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Luis Majano

January 06, 2010

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Announcing our first awesome contest so you can win a brand spanking new copy of our ColdBox Definitive Guide Book!  What do you need to do?  Simple, here are the instructions.

You will first need to register an account with us in our ForgeBox site: http://www.coldbox.org/index.cfm/forgebox/submitcode

Once your account is validated and you have registered (if you have not done so), you will then need to post as many code entries to the forge as you can.  The person with the most contributed code entries until January 28, 2010 at 5pm PST will win the free book!

That's it, all you have to do is contribute to the forge cool plugins, interceptors, sample apps, etc and you are on your way to getting a free book!

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