Sana Ullah's Blog (14)

ColdBox Platform Official Training Seminars Announces Early-Bird Special Pricing for March 14-15 2008 CBOX 101- Core ColdBox Seminar in Ontario, California. Welcome to where it's sunny and warm! ColdBox Platform Official Training Seminars today announces an Early-Bird Special discount registration price of just $895 for our March 14-15th, 2009 ColdBox Platform 101 seminar to be held in Ontario, California. Registrants can take advantage of this early bird savings over the full seminar pr… Continue

ColdBox Training Seminar featuring CBOX 101 course. ColdBox team need your input to choose the venue and dates for this incredible seminar, so please fill out online survey.

The seminars will be shortly increasing in frequency and more courses will be added to them once they are fully developed. So take advantage of these… Continue

ColdBox 2.6.1 has been released. This release is mostly critical fixes but also there are many new cool features as well. Download and enjoy this new release. Some of the new features: ColdBox SideBar This nifty little toolbar lives in your application (development of course) and helps you do the following: * Reinit the framework * Open cache and profiler monitors * Dump vars * Clear the Cache * Clear Scopes * Clear th… Continue

Three different frameworks implementation at one time: . STEP1: Very important to understand webroot, cf-mapping, context-root concepts when developing applications. STEP2: MVC framework: Building application with mvc actually have two aspects. 1: This is something that totally depends on personal experience, which one would be best in terms of how much knowledge we have for a good/solid implementation. 2: Developer's who are trying to learn and implement any MVC framewo… Continue

As previously announced, ColdBox is in the midst of a transition from an Open Source Software project to a Professional Open Source Software project. It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce yet another step in this transition: a new strategic partnership between Ortus Solutions, Corp and Rachel Queen Services Group, LLC, which will oversee ColdBox Platform Official Training Seminar… Continue

ColdBox RC2 released, its one of the most comprehensive and feature rich release. The ColdBox Platform: The following diagram shows the ColdBox Platform and all of its components. This gives you a better understanding of how ColdBox is not a mere MVC framework but an application platform and a set of developer tools.

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Just for information if you don't know that ColdBox v2.6.0 RC1 been released. You can download from here. Every single iteration of code-base have really great features and amazing performance. Please check the new features list on ColdBox wiki or just click on this link Click Here Continue

We have many open source ColdFusion projects; each one is growing very slowly. Why...? because developers behind these projects are full time employee or they run their own business. So simply imagine what development progress could be in these circumstances. 1: The biggest issue at the moment is that how to get things done more quickly! 2: Many similar open source project coming along. So why not start combining our efforts for much better products/projects and rather creating new simi… Continue

ColdBox is the first framework to support integrated Unit Testing of the entire application.Test-driven development would help to build software better and stable code base. I know the test-driven development track is bit complicated and rough route. Most of CF developers mind-set is completely different from test driven development, so initially this will take some time to understand and implement. I would like to suggest to start learning unit-testing, carry on your development as usu… Continue

Luis Majano has released ColdBox v2.6 Beta. You can download from here. Most importantly this release has really great features and amazing performance. Please check the new features list on ColdBox wiki or just click on this link Click Here Continue

ColdBox always on top for offering great feature, which really makes development fast and easy. ColdBox provide extremely powerful caching mechanism for applications. You can cache objects, queries, structure, arrays, html result set... simply anything you like. syntax is very simple to set/get things from cache. getColdboxOCM().set("NameOf" , value) getColdboxOCM().get("NameOf" ) One thing is very important that coldbox cache is based on java soft reference, (which are cleared at the… Continue

ColdBox as usual provide great tool. Cookie Plugin is really cool, you can store complex values in cookies and also coldbox will encrypt the values for you by just enabling encryption setting . Just a simple one line of code does all this magic for you. I know its not a rocket science but to be honest the cookie plugin is nearly 200 lines of code but does really amazing job. As these kind of features are supported by community developers which solidify the concept and code.… Continue

ColdBox as always offer great tools to deal with complex situations and really helpful in solve our problem so efficiently in a elegant way. I was stuck with multiple queries. In my situation we have 3 three different queries and was looking way to combine them for final output. As coldfusion query-of-query does not support inner-joins, outer-joins. But ColdBox queryHelper plugin is really amazing, it provides great methods to handle inner-join, outer-join and many more features......… Continue

ColdBox provide such a neat implementation of SES (search engine friendly url). All you have to do to build your application without worrying about which web-server is going to be deployed. Web-server could be Apache, IIS but your application will have full scale capability of SES stuff handling. You can specify route like this /blog/:month/:year (alphanumeric) OR /entry/:month-numeric/:year-numeric (only for numeric values). coldbox provide full detail of each feature; you may a quick look.… Continue