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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 proud to announce today a nice minor release for Ortus DataBoss version 1.3.0.  This release fixes lots of UI cosmetic issues and adds many improvements not only to the UI but also to better listing visualizations when having many-to-one and one-to-one relationships.

The major updates of this release is the capability to visualize many-to-one and one-to-one relationships on the listing screens now.  They also respect the db_display annotation as well, so you can pick and choose what shows on the listing screen.  This is great for visualizing many-to-many or relationships.

We have also added a new HTML control called "datetime" which allows you to split a timestamp or datetime field into a date and time picker.

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:

We are very excited to bring you a new commercial product release for the Ortus Family: Couchbase Railo Extension  The Couchbase Railo Extension allows you to natively connect to a Couchbase NoSQL Server cluster and leverage it for distributed caching, session/client storage and distribution, cluster RAM file systems, and much more. It can allow your Railo servers to scale and extend easily by leveraging Couchbase NoSQL Server as the platform of choice for session/cluster managements, caching and virtual file-systems.

We have been working with Couchbase NoSQL Server for a while now it has been a true pleasure to not only build scalable farms with it, but also it is incredibly responsive when it comes down to NoSQL and caching transactions.

Capabilities

Here are some of the major features of our Couchbase Extension:

• Add Couchbase functionality to any Railo application
• Install at the web context level or the server level (Available to all contexts)
• Create Cache connections in the Railo administrator to connect to any network-accessable Couchbase cluster
• Set and get objects from Couchbase via standard CFML functions and tags cachePut(), cacheGet(), <cfcache action="get|put">
• Fully supports all built-in Railo cache functions including wildcard filters
• Seamlessly distribute storage of the following to any bucket in a Couchbase cluster
  • Railo session storage
  • Railo client storage
  • Railo RAM resouce ram://...
• Seamlessly cache the following to any timeout-sensitive bucket in a Couchbase cluster
  • Results of database queries <cfquery cachedwithin>
  • Results of deterministic functions <cffunction cachedwithin>
  • Complex or simple objects in your application's code
  • Cached templates <cfcache action="content|cache|serverCache">
• Registers new CFML Built-In Functions (BIFs) for executing user-defined queries against Couchbase views.
• Extremely lightweight and fast

Purchase Extension

We are incredibly excited to announce our Testing Bootcamp from April 24-25th in Houston, Texas.  This bootcamp will include our newest course CBOX-205: BDD & TDD CFML Development led by TestBox creator Luis Majano.  

Course Synopsis...

We are very excited to announce that the roadmap for the next major version of ContentBox is ready for your viewing pleasure. Over the next several months, we'll be working hard to add features and expand functionality...helping you take your sites and content to the next level!

Click the button below to download our complete roadmap document.

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We are very excited to announce that the roadmap for the next major version of ContentBox is ready for your viewing pleasure. Over the next several months, we'll be working hard to add features and expand functionality...helping you take your sites and content to the next level!

Click the button below to download our complete roadmap document.

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ContentBox CMS, News, News

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We are very excited to spring forth a new open source product for the Ortus Family: CFCouchbase SDK.  The CFCouchbase SDK is a CFML library for interacting with Couchbase NoSQL Server. It can be used by any CFML application or CFML framework to provide them with NoSQL, distributed caching, dynamic queries and many more capabilities. 

We have been working with Couchbase NoSQL Server for a while now it has been a true pleasure to not only build scalable farms with it, but also it is incredibly responsive when it comes down to NoSQL and caching transactions.  We have extended their Java SDK and wrapped it in some dynamic CFML goodness.  We not only expose all of the capabilities of the Java SDK, but we also provide automatic CFML to Java serialization and deserializations, Querying DSL, and also a way to automatically serialize and deserialize ColdFusion Components CFCs.

We've been hard at work planning the future of CFML's most comprehensive development platform and we're pleased to announce our roadmap for the next major version of the ColdBox MVC Platform.  Click the button below to download our complete roadmap document.

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We are very happy to release our first minor patch for TestBox.  This update includes finalizations of some features but mostly tons and tons of improvements and fixes as our library matures.  For those of you who do not know about TestBox, TestBox is a next generation testing framework for ColdFusion (CFML) that is based on BDD (Behavi...