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The following page has been created in the wiki to host contributed ColdBox plugins, ColdBox Custom Plugins. This will be updated and moved to the ColdBox website as the website is updated and released later this year. However, you now have a location of contributed custom plugins. So if you have any plugins you would like to share with the community, please send them to ...

I finished today my presentation at CF.Objective: ColdBox - More than MVC. It was a greatly received presentation where we showcased our Alpha of ColdBox 3.0.0. If you want to see the presentation and download the source code, just go here: http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/cbMediaPresentations Enjoy and let me know if you have any questions!!...

This is a reminder that we will be holding a CBOX-100 Training session at CF.Objective this year.  This 1 day course is an intense 8 hours of ColdBox.  You will get to understand the ColdBox Platform and get some amazing...

When using ColdBox's SES routing mechanisms you will come to a point where you would like to create variables depending on when a specific route matches or not.  You can do so very easily by using the argument called matchVariables, which is a simple string of name-value pairs you want to create in the request collection (This was added in version 2.6.3).  However, a hidden feature that we just documented that has been enabled since version 2.6.0, is that you can also pass na...

We are releasing a 1.0 version of our GroovyLoader plugin for ColdBox Applications today.  This plugin can be found in the extra downloads section of the ColdBox Website as part of the projects pack.  So what did we do, well, based on Barney Boisvert's inspiration on CFGroovy, we decided to create a plugin that would leverage ColdBox users with the

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I had the pleasure of getting to speak at the Orange County User Group last night and it was a great night.  We had a full night of ColdBox and even some incredible Ping Pong tournament.  Thanks guys for inviting me over.  You can find the recordings for the presentations below.  You will be surprised to see some of the new ColdBox projects, especially our new ColdBox Lookup Manager that has been silently released.  Expect more on it soon.

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This is a post to help people know that there is a free URL rewrite for IIS7 that microsoft has built and it is pretty darn snazzy. You can get the download from here: http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1691.

The documentation for the rewrite tool is here: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/460/using-url...

Tony Garcia has created a nice blog entry on how to create dynamic model mappings using ColdBox's Model Integration features.  I really enjoyed the read and approach Tony took.

http://www.objectivebias.com/blog/entry/dynamic-model-mappings-in-coldbox

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I am glad to announce that we will be holding a pre-conference training at CFObjective 2009.  This pre-conference class is based on the CBOX-100 : Intro to ColdBox course.  Below you can find information about the course and how to register.

What is CBOX-100?
Intro to ColdBox is an intense 1-day training course that will ...

I just posted some of the pictures of our last CBOX 101 Training Seminar in Ontario, California. We had a great attendance and a great group of developers. You can find all the pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/coldbox