ColdBox Training At CFCamp 2012

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Luis Majano September 05, 2012

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September 05, 2012

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We are so glad to announce our CFCamp 2012 boot camp training in Munich, Germany. We will be attending this amazing conference from October 15-16, 2012 in beautiful Munich, Germany. Then on October 17 and 18 we will be holding several ColdBox and ContentBox trainings, called HOTs (Hands on Trainings). Each HOT will be about 4 hours long.

October 17 - ColdBox Basics

In this HOT we will introduce you to the ColdBox Platform and get you started in MVC. We will get hands on experience in building a sample ColdBox application and review the basics of MVC architecture. Topic Outline will be:

Course Introduction
ColdBox Introduction
Request Context
Event Handlers Exposed
Layouts/Views
Model Integration

October 17 - ColdBox Advanced

In this HOT we will cover advanced ColdBox techniques as they apply to ColdFusion ORM. We will investigate all the ORM extensions that ColdBox offers and build an application with ColdBox and ColdFusion ORM. Topic Outline will be:

Quick ORM Introduction
ColdBox Base ORM Service
Virtual Entity Services
Active Entity
Entity Event Handlers
Hibernate ColdBox Criteria Builders
Building an ORM enabled application
Generating the database from our domain model
Testing our application

October 18 - ContentBox Modular CMS Basics

ContentBox is a next generation modular content management platform for ColdFusion. It is completely free and open source. It is based on ColdBox and modular architecture that allows for ANY ColdBox application to provide CMS capabilities via modules. In this HOT we will get to do the following:

Introduction to ContentBox
ContentBox architecture
Installing ContentBox
ContentBox directory structure
Capabilities overview
Creating our first ContentBox Site

October 18 - ContentBox Modular CMS Advanced

In this advanced session, we will take what we learned in our basics HOT and continue to expand our site by applying advanced techniques like:

Creating a custom layout theme
Creating a widget
Creating a module
Content Custom Fields
Custom HTML Values
Advanced administration

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