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We are excited today to announce the general availability of our Railo CloudVPS servers.  We have partnered with KickassVPS to bring about an offering of three great Railo CloudVPS pre-configured packages.  These CloudVPS offerings come fully loaded with features from the latest Railo 4.2 pre...

Here is a video screencast of how to get started with ContentBox Express! Hope you enjoy!

This is the second half of our two-part conversion of a FuseBox 5.1 sample app to ColdBox MVC.  If you haven't been following our blog series on converting your legacy FuseBox apps over to ColdBox MVC you may want to back up and read the

This August 13th at 6:30 pm Brad Wood will be presenting an introduction to the ColdBox MVC Platform to the Chicagoland user group.  If you're in the area, please attend in person.  For everyone else, I'll be presenting via Adobe Connect and you can join the room to listen in.

Welcome back to our blog series on converting your legacy FuseBox apps over to ColdBox MVC.  In our

Come get trained in sunny California!

We will be holding a ColdBox and TestBox bootcamp in sunny California this October 1-3rd, 2014.  This bootcamp will include a medley of our professional training courses and lead by ColdBox creator

We are proud to announce today a nice minor release for Ortus DataBoss Version 1.4.0.  This release brings about support for Adobe ColdFusion 11, perpetual and yearly subscription licensing and much more.  We modified our licensing model and have created a yearly and perpetual plan for each version of DataBoss to allow for a more flexible and approachable licensing model.  Below you can see a summary of the major updates for this release, release notes and information about DataBoss.  If you have never tried DataBoss before, we have a trial version as well that you can use to kick the tires and see how productive it can make you and your team.

This August 13th at 7PM Luis Majano, creator of ContentBox, will be presenting the newest version of our CMS at the North Virginia ColdFusion User Group. So if you are in the Washington, DC and/or Virginia vicinity, please drop on by.  Luis will be reviewing all the new features of ContentBox and the upcoming roadmap of this Modular CMS.  For much more information and your RSVP, please go to:

In our last installment, we talked about the benefits of converting legacy FuseBox applications over to ColdBox MVC.  In this entry we'll actually convert the Fusebox 3 sample app available from fusebox.org to show you the similiarities and differences between the two frameworks.  

• The finished ColdBox code is here: https://github.com/bdw429s/Fusebox-3-Sample-App-Conversion/
• The original Fusebox code is in the root of the above repo in a zip called "FB3SimpleApp.zip"

Overview

Here's a screenshot of the files in the Fusebox and ColdBox code side-by-side. Both are pretty self-explanatory, so we'll work our way through the contents of each file as we go.

One of the newest features of ContentBox is the ability to define related content for Entries, Pages, and ContentStore objects. Whether it's simply rendering a list of related content links, or creating complex data relationships for use in custom development, the sky is the limit for how you can use this new feature within your ContentBox apps!

Defining Related Content

Adding related content to your content is simple. While adding or editing your conten...