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After spending a very productive ColdBox weeked, here are some links that you will find interesting:

Milestone for 1.2.0 Matures

Milestone 1.2.0

FAQ Updated

FAQ

Announcing ColdBox Cache!!

This will make some users happy!! I am still on the planning and research phase, but putting a...

I just opened the announcement of ColdBoxReader. A coldfusion based RSS reader that comes included with the ColdBox Bundle. I will be separating this project and enhancing it according to community needs. So please give your opinions and suggestions on this project. As of now, it is part of the ColdBox project and will continue in its same timeline. The link is http://coldboxreader.riaforge.org/ So please enjoy and bring me your comments and ...

Just a quick note, that I was impressed today to see that more than 500 downloads have been registered for ColdBox since I opened the project back in August. I am really grateful that this framework is having great response even in its infancy. Thanks again for your support and please continue to support Open Source Projects. Have a great X-Mas and a happy New Year. May God bless your coding brain cells and soon to be carpetunnel fingers.

You can head over at CFDJ for a great frameworks article by Faisal Abid : Frameworks, Frameworks, Frameworks http://cfdj.sys-con.com/read/317576.htm It talks about why frameworks should be used, their role and how they can help application development. The article mentions ColdBox and some of its features.

For those of you interested in testing the upcoming 1.2.0 ColdBox release, please download it from the repository and give me your feedback. I have just finished uploading a stable version. Some of the new and interesting features are the following:

ColdBox Event Handler Caching

If you thought that ColdBox was a fast framework, well it just got faster. With the flick of a new setting HandlerCaching your application will cache the event handlers. This o...

This is more of an announcement of the upcoming 1.2.0 features. Since event handler caching will be instilled into the framework, the performance is dramatic. It actually, does not make sense to be creating event handlers for each request. So version 1.2.0 will be the last version to support uncached handlers. The versions after 1.2.0 will have caching of handlers by default. I see no benefit of not caching the handlers. And they can easily be recreated by using fwreinit= url command So. Since event handler caching actually changes A LOT in event execution. The methods will receive the request collection object, instead of the handler being injected with it at creation. What does this imply? Well, mainly the 'rc' scope will become deprecated. You can keep it, however, you must var scope it locally. Example: var rc = arguments.oRC (or whatever the argument is named, still pending)

My good friend and collaborator Aaron Conran, just posted a very interesting article on how to migrate your fusebox apps to coldbox. Also it explains some of the benefits you achieve. You can find the article here Transitioning from Fusebox to ColdBox

Finally you can test drive the up and coming ColdBox 1.2.0. There are so many improvements and enhancements to list here. Below is a sample of the readme. The most notable improvements are IoC integration (coldspring/lightwire), ColdBox in-memory caching manager for event handler caching, plugin caching, custom plugin caching and custom data caching (Event template caching is coming...). The cache is unique, since it displays in the debugging panel the effectiveness of the cache in hits and...

The new cfc api for the framework is now available at http://www.coldboxframework.com/documents/cfdocs/ Please head over there to see all the documentation on the new methods, etc. As always, please report any bugs on the forums or to bugs@coldboxframework.com

I had forgotten to extract some documentation from the compatability guide that is no longer in play for the beta. If you have started to read the guide, please do so now. I have updated the wiki and the pdf in the download.