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Hello and welcome to the Modernize or Die podcast.

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This is episode 233.

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It is May 20th, 2025.

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My name is Eric Peterson and I am joined today by Daniel Garcia.

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How you doing Daniel?

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I am doing great, how are you?

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I'm doing pretty okay.

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My voice sounds weird.

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It has since karaoke at Into the Box That must have been it, right?

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Well, you killed it at karaoke at Into the Box So, I don't know.

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Well, thank you for that.

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can't see I couldn't do it anymore.

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So here's hoping it comes back quick

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got time.

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There's 11 and a half months till next Into the Box.

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You can get back into karaoke shape.

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Sounds good.

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All right, let's jump into some Ortus news.

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QB version 12 and 12.1 have been released.

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One after the other,

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yeah. 12, and it wasn't a bug fix, it was actually a legit new

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feature. 12 had a whole bunch of cleanup and some major breaking changes we've been
looking to do for a

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while. But also has things like Derby as

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supported grammar, running queries without the table, the support for the for clause in
SQL Server so they can return things as JSON or XML.

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And then in 12.1 we added a feature to detect valid query params.

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So in QB you can pass a value, but you can also pass a query param struct like you would
to cfqueryparam .

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and I was helping somebody debug an issue where they were getting some weird behavior in
QB and what it turned out was they had passed a struct that they had meant to serialize to

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JSON as the value and QB was just like, what is this?

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And so now QB will check the structs you pass in and make sure that only the keys that are
valid for query params exist.

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And if they don't, it will give you a nice little.

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error message that says, you probably meant to serialize this.

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So that's 12 and 12.1.

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There are breaking changes, but honestly, check out the docs.

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You probably won't have to change anything if you've been running with the defaults since
I think version nine.

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It was mostly dropping some settings that we don't need anymore.

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So next up into the box, 2025 videos are coming to CF Cast in June.

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I don't have an exact date, but we were told by our marketing team that they are going to
be in June.

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So very excited about that.

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I know there's a lot of sessions I couldn't make.

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Cause I was doing this and that and whatever else.

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And so I'm very excited to get them up there so I could start watching some of them as
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Yes, I do believe looking at what our marketing team said, they said the first week of
June.

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So just the first week.

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a grace period on it just in case.

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Cause June 30th is still June.

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So you heard it here, now our marketing team's gonna make it happen.

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oh They were already gonna make it happen.

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all the shows and you're like, why do look so weird?

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I don't know.

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All right, a reminder this came out at Into the Box, but pass keys are available as an
option for you on your Forgebox account.

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You can log in and go add a pass key to your account today.

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it is, well, I'm a little biased because I implemented it, but it is the right way pass
keys should be used, which is that when you come to log in and you have a pass key, it

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just prompts you, lets you scan your fingerprint, show your face, whatever you're using
for that, and you're in.

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So it's really.

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why does it take you 30 seconds or less?

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you tell us what pass keys are just in case somebody's watching this and they don't quite
know what you mean?

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Yeah, you've probably seen them pop up on even some of the bigger websites.

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Google's pushing them a lot right now.

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GitHub has some.

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The idea is to use public private key encryption instead of passwords, but it's all
handled by your platform.

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Usually your mobile phone, Android, iOS.

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You can also use password managers.

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I prefer one password, but a way to not have to remember your passwords, but also avoid
phishing attacks, password reuse.

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secure all the way around.

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There's some growing pains as websites decide how they want to use pass keys.

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As I was complaining, I have one website I use that has me enter my username, enter my
password, and then asks me for a pass key as the second form, like the two factor auth,

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which drives me nuts because I think it's overkill.

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But that's okay.

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Everyone's figuring out.

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double security must be like the government website, double security.

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Yeah, it's not that important, so...

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Get your like grocery rewards card or something.

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it's something like that.

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Yeah, but yeah, you can go add it to Forgebox now.

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So

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Nice, nice, nice, nice.

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So this episode is sponsored by Ortus Cloud Servers for Ortus Solutions.

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You can do BoxLang and CommandBox servers available on AWS and Azure.

