We are incredibly excited to be going to the San Francisco ColdFusion User Group March 8, 2012. The meeting starts at 6:30 pm and we will be reviewing, installing and configuring ContentBox! So if you will be in the area, come out and introduce yourself. We will have some cool stuff to give away and go over this exciting new open source ColdFu...
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JSMin Compressor v1.7 Released!
JSMin Compressor is a plugin that interfaces with our own flavor of JSMin to minify css and js files. It can also compress several files of the same type into a single include, that can be cached in your ColdBox applications. This release fixes our java parser to compress more complicated CSS3 notations correctly.
Using our compressor can be as easy as this:
#getMyPlugin("...
Powered by ContentBox CMS!
We are now live running our upcoming product: ContentBox. We are so excited about migrating our entire site and now even sporting a great blog which we call our Ortus BlogBox, in tradition of our *Box products. So please stay tuned to our blog concerning i...
ColdBox Validation Engine for v3.5
Just a quick announcement that we now have finally implemented a validation engine and aggregator in ColdBox for 3.5 release. And in true professional open source style, fully documented: http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Validation.cfm. It has an embedded validation engine but it also allows you to use ANY validation framework within ANY ColdBox application as long as it satisfies a few interfaces. Check out our documentation page but here is a little teaser:
Git and GitHub Basics talk at Open CF Summit
Thanks to everyone who attended the talk I gave with Mike Henke @mikehenke at the Open CF Summit this weekend.
Here are the slides from the presentation. Slides
ColdBox Platform Extensions v2.8 Released
We are glad to announce the new release of our ColdBox Platform Extensions version 2.8. You can either do an Auto-Update from the extension itself or just manually download it from ForgeBox: http://coldbox.org/forgebox/view/ColdBox-Platform-Utilities.
Version 2.8
- Updated to use new Forg...
FileBrowser v1.4 released!
Just a quick note that our ColdBox FileBrowser module that helps you manage files in an application has an update.
- Fixes to missing interception points
- Changed all interception points to be namespaced with fb_ (Please update your interceptors)
- Addition of new events:
- "fb_postF...
HQL Query to Criteria Query Example
I have been using criteria queries in favor of HQL queries quite a bit latley, so I thought I would do a quick post of what a query would look like in HQL and then the same query written as a criteria query.
Some of the reasons I like to use criteria queries are
- Readablity
- No building up query strings and concatenating them to build a complex query
- Powerful Object Oriented API
You can learn more...
Dallas CF Summit Training Sale
There are only 15 days to our ColdBox Trainings in Dallas, Texas before the Open CF Summit and we are holding a sale extravaganza as we need to fill out our seats. So here are $350 dollars off the regular price! So just for $645 attend our 2 days courses! But hurry as the sale ends soon!
Zurich ColdBox Boot Camp in April
Welcome to our first ColdBox Boot Camp in Europe. A glorious 5 day training boot camp featuring our most popular courses and our latest upcoming release ColdBox Platform 3.5.0. All 3 courses will be delivered by Luis Majano, creator of the ColdBox Platform.