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I just realized that I got nominated to speak at the Frameworks Conference in DC in February. So if you really support ColdBox and would like a ColdBox 101 session for this conference, then go to the link below and vote for me.

http://www.frameworksconference.com/survey.cfm

Thanks again for your ColdBox support.

I have just updated my ColdBox RSS Reader in order for users to update their profile and request new passwords. So now you can change your password and update your email address. So please head over there:

ColdBox Reader

And update your profile or if you do not have a profile, then create one and start sharing your feeds.

By the way, it is running on ColdBox 1.1.0

Luis

Finally,

I have just updated the site to hold the latest release 1.1.0. This is a major upgrade thanks to all the feedback on the 1.0.2 version. It includes tons of fixes and more aspect programming. You can download it as usual from the projects sections

Download ColdBox

What is New?

Well, a lot!! JEJEJE. Here is some of the new features and capabilities.

• Varscoper Checks, Code Optimization and cleanup.
• Global Server Installation Method.
• CFMX 6.X & BlueDragon are now fully Supported.
• Datasources support via config.xml. You can now use the getDatasource("name") in the

  event handlers/plugins to retrieve a datsource bean.

• Mail Settings bean support. You can now use the getMailSettings() to retreive it.
• Messagebox.render(clearFlag) now has a clearFlag in order to clear or not, the message

  structure after rendering.

• Eventhandler.cfc code optimization, no longer need of writing an init method.

  PLEASE REMOVE THEM unless you have any code that needs to be executed every time

  an event is called. Look at:

  http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/cbEventHandlersGuide

• Renderview can now accept a view name as a parameter. You can then render a view

  anywhere you want, layouts, within views, event handlers, etc, and as content variables.

  renderView("myTags/main_menu")

• New Plugins: FileWriter & StringBuffer
• Framework/Application extensions via custom plugins, declared in config.xml.cfm
• Coldbox Logging Facilities: ColdBox now provides you with a per application

  logging facility for errors and custom (error|fatal|information|warning) entries by

  simplify filling out two settings in your config.xml and using the logger plugin.

• Event Handlers/Plugins now have a "rc" scope available, that is a direct line to the request collection.
• New Method: paramValue("var name","default") same as cfparam but for the request collection.
• cfcViewer plugin was revised. You can now use it to render documentation with any

  stylesheet.

• New i18n and Resource Bundles Plugins based on Paul Hastings work.
• ATTESORO JAVA RESOURCE BUNDLES UTILITY IS INCLUDED.
• New Method: getSettingStructure( structure, deep_copy_flag ) Retrieves the entire configStruct

  or the fwSettingsStructure.

• Mapping of Exception Types: http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/cbExceptionsList
• Check out the latest API: http://www.coldboxframework.com/documents/cfdocs/index.cfm
• New Dashboard (Will be release later)
• Eclipse Snippets
• New sample applications: i18n Gallery, samples gallery, coldboxreader, Illidium CFC Generator

You can also check out the progress of the new ColdBox Dashboard which will be used to maintan a ColdBox installation, tool sets, logging and auditing for all your framework enabled applications, auto-updates and more.

Open Dashboard Here

The default password to use is "coldbox"

So welcome to a new era for ColdBox, where it will continue to move towards a pure event driven framework, based on proven design patterns and help you achieve more in less time and with no complex XML dialects. So give it a try. Post here all your comments, questions and suggestions.

The offical bug email is [email protected], or you can report them to the forums.

I won't be going this year to MAX, due to me starting a new job at ESRI the coming month. SO you won't be able to drill me with questions about ColdBox. However, Oscar Arevalo is on its way as the representative of Home Portals (www.homeportals.net) and ColdBox. He is part of the ColdBox team, so if you see him at the conference, ask him!! He has the latest copy of 1.1.0 preview, so if you are interested, you can bump a copy from him. Sorry Oscar!!

Anyways, enjoy the conference and looking forward to reading your reports.

