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BoxLang 1.17 Series Part 3 : Encrypted Config Secrets
Everyone knows the datasource password should not be sitting in plain text in a config file. Everyone has also, at some point, shipped exactly that, because the alternative was a pile of environment variable plumbing that nobody wanted to build on a deadline. x
Luis Majano
Luis Majano
September
08,
2026
BoxLang AI 3.4 Blog Series Part 3 : Batched Approvals
Here's a bug that's easy to miss until it bites someone in production: an agent turn asks for two tool calls at once, both need human approval, and only the first one actually suspends. The second one gets silently skipped. Not rejected, not queued, just gone. That's what happened before 3.4.0, and it's fixed now with batched tool-call approvals.
Luis Majano
Luis Majano
September
08,
2026
Getting Started with BoxLang as an Alternative CFML Engine
If you have an existing ColdFusion or Lucee application, one of the first questions you may have about BoxLang is probably not:
“Should I rewrite my application in BoxLang?”
It is much simpler:
“Can BoxLang run the CFML application I already have?”
That was the focus of veteran CFML troubleshooter Charlie Arehart’s session at Into the Box 2026, Getting Started with BoxLang as an Alternative CFML Engine.
Cristobal Escobar
Cristobal Escobar
September
08,
2026
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May 14, 2008 16:56:20 UTC
by O?uz Demirkap?
Hi Luis,
There was a discussion in OpenBD list about the application naming in ColdBox which can cause problems etc.
Have you already seen it?
May 14, 2008 16:59:23 UTC
by O?uz Demirkap?
You can check out the list here.
http://groups.google.com/group/openbd
May 14, 2008 16:59:53 UTC
by Luis Majano
Yes, BD doesn't like dashes or spaces. Again, the naming of the Application.cfc is given with a default of a hash that does not use spaces or dashes. The cfthreads also do not use dashes or spaces, this was done for BD capabilities in 2.5. So they should hold true.
So far, I haven't run into any issues, apart from the server.coldfusion.productversion fix that was committed.
May 14, 2008 20:31:09 UTC
by Chris
I have tried Coldbox on Open BlueDragon and it takes like 3 minutes to load and once it loads the sample files, it is just a blank screen....No errors or anything.
Aug 15, 2008 10:57:58 UTC
by Art
Coldbox is cool
<a href="http://www.emergencysoft.com>Emergency Soft</a>
Oct 25, 2010 10:15:55 UTC
by goransv
Sorry to say but coldbox no longer works on Open Bd (OBD 1.3/Tomcat). Everything seems broken in CB 3.0 (M6.2-318-GENESIS-14:14).