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So at Into The Box this week we unveiled our latest here at Ortus that we've been calling project Gideon.  I'll note now that I'm blogging this to the Ortus blog because this is not beholden to the ColdBox MVC p<...

We have just released a new getting started reference cards, ColdBox REST APIs.  This will give you quick overview of everything you need to get started building ColdFusion REST APIs based on ColdBox's simple MVC conventions and URL routing.

Download it here a...

Just a reminder that our Texas TestBox BDD Bootcamp is in just 20 more days on April 24-25 in Houston, Texas.  These will be 2 days filled with hands-on and theory about TDD/BDD and Automation via Jenkins, ANT and more.  Hope to see you there!

Here is a short introductory video of how you can start protecting your ColdBox applications with our FuseGuard Module!  Enjoy!

We are proud to announce today a nice minor release for Ortus DataBoss version 1.3.0.  This release fixes lots of UI cosmetic issues and adds many improvements not only to the UI but also to better listing visualizations when having many-to-one and one-to-one relationships.

The major updates of this release is the capability to visualize many-to-one and one-to-one relationships on the listing screens now.  They also respect the db_display annotation as well, so you can pick and choose what shows on the listing screen.  This is great for visualizing many-to-many or relationships.

We have also added a new HTML control called "datetime" which allows you to split a timestamp or datetime field into a date and time picker.

We are so proud to announce another update to our Adobe ColdFusion Builder exension: ColdBox Platform Utilities v4.0.  This update has tons of cool updates and fixes:

Bugs Squashed

• [CBOXUTILITIES-28] - Crud generator fixes bombs with extra quotes
• [CBOXUTILITIES-29] - Enable CRUD composition of relationships

Improvements

• [CBOXUTILITIES-31] - Update all app templates to latest release update
• [CBOXUTILITIES-35] - Update Help documentation
• [CBOXUTILITIES-36] - Rename resources to shorter names
• [CBOXUTILITIES-37] - Update embedded google search engine
• [CBOXUTILITIES-40] - Menu ordering and cleanups
• [CBOXUTILITIES-41] - Make Application.cfc with non-inheritance default

New Features

• [CBOXUTILITIES-30] - Create config file for LogBox
• [CBOXUTILITIES-32] - Update all testing classes to TestBox Style and BDD support
• [CBOXUTILITIES-33] - CacheBox -> New Configuration
• [CBOXUTILITIES-34] - TestBox Support, new menu contribution for TestBox Tasks
• [CBOXUTILITIES-42] - Added global CPU configuration file for project URL and TestBox config

So either download the extension and install it or if you have it installed, just click "ColdBox Platform > Check For Extension Updates..." and perform our sweet auto update!  Here are a few screenshots of some new functionality:

REST APIs are a popular and easy way to add HTTP endpoints to your web applications to act as web services for third parties or even other internal systems. REST is simpler and requires less verbosity and overhead than other protocols such as SOAP or XML-RPC. Creating a fully-featured REST API is easy with the ColdBox Platform. Everything you need for creating routes, massaging data, and enforcing security comes out of the box.

The ColdBox MVC Platform has had excellent support for ...

We have just released another installment in our series of getting started reference cards, WireBox AOP Ref Card.  For anyone who's been waiting to jump into WireBox Aspect Oriented Programming, here is your nice full-color introduction to AOP with WireBox.

WireBox Ref ...