Yesterday I talked briefly about my Agile session I'll be presenting at cf.Objective(). Today I'd like to give a quick mention to my Backbone.js session I'll also be giving at 9am Saturday the 18th. I'll admit, I'm a little nervous about this topic simply because it's farther outside my normal comfort zone. The push to improve myself as a developer and learn some front-end JavaScripting frameworks has been a recent and exciting one.

[More]

cf.Objective() is almost upon us and I'm super excited as this will be my first year as an attendee and a speaker. I wanted to give a brief teaser for my session, "Waterfall to Agile: Improve your Project Workflow Without Drowning" which is currently scheduled to occur at 1:45 on Saturday the 18th. I am the most excited about this topic and here's some reasons why.

[More]

ContentBox and Ortus Solutions just announced a new contest today. All you have to do is write an original ContentBox Theme or Module and submit it to ForgeBox by the Dec 14th deadline.

First prize is a Kindle Fire and a $50 Amazon Gift Card. Runner up is $50 worth of iTunes and Amazon Gift Cards. We're excited to see what the community comes up with.

[More]

So, I've been sitting on this for months (because I'm lazy) and decided it's finally time to post it. My mother-in-law visited a while back and brought a puzzle for the kids to play with. It's called "One Tough Puzzle". It claims to have "more the 300,000 wrong ways, but only one right way to assemble it." Well, after fiddling with it for a while, I did what any code-blooded hacker would do and wrote some JavaScript to brute force solve it.

[More]

Team ColdBox is working on putting together a list of features for our 4.0 release. Before we finalize anything, we'd like to hear from you. Please give us your wishlist for the ColdBox Platform and what you'd like to see us work on. There's always items like documentation and additional screen casts, etc but let's focus specifically on what development items we can do to make ColdBox faster, easier, smarter, and flexible for YOU. No suggestion is too big or small. ColdBox Platform

• Core MVC
• WireBox
• LogBox
• CacheBox
• MockBox

I started a thread on the official ColdBox mailing list>, but I also want to open up comments for people not in the Google Group. Please leave a comment with your thoughts and suggestions.

Prior to this week, there were Wikipedia entries for MockBox, CacheBox and WireBox, but they've all been deleted by Wikipedia. There still is an entry for the ColdBox Platform-- for now. It's also been marked for deletion. So has the FuseBox page. The main reason for the deletion notices is that those articles don't have enough notable third-party references to support them. Wikipedia moderators say those topics just don't have enough articles, news, and books written about them OUTSIDE of their own community, or for that matter; the ColdFusion community.

[More]

Luis Majano has just released his latest Book, CacheBox: Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications. You can buy it in printed, eBook, and Kindle form. More here.

There's only 1 week left before ColdBox Developer Week and the featured session this week is "MultiLingual (i18N) Solutions in ColdBox Platform" by Oğuz Demirkapı on July 24th. Read more about this featured session on the ColdBox Blog.

There's 2 weeks left before ColdBox Developer Week and the featured session this week is "Seamless ColdBox-Powered Rich Internet Applications" by Phill Nacelli on July 26th. Read more about this featured session on the ColdBox Blog.