropped support for ColdBox 5
•Lots and lots of bug fixes!
(17 of the releases were just bug-fix releases)

86. But wait…
There’s more….

87. •Run end-to-end tests in TestBox
•Control real browsers like Chrome/Chromium,
FireFox, and Safari
•ColdBox optional
•Includes extra functions to make interacting with the
Microsoft Java library easier
•But also doesn’t hide any of the Java functionality so
it’s there when you need it
•Check out the session on cbPlaywright

88. •Send Jobs to the background easily
•Durable Queues in ColdBox
•Provider-based Queue Managers
•Consolidated error tracking with LogBox and
Interceptors
•Interact with ColdBox Async, Database, Rabbit,
Redis, and more!
•Chains, Batches, Delayed Jobs, etc.
•v1.0.0 launching at Into the Box 2023!

90. State of The Casts!
•37 Series, over 500 videos
•Almost 8 days of content!
•Search now powered by
ElasticSearch
•Highlighted Series:
•Mastering CommandBox 5
•Into the Box 2019–2022!
•Ortus Webinars 2023 — all free!

91. State of The Casts!
•Team Subscriptions
•Revamped Search Experience
•Series Sections
•Instructor Profile Pages
COMING SOON!

92. THANK YOU
Thanks to our sponsors