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Introducing Ortus DataBoss: Dynamic ORM Administrator

Luis Majano |  March 26, 2013

We are proud to announce today the public release of our product Ortus DataBoss.  We have been working on this product for a few years now and finally it has reached its culmination and is ready available for purchase.  So let me introduce to you our new brain child: DataBoss.

 

What is DataBoss?

Ortus DataBoss is an application that will help you manage CFML Object Relational Mapper (ORM) objects without the need of writing administrative code for them; thus a Dynamic Administrator.  DataBoss will talk to the underlying ORM engine (Hibernate) and get all the necessary information to manage all the ORM entities and its relationships in that specific CFML application DataBoss has been deployed to.  You can watch our introductory video to get a quick overview of what DataBoss is and how it can benefit your development.

 

 

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Tip of the Week: Being More Productive with the Query Helper Plugin

Brad Wood |  March 15, 2013

The Query Helper plugin is a hidden gem in ColdBox.  This plugin has a handful of super useful functions you can perform against query objects-- some of which you may have gone out of your way to write on your own in the past, or just simply lived without.  Here a brief list of my favorite functions from the Query Helper plugin that allow you to do sweet one-line manipulations of one or more query objects:

filterQuery
Pare down a result set to only ...

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ColdBox GroovyLoader 3.0 Released!

Luis Majano |  March 06, 2013

Thanks to team member Sana Ullah, we have upgraded our Groovy Loader project to version 3.0.  This version includes several updates like it sports a new interceptor called GroovyStarter that you can configure in your configuration file and the entire groovy environment will wrap itself and become available in any ColdBox 3.5 application.

Not only that, but now you can also add any amount of java and groovy library locations and the plugin will load them at startup into your application.  These libraries can be Spring, Hibernate, Apache Commons, etc.  Finally, what good is a project without documentation, so we now have the project fully documented: http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Projects:GroovyLoader.cfm

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Tip of the Week: Configuring Additional CacheBox Caches

Brad Wood |  February 28, 2013

 

Every ColdBox install comes with an instance of the CacheBox cache aggregator ready to go.  There are two caches that have to be defined: default, and template.  The former is the default provider used if you don't specify another one.  The latter provider is used internally for cached events and views.  What's cool about CacheBox as a cache aggregator is that you can configure as many named providers as you like to report and tune separate areas of your...
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ColdBox Platform v3.6.0 Released!

Brad Wood |  February 26, 2013

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We are proud to announce ColdBox Platform release version 3.6.0 and ColdBox DevBox 2.3. This is an important minor release that addresses many important issues, but also introduces some great enhancements. There are no compatibility updates needed and here are our "What's New" guideline:

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ColdBox Online Training 75% Off

Luis Majano |  February 20, 2013

This week only until Saturday February 23rd, 2013, you can get access to our online ColdBox training course for 75% off the retail value.  This online training course has over 50 lessons, over 15 hours worth of video and much more.  You can also train right in your iPad or iPhone device, so what are you waiting for, get your training on!

 

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Tip of the Week: CacheBox Tuning with the Debug Panel

Brad Wood |  February 16, 2013

 

If you use CacheBox (and if you use ColdBox to any extent, you do) it is important to inspect your cache performance from time to time.  A poorly tuned cache can bring about unexpected performance issues when your application gets under load (such as the dog-pile effect).
 
Since CacheBox is a cache aggregator that means it has the ability to wrap up multiple caches from different sources under one API.  By default, ColdBox c...
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Finance Your ColdBox Trainings

Luis Majano |  February 06, 2013

Thanks to PayPal you can now finance your ColdBox Trainings by using the Bill Me Later service once you check out.  This is a great way to be able to finance or pay in installments for your ColdBox training needs with no interest for the first 6 months.  This applies to all our training seminars currently offered now and in the future.  You don't have to do anything special, just follow the checkout proc...

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Tip of the Week: WireBox Debug Output

Brad Wood |  February 06, 2013

 

If you've used WireBox for autowiring the CFCs in your application, you may have reached a point where you were having trouble figuring out what was going on behind the scenes.  This can be especially true if you've added auutowire metdata to a CFC, but the dependencies still aren't getting injected.
 
WireBox actually has pretty robust debug-level logging built in via LogBox that will tell you everything it is doing, but the ques...
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Introducing CacheBack - A caching WireBox aspect

Curt Gratz |  February 01, 2013

 


ColdBox-CacheBack

A cool annotation based...

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