After using the ColdBox MVC Platform or any of the Box libraries you might think of an enhancement or new feature you'd like to see.  Or perhaps you found an issue, and after posting it to our Google Group, we asked you to put in a ticket.  Well, today is you day because here is a step by step guide for getting set up in our bug tracker so you can enter tickets, as well as comment, vote, or watch other people's tickets.  Out open source libraries are developed out in the open for full transparency and to encourage the public to join in and be part of the exciting process.

Atlassian JIRA

Atlassian has created a number of development workflow tools like BitBucket, SourceTree, and Bamboo.  JIRA (pronounced Jeer-ah) is their popular system for bug tracking and does lots of cool stuff with agile plugins. The URL for the Ortus JIRA bug tracker is (We'll wait while you bookmark it):

https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/COLDBOX/

When you first visit, you'll see something like this. From a non-logged in state you can still view tickets and read comments but you can't create tickets or interact with existing ones.  Start by hitting the green "Log In" button in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

Not logged in (click to enlarge)

On the log in form, click the "Create an account" link on the right hand column under the username and password fields.  Don't be tempted to use the "Log in using Google" option.  That only works if your E-mail address ends in @ortussolutions.com!

So at Into The Box this week we unveiled our latest here at Ortus that we've been calling project Gideon.  I'll note now that I'm blogging this to the Ortus blog because this is not beholden to the ColdBox MVC p<...

We are so proud to announce another update to our Adobe ColdFusion Builder exension: ColdBox Platform Utilities v4.0.  This update has tons of cool updates and fixes:

Bugs Squashed

• [CBOXUTILITIES-28] - Crud generator fixes bombs with extra quotes
• [CBOXUTILITIES-29] - Enable CRUD composition of relationships

Improvements

• [CBOXUTILITIES-31] - Update all app templates to latest release update
• [CBOXUTILITIES-35] - Update Help documentation
• [CBOXUTILITIES-36] - Rename resources to shorter names
• [CBOXUTILITIES-37] - Update embedded google search engine
• [CBOXUTILITIES-40] - Menu ordering and cleanups
• [CBOXUTILITIES-41] - Make Application.cfc with non-inheritance default

New Features

• [CBOXUTILITIES-30] - Create config file for LogBox
• [CBOXUTILITIES-32] - Update all testing classes to TestBox Style and BDD support
• [CBOXUTILITIES-33] - CacheBox -> New Configuration
• [CBOXUTILITIES-34] - TestBox Support, new menu contribution for TestBox Tasks
• [CBOXUTILITIES-42] - Added global CPU configuration file for project URL and TestBox config

So either download the extension and install it or if you have it installed, just click "ColdBox Platform > Check For Extension Updates..." and perform our sweet auto update!  Here are a few screenshots of some new functionality:

Here is the video and slides from our presentation at the NVCFUG last month on TestBox xUnit and Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Just in case you have not heard, the site for Into The Box 2014 is now live and ready for your order!  Into The Box is a 1-day, 2-track event with speakers from around the world presenting on topics surrounding the Ortus Solutions product stack, CFML and web technologies. It will be held 1 day before the biggest ...

We are so excited to officially announce yet another ColdBox and TestBox training event in Switzerland from February 5th to the 7th.  This training course will be lead by Luis Majano and will include a medley of our core courses and an entire day dedicated to testing using

Much work and dedication has gone by these past few months in order to bring you the final release of TestBox v1.0.0.  For those of you that do not know what TestBox is, TestBox is a next generation testing framework for ColdFusion that is based on BDD (Behavior Driven Development) for providing a clean obvious syntax for writing tests. It contains not only a testing framework,...

We are so excited to officially announce our training event before next year's Scotch on the Rocks 2014 from June 2nd to the 4th.  This training course will be lead by Luis Majano and will include a medley of our core courses and an entire day dedicated to testing using T...

We are so excited to bring you our 1.0.0 Release Candidate of TestBox.  Much work and dedication has gone through this release and a final release is imminent.  For those of you that do not know what TestBox is, TestBox is a next generation testing framework for ColdFusion that is based on BDD (Behavior Driven Development) for providing ...