Jason Dean has started a very nice, concise and well documented tutorial series on using ColdBox. I have added his series to the ColdBox wiki also. This is a great resource, so keep up the good work Jason!!

Are you running ColdBox in your company, applications or sites? If you do, we would appreciate it if you submit them to us via our online form or just email us to [email protected].

You can also send us a logo and url of your company and we will showcase it in our "Who Uses ColdBox" page of our website.

So please take 1 minute of your time and submit your projects.

The ColdBox Training Seminar is next week in Dallas, Texas. If you have not registered yet for it, you can still do. This is the last week you can register for the training, so I urge you to do so.

The training materials look amazing and we will surely have a great time. See you there.

I am back from vacation, what an incredible vacation. I toured most of turkey and it was an amazing experience. Turkey is an incredibly beautiful country!

Anyways, I am back to the grind and should be coding like a more relaxed maniac now :)

This is just a note that I am out for a well deserved vacation to Paris and then off to Turkey. ColdBox will be on my mind, but hopefully for not very long (the wife might beat me up). We will be doing an entire tour of Turkey and visit its majestic locations! We are incredible excited to be able to go and learn about Turkey.

Paris is just a stop over, so we will only have two days to drink the wine, eat the croissants and visit the sites. Ahh paris!!

Anyways, please don't bother me, no development for 2 weeks, wohoo!!

Thanks!!

The early bird pricing for ColdBox Training Seminar for CBOX:101 ends this Sunday August 31st at 11:59:00 PM Pacific Time. So if you have not registered for the training seminar, do so now and save over $200!.

The winner of ColdBox training is: Conrad Davis!!

We did a raffle and the following are the results:

1) Conrad Davis (Winner)

2) Charlie Griefer (Runner Up)

3) Dave Schuck (2nd Runner Up)

I have emailed all three participants as Conrad has the first bid for the training. If he does not answer that he will be going by Tomorrow at 5PM pacific, then the winner becomes runner up 2, Charlie Griefer. If charlie does not answer by Saturday at 5PM pacific, then Dave Shuck becomes the winner.

Congratulations Conrad, you are a proud owner of ColdBox Training for CBOX:101 this October 4-5th in Dallas, Texas

I just had a crash on my iPhone, how rare, and it would not start up again. I would reset it by holding the home plus the power/sleep button for like 5 seconds and the Apple logo would show but nothing more. It stays there and does NOTHING!!!

I restart the phone and then it does not start no matter what.

I freaked out and went to the Apple store, just so they would not attend me because they are so full.

Finally, I did the following.

1) Turn it off by using the home plus power/sleep button.

2) Hit the home button and hold

3) Connect it to your PC/MAC

4) iTunes starts up and tells you after 10 seconds of holding that it detected an iPhone ready for restore.

5) Hit restore

6) Wait until it restores

7) Shout with SANITY!!

Follows these steps and you can revive your iPhone, without going to the Apple store and waiting for a MAC GENIUS (yea right!!) to do this.

Just so you know, ColdBox is getting into the Twitter flow: http://twitter.com/coldbox

The submission date has been extended until Wednesday 27th at 5pm pacific time. The winner will be announced the following day August 28th. You can download the contest rules to see the updates if you want.

Here is a snippet of a submission I got today, totally hilarious:

Dear Santa, I don't mean to sound ungrateful for the gifts that I've received over the years. The toy train set was great in 1976. My Atari 2600 was awesome in 1980. And who could forget the subscriptions to Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Oui, and Reader's Digest. Good times.

But lately man: the presents have kind of sucked. 2006, I got a tie. A freakin' tie? I'm a programmer. 2007 was the month's supply of Rogaine. I understand the motivation there, but couldn't you have tested that on a bald elf first? Doesn't work.

This year I'm asking for an early gift. Luis and Matt are offering the gift of free ColdBox training.

If you could lend a hand and make that happen, I'll overlook the debacle of 2006's gift (really? A book on ASP.NET?), and that one year I saw you kissing my mom.