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Just a reminder that the contest for creating a CacheBox Monitor Skin ends this Friday.  This opportunity will give you a $75 Amazon Gift Card.  So what are you waiting for? Only 5 more days left to submit your entries, and as of now, YOU WOULD HAVE A PRETTY GOOD CHANCE ON WINNING!  You can find more information below:

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Just a reminder that our 3 or 2 day ColdBox training is only 15 days away, so what are you waiting for, get registered and get the best out of professional training. Secret discount codes (cboxrulez) Check out some quotes from fellow CFer's

 

The Coldbox training raised my game in developing Coldfusion applications. It gave me a great understanding of the framework itself and vastly improved my original conceptions on OOP programming. Coldbox is a f...

Our CacheBox 1.1 release is coming real soon and we have now completed our standalone CacheBox monitors so you can monitor the cache by using our custom tags. Not only have we created this reporting engine, but it is skinnable and today we are announcing a contest sponsored by our mothership company, Ortus Solutions. So here are the rules:

Prize:

• $75 Amazon Gift Card for 1st Place
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ColdBox MVC, Community, News

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I can honestly say that there are always requests on the ColdBox lists or work that say, "Hey the application is taking my server memory, why does ColdBox do that!".  First of all, the ColdBox platform when placed in memory is less than 1kb of memory.  The rest that gets loaded into an application is because of your application code.  Second, the biggest culprit is the misuse or the not using of var scoped variables in event handlers or doma...

I just wanted to mention that we have added two new sample applications to our ColdBox Samples. Our samples are distributed in our ColdBox bundle download and can also be downloaded from our github repo. So what are these applications:

Simple Crud

SimpleCrud is a very simple CRUD style application that leverages ColdBox MVC at its basic...

After several months of planning I am starting to slowly move all of our open source coldbox related repositories to github.  This does not mean we are moving from Assembla, it means our source code is moving.  Github is great for social coding and collaboration that every open source project needs.  Not only that, git is really really fun to use than SVN and I am really digging it, especially for open source work.

Not everything yet is moved, b...

Just a reminder that the ColdBox Book is ...

My friend Brett send me a request for a job posting and it has been added to the ColdBox Jobs section but I am also posting it here (http://eliteopensourcejobs.com/jobs/view/4c6e9e74-8354-48e0-bfe3-752e45591f8c)

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I just got a video testimonial by my friend George Murphy.  Thanks George for sending it in!