ColdBox Training at CFUnited 2009


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.





What do you want in ColdBox?


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.





ColdFusion/Flex Tour Tomorrow at the IECFUG!


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:

Continuing a long tradition of innovation, Adobe is pushing the boundaries of the Adobe Flash Platform with exciting new releases for Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion designers, developers, and administrators. Join us as Adobe’s Josh Adams presents the future of ColdFusion, Flex, and more! On the ColdFusion side, Josh will talk about the upcoming releases of ColdFusion (currently known by the code name Centaur) and the highly anticipated first ColdFusion IDE from Adobe (currently known by the code name Bolt). You’ll learn about exciting new features and discover how Centaur and Bolt will accelerate your ColdFusion application development. On the Flex side, Josh will talk about the next release of Flex (currently known by the code name Gumbo). You’ll see product feature demos and learn how Gumbo breaks new ground for not only developers but also designers as it powers the design, development, and testing of rich Internet applications and content. And of course, Josh will explain and demonstrate the power of ColdFusion and the power of Flex working together!

We're pulling out all the stops for this event, so there will be plenty of food and drink, swag to give away, and also a raffle for a software license, where the lucky winner can choose from a number of valuable products, including the Creative Suite 4 Premium bundles, Flex Builder 3 Professional and ColdFusion 8 Standard.

Please note that this event will be held in a different room than our usual location for our meetings. This time out we will be in room P2-7 of building 98 (the C/L/A building), the meeting room for Cal Poly's Academic Senate (item #20 on the second page linked below):

http://www.csupomona.edu/map/campus/building/bldg_098.shtml

http://www.csupomona.edu/map/cla/second.html

As school is not in session this week, no parking passes should be required to park in student lots -- just avoid anything that is labeled as faculty or staff parking.





MockBox: The mocking/stubbing framework by ColdBox


We just announce our new addition to the ColdBox Platform as development continues for version 3.0 scheduled by the end of the year. This is the first standalone package ColdBox Offers and you can read all about it here: http://blog.coldbox.org/post.cfm/introducing-mockbox-the-coldbox-mocking-framework





ColdFusion/Flex User Group Tour at the Inland Empire!!


This is a reminder that next week Tuesday we will be hosting Josh Adams from Adobe as they kick off another Adobe Centaur and Flex Tour. You can read all about our events here: http://www.iecfug.com/post.cfm/coldfusion-flex-user-group-tour.

It promises to be a night of great raffles, networking and fun!! Hope to see you there!





ColdBox releases GroovyLaoder version 2.0


You can check out all the details about the new version of the GroovyLoader project. For those who don't know what ColdBox Projects are,well, they are a set of tools external to the core based on plugins, interceptors, modules, etc that can be downloaded and easily installed in any ColdBox application. If you haven't checked them out, I encourage you to do so by downloading them from the extras download section.

This version of the groovy loader helps you interact with the library more closely by having multiple locations for not only groovy scripts/classes, but also java libraries. You can also integrate the entire groovy runtime in your coldbox applications by using a single configuration interceptor called the GroovyStarter interceptor. 3 lines and you are swinging to the groove!!




 


ColdBox 2.6.3 : RENEWED