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Azure or Azure?

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I've heard both ways.

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I've always said Azure, but I don't have any proof.

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you could choose Ubuntu, I've heard both ways there as well or Windows based servers.

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Serverless deployments available for Boxlang, although one way to say that, go to the
website ordersolutions.com slash product slash cloud hyphen servers.

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And we'll get the link there in the chat.

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If you want to get your product or service in front of our wonder wondering Boxlang and
CFML audience, reach out to us on our website.

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Yeah, I meant to say wonderful.

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Sometimes, you know, I try and like improv, but sometimes I'm just like Ron Burgundy and I
just read what's on the prompt and I need to be better about that.

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Speaking of BoxLang we got some news about BoxLang this week.

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Let's jump into that.

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ah First one, we got a blog post here from our BoxLang evangelist, Raymond Camden, about
parsing Markdown in BoxLang, take three.

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He promises that this would be his last post this month on it.

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So before he showed us how to use BoxLang's Java integration and bringing the FlexMark
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and use that to parse Markdown and mention then that BoxLang has own BX Markdown module
that does a lot of the same stuff.

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It wraps up that same FlexMark library, provides some handy built-in functions for you to
convert from Markdown to HTML and back, and also a BX Markdown component that you can

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throw into your view and just put Markdown in there.

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and it will convert it right there on the fly.

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Nice.

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And why would anybody want to use Markdown versus traditional HTML?

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This is easier to look at as a human, really, right?

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Like when you're writing a blog post, it looks more like text rather than markdown.

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Sure.

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Well, now you're confusing people because it is Markdown.

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You mean Markup?

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Eric's getting over a cold and I am unfairly teasing him.

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So my apologies.

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Next up we've got Boxlang added to CFdocs, CFdocs.org.

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The website, if you're not familiar with it, go get familiar with it, CFdocs.org.

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It's got a ton of

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CFML documentation for all the engines including now Boxlang.

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And so when you go there and you see the different engines supported, you'll see BoxLang
and what version supported just like some of the others.

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And so it's very exciting.

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I think Eric, you probably had something to do with that if I'm not mistaken.

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Yeah, so I use CF Docs all the time and I love the fact that I can, you can click on the
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And I'm like, well BoxLang needs to be here.

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You know, guys, there's a lot of tags.

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There's a lot of components.

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There's a lot of functions.

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It took a while, but like it was when I was, when everybody was working on their ah
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workshops for Into the Box.

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I was just over in the corner just basically copying and pasting a lot of stuff.

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So, but we got it out there.

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Not only does it include links, but you can also see some compatibility information.

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For instance, if you would go to the serialize JSON, those of you in the know know that we
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So there's a little note that is being transpiled for you.

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So anyway, it's all over the place.

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that is an open source community website.

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Anybody can contribute a Pete Frey tag, put it all together and lots of people are out
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But, it's a great resource.

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I use it all the time because who can remember every little argument for every function
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Not me.

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Also, as you said, shout out to Pete.

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He helped me get it up and get the images needed to make the nice little cards when you
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So thank you Pete for the great website and helping me get this out there.

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Nice.

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have a new BoxLang module.

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It was mentioned at the webinar last week, which if you didn't see that is live on our,
not live, it is up on our YouTube.

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You can go watch that webinar with Jacob and Brad and Luis.

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It is the BoxLang SQLite module.

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If you would like to use SQLite in your application, you can add that module and point it
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It will create that file as a database, or you can even tell it to create a in-memory
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and just run everything in memory.

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a trick I like to use in testing sometimes.

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So the BoxLine SQLite module, available now.

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I'm actually trying to find the link really quick for the, uh, that was last week, right?

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the webinar.

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man, go on down a rabbit hole.

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Well, while you go down the rabbit hole, let me push this forward.

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We have another blog post from Ray Camden about the BoxLang module features.

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I believe Ray wrote this after getting inspired at Into the Box where Brad's Session,
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BoxLang module and how simple it can be.

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One thing you might not know off the bat is you can write a BoxLang module in BoxLang.

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You don't have to write it in Java, though you can.

