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Sana Ullah, from Team ColdBox, started this project a while back and it has gotten quite some tracking that we are now releasing a 1.0 of this extension for Adobe ColdFusion Builder. If you do not know that we now have ...

I got word today after leaving CFUnited to come back to California that ColdBox was announced as The Open Source Project of the Year by the Community Achievement Awards!  I am super excited and happy about this award and you can see the recording here:

It has been a long road and we are proud to announce our first beta of our 3.0.0 line for ColdBox.  There are over 192 closed issues corresponding to enhancements, fixes and tasks for this first beta release.  We have created several upgrade guides and what's new guide to get you started with this new release.  All of the new features have not been documented fully, but will be soon as development continues.  The major updates as we have been seeing is the modularization of i...

I just posted the CFUnited ColdBox Presentation: More Than MVC in our presentations wiki:
http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/cbMediaPresentations#ColdBoxPlatform:MorethanMVCAug122009

I also added the source code shown and also a complete source code example for downloading.  Enjoy!

New update to LogBox is out today in preparation for a final 1.0 release. You can download it from the main download page. This update includes the following:

Ability to get a logger using a class object instead of a category name:

<cfset logger = logBox.getLogger(this)>

LogBox will then inspect the object and get its fully qualified name from it.  This is great instead of passing th...

I have been pondering in doing another 2-Day Training Seminar in either late October or early November.  I am still indecisive in the location, but I have narrowed it down to 3 cities:

1. Los Angeles & Vicinity
   
2. Dallas
3. Houston

If you would like to attend to this 2 day intensive ColdBox training, please leave a comment and choose your city.  The curriculum for this class can be found here:

CFUnited 2009 is coming up REAL FAST and we still have seats available for ColdBox Training.  This is a full day of ColdBox training that will blow your socks off.  You don't want to miss this!  The course is CBOX-100 and you can find more information about it here.

Bob Silverberg just announced the availability of a ColdBox plugin for interacting with his Validate This! framework!  I highly encourage you to test drive Validate This as it is truly an awesome validation framework.  He not only did the plugin but adapted a sample application to work with it.

So if you are still trying to determine validation and want an easy and great solution, give ValidateThis a shot!  Here are some links for you:

• Bob's Blog Post:
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I have been asked quite a few times why not make a ColdBox lite version where you can only have the basics?  Well, not many people now that this already exists.  Therefore, I am linking to the SimpleMVC template you can use if you are just starting with ColdBox.  This template is just the basic ColdBox conventions and a few settings, that's it. This template will ease you in to ColdBox MVC development.  Once you are comfortable with just the basics of how to build apps with conventions you can always add on and start brining in extra features from the Coldbox Platform like: caching, logging, AOP, interceptors, feed integrations, security, etc.  However, you won't feel as intimidated as if you where starting with a huge settings file.

The reason of having all the settings listed out is to tell the developer that there are all these settings you can use.  It is also hard to create templates when everybody's level and approach is different.  However, this can be overwhelming to entry level users, therefore we are now including the SimpleMVC template in the coldbox downloads to come or you can download it from here now: http://www.coldbox.org/downloads/simpleMVC.zip (3.0 template)

So let's do a simple ColdBox for Newbies guide:

Thanks to Elite Open Source Jobs (http://www.eliteopensourcejobs.com/), we are now online to offer jobs to the ColdBox community.  We are just starting today so there are no job postings as of now, but I encourage any company, developer or manager out there to please check this post out and continue reading.