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Do you want to learn how to use helper templates and helper cfc's in your layouts, views, plugins, handlers or even interceptors?? Did you now that this feature exists in ColdBox since version 2.0.0??  Do you know what a helper is? Anyways, a helper cfc or template is just a collection of udf's or functions that you can reuse for either programmatic or visual "helping".  ColdBox already gives you a nice plugin architecture for you to build advanced and complex helpers. However,...

I have been invited by the Munich CFUG to speak at their upcoming event in Munich: ColdFusion Camp 2008 and I will be able to attend and present on ColdBox in Munich, Germany.

This is the first major CF event in Germany in over six years and it will take place on November 27th in Oberschleineim near Munich.  This is my first time to Germany and I am incredibly excited to present ColdBox to the European crowd first hand.  Below is...

Ernst van der Linden has been on a role lately on building incredible custom plugins for ColdBox applications.  He has just released his first version of a nice looking JS Calendar.  So go to his entry to check it out or the ColdBox code depot

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Ernst van der Linden of Team ColdBox has just released another update to his ColdBox Spry Plugin .  It looks even sharper and more detailed than before.  The samples demo

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The CFUnited blog just posted their "suggest a topic" entry for CFunited 2009.  Why don't you go over there and suggest topics that you would like to see about ColdBox.  Like their entry says, be creative.  So please go to

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The ColdBox Website has been updated with several new sections and content.  The most new prominent areas are the Flickr Photostream and the ColdBox Videos section that can be found under the Downloads tab that you can see above.  The training areas have been updated with very interesting testimonials and some vi...

Sun released a few days ago an update to their JRE version 6 update 10.  This update is of special interest to the ColdFusion community because it solves a renown bug when class loading cfc's. Usual behaviors for this bug on previous JDK 6.X was incredible slow performance on loading a highly used CFC application.  I just updated my servers to use the new 10 update and everything flies!  I highly recommend that you update your servers to use JDK 6 update 10.&...

Welcome to our new blog.  We have finally migrated from our individual team author blog to a community official blog for the ColdBox Framework.  This blog will showcase news, release information, bug information, community driven questions, events, media, presentations, tips & tricks, tutorials, and well, the rest.  We will also be multi-authoring posts by all the members of the team, so we can get a wide range of authoring from the team.  So enjoy this blog as another repository of knowl...

Well, it is almost a week since my announcement of ColdBox and here are the updates on my progress.

• The dashboard is complete with the framework auto-update feature included
• i18N support via resource bundles is complete, you can now internationalize your applications via the config.xml and one simple getresource method. It takes more time to create the resource bundles than to actually enable multi-language support.
• Samples gallery application finished in both English and Spanish
• Quick Start Guide almost finished.

What is keeping me back from opening the source is the Quick Start Guide. I want to be able to provide some decent and abundant documentation, so from now on, that is the only task I am doing. This guide will give you an overview of the framework, how to use it, why use it, why not to use it, and more.

Now to the Dashboard preview. Below you can see some thumbnails of the sections of the Dashboard and brief descriptions:

Well, I have been finally going at it more than usual to get this public beta out. You can find it now under my projects section by using the link below http://www.luismajano.com/index.cfm?event=ehProjects.dspColdbox So welcome to ColdBox. Please use the trac site for issues and the wiki, which I have been putting a lot of content. Use the forums for any discussions, and if you need to contact me use the conta...