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Well, I have been finally going at it more than usual to get this public beta out. You can find it now under my projects section by using the link below http://www.luismajano.com/index.cfm?event=ehProjects.dspColdbox So welcome to ColdBox. Please use the trac site for issues and the wiki, which I have been putting a lot of content. Use the forums for any discussions, and if you need to contact me use the conta...

Thanks to ColdBox's easy i18n and resource bundle support (Paul Hastings and Ray Camden) the dashboard application is now in Spanish for all of the Latinos in the CF community. Also, the samples gallery application is in Spanish. I will be updating all the documentation to Spanish too, but it will take me some time. I really would appreciate your feedback on typos or sentences that really do not make any sense or if you want to help me translate, well,you are more than welcome. You can d...

I will be releasing a minor update this Friday for ColdBox. This is special, because it now includes a JavaLoader CFC plug-in and it works great. It remains true to the actual cfc, just a little bit simpler to use. I will be including a new sample application to demonstrate how to use the JavaLoader cfc and updating the Wiki. It also includes a fix for the CustomException H...

Well, I am finally opening the lid on a project I have been developing since August of last year: ColdBox a ColdFusion Framework. I am just releasing the specs for this framework for now as I complete all the documentation and sample applications. If you want to see how it works, well you are already using it. This site, its blog (Raymond Camden's BlogCFC by the way), and its forums (

This is Part I of a tutorial about the ColdBox config.xml This introduces you to the framework settings and what you can define and do in ColdBox. You can find a sample config.xml below. We will go section by section, explain what each section does, how you can use it, and maybe you can give me feedback on future versions. Also, you can find the schema documentation by using the link below: http://luismajano.com/projects/coldbox/documents/SchemaDocs/index.html A great place to start can also be found in the wiki: http://trac.luismajano.com/coldbox/wiki/cbConfigGuide

Yesterday, we went over the initial steps on the config.xml, click here to read it. We went over the Settings element and all the configurations that ColdBox can do for you. Today we continue on reviewing the rest of the elements in this config file. This is the full config.xml file: mail.server.com myusername mypassword cfcoldbox@coldbox.com joe@coldbox.com luis@gmail.com dev localhost mydev Layout.Main.cfm vwEmails vwPhones vwContactBook includes/main en_US session

I am just announcing that I bought www.coldboxframework.com and www.coldboxframework.org. and they will soon begin to show some life. I also have prepared my new Trac site hosted by SVN Repository which is truly awesome. Soon I will be releasing the read only access to the SVN repository and let people play around with the upcoming 1.1.0 release. (More on this below) The new address for the Trac site is: http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi So what will the 1.1.0 release include? Why use it? why why why? Well, I have been taking all the feedback from the previous releases, tested, tested, and more tested, and came up with a leaner and meaner framework. All thanks to the great feedback for a framework that has been released to the public not so long ago, but been used privately for more than a year now. The main question that people had asked about the framework is why should you use it and what is the difference with what is out there already: Fusebox, mach-ii, model-glue, etc. Well here are some answers for you that will shed light on the subject and prepare you for what is coming along.