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It is my pleasure to announce Tom de Manincor as our first ColdBox Certified Trainer.  Tom has been part of ColdBox since the project started and has demonstrated guru skills when it comes down to ColdBox application development.  He has now joined the professional servic...

I have been recollecting some case studies of companies that have succesfully adopted the ColdBox Platform in their organizations.  If you or your organization are interested in filling out a case study questionnaire, please download it from here and send it to partners@coldbox.org.  We are creating a special section of the website to cater to case studies and whitepapers, so if y...

Sana Ullah, from Team ColdBox, started this project a while back and it has gotten quite some tracking that we are now releasing a 1.0 of this extension for Adobe ColdFusion Builder. If you do not know that we now have ...

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:

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...

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!

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...

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:

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.

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:

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