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.
CommandBox Demo from Luis Majano on Vimeo.
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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
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!