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The month of August has us excited and here are 3 reasons why it should have you excited too!

Reason #1:  RIACON 2012

There's 2 weeks left before ColdBox Developer Week delivers a solid week of online ColdBox-related CFML training.  We have 15 different sessions lined up and the one I'd like to feature today is "Seamless ColdBox-Powered Rich Internet Applications" by Phill Nacelli.  This session will be held at 1pm CST on Thursday, July 26th.

Everyone should be familiar with the setView method in the event object which is used for a handler's action to tell the framework which view file should be used to render the event:

event.setView(view="general/index");

What you may not realize is that calling setView() is optional.  If you don't explicitly set a view file, ColdBox will then look for the view according to the executing event's syntax.

It is time for the first ever ColdBox Developer Week. We are bringing you a full week of ColdBox-related training right to your desktop. You will be trained by ColdBox experts from all over the world. Don't worry if you are not  familiar with ColdBox because  we will be having courses that range from beginner topics such as getting started with ColdBox all the way to advance cources such as depende...

The ColdBox team is excited to announce the first ever ColdBox Developer week.  In conjunction with the release of ColdBox 3.5 and our new CMS ContentBox, we're cooking up a full week of completely free ColdBox-related training put on by ColdBox experts from around the world.  CBDW will all be online training happening the week of July 23rd through 27th.  We have beginner topics showing how to get started in ColdBox as well as advanced sessions covering things like dependency injection and AOP.

Many of you using models in your ColdBox app are familiar with how easy WireBox makes it to use the Singleton Pattern for components that are only created once in the life of your app.  

This can also be a bit of a pain when you are working on the code inside your singleton objects.  Any changes require you to re-create the singleton object which typically involves a reinit of the framework.  ColdBox has a handy setting for you to use on your development environment called singletonReload.  

I'm here to announce the first ContentBox: Modular Content Engine Workshop (http://contentbox-riacon.eventbrite.com/).  This workshop will also be after RIACON 2012 on August 11th, 2012.  This one day event will introduce you to this new open source content engine.  We will be covering topics such as:

• Installation in 5 minutes
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This is our first ColdBox Boot Camp in the DC area thanks to RIACON 2012.  Boy are we excited: http://coldbox-riacon.eventbrite.com?ref=elink.This boot camp is taking place right after RIACON 2012 on August 8th, 9th and 10th.

We will be doing CBOX 100 that concentrate...

We are so excited to announce Brad Wood as the ColdBox Platform Evangelist.  Brad has been part of the ColdBox family for quite a long time and has made incredible contributions to the project from intense load testing, performance tuning, platform scalability, dependency injection, memory leak issues, and the list goes on and on.  We are so privlieged that Brad is on board and will be doing some amazing things to improve the direction of the ColdBox Platform.

Brad Wood, long time ColdBox team member has joined our team as a product evangelist for the ColdBox Platform.  We are so proud and honored that he will be dedicating some time to our project and helping us shape it as the best CFML development platform.  You can visit our engineering blog to see the full press release and Brad's thoughts on ColdBox: