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Today we are releasing a free chapter of our CBOX-202: WireBox Dependency Injection & AOP course to the ColdFusion community.  The chapter is an introduction of dependency injection and inversion of control.

Download Here: http://ortus-public.s3.amazonaws.com/cbox202-unit1-3.pdf

We cannot stress the value of using a DI f...

After almost 7 months of development, testing and revamping of our 3.1.0 release, we have reached our first milestone for our 3.5.0 ColdBox generation, 3.5.0 Beta CODENAME: SEEK-JEREMIAH 29:13. As you can see we skipped a few minor versions and did not want to introduce it as 4.0, but it will sure feel like the 4.0 release. This version is a major overhaul of the interna...

We are pleased to announce yet another course to our ColdBox Platform Training Series:

CBOX 204 - Testing, Mocking, Stubbing, Oh My!

This is a great course for ColdBox and non-ColdBox users alike who are in need of sharpening their testing, testing tools, mocking and stubbing skills in ColdFusion. The...

Today we are releasing a maintenance release for ColdBox Relax - RESTful Tools For Lazy Experts! This fixes some issues with JSON lint formatting, XML formatting and visualizations, also fixes on JSON exporting of APIs.

Resources, links and information:

• Download: http://coldbox.org/forgebox/view/coldbox-relax
• Source Code: 
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We are proud to announce yet another version of our open source RESTful assistant: ColdBox Relax - RESTful Tools For Lazy Experts! For those of you who do not know what ColdBox Relax is, here you go:

What is Relax? ColdBox Relax is a set of RESTful tools for lazy experts. We pride ourselves in helping developers work smarter and of course document more in less time by providing them the necessary tools to automagically document and test. ColdBox Relax is a ...

We have now reduced our eBooks to just $9.99 with a 15% discount code on top of that: OKTOBERFEST305.

This is a reminder that we will be in Munich, Germany right before CFCamp2011 to hold a 2 day hands on ColdBox Training October 26 and 27th.  You can find all the training details at the CFCamp website with their registration

We are embarking on the 3.5 release roadmap and we have nailed down several updates already and our long awaited ColdFusion 7 and configuration XML deprecation.  So now is the time where we need help from the community to start testing out our development branch and report back any issues or performance gains they might have from this upcoming release.  We have seen very good signs of performance and stabili...

We had a great presentation today by Tim Cunningham on the basics of MVC and ColdBox.  We also announced our private beta about BlogBox: A modular ColdFusion blogging and cms platform (more details to come).  So if you want to get a sneek peak into what's coming next, take a look a...

This Thursday our very own Tim Cunningham will be presenting on the following topic:

Understanding the underlying patterns of MVC

We will take you deep in to "Pattern-ville" to dissect what MVC truly is in terms of object-oriented principles.  ColdBox makes all this easy for you, but for you to truly understand WHAT goes WHERE you need to understand the patterns that make up the Model, the View and the Controller.

So see you Thursday at 10 AM PST at ou...