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A new ColdBox Training Course has been born: CBOX:100 - Intro to ColdBox.  This course is a 1-day intensive training course that focuses on the main components of the ColdBox Platform. It has been designed to get you up and running in 1 day.  This course is now offered for on-site training or by request only.

We will also be debutin...

We are already in the plans for the next ColdBox Training Seminar featuring our CBOX 101 course.  We need your input to choose the venue and dates for this incredible seminar, so please fill out our online survey.

The seminars will be shortly increasing in frequency and more courses will be added to them once they are ...

Tony Garcia has developed a very cool CFImage CAPTCHA plugin for ColdBox.  He has written an extensive blog entry describing how he built it and uses it.  It is really cool!

I recommend you download it and give it a spin.  We have also added it ...

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.&...