Just a quick note, that I was impressed today to see that more than 500 downloads have been registered for ColdBox since I opened the project back in August. I am really grateful that this framework is having great response even in its infancy.

Thanks again for your support and please continue to support Open Source Projects.

Have a great X-Mas and a happy New Year. May God bless your coding brain cells and soon to be carpetunnel fingers.

I just opened the announcement of ColdBoxReader. A coldfusion based RSS reader that comes included with the ColdBox Bundle. I will be separating this project and enhancing it according to community needs. So please give your opinions and suggestions on this project. As of now, it is part of the ColdBox project and will continue in its same timeline.

The link is http://coldboxreader.riaforge.org/

So please enjoy and bring me your comments and suggestions. Ohh, by the way, here is a demo URL

http://www.luismajano.com/coldboxreader

If you have not heard this, SUN just launched Java SE 6 and made it open source!!!

WOW!!!

Open java Feature

Java SE 6

So please check it out.

This is Part I of a tutorial about the ColdBox config.xml This introduces you to the framework settings and what you can define and do in ColdBox. You can find a sample config.xml below. We will go section by section, explain what each section does, how you can use it, and maybe you can give me feedback on future versions. Also, you can find the schema documentation by using the link below:

http://luismajano.com/projects/coldbox/documents/SchemaDocs/index.html

A great place to start can also be found in the wiki:

http://trac.luismajano.com/coldbox/wiki/cbConfigGuide

On my last post, Sami Hoda, pointed out the following:

How about an architectural comparison between Coldbox and other frameworks to give existing frameworks people perspective?

And I think it is a great idea to give reference on what ColdBox can do and how does it compare to other frameworks. However, I do need some help from you (Developers) to post exactly what you want to compare. I can ramble and ramble, but I would prefer to get a listing of what exactly needs comparison. So please post all your questions about this framework and I will start gathering the answers and posting them. Please try to be specific, give examples if possible, I have not used all the frameworks out there and I am no expert on any of them, except my own, :)

Here are some questions that I came up with:

• What are ColdBox plugins?
• What is the difference between a ColdBox event handler and a Model Glue controller?
• How does model calls differ from ColdBox than Model Glue?
• How are views in ColdBox different than in Model Glue?
• Why does ColdBox have Layouts and views, while Model Glue only has views?
• Coldbox can use UDF libraries, can other framework use them?
• Do I code in my config.xml like Model Glue/Mach II in Coldbox

These are just some. So please bombard me with what needs answering, I will try my best to conjure up excellent answers.

Have a good night.

I have been deliberating whether to open the SVN repo to anonymous access so people interested in the project can actually test new builds and ideas. Since the framework has been receiving an overwhelming response and my commitment to the project has been growing and brewing. I have decided to open SVN access to the repository. Below you will find the connection information.

CAUTION: checking out the latest builds, means using bleeding edge and probably not yet tested software, use with caution

On another note, I have been giving myself a break from the development process due to the fact of me starting new employment at ESRI. However, as I am getting into a routine now, you will start to see the development process going forward.

I forgot the access info (Ooops):

svn co http://ortus.svnrepository.com/svn/coldbox/coldbox/trunk --username nightlybuild

or via https://secure.svnrepository.com/s_lmajano/coldbox/coldbox/trunk --username nightlybuild

username: nightlybuild

pass: nightlybuild

Sorry,

Luis

I recently found some great comments about a user commenting on ColdBox, why it exists, why create it, etc. I found it enlightening because, not many people have used this yet, it is fairly new to the open source community and it is my job to write more about the nature of ColdBox and using a coldfusion framework. So to introduce the article I have to note that ColdBox is another tool for web application development. Just like mach-ii and model-glue. Some people want competition and which one is the best. I do not believe in that. I believe in cooperation and finding the best solution to a problem, no matter what. I even wish that all the framework authors can join and create a solution. (Anybody listening?? A standard??) So please understand, that object oriented approaches and enterprise level application architectures will be complex and you should study upon them. Here is my article:

I just landed today in Redlands California. My new home!! I will be starting my new employment at ESRI the following week and my new adventures have just started. I landed in the afternoon and headed for my new apartments to check them out. Once I got there, man, what a dump!! It is really hard to decide on a place by just looking at pictures. I decided to get the *&(&# out of there. Panic soon ensued, my van line from Florida is arriving in three days and I have no home. I soon turned out to three locations and found a decent place. Tomorrow I go apartment scouting and hopefully find a suitable location by tomorrow.

A part from that, the area is very nice, the weather is completely amazing in comparison to Miami's hot and humid nastiness. The temperature right now is about 51 degrees and it is awesome. I can finally wear sweaters and cold weather clothes.

Anyways, just a quick post to say goodbye to 12 years of living in Miami and welcoming a new era at ESRI in Redlands, CA. I believe good things are about to happen, I am excited and can't wait to start developing!!!

Bye Bye Miami!!!

Welcome Home Redlands!!

I just recently bought my intel powered macbook pro and what a sweet machine it is. However, after some period of time of heavy usage, the machine becomes a HEATER!! The temperature revs up to almost 140 degrees farenheit and I dare anybody to place it on their laps. However, I was recently referred to a handy tool called smcFan Control. This tool will control your interior fans and you can increase the rpms on it in order to cool down the machine. It is absolutely impressive.

Here is the link:

smcFan Control

When I am working on the lap I usually keep the rpm's at around 2500 or 3000 and the machines runs sweet at only 100 degrees farenheit. When I am doing heavy compiling or encoding I rev it up to around 4000 and the machines stays cool. The only thing to watch out for is battery life. The more rev's the more juice it will require, so you decide, a burned leg or less battery life.

Hope this helps to all you new Intel Core Mac Users.

I just created the ColdBox Google Groups Mailing List. You can use it for solving issues, bugs, discussions or anything you like. Also, if you forward any messages to [email protected] and it is a valid bug it will be started as a discussion also if need be.

Here is the info:

• Group name: ColdBox: A ColdFusion Framework
• Group home page

  http://groups-beta.google.com/group/coldbox

• Group email address

  [email protected]