We are excited to announce our first ever *BOX Party Hackathon at this year's CFObjective 2013 in conjunction with Computer Know How. We will be holding a get together for all *BOX aficionados (WireBox, MockBox, LogBox, ColdBox, ColdBox LITE, DevBox, ContentBox, DataBoss, etc) filled with drinks, prizes and cool hacking events. We have some awesome geek prizes from rubik's cubes, to 80's inspired electr...
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Tip of the Week: What is a Soft Reference Cache Anyway?
Brad Wood |
May
07,
2013
CacheBox contains a number of different cache providers ranging from EHCache to Railo's Memcached. There is also a provider implemented in ColdFusion simply called the "CacheBox Provider" and two of it's stores are the ConcurrentStore and the ConcurrentSoftReferenceStore. You may have wondered what the "soft reference" part means and why you would want to use it. If that's you, here's some history and explanation.
In Java, Whether or not an object is garbage...
Last Chance Call For Speakers: ColdBox Developers Week 2013
Brad Wood |
May
02,
2013
This is your last chance to sign up to speak at this year's ColdBox Developers Week. We want community involvement, so if you're not on Team ColdBox or Team ContentBox you'll get a $25 Amazon gift card for helping out if you're chosen to present. I need to get all the topic submissions in and finalized by
Tip of the Week: Superclass is Optional For Handlers, Plugins, and Interceptors
Brad Wood |
April
24,
2013
In ColdBox, Event Handlers, Interceptors, and Plugins are represented as CFCs. You are probably used to their signatures looking like this:
myhandler.cfc
component extends="coldbox.system.EventHandler"{}
myInterceptor.cfc
component extends="coldbox.system.Interceptor"{}
myPlugin.cfc
...
DataBoss v1.1.0 Released!
Luis Majano |
April
23,
2013
DataBoss : Dynamic Administrator v1.1.0 is now released with lots of fixes and RESTFul ORM support. You can now use DataBoss as your centralized data hub and be able to consume any data in JSON, JSONP, XML, WDDX or even PDF.
ColdBox Sublime Bundle Updated v1.5
Luis Majano |
April
18,
2013
We are happy to announce our update version of our ColdBox Sublime Bundle for Sublime Text Editor.
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
v1.5 Changelog
- Handler snippet fixes
JSMin 3.0 released with LESS Support!
Luis Majano |
April
15,
2013
It's official. Our JSMin project has matured once more and we now introduce LESS support into the mix and a few more goodies. We have also completely documented this project for your viewing pleasure in our wiki: http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Projects:JSMin-Compressor.cfm
Version 3.0
...Call For Speakers: ColdBox Developers Week 2013
Brad Wood |
April
09,
2013
We're looking for a some more sessions to help round out our line up for this year's ColdBox Developers Week. If you are available between June 17-21st this year and want to give a 30-45 minute online presentation as part of CBDW 2013, we'd love to hear from you! CBDW is a week of free online webinars presented by Team ContentBox and the community that apply to building awesome applications with any of the "Box" family of frameworks.
Tip of the Week: Using the AntiSamy Plugin to Clean User Input
Brad Wood |
March
28,
2013
If your site ever displays text on the page that end users have control over, you should be concerned about XSS attacks. This could come in the form of user comments at the bottom of an article, user-generated content, or user profile information. In many instances, the user should never be entering any HTML and you might simply fully escape that text with HTMLEditFormat() or EncodeForHTML() as you output it.
Other times you may be dealing with a forum or message board t...