Brad Wood
@bdw429s
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ColdBox/CommandBox/BoxLang Developer. Lucee Contributor. System Architect. CFML dev. DBA. Dad. Handyman. Ready for a revolution.
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Joined December 2010
Crunching some numbers today comparing parsing & bytecode compilation between BoxLang, Lucee, & Adobe CF. We're looking to be neck-and-neck w/Lucee, & up to 28 TIMES FASTER than Adobe CF! This is huge for app startup times. Will publish full results soon. #CFML #ColdFusion
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ICYMI CommandBox has a sweet feature to hit one or more URLs to warm up the server after starting. You can even configure CommandBox to queue, block, or allow incoming traffic until the warmup URLs have returned. THis can be used as a startup healthcheck, warming up caches, or
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The latest version of the BoxLang VSCode extension (which works for CFML as well) has some REALLY nice linting/code quality stuff built in. Here, it identified a non-var'd variable in my code. #CFML #ColdFusion #BoxLang #VSCode
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✨ Introducing SocketBox, a brand-new WebSocket library for CFML and BoxLang. Easily handle real-time communication with built-in support in CommandBox and BoxLang MiniServer, plus a CF module for sending and receiving messages. Learn more: https://t.co/1aAjFHn1ef
#SocketBox
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ANOTHER new module is born! Introducing the Azure File Blob Storage SDK for #CFML which facilitates container management, upload, download, and listing of blobs. #ColdFusion #Azure
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A new module is born! Integrate with Azure's Service Bus queues and topics easily with this new ServiceBusSDK. You can send messages and start up multi-threaded consumers to process them. Tested on Adobe CF, Lucee, and BoxLang. https://t.co/AJmJl0lQHg
#ColdFusion #CFML
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In this video, Bill Reese shows you how to get started with BoxLang using CommandBox—the go-to CLI for thousands of ColdFusion developers! Whether you're a seasoned CFML developer or just getting started with BoxLang, this step-by-step guide will help you build a modern, modular,
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Coming soon - I'm finishing up an SDK for integrating your CF apps with Azure's Service Bus message queue system. Should get it released next week. Great for a managed, infinitely-scalable, queue-as-a-service! #ColdFusion #CFML
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Github rejected our pull request to get syntax highlighting for BoxLang source files because there aren't enough repos out there using bx, bxs, and bxm files https://t.co/YNagUBC3nk Please help us out by making sure any samples, demos, or hobby apps you write in BoxLang are in a
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Description This PR adds support for BoxLang, a modern dynamic programming language that runs on the JVM. BoxLang is a modern dynamic JVM language that can be deployed on multiple runtimes: operati...
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During the Adobe keynote this morning at CFCamp, it was announced that ColdFusion now has the fastest Query of Query execution in the CF ecosystem. I found that hard to believe as I had just blogged in December how @TryBoxLang 's QoQ is 17 times faster than Adobe (and 5 times
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As BoxLang (our new CF-compatible JVM language) nears its final release, we're very pleased to announce that Query of Q
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Check out this sweet CommandBox CLI module for testing DNS servers that Michael Rigsby wrote. #CFML #ColdFusion #CLI
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🧩 We’re live at @cf_camp 2025 — and it’s time to customize BoxLang! Right now, @bdw429s from Ortus Solutions is presenting: “Extending BoxLang: Create, Customize, Conquer” 👉 https://t.co/vumetRZNdB
@TryBoxLang isn’t just a powerful CF-compatible language and CLI tool — it’s
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BoxLang is the new CF-compatible server and CLI tool. It’s extensible easily with modules, which means you can write your own built in functions, tags, and more for your own use or to share with the community on ForgeBox. Let’s find out how:
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CFCamp 2025 is coming soon! Brad Wood and I will lead a one-day training session on how to get started with BoxLang runtimes. 🔧 Kickstart your journey with the BoxLang language and its powerful runtimes, including CLI, Web, Serverless, and more. 🎟️ Seats are limited — don’t
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CommandBox 6.2.0 has been released. This includes Jakarta Servlet support for running Adobe CF 2025, Lucee 7 and BoxLang. Also a nice feature to warm-up your servers after they start up. Read up here: https://t.co/VsWnUslcUb
#CommandBox #ColdFusion #CFML #CLI
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We are pleased to announce the release of CommandBox 6.2.0, a minor release in our CLI, Server, and Package Manager. Download You can downloa
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Posted by @carehart, "Delighted to be speaking at Into the Box 2025, in early May" https://t.co/KXNJw1409N
#coldfusion #lucee #boxlang
#itb2025
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Interested in what it looks like to extend BoxLang with modules? I've thrown together bx-waffle, a simple module you can install into BoxLang which provides you with a component (Tag), BIFs, a custom tag, and a global service you can use to plug in waffle pictures from the
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🔥 BoxLang + Java = Endless Possibilities! 🔥 ColdFusion developers, did you know that BoxLang allows you to tap into the vast Java ecosystem? 🎯 Raymond Camden breaks down how you can seamlessly integrate Java libraries into your BoxLang applications, unlocking new levels of
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