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The winner of ColdBox training is: Conrad Davis!! We did a raffle and the following are the results: 1) Conrad Davis (Winner)
2) Charlie Griefer (Runner Up)
3) Dave Schuck (2nd Runner Up) I have emailed all three participants as Conrad has the first bid for the training. If he does not answer that he will be going by Tomorrow at 5PM pacific, then the winner becomes runner up 2, Charlie Griefer. If charlie does not answer by Saturday at 5PM pacific, then Dave Shuck becomes ...

The early bird pricing for ColdBox Training Seminar for CBOX:101 ends this Sunday August 31st at 11:59:00 PM Pacific Time. So if you have not registered for the training seminar, do so now and save over $200!.

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The ColdBox Training Seminar is next week in Dallas, Texas. If you have not registered yet for it, you can still do. This is the last week you can register for the training, so I urge you to do so. The training materials look amazing and we will surely have a great time. See you there.

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Are you running ColdBox in your company, applications or sites? If you do, we would appreciate it if you submit them to us via our online form or just email us to info@coldboxframework.com. You can also send us a logo and url of your company and we will showcase it in our "Who Uses ColdBox" page of our webs...

Jason Dean has started a very nice, concise and well documented tutorial series on using ColdBox. I have added his series to the ColdBox wiki also. This is a great resource, so keep up the good work Jason!!

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If you have a project using ColdBox or a website, or your company uses ColdBox, then please use the new project submission form on the new ColdBox website. Also, if you think you are using ColdBox in many cool ways and want to be a featured company or site, then please say so in the comments and we will get you placed on the website with any cool logo you want and get you some good exposure. Thanks again!!...

Some people have reported not being able to log in to the ColdBox Dashboard. I have reproduced the error and it seems releated with the ses support that is NOT used in the app. So I have registered it as a bug for a patch release on 2.2.3. However, if you would like to make it work, you can do the following: 1. Open the {App}/config/routes.cfm 2. Change the following: Change it to FALSE That way the ses interceptor will not...

I have found an interesting bug on ColdFusion 8 and the multi-threaded capabilities of ColdBox. This is only to specific coldbox installation setups: 1) Virtual Folder in IIS 2) Apache Alias If you use an alias or a virtual folder for installing coldbox, you will run into errors that the spawned threads will not be able to actually find the instantiation paths. Example: coldbox.system.beans.requestContext It seems that the coldfusion 8 spawned thread cannot find...

If you are upgrading to 2.5.0 RC 1 from previous versions, please make sure that you use the updated Application.cfc and index.cfm files in the Application Template folder. Application.cfc support has changed a lot of how the framework boots up and it has gotten more solid as the release approaches. However, changes have been made since the first beta of 2.5 and will solidify until the release. So if you are upgrading, please make sure you upgrade your Application.cfc and index.cfm file templ...