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Teaser Video for CommandBox

Brad Wood June 07, 2014

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Brad Wood

June 07, 2014

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We've been feverishly working on our latest project Gideon, which is a CLI REPL and Package Manager for CFML.  We will have a release out soon for the public, but in the mean time, here's a video of some of the cool new functionality we've been working on.

 

 

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Jun 09, 2014 07:42:22 UTC

by M@

Hi,

When it installs coldbox can you have it do like some other frameworks out there. eg would you like bootstrap? Y/N Would you like jQuery? Y/N etc

Jun 10, 2014 09:03:13 UTC

by Adam

Great work on this Brad! It looks sweet! Can't wait to play Snake all day!

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