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I have been doing some maintenance, bug fixes, and small additions that deserve a small maintenance release. I have updated the trac site to reflect this and will soon post this new update.

A big thanks goes to Dr. Rob Gonda, for pointing out some very nice improvements!!

Thanks again to all who attended the presso. More good stuff coming sooon!!

If you downloaded the Dashboard and are having problems with the client variables error, then don't worry, its just the clientmanagement setting to true that throws it. I have attached an Application.cfc for you that you can use instead. The next release will include an uncompiled Application.cfc

Sorry for this...

I just finished today my first presso with CFframeworks on ColdBox and man what an ordeal. The Adobe Connect completely failed on my Mac and rendered it useless. So I had to scramble to export the keynote to powerpoint, copy some files to my PC and try to get something going. So I truly apologize for not sticking to the entire agenda, but technical problems ensued. The worst thing is that I did not have a mic for the PC, so I hijacked a pair of earphones and use that as a microphone, Electrical Engineering 101!!

So overall, at least I had something to show from the PC!! I though I never would have said this, but thank you PC for behaving!!

Hopefully the next one will work on my Mac and all the samples I had. Anyways, I will be posting some scaffolding templates and try to record it.

If anybody wants to donate iShowU I will create more recordings and post them up. Brief tutorials on several features. So please help out.

Anyways, here is the link for the "Incredible" Presso

http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p70636895/

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Just a reminder that tomorrow I will be holding a ColdBox worshop over with CFFrameworks.com. The time is 12PM Pacific (GMT -8). THe link for the URL is below:

http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/coldbox/

So please attend and find out more about this great framework.

The download has been updated with the correct files. For some reason I had overwritten the download with the Railo archives. However, the zip file has been updated and now you can download the good stuff. The zip file also includes now a coldbox.ras file in the install folder which is the Railo Archive of the framework.

Here is a basic script of what will be covered in the CFFRameworks workshop on July 18th. This script might change if it is too much to cover or not. I will be updating it as I go forward with it.

• ColdBox "Down & Dirty" Presentation

1. Introduction

1. Who am I?
2. What is ColdBox?
3. Why ColdBox?

2. Novel Features of ColdBox

1. Documentation
   

2. Code Controllers

1. Handler Packages
   

3. Custom Conventions
4. Debugging Panel
5. ColdBox Caching
6. Unit Testing
7. ColdBox Dashboard
8. Software Aspects via Configuration
9. Plugins

3. Installing ColdBox
   

1. Download from website
2. Show Installation Instructions & Overview
   

3. Unpack Archive
4. Explain the Archive, what it contains
   

5. Move to webroot
   

6. Fire up the samples gallery

1. Hello World
2. Login App
3. ColdBox Reader
   

4. Explain other apps
   

4. Installing CFEclipse ColdBox Dictionary
5. Fire Up Eclipse
6. Application Template Overview

1. Conventions Explained
   

2. Config.xml & Configurations
3. Handlers
4. Layouts
5. Views
   

7. Showcase the tag insights

1. Modify a Handler
2. Modify a View
   

8. Showcase the CFFrameworks Plugin
9. ColdBox Dashboard

1. Quick Overview
2. Application Generation: MyBlog

1. Generate Application
2. Open Application
3. Show Unit Tests
4. Import into Eclipse
5. Show Unit Tests within eclipse
6. Scaffolding via Illidium

1. Show entries Table
2. Create entries generation
3. Show users Table
4. Create users generation
5. Create a datasource in the config.xml via plugin
   

6. Modify coldspring.xml to include datasource alias
7. Open Unit Tests & Modify Paths.
8. Fire up the entries list & create an entry.
9. Fire up the users list & create an entry

10. Create a second entry
11. Show sorting via queryHelper
12. Show delete
13. Show Validation

10. Summary

This might be a little late and silent, but thanks to Mark Drew and his insatiable coding skills we received a few days ago CFEclipse 1.3.1.5 and with it an update to the CFFrameworks Plugin which includes support for ColdBox. This support is to visually see and maintain the ColdBox configuration file. You can view all of your settings and aspects, very nice indeed.

So I want to thank Mark Drew for including my icons, actions and all to support ColdBox on this incredible plugin and if you have not donated or given your support to CFEclipse, please do so now!!. If you are not familiar with this plugin, visit the CFEclipse website and head over to the TV section.

Thanks to the guys over at CFFrameworks.com, I will be doing my first ever workshop and presentation about ColdBox. The title for this workshop is "Down & Dirty with ColdBox".

When: Wednesday, 18th July, 2007 @ 7:00pm PM GMT (2:00pm EST)

Please register your interest online here.

The URL for the event is: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/coldbox

I will cover the basics and the whys behind ColdBox, installation, goodies, eclipse integration, code generation and more. I just send a script of the presentation to the CFFramework's guys, so they should post it soon.

Happy 4th of July!!

And to commemorate this great holiday, why not have a surprise features. Yes, CFEclipse tag insight, function and scope insight for ColdBox. You can now have insight into the major scopes of ColdBox like event, rc, controller and also all the methods that are used in event handlers, plugins, layouts and views. WOW!! A handy way of coding, and much much faster.

Is this awesome or what!! This will help your development as you can see the latest syntax for the major components of ColdBox. All you need to do, is download the dictionary and follow the instructions found at http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/cbCFEclipseDictionary

That is it, you will now have function and scope insight right from CFEclipse.

I HAVE UPDATED THE DISTRIBUTION ZIP FILE TO INCLUDE THE CFECLIPSE DICTIONARY

I just updated the previous unit testing guide over at the Trac site with a much more in depth overview of unit testing in ColdBox. It covers on how ColdBox does unit testing for your handlers, how you can create unit tests, unit test suites, how to integrate to Sean Corfields' cfcUnit facade to CFEclipse's CFUnit plugin and much more. In depth with Pictures, for those fellows that like pictures better than words!!

Overall, in ColdBox you can create unit tests for your event handlers, which are your application's events. You can then test the entire application without rendering any HTML. This is the first time you can unit test you entire application via events and Coldbox is the first framework to bring it to you. This helps like you have no idea!! TEST TEST TEST!! No more excuses and if it weren't that easy, the ColdBox Dashboard, when you generate an application, it will also generate the unit tests for the application. So all you have to do is fill in the blank!! Come on, is that easy!! Give it a try!!