About

What is Modernize or Die ®

Modernize or Die ® is a trademarked ideal that Ortus Solutions lives day to day. ColdFusion, often mistakenly thought dead language, is alive and well, because community members like Ortus Solutions, who continue to push the language into the future, by staying Modern, creating frameworks, tools, training and consulting services.

Ortus Solutions

We're a product and services company that focuses on building professional open source tools and web application solutions! We're the team behind ColdBox, the de-facto enterprise ColdFusion MVC Framework, TestBox, a Testing and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Framework, ContentBox Modular CMS, a highly modular and scalable Content Management System, CommandBox, the ColdFusion (CFML) CLI, package manager, etc, and many more.

Host

Gavin Pickin, a Kiwi, a member of the Ortus Team

Gavin Pickin - Software Consultant for Ortus Solutions

• Twitter: @gpickin
• Ortus Blog: https://ortussolutions.com/blog
• Personal Tech Blog: http://www.gpickin.com/

Gavin started using ColdFusion in 1999 when working for the university of Auckland in New Zealand before moving to California. He has lead teams, trained new developers and worked the full stack from graphic design, HTML CSS JavaScript through to ColdFusion MySQL and server administration.

Gavin has a passion for learning and cannot understand why the 9-5ers aren't listening to podcasts while changing diapers, watching video tutorials while cleaning baby bottles and folding clothes, or putting the kids to sleep with soothing phone gap mobile application cookbook recipes.