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An important piece of a well-performing application that can scale under load is caching.  This can (and should) be implemented at multiple levels.  CacheBox is an enterprise cache API and aggregator that can be used stand-alone and comes bundled with the ColdBox framework.  ColdBox has some nice hooks to allow you to utilize CacheBox in several ways with very little work and Event Caching is one of those ways.

Event Caching gives you the ability to cache the result o...

We are so excited to announce that you can now get your ContentBox goodness with Viviotech.  They are offering several hosting plans for ContentBox and they have great services and offerings.  So check them out!

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Thanks to everyone who came out to my presentation today on How To Be a Good Open Source Citizen.  I hope you learned a ton and are excited to start moving from a consumer to a contributor.  I, as a good citizen in training, have my slide deck out on GitHub.

You can find the code for it at https://github.com/gratzc/how-to-be-a-good-os-citizen or you can just view the presentation online at&n...

We have created a new widget for you to use to list files under the ContentBox media root called "File Listing".

Imagine if you needed to list all the pdf's in a folder, this would be the widget for you.

Forgebox Link: http://www.coldbox.org/forgebox/view/cbwidget-filelisting

GitHub Link: https://github.com/Computer-Know-how/...

We are so proud to announce another major milestone in our software, v1.5.2.  This release has definitely been a world collaboration event as we joined forces to completely update the Administrator UI and fix over 50 different tickets.  So big thanks go to Curt Gratz, Seth Engen, Brad Woord, Richard Mckenna, Joel Watson, Andrew Scott, etc.  You can find all about the release in our

We are excited to announce our first ever *BOX Party Hackathon at this year's CFObjective 2013 sponsored by Ortus Solutions and Computer Know How.  We will be holding a get together for all *BOX aficionados (WireBox, MockBox, LogBox, ColdBox, ColdBox LITE, DevBox, ContentBox, DataBoss, etc) filled with drinks, prizes and cool hacking events.  We have some awesom...

We are excited to announce our first ever *BOX Party Hackathon at this year's CFObjective 2013 in conjunction with Computer Know How.  We will be holding a get together for all *BOX aficionados (WireBox, MockBox, LogBox, ColdBox, ColdBox LITE, DevBox, ContentBox, DataBoss, etc) filled with drinks, prizes and cool hacking events.  We have some awesome geek prizes from rubik's cubes, to 80's inspired electr...

CacheBox contains a number of different cache providers ranging from EHCache to Railo's Memcached.  There is also a provider implemented in ColdFusion simply called the "CacheBox Provider" and two of it's stores are the ConcurrentStore and the ConcurrentSoftReferenceStore.  You may have wondered what the "soft reference" part means and why you would want to use it.  If that's you, here's some history and explanation.  

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Here is our video of our ContentBox connection today featuring our new responsive admin UI and so many goodies. Enjoy!