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So Ray shows how he wrote one.

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He made a new box built-in function that he could call meow and give it an argument and
have a new output come out just as an idea to show something simple.

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And then he goes on to building kind of a real module, which is an RSS reader, bringing in
a Java library and setting that up for you and...

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you're able to pass in a RSS feed to this function and get an array of items from that
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So all that just with BoxLang.

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He didn't have to jump down and learn Java code.

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He could integrate with a Java library without having to write Java code.

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All great things that are possible inside BoxLang

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So another exciting news, BoxLang 1.1.0 has been released.

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It sounds boring.

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Eric put boring.

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I said, it sounds exciting, but it's bug fixes and improvements, which some people might
be like, okay, thank you.

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The idea was to do the joke like every mobile app just says bug fixes and improvements,
bug fixes and improvements.

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That was the joke.

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We have the change log and we'll put it in.

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There are great bug fixes and improvements and if it's a bug that you ran into, you
definitely care about it.

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But there's no eye catching features this week, but that's okay.

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That's fair.

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That is fair.

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All right, we wanted to take a section of each of these podcasts and do kind of a BoxLang
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You know, it's a new engine.

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There's lots of new questions coming out there.

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And so we thought we'd address them here on the podcast for you all.

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If you do have your questions, please send them in to us at podcast@ortussolutions.com So
let's go to the question this week, which is, is BoxLang a paid engine?

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like Adobe ColdFusion

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Okay, can I take this one?

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BoxLang is free and open source.

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Woo!

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Free as in, free?

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I don't remember the phrase.

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BoxLang is absolutely free as in, I wasn't going to say beer, I thought it was beer, but I
was trying to like keep the podcast classy, Eric, but it's not even, well, you know what?

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It's past noon Chicago time.

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And by the way, I love that when Maho posted the link, she's like, noon Chicago time.

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I love that, because I've been championing for.

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Central time to be renamed to Chicago time.

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Anyway, BoxLang is free and open source.

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You can do whatever you want in BoxLang for free.

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It's open source.

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Apache, I think Apache 2.0, I believe.

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free just for development?

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It's free for whatever you want to do it, whatever you can build with it.

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BoxLang is free, free, free, free for the BoxLang open source version.

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Now you might be like, well, I heard there's some pricing plans on the website and you're
absolutely correct.

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There are some additional things you could get.

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We call them the + and ++ plans.

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Basically it comes with enhanced support, premium modules and

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Custom patches, priority support, business level SLAs, all the things that you would
expect in a paid support service.

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But you don't have to do that.

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You don't.

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But some of those premium modules, might be wondering, things like Redis, Couchbase,
MongoDB, Elasticsearch, bx-ai +, because there's already a bx-ai that, you know what?

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It's free, open source.

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Some PDF forms, some spreadsheet functionalities.

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Again, those are things we spent a lot of extra time and effort to try and get this out
there and it's nothing new.

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We've had some of these modules for other engines before and we've been selling them.

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And quite frankly, if you want good Redis support and say Lucee you get the Ortus Redis
extension because that's just the way it goes.

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Now that said, what could people do if they don't want to get our extensions, Eric?

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Well, we've had this question come up, they saying, no, look, it's like Adobe.

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have to pay to get the PDF forms.

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There's no way in the world that I can do PDF forms without it.

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And the answer is that's just not true because all of these modules are built as BoxLang
modules and anybody can build a BoxLang module.

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You can build your own, you can keep it private.

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You can publish it.

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You can build your own Redis one, your own PDF forms one.

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So if you do not want to pay for a plan that includes these premium modules, you can build
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You can build exactly what you need.

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It will run the exact same way as ours do.

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There's no special entitlement that Ortus modules get in BoxLang.

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They all run the same.

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So uh that's your choice.

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We think we've built something very valuable and that you'll get a lot of value from the
license, but you are in no way required to use it.

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In any way.

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Yep.

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And we've got years and years and years, some of us even more years of experience building
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And, we just want to make it easier for you, but like anything, Java is a first-class
citizen with BoxLang.

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And so if you find a Java solution, just go use that.

