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We are excited to announce our first ever *BOX Party Hackathon at this year's CFObjective 2013 sponsored by Ortus Solutions and Computer Know How.  We will be holding a get together for all *BOX aficionados (WireBox, MockBox, LogBox, ColdBox, ColdBox LITE, DevBox, ContentBox, DataBoss, etc) filled with drinks, prizes and cool hacking events.  We have some awesom...

We are excited to announce our first ever *BOX Party Hackathon at this year's CFObjective 2013 in conjunction with Computer Know How.  We will be holding a get together for all *BOX aficionados (WireBox, MockBox, LogBox, ColdBox, ColdBox LITE, DevBox, ContentBox, DataBoss, etc) filled with drinks, prizes and cool hacking events.  We have some awesome geek prizes from rubik's cubes, to 80's inspired electr...

CacheBox contains a number of different cache providers ranging from EHCache to Railo's Memcached.  There is also a provider implemented in ColdFusion simply called the "CacheBox Provider" and two of it's stores are the ConcurrentStore and the ConcurrentSoftReferenceStore.  You may have wondered what the "soft reference" part means and why you would want to use it.  If that's you, here's some history and explanation.  

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Here is our video of our ContentBox connection today featuring our new responsive admin UI and so many goodies. Enjoy!

We are so excited to bring you our 2013 ContentBox Ortus Support plans.  We have completely revamped and recreated our plans to not only offer better pricing, but also a monthly plan as well.  We have also created some new plans to offer great pricing and availability for Team ContentBox to do custom development for you. That's right! We can help code your projects and even be part of your coding team.

We have completely revamped and recreated our Ortus Support Plans for all our products (ColdBox, ContentBox, DataBoss, WireBox, CacheBox, etc) and even introduced custom development plans, so we can even help you build your apps in no time!  However, the plan we are most excited about is our new monthly M1 Plan.  With this plan you will be able to subscribe to our support services for a lo...

In ColdBox, Event Handlers, Interceptors, and Plugins are represented as CFCs.  You are probably used to their signatures looking like this:

myhandler.cfc
component extends="coldbox.system.EventHandler"{}

myInterceptor.cfc
component extends="coldbox.system.Interceptor"{}

myPlugin.cfc
...