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As part of release week, we are proud to announce yet another release to WireBox, our Dependency Injection and AOP Framework.  Here are the resources:

• Download Version 1.3.1
• What's New With 1.3.1
• Milestone Release Tickets
• Documentation

WireBox is a ColdFusion Dependency Injection and AOP Framework that can work with any ColdFusion framework or no framework at all.  The major features of this release are laid out below or you can read our What's New Guide for full Geeky details!

• Lots of fixes on concurrency and DI automation
• Binder declarations now take precendence over annotations
• Setter injections now allow you to declare the name of the argument used in the setter instead of by convention.

We have just launched a new version to our favorite caching engine and aggregator: CacheBox.  To read the full details and milestone news, please click on the resources below:

• Download
• Blog Release News
• Mil...

Welcome to release week! Our first release in our list is CacheBox version 1.3.1.  Here are some useful resources:

• Download
• Milestone 1.3.1
• What's new with version 1.3.1
• Read More
  CacheBox, ColdBox MVC, News, Releases

We are very happy to announce 3 training courses before this year's http://www.cfobjective.com/http://www.cfobjective.com/ in Minneapolis in May: http://coldbox.eventbrite.com/.   We will be offering the following courses side by side on May 14th - 15th and then 1 course on May 16th.  We also have special discounts for students, non-profits and CFObjective attendees.  So if you qualify on any of those categories, e-mail us at training@coldbox.org to receive your discount codes.

If you will be in the vicinity of San Francisco March 8th, then please drop by to the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group at 6:30 PM.  We will be showcasing our new ColdBox powered product, ContentBox.  So come and learn about this great new open source content management engine and how ColdBox Modules powers it!

We are incredibly excited to be going to the San Francisco ColdFusion User Group March 8, 2012.  The meeting starts at 6:30 pm and we will be reviewing, installing and configuring ContentBox!  So if you will be in the area, come out and introduce yourself.  We will have some cool stuff to give away and go over this exciting new open source ColdFu...

JSMin Compressor is a plugin that interfaces with our own flavor of JSMin to minify css and js files.  It can also compress several files of the same type into a single include, that can be cached in your ColdBox applications.  This release fixes our java parser to compress more complicated CSS3 notations correctly.

Using our compressor can be as easy as this:

#getMyPlugin("...

We are now live running our upcoming product: ContentBox.  We are so excited about migrating our entire site and now even sporting a great blog which we call our Ortus BlogBox, in tradition of our *Box products.  So please stay tuned to our blog concerning i...

Just a quick announcement that we now have finally implemented a validation engine and aggregator in ColdBox for 3.5 release.  And in true professional open source style, fully documented: http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Validation.cfm.  It has an embedded validation engine but it also allows you to use ANY validation framework within ANY ColdBox application as long as it satisfies a few interfaces.  Check out our documentation page but here is a little teaser:

Thanks to everyone who attended the talk I gave with Mike Henke @mikehenke at the Open CF Summit this weekend. 

Here are the slides from the presentation. Slides