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As with the new 2.0.1 release from yesterday, you now also get a new Refactoring Guide. This guide is a step by step guide on how to refactor ColdBox for use in your own custom server environments, shared environments or even embedding ColdBox in your commercial applications. Open The Refactoring Guide If you would like to add anything to this guide, please let me...

One of the most coolest features the 2.0.1 release brings is a Request Context snapshot viewer as part of the ColdBox Debugger. This snapshot shows you the state of your request at every specific event execution time. I find this tool extremely amazing, since I can see how my variables change, when they change, which event changed/added/removed them and much more. Look at the screenshot below:

Thanks to AJ Mercer, The application template included in the download for the dashboard became corrupt. I replaced them in the distribution files and I am attaching the zip file to this post. You can download it and place it under the following directory: {DashboardInstall}/model/templates/apptemplate.zip Just replace the old zip file and you should be ok. If not, just download the bundle again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I just put together a ColdBox cheat sheet for all you ColdBox Developers. This cheat sheet gives you an overview of the most used functions in your every day development, tips and tricks. I have included a copy with the download bits and also in the track site. Now, you can also download it from here. ColdBox Cheat Sheet Again, this is a great way for you to learn the framework and have...

Adam Fortuna created a post on a technique to automatically assign default views to your application, which is very very interesting. I also posted an alternate way of assigning default views/layouts to even any handler by just creating and implementing a preHandler or postHandler method on your handler. Great Snippet ...

As always, more documentation so you can get to expand your knowledge on ColdBox. The following guides have been created and some have been updated:

New Guides

* Reserved Words & Methods Guide * Load Custom ColdBox Config Files *

Well, yet another ColdBox release!! This one is an exciting one as we approach the 2.1.0 release. More unit testing capabilities, less restrictions, more fixes and more great stuff. This release thanks to God's grace on permitting me do thing I though I could not do. So here is the list of fixes, features and updates. Ohh by the way, a whole new Dashboard is also release, version 2.2.0 with full Railo sup...

The ColdBox Dashboard application is now fully functional on Railo 2.0RC and will be distributed as the Railo Archive is prepared for it. As of now, Railo fans will have to wait somewhat for the inclusion of the archive. So please bear with me as the Archive is included. As of now, the dashboard is compiled to work on Adobe ColdFusion 7 & 8, and BlueDragon 6 and 7. Than...

I just updated the previous unit testing guide over at the Trac site with a much more in depth overview of unit testing in ColdBox. It covers on how ColdBox does unit testing for your handlers, how you can create unit tests, unit test suites, how to integrate to Sean Corfields' cfcUnit facade to CFEclipse's CFUnit

With the advent of ColdBox 2.0.1 you are now able to unit test your event handlers, plugins, etc. I just completed a step by step guide on how to do this with the provided source in the bundle. Another interesting note is that the ColdBox Dashboard generates applications for you and yes, it also generates the unit tests for it. Unit Testing Handlers Guide So click on the link above to start unit t...