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For those CF9 fans out there, this release is fully compatible with all of the CF9 Goodness. Get it here: http://www.coldboxframework.com/index.cfm/download.

I just posted an important feature update for LogBox: Category Inheritance!

So go and get it and read about this great feature update: http://blog.coldbox.org/post.cfm/logbox-beta-2-released

I just found out that the Railo crew is giving away a free CFUnited entry ticket. So if you want to attend CFunited on somebody else's dime, now you can :)

http://www.railo.ch/blog/index.cfm/2009/7/14/Win-a-CFUnited-ticket

Just a reminder that CFUnited is just around the corner and you can still sign up for our CBOX-100 training course. So head over to the registration page and get your ColdBox Training on!!

Just a reminder that we will have our monthly CFUG at the IECFUG this Thursday. We will have Kalen Gibbons again doing his awesome Flex Workshops.

More info here: http://www.iecfug.com/post.cfm/july-meeting-new-flex-workshop

I am proud to announce that both LogBox and MockBox are in public beta in their first ever release. Both of these frameworks are part of the ColdBox Platform 3.0.0 currently under development.

As a quick review:

LogBox is an enterprise coldfusion logging library inspired by log4j but taken to a more conventions arena in true ColdBox style.

MockBox is an object mocking and stubbing framework that will blow your mind! If you are not mocking or stubbing objects in your unit tests, then you are missing out. Mocking is truly essential and sometimes the only way to do unit testing.

So what are you waiting for, download them now!

http://coldbox.org/index.cfm/download

Our July CFUG meeting is coming up shortly, and by popular demand we have

once again arranged to have Kalen Gibbons (Flex Guru) lead another hands-on workshop on Flex. For those who missed it, his first Flex workshop back in November of last year was a fantastic session, and served as a great introduction to RIA development using the Flex framework. This time around Kalen will be covering connecting to a ColdFusion back end from a Flex application.

Please see here the iecfug press release- http://www.iecfug.com

At this point we are intending to hold the meeting next Thursday, July

9th, at the regular time of 7:00 pm. It is possible that this may

change, as our sponsor at Cal Poly will be on vacation, so we are

currently trying to nail down the details of when a substitute will be

available. For the same reason, the room location for the meeting is

still undecided -- we will post the final details once they are

available.

We will have the usual pizza, soft drinks and our book raffles!! We look forward to seeing everyone there!

I am happy to say that I will be able to go to CFunited this year and do a 1 Day training on ColdBox Development. The price is just right and the facilities look great. I am super excited to be able to give this training at CFUnited, so if you have not yet registered, please do so by visiting the registration link here.

If you want more information about the training, then visit the course page here: http://www.coldboxframework.com/index.cfm/courses/cbox100

In a nutshell, you will receive the cbox-100 training materials, which are over 300 pages worth of documentation, training, exercises, resource CD, goodies, and Official ColdBox Schwag.

We have added a new FeedBack Forum to all of the ColdBox websites so it makes it easy for the community to report new features, ideas, enhancements and bugs. Not only that, but we can all vote for what features to support or build and so much more. So please check it out, by going here: http://coldbox.uservoice.com/ or just by clicking on the new feedback tabs on the sites.

It's almost time! Tomorrow night at 7:00 we are hosting a special

event: Adobe's 2009 user group tour promoting the next versions of

ColdFusion and Flex, as well as the first version of Bolt, Adobe's new IDE for developing ColdFusion applications:

More Info at http://www.iecfug.com