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We are now live running our upcoming product: ContentBox.  We are so excited about migrating our entire site and now even sporting a great blog which we call our Ortus BlogBox, in tradition of our *Box products.  So please stay tuned to our blog concerning i...

Just a quick announcement that we now have finally implemented a validation engine and aggregator in ColdBox for 3.5 release.  And in true professional open source style, fully documented: http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Validation.cfm.  It has an embedded validation engine but it also allows you to use ANY validation framework within ANY ColdBox application as long as it satisfies a few interfaces.  Check out our documentation page but here is a little teaser:

A big thanks to Curt Gratz on his awesome efforts and collaboration on this project.  The ColdBox FileBrowser module is now available for mass consumption and is a front-runner in ContentBox for media management and integration with CKEditor.

So what is FileBrowser? FileBrowser is a ColdBox Module that will enable file management capabilities in your applications.  It can also act as a file or directory chooser and has full integration with

Here is the recording for our presentation today on ContentBox: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p2teycibat3/

To start our 2012 ColdBox Connection schedule right, we will be showcasing a first look at ContentBox this Thursday January 19th, 2012 at our usual time: 10AM Pacific Standard Time in our usual channel: 

Thanks to Tim Cunningham for hosting me at one of his awesome Bolt Talks.  In this bolt talk we have a chat about our newest adventure: ContentBox!

Here is the video of our presentation about the unveiling of ContentBox.  ContentBox is a modular content platform for ColdFusion that is based on the ColdBox platform.  It provides you with out of the box features like enterprise blog, cms, and more coming soon.  Based on a completely modular architecture, extending ContentBox is a matter of knowing about ColdBox and event driven programming.