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I have been using criteria queries in favor of HQL queries quite a bit latley, so I thought  I would do a quick post of what a query would look like in HQL and then the same query written as a criteria query.

Some of the reasons I like to use criteria queries are

• Readablity
• No building up query strings and concatenating them to build a complex query
• Powerful Object Oriented API

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There are only 15 days to our ColdBox Trainings in Dallas, Texas before the Open CF Summit and we are holding a sale extravaganza as we need to fill out our seats.  So here are $350 dollars off the regular price! So just for $645 attend our 2 days courses!  But hurry as the sale ends soon!

 

Welcome to our first ColdBox Boot Camp in Europe.  A glorious 5 day training boot camp featuring our most popular courses and our latest upcoming release ColdBox Platform 3.5.0.  All 3 courses will be delivered by Luis Majano, creator of the ColdBox Platform.

A nice short video of how to start with the ColdBox FileBrowser module:

A big thanks to Curt Gratz on his awesome efforts and collaboration on this project.  The ColdBox FileBrowser module is now available for mass consumption and is a front-runner in ContentBox for media management and integration with CKEditor.

So what is FileBrowser? FileBrowser is a ColdBox Module that will enable file management capabilities in your applications.  It can also act as a file or directory chooser and has full integration with

Here is the recording for our presentation today on ContentBox: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p2teycibat3/

To start our 2012 ColdBox Connection schedule right, we will be showcasing a first look at ContentBox this Thursday January 19th, 2012 at our usual time: 10AM Pacific Standard Time in our usual channel: 

Thanks to Tim Cunningham for hosting me at one of his awesome Bolt Talks.  In this bolt talk we have a chat about our newest adventure: ContentBox!

Thanks to Scott Coldwell we are releasing a new version of our JSMin compressor plugin for JS and CSS files for ColdBox.  As usual, you can install this latest release via ForgeBox or ColdFusion Builder if you have the ColdBox Platform Utilities extension installed.  This release sports the following:

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Here is the video of our presentation about the unveiling of ContentBox.  ContentBox is a modular content platform for ColdFusion that is based on the ColdBox platform.  It provides you with out of the box features like enterprise blog, cms, and more coming soon.  Based on a completely modular architecture, extending ContentBox is a matter of knowing about ColdBox and event driven programming.