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ColdBox Open Source Project of the Year!

Luis Majano |  August 17, 2009

I got word today after leaving CFUnited to come back to California that ColdBox was announced as The Open Source Project of the Year by the Community Achievement Awards!  I am super excited and happy about this award and you can see the recording here:

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ColdBox 3.0.0 Beta 1 Released!

Luis Majano |  August 12, 2009
It has been a long road and we are proud to announce our first beta of our 3.0.0 line for ColdBox.  There are over 192 closed issues corresponding to enhancements, fixes and tasks for this first beta release.  We have created several upgrade guides and what's new guide to get you started with this new release.  All of the new features have not been documented fully, but will be soon as development continues.  The major updates as we have been seeing is the modularization of i...
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CFUnited 2009 Presentation Posted

Luis Majano |  August 12, 2009
I just posted the CFUnited ColdBox Presentation: More Than MVC in our presentations wiki:
http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/cbMediaPresentations#ColdBoxPlatform:MorethanMVCAug122009

I also added the source code shown and also a complete source code example for downloading.  Enjoy!



LogBox Release Candidate 1 is out!

Luis Majano |  August 05, 2009
New update to LogBox is out today in preparation for a final 1.0 release. You can download it from the main download page. This update includes the following:

Ability to get a logger using a class object instead of a category name:

<cfset logger = logBox.getLogger(this)>

LogBox will then inspect the object and get its fully qualified name from it.  This is great instead of passing th...
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ColdBox 101 2-Day Training Seminar - Choose your city

Luis Majano |  August 04, 2009
I have been pondering in doing another 2-Day Training Seminar in either late October or early November.  I am still indecisive in the location, but I have narrowed it down to 3 cities:
  1. Los Angeles & Vicinity
  2. Dallas
  3. Houston
If you would like to attend to this 2 day intensive ColdBox training, please leave a comment and choose your city.  The curriculum for this class can be found here:
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ColdBox Training next week at CFUnited 2009

Luis Majano |  August 03, 2009
CFUnited 2009 is coming up REAL FAST and we still have seats available for ColdBox Training.  This is a full day of ColdBox training that will blow your socks off.  You don't want to miss this!  The course is CBOX-100 and you can find more information about it here.

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A ColdBox plugin for ValidateThis!

Luis Majano |  July 24, 2009
Bob Silverberg just announced the availability of a ColdBox plugin for interacting with his Validate This! framework!  I highly encourage you to test drive Validate This as it is truly an awesome validation framework.  He not only did the plugin but adapted a sample application to work with it.

So if you are still trying to determine validation and want an easy and great solution, give ValidateThis a shot!  Here are some links for you:

Coldbox SimpleMVC Demystifyed

Luis Majano |  July 23, 2009

I have been asked quite a few times why not make a ColdBox lite version where you can only have the basics?  Well, not many people now that this already exists.  Therefore, I am linking to the SimpleMVC template you can use if you are just starting with ColdBox.  This template is just the basic ColdBox conventions and a few settings, that's it. This template will ease you in to ColdBox MVC development.  Once you are comfortable with just the basics of how to build apps with conventions you can always add on and start brining in extra features from the Coldbox Platform like: caching, logging, AOP, interceptors, feed integrations, security, etc.  However, you won't feel as intimidated as if you where starting with a huge settings file.

The reason of having all the settings listed out is to tell the developer that there are all these settings you can use.  It is also hard to create templates when everybody's level and approach is different.  However, this can be overwhelming to entry level users, therefore we are now including the SimpleMVC template in the coldbox downloads to come or you can download it from here now: http://www.coldbox.org/downloads/simpleMVC.zip (3.0 template)

So let's do a simple ColdBox for Newbies guide:

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Announcing our ColdBox Jobs Community

Luis Majano |  July 22, 2009
Thanks to Elite Open Source Jobs (http://www.eliteopensourcejobs.com/), we are now online to offer jobs to the ColdBox community.  We are just starting today so there are no job postings as of now, but I encourage any company, developer or manager out there to please check this post out and continue reading.

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LogBox Beta 3 Released

Luis Majano |  July 19, 2009
A brand new update to LogBox is now online and on SVN.  This update includes mostly fixes and more fixes.

http://coldbox.org/index.cfm/download

Enjoy!


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