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New Blog Series on Leveraging Couchbase Server in CFML

Brad Wood |  July 26, 2013

Today the Ortus Solutions blog is starting a new series on how to leverage Couchbase NoSQL from ColdFusion and also releasing some great new products under the Ortus stack throughout our series.  We'll being showing how to install Couchbase...

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Intro to Couchbase Server for ColdFusion - Clustered NoSQL and Caching at its Finest

Brad Wood |  July 26, 2013

Caching is an important layer in today's applications that require high availability in clustered environments.  Caching demands require fast performance, lots of storage, and the ability to scale horizontally so your cache infrastructure can grow with your needs.  We take caching seriously which is why we've built tools like CacheBox which is not only a caching engine, but an aggregator and API for other caches.  In-process caches which run on the JVM alongside your application and share the same heap space are convenient and easy to set up, but they have limitations.  This is why we've spent time learning about other out-of-process caching strategies.

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A New Tool For Your Box- ProfileBox: ColdBox Profiling and Metrics

Brad Wood |  July 24, 2013

We are so excited to welcome our new product in the Ortus Solutions lineup; ProfileBox : ColdBox Metrics & Profiling.  Here is a little brief overview about ProfileBox and how it can help you as a developer and a...

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Introducing Ortus ProfileBox: ColdBox Profiling & Metrics

Brad Wood |  July 24, 2013

We are proud to announce today the public release of our product Ortus ProfileBox.  We have been waiting for the release of FusionReactor 5 and now that it is here, we are happy to introduce you to the newest member of ...

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Tip of the Week: Change Your Default Reinit and Debug Mode Passwords

Brad Wood |  July 22, 2013

This week's tip is a simple reminder to check your ColdBox config and ensure that you've changed your reinit and debugMode password for all externally-available sites to be something other than the default.

Out-of-the-box, ColdBox can be reinitialized with the following:
site.com/index.cfm/fwreinit=1

While there's nothing inherently dangerous about that, reinitting can be a costly operation that flushes caches and re-load...

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New ColdBox Platform Ref Card Released

Brad Wood |  July 22, 2013

ColdBox Platform Ref CardWe are pleased to announce our release of the ColdBox Platform Ref Card.  It is available in PDF form so you can view it in the brows...

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ContentBox Modular CMS v1.5.5 Released!

Luis Majano |  July 11, 2013

ContentBox Modular CMS v1.1.5 has now been released sporting over 40 closed issues and enhancements.  Check out our engineering blog for an in-depth o...

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ContentBox v1.5.5 Released!

Luis Majano |  July 10, 2013

We are announcing the release of ContentBox v1.5.5 which includes over 40 different issues closed and updated.  You can either download the updates or use our auto-update panel to upgrade.  The updates are now cumulative for the 1.5.X series only as well, so you can upgrade from any 1.2 version or higher.

  • ContentBox Source: To deploy in any CFML engine (Adobe or Railo)
  • ContentBox WAR: To deploy in any J2EE engine
  • ContentBox Express: To deploy in any machine

Release Notes

You can read our very detailed release notes in our archive page.  Below we will cover the major enhancements this release brings to the table a part from all the improvements and bugs that where squashed.

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ColdBox Platform, ColdBox LITE and Library Releases

Luis Majano |  July 10, 2013

It has been a busy past few months here at Ortus Solutions and we have some cool new stuff to share with the world today.  We have updates for all our major open source libraries this week. Some are minor releases and some are cool enhancement releases thanks to everybody's feedback and contributions.  You can find much more about the releases in our ColdBox engineering blog or in our online documentation wiki:

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CacheBox 1.5 Released!

Luis Majano |  July 10, 2013

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We are proud to announce CacheBox version 1.5. This is a minor update. You can read our What's new with CacheBox 1.5 to get a better idea of this release.

This release contains an update to internal core files and LogBox v1.7.  It also has improvements ...

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