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It's okay.

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BoxLang is open source and free and you can do it everywhere, anywhere, and however you
want.

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It's just, if you want that extra support and some of these premium mods that we've got
pre made for you, get a plan.

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That's all.

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Alright, we'll be back next week with more BoxLang FAQ.

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Send them in.

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Two weeks, next episode, whatever.

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Onward to some CFML updates.

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There is a security update for Adobe ColdFusion which I love their security updates.

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This is love in scare quotes because they don't really tell you what it was.

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But luckily we have Charlie's blog article which does tell you what it was.

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I gotta say, this one was made more of a splash than I thought it would because they made
some changes to how remote CFC methods would be called if you provide either too many or

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incorrectly named arguments, which broke, what was it?

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Mock data, CFC, or CF mock data?

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What do we call it?

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CB mock data?

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cbMockData .

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I think we changed the name on it recently.

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Which is the mock data library included in TestBox It has a handy way that it takes in any
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Where you can give it a bunch of arguments and say, create this struct for me with a first
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Well, that all broke even if you weren't calling the function remotely.

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It's just if the function had the remote type.

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and this new security update broke.

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So I know we're talking to Adobe trying to figure out how that should work.

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A lot of people don't feel like that should be.

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applying to functions called inside your code rather than as a remote function.

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And for those of you that haven't used remote functions in ColdFusion it is basically
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And you can then call it via the URL, like a file path.

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And then you can add question mark method equals, and then pass in the name of a method
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So it creates

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a way to call it from a URL.

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So I can see why it's a security area.

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But yeah, so it exists in mock data because if you wanted to quickly while you're testing
hit it and get a bunch of random data, we wanted that to be possible.

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So if you see all your TestBox fails because you've applied this ColdFusion update, that's
why we're talking with them about it right now.

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Charlie has the magical Java system property that will turn it back off so you can keep
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And just another word on Charlie.

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Charlie is a great community resource.

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He has been for a really, really long time.

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And, it's always fun seeing him into the box and he's a heck of a karaoke singer too.

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If you ever get the chance to experience the Charlie experience, but, we appreciate you,
our friend and keep doing what you're doing.

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And you're a resource to everybody everywhere.

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And we appreciate you.

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Give us some Charlie love.

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So.

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Coming up next, we've got a Spring 2025 Galaxy blog update and robot by Gregory Alexander.

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He's got lots of different improvements coming in.

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So he's got some new features coming out.

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He's going to be migrating from Bing Maps to He's going to fix some different bugs, some
performance enhancements, support for CSS gradients.

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some automatic WebP image generation, some caching functions.

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And later at some point, he's going to be providing BoxLang compatibility and potentially
writing a new BoxLang edition.

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Potentially it's on the radar.

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Don't know when that'll be, but it's exciting to see some of these community applications
out there looking at BoxLang and like, hmm, I wonder what I can do with that.

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I mean, the first thing can certainly do is just make sure it's compatible with BoxLang
with the CFMLCompat module and just get up and running a BoxLang engine.

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And that hopefully is going to be a relatively easy transition path.

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unless there's some weird esoteric thing somebody might be doing, and then we have to
figure that stuff out.

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But for the majority of people, it should be pretty straightforward, but it sounds like
he's talking about just rewriting it all in box language is awesome.

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So, looking forward to seeing how that goes, Gregory, and thank you for all you do.

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Let's talk about some events happening this week is CF Camp.

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I know we've sent Brad Wood on an airplane now.

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I believe he might be there battling jet lag.

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It starts.

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but we were like, we don't know if he'll be awake.

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There is a pre-conference workshop tomorrow for Ortus on BoxLang.

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still has tickets available.

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It is getting started with the BoxLang runtimes.

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So you can grab that.

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And then CF Camp itself, May 22nd and 23rd.

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I bet they would still let you buy tickets and come out there if you were able to get
there.

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Yeah, just show up and probably buy, well, actually I don't want to say you can buy a
ticket at the door because I have no idea, but I would not be surprised.

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They're good people out there.

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Yeah, I'm sad I couldn't make it there this year.

