Coder's Revolution - ColdBox

ContentBox is Giving Away a Kindle Fire for Christmas

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:37:00 -0500

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]

What do you want in ColdBox?

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:33:00 -0500

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.

Call to Arms: We All Need to Evangelize

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:28:00 -0500

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]

Get Your Copy of CacheBox: Scaling Your ColdFusion Applications

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:25:00 -0500

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.

CBDW Featured Session: MultiLingual (i18N) Solutions in ColdBox Platform

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 01:05:00 -0500

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.

CBDW Featured Session: Seamless ColdBox-Powered Rich Internet Applications

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:58:00 -0500

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.

Take A Quick ColdBox Survey, Win An iPod Shuffle

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:40:00 -0500

If you currently use (or recently used) ColdBox, we want to know your thoughts. Take our quick, anonymous survey to tell us what you like or dislike about ColdBox and we'll put your name in for a drawing to win your choice of either an iPod Shuffle or a 1 hour consultancy with the creator of ColdBox, Luis Majano. http://blog.coldbox.org/blog/why-do-you-use-coldbox

I'm The New ColdBox Platform Evangelist!

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:13:00 -0500

I've been working with Luis and the rest of the ColdBox team for several years now. I was excited when Luis asked me to become a ColdBox team member last year, and now I have the privilege to bear the responsibility of the first ever ColdBox Platform Evangelist. [More]

Getting Inherited CFC MetaData

Sun, 06 May 2012 01:19:00 -0500

ColdFusion's getMetaData function is a very handy way to introspect the functions, properties, and annotations of a component in an easy-to-digest format of arrays and structs. ColdFusion even nests structs to represent the metadata of the classes your component extends as well. Recently, for an enhancement I was building for WireBox, the DI /AOP framework inside ColdBox, I wanted to be able to condense all the metadata down for the component in question as well as all the components it inherits from to a single list of functions, properties, and annotations. After a short bit of Googling, I didn't find any code that did that so I decided it was a perfect opportunity to write a function that did just that. [More]

ColdBox Connection Today On WireBox 3.1 And AOP

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:27:00 -0500

Just a quick reminder that the latest ColdBox Connection starts at Noon Central today. Luis will be talking about the new features of WireBox 3.1 which was just released as well as an in-depth explanation of of the new AOP implementation. AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) is seriously cool stuff, so put your thinking caps on and come learn. You can't beat free ColdBox training! You'll find the meeting here:
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/coldbox-connection/ Update:
Here is the recording URL of the meeting:
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p1vqmd7hiy1/

ColdBox Connection today on CacheBox

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:02:00 -0500

Just a friendly reminder about the ColdBox Connection meeting today at noon Central. ColdBox Connection is an online webinar that is held every two weeks by Team ColdBox to showcase a part of the ColdBox Platform and answer your questions. Today's is being hosted by Aaron Greenlee and will be discussing CacheBox, the enterprise caching framework which is baked into ColdBox as well as available as a separate utility for your existing apps. Here is the Connect room: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/coldbox-connection/ Hope you see you there!

My LogBox Slidedeck, Sample Code And Recording URL

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:17:00 -0500

In case you missed the ColdBox Connection webinar today and are dying to know all about LogBox, the enterprise logging library that can be used stand-alone or inside a ColdBox application, I have good news! Here is a link to the recording, my slide deck and most importantly ALL the sample code I used including the Pirate Log Formatter and the QR Code log appender. [More]

I'm Speaking At This Week's ColdBox Connection Online Meeting

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:09:00 -0500

ColdBox has an online meetup every other week called the ColdBox Connection. Just a note that the next one is this Thursday at noon Central time. I will be talking about LogBox-- the Logging framework that is built into ColdBox and also can be used as a stand-alone logging utility in a legacy app. See you there! http://experts.adobeconnect.com/coldbox-connection/

ColdBox 3.0 Has Gone Gold!

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:34:00 -0500

I am very excited to announce that ColdBox 3.0 has been officially released. After 6 milestone releases and 2 release candidates it is finally complete. I am especially proud to see this since a number of fixes, and code submissions of my own have worked their way into the ColdBox framework, Sample Apps, and Builder Extensions over the past 2 years. A brief list of new features in ColdBox 3.0 includes: [More]

Slide Deck For My ColdBox 3.0 Preso At KCDevCore

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:22:00 -0500

Last Tuesday I presented on the ColdBox Framework to my local Kansas City user group with an emphasis on the new 3.0 features like WireBox. Here is the slide deck I used.

http://slidesix.com/view/KCDevCore-ColdBox-3-WireBox-10-preso