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It’s only days before the Coldbox 101 Training and Workshop in Amsterdam this week.  The early bird pricing was extended indefinitely, and there’s still time to register for the class.  For more information check out the event details at Colbox 101 – Amsterdam @ eventbrite.

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It is getting close to our Dallas ColdBox training and we still have seats available. The early bird has been extended until Wednesday October 21st at 11 PM Pacific, so hurry now before our promotion ends. For more information about our event, head out to our event page.

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We did a hands on workshop at our Inland Empire User group yesterday in Pomona, California.  We had fun installing CF9, Adobe CF Builder and ColdBox 3 Beta.  We managed to build a simple task manager with all the new nice ORM features and coldbox 3.0.0 features.  So if you are interested in seeing the workshop online, here is the recording: 

We always are trying to help the ColdFusion community as much as we can.  We had a CFC best practices document in our ColdBox documentation site in order to steer developers in the right direction when building components.  I have updated the document to now include more topics than just CFCs.  So if you are interested in collaborating to this document or think some points are useless, please comment and we can make this document better.

So here are our ColdFusion Development Best Pra...

I just uploaded the ColdBox Eclipse Documentation plugins online for sharing with the community.  You can find all the SVN access information in our SVN access page and below.  This way, the community can contribute to our simple eclipse plugins.

ColdBox Eclipse Plugins

The eclipse plugins contains three folder repositories:

• org.coldbox.apidocs
• org.cold...

This is just an announcement that I will be running a ColdBox Workshop on October 15th at our CFUG meeting in Cal Poly Pomona.  Here is a brief description:

Come and kick start your ColdBox development with this introductory
workshop. We will cover the basics of ColdBox 3.0.0 and how to develop
sustainable ColdFusion applications.

So head on over to the iecfug website to ...

I have been recollecting some case studies of companies that have succesfully adopted the ColdBox Platform in their organizations.  If you or your organization are interested in filling out a case study questionnaire, please download it from here and send it to partners@coldbox.org.  We are creating a special section of the website to cater to case studies and whitepapers, so if y...

I got word today after leaving CFUnited to come back to California that ColdBox was announced as The Open Source Project of the Year by the Community Achievement Awards!  I am super excited and happy about this award and you can see the recording here:

I have been pondering in doing another 2-Day Training Seminar in either late October or early November.  I am still indecisive in the location, but I have narrowed it down to 3 cities:

1. Los Angeles & Vicinity
   
2. Dallas
3. Houston

If you would like to attend to this 2 day intensive ColdBox training, please leave a comment and choose your city.  The curriculum for this class can be found here:

Bob Silverberg just announced the availability of a ColdBox plugin for interacting with his Validate This! framework!  I highly encourage you to test drive Validate This as it is truly an awesome validation framework.  He not only did the plugin but adapted a sample application to work with it.

So if you are still trying to determine validation and want an easy and great solution, give ValidateThis a shot!  Here are some links for you:

• Bob's Blog Post:
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