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As you have probably read a few days ago we released LogBox: An enterprise ColdFusion Logging Library, part of the new ColdBox 3.0.0 Platform Suite.   The library's core of logging takes place thanks to its appenders that send messages to different destinations.  As of now, the distribution has 11 appenders included, but if you want to build your own, you can very very easily.  Not only that, since we are in Beta, you can submit your appenders and we will include them in the distribution if t...

After much work and restructuring the ColdBox logging capabilities into a standalone library, we have arrived to the birth of LogBox.  The ColdBox logging capabilities exist since version pre 1.0 way back in 2005 and now finally are open for usage with or without ColdBox MVC.  LogBox is part of an entire set of suites of services that the ColdBox 3.0.0 Platform is being built on, which includes:

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  ColdBox MVC, LogBox, News, Releases

We have added a new FeedBack Forum to all of the ColdBox websites so it makes it easy for the community to report new features, ideas, enhancements and bugs.  Not only that, but we can all vote for what features to support or build and so much more.  So please check it out, by going here:  http://coldbox.uservoice.com/ or just by clicking on the new feedback tabs on the sites.

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This is a reminder that will be having a 1 day training at CFUnited 2009 on August 11th.  This is a full day of ColdBox training and goodness.  You don't want to miss this!  The course we will be delivering is CBOX-100 and you can find more information about it here

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One of the nice things about ColdBox's model integration features are the ability to inject objects by using annotations via the cfproperty tag.  This gives a cleaner API to objects that don't really need to expose setters just for dependency injection purposes.  Why? well, in MY opinion, objects should be shy and only expose what they need to expose to the outside world.  By leveraging annotations, I can cleanly define the dependencies of my object and what is even better, it can...

I am proud to announce another addition to our ColdBox Platform: MockBox.  MockBox is a companion package to the ColdBox Platform that will give you advanced mocking/stubing capabilities; hence a Mocking Framework. Not only does it integrat...

We are kicking off our ColdBox Alliance Program with the company Computer Know How.

Computer Know How was founded in 1997 as a resale and consulting firm. At Computer Know How, we understand that technology...

After some great conversations in the ColdBox forums, I got inspired and whipped up our next version of our GroovyLoader project, part of our projects pack that you can find in our

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ColdBox MVC, Interceptors, News, Plugins, Releases

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I have been debating with the decision to continue to support ColdFusion 7 in the main ColdBox core for version 3.0.0 and move ahead with CF8 compatibility. As of now, we have decided to maintain ColdFusion 7 support, but you can make this change. Our upcoming version is targeted for release by Fall of 2009 and we need your input. We have put together a small survey below and according to the community's response, we will either maintain the core to be ColdFusion 7 compatible or move ahead...

If you guys attended my ColdBox: More Than MVC session at CF.Objective, please fill out this short survey so we can be invited again and participate in such a great conference.  Again, if you missed the session, you can view the online pres...