Quick 4.0.0 was released this past week and brought with it some welcome quality-of-life improvements, a handy new counts feature, improvements to error messages, and a bunch of squashed bugs. Although it is technically a major version change, most users will be able to upgrade with no changes to their code. Let's dive in to see what's new.
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Quick v3.0.0 Beta Available
We are excited to announce that the Quick 3.0.0 beta has been released. Come read what has changed since the alphas, what is left to do before a stable release, when to expect the stable release, and how you can help.
Quick v3.0.0 Alpha Released
It's finally here, the first alpha of Quick 3.0.0. Come read about the headline features of this next major release.
A New Template Approaches: Quick with Auth!
You know what's tedious? Authentication. Every project I start needs some sort of authentication system. And every project I start basically from scratch.
I noticed this pattern a while ago and created some libraries to help. You may have used them before.
cbauth
is a library that handles creating
user sessions for you app while giving enough customization to use different
authentication methods and session storages....
The 12 Modules of (ForgeBox) Christmas — Day 6 — qb
In the CFML scene, there seems to be two names when it comes to data
persistance plain ole' cfquery
and ORM — not much inbetween. Our module
highlight today is out to change that.
Meet qb.
See the code - How to hook into Hibernate ORM Events easily with CBORM and ColdBox
In my last post, I talked about How to hook into Hibernate ORM Events easily with CBORM and ColdBox. I talked through the what, why, how, but didn't get to the code. So this post, is going to go through the code and give you a real example you could use today to extend ContentBox's core Author module with your own function.
How to hook into Hibernate ORM Events easily with CBORM and ColdBox
I have been working for Ortus Solutions for over two years now, and still, every day I learn something new about one of our modules or tools. In one of my current customer projects, we are taking a ContentBox installation ( our Modular Content Management System built on top of ColdBox ), customizing it, extending it, and it's really fun. One of the big customizations for this projects is extending the permissions structure, outside of what we wanted to do in the ContentBox core.
ColdBox 4.0 ORM Services
ColdBox's ORM services have always been a very compelling part of the framework for those using ORM in their applications. The provide you with an automatic, extendable service layer for an ORM entity complete with common methods, pagination and really sweet syntactical sugar such as dynamic finders:
user = userService.findByLastName("Majano"); users = userService.findAllByLastLoginBetween( "01/01/2014", "01/01/2015" ); count = userService.countByLastLoginGreaterThan( "01/01/2013" );
Coldbox CBDW2013 Online Training is Available!
We are very excited to announce our second online course available for both ColdBox and ContenBox Modular CMS thanks to our annual conference CBDW2013: http://www.udemy.com/coldbox-platform-developer-week-2013/.
DataBoss - Dynamic Administrator Has Landed
We are so excited to welcome our new product in the Ortus Solutions lineup; DataBoss : Dynamic Administrator. Here is a little brief overview about DataBoss and how it can help you as a developer and also as a company. DataBoss is powered by Co...