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CF Camp is always such a great conference.

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Yeah, one of these years, I almost had a chance to go this year.

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Just, I, it didn't work out, but hopefully future.

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I also love it just because there's so many people I don't get to meet at conferences here
in the States.

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And so it's just I love expanding my CFML community.

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Absolutely.

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Okay, coming up, upcoming June webinar, Building Dynamic AWS Lambda Applications with
Boxlang with Luis Majano You can register for that.

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We'll get the link in there.

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It's going to be Wednesday, June 18th at 11 a.m.

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Chicago time.

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There's also a July webinar scheduled with Ray Camden, but more details will be coming
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Alright, and all those webinars are free, so please come join us.

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You know what?

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I'm taking the phrase back.

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It's free as in BoxLang That's what I'm to say from now on.

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Free as in BoxLang.

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I imagine with the AWS Lambda applications of BoxLang, that might be related to what Luis
did at Into the box.

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And so if you missed it at Into the Box you can certainly go and you subscribe.

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can go and get the videos at CFCasts.

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I'm sorry, if you attended into the box and missed a session, get it from CFCasts.

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Eventually it'll be for probably all subscribers.

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I don't know when that'll be though, but, you just go to the webinar and check it out.

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There's some cool, neat stuff with Lambda.

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If we follow how we've done the Into the Box videos in the past, yes, attendees will all
get it for free.

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Subscribers, you'll need to wait until usually the end of the year, or you can pay for the
premium series and have it right away.

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Yep.

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So if we get some of those dates, we can announce some, but exciting.

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All right.

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A couple more to talk about.

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Open Code South in Malaga, Spain is coming up on June 20th and 21st.

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We'll put the link in the show notes.

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Ortus Solutions is a gold sponsor there at Open South Code.

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So if you are attending, come say hi.

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I believe that's a "Oro" sponsor since it's in Spain.

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Right?

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Isn't gold, isn't "Oro" the word for gold?

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man, your Spanish is more than mine.

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Not much more, I think so.

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But, "Oro" sponsors.

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Okay, following that we've got...

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to the Spanish speakers everywhere.

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We do.

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Oh my gosh.

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Okay.

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We've got Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2025 coming live in September 22nd through 23rd.

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They're going to have certifications available the 21st or 24th.

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The speaker application is now live as well.

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I do not know when they're going to close the call for speakers, but with the conference
in September, I'd probably suggest you not wait.

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If you want to apply to be a speaker, go do it now, right after this podcast.

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Do it.

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Don't miss out.

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It's a fun conference in Vegas.

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It's in there.

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The venue switched, I think last year and it was a good time.

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I didn't make it.

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I'm going to, you know, see if I can make it this year.

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And then after that we've got into the box 2026 coming soon with blind ticket pricing.

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If you're asking yourself, Eric, what's blind ticket pricing?

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He might say.

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blind ticket pricing is where you know the conference is going to be awesome and you're
going to buy a ticket before you know any of the speakers or sessions.

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And in return, we give it to you at a very good price.

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Very good price.

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believe last year it was half off for blind tickets.

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So.

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the workshop as well.

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Do you remember?

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Wow.

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We'll know soon.

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Okay.

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I think that's kind of wrapping it up for our events and probably this podcast.

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think so, except for us thanking all of our Patreon supporters, individuals and companies
that are personally supporting our open source initiatives and this podcast.

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Their contributions fund the cloud infrastructure we use for Forgebox and package
management for Command Box.

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You can support us at patreon.com/ortussolutions save some money with the annual plan and
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All supporters get access to the Box Team Slack.

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a private forum on the community website and a neat profile badge and bronze packages and
up get a Forgebox Pro and CFCasts subscription as a perk.

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Again, you can learn more at patreon.com/ortussolutions and view a full list of all our
sponsors at ortussolutions.com/about-us/sponsors

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And as always, thank you everyone for being a sponsor.

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Thank you to everyone who tunes in.

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Thank you everybody, and let's do this all again in the second week of June.

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All right, we'll see you then.

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See ya.

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Thanks.