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This week only until Saturday February 23rd, 2013, you can get access to our online ColdBox training course for 75% off the retail value.  This online training course has over 50 lessons, over 15 hours worth of video and much more.  You can also train right in your iPad or iPhone device, so what are you waiting for, get your training on!

Ortus Solutions will be present at this year's CF.Objective Conference and will also be conducting two professional training seminars before the conference.  We have chosen a venue that is about 5-10 minutes from the conference center and it is an excellent choice to stay here during your conference as well.
 

Venue

Hyatt Place Minneapolis Airport South
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We are so excited to bring you our very first ColdBox BootCamp of the year.  We will be holding an amazing ColdBox BootCamp before this year's CF.Objective 2013 conference from May 13th to the 15th.  The schedule of courses we will be offering are the following:

• May 13-14: A combination of CBOX 100 and 101 led by ColdBox creator Luis Majano
• May 15: CBOX 204 Testing, Mocking, Stubbing, Oh My! led by ColdBox Team member Curt Gratz

The location of the training location is just 5 minutes away from the Conference Venue.

We are excited to announce that we will be presenting about ColdBox LITE at the San Francisco User Group on January 17th, 2013 @ 7pm.  So if you are close to the San Francisco area, please stop by and join us for some great food, drinks and geek talk!

For those of you who do not know what ColdBox LITE is, here is a little synopsis:

ColdBox LITE (CBL) is an MVC framework with a subset of features o...

Everyone, we have an exciting ColdBox Connection scheduled for tomorrow, the 18th.  First, we'll be announcing the winners of our ContentBox Christmas Contest.  We're super excited about the submissions we received.  They're all out on ForgeBox already waiting to be installed and played with. 

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We are proud to announce the availability of all our major products as Railo Extensions today.  Railo is an incredible open source ColdFusion engine that supports all of our products with 1 click installs.  The extensions that we have made available starting today are:

• ContentBox Modular CMS
• ColdBox Platform Standalone
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We are proud to announce now the availability of ContentBox as a Railo extension.  So any Railo powered server can now enjoy ContentBox with a few clicks.

Step 1: Log in to the web administrator of your Railo server

Step 2: Click on the Applications Menu item

Check out the sweet contest just announced on the ContentBox blog.  In celebration of the release of ColdBox Lite and to lift everyone's Christmas spirits, it has just been announced that anyone who wants to make a theme or module for ContentBox  and share it on ForgeBox will be entered in to win a Kindle Fire and ot...

I want to make sure everyone knows about the special ColdBox Connection meeting scheduled this Wednesday at Noon CST.  We'll be unveiling ColdBox Lite, a new way to have excellent MVC conventions for small projects without worrying about depth of the full ColdBox Framework.  What's best, is that you can graduate up to full ColdBox at any time with a single line of code in your Application.cfc.

If that isn't enough to get you there, what if I told you there's also...