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Tip of the Week: CacheBox Tuning with the Debug Panel

Brad Wood |  February 16, 2013

 

If you use CacheBox (and if you use ColdBox to any extent, you do) it is important to inspect your cache performance from time to time.  A poorly tuned cache can bring about unexpected performance issues when your application gets under load (such as the dog-pile effect).
 
Since CacheBox is a cache aggregator that means it has the ability to wrap up multiple caches from different sources under one API.  By default, ColdBox c...
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ColdBox MVC, Tutorials

Finance Your ColdBox Trainings

Luis Majano |  February 06, 2013

Thanks to PayPal you can now finance your ColdBox Trainings by using the Bill Me Later service once you check out.  This is a great way to be able to finance or pay in installments for your ColdBox training needs with no interest for the first 6 months.  This applies to all our training seminars currently offered now and in the future.  You don't have to do anything special, just follow the checkout proc...

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ColdBox MVC, News, Training

Tip of the Week: WireBox Debug Output

Brad Wood |  February 06, 2013

 

If you've used WireBox for autowiring the CFCs in your application, you may have reached a point where you were having trouble figuring out what was going on behind the scenes.  This can be especially true if you've added auutowire metdata to a CFC, but the dependencies still aren't getting injected.
 
WireBox actually has pretty robust debug-level logging built in via LogBox that will tell you everything it is doing, but the ques...
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ColdBox MVC, Tutorials

Introducing CacheBack - A caching WireBox aspect

Curt Gratz |  February 01, 2013

 


ColdBox-CacheBack

A cool annotation based...

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CacheBox, ColdBox MVC, Interceptors, WireBox

Tip of the Week: Complex ColdBox Settings

Brad Wood |  January 30, 2013

 

One of the handy things about the ColdBox settings CFC is you can store ad-hoc settings for your application which can be retrieved or injected anywhere in your application.  
 
Remember, since your settings config is just a struct in a CFC, you aren't limited to settings which are strings.  You can store pretty much any kind of setting that will fit into a ColdFusion variable.
 

ColdBox BootCamp at Scotch on the Rocks 2013

Luis Majano |  January 16, 2013

We are so excited to bring you our very first European ColdBox BootCamp of the year.  We will be holding an amazing ColdBox BootCamp before this year's Scotch on the Rocks conference from June 3rd to the 5th.  This bootcamp will include a medley of our professional training courses and lead by ColdBox creator Luis Majano.  We will be reviewing the major portions of these courses, building applica...

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ColdBox MVC

ColdBox and ContentBox Training at CFObjective 2013

Luis Majano |  January 14, 2013

Ortus Solutions will be present at this year's CF.Objective Conference and will also be conducting two professional training seminars before the conference.  We have chosen a venue that is about 5-10 minutes from the conference center and it is an excellent choice to stay here during your conference as well.
 

Venue

Hyatt Place Minneapolis Airport South
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Community, News, Training

ColdBox BootCamp at CF.Objective 2013

Luis Majano |  January 11, 2013

We are so excited to bring you our very first ColdBox BootCamp of the year.  We will be holding an amazing ColdBox BootCamp before this year's CF.Objective 2013 conference from May 13th to the 15th.  The schedule of courses we will be offering are the following:

  • May 13-14: A combination of CBOX 100 and 101 led by ColdBox creator Luis Majano
  • May 15: CBOX 204 Testing, Mocking, Stubbing, Oh My! led by ColdBox Team member Curt Gratz

The location of the training location is just 5 minutes away from the Conference Venue.

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ColdBox MVC, Community, Conferences, Events, News, Training

Tip of the Week: Decorating Your Controller

Brad Wood |  January 11, 2013

 

If you've ever wanted to modify any behavior of the core ColdBox controller, you can now do so as of version 3.5.3 with the Controller Decorator feature.  This is accomplished much like the Request Context Decorator.
 
First, add a configuration setting called "ControllerDecorator" in the coldbox struct of your config file.  
 
/config/ColdBox.cfc

ColdBox LITE at the San Francisco CFUG

Luis Majano |  January 08, 2013

We are excited to announce that we will be presenting about ColdBox LITE at the San Francisco User Group on January 17th, 2013 @ 7pm.  So if you are close to the San Francisco area, please stop by and join us for some great food, drinks and geek talk!

For those of you who do not know what ColdBox LITE is, here is a little synopsis:

ColdBox LITE (CBL) is an MVC framework with a subset of features o...

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ColdBox MVC, Community, Events, News