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New ContentBox Widget - File Listing

Curt Gratz |  May 15, 2013

We have created a new widget for you to use to list files under the ContentBox media root called "File Listing".

Imagine if you needed to list all the pdf's in a folder, this would be the widget for you.

Forgebox Link: http://www.coldbox.org/forgebox/view/cbwidget-filelisting

GitHub Link: https://github.com/Computer-Know-how/...

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Welcome ContentBox v1.5.2

Luis Majano |  May 14, 2013

We are so proud to announce another major milestone in our software, v1.5.2.  This release has definitely been a world collaboration event as we joined forces to completely update the Administrator UI and fix over 50 different tickets.  So big thanks go to Curt Gratz, Seth Engen, Brad Woord, Richard Mckenna, Joel Watson, Andrew Scott, etc.  You can find all about the release in our

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PartyBox Hackathon at CFObjective 2013

Luis Majano |  May 13, 2013

We are excited to announce our first ever *BOX Party Hackathon at this year's CFObjective 2013 sponsored by Ortus Solutions and Computer Know How.  We will be holding a get together for all *BOX aficionados (WireBox, MockBox, LogBox, ColdBox, ColdBox LITE, DevBox, ContentBox, DataBoss, etc) filled with drinks, prizes and cool hacking events.  We have some awesom...

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*Box Party Hackathon at CFObjective 2013

Luis Majano |  May 11, 2013

We are excited to announce our first ever *BOX Party Hackathon at this year's CFObjective 2013 in conjunction with Computer Know How.  We will be holding a get together for all *BOX aficionados (WireBox, MockBox, LogBox, ColdBox, ColdBox LITE, DevBox, ContentBox, DataBoss, etc) filled with drinks, prizes and cool hacking events.  We have some awesome geek prizes from rubik's cubes, to 80's inspired electr...

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Tip of the Week: What is a Soft Reference Cache Anyway?

Brad Wood |  May 07, 2013

CacheBox contains a number of different cache providers ranging from EHCache to Railo's Memcached.  There is also a provider implemented in ColdFusion simply called the "CacheBox Provider" and two of it's stores are the ConcurrentStore and the ConcurrentSoftReferenceStore.  You may have wondered what the "soft reference" part means and why you would want to use it.  If that's you, here's some history and explanation.  

In Java, Whether or not an object is garbage...

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ContentBox v1.5 beta intro video

Luis Majano |  May 02, 2013

Here is our video of our ContentBox connection today featuring our new responsive admin UI and so many goodies. Enjoy!

 

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Last Chance Call For Speakers: ColdBox Developers Week 2013

Brad Wood |  May 02, 2013
This is your last chance to sign up to speak at this year's ColdBox Developers Week.  We want community involvement, so if you're not on Team ColdBox or Team ContentBox you'll get a $25 Amazon gift card for helping out if you're chosen to present.   I need to get all the topic submissions in and finalized by 
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Introducing our 2013 Support Plans

Luis Majano |  April 27, 2013

We are so excited to bring you our 2013 ContentBox Ortus Support plans.  We have completely revamped and recreated our plans to not only offer better pricing, but also a monthly plan as well.  We have also created some new plans to offer great pricing and availability for Team ContentBox to do custom development for you. That's right! We can help code your projects and even be part of your coding team.

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Ortus Monthly Support Plan Released!

Luis Majano |  April 27, 2013

We have completely revamped and recreated our Ortus Support Plans for all our products (ColdBox, ContentBox, DataBoss, WireBox, CacheBox, etc) and even introduced custom development plans, so we can even help you build your apps in no time!  However, the plan we are most excited about is our new monthly M1 Plan.  With this plan you will be able to subscribe to our support services for a lo...

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Tip of the Week: Superclass is Optional For Handlers, Plugins, and Interceptors

Brad Wood |  April 24, 2013

In ColdBox, Event Handlers, Interceptors, and Plugins are represented as CFCs.  You are probably used to their signatures looking like this:

myhandler.cfc
component extends="coldbox.system.EventHandler"{}

myInterceptor.cfc
component extends="coldbox.system.Interceptor"{}

myPlugin.cfc
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