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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...

Happy 4th of July!! And to commemorate this great holiday, why not have a surprise features. Yes, CFEclipse tag insight, function and scope insight for ColdBox. You can now have insight into the major scopes of ColdBox like event, rc, controller and also all the methods that are used in event handlers, plugins, layouts and views. WOW!! A handy way of coding, and much much faster.

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This might be a little late and silent, but thanks to Mark Drew and his insatiable coding skills we received a few days ago CFEclipse 1.3.1.5 and with it an update to the CFFrameworks Plugin which includes support for ColdBox. This support is to visually see and maintain the ColdBox configuration file. You can view all of your settings and aspects, very nice indeed.

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Thanks to the guys over at CFFrameworks.com, I will be doing my first ever workshop and presentation about ColdBox. The title for this workshop is "Down & Dirty with ColdBox". When: Wednesday, 18th July, 2007 @ 7:00pm PM GMT (2:00pm EST) Please register your interest online here. The URL for the event is:

Here is a basic script of what will be covered in the CFFRameworks workshop on July 18th. This script might change if it is too much to cover or not. I will be updating it as I go forward with it.

• ColdBox "Down & Dirty" Presentation
  1. Introduction
     1. Who am I?
     2. What is ColdBox?
     3. Why ColdBox?
  2. Novel Features of ColdB...