You definitely have to check out Michael's blog for his tutorials on ColdBox. They are easy to follow, direct and fun. His attention to detail is great and you will definitely get a sense of what ColdBox can do for you or you company. So head over to asuFusion.com and check out this series of tutorials by Michael. You will not be disappointed.
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Inherited a CFML Application With Few Tests? Here’s Where to Start!
You need to change an application that has been running for years.
It might be a ColdFusion customer portal, a Lucee application supporting internal operations, or a CFML system your team is preparing to modernize. People depend on it, but some of its behavior lives in old tickets, scattered documentation, and the memory of whoever has supported it longest.
Now a release is approaching. You know more testing would help. The difficult part is deciding where to begin without putting every other priority on hold.
Start with one important workflow and build evidence around what it needs to do.
Maria Jose Herrera
Maria Jose Herrera
October
27,
2026
MatchBox 0.12: One Language, Every Runtime, Now with a Live Playground and a Course
Ortus Solutions today announces MatchBox 0.12.0, the Rust runtime for BoxLang, alongside the launch of matchbox.boxlang.io: a new website with a live in-browser playground, a ten-lesson course, and complete online docs. The release also brings a more capable JIT, prebuilt native modules, a richer web runtime, and a long list of BoxLang compatibility fixes.
Luis Majano
Luis Majano
October
27,
2026
Your ColdFusion Upgrade Passed. Did Your Business Workflows?
The server restarted. The administrator shows the expected version. Your homepage loads, and a few familiar screens look fine.
Would you tell the business the upgrade is complete?
Consider an illustrative scenario: a customer submits an order after an upgrade. The application saves it and displays a confirmation page. But the confirmation email never arrives, and the scheduled process that sends the order to fulfillment has not completed.
From the browser, the transaction...
Maria Jose Herrera
Maria Jose Herrera
October
22,
2026
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Apr 27, 2007 09:22:49 UTC
by orc
Regretably Michael's site is down for rework... but the message says relaunch Real Soon Now.
I worked through the first five installments and I believe it's worth going back there till it is back on line. Good step-by-step, good foundation, MORE, MICHAEL, MORE!
Can't wait for installment six, and for the rest of the community, for the site to be back on the air.
HEY LOUIS, could you talk to Michael about hosting the tut's as like a mirror? You could stay one tut behind him so folks would still go to his site for the latest, but could get a taste from your site if/when his is down?
Apr 27, 2007 11:51:37 UTC
by Luis Majano
That is a very good idea orc,
I will definitely mention it to Michael, to see if he agrees.
Well, I guess he would read this? Michael?
Jan 14, 2008 18:39:30 UTC
by Chris
Luis,
Do you know of any other tutorials? The link above doesn't work anymore.
Jun 06, 2010 03:49:05 UTC
by Brad
Luis,
I was wondering if your book has step-by-step on how to build a fully functional Coldbox application?