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If you are in the bay area, you need to attend your CFUG tonight. I will be presenting on ColdBox 3.0 Beta and demoing some cool apps. If you can't make it, then connect online at: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/bacfug2009/ today around 6:45PM Pacific. See you then.

We will be doing a ColdBox workshop tonight at the IECFUG. This workshop will focus on ColdBox 3.0.0 (Beta) and ColdFusion 9 ORM capabilities. If you cannot attend in person you can connect online tonight at around 7:15 PM Pacific Time.

http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/r70838787/

For those who don't know, we meet at Cal Poly Pomona and all the information can be found in our iecfug website.

Tonight I will be presenting at the Dallas User Group on ColdBox and demoing some 3.0.0 Goodness. So if you have time today around 5PM Pacific time, here are the details:

Meeting Name: DFWCFUG - ColdBox with Luis Majano

When: 10/13/2009 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US and Canada)

To join the meeting:

http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/dfwcfug-coldbox/

Do you want a ColdBox training discount for our Amsterdam Training this month? Then all you need to do is follow @coldbox and tweet the following:

RT @coldbox: Coldbox Amsterdam training discount offer, get your training on!

The first 10 people who do will receive a Direct Message with the discount code for a very hefty discount valid for a limited time only. Remember that this discount is only valid for people who have NOT purchased the training already. These discounts don't come often, so take advantage.

Do you want a ColdBox training discount for our Dallas Training in November? Then all you need to do is follow @coldbox and tweet the following:

RT @coldbox: Coldbox training discount offer, Just retweet & the first 10 get a hefty discount code valid until Friday.

The first 10 people who do will receive a Direct Message with the discount code for a very hefty discount valid for purchase until Friday at 11 PM Pacific Standard Time. So get tweeting!

ColdBox team has just announce a 3 Day training in Amsterdam. Check the press release out and register for this event.

The ColdBox team has just announced a new ColdBox Training Seminar in Dallas, Texas for November 14th-15th. So check the press release out: http://blog.coldboxframework.com/post.cfm/coldbox-training-in-dallas-are-you-ready.

This training will cover the CBOX-101 2 day course with insight into ColdBox 3.0.0.

Sana Ullah, from Team ColdBox, started this project a while back and it has gotten quite some traction that we are now releasing a 1.0 of this extension for Adobe ColdFusion Builder.

If you do not know that we now have a ColdFusion IDE then you have been living under a rock. Anyways, you can get the beta of Adobe ColdFusion Builder first and then follow to install our ColdBox Platform Utilities extension.

Our ColdFusion Builder extension can generate 3 custom coldbox templates and you can even extend it to create your own layouts. It comes packaged with three layouts: Advanced, Simple and Flex ColdBox templates.

You can then generate handlers, interceptors, plugins, model objects, views and so much more. You can even choose between tag based and full cfscript syntax.

Are you getting this error:

Cannot lock session scope.

CFLock cannot be used to lock the application or session shared scopes without these scopes being established through the use of the CFApplication tag. If you want to use the session scope you need to enable session management. Application and/or Session variables must also be enabled in the ColdFusion Administrator.

Most likely you either do not have sessionmanagement enabled in your Application.cfm or Application.cfc or you are trying to use a session lock within your onApplicationStart() method of Application.cfc.

This is a reminder and a gotcha that session scope does not exist until onApplicationStart() finishes executing. The interesting thing also, is that in Railo 3.1 session does exist!

Anyways, beware the lock of session or acessing session from onApplicationStart().

I read to my delight today on the plane that the Community Awards at Cfunited had voted ColdBox as the best open source project of the year. This is like an Oscar to me :)

Anyways, you can find the recording and presentation here:

http://cfsilence.com/blog/client/index.cfm/2009/8/13/2009-Community-Achievement-Award-Winners

This recognition is thanks to God's wisdom in this project and His guidance. Thanks to the team, community efforts and contributions!!