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Luis Majano | April 14, 2026
ColdBox 8.1.0 Released — AI Routing, MCP, and BoxLang-First Power! 🚀

We are thrilled to announce ColdBox 8.1.0, a targeted minor release packed with powerful new features, important improvements, and critical bug fixes across ColdBox, WireBox, and CacheBox. While minor in version number, this release delivers some truly exciting capabilities — especially for BoxLang developers building AI-powered applications.

ColdFusion Modernization for UK Universities Without Downtime

Cristobal Escobar |  April 13, 2026

Across the United Kingdom, many universities still rely on legacy ColdFusion and CFML systems to power student portals, enrollment platforms, research databases, payment gateways, and internal academic workflows.

These systems are often:

  • 15 to 25 years old
  • Mission-critical
  • Deeply integrated with student information systems
  • Running on older Adobe ColdFusion or Lucee versions
  • Tightly coupled monolithi...
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BoxLang AI Series: Complete Guide to Building AI Agents

Cristobal Escobar |  April 13, 2026

The world of AI development is moving fast, but building real, production-ready AI agents doesn’t have to be complex.

This series walks you step by step through how to design, build, and deploy AI agents using BoxLang AI. Whether you’re exploring AI for the first time or looking to modernize your current applications, these guides will help you move from concept to implementation with clarity.


Start Here: A Practical Overview

If you’re new to BoxLang AI or want t...

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BoxLang Goes Serverless on Google Cloud 🚀

Luis Majano |  April 09, 2026

We just shipped the BoxLang Google Cloud Functions Runtime — and it brings the same write-once-run-anywhere serverless experience you already know from our AWS Lambda runtime, now running natively on Google Cloud Functions Gen2.

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Introducing BoxLings! An interactive teacher for BoxLang and TDD/BDD

Luis Majano |  April 08, 2026

We believe the best way to learn a programming language is by writing code — real code, with real feedback, and real tests. That's exactly why we built BoxLings.

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BoxLang v1.12.0 - Destructuring, Spread, Ranges, Watchers, Oh My!

Luis Majano |  April 08, 2026

BoxLang 1.12.0 marks a meaningful turning point. After establishing a rock-solid foundation across runtime, compiler, CFML compatibility, and the module ecosystem, BoxLang has entered its innovation cycle. The language is mature, battle-tested, and production-deployed across the industry.

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The Loneliness of CTO Leadership: How to Make Important Decisions with Confidence

Cristobal Escobar |  April 07, 2026

Being a CTO can be surprisingly isolated.

Not because of the title, but because of the decisions.

Every day, you’re expected to make calls that impact system stability, performance, security, team productivity, and long term costs. And often, you’re making those decisions with incomplete information, limited resources, and no real sounding board.

That’s where the real challenge begins.


It’s Not a Talent Problem, It’s a Context Problem

Most CTOs don’...

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How to Develop AI Agents Using BoxLang AI: A Practical Guide

Luis Majano |  April 03, 2026

AI agents are transforming how we build software. Unlike traditional chatbots that just answer questions, agents can reason about what tools they need, decide when to use them, chain multiple actions together, and remember what happened earlier in a conversation.

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BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 7 of 7: MCP — The Protocol That Connects Everything 🔌

Luis Majano |  April 03, 2026

The AI ecosystem has a tool problem. Every framework has its own way of defining tools, every agent has its own way of calling them, and every integration requires custom code on both sides. An agent built in Python can't easily use tools built in Java. An MCP server written for Claude Desktop can't easily be consumed by a BoxLang agent without a custom adapter.

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BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 6 of 7: Memory Systems & RAG — Building AI That Remembers 🧠

Luis Majano |  April 03, 2026

A chatbot with no memory isn't a conversation — it's a series of isolated queries. Every message starts from scratch. The user has to re-explain who they are, what they're working on, and what was just said. It's exhausting, and it signals that the AI isn't really listening.

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