I am an Uncle today,

Nicolas Majano Larrea was born today at South Miami Hospital!! I am extremely happy, I can't imagine when it will be my very own son!

In preparation for the 1.1.0 release of ColdBox, I am writing documentation like crazy so I can help developers understand more on how to use this framework. I have just finished all of the Guides and a new section which actually lists all the thrown exceptions by the framework.

You can take a look at the list here:

Exceptions List

Guides:

Guides

FAQ

FAQ

So please check out the Trac wiki for all the updated documentation and all the features that will be on 1.1.0. Again, if you have any questions on why use the framework, differences, or your experience with ColdBox, please post it in the comments. All your questions please, so I can add them to the FAQ.

If you have any good articles about your experience with ColdBox, please send them to me, so I can add them to the Articles section of the wiki.

If you have no idea what ColdBox is? Well please READ!!!

If you also have some public projects that you want to showcase, please send me the URL, so I can post them in the wiki section for it.

Thanks again for your support.

This post is dedicated to the Sandals development team since I have place my resignation last week. I will be moving to better and more distant fields at ESRI in Redlands, California.

I excited to announce that I have accepted a senior web development position at ESRI (www.esri.com) The Geoghraphical software giants, and will be starting mid-November. I am truly excited to start work at this great company and with so many great engineers. I hope they like ColdBox!! jejeje :)

I thank Sandals for all the time they gave me, the opportunity to shine and bring forward more Object Oriented Coldfusion than they ever imagined possible. Thanks for this great 4 years where I have grown and learned.

I guess I have a cool new governor, ARNOLD!!

Adiue Sandals!!

I have deployed the latest build of the 1.1.0 release to my website and now providing the backbone for this blog, the forums, and ColdBox Reader.

This post is to showcase ColdBox Reader. It is a web 2.0 application built using ColdBox and Ajax interactions. You can start checking it out here:

ColdBox Reader

This is a shared rss reader that will captivate your mind. Here is a screenshot of the application:

So please check it out and see how ColdBox can work for you. More updates are coming, so stay posted.

Are your developers demotivated? Burned out? Too much work? Too much of the same thing over and over again. Well, welcome to Developer Friday!!!

This is the day we came up with my superior of a way to stimulate diversity, learning and fun for the developers, at least once a week. Our developers can work on personal projects or just learning projects every friday. As long as there are not any pending deadlines, production issues or overwhelming issues.

This has been phenomenal. We have developers learning Flex, creating new web 2.0 apps, showing off their personal projects, and basically promoting learning and a little bit of FUN!!

So managers, listen if you dare!! I did!! and it has paid off. We have been getting the best ideas every friday now. New techniques, getting to play around with new frameworks, specially ColdBox (had to throw the marketing here) which is AWESOME, coldspring, etc.

To tell you the truth, if it were not for this day, I will have not begun to play around with coldspring, which I am a total newbie and need to start learning it so I can extend it for ColdBox.

This is my testimony and it has really improved the learning environment. So developers out there, bother your managers and bother them again, so you can have one day of the week to learn and inspire.

I am just announcing that I bought www.coldboxframework.com and www.coldboxframework.org. and they will soon begin to show some life. I also have prepared my new Trac site hosted by SVN Repository which is truly awesome.

Soon I will be releasing the read only access to the SVN repository and let people play around with the upcoming 1.1.0 release. (More on this below)

The new address for the Trac site is: http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi

So what will the 1.1.0 release include? Why use it? why why why? Well, I have been taking all the feedback from the previous releases, tested, tested, and more tested, and came up with a leaner and meaner framework. All thanks to the great feedback for a framework that has been released to the public not so long ago, but been used privately for more than a year now.

The main question that people had asked about the framework is why should you use it and what is the difference with what is out there already: Fusebox, mach-ii, model-glue, etc. Well here are some answers for you that will shed light on the subject and prepare you for what is coming along.