Blog

New WireBox Ref Card Released

Brad Wood October 09, 2013

Spread the word

Brad Wood

October 09, 2013

Spread the word


Share your thoughts

​We have just released the latest installment in our series of getting started reference cards for all our *Box open source projects.  For anyone who's been waiting to jump into the WireBox AOP/DI engine, today is your day.  Here is your 6-page, full-color introduction to CFML's most handy and productive dependency injection library.  To those of you already using WireBox, this guide only covers the basics but I bet it will still teach you something you didn't know.

WireBox Ref Card

Download it, print it, read it, and sleep with it under your pillow.  Also, keep an eye on the horizon for our next ref card coming soon-- CacheBox!

Add Your Comment

Recent Entries

Inherited a CFML Application With Few Tests? Here’s Where to Start!

Inherited a CFML Application With Few Tests? Here’s Where to Start!

You need to change an application that has been running for years.

It might be a ColdFusion customer portal, a Lucee application supporting internal operations, or a CFML system your team is preparing to modernize. People depend on it, but some of its behavior lives in old tickets, scattered documentation, and the memory of whoever has supported it longest.

Now a release is approaching. You know more testing would help. The difficult part is deciding where to begin without putting every other priority on hold.

Start with one important workflow and build evidence around what it needs to do.

Explore Ortus Quality Assurance Services

Maria Jose Herrera
Maria Jose Herrera
October 27, 2026
Your ColdFusion Upgrade Passed. Did Your Business Workflows?

Your ColdFusion Upgrade Passed. Did Your Business Workflows?

The server restarted. The administrator shows the expected version. Your homepage loads, and a few familiar screens look fine.

Would you tell the business the upgrade is complete?

Consider an illustrative scenario: a customer submits an order after an upgrade. The application saves it and displays a confirmation page. But the confirmation email never arrives, and the scheduled process that sends the order to fulfillment has not completed.

From the browser, the transaction...

Maria Jose Herrera
Maria Jose Herrera
October 22, 2026