Charlie has written a nice intro of our first IECFUG meeting that is finally taking place here in Southern California. If you live in the LA area or surrounding area, this will be a great group for you to join and discuss CF to your heart's content. If you are a speaker or want to be a speaker, contact us via our mailing list or at [email protected]

when:	friday, july 6 / 7:00pm
where:	cal poly pomona 98C 4-27
what:	seeing as how it's our inaugural meeting, we'll briefly discuss some of the overall goals of the group. but the big news is... railo!  the railo team will be in town to talk about the railo CFML engine.  how does it differ from ColdFusion?  how is it the same?  why you should take some time to evaluate it. have you already used it, but have questions?  they'll be more than happy to answer.

Thanks go to Sami and Charlie for making this possible.

I love Transfer!! I have been using it to the max in all my projects and now I found it an undisspensable tool for my software development. If you have not checked out this incredible ORM, please do. Since I am using it so much, I decided to host the docs on my site for easy access, hope this is ok with you Mark?

Just point your browser to: http://www.luismajano.com/transfer/documentation/ and you can read to your eyes content.

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Finally, Oscar Arevalo of Home Portals, ColdBox Reader and a constant ColdBox contributor is finally blogging. So welcome to the blogosphere Oscar, and put out some of your usual funky topics.

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!!

The ColdBox Dashboard application is now fully functional on Railo 2.0RC and will be distributed as the Railo Archive is prepared for it. As of now, Railo fans will have to wait somewhat for the inclusion of the archive. So please bear with me as the Archive is included. As of now, the dashboard is compiled to work on Adobe ColdFusion 7 & 8, and BlueDragon 6 and 7.

Thanks

Well, yet another ColdBox release!! This one is an exciting one as we approach the 2.1.0 release. More unit testing capabilities, less restrictions, more fixes and more great stuff. This release thanks to God's grace on permitting me do thing I though I could not do. So here is the list of fixes, features and updates. Ohh by the way, a whole new Dashboard is also release, version 2.2.0 with full Railo support, more application generation capabilities, BlueDragon 7 support, and more.

ColdBox 2.0.2

* Full Railo 2.0 Support

* Full BlueDragon 7 support

* Application Template updated with new Unit Testing Suites, and new base unit test handler.

* New and Updated Eclipse Snippets with unit test skeletons.

* Docs updated to reflect changes

* Discovery of CFML engine and version and store in ColdBoxSettings

* BlueDragon 7 Charting - Enable for OCM

* Samples Gallery updated with i18n Fixes.

* Logger plugin compliance to coldfusion 8 eclipse plugins.

* Customizable event variable name via config.xml, no more only 'event' you can now choose your own.

* ExceptionService - if custom bug report fails, error calling exception handler Fixed.

* Unit Testing Controller, Base Test And Test Suites,You can even use the setnextevent method now.

* Request Context - New Methods for DefaultLayout, DefaultView, and ViewLayouts

* BugReport use new event methods for reporting.

* Default View Setting alongside Default Layout, you can now also choose a default view.

* IncludeUDF() method for handlers/Plugins - You can now programmatically mix-in methods into any handler and plugin. Advanced OO features.

* Critical Fix for Concurrency issue on config reloads

* Concurrency locks for OCM - friendlier locks

* ColdSpring ColdBox Proxy Factory: ColdboxFactory.cfc, you can now use this factory in your coldspring declarations to get a reference to the current running coldbox controller, instantiate plugins, and configuration beans.

* setnextEvent - proxy updates to grab the last part of the cgi script_name Fix

* ColdBox OCM - expireAll() new method, will expire all objects in the cache.

* Code optimization and cleanup.

* Now includes a cheat sheet.

As you can see, action-packed like always.

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Dashboard 2.2.0

* New Application generator, with unit test suites, event names and much more.

* Railo support finalized, will be released later as a railo archive.

* Cosmetic additions

* Cleanup and optimization.

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As always, thank you for your support. Please support open source. You can download the bits from the Downloads location.

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I have been working with Charlie Griefer as co-manager of the IECFUG to get it started and he has named me Manager as he will be leaving us soon, just when it starts to get interesting. Anyways, thanks to Sami Hoda's contact at Cali Poly University, we have been

assured a room to hold our CFUG meetings starting on July 6th, 2007

with the crew from Railo CFML engine, http://www.railo.ch. They will

be here from Germany to demonstrate Railo and all its features. It

will also be a great meeting to get our CFUG organized, see what

direction we want to take and the presentations we would like to see.

Hope to see you there and get the first official IECFUG off the

ground.

The Pomona location is a great central location for both the IE and LA area. So if you are in the LA area and not part of the IECFUG mailing list or considering where to go, please go do so by registering via the mailing list.

Regards,

Luis Majano

I have been using more and more cfcUnit and find it really essential now. So I have uploaded the documentation to my site for easy reference that anybody can get access to.

Just point your browser to: http://www.luismajano.com/cfcunit/documentation and you can read to your eyes content.